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YZI Labs

548 Market Street, San Francisco, California, Not provided, United States

Overview

YZi Labs invests in ventures at all stages that have strong fundamentals in the fields of Web3, AI, and biotechnology.

Total investments
79
Lead investments
38
Investments · 12mo
18
Active investors
5

Sector focus

  • Blockchain
  • Venture Capital
  • Web3
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Investment portfolio

  • Polysights

    Participated · Seed · Jun 2026

    Polysights is an AI-powered platform that gives users and institutions tools for wallet clustering, anomaly detection, and strategy analysis across prediction markets. It combines over 30 custom metrics, advanced filtering, AI market summaries, and real-time news feeds to help users identify market trends and trading opportunities. One of its flagship tools is an Insider Finder, which flags potential insiders on Polymarket with direct knowledge of events before they're publicly announced — a signal that followers have used to mirror trades. The company was founded by Tre Upshaw, a 29-year-old former memecoin trader from Canada, and has amassed 24,000 users. Polysights raised a pre-seed SAFE funding round backed by YZi Labs, Maven11, Varys Capital, Contribution Capital, and Edge Ventures, with the round totaling $1.5 million. The platform also has backing from Polymarket, Predict.fun, and Underdog Fantasy. The team graduated from YZi Labs' EASY Residency Season 3 incubator.

  • AEON

    Led · Seed · May 2026

    AEON is developing a settlement layer intended to serve as the financial backbone for an agentic economy where autonomous AI agents exchange value. The company launched its first AI payment product in May, which it says connects AI agents to more than 50 million real-world merchants. AEON has partnered with BNB Chain to release the x402 Facilitator, a native product enabling verifiable transactions, onchain settlement, and immutable receipts for service providers in the BNB ecosystem. The firm cites collaboration with partners such as Coinbase and BNB Chain as part of its go-to-market and integration strategy. AEON raised $8 million in a pre-seed round led by YZi Labs to accelerate development of its settlement layer; the round’s structure and valuation were not disclosed. CEO and co-founder Eddie Li framed the company’s mission as building the financial foundation for an economy powered by autonomous agents.

  • VideoTutor

    Participated · Seed · May 2026

    VideoTutor provides an AI tutoring platform that automates the pipeline from parsing a student query to structuring pedagogy, generating visuals, and delivering narrated instruction in real time. The platform generates real-time visual instructional videos tailored to student questions. The company was founded by Gen Z entrepreneurs and is based in Sunnyvale, California. VideoTutor plans to expand into enterprise and global education markets. Financially, it recently closed an $11 million Seed round in May 2026 to fund product development and expansion.

  • Derivio

    Participated · Equity · Mar 2026

    Derivio builds a full-stack trading terminal optimized for AI-driven or "agentic" trading, combining a high-speed data engine that ingests on-chain signals and market ticks with optimized execution routing and physical node placement. The platform emphasizes non-custodial operation, advanced risk-management features, a universal margin system for multi-asset collateral, and planned Liquidity-as-a-Service (LaaS) market-neutral setups. Derivio’s interface includes an "Agent" section (reported as "coming soon") that will let users deploy AI agents to monitor markets and execute strategies autonomously. The company aims to expand asset and chain coverage and improve capital efficiency for traders and liquidity providers. Following a $6 million financing round in March 2026, Derivio plans to accelerate development of its agentic infrastructure, data engine, and user-facing features to bring its AI-native workflows to market.

  • Hypercycle

    Participated · Series B · Mar 2026

    Headquartered in Dubai and led by founder and CTO Toufi Saliba, Hypercycle is building the Hypercycle protocol, a system that enables real-time data exchange across thousands of blockchains. The platform launched its mainnet on 15 February 2026 alongside the release of the native $HYPE token and already hosts more than 500 decentralized applications. As of February 2026, the network reports a total value locked of $800 million and claims smart-contract execution speeds ten times faster than typical layer-1 chains. Supported by the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC) and the Dubai Cryptocurrency Research Institute (VAR), the company is constructing a $100 million R&D center in Dubai Silicon Oasis and has hired over 200 engineers. Hypercycle’s roadmap includes integrating AGI and quantum-computing resources in the second half of 2026 and expanding into supply-chain, metaverse, and DeFi markets through partnerships such as its new agreement with Samsung SDS. Analysts expect the network’s TVL to surpass $2 billion by year-end, while the $HYPE token has appreciated 150 percent since listing.

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