Framework Ventures

Framework Ventures, founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, is a venture capital firm focused on investing in blockchain technology and associated sectors, including web3 gaming, decentralized finance (DeFi), cryptocurrency, and fintech. The firm operates as a technology company, developing products and services to support the open crypto networks in which it invests. Its team comprises technologists, researchers, and investors who actively participate in the growth of these networks, aiming to leverage their expertise to build a robust ecosystem around open blockchain technologies. As a Registered Investment Adviser, Framework Ventures emphasizes its commitment to fostering innovation within the blockchain space.

Michael Anderson

Co-Founder

Adam Badrawi

Partner

Roy Learner

Partner

Trenton Murphy

Investor

Kristin Nobles

Investor

Alec Taggart

Investor

Past deals in Blockchain

Blockworks

Venture Round in 2023
Blockworks is a prominent online financial media platform focused on providing information and insights for digital asset investors. The company aims to enhance the understanding of blockchain and cryptocurrency in a responsible manner. Through its editorial site, newsletters, podcasts, conferences, and research, Blockworks offers critical analysis and relevant data, enabling investors to make informed decisions regarding digital assets. By delivering timely news and expert insights, Blockworks positions itself as a vital resource for those navigating the complexities of the cryptocurrency market.

Immunefi

Series A in 2022
Immunefi is a bug bounty platform focused on enhancing the security of decentralized finance (DeFi) projects by addressing vulnerabilities in blockchain technologies. The platform provides a comprehensive solution for crypto projects, enabling effective network hosting, bug triaging, and program management. By offering tools for smart contract review and vulnerability disclosure, Immunefi helps organizations identify and mitigate risks associated with malicious exploits and unknown attacks. This proactive approach aims to create a safer environment for crypto projects, ensuring that developers can secure their applications against potential threats.

Satellite.im

Seed Round in 2022
Satellite.im is a developer of a secure communication platform that focuses on data encryption, ensuring that information is accessible only to intended recipients. By leveraging advanced decentralization and encryption technologies, the company enables the creation of extensible applications while allowing users to store files on a distributed network. This approach not only enhances data security but also incorporates built-in redundancy and accommodates large file storage, providing users with a reliable and secure experience.

Parcel

Seed Round in 2022
Parcel is focused on facilitating virtual real estate transactions within the metaverse. It has created a comprehensive marketplace that aggregates digital land listings, connecting landowners and creators to support the growth of the metaverse community. Parcel offers a variety of services, including real-time appraisals and extensive industry knowledge, while minimizing costs through zero marketplace fees and low gas consumption. By streamlining access to virtual properties, Parcel aims to empower users to navigate the virtual ecosystem more efficiently and affordably.

Chainflip

Venture Round in 2022
Chainflip is a decentralized protocol that facilitates direct cross-chain swaps among various blockchains without requiring a trusted intermediary. The platform is designed to support the seamless exchange of cryptocurrencies, allowing users to conduct anonymous and permissionless transactions. Utilizing robust frameworks, including Rust, Chainflip enables users to move funds across different blockchains and ecosystems without the need for additional software, collateral, or wrapped assets. This approach provides a trustless environment for investors seeking to exchange assets across multiple networks efficiently.

InfiniGods

Seed Round in 2022
InfiniGods is a game development company focused on creating blockchain games set in a mythological universe. With a team of seasoned professionals from the gaming industry, InfiniGods aims to transform the gaming experience through digital ownership. The company specializes in developing web and mobile games that incorporate elements of mythology, featuring gameplay styles such as puzzles, strategy, and city building. By prioritizing accessibility, InfiniGods seeks to offer gamers an easy and affordable entry into the world of blockchain gaming, fostering a new era of interactive entertainment.

Irys

Seed Round in 2022
Bundlr is a decentralized platform that makes it fast and easy to store data on web3. It is a reliable, multichain solution that enables easy access to Arweave. Bundlr is responsible for processing over 90% of all data uploaded on Arweave and increases upload speeds by ~3000%. Bundlr is integrated on most platforms and is multi-chain compatible including Ethereum, Solana, and Avalanche.

