# Vance Spencer

> Vance Spencer is a seed investor at Framework Labs backing Blockchain and Software. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Framework Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/framework-lab)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 80%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vance-spencer-978b4579/

Vance Spencer is a seed investor at Framework Labs in San Francisco focused on Blockchain and Software. Vance Spencer is the Co-founder at Framework Ventures.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 8 | 53% |
| Software | 4 | 27% |
| Cryptocurrency | 4 | 27% |
| FinTech | 2 | 13% |
| Internet | 2 | 13% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 47% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 5 | 33% |
| Series A | 2 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 47% |
| Canada | 2 | 13% |
| Spain | 1 | 7% |
| Denmark | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Obex | Obex helps to fund stablecoin projects backed by compute, energy and fintech credit on the Sky protocol. | $37M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 18, 2025 |  |
| Allora Labs | Allora Labs is a blockchain-based protocol that incentivizes experts to answer subjective questions honestly and captures the value of truth. Its first product aims to provide an efficient price-discovery mechanism for NFTs by paying experts for honest appraisals unlocking new opportunities for experts and enabling a number of powerful new DeFiprimitives. | $35M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 21, 2025 |  |
| Daylight | Anode Labs is a technology company committed to building a more stable, sustainable, and abundant energy system for humanity. | $15M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 16, 2025 |  |
| Mecka AI | Mecka AI is a data infrastructure company that builds large scale human datasets and tools to train and deploy AI and robotics systems. | $8M | Seed | Aug 12, 2025 |  |
| Perle AI | Kiva AI is a platform designed to supply high-quality and compliant data solutions at scale to create specialized AI applications in domains such as healthcare, finance, and law. | $9M | Seed | Aug 07, 2025 |  |
| Merit Systems | Merit aims to solve the "attribution problem" in software development. In the world of open source, which powers more than 97% of the apps that customers use daily, both IT titans and freelance programmers contribute to products that are freely available for anybody to access and enhance. | $10M | Seed | Jan 16, 2025 |  |
| Edgen | Open Social is a firm that focuses on creating a decentralized and sustainable ecosystem for creators, protocol developers, and Dapp developers. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 24, 2024 |  |
| UpLink | UpLink is a Telecommunications company that empowers the spread of The Collective Network farther, faster, and cheaper.UpLink believes that connectivity is a human right, an enabler of growth, and an equalizer of opportunities. They envision a world where the Internet is more accessible, inclusive, and affordable. Founded by Carlos Lei Santosand Andre Francisco in 2016 and is located in New York, NY. | $10M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 11, 2024 |  |
| Satellite IM | Satellite IM utilizes leading decentralization and encryption technology to provide a platform to build extensible apps. | $10.5M | Seed | Aug 11, 2022 |  |
| Allora Labs | Allora Labs is a blockchain-based protocol that incentivizes experts to answer subjective questions honestly and captures the value of truth. Its first product aims to provide an efficient price-discovery mechanism for NFTs by paying experts for honest appraisals unlocking new opportunities for experts and enabling a number of powerful new DeFiprimitives. | $22M | Series A | Mar 22, 2022 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [CoinFund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinfund) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Polychain](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/polychain-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Coinbase Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinbase-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Blockchain Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crypto-currency-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Neo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/neo-innovation) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [a16z crypto](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a16z-crypto) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Framework Labs

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Framework is a hybrid fund-operating company that invests in promising protocols and builds supply-side services to bootstrap networks, maximizing their chance of success, and generate revenue via staking/voting/participating with their assets.

2 contacts available at Framework Labs.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Michael Anderson | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-anderson-4 |
| Vance Spencer | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vance-spencer |

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## FAQ

### What does Vance Spencer invest in?

Vance Spencer invests primarily in Blockchain, Software and Cryptocurrency startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Vance Spencer last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Vance Spencer closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 15 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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