We believe in these founders to leave a lasting legacy

Founders
Maariyaah Afzal
Mission
Turning data overload into confident decisions
Insurance underwriting is stuck in the past — slowed by clunky systems, scattered data, and hours of manual review. Silas cuts through the chaos, automating the grind and giving teams the speed and clarity they need to make smarter decisions. (Why we invested?)
Co-Investors
Alan Morgan, Mark Ransford
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Founders
Lucas Moscon, Tom Darmon
Mission
Help mobile apps make more money
The mobile advertising measurement landscape is undergoing a seismic shift. In a privacy-first world traditional tracking solutions don't work anymore. Appstack provides an AI-first fresh approach in a multi billion dollar market. (Why we invested)
Co-Investors
Entrepreneur First, LeadTech Ventures, Transpose Platform
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Founders
Adam Bowen, William Tarr
Mission
Making auditors love their jobs again
Financial audits may not be glamorous, but they are mission-critical. Despite the increasing complexity and cost of compliance, audit processes remain surprisingly manual. Tergle is transforming this landscape by leveraging AI to eliminate the “grunt work”, enabling professionals to focus on strategic, high-value analysis. (Why we invested)
Co-Investors
Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund, Amino Capital, Founders X Ventures, Palm Drive Capital, Nama Ventures, Network VC
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Founders
Christopher Tung
Mission
Build the marketplace for rare, human-crafted work from world-class creators
The creator economy has seen a wave of digital marketplaces. Raremarq takes the opposite approach. It starts with the real world: physical artifacts, human stories, and existing fan behaviors. These are not speculative tokens. They are cultural artifacts. (Why we invested)
Co-Investors
Jason Calacanis, Eurie Kim

Founders
Roy Pereira, Alexey Adamsky
Mission
Build real-time unified API for AI-first apps
Think of Unified as a master translator for software, helping SaaS applications speak the same language without the need for endless custom code or headaches. While customers focus on their goals, Unified quietly handles the heavy lifting, saving weeks of integration work. (Why we invested)
Co-Investors
TechStars, Developer Capital, LOI Venture

Founders
Misha van Beek, Sebastian Janisch
Mission
Transforming financial risk models to deliver million-times faster results
A Dutch portfolio risk researcher at BlackRock and a German quant specializing in financial modeling meet in New York and decide it’s time to build risk management software that operates at the speed of markets—not at the speed of humans. (Why we invested)
Co-Investors
Y Combinator, 468 Capital, Multimodal Ventures

Founders
David Lee, Kedian Sun
Mission
To build permissionless onchain banking products
Level is a stablecoin protocol that issues Level USD (IvIUSD), the first stablecoin backed by dollar-denominated tokens that are restaked on security protocols like Eigenlayer, Symbiotic and Karak.
Co-Investors
Dragonfly, Polychain Capital, Robot Ventures, Balaji Srinivasan

Founders
Paul Richards, Igor Gligorević, Sankari Nair
Mission
Revolutionize how we manage, organize, and utilize information
In November 2022, Paul was about to abandon his pet project. He posted on Reddit for feedback, and the thread blew up. Fast forward to 2024, and Recall is Product of the Month on Product Hunt and is rapidly signing up new users. (Why we invested)
Co-Investors
Launch Accelerator, Splash Capital, RocketCap, Digital Virtues

Founders
Riccardo Lamanna, Andrew O'Brien
Mission
Better engage with, understand, and grow your developer community
OpenQ is orchestrating the worldwide symphony of developers, code, and developer relations. It uses AI tools to gain actionable insights from developer activity, track contributions, and measure the impact of developer engagement on business objectives. (Why we invested)
Co-Investors
Speedinvest, Kraken Ventures

Founders
Raechel Lambert, Ryan Lambert, Bernard Kobos
Mission
Transform passive audiences into dynamic, interactive communities
River is a platform for managing in-person events and communities. It enables influencers and brands to host large-scale events by leveraging their most enthusiastic followers as crowdsourced hosts. It’s like an operating system for community building. (Why we invested)
Co-Investors
Jason Calacanis, Balaji Srinivasan, Blue Wire Capital, Blockwall, Very Early Ventures, Launch

