Participated · Equity · Jan 2026

Saturn focuses on creating USDat, a bitcoin-backed stablecoin designed to deliver yields of more than 11% to holders. The elevated yield is generated via the project’s Strategy perpetual preferred shares, known as STRC. By combining a bitcoin reserve with on-chain financial engineering, the company aims to open up global access to digital credit. Proceeds from its recent capital raise are earmarked for continued protocol development and expansion of USDat. The team positions the product as a higher-yielding alternative within the stablecoin landscape while maintaining crypto-native collateralization. No additional operating metrics, revenues, or user figures were disclosed in the announcement.

Led · Seed · Jan 2026

Saturn Credit is building a Bitcoin-compatible digital credit protocol and stablecoin system slated to launch in March 2026. The protocol is reported to be built on Strategy's STRC. It uses a dual-token design: USDat, a non-interest-bearing stablecoin backed by tokenized U.S. Treasuries and permissioned to maintain a 1:1 peg with USDC, and sUSDat, an ERC-4626 interest-bearing vault that accumulates STRC dividends. sUSDat features an exit queue with a reported 3- to 7-day withdrawal period. The company raised $2 million in a seed round led by The Spartan Group with participation from Anchorage Digital and Susquehanna Crypto. No revenue, user metrics, or prior funding rounds were reported in the articles.

Led · Seed · Apr 2024

Ord.io announced a $2M pre-seed round in a LinkedIn post. The post names participating investors and backers but does not describe the company’s product, roadmap, or operating metrics. The announcement lists co‑lead investors and numerous participating funds and individuals. No financial metrics, revenue, user counts, or use-of-proceeds details were disclosed in the post. The LinkedIn post serves as the sole source for the company’s publicly shared fundraising information in the provided article. Additional context about Ord.io’s business model, team background, or future plans was not included in the article.

Participated · Seed · Mar 2024

OrdinalsBot builds infrastructure and developer tools for the Bitcoin Ordinals ecosystem, including an inscription tool, the Scribe on-chain blogging platform, and a premium API for analytics, collection management and marketplace integration. The team launched as the first automated inscription service in the Bitcoin Ordinals space and has expanded into features for collection mints, BRC-20 launches, lazy minting, and complex indexing such as parent-child hierarchies. OrdinalsBot plans to launch a Trio Marketplace to centralize Ordinals access and will ramp up hiring across functions with a focus on BTC developers. The company says the new capital will help reset dynamics and infrastructure within blockchain to bring new opportunities to the Ordinals and BTC ecosystem. Financially, OrdinalsBot completed an oversubscribed $3M+ seed round as a fast follow to a pre-seed raised less than five months earlier, bringing total funding to over $4.5M. The announcement was released from London. OrdinalsBot builds ordinals infrastructure and recently launched a Software Developer Kit (SDK) to help developers integrate ordinals functionality into their projects. The company says the SDK enables companies and individuals to store data on Bitcoin and serves as a building block for Web3. OrdinalsBot was founded in February 2023 by Brian Laughlan and Toby Lewis and is based in the UK. The startup raised more than $1 million in a Seed funding round to improve ordinals infrastructure. Founders stated the funding and investor support will help them become a premier Bitcoin infra company. The company emphasized renewed developer interest in the space as a catalyst for its plans.

Led · Seed · Feb 2024

Saturn operates a decentralized Bitcoin (BTC) exchange with a peer-to-peer order book aimed at enabling users to trade satoshis without centralized intermediaries. The platform’s product focus is improving Bitcoin fungibility and providing a smoother, more secure trading experience versus centralized exchanges. Saturn reports a notable user base of about 300,000 users, indicating early traction in the BTC DEX market. The team plans to use recently raised capital to hire additional staff, ramp up technical capabilities, and improve exchange infrastructure. Saturn also intends to launch targeted marketing campaigns and integrate with other DeFi protocols on Bitcoin to expand its ecosystem. The company positions itself as an early leader in the emerging Bitcoin DEX space and emphasizes reducing counterparty and regulatory risks associated with centralized venues.