Early stage blockchain venture capital. A JV with @Lightspeedvp. Tweets never investment advice.
Dark Forest
Joined June 2021
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PhotonPay raises $40M in Series C funding! 🚀
Led by @bcap (Blockchain Capital), with @SBI_DAH (SBI Group) joining and continued investment from @IDGCapital, GL Ventures, and @FactionVC (Lightspeed Faction).
We're scaling our Financial OS to connect stablecoins, fiat currencies and real-world commerce.
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#PhotonPay #SeriesC #Stablecoins #FinancialOS
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We’ve raised an oversubscribed $30M Series A1 led by @walden_catalyst to build the Global Compute Grid.
We’re turning fragmented GPU capacity into one unified platform where AI teams can access, manage, sell, and orchestrate compute.
Our mission: make the world’s compute unified, productive and liquid.
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Hear from our Co-Founder, @mcagney, about what to expect from the Navra app.
A familiar, easy-to-use experience, supported by an AI agent that helps you discover yield opportunities, automate tasks within parameters you control, and even generate end-of-month accounting reports.
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We're excited to announce Navra's successful Series A, led by @RibbitCapital
Thank you to our investors Jump , DCM, DST Global Partners, Faction, Baseline Ventures, DA, Distributed Global, Blockchange, RPM Ventures, Morgan Creek Digital, Figure and others who believe in what we're building. 🧵
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Introducing Automated Settlement Financing on VisaNet
One of the most trusted names in payments, @Visa is bringing onchain credit into stablecoin-linked card settlement, powered by Credit Coop.
Individual capital. Institutional access.
Excited to announce that Lightspeed Faction led a $6.8M Seed round in @glacislabs - the clearing house for stablecoins & real-world assets (RWAs)🧊⚡️
ZeroDelta abstracts the complexity of chains, bridges & issuers behind an intuitive interface: send a request and get firm settlement at any size. Designed for issuers, exchanges & payment platforms seeking efficient execution, low slippage & built-in compliance
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Proud to back @chaingenius @SamPatel8085 and the @glacislabs team as they build core infrastructure for stablecoins and tokenized assets 🚀
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Thrilled to announce a $12.5M strategic investment to meet accelerating demand for crypto wallets and verifiable computing.
With participation from @circle_ventures, @archetypevc, and existing investors @BainCapCrypto, @FactionVC, @galaxyhq, @sequoia, and @variantfund.
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Thrilled to announce the $44M Series A to scale the onchain economy ⚓
Backed by Sumitomo Corporation's CVC arm, @snzholding, @chainlink, @FlowTraders, and some of the undisclosed giants in global finance 🏛️
Pharos is building the financial-grade infrastructure to bridge TradFi and DeFi at a global scale 🌐
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Hello World!
Latitude is live.
We built stablecoin-to-local-fiat infrastructure across 50+ countries so businesses can move money globally at a flat 0.5% rate, with no hidden spreads or volume commitments.
Global payments are broken. We're fixing the rails.
$8M seed led by NEA. Team from Uber, Coinbase, Stripe, and more.
Full story in Fortune (in comments)
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There are two ways to touch 8 billion lives: acquire 8 billion individual customers, or build the infrastructure for the institutions that already serve them.
We chose the latter.
Today we're announcing OpenFX’s $94M Series A from @Accel, @atomico, @FactionVC, @M13Company , @northzoneVC, @PanteraCapital, and with support from existing investors @flybridge and @hash3xyz.
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Over a decade ago at Uber, we were paying drivers across 40 countries. Their top ask: "Pay me faster." That stuck with me through Coinbase and Stripe, where I kept running into the same wall from different angles.
Today, Latitude (@rtp) is launching out of stealth. We raised an $8M seed round in Jan 2025 and have been building quietly since then.
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OpenMind builds AI brains for robots across all form factors.
Today, OM1 runs on the @LimX_Dynamics Tron 1, enabling it to move and socialize fully autonomously.
Our universal infrastructure allows developers to build applications without needing to learn the intricacies of specific robot models, paving the way for mass robot adoption.
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$10M up for RealFi builders!
Pharos Builder Incubator is now open – offering funding, technical mentorship, go-to-market guidance, and access to investors for projects building on-chain RealFi
Apply: pharos.xyz/ecosystem