What We Build

Everything is becoming a digital asset.

A mortgage, a song catalog, a construction loan, an athlete's future earnings, a property appraisal. All of it is being turned into something faster, cheaper, and ownable, with AI rebuilt into the workflow on top. We co-found and back the operators doing the converting, across three pillars.

The Moment

The digitization of everything just crossed from thesis to plumbing.

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Settlement, not days

The world's largest financial institutions just moved tokenized collateral, live, on rails co-founded in our studio in 2018. The same year, our AI companies were being verified by Fannie Mae and rebuilding whole industries on the same curve.

Pillar 01 · Real-World Assets, On-Chain

The tokenized real-asset stack, layer by layer.

Property, credit, and funds don't tokenize themselves. It takes origination, valuation, regulated recordkeeping, distribution, and credit rails. Our companies operate every layer, so the token actually means something.

LayerCompanyVehicle
OriginationLit FinancialOne of America's fastest-growing mortgage originators, on pace for $1B+ originated this year. Tokenized treasury infrastructure layered on a real lending machine.DGB Studio + Fund
ValuationAivreAI-powered real-estate appraisal for AMCs. The trust layer every tokenized property transaction depends on.DGB Studio + Fund
Admin + Cap TableVertaloDigital-securities infrastructure tying together cap tables, transfer agents, and custodians: the regulated recordkeeping layer every compliant tokenized security depends on.DGH Studio
DistributionOwneraChain-agnostic rails connecting tokenized assets to the institutions that move the money. Co-founded in our studio in 2018.DGH Studio + Fund
Credit RailsThurman LabsLoan-sale infrastructure for community lenders, grant-backed by Circle to settle in USDC.DGB Studio
Private CreditBuild Team CapitalResidential real-estate private credit through its first full portfolio turnover.DGB Studio
Built WorldLiveGisticsConstruction materials and waste logistics; founder won Black Ambition's $1M grand prize.DGB Fund
Case Study · Draper Goren Holm Era

From our whiteboard to Wall Street's rails

In 2018 Alon Goren co-founded Ownera in our studio to build chain-agnostic distribution rails for tokenized assets. Eight years of building later, GDF and ISDA published the most comprehensive industry assessment ever done on tokenized money market funds as U.S. collateral, and the live pilot at its center ran on Ownera's network: BlackRock, Citi, State Street, Fidelity, CME Group, J.P. Morgan, and U.S. Bank, settling in minutes instead of days.

That is what a studio company looks like when the world catches up to it. We've been in the room for all eight years, and we still are.

Pillar 02 · AI-Native Operators

Intelligence, rebuilt into the workflow.

Not an AI feature bolted onto an old process. Whole industries rebuilt around the model, so work that used to take days or specialists now takes minutes.

IndustryCompanyVehicle
Real EstateAivreProperty valuations in minutes for AMCs, cutting 3+ hours per report, with image recognition and generative reporting. First platform verified on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's UAD 3.6.DGB Studio + Fund
MusicCalyptoAI artists with real, licensable catalogs. 70M+ streams and song libraries that are themselves ownable, monetizable assets.DGB Studio + Fund
Sports · FootballGameBrainAI and computer-vision football intelligence, starting with the college game.DGB Studio + Fund
Sports · BasketballCourtMindReal-time in-game coaching insight and a front-office player-fit engine off one basketball-tuned model.DGB Fund
WholesaleSuperBudAI revenue operations that replace the fragmented ERP, CRM, and analytics stack with one workspace.DGB Fund
MultifamilyLivseeAI property-technology for multifamily real estate: automating leasing, capturing leads, and matching renters.DGB Fund
ConstructionLiveGisticsAI and real-time data for construction materials and waste logistics, replacing paper manifests with digital eTicketing and analytics.DGB Fund
NetworkingSeriesAI-powered warm introductions: "AI Friends" that connect people for mutually beneficial intros, built by two Yale founders.DGB Studio
Case Study · DGB Studio + Fund

The AI that Fannie and Freddie verified first

We co-founded Aivre in our studio to rebuild property appraisal around AI: valuations in minutes in the government's new UAD 3.6 format, with image recognition and generative summaries, cutting more than three hours off every report. In December 2025 it became the first platform to achieve UAD 3.6 verification from both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the trust layer nearly every mortgage in the country has to pass through.

Same studio, same playbook as Ownera, a second industry rebuilt from the inside. And Aivre is the seam itself: the AI operator and the real-asset valuation layer, in one company.

Pillar 03 · New Digital Markets

New assets. New rails.

Some assets don't exist until someone builds the market for them. We back the companies minting entirely new asset classes and the rails they trade on.

CategoryCompanyVehicle
On-Chain CreditDolomiteLive on-chain lending and margin infrastructure for digital assets.DGH Studio + Fund
DeFi DerivativesCardinalCarry perpetuals: a new on-chain instrument for levering the yield spread between staking assets and their borrow cost, with a built-in negative-rate hedge.DGB Fund
New Asset ClassFinLeteRetail investment into professional athletes' future earnings. Roughly $1M transacted across a thousand investors.DGB Fund
Bitcoin YieldBabel Labs (BIMA)Institution-grade yield on Bitcoin without selling it: a new rail for the largest asset in crypto.DGB Studio
Creator EconomyZoopCrowdfunding and discovery for emerging artists, with community-driven funding and monetization.DGB Studio

Music catalogs, athlete contracts, private credit, appraisals. Different assets, one shift. We don't assemble exposure to it, we build the companies doing the converting.