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Archetype is an early-stage venture fund focused on accelerating the programmable future by backing the next generation of crypto founders who are disrupting the status quo and creating entirely new markets.

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Pre Seed, Seed

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Investment Thesis

Archetype believes that crypto is fundamentally disrupting existing business models, and the models of tomorrow are early-stage companies and protocols yet to be discovered. They focus on providing the next generation of crypto founders with deep, multidisciplinary expertise across investing, engineering, protocol and mechanism design, policy, and community-building to help them transition from conception to meaningful scale.

What Sets Them Apart

  • Crypto-native team with deep expertise spanning investing, engineering, protocol design, mechanism design, policy, and community-building
  • Long operational track record since 2015 with proven early-stage crypto investments (Chainalysis, Mina, Near, Balancer, Dapper Labs/Flow)
  • Specialized research partners with deep domain expertise in DeFi, applied cryptography, decentralized AI, zero-knowledge, and mechanism design
  • Data-driven research capabilities through expertise in onchain data analysis and portfolio support
  • Focus on founders who are 'dedicating themselves maniacally to their craft'
  • Diversified portfolio across Consumer, DeFi, Infrastructure, and AI categories
  • Emphasis on helping founders go from 0x to 1 rather than scaling later-stage companies

Portfolio Highlights

Allora

Ai Ml

Altius

Infrastructure

August

Consumer

Beam

Infrastructure

Chainalysis

Infrastructure

DAWN

Consumer

Decent

Infrastructure

Endstate

Consumer

+ 51 more companies in their portfolio

Investment Team

15 Partners at Acrylic

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