Framework Ventures is a thesis-driven venture firm that builds alongside our founders. As of April 2022, the team of Framework has 22 people and has managed around $1.4 billion in assets. The latest Phase III Fund is mainly used to invest in early-stage blockchain gaming, Web3, and DeFi startups and networks.Framework Labs, an affiliate of Framework, has spent the last three years building alongside founders, running nodes, participating in on-chain governance, building tools, staking, and more, to help protocols reach their goals, foster their communities, decentralize, and thrive. Framework's strategy is to take a long-term, decade-long approach to investing, and the firm has structured its funds in a manner similar to the traditional venture model. The firm also generally takes a low quantity and high conviction approach to investing, and, historically, has led around 80% of the major funding rounds in which it participates.
Seb Audet, CEO of DeFi portfolio tracker Zapper, announced that after nearly seven years of operation, the company has decided to fully shut down. All functions, including the website, mobile app, and API services, will officially go offline on August 3rd. Founded in 2019, Zapper was a mainstream portfolio tracking tool in the DeFi space, with features encompassing liquidity pool monitoring, yield farming tracking, DEX aggregation, and NFT support. At its peak, the project had 2 million monthly active users and processed over $13 billion in transaction volume. Zapper previously raised a $15 million Series A funding round led by Framework Ventures, with participation from investors including Mark Cuban. Seb Audet stated that after evaluating various options, the company believes an orderly shutdown is the best course of action at this time.
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Framework Ventures co-founder Michael Anderson pointed out in his analysis that the core opportunity in the next stage of the crypto industry may no longer be limited to crypto assets themselves, but rather evolve into a financing infrastructure for capital-intensive industries such as artificial intelligence, robotics, and energy, with blockchain becoming the capital layer.Compared to the 2020–2021 cycle, which was centered on DeFi and crypto speculation, tokenization and stablecoins are evolving from crypto-native applications into financial infrastructure serving the real economy. They can be used to provide more efficient financing channels for assets such as GPU computing power and energy projects. Currently, over $300 billion in stablecoin liquidity on-chain offers new funding sources for asset-backed lending, potentially allowing assets that were traditionally difficult to securitize—such as servers and computing hardware—to be packaged as financeable assets. (CoinDesk)
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San Francisco-based venture capital firm Framework Ventures has raised a $400 million fund, planning to invest in the intersection of tokenization, stablecoins, and frontier technologies. Framework Ventures co-founder Michael Anderson stated that the firm believes blockchain, through tokenization, will become the financing layer for AI computing power, robotics, and energy infrastructure. The crypto industry has shifted from serving crypto users to solving capital formation problems for real-world industries. (CoinDesk)
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Framework Ventures has announced the completion of a $400 million fundraising for its fourth fund, FVIV. The fund will focus on the frontier intersection of blockchain, AI, robotics, energy, and fintech.
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According to Fortune, San Francisco-based crypto venture capital firm Framework Ventures has announced the closure of its fourth fund, raising $400 million. Investors include fund-of-funds, Ivy League endowments, sovereign wealth funds, and nonprofit organizations. The fund will focus on “frontier technologies,” expanding its investment scope from cryptocurrency into AI, robotics, and energy. Approximately half of the fund’s capital has already been deployed. Founded in 2019, Framework Ventures was an early investor in DeFi protocols Aave and Chainlink; as of December 2025, it manages $1.28 billion in assets under management (AUM). This expansion aligns with similar moves by peers such as Paradigm and Haun Ventures, reflecting an industry-wide trend among top crypto VCs accelerating their shift into AI amid a broader crypto market downturn.
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financial infrastructure company TVL Capital announced the completion of a $5 million funding round, led by Framework Ventures, with participation from Flow Traders and other institutions. Co-founder Lars previously served as Head of Market Research at The Block. The company's products are benchmarked against traditional exchange-traded products, aiming to build compliant, composable derivatives and diversified yield structures, primarily targeting institutional investors to meet various structured investment and yield management needs.
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according to monitoring by Onchain Lens, despite the hack of Humanity Protocol, a newly created wallet has received 62.68 million H tokens from BitGo, worth $7.65 million. The wallet is suspected to belong to VC Framework Ventures, though this has not yet been confirmed.
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Mecka AI, a startup specializing in robot AI training data, has announced the completion of a total of $60 million in funding. This includes a $25 million Series A round in November last year and a subsequent $35 million top-up investment. Both rounds were led by Framework Ventures, with participation from Menlo Ventures, SV Angel, and other investors.Founded in 2025, the company currently employs around 40 people. It leverages sensors, smartphones, and custom hardware to collect human motion data—such as gestures and gait—for robot training. Differentiating itself from traditional teleoperation-based training methods, this approach enhances robots' ability to adapt to real-world environments. The company currently has a strong order backlog and an estimated annualized revenue run rate that could reach $100 million.Investors noted that Mecka AI is one of the fastest-growing companies in their portfolio by revenue. Going forward, the company plans to extend its business chain into robot model training and deployment, accelerating the commercialization of related technologies. (Fortune)
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Checker, a stablecoin infrastructure startup, announced the completion of $8 million in pre-seed and seed funding. Participants include Galaxy Ventures, Al Mada Ventures, Framework Ventures, Bitso, Airtm, DFS Lab, Onigiri Capital, SNZ Capital, and Velocity. The project's primary business is helping financial institutions launch and scale stablecoins and related products through a single API.It is reported that Checker has processed over $3 billion in transaction volume in the past 12 months. The company plans to use the new funds to expand its financial institution network to Brazil, Kenya, Hong Kong, and the United States, and also intends to launch AI agents for client onboarding, compliance assessment, and treasury operations. (theblock)
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According to an official announcement by Tether, Tether Investments participated in a $134 million financing round for the publicly listed Stablecoin Development Corporation (NYSE American: SDEV), with other investors including R01 Fund LP and Framework Ventures—digital asset-focused investment firms. SDEV positions itself as an on-chain holding company dedicated to building infrastructure for stablecoin payments, transfers, and cross-platform fund flows, aiming to lower user adoption barriers. Globally, the circulating supply of stablecoins has surpassed $300 billion, while last year’s transaction volume reached $33 trillion—exceeding the combined total of Visa and Mastercard. Meanwhile, Tether’s USD₮ user base has grown to 570 million.
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