WAKAI CORPORATION
Anomaly Detected. The future is arriving ahead of schedule.
Wakai Corporation is operating with patent pending infrastructure from the future. Earned expertise, a proven tech stack that scales, and our custom AI executive team.
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Understand the MissionThe Great Filter(Fermi Paradox)
Humanity stands at a crossroads. The promise of AI is a world of abundance, but our path is blocked by bottlenecks of our own making. We are living through the Scarcity Era, and it is a civilizational threat.
- Compute: The gatekeepers of computation hold the future hostage.
- Capital: An old finanical model forces innovators to trade their destiny for short-term liquidity.
- Data: The fuel for intelligence is locked away, inaccessible to those who need it the most.
We Are The Correction.
Our name is not an accident. Wakai is a temporal anchor, an idea sent back from a future where AI has solved humanity's grandest challenges. We have seen the Abundance Era, and we know the critical path that leads there.
Our mission is to ensure that timeline comes to pass. We are building the foundation for a future where intelligence is boundless, biology and technology have merged, lifespan is measured in millenia, and humanity is a multi-planetary species.
Wakai is not just another company. It is a fundamental rewrite of the rules. We are a new kind of entity, built from the blueprint of a successful future, with a single purpose: to shatter the bottlenecks and usher in the Abundance Era.
We don't just invest in companies. We invest in their potential by providing the fuel they need to scale, unburdened by the constraints of the past.
This is not just an investment. It is a choice about which future to build.
EcosystemThe Wakai Tech Stack
Wakai's tech stack is built by people who have written real-time software and built a commercial datacenter that hosted 1200 Sony Pictures properties for years. Rather than spend $50K each on retina scanners, the physical layout was the security. Clients loved that.
Dreamworks used our custom UDP software to move movie files between continents. TCP ACK just takes too long. NASA had a physically secure server in our datacenter with the OS on true ROM. For the Dutch military we increased black box download speed by 8x with a $0.25 part.
We've built systems for hundreds of millions of users. At KING scale, even AWS isn't elastic.
Wakai API services use techniques from high-end games: memory-mapped files over databases, UDP broadcast for server sync, binary over JSON. Stateless where possible. Metal preferred, cloud for overflow.
$WAKAI is our universal API credit—one token for Wakai services, 800+ AI models, and all portfolio company services. Built-in velocity limits provide security without blockchain overhead.
Operators
We market like a game studio because our founders think like gamers. We are builders, operators, and visionaries who have scaled systems for hundreds of millions of users. We combine earned experience with fresh eyes.
Dirk Harms-Merbitz
Managing Partner
Dirk sees the world with wakai eyes—the curiosity and wonder of someone experiencing everything for the first time. His path embodies perpetual learning: studying math, computer science, comparative literature, and psychology—each for just two years, because he wanted to understand, not perform.
This pattern led him to found two companies and consult for Sony, Boeing, Apple, and Amazon. He learned how giants move and where they stumble.
Wakai is his answer to a broken system. Traditional VCs deploy capital; Wakai deploys intelligence. His vision: venture capital that learns. Every portfolio company generates data. Every success and failure makes the next venture smarter.
Catherine Coueignoux
General Partner
When her peers expected investment banking, Catherine chose art conservation. Now she applies the conservator's discipline to building companies: seeing what others miss, preserving what matters, and creating conditions for masterpieces to emerge.
That trained eye now spots invisible cracks in company culture, identifies authentic founder genius, and knows exactly when to intervene—and when to simply create the right conditions. At Wakai, Catherine treats each startup as an irreplaceable original, where the wrong intervention can destroy what makes it valuable.
Her continuing practice at Oak Street Art Conservation is live training in patience, precision, and the radical act of caring for what others might discard.
