Co-founder @fabric_vc Backing the Open Economy: Revolut, Flowdesk, BitRobot, Near, Sorare, Ctrl+G, Monzo, Immutable, 1inch, TheGraph, Ramp, Nansen & more..
Joined October 2015
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Fabric Ventures has a new fund: $130m of fresh capital for the founders of the Open Economy in Europe! 🚀
Backed by an incredible group of LPs, ranging from the @EIF_EU to the very builders of this sector.
coindesk.com/crypto-vc-fabri…
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Researcher founders are making a comeback. Their share of companies raising a $100m+ round rose from under 10% in 2014 to roughly 40% in 2026 so far.
I explore what’s driving the shift, and what it takes to turn research into a lasting business.
Using crypto incentives as a public call to action to find new environment-task combos that are worth collecting for physical AI models.
My thesis on @BitRobotNetwork and why I've been working towards this the last ~4 yrs
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We raised $2.2M to build Mio, your best hire yet
Last week, Mio gave our team back >130 hours
Led by @caseykcaruso at @topology_vc & @windychester1 at @fabric_vc
Get started for free at mio . xyz
Seeing VCs commenting on the football World Cup with absolute conviction in their newfound expertise is a rather worrying signal for their supposed competence in other sectors...
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We defend the West.
We're coming out of stealth to announce our cyber defense research lab.
We are exploring data and post-training techniques to build superhuman cyber defenders.
Our mission is to make sure the West always wins.
The last 3 months we've built an automated data pipeline to create training data from 80k CVEs (aka public vulnerabilities).
Our next topic? Post training a model that's better at fixing all the vulnerabilities in your codebase.
Like really fixing them.
Not saying it's secure when there are still ways to exploit them.
Here are the questions that keep us awake at night:
How do you train a model to defend without improving its capabilities to attack? What's the right reward? How to measure the defense capabilities? How do you create synth training data that reproduces real systems? What kind of access do you give an ai cyber defender? How far can you trust it?
If you know insanely good cyber experts (red team, blue team, CTF aficionados) or ML engineers (synth data generation and post-training models), send them my way.
We need to make models far better at defending.
Max Mersch retweeted
We're coming out of stealth to announce our cyber defense research lab.
We are exploring data and post-training techniques to build superhuman cyber defenders.
Our mission is to make sure the West always wins.
The last 3 months we've built an automated data pipeline to create training data from 80k CVEs (aka public vulnerabilities).
Our next topic? Post training a model that's better at fixing all the vulnerabilities in your codebase.
Like really fixing them.
Not saying it's secure when there are still ways to exploit them.
Here are the questions that keep us awake at night:
How do you train a model to defend without improving its capabilities to attack? What's the right reward? How to measure the defense capabilities? How do you create synth training data that reproduces real systems? What kind of access do you give an ai cyber defender? How far can you trust it?
If you know insanely good cyber experts (red team, blue team, CTF aficionados) or ML engineers (synth data generation and post-training models), send them my way.
We need to make models far better at defending.
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You can now: buy, swap, and hold BTC, ETH, SOL and more inside Ramp Network, across 15+ chains, without re-verifying, without bridges, without leaving the app.
One account. Your keys.
1/5 🧵 👇️
“To harden a system you need to spend more tokens discovering exploits than attackers will spend exploiting them”
dbreunig.com/2026/04/14/cybe…
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1/ Today, Ramp Network Swaps expand to 1,200+ swap pairs across 16 networks.
No more bridges or extra tools. Do it all from your wallet.
Pick what you want to swap > confirm the details > and you're done.
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We're on a roll today! 🚀 Kulipa raised $6.2M in seed funding, co-led by @FlourishVC and @1kxnetwork, with @WhiteStarCap and @fabric_vc ⬇️
theblock.co/post/396063/stab…
This is success.
9 years ago when we started fundraising & pitching the thesis for @fabric_vc, this was always the goal:
“Crypto will not stay a niche industry.
The technology will permeate into every single industry.
It will feel invisible and yet become omnipresent.”
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We're open-sourcing our Earth Rover platform with @huggingface & @sigrobotics!
🤖 Integrated hardware (electronics, software, 3D files) with @LeRobotHF
🌎 7,000 hours of driving data from 40+ cities, curated by UC Berkeley researchers
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JUST IN: 🇱🇺 Luxembourg's Sovereign Wealth Fund allocates 1% of its portfolio to spot Bitcoin ETFs.
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We've crossed $7M spent with the @ready_co card this week, with $650k for last week only.
Things are accelerating fast!
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10,000+ ML engineers. 1,200+ PhDs call this place home!
We’re powering the future of decentralized collective intelligence.
Our new site is live 👇
crunchdao.com
Check it out and tell us your favorite part 👀
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Crunch Lab Raises $5M!
We’re breaking the AI talent bottleneck with a decentralized network of 10,000+ ML engineers & 1,200+ PhDs.
Co-led by @galaxyhq and @RoadCapMgmt, with participation from @vaneck_us and @multicoin.
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Onchain access just got safer.
BitGo is the first custodian to integrate @Narvalgmi’s DeFi Gateway, giving institutions access to the best of DeFi while keeping assets in qualified custody.
With BitGo + Narval, institutional investors, foundations, and treasuries can:
🔸 Participate in onchain financing, staking, and liquidity protocols, without leaving custody.
🔸 Protect against phishing, blind-signing, and malicious changes.
🔸 Stay compliant while monitoring every transaction in real time.
The result? Delivering a safe path for institutions to explore DeFi.
