Escape Velocity (EV3)

Escape Velocity (EV3) is a thesis-driven venture capital firm that invests $500K–$3M checks in pre-seed and seed stage companies building at the frontier of internet infrastructure and decentralized networks. The firm believes that 'programmable money, programmable molecules, and programmable intelligence are fundamentally re-shaping the world's most important industries,' with a particular focus on Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN) spanning wireless, compute, energy, logistics, identity, advertising, AR/XR, and AI. EV3's core conviction is that 'the next generation of great companies won't be built just on user-generated content, but on user-generated services'—new peer-to-peer networks that harness the scale of the masses to crowdsource supply and distribution in telecom, energy, logistics, advertising, and finance. The firm leads pre-seed rounds and partners with founders who challenge conventional boundaries, backing 'dreamers and rebels with relentless ambition' in the most esoteric corners of crypto and the open internet.