Draft Ventures Llc
Venture studioActively deployingSan Francisco · Pre-Seed–Seed · 2 people tracked
Investment thesis
Draft Ventures operates as both a venture fund and a venture studio, focusing on pre-seed and seed stage companies. Beyond writing checks, the firm incubates and advises founders. Its portfolio spans a broad range of sectors including Web3/crypto infrastructure, decentralized applications, fintech, climate and carbon technology, marketplaces, consumer subscription commerce, health data, robotics, and enterprise software. The firm also makes LP investments and runs an AngelList syndicate, reflecting a flexible, hands-on approach to backing technical founders across emerging technology categories.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 2 people
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What they invest in
from 12 of 78 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×5Cloud Computing ×5Crypto & Web3 ×5SaaS ×5Data & Infrastructure ×4Enterprise Software ×4Fintech ×3Developer Tools ×2
HQs:United States×4Canada×1United Kingdom×1
Investments · 78 tracked
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Shopify is a commerce platform that enables businesses to build online stores, sell across multiple channels (web, social, marketplace, POS), and manage inventory and orders.
E-commerceRetail TechSaaSOttawa, CA
John Phillips(Director)Harley Finkelstein(Executive Officer)Amy Shapero(Executive Officer)Craig Miller(Executive Officer)Jeff Weiser(Executive Officer)Joseph Frasca(Executive Officer)
Decentralized lending protocol; early and continued core holding.
Airtable is a San Francisco-based no-code platform that lets teams build apps and workflows on a flexible database.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Howie Liu(Co-founder and CEO)Andrew Ofstad(Co-founder)Emmett Nicholas(Co-founder)
Arweave is a decentralized ecosystem that offers grants and investment opportunities through various organizations including non-profits, DAOs, and venture studios to support projects and developers building on its network.
Cloud ComputingCrypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintechLondon, GB
Sam Williams(Founder & CEO)
Protocol for decentralized audio
Roneil Rumburg(Cofounder)
Wildfire reforestation using heavy-lift drones
A finance superapp for businesses
A protocol for carbon credit verification
A protocol for carbon credit verification
Decentralized file sync with end-to-end encryption
Chia develops an open-source blockchain network using Proof of Space Time consensus, designed to significantly reduce energy consumption compared to traditional proof-of-work systems.
AgTechCrypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintechNew York, US
Bram Cohen(Founder)Gene Hoffman(Chief Executive Officer and President)Misha Graboi(Chief Financial Officer)Vishal Kapoor(Chief Operating Officer)Anders Petersen(Director)April Helliwell(Executive Officer, Director)
Simplified wholesale e-commerce software
Distribution marketplace for the beverage industry
The motion graphics and video tool for modern brands
Manufacturing automation at scale
Group purchasing and payments in South Africa
First interoperable protocol for NFTs
$1B+ Network for decentralized app development
All-in-one workspace – the software powering this website
Decentralized yield farming protocol
Health/lifestyle subscription commerce with 1MM+ subscribers
Decentralized cloud platform to host next-gen software and services
Decentralized credit for SMBs in emerging markets
Bringing programmable carbon to Web3
A mobile marketplace for data annotation and NLP at scale
Ledger systems for financial services industry
Commercial insurance powered by video AI
Comprehensive health data platform
Training robots in virtual worlds to deploy in the real world
Online subscription shopping club for healthy living
A decentralized city built by creators, for creators
The motion graphics and video tool for modern brands
Web3 venture studio for the Internet Computer
Custom furniture and luxury home staging at scale
Obviously AI provides a no-code platform that enables users to build predictive machine learning models from raw data in minutes without requiring coding knowledge.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Kiran Mysore Ravi(Director)Nirman Pratikbhai Dave(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Tapojit Debnath Tapu(Executive Officer, Director)
Future trading of voluntary carbon credits
Build Web3 apps and games, easily
Layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum
Real estate agency, modernized
Building essentials for internet communities
Health/lifestyle subscription commerce with 1MM+ subscribers
Your checking account and credit card, reimagined
Geospatial drone imagery at scale
Next-generation forest monitoring using drones
Toledo, US
Donald Bozzell(Director)Jennifer Kujawski(Executive Officer)Leslie Lipski(Director)Michael Baach(Director)Dan Slifko(Executive Officer, Director)Shaun Healey(Director)
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does Draft Ventures Llc invest at?
- Draft Ventures Llc invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
- What sectors does Draft Ventures Llc focus on?
- Draft Ventures Llc focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Climate Tech, Consumer, Crypto & Web3, Energy, Fintech, Healthtech, InsurTech, Marketplaces, Media & Entertainment, PropTech, Robotics, SaaS, Sector Agnostic.
- Where is Draft Ventures Llc located?
- Draft Ventures Llc is headquartered in San Francisco, US.
- Does Draft Ventures Llc lead rounds?
- Yes, Draft Ventures Llc leads investment rounds.
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Co-investors · 3
Greycroft is a venture capital firm that partners with founders across multiple industries and geographies, investing in software, sustainability, and consumer brands.
Awesome People Ventures operates as a decentralized VC fund using a network of deal partners and contributors to source and vet investments, while giving carry to core contributors beyond just the GP to mirror web3's community ownership ethos. The fund focuses on investing in awesome people building awesome things in web3 with a world-positive mandate, and is backed by iconic crypto investors including Chris Dixon, Marc Andreessen/a16z, and Multicoin.
Climate Capital runs a "Network Fund" as an AngelList rolling micro-fund that writes many small checks ($10k–$25k) into the top 10–20 climate startups per quarter, giving individual LPs "large fund" diversification with low minimums through a structure much closer to an angel-syndicate model than a traditional closed-end VC fund. The firm has deliberately built a very large, democratized LP base of 2,000+ individual LPs via its rolling Network Fund and syndicate, turning climate-interested operators and angels into co-investors and creating a distribution/mentorship network for founders that is structurally different from the small institutional LP bases of most VC funds.
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