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Pond - Seed
Overview
Funding Date
November 7, 2024
Financing amount
$7.5M
Valuation
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Catagory
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About Pond - Seed
Pond, a crypto startup building a decentralized AI model layer, has raised $7.5 million in a seed funding round led by Archetype. Other investors include cyber Fund, Delphi Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, NEAR Foundation and several angel investors such as Illia Polosukhin, co-founder of Near Protocol; Chris Yin, CEO and co-founder of Plume Network; Cynthia Wu, founding partner and COO of Matrixport; and Tesa Ho, head of market research at Flashbots
Investors
| Investors | Type | Location | Year Founded | #Portfolio Companies | Email Address | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fund | United States of America | 2021 | 37 | -- | ||
| Fund | Cayman Is. | 2013 | 10 | -- | ||
| Corporate | United States of America | 2018 | 21 | -- | ||
| Fund | United States of America | 2018 | 307 | -- | ||
| Foundation | Switzerland | -- | 21 | erik@near.foundation | ||
| Angel Investor | -- | -- | 9 | -- | ||
| Angel Investor | United States of America | -- | 1 | -- | ||
| Angel Investor | Unknown | -- | 1 | -- | ||
| Angel Investor | Hong Kong | -- | 1 | -- |
Founders & Team
Dylan Zhang
Company Profile / Project Introduction
Pond is now creating a "complete model ecosystem," encompassing data, model computation, training and inference. Pond plans to expand its crypto-AI use cases to include DeFi risk management, insider trading detection and personalized recommendations. Founded in 2023, Pond initially built a user search engine powered by on-chain data, enabling users to explore blockchain connections. For example, if someone wanted to connect with Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, they could enter his ENS (vitalik.eth) and view who is connected to him in their network.