Participated · Seed · Feb 2025

Jarsy launched out of stealth as a web3 investment platform that issues tokens backed 1:1 by private company shares. Each token tracks a company’s private shares and can be purchased for as little as $10, widening access to pre-IPO investments. The startup said it will tokenize shares for high-profile private companies, including Anthropic and Stripe. Jarsy positions itself alongside other firms using blockchain to improve accessibility to private equity, such as Republic and crypto exchanges expanding tokenized-stock offerings. The company plans to use its new capital to develop new products and strengthen regulatory compliance efforts. The article notes the platform aims to bring accessibility and transparency to a space historically limited to institutions and ultra-high-net-worth investors. Mirai Labs is developing Partnr, a crypto-focused AI agent product that lets agents execute consumer-facing tasks such as managing wallets and learning users’ needs over time. Partnr includes Partnr Chat to connect trainable AI agents with consumers and Partnr Vaults to enable vaults and on-chain executions by consumers and agents. The firm plans to publicly launch Partnr Vaults in the near future and use the financing to expand its engineering team, hiring specialists in AI, machine learning and the Rust programming language. Mirai Labs intends for Partnr to make crypto interactions more intuitive, personalized and useful, positioning AI agents as core drivers of web3 adoption. The company is also the creator of the web3 horse racing game Pegaxy. Its current financial position was strengthened by the recent seed financing described below.

Participated · Equity · Sep 2024

Vana builds an EVM-compatible layer-1 blockchain designed for collective ownership of private digital assets that power AI. The network natively supports pooling data through data DAOs and rewards for the top 16 data liquidity pools. Users pool their data via data DAOs secured by proof of contribution, and contributors earn ownership stakes in the AI models they help create. EVM compatibility enables flexible incentives such as dataset-specific tokens and AI model-specific tokens. The company plans to use the new funds to accelerate development of the Vana network and to support an ecosystem of decentralized AI projects built with user-owned data. Vana is based in San Francisco and has raised a total of $25M to date.

Participated · Equity · Jun 2024

Gudchain is a blockchain startup that builds blockchain technology and services. It has secured $5 million in a funding round. The financing was led by Mechanism Capital with significant contributions from Morningstar Ventures, Manifold, and SkyVision Capital. The company says the funds will be used to further develop and expand its blockchain technology and services, though it has not disclosed specific plans for the use of proceeds. The investment was presented as demonstrating investor confidence in Gudchain's potential and the future of blockchain technology. The funding round marks a milestone as the company continues to innovate and grow in the blockchain industry.

Participated · Seed · May 2024

Fortunafi is a Miami, FL-based onchain financial company led by founder and CEO Nick Garcia. It focuses on advancing the Real World Assets (RWA) sector by tokenizing RWAs onchain and offering DeFi-structured yield products, alternative lending, and all-in-one liquidity solutions. Through key partnerships and integrations and its Tokenized Asset Protocol (TAP) launched in December 2023, the company supports tokenized assets on Arbitrum, Blast, and Canto blockchains, with plans to add support on additional blockchains. Fortunafi says it verticalizes the process from asset creation to final onchain tokenization to eliminate rent-seeking capital market participants. The company raised $9.5M in total funding from backers including Shima Capital, Manifold, Cobie, Evanss6, Scott Lewis, Ari Litan, Austin Green, and others. It intends to use the funds to expand operations and accelerate development efforts while pursuing opportunities in the RWA and stablecoin sectors.

Led · Seed · Apr 2024

Multisynq operates a decentralized internet bandwidth-sharing network that enables individuals to sell excess internet bandwidth to developers and monetize their connections. The platform connects Synqers and Coders, allowing anyone to participate as a Synqer and earn rewards. Its core product is a peer-to-peer bandwidth marketplace and synchronization layer designed to provide low-latency, synchronized connections for multiplayer games and real-time applications. The network aims to create unified online experiences by routing developer traffic through distributed user bandwidth. Multisynq announced completion of a $2.2M seed round led by Manifold with participation from ARKN Ventures, PHD Capital, EnigmaFunge, AlphaCrypto, Republic Crypto, and multiple angel investors.