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Mechanism Capital
Venture capital
Mechanism Capital is an investment firm that backs companies in deep tech and crypto/Web3, with portfolio entries spanning seed to Series B rounds. It publishes research on crypto and technology topics and invites pitches through a contact form on its site.
Invests inFintechAI & Machine Learning
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Or find every investor that fitsMechanism Capital lists 69 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 5 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 60% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Fintech (41%), AI & Machine Learning (15%) and Crypto & Web3 (13%). 63% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Animoca Brands, a16z Frontier and Bitscale Capital.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Mechanism Capital, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Mechanism Capital's whole history. Rounds on record name 5 companies; its own site lists 69. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 60% |
| Series A | 40% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 1 | 0 |
| '22 | 2 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 2 | 0 |
| '26 | 0 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 90th | 68 companies |
| Recent activity | 46th | 0 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 76th | 60% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 62th | 4% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 74th | 41% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 88th | 7 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Fintech | 41% | 12% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 15% | 18% |
| Crypto & Web3 | 13% | 1% |
| Gaming | 8% | 1% |
| Developer Tools | 6% | 0% |
| Enterprise Software | 5% | 8% |
| Cybersecurity | 3% | 4% |
| Media & Entertainment | 3% | 4% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Animoca Brands | 12 |
| a16z Frontier | 7 |
| Bitscale Capital | 6 |
| LongHash Ventures | 6 |
| Pantera Capital | 6 |
| Alliance DAO | 5 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 5 |
| Big Brain Holdings | 5 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers6797%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company23%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Mechanism Capital head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Mechanism Capital| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 17 Sept 2025 | Seed | |
| 2 Sept 2025 | Seed | |
| 12 Jul 2022 | Seed | |
| 25 Jan 2022 | Series A | |
| 29 Jun 2021 | Series A |
Round details for Mechanism Capital
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Mechanism Capital's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
69 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company provides a platform for trading perpetual futures and swapping crypto assets. | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Portfolio page | ||
| Alchemy provides blockchain infrastructure for developers | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Portfolio page | ||
| Allora is a self-improving, decentralized AI network that harnesses community-built machine learning models for highly accurate, context-aware predictions. | AI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Amihan provides forward-deployed engineering services to help enterprises implement AI solutions. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| The ApeWorX collective maintains the Python devtooling stack for Ethereum developers, researchers, and protocol teams. | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Apptronik provides solutions for businesses, including goods-to-person, person-to-goods, packout, kitting, inspection and sorting, and machine and tool tending. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Arweave provides permanent information storage through a decentralized network. | Crypto & Web3AI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides a permanent onchain registry for artwork and its context | Media & EntertainmentFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Biconomy provides a universal execution layer for web3 solutions, including swaps, trading, and automation for DeFi and autonomous AI agents. | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Bio is where science gets researched, funded, and brought to market. | Healthcare & Biotech | Sept 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| BitMind verifies the authenticity of data points for businesses before their AI acts on it | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Bluefin operates a decentralized financial ecosystem for trading spot, derivatives, crypto, and more on a blockchain-based engine. | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Portfolio page | ||
| The company allows individuals to trade financial assets with funded capital and retain a percentage of the profits. | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Sept 2025Seed | Page + round | |
GamingFintech | Portfolio page | |||
| The company provides a platform for buying equities on credit without liquidation risk. | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Canopy provides a platform for users to manage and optimize their investments in DeFi protocols | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Chainflip operates a cross-chain decentralized exchange for swapping cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Solana, and Ethereum. | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Cross The Ages creates games | Gaming | Portfolio page | ||
| Curve provides a platform for swapping and trading cryptocurrencies | Fintech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- mechanism.capital
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 29 Jun 2021
- Companies checked
- 69
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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