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Effusive Capital invests across private companies, public markets and onchain networks.

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Fig. 1. Effusion. Lightest out first.

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Fig. 1 simulates effusion. Thirty-six particles, graded in size toward a single opening, start packed as the Effusive mark inside a round chamber; one more sits outside, already out. As the chamber warms, the particles nearest the opening, the small light half, tremble most and break free first; then all of them move as a gas of small and large discs. Now and then one escapes through the opening, most often a light one: at equal density the light particles escape about 2.35 times as often as the heavy ones, at any temperature. The figure tags an escapee with its speed as a multiple of its kind’s mean speed, and a chart follows the measured ratio as it closes on 2.35.

Thesis

Effusive, adj. Unrestrained in approval. Most investors ration their enthusiasm to keep their options open. We spend ours early and out loud, because hedged belief is worth nothing to a founder.

Lightest out first. Gas leaking through a small hole loses its lightest molecules fastest. A company’s mass is whatever it committed to before the market asked: headcount, a big round, an early token. The light find the opening while the heavy are still turning around.

Heat doesn’t change the order. Warm a gas and every kind of molecule speeds up by the same factor, so the lightest still escape fastest. A hot market makes every company look fast without changing which ones are.

Collisions cost distance. A molecule knocked off course at every step takes a hundred steps to end up about ten away. Left alone, it ends up a hundred away. Most investor help is a collision. Ours is rare, and pushes the way you’re already going.

The wrapper is incidental. The same idea can be owned as a private company, a public stock or a token, depending mostly on how early it is. We follow the idea across all three and hold it in whichever form the market has priced most wrong.

Portfolio

24 investments: 13 private, 4 public and 7 onchain. 3 exits.

As of September 2026.

Fig. 2. The split. Each investment sends one particle into a Stern⁠–⁠Gerlach magnet, which bends its path up, not at all, or down by kind, never in between. The force is across the axis, so distance along it is still time in flight, and the oldest sit furthest from it. The detectors caught the three that exited.

  1. Blinks and alerts, now at Solana Labs.Developer tools.Held 3 years.
  2. AI infrastructure for onchain systems.Infrastructure.Held 3 years so far.
  3. Streams money onchain, every second.Payments.Held 2 years 8 months so far.
  4. Verifiable claims from private data.Privacy.Held 2 years 8 months so far.
  5. Decentralized GPU compute network.Compute.Held 2 years 7 months so far.
  6. Web3 AI operating system.AI.Held 2 years 6 months so far.
  7. Bitcoin layer 2 built on BitVM.Infrastructure.Held 2 years 3 months so far.
  8. Token vesting, now at Coinbase.Token management.Held 8 months.
  9. Humanoid robots for industry.Robotics.Held 1 year so far.
  10. A genomics company in stealth.Genomics.Held 6 months so far.
  11. A hardware company in stealth.Hardware.Held 4 months so far.
  12. Ocean energy platform for compute.Energy.Held 3 months so far.
  13. AI models that operate computers.AI.Held 0 months so far.

  1. Canvas for design, code and AI.FIG.Held 1 year 2 months so far.
  2. CPUs, GPUs and AI accelerators.AMD.Held 1 year 8 months so far.
  3. Stock photos, video and editorial.GETY.Held 1 year 8 months so far.
  4. Germany’s largest bank.DB.Held 1 year 8 months so far.

  1. ZK-verified perpetuals exchange.LIT.Held 9 months so far.
  2. Advanced onchain trading platform.EDGE.Held 1 year 5 months so far.
  3. Onchain perpetuals and spot trading.HYPE.Held 1 year 10 months so far.
  4. Modular onchain lending.EUL.Held 2 years so far.
  5. One app for onchain finance.L3.Held 2 years 2 months so far.
  6. NFT marketplace on Solana.TNSR.Held 1 year 2 months.
  7. Infrastructure for real-world assets.MNT.Held 3 years 2 months so far.

Principal

Portrait of Zeel

Zeel

Founder

Zeel leads product at a Series A+ company and has taken consumer products from their first users to millions, with revenue to match. As an investor, Zeel backs founders early in robotics, energy, AI and onchain markets, often alongside venture’s most respected firms, and lives up to the name: effusive about every one of them.

Since 2023 · 13 private · 4 public · 7 onchain · 3 exits

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