Pond is at the forefront of crypto AI, offering a model training platform for developer communities to train AI models on both on-chain and off-chain data. It powers crypto-native use cases across trading, DeFi, public funding, security, and more. Pond is making waves through collaborations with notable organizations and projects such as the Ethereum Foundation, Base, NEAR Foundation, and others. We are hosting various AI/ML competitions for projects such as DeepFunding, Gitcoin (Allo Capital) and others.
Our technical team has experience from WeChat, Blackbird, TigerGraph, and Yuga Labs with experience of serving 2bn users globally. Also a track record of over 40 publications in top-tier journals and conferences—such as IEEE, Nature, Harvard Business Review, ICML, NeurIPS, CVPR, and PNAS.
Fundraising and Backing
We successfully raised a $7.5M seed round led by Archetype, with participation from Cyber Fund (Lido founder’s fund, known for rare direct investments, including Solana pre-seed and Ethereum pre-ICO), Coinbase Ventures, Delphi Digital, and Anagram (the fund of Solana’s president and former Polychain president).
Fundraising announcement: https://x.com/PondGNN/status/1854586595774808337
Notable Angel Investors
Our roster of over 30 angel investors spans key sectors like DeFi, MEV, social, and security. These include:
• The co-founder of NEAR
• The co-founder of ENS
• The CTO of Exo Labs
• Co-founders of Plume Network
• The COO of Matrixport
• The Head of Market Research at Flashbots
• Founders of Mamori (MEV), SEDA, Zerion, Nuffle, and OpenGradient
• Former GP of Variant, Spencer Noon