Participated · Seed · Mar 2024

OrdinalsBot builds infrastructure and developer tools for the Bitcoin Ordinals ecosystem, including an inscription tool, the Scribe on-chain blogging platform, and a premium API for analytics, collection management and marketplace integration. The team launched as the first automated inscription service in the Bitcoin Ordinals space and has expanded into features for collection mints, BRC-20 launches, lazy minting, and complex indexing such as parent-child hierarchies. OrdinalsBot plans to launch a Trio Marketplace to centralize Ordinals access and will ramp up hiring across functions with a focus on BTC developers. The company says the new capital will help reset dynamics and infrastructure within blockchain to bring new opportunities to the Ordinals and BTC ecosystem. Financially, OrdinalsBot completed an oversubscribed $3M+ seed round as a fast follow to a pre-seed raised less than five months earlier, bringing total funding to over $4.5M. The announcement was released from London. OrdinalsBot builds ordinals infrastructure and recently launched a Software Developer Kit (SDK) to help developers integrate ordinals functionality into their projects. The company says the SDK enables companies and individuals to store data on Bitcoin and serves as a building block for Web3. OrdinalsBot was founded in February 2023 by Brian Laughlan and Toby Lewis and is based in the UK. The startup raised more than $1 million in a Seed funding round to improve ordinals infrastructure. Founders stated the funding and investor support will help them become a premier Bitcoin infra company. The company emphasized renewed developer interest in the space as a catalyst for its plans.

Participated · Equity · Mar 2024

GAM3S.GG operates as a Web3 game information platform serving Web3 game players. The company recently completed a $2 million financing round. Investors named in the report include DAOs, venture firms and prominent industry founders. GAM3S.GG plans to launch a native G3 token and hold a token generation event in early April. The G3 token will be distributed globally via a public sale and airdrops targeted at Web3 game players.

Participated · Series A · Mar 2024

Taiko is a two‑year‑old startup (founded March 2022) developing a truly decentralized layer‑2 rollup and web3 infrastructure intended to resist censorship and support decentralized social apps. The team is preparing for a mainnet launch and has allocated $30 million in developer grants to spur ecosystem building. Taiko’s latest testnet has recorded more than 1.1 million wallet addresses and over 13 million total transactions to date, providing early operating metrics. The company has positioned its corporate structure akin to Ethereum’s — combining a public‑good orientation with a commercial entity for hiring and capital — according to founder Daniel Wang. Taiko says it has achieved unicorn status and will use new funding to advance mainnet-readiness and developer adoption. Taiko is described in the article as a zk-rollup project. The company disclosed fundraising that totaled $22 million. That $22M was raised across two investment rounds. The reporting characterizes the backers as “some unclear funds” and highlights a complete absence of Tier‑1 investors. The article interprets the investor mix to suggest Taiko may be less prominent than media coverage implies. No operating metrics, valuations, or detailed sponsor names were provided in the piece.

Participated · Equity · Feb 2024

Blueprint Finance develops institutional on-chain finance infrastructure and is the core developer of Concrete, a modular full-stack vault platform. Concrete provides automated execution, accounting, risk controls, and quantitative strategy tooling to enable institutions, protocols, asset issuers, and allocators to build and operate vaults. Blueprint is expanding the Concrete ecosystem with new on-chain financial primitives such as AssetCX and concUSD. The company emphasizes bringing institutional controls—auditable accounting, operational permissions, scalable execution, and transparent risk controls—to on-chain capital allocation. Blueprint recently completed a strategic funding round to scale Concrete and to deepen partnerships across liquidity, custody, execution, and distribution. The company communicates its intent to position Concrete as the infrastructure layer for the next generation of on-chain asset management.

Participated · Seed · Nov 2023

EthXY is a chain gaming project focused on blockchain gaming. The project completed a $1.6 million pre-seed funding round announced on November 15. The article lists participation from the a16z CSS23 Accelerator Program, Orange DAO, Pioneer Fund, WWVentures, nonce Classic, Pepper Ventures, Founderheads, Space Whale Capital, MH Ventures, Shad, and other angel investors. The financing is characterized as a pre-seed round of financing. The article does not disclose operating metrics, valuation, or product roadmap.