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🤖AI
⛓️Blockchain
📈Fintech
🚀Opportunistic
Artificial Intelligence: The Universal Force
We invest across data, training, inference, agents, and vertical platforms as AI becomes a general-purpose capability.
Why AI Now?
The AI revolution is accelerating at an unprecedented pace, creating massive opportunities for foundational infrastructure and applications. We're at an inflection point where AI is transitioning from experimental to essential across every industry.
Our Focus Areas:
Agentic Workflows: Autonomous systems that can execute complex tasks end-to-end
Multimodal Models: AI that understands and generates across text, images, audio, and video
Enterprise AI Ops: Tools for deploying, monitoring, and scaling AI in production
Specialized Inference: Optimized models for specific domains and use cases
AI Safety & Alignment: Ensuring responsible development and deployment
The Opportunity:
AI is creating entirely new markets while transforming existing ones. We're backing companies building the core infrastructure that will power the next decade of innovation, from developer tools to enterprise applications that deliver measurable ROI.
Blockchain: The Trust Infrastructure
Verifiable state, settlement finality and programmable assets enable open, global systems—core protocols and RWA rails.
Why Blockchain Now?
Blockchain technology is maturing beyond cryptocurrency into a foundational trust layer for the global economy. Institutional adoption is accelerating, particularly in real-world asset tokenization and decentralized infrastructure.
Our Focus Areas:
RWA Tokenization: Bringing trillions in real-world assets on-chain
Institutional Infrastructure: Compliance, custody, and trading infrastructure
Layer 2 Scaling: Solutions for mainstream adoption and lower costs
Decentralized Identity: Self-sovereign identity and verifiable credentials
On-chain Data & Oracles: Reliable data feeds for DeFi and enterprise
ZK-Proofs & Privacy: Advanced cryptography for scalable private transactions
The Opportunity:
Blockchain enables entirely new business models and financial primitives. We're investing in the infrastructure that will power the tokenization of everything from real estate to intellectual property, creating more efficient and accessible markets.
Next-Gen Fintech: A Key Application
AI and on-chain primitives are rebuilding treasury, credit, payments and capital markets.
Why Fintech Now?
The convergence of AI and blockchain is creating unprecedented opportunities to rebuild financial infrastructure. Legacy systems are being replaced by more efficient, transparent, and accessible alternatives.
Our Focus Areas:
AI-Powered Financial Services: Intelligent underwriting, risk assessment, and personalization
Embedded Finance: Financial services integrated into non-financial platforms
Digital Assets Infrastructure: Trading, custody, and settlement for tokenized assets
SMB Finance & CFO Stack: Tools for small and medium businesses
Retirement & Savings Innovation: Modernizing legacy pension and savings systems
Real-Time Payments: Instant cross-border settlement and payment rails
The Opportunity:
Financial services represent a multi-trillion dollar market ripe for disruption. We're backing companies that leverage AI and blockchain to create more efficient, accessible, and personalized financial products for both consumers and businesses.
Opportunistic: Network-Driven Opportunities
Time-sensitive investments in climate tech, quantum applications, energy innovation, and special situations.
Why Opportunistic Now?
Some of the most compelling investment opportunities emerge at the intersection of technology and rapidly evolving markets. Our network and thesis-agnostic approach allows us to identify and capitalize on these unique situations.
Our Focus Areas:
Climate & Energy Tech: Solutions for the energy transition and climate resilience
Quantum Applications: Early-stage quantum computing and sensing technologies
Maritime & Logistics Tech: Digital transformation of global supply chains
Space & Defense Tech: Frontier technologies with dual-use applications
Health & Bio-Tech: Computational biology and digital health platforms
Special Situations: Unique opportunities that don't fit traditional categories
The Opportunity:
By maintaining flexibility and leveraging our extensive network, we can identify and execute on opportunities that others might miss. This approach has led to investments in areas like maritime technology and other frontier technologies.
AI + Blockchain: Verifiable Intelligence
Attested models, decentralized coordination, and oracles for machine economies.
AI + Fintech: The Autonomous Economy
Continuous decisioning for underwriting, pricing and agentic CFO tooling.
Blockchain + Fintech: Programmable Value
Compliant RWA issuance, composable liquidity and transparent markets.
The Trifecta: Autonomous Economic Systems
Converging intelligence, trust and programmable value to create end-to-end machine-run economies.
Investment Strategy
We concentrate capital where compounding advantages are most durable.
