IDEO CoLab Ventures

Investing in bold ideas for a better tomorrow. We partner with visionary founders to help them create products and protocols that people love.

[IDEO CoLab Ventures @IDEOVC]

The internet is being rebuilt from the ground up, and the social landscape of the internet is undergoing a tectonic shift.

These two tidal forces are pointing to a new stage of the attention economy and forcing us to reexamine the fundamentals.

[IDEO CoLab Ventures @IDEOVC]

Congratulations to the @rocksolidHQ team! We're excited to be part of their mission to make DeFi more accessible

[RockSolid Network @rocksolidHQ]

1/ Excited to share that RockSolid has raised $2.8M in pre-seed funding led by @CastleIslandVC w/ backing from @Rocket_Pool, @GSR_io, @kindredventures, @theBBFund, @ideoVC, @StanfordSBA, and others.

Today, we're also launching the first official rETH vault with @Rocket_Pool.

[Mike Bodge @mikebodge]

What would you post if the entire internet was looking?

Meet AUX @aux_xyz, a new way to discover breaking culture online.

🔊🧵1/3

[IDEO CoLab Ventures @IDEOVC]

Our friends at @WE3co are doing what they do best - following their curiosity, going beyond the pixels, and exploring critical questions that matter.

Run, don't walk, at this opportunity.

[WE3.co @WE3co]

Do you have thoughts on the way web3 is going? Whether you love Ethereum, hate it, or are building elsewhere… we want to hear from you.

Join us for a 60-min workshop where we want to hear how you think about the future of being online.

👇Fill out this form to apply and read on for more details: https://t.co/qHnB2LVLGA

[IDEO CoLab Ventures @IDEOVC]

Congrats @LC on this big move! Excited to see Lens power the next chapter for the social web.

[Lens @LC]

Lens is live on mainnet. SocialFi starts now.

[Acctual @AcctualTeam]

Acctual customers can now invoice on @0xPolygon from 130+ countries. 🌎

🪙 Clients pay in their choice of stablecoins or fiat
🏦 Get paid directly to your wallet or bank account
⚡ Payments settle same day

See how it works ↓

[4DHD @_4DHD_]

AUX 🔊

TestFlight ready, contracts deployed. Unwrapping this new social experience very soon.

You'll want to be early, so queue up below 👇

[IDEO CoLab Ventures @IDEOVC]

Love this.

[Acctual @AcctualTeam]

Acctual customers can now invoice globally and receive payment same day.

🪙 Clients pay in stablecoins or fiat
🏦 You get paid directly to your wallet or bank account
🌎 For businesses & freelancers in 130+ countries
🚀 Payments deposit same day

See how it works ↓

[Acctual @AcctualTeam]

Acctual customers can now invoice globally and receive payment same day.

🪙 Clients pay in stablecoins or fiat
🏦 You get paid directly to your wallet or bank account
🌎 For businesses & freelancers in 130+ countries
🚀 Payments deposit same day

See how it works ↓

[Lens @LC]

Introducing Grove: Onchain-Controlled Storage.

True ownership of your digital footprint must include the ability to modify or remove your content.

[Cork Protocol @Corkprotocol]

🍾 Cork has launched its beta on Ethereum Mainnet!

We’re introducing a new DeFi primitive that tokenizes the risk of depeg events.

With our key launch partners @lidofinance, @ether_fi, @ethena, and @skyecosystem, Cork is initiating a new phase of DeFi defined by more opportunity, protection, and stability.

Tokenized risk for DeFi is here 🧵

[Lens @LC]

Lens v2 on Polygon → Lens v3 on Lens Chain Migration.

The Lens team migrated 125GB of profiles, managers, connections, and content to Lens Chain—the largest onchain migration ever.

[Bolt Liquidity @BoltLiquidity]

Introducing Bolt, the first on-demand liquidity network. ⚡

Imagine trading any asset, on any chain, at the best price — with ZERO SLIPPAGE.

This is the future of liquidity. 👇

[Enso | ⌘ 🛠️ @EnsoBuild]

1/ Enso is blockchain shortcuts.

By mapping all onchain interactions to a shared engine, Enso lets you focus on your product.

Our new identity reflects what we provide: The fastest way to turn your ideas into reality.

https://t.co/6V5x3tOLm0

[Syndicate @syndicateio]

Announcing Syndicate Chain—And The Path to a Community Owned Internet

Today, we're excited to announce the development of Syndicate Chain to horizontally scale Ethereum and build a community-owned internet.

The private testnet for Syndicate Chain is now live.

↓

[Will Papper ✺ @WillPapper]

Today we're bringing together everything:
- DAOs taught us about ownership
- working with consumer apps showed us scale
- launching rollups revealed centralization risks

They were all pieces of a bigger puzzle

What we learned:
- communities need real ownership
- reaching scale comes from user alignment
- value must flow to apps and their users
- tech alone doesn't drive adoption

Autonomous chains are our answer:
a way for communities to truly own their platforms, control their economies & build their future.

Excited to share more about what we're building. This brings together everything we've worked on since brainstorming the earliest aspects of Syndicate in 2018. The future is autonomous.

[SHERLOCK @sherlockdefi]

Today, @blackthornxyz emerges from stealth.

The most exceptional protocols deserve to work with the most elite auditors.

Blackthorn's 10 founding auditors have won over 120 audit contests.

Blackthorn's limited protocol members represent $160Bn of TVL.

[MUSE @crowdmuse]

ORBIT: Creator Editions features Sean (@seanxthielen) who recently won our Cyberphysical Brand Concepts Contest with @IDEOVC with his innovative design "SLING"

In this interview, we explore:
🟥 Sean's journey into blending physical objects with computing, focusing on embodied AI and AI devices
🟥 His experiences with Meta Ray-Bans and the Humane AI Pin, and how they enhance his artistic process
🟥 The creation of "SLING," a functional accessory to provide a consistent field of view for the AI Pin
🟥 The collaborative design process resulting in a unique wearable that merges form and function.
🟥 Insights on demand-driven manufacturing, sustainability in fashion, and the importance of reducing waste through pre-orders.
🟥 Reflections on the mechanics of pay-to-vote contests, the hyper-financialization of art, and lessons AI can learn from crypto's interactions with creativity.

And much more! Dive into the full conversation to explore Sean's unique perspective on the intersection of art, technology, and design.

Don't miss your chance to preorder "SLING" on Crowdmuse this Friday 29th Nov

[maz @mmazco]

this very DIY contest + campaign with @IDEOVC got us to test some of our assumptions around the design -> distribution -> production phases to get creators to design something people want + to avoid overproduction.

still yet to see if this model works with a community voting on a design + whether they would actually buy the final product!

its a tough model to coordinate manually, which i would rather feed the process into an agent to run multiple contests like this at a faster pace on @jokerace_io

a lot of this still depends on whether the creator or the platforms used have the distribution to help accelerate eyeballs + paying customers.

we saw over 3000 votes from 53 unique wallets on the contest with 1,722 votes going to the final winner @seanxthielen yet we are still to see whether this equates to sales on the winner's pre-order drop. if it doesn't we have to understand why sales don't convert even if a community was excited to vote...

[MUSE @crowdmuse]

TY to all partners and creators who took part in the contest and campaign. Full retro below 👇

https://t.co/8eG3MvDHWS

[MUSE @crowdmuse]

Now that the Cyberphysical contest has come to a close, we wrote up a retro to share our learnings.

Throughout a three-month campaign, we explored themes around ->

// the adoption of 3D design, genAI, and digital tools

// how this can help creators design concepts of physical products to avoid overproduction

// how community voting can help distribution of ideas and if it translates to final sales