It runs on the network beneath.
Mycelium is the living web under every forest floor — moving nutrients, water and signals between organisms that would otherwise stand alone. mshrmm is that layer for frontier founders: a digital-native venture platform and go-to-market partner that connects builders to capital, distribution and ecosystems across onchain finance and AI × crypto.
Over the years, we've invested in and worked alongside 500+ startups — and we're still foraging.
We back the network-native layer of frontier technology — and then we help it actually reach the market. Two ways to onboard with us, often both at once.
We write the first check.
Early-stage conviction capital for teams building the rails of the new financial and intelligence stack. We come in early, concentrate, and stay close — the way the best mycelium feeds the strongest fruit.
We help it grow above ground.
Capital is table stakes. The advantage is distribution. We plug founders into APAC markets, exchange and liquidity relationships, market structure, and the media reach that turns a protocol into a network with users.
The most valuable mushrooms cannot be farmed — chanterelles and porcini are found, not grown. We look for the same in founders: network-native teams building where crypto and AI compound on each other — onchain finance, payments, agents that transact, compute that settles. That's the ground we forage first.
Raise from us
You want a first-check or seed lead who understands onchain finance, AI × crypto, payments and decentralized compute — and won't disappear after the wire.
Partner on GTM
You're funded but you need APAC distribution, exchange and liquidity relationships, market structure and narrative reach to grow.
What is mshrmm?
A digital-native venture platform and go-to-market partner. We write first checks into early-stage onchain finance, stablecoin infrastructure, AI × crypto, payments and decentralized compute — and back founders with capital, market structure, ecosystem access and APAC distribution. Over the years we've invested in and worked alongside 500+ startups.
Investor, or GTM partner?
Either, or both. Some founders raise from us; some bring us in purely for distribution and market structure; many do both. Pick a path above and tell us what you need.
Why mushrooms?
Because mycelium is the original network — an underground web that moves resources between organisms and lets a whole forest behave as one system. It is the cleanest metaphor we know for what a great early partner does. The game above turns the thesis into something you can play.