Led · Seed · Mar 2023

Muverse is a Los Angeles, CA–based provider of a music NFT exchange and app. The platform enables free trade of global music NFTs and combines an NFT exchange with gamified interaction, including a phase I rhythm game with an earning mode that lets users earn token revenue while playing. Muverse uses a dual-token model: MCT as the in-app utility token and MU as the platform token. The NFT exchange component provides liquidity to users, and the rhythm game is intended to bring game players and crypto investors to build a community and drive ecosystem development. The company has a global team with employees in Los Angeles, Seoul, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines. Muverse intends to expand platform features and services, accelerate user acquisition, and enhance the user experience, and it recently raised $6M in Seed funding to support those efforts.

Participated · Equity · Mar 2022

rct AI is a New York-based developer of Delysium, an AAA web3 game. The game lets players own and manipulate physical in-game assets — including MetaBeings, virtual creatures, cyberbody, weapons, vehicles and environmental objects — that can be equipped, combined and upgraded via self-crafting or trading. Players can also create narrative assets such as dialogue models, behavioral models, decision-making models, storylines, missions and other personalized entertainment scenarios composed of AI-powered MetaBeings. Led by CEO Yuheng Chan, the company raised $4M in its first funding round to support game production and the broader ecosystem. rct AI plans to use the funds to launch Alpha and Beta versions of Delysium and to run a PVP tournament in the middle of the year. rct AI develops AI-powered content and virtual beings for the video game industry, including the Deterrence AI layer that powers intelligent NFTs and the Morpheus AI engine for NPC response and storyline generation. The company says it built the world’s first AAA play-to-earn game and the world’s first intelligent NFT chip to enable life‑like virtual beings and creators’ tooling. Its products include Deterrence (AI conversation, intent recognition, and motion generation) and Mirror NFT, a boutique gamefi collection that has seen millions of token transactions. rct AI emphasizes NFT utility and liquidity, AI-to-earn yield farming, and higher revenue potential for NFT owners as core business expansion areas. The company reports partnerships with 20+ game studios and serving 200M+ users worldwide. rct AI completed a $10M+ Series A-3 round, underscoring recent fundraising progress as it pursues broader Metaverse and gamefi adoption.

Participated · Equity · Mar 2022

Delysium is an AI-powered open-world platform that builds diverse, free-to-own universes and AI-driven MetaBeings for player-created experiences. The company has released a Playable Whitepaper game that garnered over 450,000 views in two weeks, showing early traction. Its technology stack includes AI-to-earn, AI conversation models, AI intent recognition, and AI motion generation powered by Deterrence and rct AI to create cognitively aware virtual beings. Delysium has delivered a visually focused Battle Royale title and is focused on scaling content production across its Multiverse. The team plans to use funding to develop content, enable unique AI-powered experiences, and build the Delysium Multiverse—an open-source, decentralized publishing structure for web3 games. The company emphasizes involving Multiverse Operators to set on-chain incentives and co-produce abundant game content. Delysium is described as the world's first playable AAA MMO web3 game, combining open-world MMORPG design with cyberpunk aesthetics and user-generated content. Its gameplay includes battle, exploration, construction, cultivation, social systems and AI-driven "MetaBeing" characters. Players can earn loot boxes (tokens, NFTs, game resources) through various modes and can equip, combine, upgrade, craft and trade in-game assets such as MetaBeings, cyberbodies, weapons, vehicles and environmental objects. The platform also enables creation of narrative assets, including dialogue models, behavioral models, decision-making models, storylines and missions. The team plans to launch Alpha and Beta versions with a PvP tournament in the middle of the year and will use recent funding to support game production and the ecosystem. Delysium is led by rct AI, an entity incubated by Y Combinator, with Yuheng Chan as CEO.

Participated · Seed · Feb 2022

Atem Network provides a platform for group spaces initiated around tokens and NFTs, enabling users to chat, trade and govern within crypto- and NFT-focused communities. The company is developing a chat tool product aimed for a beta release in mid-March 2022. It is also building a user portrait layer based on on-chain data to serve Dapp developers, powering group space and channel recommendations. Atem plans to offer 5,000 limited-edition NFT passports that grant holders early access to the platform and future rewards. The team intends to use the recent seed funding to advance its multichain web3 social platform and related developer-facing features.

Participated · Series A · Feb 2022

NFTGo is a one-stop NFT data analysis platform that provides NFT data analysis, transaction aggregation, and asset management services. The company recently launched data API and aggregator API solutions to extend its offerings. NFTGo describes itself as aiming to be the world's leading NFT data intelligence provider and to build a gateway for Web2 users to enter the NFT ecosystem. It also says it seeks to help Web3 users engage with NFTs more effectively and to benefit participants in trading and utilizing NFTs. NFTGo was founded in 2021 and positions its product suite around data intelligence and trading tools. The company has raised over $10 million in total investment to date. NFTGo.io operates an all-in-one NFT data analysis and aggregation platform that surfaces real-time NFT insights and a range of features including a search engine, data visualization, rarity scoring, whale tracking and NFT Drops. The company has developed a high-performance cross-chain data acquisition engine that monitors blockchains in real time and parses NFT metadata according to mainstream standards. NFTGo has introduced proprietary indicators such as liquidity, FOMO level and profit-and-loss metrics. The team is over 30 people with core members from Stanford, Harvard, Korea University and Zhejiang University. NFTGo plans to use recent funding to accelerate global hiring, add support for more blockchains and introduce additional data metrics and features. The company also published a 2022 NFT industry research report and distributed it via NFT minting.