Pantera-backed Raiku Raises $13.5M to Power Institutional-Grade Certainty on Solana
San Francisco, California, USA, September 23rd, 2025, Chainwire
Raiku announced today that it has raised $13.5 million to bring the power of predictability, precision and exponential compute to Solana. Its novel architecture sets new ground rules for how distributed networks operate and how users and applications are built, enabling the certainty necessary for institutional execution.
Investment highlights:
- $11.25M Seed: Led by Pantera Capital, with participation from Jump Crypto, Lightspeed Faction, Reciprocal Ventures, Initial Ventures and Hashkey Capital.
- $2.25M Pre-Seed: Co-led by Figment Capital and Big Brain Holdings, with support from Reciprocal Ventures and Anagram.
- Angels: Backed by angel investors from leading companies such as Anza, Superteam, DoubleZero, Jupiter, Sanctum, and Renaud Partners, as well as notable individuals including Anatoly Yakovenko, Austin Federa, Kash Dhanda and Julien Bouteloup.
Raiku also announced key investments and partnerships with some of the most trusted validators in crypto, including Figment, Kiln, Everstake, Staking Facilities, Blockdaemon, Chorus One, H2O Nodes and others.
Raiku is solving a fundamental coordination problem with distributed networks, making crypto apps as powerful, fast, and precise as traditional tech systems. By placing high-performance compute close to where transactions happen, and coordinating execution through its advanced scheduling engine, Raiku gives developers and institutions the reliability and control they demand.
This funding will be used to develop Raiku’s core technology, creating a new blockchain backbone for institutional trading, real-time payments, and compliance-sensitive services that depend on precision and predictability.
“For institutions and advanced DeFi apps, speed isn’t enough. They need certainty, being able to predict when a transaction will land, and run strategies on microsecond precision,” said Robin Nordnes, CEO and co-founder of Raiku. “We’ve built Raiku to give developers and validators the infrastructure to guarantee that outcome.”
“Raiku addresses one of the most critical gaps in blockchain infrastructure: predictable execution at scale,” said Nihal Maunder, a partner at Pantera Capital. “Their architecture offers real-world reliability and opens the door to the next generation of onchain financial systems, on Solana.”
Introducing fast, reliable, and predictable Solana transactions
Bitcoin solved for digital money. Ethereum, for programmability. While Solana has made significant progress in building for high performance, as many as 75% of transactions don’t land during peak demand. Such inefficiency has made it unsuitable for mass adoption and enterprise or institutional-grade finance.
Raiku’s performant block building architecture uses the same validators that already secure Solana to ensure guaranteed block inclusion, offering certainty for app developers and users that their transactions will land in times of high stress.
- System reliability that never fails under extreme pressure and scale
- Deterministic execution that gives you guaranteed outcomes
- Low latency with control over compute where milliseconds matter
- The freedom for builders to shape low-level application logic with unparalleled control
An emerging marketplace for guaranteed blockspace
Through this architecture, Raiku also introduces a two-sided execution marketplace and blockspace market that aligns incentives for developers, validators, and institutions.
- Developers can integrate Raiku lite mode with as little as two lines of code, or access more expansive implementations to unlock even greater opportunities. Features include sub-30ms pre-confirmations and the ability to pre-book blockspace up to 60 seconds in advance.
- Validators gain new non-MEV revenue streams by running the lightweight Raiku Sidecar, helping them go from passive block producers to selling predictable and/or tailored blockspace directly to builders. Current node operators can tap into seamless integration with Anza (Agave) and Firedancer clients, with Kiln and Everstake already active on the Raiku validator testnet.
- Institutions can operate with greater execution certainty, allowing them to invest in on-chain infrastructure, such as pilot settlement networks for regulated exchanges, real-time payment systems with deterministic finality and compliance reporting, and liquidity platforms that depend on sub-100ms execution for market-making and arbitrage.
“Raiku unlocks the design space for apps that want to behave like financial infrastructure, which is fast, programmable, and built for institutional scale,” said Robin Nordnes, CEO and co-founder of Raiku.
About Raiku
Internet capital markets demand speed and certainty. Raiku makes Solana inevitable by unlocking high-performance block building, using Solana’s core validators to ensure fast, predictable transactions with guaranteed block inclusion.
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