Treehouse, a data and analytics company, today announced a US$18 million seed round raise.
An undisclosed fintech investor led the round with participation from a group including Mirana Ventures, Lightspeed, MassMutual Ventures, Binance, Global Founders Capital, Jump Capital, Moonvault Capital, Wintermute, GSR, K3 Ventures, LeadBlock Partners, Coinhako, Bitpanda, Pintu, The Brooker Group, Venturra, AlphaLab Capital, Pulsar Trading, Fundamental Labs, Berioza Associates, CRC Capital, Portofino, Do Kwon of Terraform Labs, and senior executives from SoftBank Vision Fund.
Founded 11 months ago, Treehouse said it is building the infrastructure required to enable everyday people to fully harness financial products and services made possible by DeFi. Treehouse’s ecosystem of products will empower and shape the way participants interact with the DeFi economy.
“At BNB Chain, we also share Treehouse’s belief in financial inclusion,” BNB Chain Growth Fund’s Clinton Teh said. “Our growth fund is set up to help usher in the next wave of cryptocurrency users, and we believe Treehouse will bring us closer to this goal. We encourage all DeFi users associated with the BNB Chain ecosystem to start taking charge of their financial future with Harvest by Treehouse.”
Harvest, the company’s flagship product, indexes blockchains and deconstructs users’ DeFi positions to present historical data, profit & loss, and risk metrics via a user interface. The analytics platform allows users to analyze the DeFi risks associated with their current and historical positions.
“As the number of DeFi protocols, supported L1s, L2s, and bridges increase over time, Treehouse’s approach of building an in-house system-of-record for every DeFi user will become critically valuable and a great differentiator. On top of the technical accuracy is a beautiful, simplified dashboard experience optimized for desktop and mobile to cater to both advanced and retail investors,” said Hemant Mohapatra and Marsha Sugana from Lightspeed.
“Wintermute is proud to be supporting Treehouse in their mission to make the management of DeFi portfolios easy and meaningful,” Wintermute’s Dominic Chrumka said. “Their cross-chain dashboards and comprehensive analytics, especially the ability to track P&L attributed to pools in which you are providing liquidity, are game-changing for the industry.”
The new funds raised will go toward accelerating Treehouse’s growth by expanding Harvest’s blockchain and protocol coverage, product development, scaling infrastructure, community development and staffing.
“We are grateful to have with us a group of partners with such deep technical expertise and networks across both cryptocurrency and traditional finance ecosystems. This funding round will enable us to execute on our vision to help users confidently navigate DeFi,” said Brandon Goh, CEO of Treehouse.
“With the rising number of investors hopping onto the DeFi bandwagon, this is the perfect time for Treehouse to bring out its state-of-the-art analytics platform to the public,” Melvin Hade, partner at Global Founders Capital APAC, said. “When we first spoke to them, we were excited about the insights they had that led them to build a unique product that the world had never seen before. As one of the earliest backers of Treehouse, we are fully committed to their progress and excited about the long-term partnership.”