General-purpose interfaces lost the last cycle to venues built for one job done exceptionally well. We want terminals that own a market structure end to end — discovery, execution, position management — instead of wrapping someone else's router.
Ventures
Advancing onchain markets
o1 Ventures backs exceptional founders building the execution, data and liquidity layer that onchain markets run on.
Pre-seed → Seed
Where we come in
Base and all other major chains
Where we live
First cheque
How we partner
Distribution
What we bring
Our mission
We put capital under the onchain stack.
o1 Ventures invests in founders working to make onchain markets faster, fairer and easier to reach — the same mission that produced the o1 terminal, launchpad and swap.
We partner with teams at the earliest stages, usually before there is a product to trade, and invest across every category that touches how capital moves onchain.
We invest broadly across the stack: order routing and execution, market data, launch mechanics, perps and derivatives venues, wallet infrastructure, MEV protection and onchain AI agents.
We are operators first. Portfolio teams get distribution across o1 surfaces, integration help from the team that built them, and warm introductions across our own backer network.
Our portfolio
Teams we back.
Insider.Cash
AI agents that turn exchange trading data into token market intelligence
SpreadX
An attention network that distributes content on X through real accounts
Entropy
Perpetual futures on private-market assets and other hard-to-reach markets
Convallax
Options — calls, puts and spreads — on prediction market events
Fish Audio
Expressive, emotionally controllable real-time voice models
Velvet
Curated boxes of authenticated fine jewelry, with retail value and odds disclosed before purchase
Lionbio
Building the first GLP-1s you can inhale
Peach
The market layer for every onchain asset.
What we are watching
Ideas we want to fund.
In the spirit of building in public, here is what the team is most excited about right now. If you are building any of it, we want to meet you.
Who backs us
Building something in onchain markets?
We read every pitch. Send a short note on what you are building, who it is for and why now — no deck required.