Participated · Seed · Apr 2022

Defy Labs develops DEFY, a move-to-earn augmented reality (AR) game and related tools that allow users to view and interact with NFTs and digital collectibles in the real world. Its gameplay involves hacking missions that require players to explore physical surroundings with AR assistance. Rewards are distributed to players in the form of cryptocurrency and NFTs. The company is led by CEO and co-founder Ben Pember. Defy plans to use the funds for team expansion, continued game development, and improvements to the mobile app's AR features. An alpha version of the mobile app is scheduled to launch in mid-April.

Participated · Equity · Mar 2022

rct AI is a New York-based developer of Delysium, an AAA web3 game. The game lets players own and manipulate physical in-game assets — including MetaBeings, virtual creatures, cyberbody, weapons, vehicles and environmental objects — that can be equipped, combined and upgraded via self-crafting or trading. Players can also create narrative assets such as dialogue models, behavioral models, decision-making models, storylines, missions and other personalized entertainment scenarios composed of AI-powered MetaBeings. Led by CEO Yuheng Chan, the company raised $4M in its first funding round to support game production and the broader ecosystem. rct AI plans to use the funds to launch Alpha and Beta versions of Delysium and to run a PVP tournament in the middle of the year. rct AI develops AI-powered content and virtual beings for the video game industry, including the Deterrence AI layer that powers intelligent NFTs and the Morpheus AI engine for NPC response and storyline generation. The company says it built the world’s first AAA play-to-earn game and the world’s first intelligent NFT chip to enable life‑like virtual beings and creators’ tooling. Its products include Deterrence (AI conversation, intent recognition, and motion generation) and Mirror NFT, a boutique gamefi collection that has seen millions of token transactions. rct AI emphasizes NFT utility and liquidity, AI-to-earn yield farming, and higher revenue potential for NFT owners as core business expansion areas. The company reports partnerships with 20+ game studios and serving 200M+ users worldwide. rct AI completed a $10M+ Series A-3 round, underscoring recent fundraising progress as it pursues broader Metaverse and gamefi adoption.

Participated · Equity · Mar 2022

Delysium is an AI-powered open-world platform that builds diverse, free-to-own universes and AI-driven MetaBeings for player-created experiences. The company has released a Playable Whitepaper game that garnered over 450,000 views in two weeks, showing early traction. Its technology stack includes AI-to-earn, AI conversation models, AI intent recognition, and AI motion generation powered by Deterrence and rct AI to create cognitively aware virtual beings. Delysium has delivered a visually focused Battle Royale title and is focused on scaling content production across its Multiverse. The team plans to use funding to develop content, enable unique AI-powered experiences, and build the Delysium Multiverse—an open-source, decentralized publishing structure for web3 games. The company emphasizes involving Multiverse Operators to set on-chain incentives and co-produce abundant game content. Delysium is described as the world's first playable AAA MMO web3 game, combining open-world MMORPG design with cyberpunk aesthetics and user-generated content. Its gameplay includes battle, exploration, construction, cultivation, social systems and AI-driven "MetaBeing" characters. Players can earn loot boxes (tokens, NFTs, game resources) through various modes and can equip, combine, upgrade, craft and trade in-game assets such as MetaBeings, cyberbodies, weapons, vehicles and environmental objects. The platform also enables creation of narrative assets, including dialogue models, behavioral models, decision-making models, storylines and missions. The team plans to launch Alpha and Beta versions with a PvP tournament in the middle of the year and will use recent funding to support game production and the ecosystem. Delysium is led by rct AI, an entity incubated by Y Combinator, with Yuheng Chan as CEO.

Participated · Seed · Mar 2022

Sonic is a Layer‑2 network in the Solana ecosystem that focuses on gaming. It aims to lead more developers into the Solana game ecosystem. Sonic provides core technical components including Sonic SVM (Solana virtual machine) and the HyperGrid scaling framework. The company is launching an incubation fund and an accelerator program to help developers become familiar with Sonic SVM and HyperGrid. Sonic completed a $12M Series A financing led by Bitkraft Ventures, with participation from Galaxy Interactive and BigBrain Holdings. The raise is intended to support developer onboarding and broader ecosystem growth through the fund and accelerator initiatives. Mirror World is a game-matrix virtual world service provider that builds a virtual world composed of multiple game titles. Its announced portfolio includes Mirrama, an ARPG that combines Roguelike mechanics; Brawl of Mirrors, a casual PVP arena-duel game; and a strategy title centered on the SLG genre. The company said it will launch Sonic, a game public chain on Solana built on SVM HyperGrid. Recently Mirror World completed a multi-million-dollar Pre-A financing. The article does not disclose participating investors, specific financial terms, or operating metrics. Mirror World is an AI-powered GameFi project that builds multiple games with interoperable NFT assets and AI-driven virtual life forms. Led by CEO Chris Zhu and supported by YC‑incubated rct AI, each game hosts virtual lives that are interoperable across the ecosystem. The company previously launched the world’s first interactive NFT, Mirror NFT (11,000), in September 2021 and introduced the Soul Chip interaction in November 2021. Mirror World plans to publish three initial games as proof of concept and then release a standard economic framework to onboard more content producers. The seed funding will be used to develop and launch the three games and to fully incentivize early community participation. The company describes itself as an "AI-powered virtual carnival" aiming to yield crypto returns of the people, by the people, for the people.