£1.2M
The pre-seed round was led by Lightspeed Faction to support platform development and team expansion.
OV
Outlier Ventures
Venture CapitalOutlier Ventures is a venture capital firm that operates accelerator programmes and invests in decentralised technologies.
Portfolio
6
companies
By category
- FinTech£8.7M
- RecruTech£1.5M
- AI/ML£1.3M
- Blockchain£950K
By location
- London£11.1M
- Cambridge£1.3M
Portfolio companies
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Assisterr
Assisterr develops community-owned artificial intelligence infrastructure powered by small language models.
Bloom
Bloom provides an all-in-one social platform for cryptocurrency traders.
BP
Boson Protocol
Boson Protocol builds decentralised infrastructure to connect smart contracts with physical commerce.
MW
Metropolis World
Metropolis World builds an interconnected ecosystem spanning digital and physical commerce, gaming, and avatars.
OpenTrade
OpenTrade provides infrastructure that enables fintechs to offer stablecoin yield products.
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hundo
A social impact business connecting Gen Z talent with employers through the metaverse.
Team
JB
Jamie Burke
CEO
ML
Matt Law
Partner
Recent investments
£1.3M
Web3.com Ventures participated in the pre-seed round, which will fund protocol development and ecosystem growth.
"At Assisterr, we are building an AI tokenization stack to ensure fair compensation for data owners and contributors. Our platform manages the entire lifecycle of SLM training, enabling features like data provenance tracking, fine-tuning, and the launch of SLM-powered Agents. Web3 component allows data-owners to contribute their data and expertise to domain-specific SLMs and capture the value from such contributions."
£950K
The pre-seed round was backed by a broad syndicate of investors including CoinTelegraph Accelerator, Outlier Ventures, and Protocol Labs.
"We are delighted to achieve this significant initial pre-seed raise for our token,"
Sino Global Capital led the financing alongside participants such as Circle Ventures and Polygon Ventures.
"Thrilled to back the OpenTrade team as they build the necessary infrastructure to bring real-world financial assets onto the blockchain. In the next decade, we expect that a majority of assets will be brought onto public blockchains. OpenTrade is leading this paradigm shift and we look forward to being day one customers."
Sino Global + 5 others
£1.5M
Ascension VC led the seed round to support the expansion of the social impact platform.
"At the heart of hundo is a belief that it is possible to scale an agile solution that empowers young people to own their future through decent, paid employment that is the basic foundation for them to build their lives from. Ultimately, young people will be able to learn, work and earn online through the hundo platform wherever they are in the world."
