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Chapter One
Los Angeles, United States
Chapter One is an early‑stage venture firm that backs product‑driven founders building generational companies. The firm focuses on sectors such as AI/ML, fintech, developer tools, blockchain and SaaS, where strong produc...
Portfolio
97+
Employees
25+
Founded
2017
AUM
≈ $0.0
Investment focus
Stages
Pre-Seed → Series A
Industries
Software OnlyArtificial IntelligenceBlockchain & CryptocurrencyDeveloper Tools
Geographic scope
Global
Sources
Chapter One
Chapter One is an early‑stage venture firm that backs product‑driven founders building generational companies. The firm focuses on sectors such as AI/ML, fintech, developer tools, blockchain and SaaS, where strong product expertise can create market‑defining solutions. It seeks to add immediate, industry‑specific value through deep product, design and engineering experience.
Portfolio
97+
Employees
25+
Founded
2017
AUM
≈ $0.0
Stages
Pre-Seed → Series A
Industries
Software OnlyArtificial IntelligenceBlockchain & CryptocurrencyDeveloper ToolsFinancial Technology
Geographic scope
Global
Sources
Showing 24 of 79 matched portfolio companies
Aestuary operates an e-commerce platform that utilizes proprietary algorithms to identify and acquire direct-to-consumer brands, facilitating their growth through tailored operational support. The company addresses the challenges founders face in scaling their businesses by providing a streamlined acquisition process and strategic resources within 45 days.
15+
2K+Approximate amount of employees
Alethea AI develops a protocol for creating interactive NFTs, known as intelligent NFTs (iNFTs), using GPT-3 and blockchain technology to enable tokenization and ownership of AI characters. This approach addresses the need for customizable, emotionally expressive digital assets that can be utilized across decentralized applications, enhancing user engagement and interaction.
Founded 2020
Alexcodes is an AI‑powered assistant that integrates directly into Xcode, automatically building projects, detecting compilation errors, and applying AI‑generated fixes with a single click. It also offers in‑editor chat, voice‑driven code input, Swift package addition, image‑to‑code generation, and local code embeddings to keep source code private, helping iOS and macOS developers accelerate their workflow.
Funding: $500.0K
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Funding: $500.0K
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Andrena offers residential high‑speed internet service with plans up to 1 Gbps, priced from $30 per month. Customers can activate service in under three minutes without a technician visit, and the company bills users on a monthly subscription basis. The model focuses on delivering affordable, secure broadband to multi‑device households and small businesses, emphasizing low cost, fast deployment, and reliable connectivity.
40+
3K+Approximate amount of employees
Funding: $44.3M
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Dragonfly
Dragonfly
Funding: $44.3M
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Provides an AI-driven command and control platform for AWS that automates cost optimization, resource rightsizing, and anomaly detection. It reduces cloud expenses by identifying savings opportunities, preventing overprovisioning, and offering enterprise-level discounts, while ensuring budget compliance and 24/7 DevOps support.
Funding: $4.3M
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Framework Ventures
Framework Ventures
Funding: $4.3M
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The startup offers an online financial platform that provides users with a digital bank account and a personalized card for secure transactions, utilizing a point-based system for fee-free money transfers and no minimum balance requirements. Users earn reward points on travel and dining purchases, enabling seamless mobile financial transactions at any time.
Funding: $86.2M
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Funding: $86.2M
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Basis provides an all-in-one platform for financial reporting, budgeting, and planning, enabling finance teams to automate data collection and create real-time dashboards. This technology addresses the inefficiencies in manual reporting processes, allowing organizations to generate accurate forecasts and insights quickly, thereby enhancing decision-making and operational efficiency.
Better Auth offers a type-safe authentication library that integrates directly with Drizzle ORM, automatically generating user and session schemas from your existing models. This simplifies the implementation of secure authentication flows in full-stack applications, ensuring type consistency and accelerating development.
Funding: $5.0M
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Funding: $5.0M
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The startup offers a decentralized platform that provides bonds as a service, enabling clients to issue tokens and manage treasury dilution through a flexible contract architecture. This technology facilitates the integration of various bond assets and auction interfaces, allowing users to access a diverse range of bond markets tailored to their specific needs.
Founded 202210+
Funding: $2.5M
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Funding: $2.5M
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The startup offers a contextual collaboration tool that enables users to communicate asynchronously through screen, video, and audio messages without requiring account creation or installation. This solution allows users to capture, comment, and share insights directly on web pages, facilitating efficient feedback and collaboration in real-time.
