Sfermion

Sfermion is a venture capital investment firm established in 2019 and based in Chicago, Illinois. The firm focuses on investing in esoteric digital assets within the metaverse, emphasizing opportunities in the technology sector. As a Registered Investment Adviser, Sfermion aims to identify and support innovative companies that are shaping the digital landscape.

Joanna Da Lu

COO and Partner

Dan Patterson

General Partner

Andrew Steinwold

Founder and Managing Partner

44 past transactions

Sleepagotchi

Seed Round in 2023
Sleepagotchi is an online sleep-tracking platform designed to encourage healthy sleeping habits by rewarding users for adhering to their personalized sleep schedules. The platform tracks users' sleep patterns through wearable devices, allowing them to create a virtual bedroom, known as a metaroom, within the app. By meeting their sleep goals, users earn digital collectibles, which serve as incentives to promote consistency in their sleep routines. This approach not only helps individuals improve their sleep quality but also fosters a sense of engagement and achievement in managing their health.

XLD

Seed Round in 2022
XLD is a decentralized network focused on delivering financial services to emerging markets, particularly for mobile prepaid users. The company aims to revolutionize prepaid airtime and enhance the accessibility of financial tools through its fintech platform. By modernizing the infrastructure of financial services, XLD seeks to create an inclusive environment where users can easily manage their finances. The platform facilitates the use of cryptocurrency by enabling clients to earn tokens and convert their crypto to fiat currency, thereby providing straightforward and reliable financial solutions built on decentralized technology.

Skyfire

Seed Round in 2022
Skyfire operates an open protocol financing platform designed to enhance the accessibility of digital assets, particularly non-fungible tokens (NFTs). By offering point-of-sale financing options, Skyfire simplifies the purchasing process for NFTs, allowing users to acquire these digital assets more easily. Additionally, the platform provides collateralized lending solutions that improve post-sale liquidity, enabling users to access funds against their NFT holdings. This approach not only facilitates smoother transactions but also empowers marketplaces to offer differentiated and flexible payment and liquidity solutions, contributing to the growth of NFTs as a significant asset class.

Flowdesk

Series A in 2022
Flowdesk is a French fintech company established in early 2020 and headquartered in Paris. It provides a comprehensive technological solution that enables traders to engage with over 30 exchanges and trade across hundreds of fiat and cryptocurrency pairs. As a registered digital assets service provider with the French Market Authority, Flowdesk emphasizes security, risk management, and compliance in its offerings. The company caters to professional traders, financial institutions, and high net worth individuals seeking to diversify their portfolios with crypto-assets. Flowdesk's expertise in decentralized finance and its prominent role within the French crypto ecosystem allow it to deliver exceptional services and unique opportunities. Its offerings include brokering, market-making, and asset management services, as well as "market-making as a service" for token issuers to enhance liquidity and market stability for their tokens.

Atmos Labs

Seed Round in 2022
Atmos Labs is an expansive, play-and-earn ecosystem with deep economics, rich history, and heart-pounding gameplay.

The Red Village

Seed Round in 2022
The Red Village is a groundbreaking dark-fantasy Play and Earn game, with a team dedicated to re-imagining what blockchain gaming can, and should, look like.

Metatheory

Series A in 2022
Metatheory Inc. is an interactive technology and entertainment company focused on developing Web3 games and interactive content designed to foster community engagement and social experiences. The company aims to inspire imagination by connecting individuals globally through immersive environments created from cross-generational intellectual properties. By leveraging blockchain technology, Metatheory empowers users with digital ownership and audience-driven story development, allowing gamers to engage in fun gameplay while exploring new virtual worlds. The company's mission emphasizes the importance of community-driven adventures, creating a platform where creativity and social interaction thrive.

Flowty

Seed Round in 2022
Flowty is a peer-to-peer collateralized NFT lending marketplace that facilitates transactions between borrowers and lenders. The platform allows borrowers to use Flow-based NFTs as collateral to access liquidity by selecting an NFT, determining the loan amount, interest rate, and duration. Lenders can browse various loan profiles and provide funding, allowing them to generate interest income secured by the NFTs. This innovative approach enables users to unlock the value of their digital assets while offering lenders opportunities for passive income.

SoundMint

Seed Round in 2022
SoundMint is a developer of a generative audiovisual NFT platform that enables musicians to mint unique music NFTs. The platform combines visual elements with musical stems through an algorithm, allowing users to create distinctive digital assets. Additionally, SoundMint provides a dashboard for NFT-holding fans, giving them access to exclusive content from artists. This innovative approach enhances the interaction between musicians and their audience, fostering a deeper connection through unique audiovisual experiences.

Yomi Games

Seed Round in 2022
Yomi Games is a blockchain gaming studio developing social Play-and-Earn video games targeted at casual audiences.

Civitas

Initial Coin Offering in 2022
Civitas is a Play & Earn community-driven 4X strategy game.

