IDEO CoLab Ventures is the venture investment arm of IDEO, a global design and consulting firm. It partners with visionary founders at the earliest stages to help them create products and protocols that people love, with a focus on web3, blockchain, and decentralized technologies.
Their most common stage is seed (47% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $7.8M (across 18 rounds with reported amounts).
Portfolio
19
Fund Size
—
Top Stage
Seed
Last 12 Mo
0
Team
Joe Gerber
General Partner
Ali Sheppard
Head of Operations
Reid Williams
Product & Engineering
Reuben Brama
Portfolio Breakdown
Stage Distribution
Sector Distribution
Investment Activity
DealsAvg Round Size
Portfolio
19 investments
| Company | Round | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| EEarlyBird | Seed | $4.5M | Nov 2023 |
 Blocktorch | Seed | $4.2M | Jan 2023 |
 Unlockd | Seed | $4.4M | Aug 2022 |
 Phi Labs | Seed | $21M | Mar 2022 |
 Curve Health | Series A | $12M | Feb 2022 |
| SStems Labs | Pre-Seed | $4M | Jan 2022 |
 Satellite.im | Seed | $10.5M | Jan 2022 |
 Nine Chronicles | Growth | $2.6M | Jan 2021 |
| PPancake Bunny | Seed | $1.6M | Jan 2021 |
 Neon EVM | Unknown | $40M | Jan 2021 |
 PoolTogether | Unknown | $1M | Jan 2020 |
 Infarm | Unknown | — | Jun 2017 |
 Yield Guild Games | Series A | $4.6M | — |
 Cometh | Unknown | $10M | — |
 Valiu | Seed | $5.3M | — |
 Antimetal | Seed | $4.3M | — |
| YYield Guild | Series A | $4M | — |
| AAntimetal Inc. | Seed | $4.3M | — |
| DDefiant Media | Pre-Seed | $1.4M | — |
Top Co-Investors
Animoca Brands3 shared
Mechanism Capital3 shared
ParaFi Capital3 shared
Framework Ventures3 shared
Alchemy Ventures3 shared
Alumni Ventures2 shared
SevenX Ventures2 shared
BITKRAFT Ventures2 shared
Ascensive Assets2 shared
A.Capital Ventures2 shared
Wintermute Ventures2 shared
Blockchange Ventures2 shared
Chapter One2 shared
Polygon Ventures2 shared
Blockchain Capital2 shared
Hashed2 shared
Hypersphere Capital2 shared
Sfermion2 shared
Solana Ventures2 shared
Scale Venture Partners1 shared
Last updated: 8 September 2026