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Chapter One is an early-stage venture fund focused on helping companies find product-market fit.
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Chapter One Invests In Metal

Large Language Models (LLMs) will reshape every business, industry, and consumer experience, but only if the models, tools, and infrastructure are easy to use and available to everyone. The advantages of artificial intelligence need to be equitably spread to the use cases, problem sets, visions, and new ideas as varied and diverse as we all are. For this to be realized, we have to reframe how information and data are processed and retrieved; a mission Metal – a platform for creating AI-powered applications – is dedicated to achieving.
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Chapter One Invests in ether.fi

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February 28
The Ethereum blockchain is designed to let protocols flourish as fully decentralized and permissionless systems, yet we do not see projects building with this focus in mind daily. It is becoming more clear that DeFi is needed globally, a strengthening market that will power the next evolution of our peer-to-peer financial system. However, with all systems, we must invest in the infrastructure that powers the underlying technology.
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Chapter One Invests in Squid

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January 31
We are thrilled to announce our participation in Squid’s Seed Round, led by North Island Ventures with support from Distributed Global, Fabric Ventures, Galileo, Node Capital, and a collection of strong angels.
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Chapter One Invests in Hexens

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January 29
We are excited to announce our participation in Hexens’ Seed Round, led by IOSG Ventures with support from Delta Blockchain Fund, Tenzor Capital, Hash Capital, imToken, and strategic angels.
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Chapter One Invests in Helius

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October 19
Chapter One is excited to announce that we have co-led the seed round of Helius alongside our friends at Reciprocal Ventures, supported by a strong number of funds and angel investors.

Farcaster: The New Crypto GTM

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October 15
By Jeff Morris Jr.
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Chapter One Invests in Bond Protocol’s Seed Round

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October 06
We are excited to announce that we are co-leading Bond Protocol’s Seed Round alongside our friends at IDEO. We will be working very closely with the founding team, alongside a strong group of investors and friends at Alchemy Ventures, Hypersphere, and strategic angels.
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Crypto Market Fit: Redefining Product Market fit in web3

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October 05
Crypto Market Fit (CMF) is PMF for web3-native products judged by web3 metrics and mechanics rather than web2’s old standards.
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Announcing our $50 million fund to elevate product & design across Web3

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December 14
Foundational technologies like the computer and the Internet have fundamentally shaped the way we live, work, interact, transact, and communicate. The list goes on.