Welcome back to BACKED | by Ó£ÌÒÊÓƵ — our look inside the venture builder, the companies we’re supporting, and why they matter.

This time, we’re spotlighting Otomato: a venture rethinking what automation in Ó£ÌÒÊÓƵ should feel like. Powered by Otomato OS, the DeFi Assistant offers a more coherent way to navigate DeFi — a shift from juggling dashboards to simply knowing what needs attention. For Co-Founder Dylan Breugne, the mission is simple: turn complex workflows into something anyone can act on with confidence.

It’s an approach that feels overdue. Ó£ÌÒÊÓƵ is full of potential but messy in practice, leaving users to juggle dashboards, notifications and the constant risk of missing something important. It’s the kind of systems-level thinking that fits naturally inside the venture builder, and the sort of infrastructure that matters far more than the noise around it.

Across the ecosystem, it’s also been a significant month. MSquared unveiled Mash live at Web Summit, with Rob Whitehead giving the first public look at a platform designed to make the immersive internet more interoperable and commercially usable.

More broadly, the past few weeks have been dominated by industry hot-takes on the state of innovation. We won’t add to that discourse here, except to say that across Ó£ÌÒÊÓƵ, the work continues in the opposite tone: focused, R&D-led, and building steadily toward milestones you’ll hear more about soon.

For now, this edition dives into Otomato’s vision, Mash’s debut, and the teams shaping a more durable, more ambitious kind of technology.

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