• Cumulus Encrypted Storage System (CESS)

  Led · Series A · Jan 2024

  Cumulus Encrypted Storage System (CESS) provides a blockchain-powered decentralized storage and CDN infrastructure for Web3, enabling on-chain data sharing, value transactions, and DApp deployment. Led by Co-Founder and Chairman Nicholas Zaldastani, the platform emphasizes data sovereignty and user privacy through mechanisms such as Random Rotational Selection (R²S), Proof of Reduplication and Recovery (PoDR²), Multi-Format Data Confirmation (MDRC), and proxy re-encryption technology. CESS says R²S prevents miner concentration, enables low gas fees, and supports up to 10,000 TPS while incentivizing fair participation and candidate consensus miners. The company supports use cases including Metaverse, NFT, DeFi, streaming media, social media, gaming, RWA, and both Web2 and Web3 storage. The company intends to use the newly raised funds to provide decentralized data services for Web3, and it highlights proprietary technologies to ensure data integrity, availability, traceability and privacy.

• MYSO Finance

  Participated · Seed · Apr 2022

  MYSO Finance is developing IKARUS, a zero-liquidation loan protocol that lets users borrow without liquidation risk while offering liquidity providers yield for bearing that risk. IKARUS is structured like a DEX, with individual borrowing markets and liquidity pools per token pair where LPs provide both assets and borrowers post one asset as collateral. The protocol is oracle-independent: repayment and settlement rely on incentives rather than external price feeds, and LPs receive either interest payments or the pledged collateral if borrowers don’t repay. LPs earn a risk premium determined by supply and demand, and MYSO describes their risk profile as comparable to option-writing strategies. The company will deploy the $2.4M seed to accelerate IKARUS development and to combine DeFi concepts with TradFi in future products. MYSO was founded in early 2022 after being awarded at the ETHOnline hackathon in October 2021.

• Burrow

  Participated · Equity · Mar 2022

  Burrow is a non-custodial liquidity pool platform operating as a decentralized money market built on the NEAR protocol. It allows users to supply and borrow assets for trading and supports deposits of NEAR, DAI, USDT, USDC, ETH and wBTC, plus wrapped staking assets such as stNEAR, stETH, stSOL and stFTM. By building on NEAR, Burrow says it offers near-zero transaction costs and fast transaction closing times compared with other blockchains. The company raised $5 million to bootstrap its initial trading liquidity. Burrow plans to launch a governance token staking program in its second month where staking the BRRR token yields xBRRR to vote on DAO proposals. Investors backing the platform include Dragonfly Capital, ParaFi Capital, Jump Crypto and QCP Capital among others, signaling institutional interest in its NEAR-native DeFi approach.

• Hodooi

  Participated · Equity · May 2021

  HoDooi.com operates as a multi-channel NFT company focused on non-fungible token offerings and related services. According to media reports, several HoDooi.com-affiliated companies received $4.3 million in funding. The article lists participating investors including Morning Star Ventures, Mentha Partners, Hillrise Capital, ZBS Capital, AU21 Capital, Swissborg Ventures, Sora Ventures, DuckDAO and Master. The report does not disclose the financing instrument, valuation, revenue, user metrics, or a detailed product roadmap. No specific future plans or use of proceeds were described in the article. Additional operational or financial details were not provided in the coverage.

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