San Francisco · Pre-Seed–Series B · 3 people tracked
Also known as FRAMEWORK VENTURES MANAGEMENT LLC · Framework Ventures Offshore
Investment thesis
Builds in-house software, tools and services, actively stakes and provides liquidity on-chain, and uses founders' Netflix/Snapchat consumer-tech expertise to design tokens and consumer-grade UX; DeFi power user.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 25, 2026.
Team · 3 people
from public directories
What they invest in
from 41 of 43 portfolio companiesCrypto & Web3 ×31Fintech ×24AI & Machine Learning ×10Data & Infrastructure ×9Enterprise Software ×7Developer Tools ×6SaaS ×4Cloud Computing ×2
HQs:United States×10United Kingdom×3Bermuda×1
Investments · 43 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 32025 · 72024 · 12023 · 42021 · 116 dated
Towns is an open messaging protocol built on Base that enables private group communications and decentralized finance applications.
Creator EconomyCrypto & Web3FintechSocialNew York, US
Ben Rubin(Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer)Brian Meek(Co-founder and former Chief Technology Officer)Patrick Fives(Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer)
Co-investorsa16z cryptoCoinbase VenturesSignia Venture Partners8-Bit CapitalAndreessen HorowitzBenchmark
Meanwhile is a licensed Bitcoin-denominated life insurance company whose policies collect premiums and pay death benefits in BTC, with premiums that grow at a guaranteed rate in Bitcoin terms and the option to take Bitcoin loans against policy value.
Crypto & Web3FintechInsurTechHamilton, BM
Tia Beckmann(Chief Financial Officer)
Co-investorsFulgur VenturesGradient VenturesSam Altman6th Man VenturesHaun VenturesMouro Capital+5 more
SuperHi Basic Income is an experiment run by SuperHi that gives selected creative people a monthly stipend of $1,000 USDC for six months, plus hardware and access to SuperHi's courses, to test whether a financial buffer helps them advance their careers.
Crypto & Web3EdTech
Co-investorsDesigner FundExpaReach CapitalTorch Capital
Aave Labs is the original author and contributor to Aave, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol for lending and borrowing crypto assets.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investorsAegis VentuesArkStream CapitalBig Candle CapitalBlockchain CapitalDeFiance CapitalDraft Ventures Llc+12 more
Allora is a decentralized network for machine learning model development and inference, where developers deploy ML workers and models to topics that collectively generate predictions.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Data & Infrastructure
Nick Emmons(Founder)in
Co-investorsArchetype
Andalusia Labs is an applied research lab building internet-native economic infrastructure.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureFintechPalo Alto, US
Drew Patel(Founder)Raouf Ben-Har(Founder)
Co-investorsFounders FundPantera CapitalBain Capital VenturesDigital Currency GroupLightspeed Venture PartnersMubadala Capital
Arrow Markets is a hybrid web3 options trading platform where pricing and hedging run through a network of market makers, with settlement, ownership, and transfers handled on the Avalanche C-chain.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investorsBixin CapitalBixin VenturesCrypto com Capital
Asset Reality provides asset recovery and data security services for seized cryptoassets, with a focus on conflict-free management and regulatory compliance.
Crypto & Web3Enterprise SoftwareFintechGovTechSaaSLondon, GB
Aidan Larkin(Founder)inHugo Hoyland(Founder)in
Co-investorsEverywhere VenturesOutrun VenturesSGH CapitalTechstarsTeam Ignite VenturesThe Fund
Avalon Labs operates Avalon Finance, a Bitcoin-focused CeDeFi lending protocol that lets Bitcoin holders earn yield, lend, and borrow against their BTC, and issues the Bitcoin-backed stablecoin USDa.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investorsVentureSouq
Berachain is a Layer 1 blockchain network built around a Proof of Liquidity mechanism that directs block reward emissions as non-dilutive growth capital to ecosystem applications in exchange for revenue sharing with the network and tokenholders.
Crypto & Web3Developer ToolsFintech
Smokey the Bera(Founder)
Co-investorsAlphaLab CapitalArrington CapitalBorderless VentureCaladanCVP NoLimitHash3 Capital+11 more
Better is a mortgage and home financing platform that offers purchase mortgages, refinancing, home equity lines of credit, and related services including title, closing, and agent matching for homebuyers and refinancers.
