Participated · Seed · Jan 2026

Emobi develops JustPlug, a patented, cloud-based Plug & Charge solution that authenticates vehicles via ISO 15118 certificates and AI-powered charger-vehicle mapping, eliminating the need for RFID cards or mobile apps. The platform works on both legacy and new chargers, addressing the 80 % of chargers and vehicles that cannot natively support traditional Plug & Charge. Emobi’s network already spans more than 140,000 charging ports across 28+ networks and serves over 40 enterprise customers. The company is running pilot programs with three of the top ten North American automakers and has forged commercial partnerships with Flipturn, ElectricFish, and Curo to deploy JustPlug in public, fleet, and customer-managed settings. Two provisional patents protect its technology. Fresh capital will be directed toward scaling technical infrastructure and deepening partnerships with automakers, fleets, and software providers such as Monta and Parkopedia. Emobi positions itself as the largest EV-charging roaming provider in North America, aiming to make seamless charging the industry standard.

Participated · Equity · Oct 2022

Tangia builds interactive tools for live streamers that enable novel viewer interactions and higher engagement. Its product features include experiences such as Minecraft fight club, AI TTS, and on‑stream drawing tools. The company offers an 80% revenue share to creators. Tangia aims to continue expanding features and empowering streamers to create the next generation of live content. It emerged from Y Combinator’s S22 batch. Financially, Tangia raised a $1.2M round in early September 2022, bringing total funding to $2.1M to date.

Participated · Equity · Apr 2022

Exum Instruments develops the Massbox, the first Laser Ablation Laser Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer (LALI-TOF-MS) marketed as a mobile, desktop-sized instrument delivering lab-quality analysis outside traditional labs. The Massbox performs quasi‑non‑destructive analyses, produces results in hours rather than days, and yields 35–60% lower operating costs compared with traditional methods. Exum positions the product for energy applications (mining, oil & gas, batteries, nuclear) as well as environmental science, food & beverage, and academia. The Massbox has been deployed with advanced manufacturing firms including Elementum 3D and LIFT and at DOE national labs such as Los Alamos and SLAC, where it is used in battery research. To meet growing demand, Exum plans to expand manufacturing capacity in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The company raised external capital in a Series A to fund that expansion and scale production. Exum Instruments is a Denver, CO-based developer of scientific instruments and accompanying software ecosystems aimed at increasing the speed and breadth of materials development and discovery. Its first instrument, the Massbox, is a Laser Ablation Laser Ionization Time of Flight Mass Spectrometer (LALI-TOF-MS) designed to analyze a wide range of samples precisely and rapidly. The company launched the Massbox and is now taking commercial orders for domestic deployment. Led by CEO and CTO Jeff Williams and CDO Josh Ulla, Exum was incorporated five years ago. The company raised $1.8M in funding and intends to use the proceeds to accelerate growth and expand its business reach. Backers on the round include Cortado Ventures, Alchemy Capital, Amerocap, Oasis Capital and FortySix Venture Capital.

Participated · Equity · May 2021

Moma Protocol provides a proprietary smart contract factory that creates, manages, accelerates, and aggregates lending markets to expand liquidity and market diversity in DeFi. The protocol aims to produce an unlimited number of customizable lending pools by combining strengths of automated market makers and lending protocols, thereby bringing more assets into lending markets. Moma was incubated and supported by Lichang, a community app with over one million registered users. The team positions the product as a way to solve scalability, liquidity, and speculation needs in the current DeFi lending market and to open new lending markets for long‑tail assets. Financially, Moma recently closed a $2.25 million round of funding to scale its model. The company says its long‑term goal over the next 5–10 years is to create an expandable, scalable, and flexible DeFi lending infrastructure that anyone can freely participate in.

Participated · Equity · Apr 2021

Torum is a Web3 SocialFi Metaverse ecosystem built around a social media platform with over 120,000 users. Its core product bundles social features with an interactive yield farming platform, an NFT marketplace, and the Torum Avatar NFT as a PFP Metaverse identity. The project announced an ambition to expand into the Metaverse and NFT space on September 27, 2021 and is building an immersive, interactive SocialFi Metaverse. Torum has attracted strategic investments from crypto investors, enabling it to pursue platform development and partner integrations. The partnership with KuCoin Labs is intended to provide access to exclusive partners and premium services such as blockchain technical support and legal advice. The company presents itself as an integrated destination for social, DeFi, NFT and Metaverse use cases for crypto users. Torum is a DeFi- and NFT-integrated social media platform based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, led by CEO & founder Yi Feng Go. The platform targets cryptocurrency users and has accumulated over 64,000 enthusiasts across countries including the U.S., Canada, Latvia, Spain, Germany, France, Poland, and Malaysia. Torum has released a strategic ecosystem expansion plan prioritizing construction of a crypto ecosystem and core features such as an NFT launchpad (INO), a social-infused NFT marketplace, airdrops, a news aggregator, Torumgram (a Telegram bridge), and an audio-only Lounge for AMAs. The company is backed by AU21, Consensus Lab, DFG, M6, Waterdrip Capital and some 15 other crypto VCs. On Oct. 8, 2021 Torum received a strategic investment from Huobi Ventures HECO Fund; the amount was not disclosed. As part of the deal Huobi Ventures will provide access to exclusive media partners, community building, and project connections to expand Torum’s ecosystem outreach. Torum is a social media platform for cryptocurrency users built on Binance Smart Chain that integrates NFT and DeFi functionalities. Launched July 1, 2020 and based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the platform emphasizes gamification and token utility to engage users. Torum's native token XTM is used across the ecosystem for at least 10 purposes, including gift purchases, content boosting and NFT trading. The company reports over 29,000 users and a top 50,000 Alexa Rank, positioning it as an active crypto community hub. Torum says ecosystem-generated revenue will be redistributed back to the community through various gamified methods. With VC backing, the team plans to continue building NFT and DeFi use cases and to act as an adoption bridge connecting mainstream users to the crypto industry.