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Aves Lair

New York · Pre-Seed–Seed

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Investment thesis

The firm (whose site presents itself as Syntax Capital) is a New York-based digital asset investment manager serving family offices and high-net-worth individuals with liquid crypto trading strategies, including market-neutral algorithmic trading, Bitcoin yield, and DeFi yield products. It also runs a hybrid strategy that pairs early-stage venture investing in crypto builders with systematic trading to balance returns and risk.

Stage
Pre-Seed–Seed
HQ
New York, NY, US
Instruments
Equity
Tracked investments
1

What they invest in

from 1 of 1 portfolio companies

Crypto & Web3 ×1Data & Infrastructure ×1Fintech ×1

HQs:United States×1

Investments · 1 tracked

founders shown can be your intro path
Orb Labsorblabs.xyzin𝕏Seed · Feb 2023 · $5M

Orb Labs builds an orchestration layer for onchain finance, offering infrastructure to make transactions gasless and bridgeless, restore stablecoin fungibility, and connect onchain accounts with offchain systems.

Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintechNew York City, US

Felix Madutsa(Founder)in

Co-investorsBain Capital CryptoSyntax CapitalShima Capital

Frequently asked questions

What stage does Aves Lair invest at?
Aves Lair invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
What sectors does Aves Lair focus on?
Aves Lair focuses on Crypto & Web3.
Where is Aves Lair located?
Aves Lair is headquartered in New York, US.

Co-investors · 1

Shima Capital

Shima Capital is a $200M web3 seed fund led by Forbes 30 Under 30 investor and MIT instructor Yida Gao, who combines traditional finance, venture capital, and academic credentials rare among dedicated crypto funds. The firm maintains one of the highest early-stage deployment paces in crypto with over 100 investments in two years, using more than half its team for hands-on operational support through a proprietary platform that helps portfolio companies with talent, tokenomics, and specialized expertise like gaming.

Both backed · 1
$5M – $200M

Firms observed investing alongside Aves Lair, from public investor directories. Shared companies are the overlap with Aves Lair's recorded portfolio.

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