Participated · Seed · Aug 2024

Katara builds an AI-agent workflow automation platform and marketplace that lets clients deploy and combine autonomous assistants to automate fragmented DevX tasks. The platform leverages a mix of traditional ML/NLP alongside foundational models and generative AI, using a human-in-the-loop approach to balance efficiency and safety. It unifies community and developer management, analytics, and content platforms to streamline onboarding, content creation, and repetitive Q&A workflows. Early launch partners AVAIL Protocol, Hivemapper, and Filecoin have reportedly saved over 8,700 hours annually using the platform. Katara plans to scale globally and expand its offering beyond web3 to include web2, AI, and open-source platforms while continuing development of its AI-agent marketplace. Financially, the company has raised $2.6 million in combined pre-seed and seed rounds.

Participated · Seed · Jul 2024

Axle Automation builds AI-powered solutions to automate AML compliance workflows such as Enhanced Due Diligence, aiming to reduce manual work, fraud, and compliance risk. The company leverages generative artificial intelligence to streamline inefficient processes and help institutions scale compliance efforts. Axle targets fintechs, banks and other financial institutions facing rising AML costs and growing money‑laundering activity. The firm plans to use the newly raised capital to scale the team and further optimize its platform for compliance teams. CEO and co‑founder Ioannis Giannaros brings prior experience as the founder, CEO and first Chief Compliance Officer of Wyre, which informs Axle’s product focus. The company frames its offering against industry pain points such as more than $200 billion spent annually on AML compliance and estimates of up to $2 trillion laundered yearly.

Participated · Seed · May 2022

Lighthouse Labs is an open metaverse navigation engine that enables users to search for places, events, friends, creators, assets and experiences across and within virtual worlds. Through its portal, users can discover trending activities, build friend groups to explore the metaverse, see where their NFTs are usable, and follow brands and creators. Lighthouse powers its solution by directly integrating with the virtual worlds it indexes to provide searchability. The company intends to use the Seed funding to grow its engineering and community teams, expand the universe of worlds it partners with, and launch its platform in Summer 2022. Lighthouse raised US$7M in Seed funding and is focused on expanding partnerships and product availability. It was founded by Jonathan Brun and Justine Massicotte and is based in Montreal, Canada.

Participated · Seed · May 2022

Lighthouse is building an open metaverse navigation engine that lets users search for places, events, creators, experiences, assets and friends across and within virtual worlds. The platform will offer a portal showing trending activities, friend groups, where NFTs are usable, and the work of specific brands and creators. Lighthouse powers search by directly integrating with the virtual worlds it supports to enable real-time discovery. The company announced a US$7 million seed raise and plans to launch its platform in Summer 2022. Funding will be used to grow engineering and community teams and expand the universe of partner worlds. Founders Jonathan Brun and Justine Massicotte bring experience in digital assets and enterprise search.