Saxon
Techspace, 140 Goswell Road, London, EC1V 7DY, United Kingdom
Overview
Saxon serves companies and crypto networks across the digital asset ecosystem through each of it's business lines. ADVISORS Our advisory division provides corporate finance advice to projects to prepare for and execute private placements of crypto assets. VENTURES Our ventures arm seeks to play an active role in the development of early-stage projects that we beleive are radicially innovative. NODES Through our Nodes as a Service offering we provide solutions to investors and developers. For developers of blockchain networks, we operate nodes to support the network alongside technical advice. Meanwhile, for investors, we enable them to capture the rewards from validating transactions without the technical skills to manage and deploy nodes.
- Total investments
- 2
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 2
Sector focus
- Cryptocurrency
- Financial Services
Investment portfolio
- assisterr
Participated · Seed · Aug 2024
Assisterr provides a Solana-native, no-code platform for creating, deploying, and monetising specialised AI agents, focusing on Small Language Models (SLMs) rather than large general-purpose LLMs. The company argues SLMs are cheaper to run, easier to customise, and better suited for task-specific applications across DeFi, NFTs, and other Web3 use cases. Assisterr is building a decentralised AI (DeAI) economy around an upcoming $ASRR token to reward contributions such as model building, data validation, and successful agent deployments. The platform reports 4.7 million users in under nine months and more than 24,000 live AI agents deployed by its community. Early monetisation tests generated $160,000 in revenue within the first weeks, and several tokenised agents have reached a combined fully diluted valuation of over €70.4 million. The company positions itself as enabling creator-owned AI, shifting control away from centralised APIs and big-tech pricing models toward a Web3 creator economy. Assisterr is a Cambridge, UK-based AI infrastructure startup building a network of community-owned small language models (SLMs). Led by CEO and co-founder Nick Havryliak, the company provides an end-to-end infrastructure and a data provenance protocol for launching and maintaining community-owned SLMs. Since launch it has attracted about 150,000 registered users and has launched more than 60 SLMs curated for Web3 protocols such as Solana, Optimism, 0g.ai, and NEAR. The company plans to use the £1.3M Pre-Seed to accelerate protocol development, form strategic partnerships, and launch an incentive program to grow its model-builder and data-contributor ecosystem. Assisterr was selected for Google’s AI Startups program, securing $350k to support GPU, CPU, and cloud infrastructure needs. Backers include a mix of venture firms and angels, and the funds aim to strengthen Assisterr’s infrastructure and ecosystem growth.
- Crypto Valley Exchange
Participated · Seed · Apr 2024
CVEX is a decentralized exchange focused on building a dedicated DEX mainnet with enhanced trading functionality. The mainnet is planned to launch on Arbitrum and will support user wallets on Ethereum, Optimism, BASE, and Solana. On CVEX, collateral deposits are denominated in USDC. The company completed fundraising consisting of pre-seed and seed financings totaling $7 million. The round was led by Fabric Ventures and Kyber Capital Crypto Fund with participation from several crypto-focused investors. Proceeds are positioned to support the mainnet development and multi-chain wallet integrations.