Sequence Markets is a New York and Toronto based trading-infrastructure startup (Y Combinator W26) that lets traders execute a single view across fragmented crypto venues - centralized exchanges, decentralized exchanges, perps, prediction markets, and tokenized assets - from one system. Its venue-neutral smart order router sits on proprietary low-latency infrastructure (roughly 2 microseconds internal latency, network paths up to 2.5x faster than the public internet) to find better prices and cut slippage, with access via terminal, API, SDK, and MCP for human traders, algorithmic systems, and AI agents.

Eric Paley is a serial entrepreneur turned seed-stage venture capitalist who co-founded Founder Collective in 2008, building it into one of the world's highest-performing seed funds with investments in Uber, The Trade Desk, Airtable, and 20+ unicorns. Before VC, he co-founded Brontes Technologies — a 3D dental imaging startup spun out of MIT — and sold it to 3M for $95 million in 2006. A perennial Forbes Midas List honoree (ranked as high as #9 globally and the world's top-ranked seed investor), he became known for his unusually candid critiques of venture capital excess. In June 2025, he left Founder Collective to serve as Massachusetts Secretary of Economic Development under Governor Maura Healey, overseeing a 700-person agency focused on housing affordability, business competitiveness, and the AI innovation economy.