Participated · Series A · Feb 2026

Founded in 2022, Sidekick offers a modern wealth-management platform aimed at professionals whose financial needs have outgrown entry-level investing apps. The service combines low-cost public-market investing, customised portfolios, private-market opportunities and Lombard loans secured against customers’ portfolios—products historically reserved for private banks. Sidekick’s managed strategies include offerings such as the All Weather portfolio, while its Multi Shield Savings product spreads cash across multiple partner banks to maximise FSCS protection. The company claims to manage more than £145 million in customer assets, underscoring demand for greater transparency and control among affluent professionals. Fees are presented transparently and clients receive guidance from in-house financial experts. With fresh capital, Sidekick plans to scale its product suite, grow headcount and expand operations in Cardiff while continuing to build out its technology platform.

Participated · Seed · Oct 2025

Ryder builds Ryder One, a coin-sized hardware wallet that lets users create and back up their crypto wallets in under 60 seconds. The device replaces traditional seed phrases with TapSafe, a redundant recovery method that splits backups across a smartphone and NFC recovery tags which must be physically reunited to regain access, removing a single point of failure. Ryder One operates offline for security while pairing with a companion mobile app for everyday use. The company plans to extend functionality so users can spend crypto directly from the wallet via tap-to-pay and other daily transactions, aiming to make digital assets part of routine commerce. Fresh capital will allow Ryder to scale hardware production, expand its engineering and marketing teams, and run a large visibility campaign. The seed financing totals $3.2 million and gives the company resources to continue iterating on its flagship product. No revenue, user, or geographic details were disclosed.

Participated · Seed · Jul 2025

Due provides a seamless, embeddable API and borderless account that lets businesses send, receive, and settle fiat and stablecoin transactions through a single integration. Its platform offers real-time FX and settlement across 80+ markets via an integrated network of local payment rails, liquidity providers, and blockchain infrastructure. Due routes transactions through stablecoins and on-chain networks when possible, claiming mid-market FX rates and cost reductions of up to 90% versus traditional banking. The company targets fintech builders—payments platforms, payroll systems, wallets, and neobanks—by embedding cross-border infrastructure directly into customer platforms. Due plans to scale its Global Stablecoin APIs, expand payment-rail and currency coverage to 100+ countries by year-end, and launch invoicing, cards, and yield accounts. The business is London-based, was founded by Revolut alumni, and has extended its seed funding to a total of $7.3 million. Due provides a stablecoin and blockchain-based payments platform that connects domestic payment rails via open, interoperable blockchain protocols. Its web platform lets customers open borderless accounts and send/receive payments across 50+ markets using local payment methods. The company offers multi-currency accounts, global transfers/remittances and merchant acquiring for businesses and individuals. Due is built on Ethereum and multiple scaling solutions (Arbitrum, Base, OP, with Starknet and zkSync coming soon). It plans to launch in November focused on corridors between the United States, Europe, the UK and Sub-Saharan Africa, with expansion into Latin America and Asia-Pacific slated for Q1 2024. The company is also working to integrate digitised real-world assets (e.g., tokenised US Treasuries) to broaden access to treasury and yield-bearing assets; it will use the new funding to further develop its technology and expand fiat connectivity to more markets.

Participated · Series A · Jan 2025

Dfns builds multichain wallet-as-a-service infrastructure with a focus on bank‑grade security and direct integrations for institutional users. Two years ago the company moved up‑market to prioritize institutional clients and has since emphasized certifications, regulatory licenses, robust insurance, independent audits, and partnerships. Its client roster includes Fidelity, Bridge (Stripe), Zodia Custody (Standard Chartered), Tungsten Custody (ADQ) and 130+ fintechs worldwide. Dfns plans to accelerate distribution of its wallet infrastructure in 2025, targeting banks, payment services, trading platforms, investment apps, tokenization projects, government and corporate treasuries, and fund administrators. The company intends to expand adoption across the EU, UK, UAE and US while prioritizing sustainable growth over aggressive headcount expansion. Management plans to grow headcount from 25 to 35 employees by year-end contingent on targets and market stability. Dfns is a Parisian, Techstars-backed developer of a custodial wallet-as-a-service (WaaS) protocol that enables keyless wallets and decentralised custody. The product exposes an API designed to be deployed to custodial wallets in days and is already used by Scrypt, Polymath, and Swiss crypto bank Mt Pelerin. Dfns says it leverages MPC, ZKP-based cryptography and modern networking to merge the trustless, privacy-preserving ethos of non-custodial setups with the UX and comfort of trusted custody. The company primarily targets fintechs, banks and e-commerce platforms and plans a self-service API to broaden developer usage across video games, neobanks, music apps, trading and lending platforms. It will use the new capital to roll out keyless wallets across DeFi applications, beef up cryptography R&D programmes, and expand its staff. Since December 2020 the startup has raised approximately €13.5 million in total.

Participated · Seed · Aug 2024

Chainbound is a New York-based startup developing optimized infrastructure and networking tools for blockchains, centered on Ethereum. The company is advancing a protocol that enables transaction pre-confirmations to reduce the time required for Ethereum transactions to be confirmed. Its products in development include Fiber Network, a global network of nodes that connects to Ethereum's p2p layer to ensure fast, global message propagation and enable mempool monitoring and efficient transaction broadcasting. Echo is a specialized API that allows Ethereum users to send bundles to their desired builders and the public mempool. Bolt is a trustless proposer commitments protocol designed to enable sub-second preconfirmations. Chainbound says the new funding will accelerate Bolt's market launch and help position the company as a key player in Ethereum infrastructure and networking solutions.