Surf Raises $15M to Build AI Model Tailored to Crypto Research
Surf, an AI research and intelligence platform focused on digital assets, has raised $15 million in a funding round led by Pantera Capital, with participation from Coinbase Ventures and Digital Currency Group (DCG), the company said in a press release Wednesday.
The San Francisco-based startup said the funds will go toward building Surf 2.0, a new version of its crypto-focused AI model, and expanding its enterprise offering.
The company pitches itself as an alternative to general-purpose large language models (LLMs) by training proprietary systems specifically for digital asset analysis and pairing them with crypto-native datasets.
The platform uses a multi-agent setup that analyzes inputs such as social sentiment, on-chain activity and…
