• Pharos

  Participated · Seed · Nov 2024

  Pharos is building an "asset-native" layer 1 blockchain intended to support tokenized real-world assets such as bonds, energy projects and private credit. The network emphasizes parallel processing and compliance features aimed at handling regulated financial activity at scale. Pharos targets a market it values at $50 trillion and cites growth in on-chain real-world assets, which it noted totalled $24.3 billion. The project reports millions of users and unique addresses on its testnet and has partnerships, including with energy firm GCL for solar-backed assets. Financially, Pharos recently raised $44 million in a Series A and previously raised $8 million in a seed round, and a prior investment from GCL New Energy placed a near-$1 billion valuation on the firm. The company expects to debut its mainnet in the near future.

• CometChat

  Led · Debt Financing · Apr 2023

  CometChat offers an in-app communication platform and an AI agent platform built on six years of production-grade communication infrastructure. Its CometChat AI product aims to let businesses build and deploy conversational agents without specialized AI expertise, featuring capabilities such as proactive outbound intelligence, multi-agent orchestration, and a customer intelligence layer. The company has been piloting the AI platform with enterprise customers and plans to target high-transaction verticals including wellness & beauty, home services, e-commerce, and hospitality & food service. CometChat is focused on scaling AI deployments, expanding go-to-market efforts, and building vertical leadership over the next 12–18 months. Financially, the company has raised $21.1 million to date and was recently featured on Forbes' 2026 list of the Top 500 American Startup Employers.

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