Participated · Series A · Nov 2022

GoFreight offers an all-in-one freight forwarding software platform with backend tools for sales, operations and accounting and a frontend that lets freight forwarders open online storefronts in one click. The platform supports ocean, air and land shipments, provides EDI-integrated real-time tracking, and ties tracking data into accounting to show shipment performance and earnings impact. It includes digital payment links, analytics that break down costs by SKU and customer, and features that surface hidden fees to improve margins. GoFreight says its integrations can reduce quotation time from 24–48 hours to roughly 10–20 seconds and currently serves about 1,000 customers. The company is building a partner network connecting customers, freight forwarders and carriers, and plans to develop smart quotations, rate management and purchase order management next. The startup is based in Los Angeles and Taipei and raised funding to support product development and growth.

Participated · Seed · Jun 2022

CharmVerse is a DAO operations platform. Foresight News reported that CharmVerse completed a $3.8 million seed financing. The reported seed round included participation from a broad group of investors. Named investors include Spartan Group, Culture3, Red Building Capital, OpenSea Ventures, Alliance DAO, Orange DAO, Builder Capital, POAP Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Tensility Ventures and GSR Ventures. The article did not provide additional operational or financial metrics or detail on use of proceeds.

Participated · Equity · Feb 2022

Kyoko operates a multi-blockchain GameFi NFT lending market and a DAO-to-DAO lending platform that targets peer-to-peer and cross-chain lending for GameFi guilds. The platform focuses on liquidity management and credit lending solutions for blockchain-based institutions. Kyoko completed a $3,000,000 strategic funding round to support expansion and partnerships. The company plans to use the funds to secure partnerships with play-to-earn guilds and GameFi-focused DAOs and to grow its credit lending offerings. Its infrastructure was undergoing stress tests ahead of a planned mainnet launch in Q1 2022. Company leadership has stated the investment will accelerate development and capture demand for blockchain-based credit in the open metaverse ecosystem.

Participated · Equity · Dec 2021

Lucy Labs is a New York City–based cryptocurrency asset management firm founded in 2017 and led by CEO George Chuang. The firm develops and applies quantitative and fundamental trading strategies, managing a range of quantitative approaches that exploit momentum and carry factors while employing rigorous risk management and strategy-specific structures. Lucy Labs also acts as a market maker and liquidity provider on both centralized and decentralized exchanges. It launched three strategies to outside investors in November 2021 and is accepting commitments on a rolling monthly basis. The company intends to use new funding to expand infrastructure, hire additional investment professionals, and incubate additional trading strategies.