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Fabric Ventures
Fabric Ventures launched in 2017 and operates from London with a team of 15 who collectively hold decades of experience across the internet, cloud,...
Fabric Ventures
Fabric Ventures launched in 2017 and operates from London with a team of 15 who collectively hold decades of experience across the internet, cloud, social, crypto, web3, fintech and AI. The firm frames its entire mandate around the Machine Economy — the idea that the next generation of AI-driven services will rely on distributed, verifiable computation and value transfer layers that sit beneath consumer and enterprise applications. Fabric invests from pre-seed through Series C, with a portfolio tilted heavily toward infrastructure, finance, and gaming. Confirmed positions include decentralized exchange aggregator 1inch, hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger, blockchain infrastructure provider Consensys, and gaming guild Yield Guild Games. Geographic exposure spikes in the United States, France, the United Kingdom, and Singapore, with smaller clusters in Germany, Switzerland, and the Nordics. The portfolio also spans payments infrastructure (Ramp, Fiat Republic), blockchain middleware (Moralis, OpenZeppelin), and data tooling (Nansen, Messari). Fabric's strategy is direct and venture-generalist, blending pure-play crypto infrastructure with AI and fintech startups that sit at the protocol level of the machine economy thesis. Fabric reports 196 companies backed since inception, with 15 professionals on staff. The firm's portfolio operates across four continents — Europe, Americas, Asia, and Africa — with a London headquarters. The firm runs a dedicated residency program, R[3]sidency, designed for early-stage builders in the Machine Economy. As of 2025, Fabric has continued to deploy into new infrastructure plays, including Layer (infrastructure, BVI, 2024) and Mio (infrastructure, US, 2025). Fabric's structural differentiator lies in its tight coupling of a venture-generalist fund with a residency program that intentionally fronts the firm's thesis research pipeline. By offering residencies to founders building at the intersection of AI, decentralized infrastructure, and novel economic primitives, Fabric creates a pre-seed sourcing engine that conventional VC platforms cannot easily replicate. This model positions the firm as both a capital provider and an early-stage co-builder in the machine economy stack.
General information
Firm type
Venture Capital
Year founded
—
AUM
Undisclosed
Location
Region
Europe
Country
United Kingdom
City
London
Corporate office
London, United Kingdom
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
What is the Machine Economy thesis and how does it shape Fabric's portfolio?
Fabric Ventures defines the Machine Economy as the infrastructure layer where AI-driven services are supported by decentralized computation, verifiable data, and peer-to-peer value transfer. This thesis steers the firm toward protocol-level investments in blockchain infrastructure, decentralized finance, and payments rails rather than consumer-facing apps. Portfolio companies like The Graph, Ocean Protocol, and Centrifuge embody this focus on verifiable data, tokenized assets, and composable backend primitives.
Does Fabric Ventures run a direct-investment fund or a fund-of-funds structure?
Fabric Ventures operates as a direct venture investor. The firm writes checks from pre-seed through Series C and does not market itself as a fund-of-funds vehicle. All 196 portfolio companies on its public roster represent direct equity or token positions rather than commitments into other venture funds.
What is R[3]sidency and how does it relate to the fund's strategy?
R[3]sidency is a program for early-stage founders building companies that fit the Machine Economy thesis. It functions as a pre-seed sourcing and support engine for Fabric Ventures, giving the firm early access to teams working at the intersection of AI, decentralized infrastructure, and tokenized economic models before they enter formal venture rounds.
Which sectors does Fabric Ventures explicitly avoid?
Fabric's publicly listed portfolio does not include traditional industrials, physical infrastructure, biotech, or consumer packaged goods. While the firm does not publish an explicit exclusion list, every named portfolio company operates within digital infrastructure, DeFi, payments, gaming, or data tooling — sectors that map to its machine economy thesis.
How does Fabric Ventures source its deal flow?
Fabric sources through its team's operator and founder network — built across four decades of experience in internet, cloud, crypto, and AI companies — and through its R[3]sidency program. The residency functions as an inbound funnel for pre-seed builders aligned with the firm's thesis, giving Fabric early access to technically dense infrastructure startups.
Who makes investment decisions at Fabric Ventures?
Fabric does not publicly list named principals or investment committee members on its website. The firm describes a research and investment team of 15, which includes founders, operators, and engineers with prior experience starting and scaling companies across multiple technology cycles. No named CIO, managing partner, or GP is disclosed in available primary sources.
Is Fabric Ventures structured as a generalist venture firm or a sector-specific fund?
Fabric Ventures is thesis-driven and sector-concentrated. While it operates across robotics, AI, fintech, distributed computing, and Web3, every investment traces back to the Machine Economy framing. This makes it narrower than a generalist venture firm but broader than a pure crypto or AI fund, sitting at the convergence point of those domains.
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