Elefund

Early Stage Venture Capital Firm

[Elefund @ElefundVC]

Congratulations to @kirklokov, @chetvil and the entire @TruvHQ team. It has been incredibly rewarding to watch you bring an ambitious idea to life and build a company that has truly transformed the approach to financial data verification.

As an early investor, we witnessed the thoughtfulness, resilience, and unwavering conviction required to build Truv - from its inception to the current phase of rapid growth and scaling.

This marks a wonderful new chapter, opening the door to take Truv’s vision and technology to a much larger stage and offer them to a far broader range of clients.

We are genuinely proud to have been part of this journey during which we forged real partnership and we look forward to seeing what you achieve next!

🎉 🔥 🚀

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[Elefund @ElefundVC]

Alpaca built the rails underneath global investing — and just showed what happens when years of unglamorous work compounds.

Congrats to @iyoshyoshi, @umitanuki, and the rest of this outstanding team on raising a $135M round alongside $300M in debt financing.

What we've always respected about Yoshi and the Alpaca team is the unglamorous conviction it takes to go market-by-market: US, Japan, now India's GIFT City, the UK, and passporting across all 30 EEA countries - building the clearing, and doing the plumbing no one sees. They didn't chase the AI or tokenization trend; they spent years building the regulated rails underneath both, and the road ahead is exactly the one they've been paving.

At Elefund, we're proud to have deepened our participation this round and excited to keep supporting the team as they scale. The hardest part of infrastructure is staying boring long enough to become obvious. Onward. 🚀

[Alpaca @AlpacaHQ]

We are grateful to announce a $135 million raise led by @peakxvpartners, with major participation from @ElefundVC. Additional new and returning investors include Opera Tech Ventures, the venture capital arm of BNP Paribas Group, and Unbound 🚀

[Elefund @ElefundVC]

Congratulations to Patrick Hogan, Chris Woodard, Blake Robertson and the rest of the amazing @HandleUS team on successfully raising their $27M Series B round!

Construction needs its own financial workflow — especially right now, as critical infrastructure is scaling fast across the country, from factories and hospitals to data centers. Handle is building the Construction Data Graph to power construction finance, and we are excited to be early investors and partners on that journey. Godspeed! 🚀

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[Elefund @ElefundVC]

Congratulations to @BaijuBhatt and the entire @CowboySpaceCorp team on the $275M Series B! What makes this moment so special isn’t just the raise — it’s what they're building and how they’re building it. The vertically integrated approach is the real breakthrough: rather than treating a rocket as a workhorse and a data center as its freight, Cowboy designs the launch vehicle and the orbital data center as a single, unified system from day one. 🚀

We're grateful to continue supporting this wonderful team and excited to see them among the stars. Godspeed!

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[Elefund @ElefundVC]

We are honored to continue backing pioneers who are building satellites to close the digital divide. Huge congratulations to the entire @Astranis Space Technologies team on their $450M Series E financing — a powerful milestone toward building the resilient solutions the world needs and connecting billions of people who’ve been left offline for far too long. From our earliest seed investment to today, it has been a privilege to support John @Gedmark, Ryan McLinko, and the entire team, whose vision, approach, and execution have built something truly remarkable.

Onward and upward! 🚀

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[Elefund @ElefundVC]

Congratulations to @KatzAnton, @ethanf and the entire @talostrading team on their extended round and on adding @RobinhoodApp to their impressive list of strategic partners and investors.

It's great to see Talos continue to grow – the pace of work, market expansion, and clarity of objectives are truly impressive. As an early investor in both companies, we are especially pleased with this turn of events.

Grateful for the opportunity and incredibly excited about the future. 🚀

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[Elefund @ElefundVC]

This round evokes the warmest feelings. There are several reasons for this.

Firstly, because this team, led by @iyoshyoshi and @umitanuki, embodies hard work, discipline, and talent.

Secondly, it's the autonomy of thought, where decision-making begins with a thorough analysis and an engineering approach.

And thirdly, it's the strategic direction with a huge mission of democratizing finance. The mental image of that last unconnected customer doesn't leave the @AlpacaHQ team in peace. That's a rare quality.

Congratulations on raising this monumental round and achieving unicorn status. We are grateful for our joint work both as an early investor and as members of the board of directors. Shout out to @TarunAjwani, @NadiaAsoyan and others!

The future awaits 🚀

[Alpaca @AlpacaHQ]

We are grateful to announce that Alpaca has raised a $150M Series D led by @DriveCapital, valuing us at $1.15B! 🙏

This funding will be used to continue supporting our partners by strengthening Alpaca’s global investment infrastructure, expanding and enhancing our existing offerings, securing regulatory licenses in key jurisdictions, and continuing to bridge traditional and decentralized financial systems.

This milestone comes after a busy 2025, where we launched several key products and features, including 24/5 trading, fixed income, Instant Tokenization Network (ITN), Fully Paid Securities Lending (FPSL), and Omnibus Subaccounting (OmniSub) technology. We also expanded our crypto infrastructure, making it MiCA-compliant and available across 49 US states and in the EU, announced our intended acquisition of WealthKernel, and received memberships from Nasdaq Exchange, the Options Clearing Corporation (OCC), and the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC), significantly reducing our reliance on third-party players across various offerings.

This year, in 2026, our focus is on execution discipline and strengthening fundamentals. We are prioritizing infrastructure resilience, regulatory readiness, and operational rigor to ensure progress is real, repeatable, and durable. With that foundation, we’ll continue to ship more and faster as we advance our mission to open financial services to everyone on the planet.

