Participated · Seed · Apr 2026

Verse8 provides an AI-native platform that lets creators instantly transform text prompts into fully playable multiplayer games, removing the need for complex engines or large development teams. The platform has seen rapid user growth, reaching over 3.5 million monthly active users, supporting 5,000 creators, and enabling creation of more than 25,000 games. Verse8 is integrated with Story to offer on-chain ownership, licensing, and distribution, allowing creators to retain attribution and participate in downstream revenue under programmable licensing frameworks. The company plans to use its newly raised $5 million seed round to continue developing its AI-driven game-creation systems and to expand its creator ecosystem. Verse8 is headquartered in Oakland, CA.

Participated · Seed · Sep 2025

Aria is building a protocol that converts cultural intellectual property (IP) such as music, art, and media into ‘IP real-world assets’ (IPRWAs), tradable tokens that provide holders with programmable income rights. In June 2025 the company debuted $APL, a token backed by partial income rights to a portfolio of 48 songs from artists including BLACKPINK, Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, and BTS; token holders can stake $APL and receive real-world royalty payouts. The rights for $APL were acquired with $10.95 million raised via StakeStone’s LiquidityPad, demonstrating early community demand for tokenised royalties. With fresh capital, Aria plans to advance features like on-chain royalty distribution, automated revenue splits, and programmable remix licensing while onboarding additional rights holders. The roadmap also includes expanding beyond music into art and other culturally significant verticals to create a broad marketplace for liquid cultural IP. Investors view Aria as part of the larger real-world asset (RWA) tokenisation trend that is bringing traditionally illiquid assets on-chain. The company’s financing to date totals at least $25.95 million when combining platform funds used for rights acquisition with its equity rounds.

Participated · Seed · Apr 2024

Tomo is an all-in-one Web3 social app that bundles a social wallet, creator tools, and SocialFi mechanics into a single product. The company launched Tomoji, an ERC-404 Launchpad on Base that enables NFT fractionalization, minting, gifting, and trading. It also introduced TomoID, a multifunctional social wallet and link-in-bio tool with an affiliate program for crypto commissions. The platform supports mobile apps (iOS and Android), a web beta, account abstraction and non-custodial wallets using ERC-4337, and operates on Linea and Base rollups with fiat onramp and cross-chain bridging. Tomo uses Tomo Points to reward engagement and a Keys system that grants access to creator content; Keys transactions carry a 10% royalty split evenly between Tomo and creators. The company closed a $3.5M seed round to back its product roadmap and expansion of its SocialFi offerings.