Led · Seed · Dec 2025

Oriole Insights operates a gamified forecasting platform that rewards users with its native ORI token for making predictions on real events. After completing a closed beta, the team has opened a public testnet on BNB Smart Chain to test ORI’s on-chain mechanics. Participants can earn ORI for activity, claim the “ORI HODLER” Discord role by ranking among the top on-chain holders, and receive 1,000 ORI for every confirmed bug report. Testnet tasks include depositing, withdrawing, and transferring ORI through MetaMask to stress-test wallet interactions and token flows. The exercise is meant to surface bugs and build community engagement ahead of a future main-net release. Financially, the company has raised $1 million in a pre-seed round backed by ZBS Capital and Oriole Ventures. The article does not disclose revenue, user numbers, or other operating metrics.

Participated · Equity · Aug 2024

Quantlytica is an AI-driven liquidity allocation protocol that aims to simplify finding and constructing capital strategy portfolios for Web3. The protocol applies multidimensional learning on DeFi projects and market data and exposes modular, composable tools to make DeFi portfolio construction and testing faster and easier. The team launched a second-season points activity on August 2 and says it will announce a TGE schedule in the near term. Quantlytica completed a €1 million financing and plans to use the proceeds to support protocol development. The company’s product and roadmap emphasize AI-driven allocation and modular tooling for liquidity distribution in DeFi.

Participated · Equity · Jun 2024

Zyfi is a native account-abstraction layer that provides Paymaster-as-a-Service. Its service enables any token to be used as gas, aiming to make on-chain transactions more flexible. The company says it is prepared to change the on-chain experience through native account abstraction. Zyfi announced completion of a $2 million private placement. Participating investors named in the announcement include Tenzor Capital, Everstake Capital, and ZBS Capital among others. The article does not disclose operating metrics, use of proceeds, or additional financial details.

Participated · Equity · Apr 2024

BonusBlock operates an on-chain marketplace and offers white-label solutions to help Web3 projects onboard and verify high-quality users using AI analysis. It addresses Web3 acquisition challenges where quest platforms are dominated by bots by providing transparent, provable quality scoring based on smart-contract and transaction-level interactions. The company says its AI scales trust and delivers clear quality-level scoring to distinguish genuine users from gamified or mercenary bot activity. BonusBlock reports more than 4M+ users interacted across all protocols and contribution to more than 10M+ on-chain transactions, and it has worked with 30+ projects including Injective and Xion by Burnt. Notable IDO traction includes Bybit (over 104k), ApeTerminal (Total Assets Connected $322M) and EclipseFi (first IDO filled in under 23 seconds). The on-chain marketplace is scheduled to go live in early April and the company has onboarded high-value KOLs.

Participated · Equity · Mar 2022

Deliq Finance is a decentralized liquidity provisioning protocol built on the Avalanche blockchain to enable fast, scalable, low-fee EVM-compatible operations. Its core product is a Liquidity-by-Staking model that aggregates single-sided deposits into Deliq Liquidity Pools (DLPs) and deploys liquidity to exchanges to reduce slippage. Liquidity Providers stake assets into DLPs to earn yields while Liquidity Directors (market makers, DAOs, VCs) stake DLQ to direct aggregated liquidity to exchanges such as Trader Joe and Pangolin. DLQ is the native token (total supply 100 million, minted in phases with decreasing inflation) and is used for staking, directing liquidity, and rewards. The protocol aims to enable protocol-owned liquidity and long-term, cost-efficient liquidity bootstrapping for new DeFi projects. Deliq has announced an upcoming DLQ IDO on Polkastarter and plans to use IDO proceeds to seed liquidity into DLPs.