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Webacy builds an AI-driven platform providing essential security for Web3 digital assets. Its core product delivers advanced risk intelligence and decisioning infrastructure, facilitating safer transactions and robust financial solutions. The platform performs comprehensive risk analysis, continuous transaction monitoring, and smart contract assessments, addressing vulnerabilities.
Maika Isogawa, Webacy's Chief Executive Officer, founded the company in 2021. Her insight stemmed from the urgent demand for sophisticated security within the expanding Web3 ecosystem, particularly for protecting and managing digital assets posthumously. Isogawa identified a critical need for intelligent, proactive risk management for digital asset holders.
Webacy serves diverse clients, including individual digital asset holders, crypto wallets, and exchanges, all seeking enhanced security. The company envisions secure, manageable digital asset ownership, fostering confidence and wider adoption across Web3 financial systems. Its mission is to lay the fundamental security layer for digital finance's future.
Webacy has raised $4.0M across 1 funding round.
Webacy has raised $4.0M in total across 1 funding round.
Webacy has raised $4.0M in total across 1 funding round.
Webacy's investors include Accelr8, Alpaca VC, Double Down, Pareto Holdings, Vayner RSE, AJ Vaynerchuk, Jason Robins.
Webacy has raised $4.0M across 1 funding round. Most recently, it raised $4.0M Seed in February 2023.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1, 2023 | $4M Seed | — | AccelR8, Alpaca VC, Double Down, Pareto Holdings, Vayner RSE, AJ Vaynerchuk, Jason Robins | Announced |
Webacy is a San Francisco-based Web3 safety technology company founded in 2021 that builds AI-powered risk intelligence and decisioning infrastructure for digital assets.[1][2][3] It offers tools like DD.xyz, a portal for real-time diligence on tokens, wallets, smart contracts, and transactions, addressing risks such as bundling, sniping, fake tokens, liquidity issues, AML, sanctions, and spam/sybil activity.[3] Serving DEXs, CEXs, lending/staking protocols, stablecoin players, and ecosystems like Sui and Sei, Webacy scans over 200 million transactions with 1-second response times, enabling safer on-chain transactions, higher approval rates, and Moody’s-like risk assessments for institutions and users.[1][3][4] The company has raised seed VC funding under $5 million and employs around 74 people, showing early growth in the crypto security space.[2]
Webacy was founded in 2021 in San Francisco, California, at 240 Dolores Street, amid rising needs for trust and safety in the expanding cryptocurrency and Web3 sectors.[1][2] Maika Isogawa serves as Co-Founder & CEO, leading a team with a Head of Engineering and backing from former FinCEN leaders, which informs its RWA and TradFi-friendly risk models.[2][3] The idea emerged to fill gaps in on-chain security, evolving from basic risk assessment to AI-driven APIs trained on proprietary blockchain data, with early traction via integrations and a seed VC round.[1][2][3] Pivotal moments include partnerships like Walrus for verifiable storage in DD.xyz (April 2025) and expansions to chains like Sui, Sei, and Velvet Capital.[1][4]
Webacy rides the Web3 security and compliance wave, where exploding on-chain activity (e.g., DeFi, RWAs) amplifies risks like hacks, rugs, and illicit finance, as noted in U.S. Treasury RFIs.[1][3][4] Timing aligns with maturing blockchains like Sui/Sei needing native risk layers for mass adoption, amid regulatory scrutiny on AML/sanctions.[4] Market forces favoring it include AI-blockchain convergence for real-time threat detection and institutional demand for verifiable diligence, reducing barriers for TradFi entry into crypto.[3] It influences the ecosystem by powering safer DEXs/lending (e.g., higher approvals), cited in policy responses, and enabling "programmable storage" safety via Walrus—positioning it as infrastructure for trustworthy decentralized markets.[1][4]
Webacy is poised to dominate on-chain risk decisioning as AI models ingest more proprietary data, expanding APIs to emerging chains/RWAs and deepening TradFi bridges.[3] Trends like intent-based trading (Velvet), high-throughput ecosystems (Sui/Sei), and regulatory mandates will accelerate demand, potentially scaling to enterprise-grade tools beyond crypto.[4] Its influence may evolve from protector to ecosystem standard-setter, much like Moody’s in TradFi, fueling safer Web3 growth that started with basic diligence in 2021.[1][3]