Founders
Hans-Jürgen Griesbacher, Benjamin Rath
Mission
Bridging the gap between traditional finance and the digital world
Trever provides a modern solution for financial institutions, combining digital and traditional asset management. Their middleware streamlines processes, helping banks adopt digital assets without needing to revamp their current systems. (Why we invested)
Co-Investors
TX Ventures, Market One Capital, Alex von Frankenberg

Founders
Volker Braunberger, Johann Hainzinger
Mission
Establishing blockchain technology as the new standard in the fund industry
Funds on Chain is a blockchain-based workflow engine for the end-to-end management of digital fund units. This takes traditional paper-based fund administration processes into the fully digital realm which cuts costs, speeds up clearing & settlement, and gives fund issuers insightful customer data. (Why we invested)
Co-Investors
adesso ventures

Founders
Daril Fannin, Austin Worrell, Brit MacRae
Mission
Give film creators and their fans superpowers
A movie producer and a securities lawyer have teamed up to tackle a Hollywood-sized problem: improve the balance of power between film producers and studio executives. They tie in fans early in the process to create momentum and validation. For producers, this approach makes financing a movie less risky. Fans get the opportunity to be involved in the creative process. What's not to like? (Why we invested)
Co-Investors
Sequoia, Slow Ventures, Blockchain Founders Fund, Genius Ventures, MetaWeb Ventures, Near Protocol, ARK Invest
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Founders
Alexander Franck, Michael Höweler
Mission
Enabling customers to generate relevant and scalable audio experiences
goaudio developed a technology that helps people redesign the way audio content is created and experienced. By combining artificial intelligence with human skills, they enabled customers to generate relevant and scalable audio experiences. (Why we invested)
Co-Investors
Venture Stars, IBB Ventures, Edel, Stefan Winners

Founders
Lukas Sticksel-Steiner, Johannes Kares
Mission
New ways for creators to monetize their work
Talentir is the first platform to turn YouTube videos into tradable assets. This empowers artists to share ownership of their work with their fans, creating the ultimate community and is especially interesting for musicians, artists, podcasters, influencers, and creators. (Why we invested)
Co-Investors
Eric Demuth (CEO of Bitpanda), Storebox

Founders
Jared McCluskey, Micah Petersen, Alec Tremaine
Mission
Be the all-in-one game development platform
Jared had a rough start in the virtual world: when he was just a wee lad at 14, he spent hours modeling and coding an armor set in Second Life. He sold it for real US dollars, only to have it stolen a few weeks later by a hacker. 20 years later, he's building an all-in-one game development platform based on the open-source Godot engine that puts developers on steroids and protects their intellectual property with the power of blockchain. (Why we invested)
Co-Investors
Founders Fund, Abstract VC, Konvoy Ventures, Florida Funders, Palm Tree Crew

Founders
Toshendra Sharma, Rohendra Sharma
Mission
Making the use of NFT in commerce mainstream
In only a few years from now, NFTs will become commonplace as proof of ownership, identity or loyalty card, and many other use cases that we would never think of today. With NFTICALLY's white-label NFT Marketplace, launching NFTs will allow digital creators to establish their brand for the digital-first future. It's like Shopify for NFTs. (Why we invested)
Co-Investors
Spartan Group USA, Jaynti Kanani (Co-founder Polygon), Sandeep Nailwal (Co-Founder Polygon), Moe Shalizi (The Shalizi Group)

Founders
Fleur Heyns, Kevin Pettit
Mission
Get trusted sustainability data from the source
What you measure is what you get. Unfortunately, many sustainability metrics need to be more accurate and aligned with corporate objectives. And the ever-lingering suspicion of greenwashing reduces the credibility of the data. Proof builds the data from the ground up to provide the most reliable data and insights possible for corporates and fund managers alike. (Why we invested)
Co-Investors
Rakuten, Advaita, CV VC, Oxford, Asiri, FiveT, Franklin Templeton, Ausum, Bluefolio, Pangea

Founders
Carsten van Husen, Peter Stein
Mission
Become a Web3 publisher for passionate gamers
Gaming and crypto - a match made in heaven? Yes, eventually, but it's all about the enjoyment of the game not what technology runs in the background. The veteran Gaming CEO Carsten is on a mission with the brightest minds in the gaming community to develop and publish games that bring hours of fun, and utility through tokens, at the same time. And he is relentless in making that happen. (Why we invested)
Co-Investors
Marcus Erken, Alexander Roesner (Gameforge), Tezos Foundation

