Early finds | Sep 30 A few names still under the radar: • @Travix_fi — AI compute + exotic RWA perps. Seed from Amber. Small but shipping. • @infiniFi — just raised another $3M+. Already generating more yield than capital raised. TGE Q4. • @forestroadvault — real-world credit onchain. $1M seed, very early. Quiet builders > loud narratives. Who else are you watching? #Web3# #Crypto# #EarlyProjects# #SeedRound# #RWA# #DeFi#

Nirva, an AI wearable startup, raises $8 million in seed funding On July 9, 2026, AI wearable device startup Nirva announced the completion of an $8 million seed funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from South Park Commons. The funding will be used to advance product development, expand the team, and accelerate the commercialization of its first AI wearable product. Nirva was co-founded by Wei Lyu, former product lead at Meta Reality Labs; Jason Chen, a former Meta engineer; and Hanying Hu, founder of a jewelry brand. The company focuses on AI wearable devices. Its first product is an AI device that can be worn as a necklace or bracelet. It continuously records the user’s spoken content to themselves and, powered by on-device AI models and long-term memory capabilities, helps users generate personal journals, organize their thoughts, and receive personalized suggestions. The goal is to create an AI companion that can accompany users over the long term. Lightspeed believes that future competition in AI wearables will depend not only on model capabilities but also on whether the product is comfortable and aesthetically pleasing enough for users to wear every day, thereby accumulating continuous personal contextual data. Lightspeed noted that consumers already spend billions of dollars annually on health management and mental wellness. Products like Oura and Whoop primarily focus on physical data, while Nirva aims to go further by understanding users’ thinking patterns, emotional changes, and behavioral patterns to build a more complete long-term personal memory. As wear time increases, the device can continuously accumulate the user’s long-term contextual information and deliver increasingly precise suggestions. Lightspeed also pointed out that sustained user engagement, hardware mass production, supply chain management, and building a consumer brand will remain important challenges for the company going forward. From the primary market perspective, AI wearables are emerging as a new focus of capital attention following AI Agents. As large model capabilities continue to improve, more startups are exploring next-generation AI interfaces beyond the smartphone, seeking more natural and continuous human-AI interaction through smart glasses, AI pins, AI pendants, and similar hardware. However, compared with model capabilities, product design, wearing experience, and user retention are increasingly becoming the key factors that will determine whether AI wearables can achieve true mass adoption. Nirva’s funding round also reflects the capital market’s ongoing interest in founding teams that combine AI technology, hardware development, and consumer product design capabilities. #AI# #WearableDevices# #Startup# #SeedRound# #Fundraising# #VentureCapital# #PrimaryMarket# #WAIC# #Fashion# #Design#

⚡️@Mochatradeapp $4.87M Seed Round 📑 About: INR-funded platform for trading perpetual futures on US stocks and other markets. 🤝 Investors: @coinfund (Lead), @cbventures, and @nickymontanaa

⚡️@DatalineAI $10.6M Seed Round 📑 About: AI data infrastructure for Web3 agents and on-chain automation. 🤝 Investors: @lattice_fund (Lead), @DispersionVC (Lead), @cbventures, @anagramxyz, @symbolicvc, and @vladtenev

⚡️@catalystlabsx $30M Seed Round 📑 About: AI agents that turn natural-language ideas into automated trading strategies. 🤝 Investors: @sequoia (Lead), @cbventures, @peakxvpartners, @jumptrading, @Lux_Capital, and @Antifund

Nexstrom Raises $12M Seed Round to Commercialize the First 12-Inch Single-Crystal 2D Semiconductor Platform - #semiconductordigest# #semiconductors# #semiconductor# #semiconductorindustry# #semiconductorwebsite# #semiconductormagazine#

EMULATE NEARS $700M SEED ROUND AT NEARLY $4B VALUATION JUST ONE MONTH AFTER LAUNCH Emulate, a UK AI startup founded in August by former Google DeepMind researchers Jack Parker-Holder, Matthew McGill and Philip Ball, is in advanced talks to raise as much as $700M at a roughly $3.7B valuation. Index Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners are expected to lead the round. The founders previously worked on DeepMind’s Genie world-model efforts, which focus on AI systems capable of generating and simulating interactive environments. Emulate is still operating largely in stealth and has not publicly detailed its product. The raise would follow another massive DeepMind spinout: David Silver’s Ineffable Intelligence raised $1.1B in April at a $5.1B valuation, led by Sequoia and Lightspeed, with Nvidia, Google and Index also participating. Source: FT

👉Aethir Fundrasing 1 Pre-Seed /  $1.7M /  $60M FDV – done in Q1 2022 2 Seed  / $7M  /$150M FDV  – done in Q2 2023 3 Node Sale / 28,423 ETH /2.1b FDV - Started in March 2024 👉Aethir Core Investors 1 Pre-Seed @ivcryptofund  @hiFramework  @mirana @StratifiedCap 2 Seed Merit Circle @BuildOnBeam  @SanctorCapital  @citizenxcrypto @HashKey_Capital   @MaelstromFund  @BigBrainVC  Builder Capital @BuilderVC @Momentum_6 @YieldGuild   Sunshine @animocabrands  By the way , @Gate  @Liquid_Capital_ ， both participated in the seed round financing.