Dubai-based Cequire Capital plans to invest $100 million in early stage Web3 companies and liquid digital assets over the next three years. The firm will use its own capital, not money raised from outside investors, to back founders building in five areas that run from stablecoins to AI payments.
The first $50 million is ready to deploy now. Cequire expects to complete the full allocation by the end of next quarter, and it will lead or co-lead pre-seed and seed rounds with cheques of $500,000 to $2 million.
Where the $100 million goes
Cequire has set out five areas for the money. The first covers stablecoins and stablechains, the payment rails built for dollar denominated settlement and treasury flows. The second covers AI and autonomous agent payments, the wallets and trust layers that let AI agents transact on chain safely.
The remaining three areas are tokenized real world assets, privacy technology and post-quantum security. Tokenized assets bring credit and commodities on chain with clear ownership, while the privacy and security work covers confidential computing and cryptography built to stay secure as quantum computing matures.
The split of the capital is fixed. Sixty percent goes to venture investments, thirty percent to liquid assets and ten percent to co-investments alongside partner funds. The firm works hands on with founders after it invests, from exchange relationships to market expansion across the Gulf and Asia.
Why Cequire is moving now
Cequire was established in 2024 as a private investment management firm. It has worked with family offices across the Gulf and Southeast Asia, offering liquid crypto investments, over the counter transactions and token structuring.
It has already invested more than $50 million across over 20 Web3 projects, including Wyscale and TX24.
Its earlier cheques show the pattern. Cequire put $1 million into Wyscale in March 2025 and $500,000 into the TX24 crypto platform the following month, both early stage bets on Web3 infrastructure built for real use.
The firm sees the current quiet market as the right moment to invest. Managing Partner Salman Parcy said the best opportunities appear when the market is not crowded, and a quieter market leaves more room to be selective and work directly with founders at an earlier stage.
“Because we think some of the best investment opportunities emerge when the market is not crowded. When capital is abundant, valuations rise, competition for deals increases, and investors sometimes end up paying too much for companies that have not yet proven their business models. A quieter market gives us more room to be selective and work directly with founders at an earlier stage.”
Salman Parcy, Managing Partner, Cequire Capital
Using its own capital matters to the strategy. Cequire says it can invest without depending on fundraising cycles or outside limited partners, which lets it take a longer term approach and avoid pressure to deploy money to a fundraising schedule.
A bet on a thin early stage market
The timing is striking because early stage crypto funding has thinned out sharply. Seed stage crypto deals fell 88 percent between 2022 and the first half of 2026, dropping from 694 to 81, as large funds moved toward AI and robotics or left digital assets altogether.
Later stage deals now take most of the money. Sector funding fell 20 percent quarter on quarter to $4.5 billion in the third quarter of 2026, with roughly 76 percent going to late stage firms, and new funds dropped to three, the lowest count since 2019.
Cequire is positioning itself in the gap that leaves behind. Its cheques are aimed at pre-seed and seed founders, the stage where the funding shortfall is sharpest.
Its thesis areas track where the region is already building. Dubai has seen tokenized asset deals gather pace, including Lombard Systems raising $4 million to turn tokenized assets into usable collateral earlier this month.
What happens next is a test of the thesis. Cequire has the capital ready and a clear list of areas to back. The founders it picks in the coming months will show whether a quiet market really does produce the strongest early stage returns.
