METIS
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Overview
Metis Ventures is a venture funding firm that specializes in helping diverse creators with global ambitions.
- Total investments
- 6
- Lead investments
- 1
- Investments · 12mo
- 4
- Active investors
- 3
Investment portfolio
- Getmobil
Participated · Series A · Dec 2025
Getmobil integrates all steps of the second-hand and refurbished electronics value chain—purchase, refurbishment, pricing, inventory tracking and regulatory compliance—into a single digital operating system. Founded by Mehmet Uygun and Zeynep Uygun, the company serves more than 32,000 mobile phone dealers across Turkey, enabling data-driven pricing and stock management. Dealers using Getmobil’s infrastructure have reported approximately 60% revenue growth and a 50% increase in inventory turnover. The platform also powers trade-in and refurbishment programs for major brands such as Apple, Samsung, Hepsiburada, Sahibinden, Troy and Vatan, making certified devices available to consumers. Turkey’s second-hand electronics market is estimated at roughly $8 billion and has recently gained clearer regulatory backing, which Getmobil leverages to standardize an otherwise fragmented space. Post-financing, the company plans to roll out a nationwide “doorstep buyback” model that lets consumers sell devices from home with digital payments. The fresh capital strengthens Getmobil’s balance sheet as it scales both its dealer network and direct-to-consumer services.
- Tatakai
Participated · Seed · Dec 2025
Tatakai is developing an anime-themed, open-world role-playing game that combines turn-based, card-centric combat with expansive exploration and on-chain asset ownership. Players assemble five-hero squads—each hero minted as an upgradeable, tradeable NFT—and venture through AI-generated zones ranging from volcanic islands to crystal forests and cyberpunk ruins. All heroes, weapons and items live on an ERC-404, gas-free standard and can be traded through an automated market-maker, giving users direct control over their in-game economy. The title quietly entered soft launch on 25 October 2025 in select Asian countries, already offering boss dungeons, live events and a ranked tower mode. Smart-contract integration for NFTs and tokens is underway, while AI is being used to generate dynamic content, missions and modular economies. Fresh funding is enabling the studio to hire additional developers, deepen gameplay systems and solidify Web3 infrastructure ahead of a wider release. No revenue, user metrics or final launch date have been disclosed, but early artwork and combat demos have drawn community interest. The company positions itself as prioritising polished gameplay and long-term engagement over short-term token incentives.
- Synchron
Participated · Series D · Nov 2025
Synchron is a New York City–based neurotechnology company building the Stentrode platform, an endovascular brain-computer interface (BCI) that is delivered via catheter rather than open-brain surgery. Once implanted, the device interfaces with the motor cortex through the blood vessels and wirelessly transmits neural signals that can be translated into hands-free digital commands. Ten patients with paralysis have received the Stentrode across U.S. and Australian clinical trials, demonstrating early clinical adoption. Led by founder and CEO Tom Oxley, the company plans to use newly raised capital to scale operations and advance product development. Synchron’s ultimate goal is to commercialize a clinically viable, minimally invasive BCI for widespread medical use. Including the latest round, the company has secured $345 million in total funding to date, underlining strong investor confidence in its technology and market potential.
- EchoTwin AI
Led · Seed · Sep 2025
EchoTwin AI develops an infrastructure-intelligence platform that converts existing municipal vehicle fleets into roaming sensors, continuously collecting edge-based visual data to create a living digital twin of the city. Its proprietary visual intelligence engine, which incorporates full spatial reasoning and a Vision-Language Model for semantic traffic-violation detection, delivers actionable insights that let cities move from reactive maintenance to predictive, self-healing operations. The system helps municipalities monitor roads, signage, environmental conditions, and safety compliance in real time, ultimately improving resilience and sustainability. EchoTwin’s leadership team has previously deployed thousands of edge AI systems in other mission-critical environments, giving the startup deep domain expertise. The company is actively piloting the technology with major public-sector agencies across the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. Seed financing will be used to accelerate these international deployments and scale product development in the fast-growing $4 trillion smart-cities market projected for 2030.
- Wasp
Participated · Equity · Apr 2025
Wasp is an open-source platform that acts as the glue between fragmented web development tools, compiling technologies such as React, Node.js and Prisma into one full-stack application. Founded by Matija and Martin Šošić and launched in 2021, Wasp is built as a layer on top of existing tooling so developers do not need to learn a new language or process. The platform detects common integration gaps (for example missing API keys) and suggests code changes to improve security and scalability, addressing risks from novice 'vibe coding.' Wasp can deploy to public cloud or enterprise servers and reports usage across numerous startups and Fortune 500 customers. The product entered beta in 2023 and has accumulated 26,000 GitHub stars. Financially, the company has raised $5.2M to date and says it will use new funding to focus on product development toward a v1.0 with features like multi-language support and server-side rendering. Wasp provides a simple configuration language and tooling layer that sits on top of existing stacks (React, Node.js) to speed up building full‑stack web applications. The product is open source and currently in alpha, available on GitHub. Founders Matija and Martin Sosic started the company in Croatia in 2019 and later joined Y Combinator (Winter 2021). Wasp reports about 300 apps have been built using the tool so far. The team is focused on improving the open‑source tooling before pursuing monetization. With the seed funding they plan to add features, reach beta, and ship version 1.0.