“An investment vehicle fueling impact in Web3, AI and biotech, investing directly at growth stages and running the EASY Residency for pre-seed, AI-native founders.”
YZi Labs' own site did not surface a list of named portfolio companies to our fetch tool (the portfolio/investments pages we tried returned 404 or did not render). Third-party trackers (Crunchbase, Messari, PitchBook) list a large historical Binance Labs portfolio, but we could not verify any individual company against a YZi Labs-owned page in this session, so no portfolio splits are populated below. Do not treat this as evidence the portfolio is small; it is a gap in what we could verify from the primary source.
YZi Labs is the renamed continuation of Binance Labs, now positioned as "an investment vehicle fueling impact in Web3, AI, and biotech," a notably wider mandate than a typical crypto fund since it explicitly includes non-crypto biotech investing. The rename reflects a broader identity shift; the fund still sits close to the Binance and BNB Chain ecosystem, though its own site frames the investment scope as chain-agnostic rather than BNB-exclusive.
Two structured programs sit on top of the core direct-investment activity. The EASY Residency is the pre-seed door: a 10-week program split between five weeks online and five weeks in person in Chiang Mai, Thailand, with accommodation, meals and workspace covered during the in-person phase (founders cover their own flights). The terms are specific and generous by residency standards: up to $500,000 per team, structured as $150,000 for 5% equity via a SAFE plus $350,000 on an uncapped SAFE. The stated focus is "AI-native" teams of one to three people building "products that were impossible a year ago," with particular interest in AI operating inside markets, models and agents that price, route and execute in live trading venues, alongside Web3 infrastructure, DeFi, AI agent infrastructure and robotics, and biotech intersecting AI and health.
The second door, for later-stage or non-residency direct investment, is a public Monday.com intake form, which is a genuinely open channel rather than a warm-intro-only path.
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YZi Labs does not name individual team members with photos-only bios on the pages we fetched; no names were confirmed. If you need a named contact, the two stated application channels (the EASY Residency form and the direct investment Monday.com form) are the verified path in; we are not printing unverified names sourced from third-party trackers here.