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XBTO Humla Ventures

885 6TH AVE, 44B, NEW YORK, NY, 10001, United States

Overview

XBTO Humla Ventures is a trusted digital asset innovator and investor. XBTO Humla Ventures invest in entrepreneurs with a combination of strong experience, vision and execution.

Total investments
14
Lead investments
2
Investments · 12mo
1
Active investors
0
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Investment portfolio

  • Modveon

    Participated · Equity · Feb 2026

    Modveon, founded in 2025 and headquartered in Palo Alto, is creating an identity-centric operating system for modern societies. The platform provides verified digital identity, closed-loop communications, regulated digital payments, and automated services, giving governments and citizens a trusted digital environment. By addressing the widening gap between internet scale and trust infrastructure, the company aims to make real-world digital interactions reliable at societal scale. Initial government deployments are already live, backed by commercial agreements that are generating revenue. Modveon plans a broader public launch later this year, with additional product and partnership announcements expected. The company is led by CEO and co-founder Nana Murugesan, whose prior executive roles include Coinbase, Matter Labs (ZKsync), Snapchat, and Samsung.

  • BridgePort

    Participated · Seed · Jul 2025

    BridgePort offers an agnostic middleware platform that connects exchanges, custodians, and trading firms to coordinate capital allocation and post-trade settlement. Its system uses real-time messaging and coordinated collateral management to eliminate the need for prefunding and address credit and settlement risk. The platform is live in production on AWS and supports integration via REST APIs, FIX protocol, and bespoke connectivity. The company emphasizes interoperability across the institutional crypto market and is actively onboarding exchanges and regulated custodians to extend its settlement network. BridgePort is led by executives with decades of experience building fixed income and FX trading platforms for large traditional financial institutions. The company recently raised $3.2M in a seed round to accelerate platform development and expand the team to meet growing institutional demand.

  • Omega

    Participated · Equity · Feb 2024

    Omega is a Miami, FL–based Web3 infrastructure provider focused on enabling the collateralization of idle bitcoin for yield generation in DeFi. Led by CEO Wes Cowan and COO Eric Ryklin, the company is building decentralized infrastructure to allow Bitcoin holders to utilize the value of Layer 1 Bitcoin for yield. Omega raised $6M in funding to support the development and launch of this infrastructure. The company intends to use the funds to launch the first decentralized infrastructure that enables Bitcoin holders to utilize Layer 1 Bitcoin for yield generation, and expects to launch its public beta within the next 60 days. The funding round included participation from Lightspeed Faction, Borderless Capital, Wormhole Cross-Chain Ecosystem Fund (operated by Borderless Capital), Bankless Ventures, Wave Digital, Blockchain.com, Blockchain Founders Fund, Kronos Ventures, XTBO Humla, Cadenza, Psalion Ventures, AlphaLab Capital, Side Door Ventures, MH Ventures, and others. COO Eric Ryklin described the funding as a testament to the team’s vision and said the company’s focus now turns to delivering the public beta to empower Bitcoin holders and contribute to Bitcoin DeFi.

  • Stix.co

    Participated · Equity · Oct 2023

    STIX operates an OTC secondaries platform designed to create a trusted, private, and compliant marketplace for pre-launch and illiquid digital assets. The platform emphasizes data-driven price discovery, improved liquidity, and reduced counterparty risk through an auction system and professional marketplace features. STIX plans to launch its online marketplace in Q4 2023 and to release a suite of proprietary risk-management and portfolio-analytics tools. The team, founded in Q2 2023, is drawn from institutions including PIMCO, Morgan Stanley, Franklin Templeton, and Wintermute and has experience providing customised liquidity solutions such as GP-led secondaries and continuation vehicles. Since founding, STIX has been actively involved with many leading digital-asset projects including EigenLayer, Celestia, zkSync, Sui, Scroll, Fuel, LayerZero, and Animoca. The company raised $2.7 million in a recent fundraising round to support product development and market rollout.

  • Calculum

    Participated · Seed · Mar 2023

    Calculum is a Miami-based fintech that uses advanced analytics and AI to help companies optimize supplier selection, payment terms, supply-chain disruption risk, cash flow, and sustainability. Founded in 2021 by Oliver Belin, the platform provides data-driven insights for treasury and procurement teams to compare with peers and find opportunities down to the supplier level. Calculum delivers automated negotiation scripts tailored to each supplier to help teams secure better terms. The company says its platform identifies up to 20% in free cash flow for every supplier spend analyzed. Calculum has a partnership with London-based InvestVerte to provide ESG metrics that let companies use payment terms to incentivize supplier compliance. It positions its AI-driven treasury solution as an embedded, enterprise-wide process to generate free cash flow amid elevated interest rates and borrowing costs. Calculum offers an AI-driven platform that analyzes supplier risk and financial metrics to recommend optimal payment terms. Its database covers roughly 750,000 providers, enabling benchmarking of a company's terms against competitors. The company says its platform can free up 8–10% of cash flow for every dollar of spend analyzed, and its clients collectively spend billions with suppliers, including a major multinational pharmaceutical company and the largest treasury management solutions provider. Calculum has added ESG data through a partnership with InvestVerte so buyers can use payment terms to incentivize supplier ESG improvements. Product road map items include an API to integrate with client ERPs and features to help suppliers optimize their negotiations. Calculum was launched in 2021 by Oliver Belin and is Miami-based with 15 employees (10 in Downtown Miami); it plans expansion across Western Europe, North America, and Latin America.

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