Framework Ventures

Basics

• Are behind the idea of Network Capital.
• From Forbes (27-8-2020):

"Ventures is the largest staker of the Synthetix protocol outside of the founding team, the largest liquidity provider on Uniswap, and an integral node operator providing the critical off-chain data that powers Chainlink."

Investments

• Aave. Helped (15-7-2020) raise $3M for Aave.
• Allora; mentioned as one of its backers (2-2-2024).
• BeraChain; part of the second round of $69M (14-3-2024)
• Bitlayer; part of the huge list of investors in the $5.5m raise (3-4-2024).
• BoardRoom. Participated in a $2.2M raise for BoardRoom (13-10-2020).
• Chainlink (7-2-2023). Listed as a node operator at Chainlink (7-2-2023).
• dHedge; one of the investors according to their blog (2-11-2020).
• DODO. Took part in a seed round for DODO (28-8-2020).
• Fei Protocol; part of a $19M raise (9-3-2021).
• FutureSwap; It raised a pre-round from Framework Ventures (+ others) in November 2019. They further closed a seed round in March 2019.
• The Graph. It is one of its backers according to the website of The Graph (2-10-2020).
• Immunefi; part of the $5.5M raise (26-10-2021). Also took led the $23M Series A of Immunefi (22-9-2022).
• Kava. From Decrypt (22-4-2020):

"Framework Ventures invested $750,000 in Kava network [which translates to 4% of the tokensupply]. Framework took no equity. Instead, it will exert its influence by staking tokens."

• Maple Finance; participated in a $1.3M raise (12-2020). Also participated in their second funding round of $1.4M (18-3-2021).
• Pods; participated in a $800k raise (19-2-2021).
• RabbitHole; part of a $3.6M seed round (29-6-2021).
• Risk Harbor; co-led a $3.2M seed round (24-6-2021).
• Saddle; was part of a $4.3 million seed raise (19-1-2021).
• Slingshot; lead a $3.1M investment (2-12-2020). Again took part in the $15m raise (12-2021).
• Stardust; led their $30M Series A (18-10-2022).
• Synthetix. From The Block (29-10-2019); "has purchased 5 million Synth (SNX) tokens from the Synthetix Foundation’s treasury"
• Teller. From EthHub #123 (20-7-2020):

"They announced a $1 million seed raise last week led by Framework Ventures, followed by Parafi Capital and Maven11 Capital"

• Thales; part of their $2.5 raise (20-7-2021).
• Zapper. Part of a $1.5M seed round for Zapper. And another time for ZapperFi; part of a $15M raise (17-5-2021).

Framework Labs

• From Forbes (27-8-2020):

"Announced a huge $8 million seed round, the raise, led by investment firm Station 13."

Team, partners

Team

• Michael Anderson
• Vance Spencer
• Ray Pulver
• Roy Learner

Partners

• Member of the CDA (8-7-2020).