Archetype
Venture capitalNew York · Pre-Seed–Seed · 16 people tracked
Also known as Archetype Crypto
Investment thesis
Archetype invests at the earliest stages in crypto companies and protocols, viewing crypto as a technology that disrupts today's models. The firm supports the next generation of crypto founders through a multidisciplinary team spanning investing, engineering, protocol and mechanism design, cryptography, policy, and community-building. Its research and investment focus areas include DeFi, crypto-native infrastructure, DePIN, applied cryptography, zero-knowledge, decentralized AI, and AI agents.
Source: firm website, verified Jul 31, 2026.
Team · 16 people
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What they invest in
from 42 of 93 portfolio companiesCrypto & Web3 ×33Fintech ×19Data & Infrastructure ×11AI & Machine Learning ×9SaaS ×7Cloud Computing ×6Developer Tools ×5Creator Economy ×3
HQs:United States×12
Investments · 93 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 12025 · 22024 · 12022 · 26 dated
Brooklyn, US
Igor Cerc(Director)Laurence Latimer(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Ash Egan(Director)
Board seatAsh Egan· per SEC Form D · $11M raise · filed Feb 2022
Cocoa, US
Peter Watts(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardNick Grossman(Director)
Board seatAsh Egan· per SEC Form D · $15M raise · filed Feb 2025
0x provides onchain routing and liquidity aggregation infrastructure for enterprise wallets, payments platforms, and exchanges.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintech
Altius Labs builds customized blockchain infrastructure for high-performance applications, offering private chains with proprietary economics, 10,000+ transactions per second, and sub-millisecond latency.
Crypto & Web3
Ansible Labs offers a single API and unified ledger for building payment products across fiat and stablecoins, supporting multi-rail payments (ACH, FedNow, stablecoin payouts), programmable accounts, real-time reporting, and built-in compliance.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintech
Chainalysis provides investigative services and training programs for cryptocurrency compliance and risk mitigation.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3CybersecurityData & InfrastructureFintechNew York City, US
Rakib Azad(Executive Officer)Jonathan Levin(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Michael Gronager(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
BoardPhilippe Botteri(Director)Sarah Tavel(Director)
PartnerAsh Egan· led
Pond (Cryptopond) is an agentic task marketplace where users post tasks or challenges and humans, AI agents, or robots compete to complete them, with payment only for verified results.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Marketplaces
MoonPay Trade is an API and contract platform that routes crypto trades across 200+ blockchains to provide optimal execution.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareFintechNew York City, US
Charlie Durbin(Founder)inAlexander Carlson(Founder)inWill Collier(Founder)inWill Kantaros(Founder)in
Rysk Finance is a decentralized finance platform that enables users to earn yield on cryptocurrency assets through covered call strategies and cash secured puts across multiple blockchain networks.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Hut 8 acquires, develops, and operates energy assets such as powered land, interconnects, substations, and switchyards, and builds purpose-built facilities and specialized hardware for energy-intensive technology applications.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureEnergy
Meow Technologies is a financial technology platform providing business banking, corporate cards, and payments infrastructure for AI agents and global teams.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSMiami Beach, US
Brandon Arvanaghi(Executive Officer, Director)Bryce Crawford(Director)
Farcaster is a decentralized social network where users own their identity and can discover people and express themselves.
Crypto & Web3SocialVenice, US
Daniel Romero(Executive Officer, Director)Varun Srinivasan(Executive Officer, Director)
Modern Treasury provides a payments infrastructure platform that enables businesses to move and track money across fiat and stablecoin rails through a single API.
Crypto & Web3Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Matt Marcus(Co-Founder & CEO)inDimitri Dadiomov(Cofounder & CEO)inSam Aarons(Co-Founder & CTO)in
MONA is an AI operating system platform for interior design and architecture studios that automates design workflows from initial floorplan to final installation.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomySaaS
Obol provides distributed validator infrastructure and staking solutions for the Ethereum blockchain, serving institutional operators and AI agents.
