Protocol Labs

We are at the start of a paradigm shift in software architecture: the wave of decentralised data networks. The movement we have seen build up over the past few years goes beyond Bitcoin and other crypto-assets, or even open source software and blockchains. Taking a broader view, it is the victory of peer-to-peer data networks based on open standards, it reflects the power of properly aligned economic incentives, and it begins to harness the individual data centres in everyone’s pocket, desktop, car, living room and wrist. The movement is made possible by the proliferation of access to high speed wireless broadband, rapidly maturing cloud-native software and a surge of recent machine learning advancements. Over the past few decades, technology architecture advancements have commoditised operating systems and software packages by making them globally accessible via data centres and cloud infrastructure. In this new wave, the data centre is being spread to the very edge of the network and the data itself is being ‘open-sourced’, commoditised into reusable trusted building blocks. Distributed users and machines interact with this data via a substrate of peer-to-peer networks. These peer-to-peer data networks become a ‘fabric’ that validates and curates information inputs without the need for third parties, while empowering individual users with their own data in a usable, secure and scalable manner. To support this vision, Fabric Ventures is adapting the patient venture capital model to investing in decentralised data networks: backing the boldest technologists & communities at the earliest stages, supporting them throughout their journey and becoming active participants within the networks they are building.

The new Open Internet is a decentralized, transparent, and more resilient internet that replaces gatekeepers and corporate data trafficking with empowered people. Through blockchain and cryptonetworks we can cultivate a culture and system of collaboration where open sourced innovation can turbocharge permissionless and trustless innovation. Enabling society to adopt distributed and shared structures of power will deliver an open and participatory rule that leverages social capital and rewards individual sovereignty.

6MV is a thesis driven Web3 Fund investing in the most talented, inventive and tenacious founders across the global crypto and blockchain landscape. Our ethos stems from the game of basketball, where every legendary team has a strong 6th Man to help off the bench. We are building a world-class team to support a portfolio of 100+ projects, protocols & companies and growth of the broader crypto ecosystem. We are hiring a technical investor - someone with engineering experience who is capable of thesis building, sourcing, evaluating and diligencing deals across technical Web3 categories such as infrastructure, decentralized compute & storage, ZKPs, and DeFi. You will also inform our investment strategies across L1/L2 networks and establish yourself as a thoughtful, trusted developer in the respective subcommunities. Lastly, you will develop frameworks to assess the fundamental value of businesses & protocols to help drive portfolio management decisions and execution.

Chapter One is a first check crypto fund focused on the web3 economy. We believe the best companies in web3 will win by making web3 more user-friendly and accessible, and we strive to be a founder’s first check to build products with powerful narratives. The fund has backed meaningful companies from the earliest stages in crypto & web3 including The Graph, Compound Finance, Dapper Labs, MoonPay, Blockfolio (acq FTX), Syndicate, Dharma Protocol (acq OpenSea), Rabbithole, Ondo Finance, and more.

Geometry was launched earlier this year by operators and researchers from leading Web3 networks (Aztec, Celo and StarkWare), to help bring deep-tech companies to widespread adoption on Web3. We’ve already earned a reputation for being the first money into some of the most groundbreaking companies of the future, from builders of virtual machines written into bleeding-edge cryptographic systems, to microchip makers for the new web. We’ve hired a world-class research team from leading departments and major crypto projects such as the Ethereum Foundation and Semaphore. Now we’re building a small, laser-focussed investment team, from scratch. If this sounds exciting to you, read on!

Primal is an early stage investor targeting seed and pre-seed investments. Our current portfolio consists of 50+ investments in web3 & blockchain applications focused on consumer and enterprise adoption. Our investment verticals include Decentralized Data & Cloud Storage, Security and Identity, AR/VR and AI applications, Metaverse and Gaming.