50+
1K+Approximate amount of employees
Funding: $8.5M
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Funding: $8.5M
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Cambly is a cloud‑based platform that connects adult English learners with native‑speaking tutors for on‑demand video lessons available 24/7. The service offers one‑on‑one and small‑group sessions, AI‑generated transcripts and pronunciation feedback, and a dashboard that tracks lesson frequency and skill metrics. Access is provided via web and mobile apps with tiered subscription pricing.
1000+
50K+Approximate amount of employees
Funding: $15.0M
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Funding: $15.0M
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Cameo is a marketplace that enables fans to book personalized video shoutouts from a diverse range of celebrities, including actors, athletes, and musicians. This platform addresses the need for unique, memorable gifts by providing custom video messages that can be delivered quickly, enhancing personal connections for various occasions.
Funding: $206.6M
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Valor Equity Partners
Valor Equity Partners
Funding: $206.6M
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Captions is an AI‑driven video platform that automates post‑production by automatically cutting scenes, adding AI‑generated B‑roll, music, transitions, and stylized captions in over 100 languages. It also creates realistic AI avatars from photos or prompts, allowing users to produce fully edited, branded videos for social media without on‑camera talent, all via a chat‑based editor and one‑tap export.
Funding: $60.0M
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Funding: $60.0M
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Cartridge provides onchain gaming infrastructure for studios developing player-owned economies and real money rewards. The platform features the Dojo Engine for deterministic, verifiable game logic and the Cartridge Controller for a game-native wallet experience. This infrastructure enables interoperable games where players can earn, own, and trade assets with provable fairness.
Provides a centralized platform for creators to build and manage online communities, combining tools for content sharing, member engagement, and monetization. It streamlines community management by integrating features like discussion forums, event scheduling, and subscription-based access, enabling creators to foster deeper connections and generate revenue from their audiences.
Funding: $30.5M
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Funding: $30.5M
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The startup offers a customer relationship management platform that analyzes calendar data to compile relevant social information and meeting history for individuals. This enables users to quickly access insights about their personal and professional connections, enhancing relationship management efficiency.
Funding: $8.0M
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Funding: $8.0M
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Compound is an open-source interest rate protocol that facilitates decentralized lending and borrowing across multiple blockchain networks. By enabling users to earn interest on their crypto assets and access liquidity without traditional financial intermediaries, it addresses the inefficiencies and limitations of conventional banking systems.
Funding: $32.7M
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Funding: $32.7M
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Provides a collaborative calendar platform designed for professionals and teams, integrating task management and scheduling to streamline workflows. It addresses inefficiencies in traditional calendar tools by enabling real-time updates, shared availability, and seamless integration with productivity apps.
Funding: $3.4M
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Initialized Capital
Initialized Capital
Funding: $3.4M
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Dapper Labs is a venture studio that builds consumer products for digital ownership on the Flow blockchain, offering licensed NFT collectibles such as NBA Top Shot, Disney Pinnacle, NFL ALL DAY, and CryptoKitties. Its platform provides integrated marketplaces, wallet support, and low‑cost, high‑throughput blockchain infrastructure, enabling creators and brands to monetize and engage fans while giving users true ownership of their digital assets.
Funding: $5.1M
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Funding: $5.1M
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Daylight provides a transaction recommendation API that analyzes onchain identities to deliver personalized mints, airdrops, and crypto app suggestions. This technology enhances user engagement and drives growth for apps and creators by connecting them with relevant onchain opportunities.
Funding: $9.0M
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1kxUnion Square Ventures
1kxUnion Square Ventures
Funding: $9.0M
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Density develops a self-installable radar sensor, Waffle, that provides real-time, anonymous people counting for various spaces, including meeting rooms and phone booths. This technology enables organizations to efficiently monitor space utilization without the need for complex installation or battery maintenance.
Funding: $125.0M
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Funding: $125.0M
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Doppler provides a centralized secrets management platform that integrates with popular CI/CD tools to automate the orchestration and governance of secrets and non-human identities at scale. This solution addresses the risk of credential breaches by ensuring secure and consistent management of sensitive information across cloud infrastructures.
Funding: $29.0M
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Funding: $29.0M
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The startup develops web3 technology that provides NFT tooling specifically for projects on the Solana and Ethereum blockchains. Its software enhances the value of NFTs for holders by offering a project management tool tailored to the unique needs of NFT initiatives.
Funding: $7.0M
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Funding: $7.0M
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Dynamic provides unified wallet infrastructure for fintech and crypto applications, enabling developers to quickly launch secure, non-custodial wallets. The platform supports embedded and external wallet connections across multiple chains, facilitating features like crypto payments, trading, and yield earning. It offers enterprise-grade security and sub-second signing speeds through flexible APIs and SDKs.
Funding: $22.3M
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a16z crypto
a16z crypto
Funding: $22.3M
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