Volt Protocol

Seed Round in 2022
Volt Protocol is a digital currency platform designed to provide users with a yield-bearing currency that combines the benefits of self-custody and censorship resistance with the ease of transactions typically found in traditional banking. Built on the Ethereum blockchain, Volt Protocol utilizes smart contracts to ensure a non-custodial experience, allowing token holders to maintain control over their assets. The platform focuses on decentralized savings and credit systems, tracking the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for urban communities instead of relying on fiat currencies. This approach empowers users to protect their savings while minimizing reliance on intermediaries, thus fostering a more equitable financial ecosystem.

Allora Labs

Series A in 2022
Upshot is a blockchain-based protocol that incentivizes experts to answer subjective questions honestly and captures the value of truth. Its first product aims to provide an efficient price-discovery mechanism for NFTs by paying experts for honest appraisals unlocking new opportunities for experts and enabling a number of powerful new DeFi primitives.

Prime Protocol

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Prime Protocol is a decentralized multiple blockchain prime brokerage that facilitates borrowing and lending of assets across various blockchains. The platform enables users to obtain collateralized loans based on the value of their entire portfolio, offering cross-chain margining and competitive interest rates. This approach enhances liquidity and mitigates risk for borrowers, allowing them to improve capital efficiency and diversify their investment portfolios. By providing a seamless and integrated financial service across multiple blockchain networks, Prime Protocol aims to streamline the borrowing process and broaden access to capital for its users.

Swell

Seed Round in 2022
Swell Network is a permissionless, non-custodial, and liquid ETH staking protocol that is built for stakers, node operators, and the Ethereum ecosystem. A community-driven and open-source protocol backed by the industry’s leading funds and angels.

Hubble Exchange

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a decentralized platform designed to facilitate trading perpetual futures. The company's platform helps traders tokenize their most profitable perpetual future positions so that they can be utilized as collateral on other Defi protocols, enabling traders to borrow against their profitable perpetual futures positions.

Socket

Seed Round in 2022
Socket is a developer of a multichain interoperability platform that connects various blockchain networks, facilitating seamless asset and information transfers. By acting as a meta-layer, Socket enables the creation of unified, multichain applications that share liquidity and state across different chains. Its platform simplifies the development of cross-chain applications by unifying liquidity across bridges and decentralized exchanges (DEXs), allowing users to route funds based on their preferences such as fees, speed, or security. This approach enhances the efficiency and functionality of blockchain interactions, benefiting developers and users alike.

Block Earner

Seed Round in 2021
Block Earner is a blockchain-powered fintech on a mission to provide a user-friendly interface to access the benefits of decentralised finance. We provide better products built on blockchain and help people take control of their money.

Immunefi

Seed Round in 2021
Immunefi is a bug bounty platform focused on enhancing the security of decentralized finance (DeFi) projects by addressing vulnerabilities in blockchain technologies. The platform provides a comprehensive solution for crypto projects, enabling effective network hosting, bug triaging, and program management. By offering tools for smart contract review and vulnerability disclosure, Immunefi helps organizations identify and mitigate risks associated with malicious exploits and unknown attacks. This proactive approach aims to create a safer environment for crypto projects, ensuring that developers can secure their applications against potential threats.

SZNS

Seed Round in 2021
SZNS is the NFT fragmentation service platform.

Parcel

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Parcel is focused on facilitating virtual real estate transactions within the metaverse. It has created a comprehensive marketplace that aggregates digital land listings, connecting landowners and creators to support the growth of the metaverse community. Parcel offers a variety of services, including real-time appraisals and extensive industry knowledge, while minimizing costs through zero marketplace fees and low gas consumption. By streamlining access to virtual properties, Parcel aims to empower users to navigate the virtual ecosystem more efficiently and affordably.

Chainflip

Seed Round in 2021
Chainflip is a decentralized protocol that facilitates direct cross-chain swaps among various blockchains without requiring a trusted intermediary. The platform is designed to support the seamless exchange of cryptocurrencies, allowing users to conduct anonymous and permissionless transactions. Utilizing robust frameworks, including Rust, Chainflip enables users to move funds across different blockchains and ecosystems without the need for additional software, collateral, or wrapped assets. This approach provides a trustless environment for investors seeking to exchange assets across multiple networks efficiently.

TokenScript

Initial Coin Offering in 2021
TokenScript is a new tokenization standard that will deliver a more integrated web. A token-centric middleware that connects the scale of Web2 with the promise of Web3.

