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WAGMI Ventures
Angel networkSeries C–Late Stage · 11 people tracked
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Investment thesis
WAGMI Ventures operates as a pre-IPO investor network, offering its members curated access to allocations in highly sought-after late-stage private companies before public listing. The firm focuses on pre-IPO opportunities, artificial intelligence (foundation models, AI infrastructure, robotics, and applications), deep technology (aerospace, defense, energy, advanced computing), and fintech, blockchain, and financial infrastructure. Leveraging a dense network of executives, angels, and VCs, it emphasizes proprietary deal flow, rigorous due diligence, and long-term conviction. Its process centers on research across global private markets, quick diligence stress-testing valuation and exit optionality, and curated allocation to its investor network.
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Team · 11 people
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What they invest in
from 17 of 22 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×12SaaS ×6Crypto & Web3 ×5Data & Infrastructure ×5Deep Tech ×5Developer Tools ×5Fintech ×5Enterprise Software ×4
HQs:United States×11Germany×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 15 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×62 founders×23 founders×34+ founders×4
Where their founders studiedfrom 32 founders with education data
Harvard University ×7Massachusetts Institute of Technology ×4University of Toronto ×4Stanford University ×2University of California, Berkeley ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 27 founders with field-of-study data
Computer Science ×14Mathematics & Statistics ×5Physics ×4Engineering ×3Design & Architecture ×2Humanities ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 37 founders with career history
OpenAI ×11Google ×10Stanford University ×6Google Deepmind ×3Boss Consulting SA ×2Capital One ×2Stellar Development Foundation ×2Stripe ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
12 founders hold a PhD (of 31 with degree data)
Investments · 22 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 12024 · 22023 · 32022 · 17 dated
Revolutionizing space technology to make life multi-planetary
Hawthorne, US
Elon Musk(Founder, CEO & Chief Engineer)inBret Johnsen(Executive Officer)inGwynne Shotwell(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardAntonio Gracias(Director)inSteve Jurvetson(Director)inDonald Harrison(Director)
Co-investors1/1 Capital137 Ventures2080 Ventures3Spoke Capital4DX Ventures7BC Venture Capital+168 more
Embed provides an API and DSL for building, deploying, and serving personalized recommendation feeds built on onchain crypto data, including prediction market, trading, and smart-money/wallet feeds.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Co-investorsPolymorphic Capitala16z cryptoForward ResearchSocial Graph Ventures
Anthropic is an AI safety research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Dario Amodei(Co-founder & CEO)inDaniela Amodei(Co-founder & President)inTom Brown(Co-founder)inJack Clark(Co-founder & Head of Policy)inJared Kaplan(Co-founder & Chief Science Officer)inChris Olah(Co-founder & Interpretability Research Lead)in
Co-investors3Comma Capital7BC Venture Capital7GC & CoA.Capital VenturesAccelAlkeon Innovation+123 more
Apptronik builds humanoid robots designed to perform repetitive, physically taxing, and dangerous tasks in warehousing and manufacturing environments, aiming to free workers for higher-value activities.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningHardwareRoboticsAustin, US
Jeff Cardenas(Co-founder & CEO)inNicholas Arden Paine(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardClarence Gordon Daugherty, IV(Director)Howard Lee Morgan(Director)inGeorge Samuel Rose(Director)
Co-investors1435 CapitalAssembly VenturesAtinum Investment Co. Ltd.B Capital GroupB4 CapitalBaseTwo+31 more
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Cork provides an onchain programmable risk primitive that lets AI agents underwrite, price, and deploy risk across crypto assets, offering tokenized coverage against illiquidity and depeg events.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investorsFounderheads,HyperithmDEPO VenturesFunFair VenturesPEER VCRoad Capital+1 more
Credora provides independent risk ratings for DeFi, scoring tokens, lending pairs, and vaults on a single A+ to D scale using quantitative methods such as Monte Carlo simulations.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintech
Co-investorsCoinFundAmber GroupBreed VCCoinbase VenturesGSRHashkey Capital+3 more
Figure develops general-purpose humanoid robots designed for deployment in workforce and home environments.
AI & Machine LearningHardwareRoboticsSunnyvale, US
Brett Adcock(Executive Officer, Director)inLee Randaccio(Executive Officer)Dana Berlin(Executive Officer)Logan Berkowitz(Executive Officer)Colby Adcock(Director)Peter Welinder(Director)
Co-investors10T FundAlign VenturesAUDEO VENTURESAurum Venture PartnersBas1s VenturesBeyond Capital+38 more
Kit provides email marketing and commerce tools for creators and independent businesses to reach audiences and monetize their work through newsletters and storefronts.
Creator EconomyMarketing TechSaaS
Nathan Barry(Founder + CEO)in
Co-investorsAUTHENTIC VENTURESBrighter CapitalExpaMission Bay CapitalMission BiocapitalOceans Ventures+1 more
Kraken 360 Investments provides capital and launch infrastructure to blockchain protocols in pre-token and early post-token phases, offering custody, staking, treasury, and liquidity services alongside fundraising support.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Jesse Powell(Founder)inMichael Gronager(Founder)inThanh Luu(Founder)David RipleyinArjun Sethiin
Co-investors1/1 Capital10T Fundalphabet angelsAltari VenturesAweh VenturesBlockchain Capital+44 more
LILA Sciences builds AI systems for autonomous scientific research and discovery across medicine, materials, energy, and defense sectors.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep TechSaaS
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesCatalio Capital Management, LPDauntless VenturesFlagship PioneeringMarch Capital PartnersModi Ventures+4 more
Rewards app allowing users to earn bitcoin when shopping online.
