Escape Velocity

Investment decisions are run by co-founders and General Partners Mahesh and Salvador, who present themselves using first names only on the firm's website. The partnership also includes a COO and Chief of Staff, but no additional investment committee or external advisors are disclosed.

EV3's sourcing model combines a public submission process — founders can send a deck or memo and receive a response within 48 hours — with an in-house fellowship program and original research practice. The thesis-driven approach, concentrated on programmable money, molecules, and intelligence, is designed to attract founders building at the frontiers of crypto-enabled physical infrastructure before they enter broader institutional fundraising processes.

Escape Velocity operates as a venture capital firm, managing at least two commingled funds and describing itself as a coalition of entrepreneurs rather than a family office. The firm's $61.74 million Fund II vehicle confirms a traditional, external-limited-partner fund structure.

Escape Velocity publicly discloses only direct investments in pre-seed and seed-stage companies. The firm leads or co-leads rounds — Daisy, Drill, EarnOS, LOCAL, Opacity, Rumi, Skymapper, Unlink, and CreatorFi are flagged as led or co-led positions — with no indication of fund-of-funds activity or LP commitments to other managers.

The firm targets pre-seed and seed stages, writing initial checks of $500,000 to $3 million. Its portfolio is explicitly divided into pre-seed companies — including Daisy, Drill, and XNET — and seed companies such as 3DOS, Daylight, and Natix.

Escape Velocity does not publish a list of excluded sectors, but its entire disclosed portfolio is concentrated in crypto-enabled businesses intersecting physical infrastructure — wireless, edge compute, energy, logistics, mapping, and identity. Traditional enterprise SaaS, biotech therapeutics, and consumer marketplaces outside of crypto rails appear absent from the current portfolio.

Escape Velocity does not disclose the source of its partners' personal wealth or the identity of its external limited partners. The co-founders, Mahesh and Salvador, present themselves as entrepreneurs building a coalition but have not publicly linked their capital base to a prior operating exit or family wealth.