From AI Pharmaceutical to BitcoinDeFi, EASY Residency 13 hard-core teams show off Demo Day
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On December 3rd, YZi Labs officially announced the full list of EASY Residency's 2nd season, 13 of which will be officially featured in the Demo Day link at Binance Blockchain Week。
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42. space: trade real world events like memecoins
Founding team:
Leo Zhang(Founder): Former Research Manager of the Encryption Foundation in New York, former in the stock derivatives department of KKR and MS (Morgan Stanley), Bachelor of Mathematics, Stanford University。
Steve Kim (CTO): Founding engineer of a number of original companies (which were subsequently acquired by Wal-Mart/Discord), Bachelor of Computer Science, Stanford University。
Aleksi Ollikainen-Read (Strategy/Operation/Legal Adviser): Former Head of Strategy and Operations, Consensys SMG, former law professor at Oxford University, Harvard University/Planck Institute Research Fellow, admitted to the Bar of England and Wales (E& W) in 2018。
YZi Labs investment logic:
42. Space is an asset issuance agreement that has significantly widened the boundaries of the forecast market. By building the event results into a Token launch platform using bending curves, 42.space allows users to create and trade assets linked to real world events. Dealing like a liquid token; settling like a forecast market, this innovative mechanism is driven by a strong team that brings together alumni of Stanford University and Harvard University and senior Wall Street figures, integrating top engineering techniques with advanced financial strategies. In cooperation with BNB Chain, 42.space is further expanding DeFi by bringing this novel, event-based asset to a large user base。
4D Labs: Data collection, model development and application of large models of space intelligence
Founding team:
Bruce Bai (CEO): Ph.D., Zhejiang University; continuous entrepreneur; two computer visual start-up companies。
Ian Y. Xu (co-authored): Doctorate, University of Michigan; Doctorate, Chinese University of Hong Kong; worked in Meta Reality Labs and in business soup technology。
Xin Zhou (Creative): Chief AI Architect, Baidu USA; Ph.D., University of Michigan; experience with an AI/ Generating AI system for over 10 years。
Haoming (co-foundation): Post-doctorate, Beijing University; Doctorate, Zhejiang University; worked in 100 degrees; published more than 10 top-level AI papers; continuous entrepreneurs (creation of Deep Pink Elephant, xPerception, which was acquired 100 degrees)。
YZi Labs investment logic:
4D Labs is at the intersection of AI, 3D technology and Web3 and is working to address a fundamental bottleneck in the space computing age: how to access scalable, verifiable and high quality 3D data. With its large spatial model and 3D data generation and acquisition process, combined with the monetized data validation framework, 4D Labs have become early pioneers in the 3D data infrastructure. With the acceleration of digital twinning and the development of Embodied AI, ownership-based 3D data networks will become critical, making 4D Labs a timely and strategic investment in the next computing paradigm base。
AllScale: Lightweight self-registry for cross-border commercial operations
Founding team:
Shawn Pang(CEO) – Former TikTok & Capital One paid product manager; continuous entrepreneur; previously responsible for KuCoin ' s currency transactions. Leo Wang (COO) – Former Amazon, IBM, employee of the Polybank; financial technology and infrastructure builder。
Alisha Li (CMO) – Former post-bee capital partner, former Hewlett-Packard, Dale, Sun Sales Director。
Khalil Lin (Officer-in-Charge of Compliance) – New York licensed lawyer; served in Kraken, The Block。
YZi Labs investment logic:
AllScale is in the process of creating a new self-custody stable bank that will simplify the process of payment, payroll and invoicing of enterprises in a compliant and intuitive manner. Our investments stem from early signs of high market convergence of products, supported by natural growth momentum and robust retention rate indicators. AllScale has taken advantage of taking market shares by combining the speed of stabilization and transparency with the user experience of modern business operations and compliance requirements。
Advent: AI-driven precision gene therapy platform
Founder team:
Bonnie ZhuASSISTANT PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND BIOENGINEERING, HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (HKUST); PHD, STANFORD UNIVERSITY。
Kai LiuProfessor at the University of Science and Technology of Hong Kong; globally recognized leader in neuroscience。
Yuan YaoDOCTORATE IN BIOENGINEERING, STANFORD UNIVERSITY; CURRENTLY DIRECTOR GENERAL OF SALES AND MARKETS, BD MEDICAL INFUSION AND BLOOD DIALYSIS, USA。
YZi Labs investment logic:
