https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/07/a16z-backs-crypto-startup-pimlico-its-first-check-from-london-office/ > Upon opening its first overseas office in London last Thursday, a16z announced today that its first check written from the U.K. was for Pimlico. > Based out of London — as one could surmise from its name borrowed from the city’s charming area — Pimlico is building the infrastructure for developers to make more user-friendly decentralized applications or dApps. The seed investment from a16z, which totals $4.2 million, came soon after Pimlico’s founder and CEO Kristof Gazso graduated from the investment firms’ Crypto Startup School.