At the beginning of the year, robotics, stablecoins and prediction markets were among our top narratives for 2026—and we have stuck to our thesis. Our current live deals are focused on robotics infrastructure and humanoid technology.

1) Humanoid robotics infrastructure protocol building the intelligence and safety layer for autonomous robots, enabling real time autonomy orchestration, cross embodiment skill transfer, safety certification, and cryptographic audit trails. The protocol sits between robot hardware and AI foundation models, providing the trust and coordination layer required for enterprise humanoid deployment.

Already live with its Cortex platform across multiple deployed products, alongside signed OEM partnerships and production deployments. The infrastructure enables verifiable robot actions, fleet coordination, and transferable skills across compatible humanoid platforms.

Raising a $7.5M seed round at a $75M valuation to expand the intelligence and safety infrastructure powering next generation humanoid robotics.

2) Stablecoin payment infrastructure protocol building an open, programmable clearing layer for payment markets, enabling complex payment obligations to be priced, matched, verified, and settled across multiple counterparties. As stablecoin adoption expands across payroll, treasury, cross border payments, and AI, the protocol aims to improve capital efficiency by eliminating the need to pre fund every settlement path.

Already live with implementations underway alongside major ecosystem partners including Paxos and Polygon, with existing partners projecting approximately $660M in monthly cleared volume within the next 12 months.

Raising a $1.5M strategic round at a $30M valuation, following a previous $4M seed round, to expand programmable clearing infrastructure for stablecoin payments.

3) Robotics company building one of the world's most advanced full stack humanoid robots, designed to augment labor in warehouses, factories, and logistics operations. The robots combine proprietary hardware with AI powered autonomy, enabling them to perform real world industrial tasks and learn from human demonstrations.

Already in production and being deployed with enterprise partners including Mercedes Benz, GXO Logistics, and Jabil across manufacturing and supply chain environments.

Having raised nearly $1 billion to date, the company recently closed a $520M Series A extension at an approximate $5.3B valuation and is targeting broader commercial scale deployment beginning in 2027.

4) Prediction market infrastructure protocol building the credit layer for event driven markets, enabling margin trading and lending on platforms like Polymarket. Through a proprietary risk engine that prices lender shortfall upfront, it enables scalable leverage and lending without relying on traditional liquidation models.

Trained on hundreds of millions of historical prediction market trades, with simulations showing improved capital efficiency, lower liquidation rates, and stronger risk adjusted returns versus conventional lending frameworks.

Raising a $600K pre seed round, with Polychain leading and committing $400K toward the financing. The go to market strategy focuses on active traders before broader ecosystem integrations.

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