Jia is a blockchain-based fintech platform co-founded by Zach Marks, Cheng Cheng, Ivan Orone, and Yuting Wang that uses DeFi to extend working capital and lending to micro and small businesses in emerging markets. Jia's Twitter Score is 13 out of 1000 as of July 2026, ranking #80,308 among 531,432 tracked accounts.
Jia was co-founded in 2022 by former Tala executives and has since built a suite of financial tools, including business banking, cash-flow management, and a proprietary Ossicone AI credit model designed to assess borrowers underserved by traditional finance. The platform launched a credit solution in partnership with Huma Finance, serving small and medium enterprises in Kenya and the Philippines using native USDC on Celo.
Jia raised a $4.3 million seed round in May 2023, led by TCG Crypto, with participation from BlockTower, Hashed Emergent, Saison Capital, and Global Coin Research. A further $3 million in seed funding was announced in May 2026 from Coinbase Ventures, the Stellar Development Foundation, and A100x Ventures, bringing total disclosed funding to $7.3 million. Jia has published 464 posts and has been mentioned by 27 accounts across 70 total mentions.
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Jia draws a focused audience of crypto-native and fintech-aligned followers. The accounts that follow Jia include 67 founders, 21 angel investors, 18 influencers and 6 VCs, among them Cuy Sheffield, Jane Lippencott, Gaby Goldberg, Knower, The Rollup and Chris Maddern.