Ethos
Why We Invest
Humanity is at an inflection point. Our transition towards the information age has just begun and will be accelerated through major breakthroughs in information technology. The amount of available information will continue to grow exponentially. Our ability to process the information is essential to making productive use of the advances. The accessibility and verifiability of data and AI algorithms will shape 21st century societies: open access will underpin privacy, truth and collaboration; gate keeping will drive censorship and information control.
Inflection’s mission is to be a catalyst for humane innovation through systemic improvements.
What if we could create scientific and educational systems optimizing for creativity, independent thinking and multi-disciplinary collaboration instead of producing intellectual robots who follow orders?
What if we could build monetary and financial infrastructure to foster cooperation for humanity instead of propagating an oppressive surveillance apparatus fuelled by predatory debt, unchecked inflation and garbled incentives?
What if we could operate cloud-first nations and organisations to coordinate labour and resources efficiently and transparently, as opposed to further entrenching archaic bureaucracies?
What if we could empower the people to reclaim their data- and financial sovereignty instead of exploiting them through surveillance and attention seeking algorithms?
What if we could create composable compute networks which allow us to verify the correctness of data and computations instead of trusting siloed and monopolized intermediaries?
What we invest into
We evaluate startups as complex, adaptive systems on a case by case basis. At the same time we developed a living framework which allows us to express what we care about most.
We invest into open networks which foster humane collaboration, broaden access to markets and empower users
Open networks
Networks are organizational structures which exponentially increase a product’s utility with each new participant joining. Once escape velocity is reached they can develop flywheel effects, trusted brands and entry barriers. If designed in an open fashion and governed by their stakeholders they can become credibly neutral. Adversarial interoperability and composability allow them to foster sustainable economic activity at global scale. Networks can be underpinned by (specialized) hardware-software combinations which excite us.
Human collaboration
Over the last few decades we created a version of the internet which is optimized to capture human attention in order to sell it to the highest bidder. Thereby, human attention became an exploitable commodity. It’s time to explore a new path by putting humans back at the center stage and optimise our technologies for for truth seeking, mental well being and collective productivity.
Access to markets
Crypto networks allow us to coordinate behaviors, resources and organizations over open source internet protocols instead of intermediaries. If assets, information and commercial relationships can be protected by cryptography and distributed computers outside the control of single groups, the margin on violence decreases. Access to markets, knowledge and culture will be democratized. While we are in the very early innings of such developments, crypto reached escape velocity. What started with Bitcoin and financial innovations in DeFi is expanding into other areas – Regenerative Finance (ReFi), Science (DeSci), Social (DeSo), Gaming and more.
User empowerment
Through privacy enhancing data exchanges and open financial infrastructure users get back in charge. The old adage “Not your keys, not your coins” may be true, but often imposes poor UX and interoperability with existing rails. By combining absolute ownership through proper cryptography and stellar user-facing products with public infrastructure, extortionist control becomes impossible. Censorship and de-platforming will become much harder to enforce. Security will significantly increase thanks to a lack of central data storage and asset honey pots.
What we value highly
Transparency – we share our thoughts openly and authentically to learn and grow.
Accountability – once we took a decision we own it and commit to it, no excuses.
Intellectual honesty – we embrace failure and keep an open mind.
Working with us
