Venture capital firm Asylum Ventures recently launched a new $55 million fund that invests primarily in startup-stage startups, with plans to invest $100- $2 million in pre-seed and seed-stage companies. The plan was driven by Nick Chirls, founder of Notation Capital, an early investor in Livepeer, Solana, Near, and Bison Trails (now Coinbase Cloud), and Jonathan Why, former head of growth at Aztec Networks.