Overview

• The San Francisco startup closed a $20 million round, bringing total funding to $30 million.
• Backers include HashKey Capital, Pantera Capital, Primitive Ventures, IMC Trading, GEM, Gate Labs, Ambush Capital and Big Brain Collective.
• The team is building an on-chain execution layer that applies high-frequency trading methods to narrow spreads and reduce MEV leakage.
• Products in development include Swapr, an AI-driven DEX aggregator, plus a liquid-staking protocol that redistributes extracted MEV to stakers.
• aPriori is engineering for high-performance EVMs with Monad named as the launchpad, and it plans to use proceeds for hiring, product rollouts and partnerships.