RabbitHole

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of crypto networks designed to earn digital currency using crypto applications. The company provides tokens for doing onchain actions, offers tools to distribute ownership and quests that upon completion offer rewards, enabling users to acquire XP, level up, and earn rewards for interacting with well-known blockchain protocols.

SynFutures

Series A in 2021
SynFutures operates a decentralized derivatives platform that facilitates the trading of synthetic assets, allowing users to create and trade various digital asset pairs using a single digital token as margin. The platform aims to establish an open and trustless derivatives market by enabling trading on any asset with a price feed. By promoting a free market environment and increasing the diversity of tradable assets, SynFutures seeks to lower the barriers to entry in the derivatives market, thereby fostering a more equitable exchange for digital assets.

Endaoment

Seed Round in 2021
Endaoment is a tax-exempt community foundation specifically designed for the cryptocurrency industry, aiming to foster social impact. It provides a platform for charitable giving through donor-advised and community funds via its web application. This service enables users to donate various cryptocurrencies to a wide range of nonprofit organizations, promoting the adoption of cryptocurrency technologies in philanthropy. Additionally, Endaoment introduces nonprofits to the advantages of blockchain technology, facilitating a more efficient and transparent method of charitable contributions within the blockchain community.

Dynasty Studios

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a gaming platform designed to reach mainstream game industry players and introduce them to blockchain games. The company builds blockchain games to support both gaming and blockchain communities, enabling players to get new playing experiences.

Rangers Protocol

Seed Round in 2021
Rangers Protocol is a future virtual world blockchain infrastructure, fully compatible with Ethereum, professionally supports NFT and complex applications, and integrates and expands cross-chain, NFT, EVM, and distributed network protocols.

Gro

Seed Round in 2021
Gro builds products, called protocols or autonomous programs, for a more simple and friendly DeFi experience. Gro empowers people to easily create and share wealth, by combining the best of decentralized and legacy finance.

Fei Labs

Series A in 2021
Fei Labs is focused on developing a decentralized stablecoin that aims to address challenges associated with existing dollar-pegged products, particularly those influenced by large holders, commonly referred to as "whales." The company has created a unique stablecoin mechanism that is undercollateralized and designed for scalability, promoting capital efficiency and equitable distribution among users. By leveraging this innovative approach, Fei Labs enables users to utilize their stablecoins to maintain liquid secondary markets, thereby enhancing overall market functionality while ensuring a fully decentralized framework.

Boardroom Labs

Seed Round in 2020
Boardroom Labs Inc. develops an integrated governance management platform designed to enhance decision-making and governance within various crypto networks. Founded in 2020 and based in New York, the company aims to enable stakeholder-owned platforms to scale effectively while considering the interests of all constituents. Boardroom Labs focuses on improving distributed management practices and values high standards in code quality, testing, and architecture. The company is dedicated to fostering an inclusive environment that encourages continuous learning and clear communication among its team members.

DODO

Venture Round in 2020
DODO is a decentralized exchange that utilizes the Proactive Market Maker (PMM) algorithm to enhance capital efficiency in liquidity provision. It offers a straightforward token issuance mechanism, which is particularly beneficial for long-tail assets. By focusing on on-chain liquidity provision, DODO enables independent price discovery, allowing users to invest, issue, and trade cryptocurrency assets effectively. The platform operates primarily on Ethereum and the Smart Chain, facilitating liquidity token trading while maintaining a low barrier to entry for users.

Zapper

Seed Round in 2020
Manage all your DeFi assets from one simple interface.

The Graph

Funding Round in 2020
The Graph is a protocol designed for building decentralized applications on the Ethereum blockchain and IPFS using GraphQL. Incorporated in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company provides a decentralized indexing and query layer for the decentralized web. Developers can create and publish open APIs, known as subgraphs, which applications can query to access blockchain data. The Graph currently supports indexing data from Ethereum, POA, and IPFS, with plans to expand to additional networks. A hosted service is available to help developers begin building on the platform, while a decentralized network is set to launch soon. Approximately 1,700 subgraphs have been deployed for various decentralized applications, including notable projects like Uniswap, Synthetix, and Decentraland.
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