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A Private Reception: Privé Malibu x Introduction.com
LA Tech Week has 100+ events. This one has a guest list.
On Thursday, October 15, we're hosting a private, invitation-only reception in Malibu with Privé Malibu and Arcadia during LA Tech Week.
Curated cocktails, cuisine, and an ultra-curated room of executives, founders, and tastemakers.
Guests get an intimate first look at Privé Malibu, where residences are being offered selectively to the right owners.
Every request is reviewed. Our team reaches out personally to confirm approved guests.
The address is shared only with approved guests.
Space is extremely limited.
Access is earned.
🌟 Member Spotlight 🌟
Meet Ruben Coetzee 👋
Huge congrats to Ruben on his new role as Capital Markets Director at Trad.Fi.
→ Former Web3 Partnerships Lead at Mansory
→ Former Partnerships Manager at Comet Cash
→ Former Senior Affiliate Manager at BC.GAME
He got his start managing a crypto fund at Invictus Capital in Cape Town.
Over the last three years he built partnerships across crypto: at BC.GAME, at Comet Cash, and at the Web3 arm of luxury car customizer Mansory in Dubai. He also runs his own advisory firm, Coetzee Crypto Consult.
For the past year he advised Trad.Fi on raising capital. Now he's joined full time to run it.
Here's what Trad.Fi does. AI and data centers need more power than the US grid can add. Home battery networks are the fastest fix, and the companies installing them need cash to build.
Trad.Fi funds the installation. It gets repaid in 60 to 90 days, when the developer sells a federal tax credit worth up to about half the system's cost.
His pitch: fixed rate, short duration, hard collateral, a known exit.
Ruben runs the capital side, working with credit funds, family offices and lenders who want bond-like safety with private credit returns. If you allocate to private credit, his DMs are open.
Cape Town. Crypto. Private credit.
Ruben keeps going where the capital needs to move.
This is what our network is all about. Keep building.
The market moves fast. Pyth moves faster.
Tomorrow. Thursday, October 8. 10:00 AM ET. Online.
Every trade, loan and prediction market needs one thing before it can work: the right price, right now. Pyth is where more than 138 institutions, from trading firms to exchanges, publish their prices directly, so apps and funds can use them the moment they change.
And it’s turning into a real business. Pyth passed $10.4M in annual recurring revenue in August.
Tomorrow at 10:00 AM ET, Pyth Connect walks through its biggest quarter yet: what shipped, who’s using it, and where demand for market data is heading next. One hour. A live update, then open Q&A.
There’s still time to register and send in your question.
🤝 Member Perk: Introduction.com x Brex
This is what membership looks like.
Brex is the finance platform 35,000+ companies run on:
→ Corporate cards, expense management
→ Travel and bill pay
→ Control spend at the point of purchase
Introduction.com members: 25,000 points after your first $10,000 on the Brex card.
Proud to partner with Brex.
Membership has its privileges.
🌏 Around the World: Wrap Up
Two cities. Two rooms. Same week.
While SF Tech Week was in full swing, we were above the circuit in Singapore.
Both rooms delivered.
Wednesday, October 7.
The VIP Penthouse.
Above the circuit as TOKEN2049 began.
Photos and the full recap are on the way.
Tuesday, October 6.
NEAR x Introduction.com.
Our happy hour with NEAR Foundation during a16z Tech Week.
Photos and the full recap are on the way.
What happens in these rooms stays in these rooms.
Chatham House Rule, always.
If you were on the list, stay tuned.
The notes, the guest list and the deal flow are on their way.
Saturday, October 10. Singapore.
The Penthouse: Trackside.
Round two of our Singapore penthouse series.
A private brunch above the F1 circuit, overlooking Marina Bay, as the Grand Prix builds. 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM.
The series has drawn founders, investors, and executives from PayPal, Western Alliance Bank, Bybit, Coinbase, and more.
Thank you to CoinRabbit for helping put this one together alongside The Best Event and Arcadia.
By invitation only. The address goes only to approved guests.
Assets & Access NYC @ Pubkey
Tue Oct 20, 7:00 PM ET
Top Raises
Member Activity
Stripe is taking its stablecoin card to 100+ countries by year-end, and Privy co-founder Henri Stern now leads its stablecoin and crypto business.
A stablecoin card lets you spend digital dollars anywhere a normal card works. Stripe bought Privy, a crypto wallet company, in 2025. Now Privy's co-founder runs Stripe's whole crypto push.
Huge congrats to Debbie Soon and Jordan Batti at Privy!
Members building the rails. 🚀
Series B
Spiko raised $90M, led by NEA, with Index Ventures, Bpifrance, Blockwall and Wintermute Ventures in the round.
Spiko runs regulated cash funds issued on a blockchain, so businesses can earn interest on idle cash through an app or API. It manages $2.7 billion, five times more than a year ago.
Huge win for Ayt B and the Wintermute team! Keep 'em coming!
Strategic Investment
OKX brought in Circle, Ripple, Standard Chartered and Qube Research & Technologies as strategic investors, at a $25 billion valuation.
Terms were not disclosed. It follows a March investment from ICE, the owner of the New York Stock Exchange. Each backer adds a piece: Circle's USDC, Ripple's payments, QRT's trading liquidity and Standard Chartered's custody.
Congrats to our members at circle for participating!
Seed
PerpTools raised $5M from Big Brain Holdings, NEAR, Animoca Brands, Sfermion and Shima Capital, bringing its total to $8M.
Built by the team behind DEXTools, PerpTools lets traders bet on crypto prices going up or down, with leverage, using AI agents. It did $240 million in volume during its beta.
Love to see Luca and the Animoca team back at it!
Seed
Walapay raised $4.6M, led by Generative Ventures, with Commerce Ventures, Polygon and Big Brain Holdings in the round.
Walapay gives fintechs and payroll companies one API to hold, convert and send both regular money and stablecoins, across 180+ countries.
Way to go Polygon! Big ups to our members on the team!
