Mainframe
Techstars '14San Francisco, US · Founded 2013 · 14 employees on LinkedIn · 3 known investors
Mainframe provides software development and marketing services for decentralized finance protocols, specializing in parameter optimization to improve capital efficiency, fees, risk management, and incentive structures.
Also known as Mainframe Group, Inc.
Investors · 3
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements- Undisclosed amountSeedDec 2024Source ↗
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026Mainframe (Mainframe Group, Inc.) is a software development and marketing services company that builds products for the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, with stated work spanning NFTs, DeFi and Web3. Its service offering is organized around three areas: risk management, focused on optimizing performance, securing investments and promoting stability; development, focused on delivering solutions for decentralized finance; and marketing, focused on brand reach and audience targeting.
The company's services center on optimizing a protocol's key parameters, with the aim of improving capital efficiency, fees, risk and incentives. Mainframe's site lists Hifi, Pooled NFT, Sheet Heads and Crown Ribbon among its associated products or projects.
Business model
Mainframe operates as a services provider to protocols in the decentralized finance and Web3 space, delivering software development, risk management and marketing engagements, and also references its own products such as Hifi, Pooled NFT, Sheet Heads and Crown Ribbon.
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Market position
Mainframe positions its services around optimizing a protocol's key parameters — capital efficiency, fees, risk and incentives — combining development and risk management with marketing under a single provider.
Technology
Mainframe builds software for decentralized finance, NFT and Web3 applications, including protocol parameter optimization related to capital efficiency, fees, risk and incentives.
Go-to-market
Protocols and projects in the decentralized finance, NFT and Web3 ecosystem seeking development, parameter/risk optimization and marketing support.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Competitors · 3
by search overlap
Companies competing with Mainframe for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
In the news
▸Research sources · 8
primary sources listed
- Mainframemainframe.co · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Mainframe do?
- Mainframe is a software development and marketing services company building products for the DeFi, NFT and Web3 ecosystem.
- Who are Mainframe's investors?
- Mainframe's investors include Crowberry Capital, Techstars, Andreessen Horowitz.
- Where is Mainframe headquartered?
- Mainframe is headquartered in San Francisco, US.