Founders
Martin Stoev, Adriana Taseva, Damyan Stanchev, Greg Peters, Tim Ahart
Mission
Provide next generation online advertising
Advertising is broken. Fraud, inefficiencies, privacy violations, and failed targeting make advertisers lose 70 cents on every dollar or euro spent. And did you know that the online advertising industry has a higher carbon footprint than the entire airline industry? (Why we invested)
Co-Investors
CV VC, Creative Destruction Lab, CoinIX, Chris Hadfield (International Space Station), Jim Horowitz, Beric Farmer (XE Money Transfer)
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Founders
Appstack
Mission
Help mobile apps make more money
The mobile advertising measurement landscape is undergoing a seismic shift. In a privacy-first world traditional tracking solutions don't work anymore. Appstack provides an AI-first fresh approach in a multi billion dollar market. (Why we invested)
Co-Investors
Entrepreneur First, LeadTech Ventures, Transpose Platform
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Founders
Raremarq
Mission
Build the marketplace for rare, human-crafted work from world-class creators
The creator economy has seen a wave of digital marketplaces. Raremarq takes the opposite approach. It starts with the real world: physical artifacts, human stories, and existing fan behaviors. These are not speculative tokens. They are cultural artifacts. (Why we invested)
Co-Investors
Jason Calacanis, Eurie Kim

Founders
Recall
Mission
Revolutionize how we manage, organize, and utilize information
In November 2022, Paul was about to abandon his pet project. He posted on Reddit for feedback, and the thread blew up. Fast forward to 2024, and Recall is Product of the Month on Product Hunt and is rapidly signing up new users. (Why we invested)
Co-Investors
Launch Accelerator, Splash Capital, RocketCap, Digital Virtues

Founders
River
Mission
Transform passive audiences into dynamic, interactive communities
River is a platform for managing in-person events and communities. It enables influencers and brands to host large-scale events by leveraging their most enthusiastic followers as crowdsourced hosts. It’s like an operating system for community building. (Why we invested)
Co-Investors
Jason Calacanis, Balaji Srinivasan, Blue Wire Capital, Blockwall, Very Early Ventures, Launch

Founders
KINO Studio
Mission
Give film creators and their fans superpowers
A movie producer and a securities lawyer have teamed up to tackle a Hollywood-sized problem: improve the balance of power between film producers and studio executives. They tie in fans early in the process to create momentum and validation. For producers, this approach makes financing a movie less risky. Fans get the opportunity to be involved in the creative process. What's not to like? (Why we invested)
Co-Investors
Sequoia, Slow Ventures, Blockchain Founders Fund, Genius Ventures, MetaWeb Ventures, Near Protocol, ARK Invest
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Founders
goaudio
Mission
Enabling customers to generate relevant and scalable audio experiences
goaudio developed a technology that helps people redesign the way audio content is created and experienced. By combining artificial intelligence with human skills, they enabled customers to generate relevant and scalable audio experiences. (Why we invested)
Co-Investors
Venture Stars, IBB Ventures, Edel, Stefan Winners

Founders
Talentir
Mission
New ways for creators to monetize their work
Talentir is the first platform to turn YouTube videos into tradable assets. This empowers artists to share ownership of their work with their fans, creating the ultimate community and is especially interesting for musicians, artists, podcasters, influencers, and creators. (Why we invested)
Co-Investors
Eric Demuth (CEO of Bitpanda), Storebox

Founders
The Mirror
Mission
Be the all-in-one game development platform
Jared had a rough start in the virtual world: when he was just a wee lad at 14, he spent hours modeling and coding an armor set in Second Life. He sold it for real US dollars, only to have it stolen a few weeks later by a hacker. 20 years later, he's building an all-in-one game development platform based on the open-source Godot engine that puts developers on steroids and protects their intellectual property with the power of blockchain. (Why we invested)
Co-Investors
Founders Fund, Abstract VC, Konvoy Ventures, Florida Funders, Palm Tree Crew

