• Maha

  Participated · Equity · Nov 2025

  Maha develops core on-chain infrastructure and related tools designed to bring the next wave of users onto blockchain networks. Its platform focuses on expanding global infrastructure, fostering collaborations across the Web3 ecosystem, and accelerating product innovation for decentralized applications. The company positions itself as a partner to both institutional and retail participants by delivering scalable, user-friendly solutions. Backed by a strong roster of crypto-native funds and strategic angels, Maha is doubling down on product development and ecosystem growth. Future plans include broadening international infrastructure footprints and deepening integrations with industry partners. Financially, Maha has secured $17 million in venture backing across two rounds since February 2024, providing the capital to execute its roadmap. No revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the fundraising announcement.

• MagicBlock

  Participated · Seed · Apr 2025

  MagicBlock provides a real-time execution engine for decentralized games and applications on Solana using its ephemeral rollup technology to deliver ultra-low latency, elastic throughput, and native composability. Its core product lets developers build fully onchain, high-frequency use cases—such as real-time gaming, high-frequency trading, and DeFi—without the tradeoffs of traditional L2s or appchains. The company emphasizes app-specific extensions or plugins (e.g., real-time pricing feeds, custom sequencing, permissioned environments) to support tailored runtime behavior. MagicBlock has announced partnerships with Flash Trade, Supersize, Pyth, Jito, and dTelecom to validate use cases and integrations across trading, gaming, oracle feeds, validator infrastructure, and communications. Financially, MagicBlock completed a $7.5M Seed round in April 2025 and previously raised $3M in September 2024 led by a16z CSX. With this funding, the company plans to expand its engineering team, scale its developer ecosystem, and continue optimizing its ephemeral rollup technology. MagicBlock is a Solana-based game developer that builds infrastructure for games intended to run fully on-chain. The company is developing a game engine designed to allow video games to operate entirely on-chain. Its core product focus is the on-chain game engine and supporting tooling for games on Solana. This work targets fully on-chain game experiences rather than off-chain game logic. MagicBlock has completed a $3 million pre-seed financing. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) participated in the round.

• Glider

  Participated · Equity · Apr 2025

  Founded in 2024, Glider offers a financial orchestration layer that automates every step of on-chain portfolio construction, execution, and rebalancing across multiple blockchains. The product combines a consumer-friendly interface with a robust B2B API, enabling both individual investors and partners such as wallets, AI agents, DEXs, and lending protocols to embed automated portfolios directly into their services. Key features include customizable portfolio templates, cross-chain liquidity sourcing, integrated lending through protocols like Aave, collaborative strategy sharing, and historical back-testing tools. The platform is non-custodial, letting users connect existing wallets (MetaMask, Rainbow, Safe, WalletConnect, etc.) without new seed phrases. Glider positions itself as the next evolution of DeFi by removing gas-fee management, network switching, and slippage calculations from the user workflow. Proceeds from its recent fundraise will be used to expand the team and accelerate its mission to make sophisticated crypto portfolio management accessible to both newcomers and experienced traders. While the company has not disclosed revenue or user numbers, it emphasizes capturing market share as more investors seek streamlined on-chain execution.

• Kuru

  Participated · Seed · Jul 2024

  Kuru is building a fully on-chain orderbook DEX on the Monad Layer 1, aiming to offer tighter spreads and greater capital efficiency than AMMs by enabling limit orders and market-maker-friendly tooling. The protocol is designed to allow market makers to place and cancel limit orders at a low, constant gas cost and to enable passive liquidity provision for long-tail assets. Kuru's team argues the order book model can address AMM limitations like high slippage and underutilized liquidity, and it aims to support both liquid and long-tail assets while keeping liquidity provision simple. The product is being prepared to launch on the Monad testnet, leveraging Monad’s high throughput and quick block times. Kuru emerged from stealth and is preparing for audits ahead of that testnet launch. Financially, the project has closed a $2 million seed round to grow the team and advance development.

• Bitlayer

  Participated · Seed · Mar 2024

  Founded in October 2023, Bitlayer Labs is building a Bitcoin Layer 2 network based on the Bitcoin Virtual Machine (BitVM) to expand application programmability and tap into Bitcoin security. The team launched mainnet V1 in early 2024 and released a trust-minimized BitVM Bridge in July. Bitlayer has released integrations with chains including Arbitrum, Base, Cardano, and Sui and plans to ship a V2 of its mainnet later this year. The project raised capital through both private and public rounds; the fresh capital will be used for operational expansion, team growth, and ecosystem development. As of this raise, Bitlayer's total funding stands at $29.91 million across private and public rounds. Bitlayer is positioned as the first Bitcoin Layer 2 based on Bitcoin finality, offering a native environment through technologies such as OpVM, Finality Bridge, and RtEVM. It has implemented OpVM, which combines fraud proofs (BitVM) and validity proofs (OP_CAT) to enable Bitcoin L1 verification of arbitrary computations. The project launched Mainnet‑V1 on April 15 and now hosts over 280 deployed DApps across infrastructure, wallets, DeFi, NFTs, gaming, metaverse, and RWAs. Bitlayer reports partnerships with more than 30 Web3 platforms including Hacken, AWS Cloud, Ankr, Polyhedra, Babylon, Particle Network, and Meson. The team is preparing the imminent launch of Bitlayer V2, a Bitcoin‑native rollup whose state transitions are protected by OpVM. The company has raised a total of $25 million to date, funds the team says will accelerate development, scalability, and user accessibility. Bitlayer Labs offers a Bitcoin Layer 2 solution based on the BitVM paradigm. Its core objective is to address the trade-off between security and Turing completeness in BTC Layer 2 through cryptographic innovations and blockchain protocol engineering. The company aims to become the computation layer for Bitcoin, introducing ultra-scalability while inheriting Bitcoin’s security. Bitlayer targets a high-throughput, low-cost transaction experience for users. It intends to use recent funding to expand growth and development efforts. The Series A brought the company’s total capital raised to $16M. Bitlayer is a Bitcoin Layer 2 infrastructure provider building Layer 2 infrastructure for Bitcoin. The company plans to launch its mainnet on April 5. It will introduce an ecosystem incentive program called Ready Player One. Bitlayer announced completion of a $5 million seed financing. The round was led by Framework Ventures and ABCDE Capital, with participation from StarkWare, OKX Ventures, Alliance DAO, UTXO Management, Asymmetric Capital, Kenetic Capital, Pivot Global, Web3Port, Mindfulness Capital, C6E Capital, PAKA, Comma3 Capital, Kronos Ventures, dozens of institutions, and individual investors including Dan Held, Ryan Selkis, and Dan McArdle.

No current team members are available.