Led · Equity · Jun 2022

anotherblock is a Web3 music company that connects music rights to NFTs and offers a marketplace to buy and sell music rights. The platform has granted fans access to streaming rights in worldwide hit songs by artists including The Weeknd, Rihanna, Martin Garrix, Alan Walker, Offset, and R3HAB. Founded in 2021 by Michel D. Traore, Sebastian Ljungberg and Filip Strömsten and based in Stockholm, Sweden, the company targets artists, producers, and record companies. anotherblock plans to scale globally and expand product availability to a broader range of music creators and rights holders. To support growth it closed a €4M Seed funding round led by Stride.VC and joined by Axwell. The funding is intended to accelerate product availability and international expansion. anotherblock is a Swedish blockchain platform that connects music rights to NFTs to enable shared ownership of music tracks. The core product creates a hassle-free marketplace to buy and sell music rights and aims to democratise ownership of music. The company plans to launch its NFT offering later this year to enable royalty-share drops. anotherblock was founded in 2021 by Michel D. Traore, Sebastian Ljungberg and Filip Strömsten, with Traore serving as CEO. The startup has raised $2.5 million in its latest financing to support its product rollout. anotherblock is building a blockchain-based marketplace to tokenize and trade music rights, launching an NFT-focused platform. The startup will initially introduce tokens tied to royalty rights that generate ongoing royalties corresponding to ownership. It also plans unique NFTs that grant a single buyer exclusive enjoyment of the art in-person or within the metaverse. Artists who place rights on the blockchain will receive a transaction payment/trade-royalty each time an NFT is traded, in perpetuity. Once the NFT marketplace is operating, the company will expand into rights management for artists and labels on the blockchain. The team is led by Michel D. Traore (CEO), Sebastian Ljungberg (CTO) and Filip Strömsten (COO); advisors include Doc McKinney.

Participated · Series A · May 2022

Oasis Pro’s subsidiary, Oasis Pro Markets, operates a U.S.-regulated multi-asset Alternative Trading System (OATSPRO) and a full-service investment banking practice for digital securities. OATSPRO supports fiat and digital-currency payments, KYC/AML onboarding, smart-contract-enabled real-time settlement, and a matching engine for primary issuance and secondary trading of public and private multi-asset digital securities. The platform targets real-estate related products including REITs and RMBS and positions itself as a liquidity venue for private and public OTC digital securities. Oasis Pro completed an oversubscribed $27+ million Series A financing to fund senior hires, expand global business development, scale its technology platform, and add complementary blockchain technologies. Proceeds will also accelerate Oasis Pro Markets’ Digital Asset Security ATS platform, global expansion, and its investment banking advisory practice; the company highlighted potential use cases such as Redwood Trust issuing mortgage-backed securities on the platform. The firm is based in Darien, Connecticut and is led by a team of Wall Street and blockchain veterans focused on bridging traditional finance and DeFi.

Participated · Seed · Mar 2022

KlayCity is a P2E virtual world built on the Klaytn Network that enables players to use Land NFTs, $LAY tokens and $ORB tokens to scavenge, explore and level. District NFT owners can govern virtual districts and participate in various activities designed to integrate gaming and crypto economics. The company plans to continue building the virtual world with Land NFTs and has a broader plan to develop IP businesses based on KlayCity’s original story. KlayCity completed a Land NFT presale on Feb 10 at 500 KLAY per NFT, and while actively traded on OpenSea a district (#684) reached 120,000 KLAY on Mar 11—240× the mint price. Led by CEO Jake Choi, the team intends to use the seed funds to further develop the platform and its virtual-world experiences. The company is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Participated · Seed · Nov 2021

BlockchainSpace builds tools to empower play-to-earn guild owners and operates educational academies that identify economic opportunities in play-to-earn games. The platform’s features are designed to save guild operators time, provide data and metrics, and give guilds access to capital. The company currently serves over 2,000 guilds and 545,000 players. It is initially focusing on three key product areas: guild performance monitoring, a Guild Data Bank, and a Guild Financial Bank. Beginning early next year, BlockchainSpace plans to launch an Open Guild Marketplace with TradFi and DeFi integrations, plus automated credit scoring, loan issuance, and deployment of an Ecosystem fund. The company intends to use the new capital to continue developing these tools and features for guild management and scaling.

Participated · Series A · Oct 2021

DeHorizon is a metaverse game ecosystem led by gaming veterans and web3 experts that builds blockchain-based titles and NFT infrastructure. The company announced a strategic financing round led by Griffin Gaming Partners and Circle Ventures; the press release did not disclose the round size or instrument. This strategic round follows an $8.5 million Pre‑Series A in October 2021 led by Sfermion, Dragonfly Capital, and Everest Ventures Group. DeHorizon says the funding will help incubate a broader portfolio of games, expand the team, and iteratively grow the DeHorizon metaverse. Publicly announced titles include Team battle DeVerse, Battle royale DeTournament, and Dragon-racing DeMythical, with Effigy (a crowd‑sourced medieval fantasy) also in development. The company has launched DeMeta (an editable ERC‑721 NFT), debuted the Dr.De NFT on OpenSea (floor price 4 ETH at press time), begun an internal DeVerse test on Feb 22, 2022 with a 16,535,968 DVT prize pool, and announced partnerships with multiple crypto gaming guilds. DeHorizon Foundation is the team behind DeHorizon, a community-powered Game Metaverse focused on “Play for fun and to Earn.” Its flagship title, DeVerse, is described as the first blockchain-based MMO/RPG on DeHorizon, a high-fantasy action-adventure open-world where players mint NFT monsters, mine resources, undertake quests and tame creatures. The project emphasizes player control of assets, privacy information, and governance through a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). DeHorizon recently launched an interoperable, editable and evolvable ERC-721 DeMeta Pass ID NFT, with the first batch claimed in under 30 minutes. The organization plans to use new funding to accelerate DeVerse’s development and grow the team.