The Venture Codex

Participated · Seed · May 2026

AEON is developing a settlement layer intended to serve as the financial backbone for an agentic economy where autonomous AI agents exchange value. The company launched its first AI payment product in May, which it says connects AI agents to more than 50 million real-world merchants. AEON has partnered with BNB Chain to release the x402 Facilitator, a native product enabling verifiable transactions, onchain settlement, and immutable receipts for service providers in the BNB ecosystem. The firm cites collaboration with partners such as Coinbase and BNB Chain as part of its go-to-market and integration strategy. AEON raised $8 million in a pre-seed round led by YZi Labs to accelerate development of its settlement layer; the round’s structure and valuation were not disclosed. CEO and co-founder Eddie Li framed the company’s mission as building the financial foundation for an economy powered by autonomous agents.

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 · Seed · May 2024

NodeOps provides a permissionless blockchain node orchestration platform that enables one-click node deployment across blockchain infrastructures. Its core offerings include a permissionless value capture engine and Actively Validated Services (AVS) on EigenLayer, plus monitoring, vulnerability trackers, and NodePad™, a one-click node launchpad. The company has facilitated creation of over 17,000 nodes and currently powers more than 25 live chains. NodeOps is led by Naman Kabra and focuses on improving transparency and security in the Ethereum ecosystem. The firm plans to use new funding to scale operations, extend infrastructure to additional protocols, and build incentive mechanisms for NodeOps developers. No revenue or other financial metrics were disclosed in the article.

Participated · Seed · Mar 2024

OrdinalsBot builds infrastructure and developer tools for the Bitcoin Ordinals ecosystem, including an inscription tool, the Scribe on-chain blogging platform, and a premium API for analytics, collection management and marketplace integration. The team launched as the first automated inscription service in the Bitcoin Ordinals space and has expanded into features for collection mints, BRC-20 launches, lazy minting, and complex indexing such as parent-child hierarchies. OrdinalsBot plans to launch a Trio Marketplace to centralize Ordinals access and will ramp up hiring across functions with a focus on BTC developers. The company says the new capital will help reset dynamics and infrastructure within blockchain to bring new opportunities to the Ordinals and BTC ecosystem. Financially, OrdinalsBot completed an oversubscribed $3M+ seed round as a fast follow to a pre-seed raised less than five months earlier, bringing total funding to over $4.5M. The announcement was released from London. OrdinalsBot builds ordinals infrastructure and recently launched a Software Developer Kit (SDK) to help developers integrate ordinals functionality into their projects. The company says the SDK enables companies and individuals to store data on Bitcoin and serves as a building block for Web3. OrdinalsBot was founded in February 2023 by Brian Laughlan and Toby Lewis and is based in the UK. The startup raised more than $1 million in a Seed funding round to improve ordinals infrastructure. Founders stated the funding and investor support will help them become a premier Bitcoin infra company. The company emphasized renewed developer interest in the space as a catalyst for its plans.

Participated · Equity · Mar 2024

Scallop is a developer of a DeFi Neo‑bank application that provides DeFi‑driven banking products. Its platform aims to benefit everyday life and help bring cryptocurrencies into the mainstream. The company focuses on integrating DeFi into banking use cases for everyday users. The article reports that Scallop has received a strategic investment from DWF Labs. No financial terms, operating metrics, founding year, or location are provided in the report. Scallop builds a Neo-bank application that integrates DeFi-driven banking products. Its core product aims to make daily financial activities benefit from decentralized finance. The company positions its services to help bring cryptocurrency into mainstream use. Scallop emphasizes consumer-facing banking features powered by DeFi. Recently it announced completion of a $3 million strategic financing, reflecting external investor interest in its product direction.