Founding Team Quality
Extreme ownership, earned insights, build velocity and references over pedigree.
Market & Timing
Large/expanding TAM with catalysts; wedge → adjacency sequencing to leadership.
Defensible UVP
Edge from data, distribution, workflow lock-in, or technical performance.
Capital Efficiency
Milestone-based resourcing; strong unit economics; pragmatic burn.
Risk Screen
Regulatory footing, concentration and technical feasibility evaluated up front.
Value Add
Go-to-market help, hiring, customers, follow-on capital, and platform alliances.
AI
Agentic Workflows Open
Multimodal Models Open
Inference Optimization Open
Enterprise AI Ops Marly
Data Infrastructure Open
AI Safety & Alignment Open
Vertical AI Platforms Open
Blockchain
RWA Tokenization NAO Invest
Institutional Infrastructure Open
Layer 2 Scaling Open
Decentralized Identity Timetrust
On-chain Data & Oracles Open
ZK-Proofs & Privacy Open
Cross-chain Interop Open
Fintech
Retirement & Savings Timetrust
SMB Finance / CFO Stack Marly
Payments & Treasury Open
Credit & Risk Analytics Open
Embedded Finance Open
Digital Assets Trading NAO Invest
Regulatory Tech Open
Opportunistic
Climate & Energy Tech Oceyon
Quantum Applications Open
Maritime & Logistics Oceyon
Space & Defense Tech Open
Health & Bio-Tech Open
Industry Insights
Curated signals and context to stay ahead of market trends.
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AI Model Efficiency
Smaller, faster models enabling private low-latency inference at edge locations.
🔥 Trending
RWA Tokenization
Compliant issuance increases liquidity for tokenized real-world assets.
📈 Growing
Agentic Workflows
Multi-agent orchestration moves into production with enterprise guardrails.
🚀 Emerging
Quantum-Resistant Crypto
Post-quantum cryptography standards emerging for blockchain security.
🛡️ Critical
Climate Tech Investment
Carbon accounting and ESG tech attracting significant venture funding.
Strategic equity in foundational infra and category-defining apps.
Strategic Advisory
Go-to-market, narrative, product positioning and regulatory navigation.
Fundraising Support (Startups)
Materials, metrics, target list, intros, process orchestration.
Fundraising Support (VCs)
LP mapping, data room, thesis crafting, anchor outreach.
Secondary Solutions
Founder/employee liquidity via structured secondaries and GP-leds.
Global Network Access
Investors, enterprise customers, partners and talent across EU/US.
Our Portfolio
Building our portfolio with exceptional founders in AI, Blockchain, and Fintech infrastructure.
Timetrust
Blockchain IdentityRetirement Infra
Solving the $150 trillion global pension gap through decentralized identity and portable, blockchain-based pension accounts.
Active Investment →
Marly
AI Enterprise OpsPrivate Markets
AI-powered operating system for private markets, providing institutional-grade analytics, deal flow management, and portfolio monitoring.
Active Investment →
NAO Invest
RWA TokenizationDemocratized PE
Democratizing private equity through fractional ownership of institutional-grade private market opportunities.
Active Investment →
Oceyon
Climate TechAI Optimization
Maritime technology using AI and IoT for ocean conservation, sustainable shipping, and marine ecosystem monitoring.
Active Investment →
Thematic Alignment
Our portfolio demonstrates our focus on intersectional investments where AI, Blockchain, and Fintech converge to create transformative solutions in retirement infrastructure, private markets accessibility, and climate technology.
VCAlliance.ai
A curated network of specialist funds aligned on deep tech and collaborative value creation.
What It Is
Lightweight alliance of independent GPs with complementary theses in AI, blockchain, fintech and deep-tech.
Rooted in Patagonia's spirit of resilience — the meaning of "Nahuen".
Nahuen means strength, energy, and resilience in Mapudungun, the language of Patagonia. Those landscapes aren't just scenery to us—they're a philosophy. Endurance over hype. Useful over flashy. Compounding, not chasing.
We founded Nahuen Capital to back the architects of the next digital frontier across AI, Blockchain, and Financial Infrastructure. We invest where technology meets real-economy impact—verifiable systems, autonomous workflows, and programmable value that unlock new markets.
Our role is simple: bring patient capital, hard-won operating experience, and a global network to help founders build durable, category-defining companies. The condor's glide reminds us—pick the right currents, then ride them with discipline.