FintechPropTechSan Francisco, US
Vishal Garg(Founder)in
Co-investorsActivant CapitalKleiner PerkinsManhattan WestModerne VenturesPine BrookSoftBank Vision Fund+2 more
Bitlayer is a Bitcoin-focused blockchain infrastructure project offering YBTC (yield-bearing BTC), multichain support, and BTC deposit and trading functionality.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintech
Co-investors57Blocks CapitalABCDE CapitalAlphaLab CapitalBaseTwoCaladanNxGen+10 more
Boost provides on-chain incentive campaign tools that let teams distribute token rewards to drive user transactions across Farcaster, World, and the open web.
Crypto & Web3Developer ToolsFintechMarketing TechNew York, US
Brian Flynn(Co-Founder & CEO)
Co-investors6th Man VenturesCollab+CurrencyElectric CapitalGreylock PartnersLarry SukernikLate Checkout+3 more
Cantina is an agentic security platform that uses autonomous AI agents to detect, prioritize, remediate, and verify threats across code, cloud, identity, and endpoints.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3CybersecuritySaaS
Harikrishnan Mulackal(Co-founder & CEO)Mike Leffer(Co-founder & President)
Daylight builds a distributed energy network that allows homes to generate, store, and share power locally, while providing financing and grid operations services for the electrified home market.
CleantechClimate TechEnergy
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzCoinbase VenturesCrucible CapitalEv3 Ventures LlcLattice Capitala16z crypto+5 more
Escape provides an offensive security platform that continuously maps an organization's attack surface and identifies vulnerabilities the way attackers would, integrating directly into engineering workflows.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareNew York City, US
Tristan Kalos(Founder)inAntoine Carossio(Founder)in
BoardOlivier Pomel(Co-founder & CEO)Renaud Deraison(Co-founder & CEO)
Co-investorsKima VenturesY CombinatorTiny Supercomputer Investment CompanyBalderton CapitalFrstIris Capital+1 more
Bootstrapped decentralized perpetual futures exchange running on its own Layer 1 blockchain with an on-chain order book.
Co-investorsCollab+CurrencyLvna CapitalParadigmRockawayX
Hyve Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that provides first-check funding and hands-on operational support to founders, with a focus on the beauty and wellness sector.
Kara La Forgia(Founder)in
Co-investorsEvolution VC Partners
InfiniGods is a gaming studio that develops free-to-play, Web3-powered mobile games centered around ancient mythologies, with cross-game assets and currencies.
Crypto & Web3GamingAustin, US
Owen O’Donoghue(Founder)
Co-investorsPantera CapitalTriblockAnimoca Brands
Irys is a blockchain platform designed to store large volumes of data on-chain, enabling smart contracts to access it directly while providing proof of data persistence over time.
Crypto & Web3Data & Infrastructure
Josh Benaron(Founder)in
Co-investorsBreedHypersphere VenturesLemniscapCoinFundRace Capital
Jito provides MEV (Maximal Extractable Value) infrastructure for the Solana blockchain, including a Block Engine, Bundles, ShredStream, and APIs.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDover, US
Lucas Bruder(Executive Officer, Director)Zanyar Sherwani(Executive Officer, Director)Zano Sherwani(Founder)in
Co-investors6th Man VenturesElectric CapitalMulticoin Capitala16z cryptoAndreessen HorowitzAsymmetric
OpenGDP is an operating layer for real-world economic execution that unifies money, assets, and autonomous systems with institutional-grade controls, security, and speed for enterprises, institutions, and governments.
Crypto & Web3Enterprise SoftwareFintech
BoardNaval Ravikant(Founder, AngelList)Anthony Pompliano(Founder, Pomp Investments)Santiago Roel Santos(Founder, Inversion Capital)Nikil Viswanathan(Co-founder & CEO, Alchemy)Joe Lau(Co-founder & CTO, Alchemy)
Co-investorsCoinbase VenturesPantera CapitalDigital Currency Group
Maple is an onchain asset management platform offering institutional-grade lending and yield strategies to the crypto ecosystem.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Joe Flanagan(Founder)in
Co-investorsArctic DigitalBlack DragonBloccelerate VCGSRMarin Digital VenturesMaven 11+4 more
Membrane Labs provides an institutional infrastructure platform for digital asset credit, unifying counterparty discovery, loan workflows, and collateral management with real-time visibility, automated margin enforcement, and multi-custodian connectivity.
