LTNG ⚡ Weekly Deals Newsletter⚡

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• 🔑Invest in Foundation Devices🔑

• Follow-on round for Lightning Ventures portfolio company Foundation Devices! Arche Capital is leading this $3 million Seed+ Round with participation from Polychain Capital, Third Prime, Greenfield, and other existing investors. Co-syndication with our good friends at Gaingels/FlightVC. 

• Check out the deal memo -> Invest in Foundation Devices

• 🍊💊Invest in Orange Pill App🍊💊

• Closing 3/31, The Orange Pill App is profitable with over 15k users. 2024 revenue was $282k (+123%). OPA holds ~3.6 BTC on their balance sheet and recently launched a Bitcoin wallet inside their app with “Geozapping.” We’re excited about the roadmap, which includes ticketing, video calls, voice calls, and more. OPA is building the social layer for Bitcoin. 

• 📽️ Quick Pitch Video 📽️

• 🎙️ X Spaces Recording🎙️

• 📹 Founder Interview 📹

• Check out the deal page  -> Invest in the Orange Pill App

• ⚡Invest in Joltz ⚡

• Leading the charge with Taproot Assets, Joltz is bringing stablecoins to Lightning. The recent news of USDT coming to Lightning is happening via Joltz, and this was a massive announcement. Currently, Joltz has over 42 companies in its pipeline. Self-custodial swaps are incoming. Sats Ventures is now investing in this round, and previous investors include Bitcoin Magazine’s UTXO Management, Brad Mills, Bob Burnett, Outlier Ventures, and more.

• 📽️ Quick Pitch Video 📽️

• 🎙️ Tether(USDT) on Lightning Video 🎙️

• 📹 Founder Interview 📹

• Check out the deal page -> Invest in Joltz

• ⛏️Invest in hestiia ⛏️

• Hestiia is a clean tech heating business that mines Bitcoin! You won’t find Bitcoin in their deck or website, but this is what they’re doing. €1.4 million backlog (2,000 units) sold across 15 real estate developments. Sales pipeline currently represents €11 million in potential backlog. NOIA Capital is leading this round with a $2M investment. This is a co-syndication with our good friends at New Layer Capital. 

• Check out the deal memo -> Invest in hestiia

• 📡Invest in Cloaked Services📡 

• Privacy-First MVNO nationwide wireless carrier. Adam Back is investing in this current round and is also an advisor to the company. Led by Jonathan Wilkins, formerly co-founder of Blockstream and previously CSO of River, who worked on Zero Knowledge Solutions (with Dr. Adam Back), developing the Freedom Network (precursor to Tor). Cryptographically secure authentication ensures SIM swap attacks are impossible. Cloaked Network is a “better Tor” and will be launched soon.

• Check out the Video Interview with Cloaked Wireless

• Check out the Quick Pitch Video with Cloaked Wireless

• Check out the deal memo -> Invest in Cloaked Services

• 🍕Invest in Slice🍕

• Slice is an adtech company that leverages Bitcoin for instant payouts! They have gained serious traction with over 900k installs for their Slice (AddSlice.com) product. The team has developed a second product, which leverages AI and is a customizable browser homepage. It’s incredibly sticky and super fun, check it out (AskVoid.com). Slice previously went through the Bitcoin/Lightning Wolf Accelerator in NYC, and we’re investing again. A video interview is coming soon, so feel free to shoot over the questions! 

• Check out the deal memo -> Invest in Sliced Inc.

Foundation Devices is raising a Seed+ Round and is on 🔥

They’ve just launched a Passport Prime personal security platform engineered to address the growing need for secure, user-friendly solutions in Bitcoin and beyond. Unlike competitors like Ledger and Trezor, Foundation Devices emphasizes its fully open-source hardware and software, U.S.-based manufacturing for supply chain security, and advanced multi-factor authentication features. This differentiation positions Passport Prime as a superior alternative in a market with potential for significant growth.

This investment is incredibly confidential, so if you’re in the Lightning Ventures Syndicate, check out the deal page for all the details. We’re co-syndicating this investment with our good friends at Gaingels.

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