Let’s talk market madness, money moves, and a startup that just raised a seed round hotter than a Manhattan sidewalk in July. Metafide, a New York City fintech outfit founded in 2022, just dropped a $3.275 million mic with their first institutional round, and if you’re not paying attention, SURGE might pass you by while you’re still refreshing your meme coin charts.
Metafide isn’t selling pipe dreams. They’re building a trading platform that fuses human instinct with AI firepower, SURGE. This isn’t just another dashboard with some heat maps and fake dopamine hits. SURGE runs live predictive trading competitions that feel more like Street Fighter meets Bloomberg Terminal. Think 1-minute “Spot Mode” rounds predicting Bitcoin’s price or “Range Mode” games where precision pays and volatility isn’t a threat, it’s the main event.
CEO and Co-Founder Francis Speiser knows this dance. The man co-founded SocialFlow, the same one acquired by Piano in 2022, and has been translating complex systems into products that people actually use since BASIC was still a flex. Alongside him: Matt Cross (Co-Founder and Chief Business Development Officer), who came out of Blockchain Founders Fund swinging, deploying capital into 25+ startups before he helped build this one. Then there’s Frank Bolella, Co-Founder and VP of Product & Strategy, who mixes MBA-grade playbooks with product grind, and Gunnar Link, CFO and human calculator with a resume full of turnaround wins. Add in Man Chul Park on platform integration and operations, and you’ve got a crew that didn’t just show up, they built a map.
The round was led by Payton Jonson at DIY Fund out of Atlanta. Smart capital, patient hustle. Joining them were Blockchain Founders Fund, Cogitent Ventures, Comma3 Ventures, IBC Group, Plassa Capital, London Real Ventures, Sweep Ventures, Ethos Capital, and DChained Capital. Angels like Stephen Burnazian, John Tuminello, Lax Pichappan, and Hern Kim also saw what was coming. That’s not a cap table, it’s a chessboard.
SURGE already has 110,000+ waitlisters and over 120,000 community members in its orbit. And when DogeOS, yes, that DogeOS, the $25B Dogecoin ecosystem layer, calls you “the infrastructure this industry’s been missing,” you know you’re not just riding the wave, you are the current.
No vanity metrics. No buzzword buffet. Just a platform that turns macroeconomic chaos, token volatility, and AI neural networks into a competitive edge for the people who don’t want to get left behind in this next era of finance.
SURGE isn’t here to replace traders. It’s here to amplify them. AI without ego. Human insight without lag. The game has changed, and Metafide is playing offense while others are still reading the rulebook.
You want to understand the future of trading? Watch what Metafide does next.
