IDEO CoLab Ventures
VC Fund
Cambridge, United States
IDEO CoLab Ventures is a VC fund in Cambridge focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. IDEO CoLab Ventures is invest in early-stage distributed web startups and co-create with them to ship new products and protocols.
- Total investments:
- 71
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 23%
- Fund size:
- $21M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries IDEO CoLab Ventures invests in
Stages IDEO CoLab Ventures invests in
Countries IDEO CoLab Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.1M–$10M
- Pre-Seed
- $1.2M–$4M
- Series A
- $4M–$26M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 28 (39%)
- Cryptocurrency 17 (24%)
- Software 15 (21%)
- FinTech 13 (18%)
- Financial Services 11 (15%)
Stage
- Seed 45 (63%)
- Pre-Seed 7 (10%)
- Series A 7 (10%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 5 (7%)
- Initial Coin Offering 2 (3%)
Country
- United States 37 (52%)
- India 2 (3%)
- Cayman Islands 2 (3%)
- Spain 1 (1%)
- France 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Daniel Hodd
Co-Founder & Venture Partner, IDEO CoLab Ventures
|
Co-Founder & Venture Partner, IDEO CoLab Ventures | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
|
Madeline Macartney
Investor
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Investor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Ian Lee
Co-Founder ,Venture Partner, IDEO CoLab Ventures
|
Co-Founder ,Venture Partner, IDEO CoLab Ventures | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
Matt Weiss
Co-Founder & Marketing Director & CEO
|
Co-Founder & Marketing Director & CEO | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cork provides a decentralized finance (DeFi) technology that enables collateralized swaps against any pegged asset. | $5.5M / Seed / Jan 21, 2026 | ||
| RockSolid Network is a DeFi protocol offering institutional-grade liquid vaults and white-label vault solutions. | $2.8M / Pre-Seed / Sep 09, 2025 | ||
| Cork provides a decentralized finance (DeFi) technology that enables collateralized swaps against any pegged asset. | Seed / Sep 09, 2024 | ||
| Legion is a merit-based crypto fundraising platform that bridges traditional finance and blockchain technology. Focused on regulatory compliance, investor accountability, and transparency, Legion enables startups to raise capital through MiCA-compliant token offerings, while providing retail investors better access to onchain fundraising and redefining public token sales for the digital age. Projects using Legion can customize allocation, whitelist, discounts, and more using onchain and off-chain criteria about each user to handpick an organic community of die-hard supporters. | $2M / Seed / Aug 27, 2024 | ||
| Yup is a crypto-backed social media platform. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 24, 2024 | ||
| Karma3 Labs is an open protocol that allows developers to create an on-chain ranking and recommendation system for their apps. Karma3 Labs provides peer-to-peer social attestations, open data, reliable algorithms, and contextual and customizable features. | $4.5M / Seed / Mar 01, 2024 | ||
| Run a seamless AP/AR process for every bill, from one place - crypto and fiat. Synced to your accounting system. | $3.9M / Seed / Nov 29, 2023 | ||
| Induced AI works to automate browser tasks. It runs a cloud to complete manual tasks on a browser with human-like reasoning capabilities. | $2.3M / Seed / Oct 03, 2023 | ||
| Run a seamless AP/AR process for every bill, from one place - crypto and fiat. Synced to your accounting system. | Seed / Jun 23, 2023 | ||
| Lens Protocol is a composable and decentralized social network serving the Web3 community. It enables creators to build their own web3 social media platforms and accounts, giving them control over their connections with their communities and also ownership over their content. | $15M / Seed / Jun 08, 2023 | ||
| See all 71 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does IDEO CoLab Ventures invest in?
IDEO CoLab Ventures invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 71 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does IDEO CoLab Ventures invest in?
IDEO CoLab Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$10M at Seed, $1.2M–$4M at Pre-Seed and $4M–$26M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not IDEO CoLab Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds IDEO CoLab Ventures took part in.
How do I contact IDEO CoLab Ventures?
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Who are the partners at IDEO CoLab Ventures?
The team at IDEO CoLab Ventures includes Daniel Hodd (Co-Founder & Venture Partner, IDEO CoLab Ventures), Madeline Macartney (Investor) and Ian Lee (Co-Founder ,Venture Partner, IDEO CoLab Ventures). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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