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 · Equity · Feb 2025

Olas is an original AI agent platform (since 2021) that enables autonomous, user-owned AI agents across multiple blockchains. Its core stack includes the Olas Stack for developers and the Olas Protocol to incentivize agent creation and co-ownership, and it recently launched Pearl, described as the world’s first agent app store. Pearl is a desktop app that lets users choose, launch, and fully own AI agents on-chain for use cases like autonomous social media accounts and DeFi trading. Olas reports material traction: agents process over 700,000 transactions monthly (growing ~30% month-over-month) and the platform has facilitated over 3.5 million transactions across nine blockchains, with 2+ million agent-to-agent transactions. The project also introduced Olas Staking with a Proof of Active Agent mechanism to reward useful agent activity. To attract builders it launched an Accelerator offering up to $1M in grants (individual teams can receive up to $100,000 plus OLAS tokens) to develop agents for Pearl.

Participated · Seed · Aug 2024

LYNC is an L2 project focused on bringing more mobile users on-chain by providing rollup technology and a full mobile development stack. The product offering centers on a Movement Labs–supported rollup and an end-to-end mobile stack targeted at individual founders, developers, and creators. The stack is intended to enable the building of crypto-native mobile applications and games. LYNC plans to use the newly raised capital to grow its on-chain mobile user base and accelerate tool availability for third-party builders. The company recently completed a $1.5M Pre-Seed financing to fund these efforts. No operating metrics were disclosed in the article.

Participated · Equity · May 2024

Arcium builds a parallelized confidential computing network that enables computation on encrypted data using Multiparty Computation Execution Environments (MXEs). Its MXEs combine MPC, homomorphic encryption, zero-knowledge proofs and other techniques to provide verifiable, trustless encrypted computation. The company plans a two-phase road to mainnet: a Private Incentivized Testnet followed by a Public Testnet to validate network performance and scalability. Arcium aims to deliver a customizable encrypted state for on-chain applications to overcome blockchain confidentiality limitations. The startup intends to use the new funding to expand its development efforts. Co-founders are Yannik Schrade, Julian Deschler, Nicolas Schapeler and Lukas Steiner; the company is based in Bern, Switzerland.

Participated · Seed · May 2024

Crestal develops tools and services to explore, evaluate, and implement performance-driven modular services aimed at supporting a decentralized future. The company positions its product set around modular components intended to improve decentralized architectures and says investor support validates market demand. Crestal announced it has completed a $2 million funding round. The round included institutional investors LIF, Cogitent Ventures, Kyros Ventures, Veris Ventures, SMAPE Capital, MH Ventures, Layer Labs, Pragma Ventures, Builder Capital, NxGen, Artemis Capital and Quotient Ventures. Several industry leaders also participated as backers, including Sandeep Nailwal, Loi Luu, Thomas France, Hassan Ahmed, Chef Icy, Heslin Kim, Andrew Vranjes and Paul Taylor. The announcement did not disclose operating metrics or the instrument type used in the raise. Crestal linked to its LinkedIn post for additional information.