Variant invested in Hello Clever, a global payments layer that lets merchants accept local payment methods across geographies through a single integration, connecting real-time payment networks.
Variant invested in Physical Superintelligence (PSI), a vertically integrated factory for physics discoveries that uses domain-specific AI models to solve hard physics problems for enterprises and research labs.
Variant invested in Augustus, which is building the Global Dollar Bank - a full-service US national bank chartered to provide direct dollar access to global fintechs and banks, with OCC conditional approval for a national bank charter.
Variant led the seed round in Tenor Finance, a fixed-rate lending market onchain built on Morpho's Midnight protocol, enabling asset managers and borrowers to access fixed-rate lending markets.
Variant announced a new $222M venture fund (Variant 4) focused on technology that expands autonomy, with emphasis on new markets, infrastructure, and applications that give users more agency through increased access, knowledge, and ownership.