Neon Media

Initial Coin Offering in 2022
NEON Media LLC operates as a production company that develops and design games. The company offers gaming service to film and television industry. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Seattle, Washington. As of September 25, 2020, NEON Media LLC operates as a subsidiary of The 4D Factory LLC.

LifeForce Games

Seed Round in 2022
Operator of a gaming platform intended to make blockchain games fun and fair. The company develops a platform that seeks to make metaverse and blockchain gaming experiences more accessible to all, enabling users to experience fun by onboarding gaming experiences.

DNABLOCK

Seed Round in 2022
DNABLOCK is leading the way to personalized entertainment, interaction, and inclusion by removing the barriers of 3D content creation. Our platform and REPLIKANT™ animation engine allows creatives, brands, and individuals the ability to generate bespoke, high-quality, digital beings without prohibitive post-production costs or specialized 3D programming knowledge. Our platform supports the exporting of content onto ANY device, making it simple to create fulfilling interactions with an enormous reach. We operate a scalable, high-end, computer graphics pipeline. This pipeline, combined with advanced machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and sentiment analysis, is our recipe for engaging, real-time, interactive, digital beings and the future of digital interface. As a forward-thinking company, we have focused on likeness protection and ownership; adding authentication mechanisms to guarantee control and transparency.

Worldspark Studios

Seed Round in 2022
Workdspark Studios is focused on making the world a little brighter through immersive experiences that fill our audiences with optimism and empower everyone to find and utilize the unique spark inside them Our team of AAA vets played major roles in creating titles like Destiny 2, Halo, League of Legends, Legends of Runeterra, Valorant, Heroes of the Storm, and many others! We’re dedicated to creating fun, gripping gameplay experiences backed by a deep, player-owned economy and a mind-bending story to sustain engagement. Fun. Strategy. Fantasy. From hour 1 to hour 10,000, WorldSpark aims to ignite wonder.

Strider

Seed Round in 2022
Strider Sports International produces strider bikes, balance bikes, toddler bikes, push bikes, running bikes, walking bikes.

Strider

Seed Round in 2022
Strider is a Web 3 platform based on the transparent and secure digital ledger of blockchain that lets creators use DAOs, the DAO spreads membership and ownership of the project across both creators and the users.

MetaStreet

Seed Round in 2022
MetaStreet is a liquidity routing & scaling protocol for NFT collateralization platforms.MetaStreet strive to increase the GDP of emerging NFT economies through abstracted capital participation on NFT collateralization platforms.

Galaxy Fight Club

Seed Round in 2022
Galaxy Fight Club is a cross-IP, cross-platform player versus player fighting game designed for NFT collectors to engage in battles and earn rewards. The game allows users to log in using their NFTs, facilitating a real-time gaming experience that unites various NFT collections on a single platform. This innovative approach enables players to compete against one another while leveraging their unique NFT assets, enhancing the gaming experience and creating opportunities for interaction within the NFT community.

Galxe

Series A in 2022
Project Galaxy develops an open, decentralized credential data network with plug-and-play NFT modules, curated by developers. By contributing to Galaxy's Credential Data Network, curators are rewarded when credentials are used in Galaxy NFT infrastructure and Credential Oracle Engine. With Project Galaxy, users can create customized campaigns with plug-and-play modules to issue credential-based NFTs achieving all types of objectives.

BreederDAO

Series A in 2022
BreederDAO is a Philippines-based specialist manufacturer of digital assets for use in blockchain-based games and virtual worlds.

Kleoverse

Funding Round in 2022
Developer of a remote-first recruitment designed to revolutionize how talent is measured, signaled and discovered on the web. The company's web3 job marketplace for full-time developer hiring, leveraging the Proof-of-Talent protocol and non-fungible token-based talent signaling, enabling freelancers to reimagine what a professional organization means by working in different sectors.

STEPN

Seed Round in 2022
STEPN ioffers a blockchain-based fitness app. It works by letting users buy NFTs that last for a certain amount of time.

IndiGG

Seed Round in 2022
IndiGG is an NFT based play-to-earn game in the web3 frontier. IndiGG is the India sub-decentralized autonomous organization(subDAO) of YGG.

Lit Protocol

Seed Round in 2022
Lit Protocol is a decentralized access control infrastructure aimed at enhancing the utility of the web. It provides an open-source platform that enables users to access both digital and real-world experiences. By leveraging on-chain data, Lit Protocol allows blockchain users to gain access to content, software, and data through the use of tokens, NFTs, and blockchain identity as keys. This approach facilitates a more versatile and secure interaction with online resources, contributing to a more connected and functional web environment.

RNDR

Initial Coin Offering in 2021
RNDR is OTOY’s token based rendering network. It enables distributed GPU rendering on the blockchain, using OctaneRender which is the world’s first and fastest GPU-accelerated, unbiased, physically correct renderer. Octane uses the graphics card in networked computers to render photo-realistic images super fast. With Octane’s parallel compute capabilities, users can render works in a fraction of the time, and at a better cost than centralized services. RNDR is currently the fund’s only pure utility token investment — in a use case where the token is actually delivering utility in a network, using proven technology to deliver a service with a real and strong market.

