Led · Seed · Dec 2025

DeAgentAI (token ticker AIA) focuses on developing products and services that combine artificial intelligence capabilities with blockchain infrastructure. The company positions itself to address use-cases where decentralized systems can benefit from advanced AI, though specific products were not detailed in the article. In 2024 DeAgentAI secured a significant seed investment that it plans to channel into accelerating product development and organizational growth. Management indicated the fresh capital will fuel both technical R&D and market expansion efforts across AI and Web3 ecosystems. No operating metrics—such as user numbers, revenues or ARR—were disclosed. The seed round represents the company’s first publicly reported external financing. Overall, DeAgentAI is now capitalized to scale its AI-blockchain solutions and pursue further milestones.

Participated · Equity · Sep 2025

Obita is building a global, enterprise-grade payments infrastructure platform designed to serve businesses that require seamless, compliant cross-border transactions. Founded by a team of seasoned fintech, payments and compliance professionals, the company aims to simplify and scale payment operations for enterprises worldwide. Obita plans to use newly raised capital to accelerate its business growth and deepen the technological capabilities of its payments network. Across its first two financing rounds, the startup has secured nearly US$30 million, underscoring early investor confidence. Key backers include Monolith, Vision Plus Capital, Mirana Ventures and Legend Capital. Although still in the Pre-A stage, the company is positioning itself as a foundational payments layer for global commerce and anticipates further expansion of both its product suite and geographic reach.

Participated · Equity · Aug 2025

Hemi offers a programmability layer for Bitcoin via the Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM), a full Bitcoin node embedded inside an Ethereum Virtual Machine that enables DeFi, restaking, and cross-chain composability. The protocol positions itself as a supernetwork that fuses Bitcoin's security with Ethereum-style developer flexibility and supports cross-chain 'Tunnels' for interoperability. Hemi is preparing for a token generation event (TGE) and has recently unveiled $HEMI tokenomics to support that launch. The company reports over $1.2 billion in total value locked on its network, more than 100,000 verified users, and a community exceeding 400,000 members. Hemi is backed by a network of over 70 ecosystem partners, including Sushi, LayerZero, MetaMask, and Redstone, and is led by co-founders Jeff Garzik, Maxwell Sanchez, and Matthew Roszak. The recent funding will be used to accelerate ecosystem growth and further enable Bitcoin-based decentralized finance. Hemi Labs is developing the Hemi Network, a modular blockchain powered by Bitcoin and Ethereum that aims to unlock new programmability and cross-chain capabilities. Core components include the Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM) that embeds a full Bitcoin node within an EVM, the Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK) to enable Bitcoin-native smart contract access, Proof-of-Proof (PoP) consensus for Bitcoin-derived security, and Tunnels for trustless cross-chain portability. The platform also emphasizes asset programmability features such as on-chain routing, time-locks, password protection, and gasless transfers. Hemi’s incentivized testnet is live and the team is targeting a mainnet launch in Q4 2024. The company announced a $15 million investment round to develop and launch the network. Founders named in the release are Jeff Garzik and Max Sanchez; the announcement was issued from Chicago.

Participated · Equity · May 2025

Assisterr provides a Solana-native, no-code platform for creating, deploying, and monetising specialised AI agents, focusing on Small Language Models (SLMs) rather than large general-purpose LLMs. The company argues SLMs are cheaper to run, easier to customise, and better suited for task-specific applications across DeFi, NFTs, and other Web3 use cases. Assisterr is building a decentralised AI (DeAI) economy around an upcoming $ASRR token to reward contributions such as model building, data validation, and successful agent deployments. The platform reports 4.7 million users in under nine months and more than 24,000 live AI agents deployed by its community. Early monetisation tests generated $160,000 in revenue within the first weeks, and several tokenised agents have reached a combined fully diluted valuation of over €70.4 million. The company positions itself as enabling creator-owned AI, shifting control away from centralised APIs and big-tech pricing models toward a Web3 creator economy. Assisterr is a Cambridge, UK-based AI infrastructure startup building a network of community-owned small language models (SLMs). Led by CEO and co-founder Nick Havryliak, the company provides an end-to-end infrastructure and a data provenance protocol for launching and maintaining community-owned SLMs. Since launch it has attracted about 150,000 registered users and has launched more than 60 SLMs curated for Web3 protocols such as Solana, Optimism, 0g.ai, and NEAR. The company plans to use the £1.3M Pre-Seed to accelerate protocol development, form strategic partnerships, and launch an incentive program to grow its model-builder and data-contributor ecosystem. Assisterr was selected for Google’s AI Startups program, securing $350k to support GPU, CPU, and cloud infrastructure needs. Backers include a mix of venture firms and angels, and the funds aim to strengthen Assisterr’s infrastructure and ecosystem growth.

Participated · Equity · Sep 2024

Wombo is a Toronto-based company focused on consumer-facing AI applications across a suite of mobile and web products. Led by CEO Ben-Zion Benkhin, the company has amassed over 200 million downloads across its applications. Wombo plans to use the new funding to expand its team and accelerate product development. The company intends to explore new frontiers in AI-powered content creation and to support R&D on w.ai, a project to create a large AI supercomputer. The w.ai project aims to transform idle devices such as MacBooks, smartphones, or PlayStation devices into distributed AI workers, allowing users to contribute computing power and earn rewards. Wombo raised $9M to support these initiatives.