Participated · Seed · Mar 2026

Valinor provides institutional capital solutions encompassing principal investing, capital markets, and advisory at the intersection of credit and blockchain. The firm positions itself to enable 'Open Credit,' a blockchain-enabled infrastructure upgrade intended to reduce friction and cost and expand financing across asset classes, borrowers, and geographies. Valinor combines credit underwriting discipline with digitally-native operations to originate and invest in institutional credit onchain. The company plans to scale through operational development, strategic hires, and capital deployment, and to continue investing alongside institutional partners. Valinor was founded in 2025 by Connor Dougherty and Lily Yarborough and is headquartered in New York.

Participated · Seed · Sep 2025

Titan builds a gateway to internet capital markets by consolidating every major Solana liquidity router into a single meta-aggregator. During its private beta, the platform handled more than $1.5 billion in spot trading volume, demonstrating strong early traction among active traders. Its proprietary routing engine, Argos, outperforms competing routers in 70-75 percent of pricing scenarios, giving users measurable savings on every swap. Now out of beta, Titan is publicly accessible at titan.exchange and is simultaneously launching Titan Prime API, a quote-comparison service designed for institutional platforms and programmatic traders. The API leverages advanced simulation infrastructure to perform resource-intensive router benchmarking on behalf of clients. By focusing on speed, transparency, and price improvement, Titan positions itself as critical infrastructure for the expanding Solana DeFi ecosystem. The company has secured $7 million in seed funding to accelerate product development and market expansion.

Participated · Seed · May 2025

Turtle has built a liquidity distribution protocol that curates opportunities, consolidates liquidity, and routes it to DeFi partners via a data-driven coordination layer. The platform currently serves an expanding network, linking more than 358,000 wallets and routing over $5.5 billion in liquidity. To date, the company has generated more than $6 million in revenue, illustrating the sustainability of its model compared with short-term incentive schemes. Led by CEO Essi Lagevardi, Turtle is now focusing on accelerating the rollout of its Earn infrastructure, enlarging its engineering team, and deepening multi-chain integrations. The recent capital injection lifts its total external funding to $11.7 million. These resources are intended to fuel further product development and ecosystem expansion across multiple blockchains.

Led · Seed · Mar 2024

Borderless AI builds AI agents for HR departments and a generative-AI powered enterprise search and knowledge management platform. The company automates routine HR tasks such as employee onboarding, payroll, and paying international team members by connecting companies’ applications and databases. It launched HRGPT, a free AI search engine that lets employees and HR managers search across a company’s universe of data and applications. Led by CEO Willson Cross, Borderless AI leverages generative AI to accelerate and streamline HR workflows. The company intends to use the new funds to accelerate its efforts to bring AI Agents to market and expand its enterprise search product. The articles do not disclose operating metrics such as revenue or user counts. Borderless AI builds Alberni, a generative AI agent that automates onboarding, management, and payroll for international hires in the Employer of Record (EOR) space. Alberni can solve complex problems, handle employment law, finance, and tax queries, and is available in 170 languages. The platform is designed to accelerate geographic expansion and ensure hiring compliance for employers of all sizes. Borderless AI serves organizations across industries and cites customers including Raya, MG2, and Affiniti. Led by CEO Willson Cross, the company plans to use new funding to expand operations and advance product development. The company is based in Toronto, Canada.

Participated · Seed · Apr 2022

Dfns builds multichain wallet-as-a-service infrastructure with a focus on bank‑grade security and direct integrations for institutional users. Two years ago the company moved up‑market to prioritize institutional clients and has since emphasized certifications, regulatory licenses, robust insurance, independent audits, and partnerships. Its client roster includes Fidelity, Bridge (Stripe), Zodia Custody (Standard Chartered), Tungsten Custody (ADQ) and 130+ fintechs worldwide. Dfns plans to accelerate distribution of its wallet infrastructure in 2025, targeting banks, payment services, trading platforms, investment apps, tokenization projects, government and corporate treasuries, and fund administrators. The company intends to expand adoption across the EU, UK, UAE and US while prioritizing sustainable growth over aggressive headcount expansion. Management plans to grow headcount from 25 to 35 employees by year-end contingent on targets and market stability. Dfns is a Parisian, Techstars-backed developer of a custodial wallet-as-a-service (WaaS) protocol that enables keyless wallets and decentralised custody. The product exposes an API designed to be deployed to custodial wallets in days and is already used by Scrypt, Polymath, and Swiss crypto bank Mt Pelerin. Dfns says it leverages MPC, ZKP-based cryptography and modern networking to merge the trustless, privacy-preserving ethos of non-custodial setups with the UX and comfort of trusted custody. The company primarily targets fintechs, banks and e-commerce platforms and plans a self-service API to broaden developer usage across video games, neobanks, music apps, trading and lending platforms. It will use the new capital to roll out keyless wallets across DeFi applications, beef up cryptography R&D programmes, and expand its staff. Since December 2020 the startup has raised approximately €13.5 million in total.