AI risk-market network THEA raises $8M to build Solana-based coordination layer

THEA, a predictive behavioral AI network focused on risk markets, has raised $8 million to expand its Solana-based coordination layer and upgrade its AI infrastructure. The round was led by Maven11 Capital, Spartan Group, ManifoldTrading, HackVC, and Fisher8 Capital.

Founded in 2024 and headquartered in the Cayman Islands, THEA has trained its models on data from more than 35 billion real-world decisions. The company says it serves over 3,000 enterprise customers across more than 30 jurisdictions.

THEA’s core product is predictive behavioral AI tailored to risk markets. Its models analyze how people and markets behave under stress and generate real-time predictions to support quicker, data-driven decision-making. According to CEO Valentin Batura, clients have seen customer retention increase by up to 30% using THEA’s AI solutions.

The company is now building the THEA Network, a coordination layer that routes inference requests and settles transactions on Solana while keeping heavy data processing off-chain. The network is already processing more than 400 million queries per month, highlighting the need for scalable infrastructure.

Capital from the round will be directed toward enhancing THEA’s operational AI stack and further developing the Solana-based coordination layer. THEA has also indicated plans for a utility token to tokenize access to its autonomous systems, enabling payments and global scalability across its network.

THEA’s choice of Solana as the settlement layer is driven by performance requirements for handling hundreds of millions of monthly queries. By coordinating inference on-chain while processing data off-chain, the network aims to offer verifiable, real-time settlement without running compute directly inside smart contracts.