Participated · Series A · Dec 2025

Architect Financial Technologies Inc. builds trading technology and brokerage services for institutional clients across global markets. Its flagship product is AX, the financial industry’s first centralized exchange for perpetual futures on traditional assets such as foreign currencies, interest rates, single stocks, stock indexes, metals, and other commodities. Operated by Architect Bermuda Ltd. under the Bermuda Monetary Authority, AX provides regulatory clarity and is presently open to hedge funds, market makers, asset managers, insurers, and other professional investors, with a wait-list for sophisticated individual traders. Established in 2023, Architect previously raised a $5 million pre-seed round in 2023 and a $12 million seed round in 2024. The newly secured capital will be used to scale AX’s infrastructure, broaden its product coverage, and deepen global distribution. Management believes these efforts will help catalyze a new era in global derivatives trading by extending perpetual futures to traditional markets.

Participated · Equity · Aug 2025

Transak provides a single API that enables apps — wallets, exchanges, fintechs and DeFi platforms — to convert fiat to stablecoins via local payment methods, bank transfers, cards and virtual IBANs. The platform combines regulated fiat on/off ramps, virtual bank accounts, real-time liquidity routing and full-stack compliance tooling. Transak is used by over 450 applications and serves users in more than 75 countries. The company has processed over $2 billion in transaction volume, with nearly 30% coming from stablecoin flows, and supports both retail and institutional use cases. It holds regulatory approvals in the United States, United Kingdom, European Union, Canada, Australia and India. Co-founded by Yeshu Agarwal and Sami Start, Transak plans to expand its stablecoin payments stack and scale operations into new markets.

Led · Seed · Feb 2025

Era is an AI-based financial intelligence platform that reimagines personal wealth management by acting as an intelligent financial assistant. The platform learns from users' connected accounts to provide personalized insights and proactive money management, including automated money transfers and in-app portfolio trading. Era refines recommendations using macroeconomic data, financial news and current events, and surfaces a glanceable timeline of personalized cards with updates, alerts and actionable insights. Key product features include Routines for automating transfers, Investments for exploring supported brokerages, stocks and ETFs, and Blueprints, an add-on marketplace for portfolio rebalancing from creators and advisors. Era launched as a freemium product with paid tiers based on usage and does not charge an AUM fee. The company announced a partnership with Cerebras Systems to pioneer agentic AI in personal finance and has added hires from Stripe and SoFi to accelerate product development. Near-term plans include launching new partnerships, continuing product updates and expanding its user base to pursue universal wealth-care. Era is an AI-powered wealth management platform that personalizes advice and automates financial tasks for users. The platform pairs AI recommendations with human advisors and pulls market news and macroeconomic data to keep advice current. Features described include chat-based prompts to take action on existing accounts, estimating taxes, moving money, guidance on paying off credit card debt, and portfolio rebalancing. Era aims to make expert-level financial advice and education accessible to Millennials and Gen Z regardless of income. The company announced its launch and a $3.1M Seed led by Northzone, reflecting its early-stage financing. Era was founded by CEO Alex Norcliffe and COO Lindsay Brady, former leads at Stripe, Square, Apple, and Google.

Participated · Series A · Jul 2024

Adaptive builds automation tools to simplify payments and accounting for general contractors. Founded in 2021 and based in New York, the company offers workflow automations for budgeting, expense tracking, accounts payable and electronic payments. Customers can upload documents like insurance agreements and payment requests in formats such as SMS and PDF and use automations to approve requests and budgets. Adaptive has built generative AI algorithms to automate the financial management and bookkeeping workflows unique to construction and competes with Briq, Beam and MakersHub. It serves more than 280 construction companies and currently derives all of its revenue from software. Near-term plans focus on acquiring subcontractor clients with tailored products; medium-term plans include monetizing integrated payments, insurance and payroll and pursuing embedded finance opportunities. Adaptive builds AI-powered back-office and spend-management software that automates invoice processing, approvals, reconciliation and payments for small general contractors. Its product uses OCR and machine learning to read invoices, extract cost codes and job information, and route approval workflows to reduce manual Excel/email/legacy-software processes. The company targets SMB general contractors that often lack dedicated accounting staff and says numerous customers are actively using its product while it aims for a broad release later this year. Adaptive’s founders are Matthew Calvano (CEO), Henry Bradlow (CTO) — who previously wrote algorithms for SpaceX — and Francisco Enriquez; the team developed the product after running a white-glove bookkeeping service for customers. Long-term plans include becoming a one-stop shop for construction financial workflows and products, from bidding suppliers and purchasing insurance to banking and working capital. Financially, the 11-month-old startup recently raised a $6.5M seed led by a16z after a $750K pre-seed in August.

Led · Seed · May 2024

SoBet operates a social-style platform that hosts exclusive short-form videos and write-ups from sports-betting creators popular on Instagram and TikTok. The app launched in June 2022 and targets 18-to-35-year-old casual bettors seeking transparent, easy-to-digest betting information. The company hosts more than 50 creators posting weekly, delivers about 5,000 posts a month (up from roughly 2,000), and reports over 6,000 paying subscribers. SoBet charges $9.95/month for a base plan (sharing 60% of that revenue with creators) and $25/month for VIP channels (sharing 90% with creators), and it says it has more than $1 million in annual recurring revenue while targeting over $2 million this year. The startup plans to build out its technology engine to add transparency features such as automatic bet-tracking leaderboards. It will use new funding to pay creators and staff and to spend on marketing and product development.