Advent is at the forefront in the field of cell and gene therapy delivery, and uses proprietary viral protein datasets and a specially constructed AI-driven platform to reduce the detection time for a gland-related virus (AAV) shell from months to weeks. Its internal high-throughput data, scalable differentials in the intellectual property rights of carburetorized shells, and synthetic casings that perform better than natural serotypes have created an insurmountable technological moat in this rapidly expanding market. Advent, with a strong team and a clear technological differential advantage, is an entry point for investment at the right time, consistent with the main precedent of the cell and gene therapy (CGT) market。
AgriDynamics: Fruit picker robot for resolving the farm labour crisis
Founder team:
Dr. Zhaojian Li(CTO): ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY, RESPONSIBLE FOR THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF PATENTED MODULAR APPLE-PICKING ROBOTS FUNDED THROUGH THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION AND THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE。
Kyle Lampers(CEO): SIX YEARS OF RESEARCH IN APPLE-PICKING ROBOTS, WITH THE MICHIGAN PRIZE FOR AGRICULTURAL BIOINNOVATION, THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF AGRICULTURAL AND BIOENGINEERS AWARD FOR BEST STUDENT REPORTING, AND THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF AGRICULTURAL AND BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERS AWARD FOR BEST DISSERTATION FOR SMART TRANSPORT SYSTEMS。
YZi Labs investment logic:
The company has addressed one of the most serious cost and labour challenges in United States-specific agriculture — apple harvesting — through a patented, field-tested robotic platform that has been recognized by the Association of Major Growers. In the area of apple harvesting, labour costs account for about 70 per cent of production costs. Its modularization, commercialized systems and defensive intellectual property rights give it a clear pre-emptive advantage in this multi-billion dollar area. The company is expected to become a core automated infrastructure for niche agriculture, based on an extended road map to other high-value crops and recurrent service or software revenues。
Bento.fun: social layers of forecast markets
Founder team:
Abhitaj Singh(CEO): Former growth manager, Persistence/pSTAKE; Cosmos India co-founder; founder of the Filament (value of $100 million, financing $1.15 million)。
Pratyaksh Inani(CPO) : Quantified trader since age 13; former Financial / Product Manager of Persistence; Co-founder of Filament。
Rajeb Kumar(Engineer) Former Nethermind employee, graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, with six years of DeFi/Contract Engineering experience and 10 times a hacker pine champion。
YZi Labs investment logic:
Bento was able to turn the daily fan debate on Telegram, Twitter and whatsapp into a simple and quick mini-counter of US$ 1 to 10 dollars, opening up space for a large group of leisure fans with considerable trade potential. The founders had deep field expertise and the goal was to target high-heat and high-flow global fan circles, such as cricket and formula one. Bento is directly aligned with our ecosystem strategy as an original component of the projected market base on BNB Chain, and promotes broader chain engagement through low friction social investment。
FrontrunSpecialized trader ' s wallet for rapid detection, adaptation and implementation
Founder team:
Chris(founder and CEO): Former Robinhod Crypto employee (responsible for the construction of access to funds); founder engineer of Sui (who led an 8-person team to build browsers, SDK, RPC and owns a wallet for over 1 million users)。
YZi Labs investment logic:
Frontrun is a trader-centred wallet designed to provide immediate solutions to the obvious pains of high-frequency traders through rapid asset detection, rapid due diligence and seamless execution of transactions. Early natural growth and strong retention data confirm the compatibility of the product with an attractive initial entry point: That's the high-value trading community in the billions of dollars of TAM. Its multi-chain development road map and synergies with the BNB Chain DeFi ecosystem have made Frontrun a strategic complement to the broader trading infrastructure stack。
Help.funEncryption transmitter for Token
Founder team:
Helena EverleyCo-founder, undergraduate, Stanford University。
Arash Attar: Co-founder and CTO, has developed one of the very fast mobile trading applications for memecoins and the acquisition of high-performance sports shoes for robots。
YZi Labs investment logic:
Help.fun works to build encrypted original funding channels that allow non-profit organizations and start-ups to issue charitable tokens through fair, robotic distribution, thus addressing the long-standing integrity deficit in chain funding. Its anti-run mechanisms (including bait, puzzles and Gas traps) ensure fairness of participation and provide a credible alternative to predatory Memecoin launches. With excellent early implementation and a high degree of alignment with BNB Chain culture and mobility, Help.fun is expected to become a fund-raising vehicle in the extended chain of mission-driven organizations。