Alex Adelman(Founder & CEO)Matt Senter(Founder)
Co-investors2 Punks CapitalFermionFJ LabsNat TurnerSerena VenturesVersion One Ventures+20 more
micro1 operates a data lab that produces expert human data, reinforcement-learning training environments, and contextual evaluations to train frontier AI models and assess AI agents.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureRobotics
Ali Ansari(Founder and CEO)in
Co-investors01 AdvisorsActivant Capitalalphabet angelsAntlerCoho DeeptechCompanyon Ventures+9 more
NATIX operates a decentralized, crowdsourced camera network that collects multi-camera driving and street-level data globally.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDeep TechMobility & TransportationHamburg, DE
Alireza GhodsinOmid MogharianinUlrich Lages(CEO & Founder)inAlireza Ghods, Ph.D(Core contributor - CEO)inLorenz Muckin
Co-investorsBlockrocketBorderless VentureCV VCDigital Currency GroupEv3 Ventures LlcInception Capital+21 more
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company focused on developing artificial general intelligence (AGI) with emphasis on safety and beneficial outcomes for humanity.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Sam Altman(Co-founder & CEO)Elon Musk(Co-founder & former Co-chair / board member)inGreg Brockman(Co-founder & President)inIlya Sutskever(Co-founder & Chief Scientist)inWojciech Zaremba(Co-founder)inJohn Schulman(Co-founder (departed 2024))
Co-investors7BC Venture CapitalA-Rod CorpA.Capital VenturesA'Z AngelsAdvent InternationalAlpha Funds+86 more
Panthalassa is building a planetary-scale clean energy platform designed to meet global energy demand through offshore deployment with zero emissions at ultra-low cost.
CleantechDeep TechEnergy
Garth Sheldon-Coulson(Founder & CEO)in
Co-investorsBeyond CapitalCollaborative FundCompoundGigascale CapitalHOF CapitalLowercarbon Capital+15 more
An AI-powered answer engine providing accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to questions.
San Francisco, US
Andrew D. Konwinski(Executive Officer, Director)Dzianis Yarats(Director)Aravind Srinivas Lakshminarayanan(Director, Executive Officer)Aravind Srinivas(Co-founder & CEO)inDenis Yarats(Co-founder & CTO)
BoardPeter Sonsini(Director)
Co-investors1435 Capital359 Capital7BC Venture CapitalAccelAdvaita CapitalAIX Ventures+54 more
Ramp offers a finance platform that combines corporate cards, expense management, and AI-driven automation for receipt capture, transaction coding, and reimbursements.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaSNew York, US
Karim Atiyeh(Co-Founder & Co-CEO (formerly CTO))inEric Glyman(CEO)inGene Lee(Co-Founder)inScott Bulua(Executive Officer)inRahul Sengottuvelu(Chief Technology Officer)inWilliam (Will) Petrie(Chief Financial Officer)in
Co-investors1/1 Capital137 Ventures8VCA*Alpha Wave GlobalAnti+56 more
Replit is a platform for software development that aims to make app creation accessible to non-programmers through intuitive tools and AI agents.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCreator EconomyData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEdTechEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Haya Abdalla(Founder)inAmjad Masad(Co-founder & CEO)inHaya Odeh(Co-Founder, Design)inLuis Héctor Chávez(CTO)
Co-investors137 Ventures7BC Venture CapitalA.Capital VenturesAbstract VenturesAIspace VenturesAllied Venture Partners+60 more
Stripe provides financial infrastructure for businesses to accept payments, offer financial services, and implement custom revenue models across international markets in 135+ currencies.
Developer ToolsFintechSaaSSan Francisco, US
John Collison(Co-founder & President)inPatrick Collison(Co-founder & CEO)inWilliam Gaybrick(Executive Officer)inGreg Brockman(Founding Engineer, then first CTO)inSarah Heckin
BoardMichael Moritz(Director)in
Co-investors1435 Capital500 GlobalAdvaita CapitalAglae VenturesAir Street CapitalAlkeon Innovation+92 more
x.ai builds frontier AI reasoning models, real-time voice AI, and generative media systems.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwarePalo Alto, US
Yuhuai (Tony) Wu(Founder)inDennis Mortensen(Executive Officer, Director)Alex Poon(Director)Greg Yang(Founder)inGuodong Zhang(Founder)inIgor Babuschkin(Founder)in
Co-investors7percent VenturesAbstract VenturesAccess Ventures (New York)Aglae VenturesAmity VenturesAndreessen Horowitz+53 more
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
Project PrometheusPrometheus
Exits · 3
1 IPOs · 2 acquisitions · showing 2Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesPerplexity · perplexity.ai · Aug 6, 2026
Anthropic · Anthropic Newsroom · Aug 4, 2026
OpenAI · openai.com · Jul 21, 2026
Ramp · TechCrunch · Jun 4, 2026
Lila Sciences · finsmes.com · Jun 4, 2026
Panthalassa · finsmes.com · May 5, 2026
Replit · techcrunch.com · Mar 11, 2026
Stripe · techcrunch.com · Feb 24, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has WAGMI Ventures made?
- WAGMI Ventures has 22 tracked investments, 3 of which have exited, including 1 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does WAGMI Ventures invest at?
- WAGMI Ventures invests at the Series C, Growth, Late Stage stages.
- What sectors does WAGMI Ventures focus on?
- WAGMI Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Crypto & Web3, Deep Tech, Defense Tech, Energy, Fintech, Robotics, Space Tech.
- Who does WAGMI Ventures co-invest with?
- WAGMI Ventures most often shares deals with WealthUnion, Coatue Management, Evolution VC Partners, among 224 tracked co-investors.
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