Participated · Seed · Mar 2026

UnblockPay provides an infrastructure of stablecoins and robust APIs that allow financial institutions and currency operators to execute cross-border transactions with speed, security, and regulatory compliance. The company positions its service as bringing international payment efficiency closer to the domestic experience enabled by Pix in Brazil. Leadership includes CEO Lucca Freire, who has prior fintech experience with Trampol.in and NG.Cash, and co-founders Pedro Henrique Braz Campo and Fabio Thiele. Coverage notes the startup is prepared to operate within Brazil’s new VASP framework from the central bank. The company’s platform targets institutions and FX operators rather than retail end users. The article does not disclose revenue, user metrics, or headquarters location.

Participated · Seed · Aug 2025

Credit Coop's core product is a Secured Line of Credit powered by the Spigot smart contract, which enables businesses to collateralize future revenues as programmatic recourse. The platform provides onchain execution with real-time settlement, automated loan servicing, and transparent credit monitoring. It targets institutional lenders by offering direct access to uncorrelated yield backed by verifiable cash flows while reducing counterparty risk. To date the platform has handled $150 million in total volume with over $8.5 million in active loans. The company plans to use the $4.5 million seed funding to increase engineering and business development headcount and rapidly expand operations. Trusted partners include Rain, Coinflow, Tulipa Capital, Re7 Capital, and Valinor, and Credit Coop is collaborating with Visa on enabling card receivables as programmable collateral.

Participated · Series B · Nov 2024

Notabene runs what it describes as the largest open network for regulated on-chain transactions, combining Travel Rule compliance with pre-transaction verification and authorization capabilities. Its B2B product, Notabene Flow, extends the network into stablecoin payment use cases such as pull payments, recurring payments, and automated invoicing. The network spans more than 2,300 connected institutions across 100+ jurisdictions, serves 280+ customers including tier-1 banks, custodians, fintechs, and exchanges, and has facilitated over $2 trillion in annualized transaction volume. Notabene is partnering with Ripple to integrate RLUSD and accelerate enterprise adoption of compliant stablecoin payments. The company plans to use strategic partnerships and Ripple's enterprise ecosystem to scale Notabene Flow and onboard additional institutions. Notabene was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in New York.

Participated · Equity · Jan 2024

Finoa is a regulated custodian for crypto assets that services professional investors with custody and staking, offering secure storage and management of crypto assets and direct access to DeFi. The platform is licensed as a financial institution for crypto custody, investment brokerage, and proprietary trading under the German Banking Act (KWG) and is supervised by BaFin. Customers include venture capital firms, large corporations, and financial institutions. The company intends to use new funding to expand operations, broaden its business reach, and advance development efforts. Finoa is led by Co‑Founders & Co‑CEOs Christopher May and Henrik Gebbing and was founded in Berlin in 2018. Finoa is a digital asset firm that provides regulated crypto custody, brokerage and trading services to institutional investors and corporations. It has received full German BaFin approvals for crypto custody, investment brokerage and proprietary trading, enabling it to offer qualified custody and a suite of regulated crypto services. The firm had been operating under a preliminary crypto custody license since January 2020. Management said the BaFin licenses give Finoa an edge over unlicensed players domestically and expect to meet SEC criteria as a Foreign Financial Institution and qualified custodian. Finoa recently closed a strategic venture round to strengthen statutory equity and fund product development. Executives emphasized constructive dialogue with supervisors and the company’s strategy to be the go-to regulated custodian for investors diversifying into crypto. Finoa operates a digital-asset custody and financial-services platform aimed at institutional investors and corporations. It supports protocols including Dapper Labs' FLOW, NEAR and Mina to provide custody and asset servicing for blockchain-native assets. The company reports more than 250 customers, including T-Systems, DeFi-native CoinList and Bankhaus Scheich. Finoa says it is pursuing regulated status for institutional custody and has received a preliminary crypto custody license supervised by the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin). Founded in 2018 by Christopher May and Henrik Ebbing, the founders previously worked together at McKinsey and began working in blockchain in 2017. Finoa competes with custodians such as Anchorage, Coinbase Custody and Bitgo, exchanges like Binance and Kraken, and self-custody solutions such as Ledger. The company plans to support additional protocols, enable new corporate use cases, and add decentralized financial products and services to its platform. Finoa, founded in 2018 and based in Berlin, has developed the world’s first fully digital (warm-storage) custody and asset-servicing solutions for Digital Assets tailored to institutional investors, VCs, family offices, HNWIs and corporations. Its custody platform enables secure storage and management of cryptographic tokens with a directly accessible and intuitive user experience. The custody infrastructure underpins a growing product portfolio including Prime Brokerage, Tokenization Services, Lending, Staking and Investment Services/Wealth Management. Since launching its product in summer 2019, Finoa already serves +60 professional investors, including hedge fund INVAO Group and VCs such as Atlantic Labs and Inflection. The company has received a preliminary license approval from BaFin (expected to be confirmed by November 2020). Finoa plans to use its recent funding to grow the team, scale the product portfolio and explore new business revenue lines.

Led · Equity · Dec 2023

Gataca, founded in 2018 and based in Madrid, builds decentralised identity management technology that gives individuals control over their personal data. Its solutions and ID Wallet–style technology have been deployed in government, higher education, and finance use cases. The company announced a strategic €1.3 million investment from Signature Ventures, with participation from SBXi and Gataca’s early backers. The funding is intended to accelerate product development, build new products and functionalities, and scale the team. Gataca aims to solidify its position in the decentralised identity space and integrate its solutions into existing systems. The raise aligns with growing interest in decentralised identity in Europe, including regulatory momentum around updated eIDAS rules and certified digital wallets.