Hertzflow: Unlicensed leverage markets for arbitrary assets
Founder team:
Vincent Shang: CO-FOUNDER; WITH MORE THAN 10 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN ENCRYPTION AND AN INFLUENTIAL CHINESE LANGUAGE。
Hero: Co-founder and Head of Products; formerly in Coinbase, responsible for CDP and Prime MPC wallet operations。
Soren: Head of Technology; former Mantle Core Developer (member of the early engineering team, starting from scratch)。
YZi Labs investment logic:
Hertzflow works to bridge the gap between the market for traditional retail derivatives with a daily turnover of $4.5 trillion and the chain economy. The agreement is led by a team with a deep professional background in the traditional derivatives area and is designed specifically to accommodate a large and undeveloped group of non-encrypted primary traders. Hertzflow has a technologically mature product operating in the BNB Chain ecosystem that combines the efficiency of unlicensed chain settlements with user-specific experiences tailored to the vast global trading market。
Manifolds: AI driven 3D Spaceable Video Generation Platform
Founder team:
Qingyuan Shan(GEO): FORMER SENIOR VICE-PRESIDENT OF WHALE TECHNOLOGY ENTERPRISE OPERATIONS; FORMER HEAD OF STRATEGY, YOCHEON-THAI; UNDERGRADUATE IN MATHEMATICS, UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO; MASTER OF APPLIED ANALYSIS, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY。
Yudong Tao(CTO): Former Data Scientist, Meta; Bachelor of Arts in Electronic Engineering, University of Jordan; Doctor of Computer Engineering, University of Miami。
Naiyuan Huang (COO): Former Head of the Marketing and Market for Whaling Technology (wheel A); alumni of the Central European Institute of International Business; promoted the development of China ' s second largest AI talent community。
YZi Labs investment logic:
Manifolds is the focus of a controlled, 3D sensory AI video technology as an enabling layer for the next generation of content creation and the application of Embodied AI. Its technological differentiation advantages - including 3D spatial generation, physical perception simulation, mixing of rendering, and finely refined object/camera control - have placed it in a favourable position in high growth vertical areas such as e-commerce visualization and real world integration AI systems. The strong early business momentum ($150,000 in annualized revenues, 60 paid business clients acquired without a fee-based marketing exercise) attests to their clear product maturity, scalable potential and the convergence of excellent founders with the market。
MeleeMon: Concertation tour based on a stake in a stable currency
Founder team:
Alex (CEO): Four years in a row, the top 500 Pokémon player in the world; an excellent founder and market match。
Jasper (CTO): has more than six years of Unity and React development experience。
YZi Labs investment logic:
MileeMon is a skills-based, mobile monster-to-monger game. The team has an excellent mix of founders and market partners, with YC-supported game development experience (the former company, Gamebytes, has more than 5 million users), and has deep experience in the Pokémon arena, with a clear understanding of the economics of the block chain. The project targeted the large and validated Web2 gaming market, while introducing a completely new playing-cycle mechanism on the chain. Since YZi Labs gives priority to high-quality and interesting game experiences on BNB Chain, MeleeMon demonstrates a strong strategic convergence and reliable implementation。
Neumera BioLab: Platform for the development of non-opioid drugs for chronic pain and major chronic diseases
Founder team:
Rebecca Miao(CEO): HAS MORE THAN 15 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN DRUG RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; HAS SERVED AS CHIEF SCIENTIFIC OFFICER OF AKSO BIOS; HAS LED A NUMBER OF RESEARCH APPLICATIONS FOR NEW MEDICINES APPROVED BY THE US FOOD AND DRUG REGULATORY AUTHORITY; HAS REACHED $75 MILLION IN PHARMACEUTICAL COOPERATION PROJECTS; HAS MORE THAN 200 PATENTS; HAS A DOCTORATE AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY。
Jimmy Xu(CTO): BACHELOR ' S DEGREE FROM JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY; PHD AND POSTDOCTORATE IN BIOENGINEERING AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY; EXPERT IN DRUG SCREENING OPTIMIZATION AND BIOMEDICAL AI。
Yi Lu(CFO): Continuous entrepreneurs who have transformed from investors have moved a new type of pain therapy from concept to clinical trials and have received top-level international press coverage and awards; have MBA degrees from Stanford University; have worked in Bain Capital and Madrid Capital Partners。
