Participated · Equity · Sep 2025

Loops AI develops real-time, autonomous agents that learn from brand data and user behavior to handle product recommendations, checkout assistance, and post-purchase follow-ups across web, WhatsApp, marketplaces, and social platforms. Its multi-model architecture achieves more than 99% intent-recognition accuracy, delivering up to 20× higher engagement, over 70% uplift in sales per visitor, and as much as 40% overall sales growth for customers. The company already supports more than a million customer interactions and serves 50+ brands, including Tudors, Paulmark, P&G Fairy, Radisson Collection, Movenpick, and EasyCep. Loops AI’s platform can be deployed in under seven days, giving high-volume retailers a speed advantage. Headquartered in the United States with operations in Türkiye and MENA, the firm is promoting “Agentic Commerce” as a new operating system for brands. Future plans include deepening partnerships, adding proactive purchase agents and visual shopping features, and expanding an Agentic Network that provides shared learning while preserving data privacy. The company positions itself as a catalyst for transforming customer engagement into a revenue-producing channel worldwide.

Participated · Seed · Aug 2022

Flyway is a proptech platform that enables fully managed co-ownership of second homes, targeting frequent travellers and the pied-à-terre market. The company converts each house into a property-specific limited company with 12 shares, letting buyers purchase a share that corresponds to a proportion of annual stays. Flyway provides proprietary planning technology, a marketplace to buy and sell shares, and professional property management (cleaning, repairs, maintenance). Owners access reservations, shared expense supervision, communication with a dedicated ‘home manager’, and phone-based home unlocking via the app. The startup raised $10 million in a seed and debt round, and the fresh cash will enable it to buy and sell its first London properties. Flyway was founded by Nikos Drandakis and Sanja Ilic and is based in London and Athens.

Participated · Seed · Mar 2022

TravelX builds an AI-native post-booking revenue management platform that turns static airline inventory into continuously optimized, dynamic commercial assets. The company positions itself as the intelligence layer for next-generation airline revenue management, using AI to respond to evolving demand, operations, and customer circumstances after booking. TravelX plans to use the $45 million Series A to accelerate product innovation, expand its AI platform, and grow its global commercial presence. Kaszek led the new round—its first investment in aviation tech—with participation from Thayer Ventures. TravelX previously raised $10 million in a Series A led by BNM Capital for its blockchain technology.

Participated · Equity · Sep 2021

Portal’s core product is a Layer-3 network called BitScaler that uses HTLC contracts and Taproot to enable atomic swaps between native BTC and assets on other blockchains. Liquidity providers connect to the network in a hub-and-spoke model while a federation of ‘Portal Guardians’ validators only matches orders and records accounting, never taking custody of funds. The company has just introduced an institutional OTC desk built on this infrastructure, targeting large traders and institutions that want real BTC liquidity. Portal plans to scale its permissioned validator set to roughly 150 nodes on a Notary Chain based on EVMOS, eventually opening participation through staking auctions tied to its PBT token. By removing wrapped tokens, custodial vaults, and traditional bridges, the team positions Bitcoin as the settlement layer for large global trades. The company recently secured $25 million in new funding led by JTSA Global with follow-on support from Coinbase Ventures, OKX Ventures, and Arrington Capital, bringing fresh capital to expand the network and validator base.

Led · Equity · Dec 2020

Cere Network builds a blockchain-based customer relations management system and operates a decentralized data cloud. The company runs its own blockchain that supports Polkadot and includes bridges to Ethereum and Polygon to enable data transfers. Cere plans to complete integration of its decentralized data cloud into Polygon’s protocol and Polkadot by the end of the third quarter. The recent funding will be used for new hires, developer network growth and app development to accelerate those integrations. Cere has grown its team to more than 60 employees globally to meet demand for its decentralized data cloud launch. The company was described as Berlin-based in the article, and an update notes it has changed the location of its headquarters. Cere Network offers a decentralized data cloud (DDC) platform that hosts thousands of data queries on a blockchain-based ledger and uses blockchain identity plus data encryption to onboard and segment consumer data. The platform creates customizable, interoperable virtual datasets accessible in near real time by business units, partners, and ML processes, and it launches to developers today. Cere plans an open data marketplace powered by its Cere token to enable trustless data-sharing, staking, and governance; the public token sale is scheduled on Republic (March 31) and will be the first token sale on that platform. The company says it is working with a number of Fortune 1,000 customers and aims to compete with incumbent data clouds like Snowflake by focusing on specific vertical solutions and improved data governance. Financially, Cere has raised $5 million in the current round led by Republic Labs and previously raised another $5 million, bringing total disclosed capital raised to $10 million. Cere Network is developing an enterprise-grade Decentralized Data Cloud (DDC) and CRM tools aimed at returning data ownership to businesses. The company plans to build its CRM and DDC platform on the Polkadot network and make the product available to other applications built on Polkadot. Cere positions the DDC as an alternative to mainstream cloud providers and legacy CRM systems. CEO Fred Jin said the platform “gives businesses back ownership of their data” and enables companies to build their own customer data ecosystems. The startup is Binance-backed and has previously raised a $3.5 million seed round announced in August 2019. It most recently secured an additional $1.5 million to further develop the DDC and related products. Cere Network provides a blockchain CRM ecosystem designed to capture the entire customer journey and enable service data integration and collaboration. It stores key user data such as purchases, achievements and usage in the user’s wallet. Businesses and vendors access Cere’s microservices platform via permissioned proxy keys to secure user data sharing and enable direct user acquisition across apps and brands. The company intends to use the seed proceeds to accelerate growth of its ecosystem. Cere has established a new office in New York City and will launch the Cere Network Innovation Factory in Berlin during Berlin Blockchain Week. The company is led by co-founder and CEO Fred Jin.