Factor Capital

Factor Capital is a venture capital firm established in 2023 and located in Charlottesville, Virginia. The firm focuses on investing in early-stage businesses within decentralized and digital sectors, seeking innovative and creative thinkers to drive growth and development. By targeting these emerging industries, Factor Capital aims to support the next generation of transformative companies.
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Jake Dwyer

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Coala Pay

Seed Round in 2025
Coala Pay delivers a full-stack platform for aid organizations to verify and deliver funding, integrating payments with AI-powered tooling to track the impact of dollars and ensure fund traceability. Designed for the international aid sector, the platform makes moving money simple, borderless, and programmable, enabling donors to insulate funds from foreign currency risks, banking fees, and delays. By combining payment execution with monitoring and reporting, Coala Pay helps organizations improve transparency, reduce friction in cross-border transfers, and demonstrate outcomes to supporters.

Nevermined

Seed Round in 2025
Nevermined develops a decentralized data-sharing platform enabling secure publishing, discovery, buying, and selling of data. It offers an NFT marketplace, access control tools, governance features, and tokenized asset management.

CrunchDAO

Seed Round in 2024
CrunchDAO is a pioneering research community focused on generating alpha insights through distributed machine learning competitions. Comprising over 5,000 members, including 600 PhDs, the organization brings together data scientists, quants, and machine learning engineers who can monetize their expertise by participating in corporate challenges, known as Crunches. Participants develop models that yield profitable insights and share in the profits, receiving cash rewards and CRUNCH tokens that enhance their earning potential and status within the community. Additionally, CrunchDAO operates a permissionless AI model coordination platform that facilitates collaboration between researchers and institutions, ensuring data privacy and intellectual property protection through blockchain technology. This innovative approach allows both talent discovery and project collaboration in a secure environment.

Legitimate

Seed Round in 2024
Legitimate is a company that enhances the retail customer journey by transforming physical products into platforms for digital engagement. It develops a protocol that integrates near-field communication with blockchain technology, which allows for the registration and traceability of products using secure encryption. This innovative approach not only ensures product authenticity and combats counterfeiting but also provides customers with reliable transparency data. By bridging physical and digital touchpoints, Legitimate creates holistic and immersive brand experiences, enabling businesses to engage effectively with their customers and fostering confidence in the integrity of the products they purchase.

Neutral Exchange

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Neutral is an exchange for environmental assets. We combine tokenized carbon credits, renewable energy credits, and carbon forwards with specialized market infrastructure to deliver efficiency, transparency, and trust in environmental asset markets.

Playtron

Seed Round in 2023
Playtron provideslightweight gaming OS optimized for a new generation of powerful handheld gaming PCs.

Coala Pay

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Coala Pay delivers a full-stack platform for aid organizations to verify and deliver funding, integrating payments with AI-powered tooling to track the impact of dollars and ensure fund traceability. Designed for the international aid sector, the platform makes moving money simple, borderless, and programmable, enabling donors to insulate funds from foreign currency risks, banking fees, and delays. By combining payment execution with monitoring and reporting, Coala Pay helps organizations improve transparency, reduce friction in cross-border transfers, and demonstrate outcomes to supporters.
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