Announcing Breed Fund II
Today, we are announcing the close of Breed VC Fund II, a disciplined $15 million early-stage fund.
Fund II builds directly on the momentum of our 2023 vintage Fund I, which is now fully deployed. In just over three years, Fund I is tracking as one of the top-decile venture vintages of 2023 based on industry benchmarks, and has already begun distributing cash returns to our LPs. We have had the privilege of partnering from day zero with category-defining teams including Monad, Ethena, Agora, MyPrize, and Nous Research.
With Fund II, our core conviction remains steadfast: we partner at the earliest stages with the outlier founders building decentralized systems that return sovereignty, ownership, and economic agency to users.
Our Core Conviction: Decentralization as Autonomy
Crypto is not an isolated asset class or a speculative sandbox. It is the native architecture of a free, open, and resilient internet.
At Breed VC, our foundation has always been rooted in the power of permissionless protocols and verifiable digital ownership. We believe that true autonomy is fundamentally about human agency: the degree to which individuals, developers, and autonomous systems retain sovereign control over their capital, data, and compute.
Centralized platforms have concentrated unprecedented control over the modern digital economy, gatekeeping capital flows, extracting rents from builders, and walling off the compute and data powering artificial intelligence.
Decentralized systems provide the only technical guarantee that ownership and open access cannot be unilaterally compromised:
In finance, capital and settlement should run on open, borderless rails rather than closed banking rails with arbitrary friction and counterparty risk.
In artificial intelligence, developers and users must retain sovereign access to open-source models, verifiable inference, and decentralized compute networks, rather than relying on centralized corporate APIs.
In digital markets, economic upside belongs directly to the participants and builders who generate network value.
We back the technical purists building the open infrastructure that makes this sovereign future possible.
Fund II is already actively deploying behind this thesis, with early investments including Silicon Data, 3Jane, M1X, and USD. AI.
The Discipline of Staying Small
In recent years, too much of the venture capital industry became addicted to gathering assets and collecting management fees on bloated mega-funds. When fund sizes balloon, incentives warp. Managers drift into late-stage asset management, invest into tier 2 companies, and prioritize AUM over net returns.
At Breed VC, we intentionally kept our fund size at $15 million.
Staying disciplined is our core structural edge:
Pure Founder Alignment: At $15M, our returns are driven entirely by fund performance and founder success, not management fees.
True In-the-Trenches Partnership: We work closely alongside founders from day zero through their critical technical and go-to-market milestones.
High-Conviction Access: By writing concentrated $250k–$750k checks without demanding lead ownership, tier-1 lead investors and founders actively seek us out as an essential value-add partner on competitive cap tables.
Our Partners
We are deeply grateful for the conviction and continued partnership of our LPs, including FalconX, Hutt Capital, Arrington Capital, Nic Carter (GP, Castle Island Ventures), Rob Hadick (GP, Dragonfly), Jake Brukhman (GP, CoinFund) and many more. Their operational experience and support are invaluable to our firm and the founders we back.
Built for Day Zero
If you are a technical founder building decentralized, user-owned systems from day zero, we want to build with you.
Get in touch with us at breed.vc or reach out directly on X at https://x.com/breed_vc
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