Haptiq

Moderate fit

Details

FounderKai Tanaka <kai@haptiq.dev>

Websitehttps://haptiq.dev

Received6/30/2026

StagePre-seed

IndustryFintech infrastructure

Raise$2.5M pre-seed

Intro sourceCold

Summary

Haptiq is a pre-revenue developer infrastructure company with a multimodal feedback SDK for fintech apps. 3 design-partner contracts (Mercury, Brex, undisclosed bank) but no recognized revenue yet. Solo founder spinning out of a stealth incubator. Raising $2.5M pre-seed.

Thesis fit

Pre-revenue, single-founder, design-partner-only — too early for our typical entry point. Pillar 1 — Developer infrastructure: Aligned in product shape. Pillar 2 — Verifiable traction: Weak. Design partners are not paying customers; conversion to paid is the real question. Pillar 3 — Capital efficiency: Unclear. $2.5M for a pre-seed with three large enterprise design partners is plausible, but the implied runway is short for an enterprise sales motion. Disqualifiers: stage (we typically wait for $500K+ ARR), single-founder for an infra play. Open questions: founder background, why solo, design-partner contract terms (purchase commitment vs. evaluation), competitive landscape (does anyone else ship this primitive?).

External research

No external research has been run on this deal.

Source email

From: kai@haptiq.dev · Subject: Haptiq — multimodal feedback API for fintech (raising $2.5M)

Hello Hemrock, Spinning out of a stealth incubator next month. Haptiq is a multimodal feedback API — fintech apps drop in our SDK and get haptic, audio, and visual confirmation primitives that have been A/B tested for transaction confidence. 3 design partners signed (Mercury, Brex, and a stealth bank). $0 ARR but contracts inked. Raising $2.5M pre-seed. Quick call? — Kai Tanaka, Founder kai@haptiq.dev

Classifier: deals @ 0.85, Cold pitch, pre-revenue, design-partner signal.