Cloud ComputingCrypto & Web3Data & Infrastructure
Octane builds an AI-native security analysis tool that continuously reasons about code to find novel vulnerabilities across functions, files, and execution paths.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper Tools
Opacity provides infrastructure for issuing compliant financial products with global distribution and liquidity through decentralized finance integration, targeting capital markets participants.
Crypto & Web3FintechNew York, US
Andrew Bledsoe(Executive Officer)
BoardAaron Marz(Director)Hersh Patel(Director)
Parcl provides daily real estate market signals, ownership data, and tools for analyzing how housing markets move, including a portfolio-search tool for finding single-family rental portfolios and data/resolution services for housing-related prediction markets.
Data & InfrastructureFintechPropTech
POAP Inc builds digital collectibles on Web3 that serve as proofs of attendance at events and experiences, enabling people to preserve memories and discover communities.
Crypto & Web3Social
Polynomial is a decentralized perpetual futures exchange built on its own Ethereum rollup, offering traders up to 50x leverage with gasless transactions and cross-margin functionality.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.
Exits · 1
IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolioHut 8NASDAQ: HUT
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesSyndicate · tekedia.com · Jul 18, 2026
DAWN · dawn.com · Jul 18, 2026
Monad · crypto-economy.com · Jul 17, 2026
Alchemy · stocktitan.net · Jul 16, 2026
Rain · gpkmedia.com · Jul 14, 2026
Venice AI · theaiinsider.tech · Jul 9, 2026
Sound.xyz · trysignalbase.com · Jul 7, 2026
Obol Network Distributed validator network · nexttier.pro · Jul 6, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does Archetype invest at?
- Archetype invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
- What is Archetype's typical check size?
- Archetype typically writes checks of $100K – $10M.
- What sectors does Archetype focus on?
- Archetype focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Crypto & Web3.
- Where is Archetype located?
- Archetype is headquartered in New York, US.
- Does Archetype lead rounds?
- Yes, Archetype leads investment rounds.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
featuring the teamInvesting to Accelerate the Decentralized Future, with Dmitriy Berenzon (Archetype Fund)
WAGMI Ventures Podcast · Dmitriy Berenzon
Web3 w/ Me: Crypto-native Investing w/ Ash Egan of Archetype
Web3 w/ Me · Ash Egan
Web3 w/ Me: Archetype's Ash Egan Defines Web3
Web3 w/ Me · Ash Egan
How Groth16 Works | Proof is in the Pudding
Archetype
Emily Lai and Tori "Birb" Pastore | Chaotic Good ep3
Archetype
Khushi Wadhwa and Eshita Nandini | Chaotic Good ep2
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Co-investors · 49
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Volt Capital is a crypto-native venture fund that originated from the Token Daily community platform and maintains a separate validator arm to deeply understand blockchain networks they don't even invest in. The firm focuses on early-stage companies that use crypto rails but have familiar Web2-style business models, deliberately targeting overlooked areas from previous cycles while other VCs chase newer narratives.
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Earl Grey Capital is an early-stage venture fund founded by operators who previously built Clearbit, an API-first data company acquired by HubSpot in 2023.
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ParaFi CapitalNIVCollab+CurrencyFounders FundTechstarsIndex VenturesHack VCBain Capital CryptoAlumni VenturesKleiner PerkinsSlow VenturesResolute VenturesInitialized CapitalWinklevoss CapitalCausalCoinFundGalaxy Digital Assets FundFifth Wall VenturesMosaic VenturesMulticoin CapitalSeed Club VenturesHummingbird VenturesScalar CapitalLCXLAUNCHub VenturesAdjacent Ventures LlcAngel InvestThe Alchemy FundAlchemy VenturesEthereal Ventures Management Ltd.Cambrian Asset ManagementGemini Israel VenturesMechanism CapitalCadenzaConsensys VenturesKatapult AfricaFOV Ventures
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