Founders
Silas
Mission
Turning data overload into confident decisions
Insurance underwriting is stuck in the past — slowed by clunky systems, scattered data, and hours of manual review. Silas cuts through the chaos, automating the grind and giving teams the speed and clarity they need to make smarter decisions. (Why we invested?)
Co-Investors
Alan Morgan, Mark Ransford
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Founders
Tergle
Mission
Making auditors love their jobs again
Financial audits may not be glamorous, but they are mission-critical. Despite the increasing complexity and cost of compliance, audit processes remain surprisingly manual. Tergle is transforming this landscape by leveraging AI to eliminate the “grunt work”, enabling professionals to focus on strategic, high-value analysis. (Why we invested)
Co-Investors
Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund, Amino Capital, Founders X Ventures, Palm Drive Capital, Nama Ventures, Network VC

Founders
Bayesline
Mission
Transforming financial risk models to deliver million-times faster results
A Dutch portfolio risk researcher at BlackRock and a German quant specializing in financial modeling meet in New York and decide it’s time to build risk management software that operates at the speed of markets—not at the speed of humans. (Why we invested)
Co-Investors
Y Combinator, 468 Capital, Multimodal Ventures

Founders
Level
Mission
To build permissionless onchain banking products
Level is a stablecoin protocol that issues Level USD (IvIUSD), the first stablecoin backed by dollar-denominated tokens that are restaked on security protocols like Eigenlayer, Symbiotic and Karak.
Co-Investors
Dragonfly, Polychain Capital, Robot Ventures, Balaji Srinivasan

Founders
Trever
Mission
Bridging the gap between traditional finance and the digital world
Trever provides a modern solution for financial institutions, combining digital and traditional asset management. Their middleware streamlines processes, helping banks adopt digital assets without needing to revamp their current systems. (Why we invested)
Co-Investors
TX Ventures, Market One Capital, Alex von Frankenberg

Founders
Funds on Chain
Mission
Establishing blockchain technology as the new standard in the fund industry
Funds on Chain is a blockchain-based workflow engine for the end-to-end management of digital fund units. This takes traditional paper-based fund administration processes into the fully digital realm which cuts costs, speeds up clearing & settlement, and gives fund issuers insightful customer data. (Why we invested)
Co-Investors
adesso ventures

Founders
Proof
Mission
Get trusted sustainability data from the source
What you measure is what you get. Unfortunately, many sustainability metrics need to be more accurate and aligned with corporate objectives. And the ever-lingering suspicion of greenwashing reduces the credibility of the data. Proof builds the data from the ground up to provide the most reliable data and insights possible for corporates and fund managers alike. (Why we invested)
Co-Investors
Rakuten, Advaita, CV VC, Oxford, Asiri, FiveT, Franklin Templeton, Ausum, Bluefolio, Pangea

Founders
The Mirror
Mission
Be the all-in-one game development platform
Jared had a rough start in the virtual world: when he was just a wee lad at 14, he spent hours modeling and coding an armor set in Second Life. He sold it for real US dollars, only to have it stolen a few weeks later by a hacker. 20 years later, he's building an all-in-one game development platform based on the open-source Godot engine that puts developers on steroids and protects their intellectual property with the power of blockchain. (Why we invested)
Co-Investors
Founders Fund, Abstract VC, Konvoy Ventures, Florida Funders, Palm Tree Crew

Founders
Unified
Mission
Build real-time unified API for AI-first apps
Think of Unified as a master translator for software, helping SaaS applications speak the same language without the need for endless custom code or headaches. While customers focus on their goals, Unified quietly handles the heavy lifting, saving weeks of integration work. (Why we invested)
Co-Investors
TechStars, Developer Capital, LOI Venture

Founders
OpenQ
Mission
Better engage with, understand, and grow your developer community
OpenQ is orchestrating the worldwide symphony of developers, code, and developer relations. It uses AI tools to gain actionable insights from developer activity, track contributions, and measure the impact of developer engagement on business objectives. (Why we invested)
Co-Investors
Speedinvest, Kraken Ventures

Founders
Novum
Mission
Provide next generation online advertising
Advertising is broken. Fraud, inefficiencies, privacy violations, and failed targeting make advertisers lose 70 cents on every dollar or euro spent. And did you know that the online advertising industry has a higher carbon footprint than the entire airline industry? (Why we invested)
Co-Investors
CV VC, Creative Destruction Lab, CoinIX, Chris Hadfield (International Space Station), Jim Horowitz, Beric Farmer (XE Money Transfer)