Read what this means to our Co-Founder and CEO, @iyoshyoshi, below.

Thank you to our investors: @DriveCapital, Citadel Securities, Opera Tech Ventures, MUFG Innovation Partners, @FlatCapital (with @klarnaseb as controlling UBO and Chairman), DRW Venture Capital, @Krakenfx, Altered Capital, X&KSK, @Bank Muscat, Endeavor Catalyst, Portage, Horizons Ventures, @SocialLeverage, Unbound, Diagram, @Derayah, and Vlad Yatsenko. We’re excited to do more in 2026.

We’re excited to do even more for you in 2026.

[Voyager Technologies @voyagertech_]

🚀 BREAKTHROUGH: Voyager secured a patent for orbital optical-crystal manufacturing.​

Ultra-pure materials → faster, cleaner, more resilient networks powering AI + datacenters.​

Microgravity makes what Earth can’t. Learn more here: https://t.co/8wmT1yge1z.​ $VOYG #MissionReady

[Yoshi Alpaca @iyoshyoshi]

I'm deeply grateful 🙏 to share that @AlpacaHQ has raised a $150 million Series D, valuing the company at $1.15 billion 🦙 🚀

This fundraise was especially humbling because of the level of interest. The round was very oversubscribed, with strong enthusiasm from a wide range of investors around the world 🌏 🌎 🌍 . Seeing that conviction in what @AlpacaHQ is building has been incredibly motivating and energizing.

What grounded me through the process was realizing that everything I shared with investors was about what our team had already built and delivered. Reaching unicorn status 🦄 is a meaningful milestone, and to me, it reflects past execution, not future guarantees. If anything, it tightens the helmet strap. It raises the bar on discipline, foundation, and how intentionally we think about what comes next. 🫡

I’m incredibly grateful for the support from leading fintech investors, founders who have built global companies, and top global banks. We’re humbled to be here, thankful for the trust, and more focused than ever on execution and building infrastructure that lasts.

With this said, huge congratulations to everyone at @AlpacaHQ 🎉, a big thank you to all the partners and traders building with @AlpacaHQ 💝, and thank you to our investors in @AlpacaHQ 🙏

Now LETS GOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! 💪 ⚡ 🦙 ☀️

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[Elefund @ElefundVC]

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[Elefund @ElefundVC]

Congratulations to @tachim, @vladtenev and the entire @HarmonicMath team on reaching this major milestone with $120 million Series C and newly minted unicorn status. This raise is a powerful vote of confidence in their vision for Mathematical Superintelligence and the Aristotle model, which is already demonstrating gold-medal-level performance at the International Mathematical Olympiad and showcasing what formally verified reasoning can unlock for science, engineering, and other quantative fields.

As you scale this technology, the ability to combine advanced mathematical reasoning with formal verification has the potential to reshape how breakthrough research is done and how mission-critical decisions are made in industry, making this funding round an exciting step toward a safer, more rigorous future for AI.

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[Elefund @ElefundVC]

@GroqInc @JonathanRoss321 @sundeep https://t.co/52H7YVr6cD

[Elefund @ElefundVC]

There's no doubt that inference, in one form or another, defines this era of artificial intelligence, and @GroqInc is building the infrastructure for it that ensures accessible, high-speed performance. ⚡

We sincerely congratulate @JonathanRoss321, @sundeep and the Groq team as a whole on raising $750M in new funding. We are excited to continue building and grateful to be an early investor. To all new investors - Welcome! 🤝 🔥

[Elefund @ElefundVC]

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[Elefund @ElefundVC]

Harmonic is continuing to accelerate momentum at the frontier of mathematical reasoning, and progressing towards commercializing their flagship model, Aristotle, which will soon begin to contribute to solving open problems in mathematics as well as advancing research in fields like physics and computer science.

Congratulations to @tachim, @vladtenev and the entire team @HarmonicMath on a successful $100M Series B funding. We're excited to be a part of this journey and grateful to be an early investor!

[Elefund @ElefundVC]

This week, June 11th, 2025, @voyagertech_ went public with an IPO!

Driving this investment were the same motivations that inspire us every day — to back leaders who can impact the advancement of technology in the world today. @dylan, along with Matthew J. Kuta, have clearly crossed that bar and are now at the forefront.

In retrospect, that internal lens solidified the foundation for our strategy of working with daring founders around concrete solutions to the world's most important problems, allowing us to write the classic first check over a napkin.

With space now at our fingertips, so to speak, Voyager Technologies is poised to become the platform of the future, for the future belongs to those who build it!

A huge thank you to Dylan, Matt, Thomas Ayres, and everyone else for sharing your journey with us.

Congratulations to all on this momentous occasion. Here's to a future in space! 🚀 🚀 🚀

[Elefund @ElefundVC]

Led by @BaijuBhatt, a seasoned leader with whom we've worked closely, including participating in Robinhood's seed round, we are happy to support the entire team and conquer new heights together. Literally.

Congratulations!

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[Elefund @ElefundVC]

This post announces a $50M financing round of a company, that has set out to democratize solar energy access through innovative satellite tech, @AetherfluxUSA.

[Elefund @ElefundVC]

What was once considered the realm of science fiction is now becoming a tangible reality, thanks to significant advancements in fundamental technologies, paving the way for ambitious projects to take flight, all other things being equal.