• Ridley

  Participated · Seed · Dec 2025

  Ridley offers a step-by-step, AI-driven platform that helps homeowners list, market, and sell properties without paying traditional agent commissions. The Newark, Delaware-based company distributes listings to major home-buying sites, provides on-demand legal support and concierge services, and connects users with Ridley Preferred Agents for expert help. It plans to launch a buy-side experience that grants buyers access to private listings, active for-sale homes, and ‘soon-to-be-listed’ properties surfaced by predictive analytics. Since its July 15 launch, Ridley has generated more than $4.6 billion in lead volume, accumulated over $350 million in private listings, and facilitated 57 home sales that averaged 33 days on market with a 98.3% list-to-sold ratio. These early metrics underscore consumer interest in a commission-free, data-driven model. The new capital positions the startup to deepen its proprietary AI capabilities for both sellers and buyers while expanding its network of commission-free agents. Ridley remains at the seed stage with $6.4 million in total funding raised to date.

• Castle

  Participated · Seed · Jun 2025

  Castle provides an automated bitcoin treasury platform for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), integrating with tools like QuickBooks, PayPal, Square, and Stripe. The platform automates recurring allocations—either fixed dollar amounts or percentages of revenue—allows cash-account thresholds to trigger bitcoin purchases or sales, and enforces maximum and minimum bitcoin exposure percentages. Castle also offers dynamic strategy suggestions from conservative to aggressive so businesses can align allocations with risk tolerance. Current customers span industries including restaurants, fitness, accounting, e-commerce, SaaS, fine art, and real estate. The company offers free sign-ups and no monthly fees to make an inflation-resistant treasury solution accessible to SMBs. Castle aims to use product development and onboarding scale to bring bitcoin treasury capabilities to businesses nationwide.

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