Palm NFT Studio

Series B in 2021
Palm NFT Studio is a collective of entertainment, technology, cryptoart and art industry leaders set up to on-ramp artists, creators and rights owners who want to establish NFT marketplaces and next-generation creative works on Palm.

Pixelynx

Seed Round in 2021
Pixelynx develops technology which is focused on blurring lines between music, blockchain and gaming.

Solv Protocol

Series A in 2021
Solv Protocol is the decentralized platform for creating, managing, and trading Financial NFTs. As its first Financial NFT product, Vesting Vouchers are fractionalized NFTs representing lock-up vesting tokens, thus releasing their liquidity and enabling financial scenarios such as fundraising, community building, and token liquidity management for crypto projects.

MetaMundo

Seed Round in 2021
MATRIX Labs is a machine intelligence company converging physical and digital worlds. We have an incredible team of passionate technologists. MATRIX is the world's most advanced Internet of Things device for consumers and businesses. For details visit: https://www.matrix.one/ MATRIX Creator was launched on June 18, 2016. MATRIX Creator is a sensor-packed development board designed for the 8M Raspberry P's; allowing quick and affordable creation of hardware apps. To order and details, visit: https://www.matrix.one/ MATRIX Voice is a dev board designed for the Raspberry Pi or Stand-alone with ESP32 (WiFi/BT/MCU). Launched in February 2017 to enable an open-source voice platform for makers and industrial IoT. Visit: https://igg.me/at/matrix-voice/x

rabbit

Seed Round in 2021
Cyber Manufacturing Co. sits at the forefront of deploying cutting-edge generative AI technologies in entertainment, gaming, and beyond.

BlockchainSpace

Seed Round in 2021
BlockchainSpace develops software tools aimed at empowering play-to-earn communities and serves as a hub for guilds in the Metaverse. The company's platform includes specialized solutions such as YEY, Metasports, Creator Circle, and the Guild Partner Program, which provide tailored technology to enhance digital engagement and foster community growth. Additionally, BlockchainSpace runs educational academies that identify economic opportunities within play-to-earn games, sharing valuable insights to assist new guilds in entering the market. By focusing on scaling guild performance and offering strategic resources, BlockchainSpace plays a significant role in the evolving landscape of blockchain gaming.

ClubNFT

Seed Round in 2021
ClubNFT is a company that offers an advanced infrastructure platform focused on the discovery, protection, and sharing of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) associated with digital artwork. Its services encompass a range of functionalities including search, analysis, backup, recovery, appraisal, and curation. These tools are designed to integrate seamlessly with existing NFT marketplaces, thereby enhancing the capabilities available to the NFT collector community. By providing comprehensive solutions, ClubNFT aims to safeguard digital artworks and facilitate their management for collectors.

Sipher

Seed Round in 2021
Sipher is a blockchain-powered gaming studio in Vietnam.

Mojito

Seed Round in 2021
Mojito is an NFT studio and tech platform company that designs, powers, and operates NFT marketplaces for industry leading brands and IP holders.

DeHorizon

Venture Round in 2021
With the rapid growth of crypto space, recent developments have greatly facilitated GameFi in going mainstream. "Play to earn" is no longer a mere slogan, but has fully come into reality. Regardless of exponential growth, a common defect in GameFi marketplace is lack of a Metaverse Game Ecosystem to develop, connect and support more and more blockchain-based games even built on different chains. We are still in the early stages of the evolution of GameFi. For the next stage, a Metaverse Game Ecosystem is essential to make GameFi go further. That is why DeHorizon comes.

Taker Protocol

Seed Round in 2021
Taker Protocol is a cryptocurrency liquidity protocol for NFTs.

Parcel

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Parcel is focused on facilitating virtual real estate transactions within the metaverse. It has created a comprehensive marketplace that aggregates digital land listings, connecting landowners and creators to support the growth of the metaverse community. Parcel offers a variety of services, including real-time appraisals and extensive industry knowledge, while minimizing costs through zero marketplace fees and low gas consumption. By streamlining access to virtual properties, Parcel aims to empower users to navigate the virtual ecosystem more efficiently and affordably.

Tradestars

Venture Round in 2021
TradeStars Group Corp. is an online fantasy sports platform founded in 2018 and based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It operates on the Ethereum blockchain, allowing users to create and trade digital assets that represent real-life sports performances. This innovative approach enables sports enthusiasts to express their passion for sports while competing against one another. TradeStars emphasizes true digital ownership, transparency, liquidity, and decentralization within the fantasy sports industry. By leveraging blockchain technology, the platform fosters a new way for users to engage with each other and interact with their favorite sports teams and players, ultimately enhancing the sports experience.
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