This week, LvlUp Ventures backed four companies building across Bitcoin infrastructure, live commerce, fintech, and gaming, each tackling large markets with clear gaps in infrastructure and strong early validation behind them.
At LvlUp Ventures, we spend a lot of time looking for founders building where major behavioral or operational shifts are already happening beneath the surface. The companies that stand out are rarely random bets on trends. More often, they are solving missing infrastructure problems inside markets that are already growing quickly.
That’s exactly what stood out to us with Boro.today, Studio Finder, RevX, and Crown City.
The rise of autonomous AI agents is creating entirely new financial behavior online.
Agents are already making payments, managing workflows, and operating independently at scale, yet the financial infrastructure supporting them is still extremely early.
Boro.today is building Bitcoin-backed lending infrastructure designed specifically for AI agents, allowing them to borrow against BTC collateral and transact programmatically.
What stood out immediately was how early the company is relative to the size of the opportunity:
Rather than viewing this purely as a crypto company, we see Boro as infrastructure for a growing autonomous economy.
Live commerce is becoming one of the fastest-growing forms of digital commerce globally, but the operational infrastructure behind it remains fragmented.
Brands want to participate, but many still lack the systems, creators, and workflows needed to execute effectively.
Studio Finder is solving that problem by connecting brands with live sellers while managing the infrastructure layer that powers those transactions.
The traction already demonstrates strong market demand:
What impressed us most was the company’s ability to build meaningful traction with very little initial capital while positioning itself inside a category that is still early in the U.S. market.
Access to working capital remains one of the largest constraints facing small and mid-sized businesses across the GCC.
RevX is building digital credit infrastructure designed to help MSMEs access capital faster through AI-powered underwriting and financial intelligence tools.
The company is already demonstrating strong operational performance:
The opportunity is significant. The MSME credit gap across the GCC continues to expand, creating demand for faster, more embedded financial infrastructure across the region.
Gaming remains one of the largest entertainment markets globally, but creating genuinely differentiated experiences inside established genres is increasingly difficult.
Crown City is building a crime empire strategy game that combines action, management systems, and betrayal mechanics into a single experience.
What stood out to us was the ambition behind the world-building and the opportunity to create a highly differentiated gaming IP in a category that has seen limited innovation in recent years.
The next generation of successful entertainment companies will increasingly come from founder-led studios building strong communities and long-term IP ownership from day one.
Although these companies operate across completely different sectors, they share several characteristics we consistently look for at LvlUp Ventures:
The next generation of major companies will not only come from entirely new industries.
Many will emerge from founders identifying the missing layers inside markets that are already evolving quickly.
We’re proud to back Boro.today, Studio Finder, RevX, and Crown City as they continue scaling toward their next milestones.
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