YZi Labs investment logic:
Neomera is committed to addressing the urgent need for non-addiction therapy for more than 1 billion chronic pain patients worldwide. Its “biology priorities, AI acceleration” discovery platform creates a unique advantage: it is capable of generating highly relevant and specialized in-house data, and successfully tackles adaptive disorders where traditional methods are helpless. This closely integrated wet laboratory and machine learning cycle has fundamentally reduced the experimental time line by up to 80 per cent, thus creating an expanding and differentiated engine for rapid drug development for chronic and incurable diseases。
Sats Terminal: Native Bitcoin Liquidity Accord
Founder team:
Stan Havryliuk (CEO): Previous postBitcoin.com, ZondaCrypto and Ambisafe senior leadership; led several teams from 5 to 50。
Rishabh Java (CTO): Continuous financial technology entrepreneurs with exit experience; development of overpaid Bitcoin products; CTOs from Ordinals Council, ToshiPad and Crackedevs。
YZi Labs investment logic:
Sats Terminal is built on the BTC and EVM chains (mainly BNB and Base) and its market is large and expanding, and its growth is driven by BTC mortgages, earnings and transaction demand. They initially cut into the market in the Swap mode, quickly accumulating a good B2B user base (which accounts for 75 per cent of Runes ' total transactions; has more than 30 integrated projects), and are now expanding to the BTC credit and revenue markets, with strong initial momentum. Its early institutional support included a $1.7 million Pre-seed round of financing, led by Coinbase Ventures and Draper Associates。
Saturn Labs: Platform based on bitcoin credit support with more than 10% yield
Founder team:
Kevin Li(Creative and CEO): ParaFi co-founder, researcher; Artemis former director of DAT
Sebastian Melendez(Creative and CTO): Co-founder, former Head of Artemis Stabilisation Currency。
Ellis Osborn(CoO): President Penn Blockchain; former M31 Capital investor。
YZi Labs investment logic:
YZi Labs supports Saturn because the team is building an interest-rate stabilization currency with a return of over 10%, driven by MicroStrategy ' s STRC (a transparent BTC credit instrument with institutional credibility). Saturn is at the intersection of three fast-growing plates in encryption: Stable currency, DATs and RWAs. Demand for a transparent and scalable real income reserve is increasing, while the founding team has considerable experience in DATs, DeFi, and a stable currency structure, which makes Saturn likely to be a central layer of the chain economy。
Predict.fun: Using DeFi to enhance liquidity to address the projected market of capital inefficiency
Founder:
DingFormer consultant/investment practitioner; joined Binance and formed Research & Listing team in 2017; led Binance Launchpad (2019); PancakeSwap founder 2020; co-founder of Predict.fun (2024)。
YZi Labs investment logic:
Predict.fun, by transforming event transactions into a financial language that generates revenue, supports leverage and is self-attended, has enabled a new type of mainstream forecast market that allows users to participate in predictions while enjoying full access to DeFi services. By integrating DeFi raw income, fluid chain user experience (e.g. AA accounts abstract, no Gas transactions) and portfolioability, the agreement effectively lowered the user threshold and positioned the forecast market as an accessible, practical-driven product for a wider non-encrypted primary audience。
Trellis Robotics: Unlocking AI software robotic platform that cannot reach industrial assets
Founder team:
Yimeng Qin(CEO) DOCTORATE IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, STANFORD UNIVERSITY; LEAD DEVELOPER OF CORE VINE ROBOTICS (TO GRADUATE IN MARCH 2026)。
Elvy Yao(COO): M.A. in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University (to graduate in December 2025); is a key contributor to the shell, diversion and integration of mechanical and electrical sensors on the Trellis platform。
William Heap(Technical Officer): Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University (to be full-time since 2028); since 2019, research on vine robotic systems at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Stanford University。
YZi Labs investment logic:
Therelis Robotics addresses one of the high-cost and dangerous challenges in industrial operations: testing of restricted space infrastructure. The precision, range and safety levels of its unique vine robotic platform are comparable to those of human inspectors and existing tools, which create a clear competitive advantage in a large and underserved market. Early validations, including pilot projects with the national laboratories of Dow chemistry and Lawrence Berkeley, as well as interest in Basif, Bayer and Chevron, indicate that the technology is ready to meet market demand and has a reliable path to enterprise-scale applications。