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In this industry, the ceiling isn't talent, it's access.
Success is defined by the hands you shake and the company you keep.
We exist to streamline that proximity, ensuring the "best of the best" are never more than one connection away.
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Introduction.com and Arcadia are one team and one network. Arcadia was built four years ago on a simple belief: that trust, attention and influence were shifting away from traditional media toward creators, social platforms and internet-native communities. Introduction.com was built around the people shaping that future.
Today Arcadia is a team of 30 partnering with some of the world's most ambitious companies to shape how their products are understood and adopted at scale. Its campaigns have generated nearly $500 million in client revenue, and the media ecosystem it operates drives close to 300 billion impressions a year.
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Korea Blockchain Week turns Seoul into the center of the industry.
Introduction.com has the prestige of hosting its Official Closing Reception.
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🌟 Member Spotlight 🌟
Meet Mickey Negus 👋
Huge congrats to Mickey on her new role as Senior BD Director at TRM Labs.
→ Former Head of Enterprise Sales at Edge & Node
→ Former Senior Engineering Manager, Engineering Operations at Edge & Node
→ Former Counterterrorism Operations Manager at Sandia National Laboratories
She spent a decade at Sandia running counterterrorism operations for a classified nuclear emergency response program.
Then she brought that same rigor into crypto.
At Edge & Node she led enterprise sales and built a global support org from zero to 500+ enterprise accounts, cutting response times from seven days to under five minutes.
Now at TRM Labs she helps US banks and institutions navigate digital-asset risk, using blockchain intelligence to detect and prevent financial crime.
And she was just elected to the Board of Trustees at Blue Hill, stewarding 141 years of climate science.
Nuclear counterterrorism. Blockchain data. Financial crime.
Most people spend a lifetime chasing one. Mickey has already conquered three.
This is what our network is all about. Keep building.
We are proud to introduce the newest innovators and leaders joining our community; please take a moment to connect with them and welcome them to the inner circle 👇
Jordan Ramirez
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Assets & Access is our monthly series: the same night out, in different cities across the globe. Founders, investors, and executives, one room per city.
London is now on the map. Our newest chapter opens Tuesday, September 22 at The George in Southwark, and the guest list is open now.
Assets & Access London @ George
Tue Sep 22, 6:30 PM BST
KBW2026 Official Closing Reception, Seoul
Thu Oct 1, 8:00 PM KST
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Thu Oct 1, 7:00 PM ET
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Top Raises
Member Activity
Series A Extension
Velocity extended its Series A to $48M at a $200M valuation, with Visa Ventures, Circle Ventures and Ripple in the round. The money goes to stablecoin settlement and treasury rails for payment companies and banks.
Huge congrats to Jordi Mele and the Visa team! Love to see it!
Seed
Fin.com raised $20M, led by Expa and Garrett Camp with Coinbase Ventures participating. The money builds white-label rails that turn stablecoins into local bank deposits across 30+ countries.
Coinbase keeps stacking! Way to go Jonathan King and team. Keep it up!
Strategic
Payward, Kraken's parent, raised $100M from Nasdaq Ventures at a $21B valuation. The money expands its trading, custody, payments and onchain finance stack.
A win for Kraken is a win for us! LFG!
Series A
Latitude raised $35M, led by Oak HC/FT with NEA, Coinbase and Lightspeed Faction. The money scales stablecoin-to-local-currency payouts in emerging markets.
Another win for Kevin Leffew and the Coinbase team. The W’s keep on coming!
Non-Member Activity
Series A
Finloop raised $10M from HSBC and People's Capital. The money builds AI-powered wealth management for institutions in Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area.
Debt
USD.AI secured a $40M revolving facility from K3 Capital. The money finances GPU infrastructure loans settled onchain.
Seed
Deadstock raised $2.5M, led by Bullish. The money builds an onchain marketplace for graded trading cards on Arbitrum.
