DeFi Alert Startup Otomato Raises $2M to Build a Portfolio-Aware Intelligence Layer

How Otomato will deploy the $2 million

The funding is allocated across three core pillars, as outlined in the official press release.

Product development is the first priority. The team will build out the real-time intelligence layer, improve the engine that determines which alerts are truly critical, and refine the user experience across its applications on Telegram, iOS, and Android.

Expanded coverage is the second focus area. Otomato currently supports Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, and HyperEVM, and integrates with over 10 protocols including Aave, Uniswap, Pendle, Morpho, Euler, and Hyperliquid. The new capital will be used to add more blockchains and extend into additional DeFi verticals, moving the product closer to a true multi-chain, multi-protocol command center for any DeFi user.

Go-to-market completes the allocation. Otomato's growth so far has been entirely organic, with zero paid marketing spend. A successful HyperEVM campaign in late 2025 attracted nearly 3,700 unique users in five days, converting over 81% to its alert bot. The funding will now fuel a structured user acquisition push to build on this viral momentum and convert a broader audience of DeFi participants into active, engaged users.

What the CEOs said about the partnership

The public statements from both CEOs reveal the strategic logic behind the deal, showing a clear alignment on the size of the opportunity and the value of an operational partnership.

Herman Narula, Co-Founder and CEO of Improbable, framed the investment as a bet on a category-defining company:

"The opportunity Otomato is pursuing is enormous. DeFi is becoming the back-end of a larger AI-powered economy, and the first team to build the intelligence layer that understands what users actually hold and tells them what matters has the potential to win an entire category. Otomato gives customers agency and full control of their positions, something that they were lacking before. What convinced us to back Clement, Dylan, and the team was their drive. They shipped a product users genuinely love, grew it virally with no paid spend, and they are moving faster than almost any team I have seen at this stage. That is exactly the kind of founder we set out to build with."

Clément Hecquet, CEO and Co-Founder of Otomato, highlighted that the hands-on support from Improbable was the deciding factor:

"We chose Improbable because they are builders that bring more than a passive check. From day one we have had hands-on support on go-to-market, product, and scaling decisions from an executive team that has done this before. That is what moves a company like ours from 2,000 users to millions, and it is what made the decision easy. We look forward to building together as we scale Otomato."

In essence, Narula sees Otomato seizing a first-mover advantage in an intelligence layer that will become essential as DeFi infrastructures a new AI-driven economy. Hecquet, meanwhile, stresses that the partnership is about execution — gaining the operational experience needed to translate a beloved product into a mass-market tool. Both see the path from thousands of users to millions as the central challenge this funding is meant to solve.