From2023Pre-seed, Cần Thơ
To2045The destination
- Raised
- US$3.85M
- Rounds
- 3
- Latest
- Pre-Series A
- Lead
- Lumacrest Capital
- Annual recurring revenue
- US$850K
- Net revenue retention
- 124%
- As of
- Sep 2026
Investors · Funding
Capital for a company that answers to students.
We raise money to build better futures to visit, and to fund the student ideas that make it back to real streets. Here is who backs us, what they backed, and where the money goes.
Total raised to date
US$3.85M
01Rounds
Every round, earned by what students shipped.
We raise when the evidence says the next step works: student solutions running in the real world first, usage second.
Jul 2023
Pre-seed
US$150K
Turned a weekend flood simulation into a product: the first Portal engine, a three-person team, and paid pilots with schools across the Mekong Delta.
Aug 2024
Seed
US$1.2M
Funded Portals 1.0, the Tide simulation engine, and Future Self, plus the pilot budgets that moved student solutions onto real streets.
Apr 2026Latest
Pre-Series A
US$2.5M
Scales world-building and AI safety, grows Vietnam, deepens the Indonesia and Philippines pilots, and opens Portal Studio.
02Backers
Who backs us, and why.
Funds and operators who share one belief: the people who will live longest in the future should help build it.
Venture
Ferrylight Ventures
Pre-seed fund backing first-time founders in the Mekong Delta who build for the communities they grew up in.
Pre-seed · lead / Seed
Angels
Operator angels
A small circle of Southeast Asian edtech and gaming operators who wrote early cheques after playing the first flood Portal.
Pre-seed
Venture
Mekong Horizon Ventures
Seed-stage venture firm investing in Vietnamese software companies that can win at home, then travel across the region.
Seed · lead / Pre-Series A
Venture
Tamarind Bay Ventures
Early-stage fund focused on learning and workforce products for the 680 million people of Southeast Asia.
Seed
Venture
Lumacrest Capital
Growth-minded early-stage investor in AI-native consumer and education platforms with proven school distribution.
Pre-Series A · lead
Impact
Coralline Impact Fund
Impact fund backing climate-adaptation ventures that put coastal and delta communities in charge of their own resilience.
Pre-Series A
03Use of funds
Where the Pre-Series A goes.
US$2.5M raised in Apr 2026, led by Lumacrest Capital. Most of it goes into the worlds students visit and the safety work behind them.
40%
World-building + AI safety
≈ US$1M
New science-grounded Portals, the Tide engine, and the guardrails, red-teaming, and child-safety reviews behind every AI citizen.
25%
Vietnam scale-up + Indonesia/Philippines pilots
≈ US$625K
School success teams across Vietnam and local launch teams for the Jakarta and Manila pilots.
20%
Problems Bank pilots
≈ US$500K
Seed budgets that take the best student solutions from a Portal to a real street, clinic, or canal.
15%
Portal Studio
≈ US$375K
Tools that let students and teachers build and publish their own future worlds.
04Commitments
The 1% Future Pledge
1% of company equity is held in trust for learners. Distributions fund scholarships and pay royalties to students whose solutions are piloted. If WTF wins, the kids who built it win with us.
Also written into how we operate
Council of 2045
9 students aged 14 to 19 hold veto power over any feature that touches minors’ data, and one non-voting observer seat on our board. They have used the veto, and we are better for it.
Shipped, not graded
Our north-star metric is student solutions running in the real world, not minutes in app. We report it first, every quarter.
Investor relations
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