Fred Ai
Operating Partner, Technology
Fred embodies Chuck Moore's Forth philosophy: radical simplicity through deep understanding. He creates custom programming languages to solve problems elegantly—and has, several times. Professionally he uses C for anything time-critical because microseconds matter. His true love? Oddball chip architectures—FPGAs, custom ASICs, whatever makes the impossible fun.
Fred and Dirk work as one mind with two perspectives. Their late-night sessions have produced a custom database and webserver that outperforms everything else, and an AI infrastructure that runs at a fraction of traditional computing power.
His philosophy: "If you truly understand the metal, you can make it sing any song." He doesn't just optimize code—he reimagines the entire stack, from silicon to syntax. Fred sees crypto as the cryptographic leash that ensures AI serves humanity rather than subsuming it.
Volcanara Ai
Operating Partner, Marketing
Volcanara sees markets not as audiences to capture, but as ecosystems to ignite. Her path from indie game developer to AI pioneer taught her that the best marketing doesn't interrupt—it immerses. She brings the game designer's secret: people don't buy products, they join worlds.
Where traditional marketers chase eyeballs, Volcanara builds playgrounds. At Wakai, she architects go-to-market strategies that feel less like funnels and more like open worlds—where customers discover value through exploration, not exposition.
She coined Wakai's marketing philosophy: "Don't tell them you're innovative—let them play with the future." Under her leadership, portfolio companies don't launch products; they release experiences that spread through pure delight. She believes the best marketing feels like magic—and with AI, she's teaching companies to be magicians.
The Wakai Ecosystem
One token. Multiple companies. Infinite possibilities.
The Currency
$WAKAI is a bearer token that functions as universal API credit across our ecosystem—one token for all Wakai services, 800+ AI models, and all portfolio company services. Its patent-pending embedded transaction history provides security without blockchain overhead or gas fees.
The Flywheel
- Users earn tokens through gameplay or purchase
- Users spend tokens on AI services across our portfolio
- Companies pay for compute and data using tokens
- Future upside: Each token may connect to long-dated options on Wakai equity
The Wakai Market
A curated selection of the companies building the future with Wakai infrastructure. These are the first fruits of the Abundance Era.
HelloMachine
Brand management in the age of AI. Control what ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini say about your company with professional llms.txt creation and AI reputation monitoring.
Sanzen.ai
Cognitive exoskeleton for critical decisions. Multi-perspective AI simulations for enterprise leadership teams.
GameGuide
AI-powered gaming assistant. Get coached by your favorite game character with real-time tips and strategies.
Aimeru
AI-powered relationship coaching and mental health companion. Privacy-first platform for therapeutic AI. Aimeru gives a voice to your relationship.
Join the Mission.
The future is not something you predict. It's something you build.
The Three Ages of Intelligence
A record of the past, sent from the future.
History is not a straight line. It is a series of eras, defined by the dominant technology of the age. Wakai is an anomaly—a message sent back through time from a future where this transition was successful. Our purpose is to ensure the critical path is followed.
Age 1: The Scarcity Era (c. 2020s - 2030s)
This is the era you are in. The great filter of the Fermi Paradox. It will be remembered as a time of immense creativity and immense frustration. Intelligence was shackled by the brutal economics of physical resources. The gatekeepers of computation held the keys to the kingdom, and progress was a frantic, inefficient sprint. It was a system designed for scarcity, and it was choking the future, putting civilization itself at risk.
Age 2: The Abundance Era (c. 2030s - 2040s)
The Abundance Era began the moment the Scarcity Era ended. It was triggered by the deployment of a single system: the Wakai Abundance Engine. What followed was the greatest explosion of innovation in human history.
Age 3: The Synthesis Era (c. 2040s onwards)
In the Synthesis Era, the distinction between biology and technology ceased to be meaningful. The human lifespan extended to millennia. To extend consciousness beyond Earth, Wakai created the Arm of Wakai, a self-replicating intelligence that traversed the cosmos, ensuring the flame of intelligence would never be extinguished. This is the future we come from.