Crypto & Web3Enterprise SoftwareFintech
Carson Cook(Founder)in
Co-investorsArca FundsElectric CapitalFourth Revolution Capital (4RC)Lvna CapitalMarin Digital VenturesPoint72 Ventures+7 more
Membrane builds an AI-powered integration platform that enables software products to automatically connect with and adapt to other applications.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Daniil Bratchenko(Founder)
Co-investorsBrevan Howard DigitalElectric CapitalFlow TradersJump CryptoPoint72 VenturesQCP Capital+1 more
Perle provides human expert data services for AI teams, including expert-labeled training data, model evaluation, red-teaming, bias auditing, and multi-sensor robotics data collection.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Ahmed Rashad(Founder)in
Co-investorsACTAI VenturesAlphaLab CapitalBig Brain HoldingsBreedCaladanCoinFund+2 more
Plasma builds stablecoin-based financial products for consumers and businesses, centered on a global dollar account for holding, moving, earning, and spending money.
Crypto & Web3FintechLondon, GB
Co-investorsMercy Corps VenturesMirana VenturesSamara Asset GroupBitfinex
Reya is a decentralized perpetuals exchange (DEX) built as a based-rollup on Ethereum, currently operating as an L2 on Arbitrum Orbit with zero gas fees, MEV protection, and yield-bearing collateral options like srUSD and wstETH.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investorsVarys CapitalWintermute
Sentient Foundation is a collective of researchers and engineers developing open-source artificial intelligence and AGI, releasing frameworks such as ROMA (multi-agent reasoning and coordination), OML (open, monetizable model distribution), and ODS (search-augmented reasoning).
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper Tools
Co-investorsArrington CapitalGSRHack VCHypersphere VenturesMH VenturesPantera Capital+9 more
Sentient develops open-source AI research and tools that enable AI agents to self-improve, reason, and learn autonomously using benchmarks and datasets.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper Tools
Co-investorsPantera CapitalRWT HorizonsFounders FundHack VC
Sky offers a suite of non-custodial savings and yield products built on stablecoins (USDS, USDC, USDT) within the Sky Protocol ecosystem.
Crypto & Web3FintechSaaS
Co-investorsa16z cryptoAndreessen HorowitzDraper AssociatesStandard Crypto
Space and Time provides blockchain indexing, secure offchain data, and zero-knowledge proofs for onchain financial applications.
Crypto & Web3Data & Infrastructure
Scott Dykstra(Founder)in
Co-investorsAlliance DAO (ex DeFi Alliance)Arrington CapitalDigital Currency GroupEterna CapitalF-Prime CapitalFaction+8 more
Spectarium is a remote-first game studio developing cross-platform action RPGs.
Gaming
Romain Schneider(CEO / Founder)inMark Peterson(CPO / Founder)inAvraham Shalel(Founder / Investor)inGabriel Shalel(Founder / Investor)in
Co-investorsBitkraft Esports VenturesBlockwallBITKRAFT Ventures
Faro is a research-to-trade platform for the Hyperliquid ecosystem that aggregates data from partner sources and turns it into actionable insights for traders.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintech
Co-investorsBixin CapitalBixin VenturesBlack DragonIOSG VenturesSora VenturesMaven 11
Synthetix is a decentralized perpetual futures protocol built on Ethereum that combines off-chain order matching with on-chain settlement to provide low-latency trading of cryptocurrency derivatives.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investorsCoinbase VenturesElliptiFenbushi CapitalGenblock CapitalIOSG VenturesMarin Digital Ventures+5 more
Tokemak offers Autopools, automated DeFi vaults that optimize yield by rebalancing across major protocols and assets including ETH and stablecoins.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investorsBollinger Investment GroupConsenSys MeshDivergenceNIVYoubi CapitalBlockchain Capital+1 more
Plasma is a financial technology company offering Plasma One, a stablecoin-based account and Visa card that supports USD₮ transfers, cashback, and yield through third-party DeFi protocols.
Crypto & Web3FintechLondon, GB
Co-investors1/1 Capital6th Man VenturesBeni Venture CapitalMercury FundMirana VenturesPharsalus Capital+9 more
Unto Labs builds Thru, a base-layer blockchain that applies high-performance computing principles to distributed systems for scalability and performance.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDeep TechSan Francisco, US
Will Yoo(Founder)inLiam H.(Founder)inWilliam Yoo(Executive Officer, Director)Liam Heeger(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsElectric Capital
Uplink operates a marketplace and settlement platform for Wi-Fi roaming, automating billing, partner matching, and clearing between network providers and identity providers without requiring hardware changes or new infrastructure.
Cloud ComputingEnterprise Software
Co-investorsA100X Ventures
Uranium Digital is building an institutional-grade trading platform for physical uranium, offering 24/7 spot trading with physical settlement and on-chain proof-of-reserves backing holdings 1:1.
Crypto & Web3EnergyFintech
Co-investorsMirana VenturesPortal Ventures
USD.ai offers a stablecoin-based platform for financing AI compute infrastructure, letting users earn yield or borrow to fund the machines behind AI data centers.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investorsAlphaLab CapitalBig Brain HoldingsBreedCaladan
Exits · 1
IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolioTownsCrypto token on Base/Ethereum; traded on Coinbase, Binance and others: TOWNS
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companies
Hyperliquid · cryptorank.io · Aug 23, 2026
Hyve · amediaoperator.com · Aug 19, 2026
Maple Finance · cryptonews.net · Aug 19, 2026
Boost · en.cryptonomist.ch · Aug 18, 2026
Reya · mishcon.com · Aug 7, 2026
Cantina · pulse2.com · Aug 2, 2026
Daylight · wvmetronews.com · Jul 19, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Framework Ventures made?
- Framework Ventures has 14 tracked investments, including 5 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Framework Ventures invest at?
- Framework Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B stages.
- What is Framework Ventures's typical check size?
- Framework Ventures typically writes checks of $250K – $40M.
- What sectors does Framework Ventures focus on?
- Framework Ventures focuses on Consumer, Crypto & Web3, Deep Tech, Enterprise Software, Fintech, Media & Entertainment, SaaS.
- Where is Framework Ventures located?
- Framework Ventures is headquartered in San Francisco, US.
- Does Framework Ventures lead rounds?
- Framework Ventures typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
- Who does Framework Ventures co-invest with?
- Framework Ventures most often shares deals with 6th Man Ventures, Electric Capital, a16z crypto, among 46 tracked co-investors.
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Co-investors · 21
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Founders Fund is a venture capital firm that backs technology companies building transformative products.
CoinFund is a crypto-focused investment firm that backs and partners with companies building open, decentralized technology across finance, infrastructure, and AI.
Multicoin Capital is a thesis-driven investment firm focused on cryptoassets, tokens, and blockchain companies, managing a hedge fund and several venture funds across public and private markets.
ParaFi Capital is a multi-strategy investment firm operating across public and private markets, focused on financial technology and capital markets innovation, including digital assets.
GV (Google Ventures) is a venture capital firm that has invested in artificial intelligence and machine learning since its early days, building a global portfolio of more than 100 AI companies across infrastructure, life sciences, and applications.
Alumni Ventures (AV) is a venture capital firm that co-invests alongside lead VCs in startups, backing founders with capital and access to a large investor and operator community.
Susa Ventures operates two early-stage technology funds that invest in companies leveraging data, network effects, and economies of scale.
Believes that best ideas happen offline. Offline Ventures is Interested in companies that are driven by both profit and purpose while taking great care of the world around them
Not Boring Capital operates as a "solo GP + media flywheel" fund where Packy McCormick runs a one-person VC fund tightly coupled to his Not Boring newsletter, using writing to source deals, win allocation, and amplify portfolio companies through content creation rather than traditional multi-partner firm structures. The fund's strategy combines extreme breadth with minimal ownership—deploying across 79 companies in 19 verticals without board seats or lead positions—while offering founders a unique value proposition through Sponsored Deep Dives that serve as both revenue generation and in-depth company analysis that helps founders tell their stories to customers, hires, and future investors.
Thrive Capital invests in internet, software, and technology-enabled companies. The firm focuses on early-stage and growth-stage ventures.
Dragonfly is a crypto-focused investment firm comprising Dragonfly Ventures, Dragonfly Liquid, and Metastable, an early crypto hedge fund it acquired. It invests in and researches blockchain, tokens, and crypto companies.
▶9 more co-investors
IVCThe Alchemy FundTimespan VenturesVariant FundPTC PolymarketA*Infinite CapitalKatapult AfricaMATR Ventures
Firms observed investing alongside Framework Ventures, from public investor directories. Shared companies are the overlap with Framework Ventures's recorded portfolio.
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