Draft Ventures

Small businesses drive the economy. They deserve to own a piece of it. Jia gives entrepreneurs anywhere in the world power to control their financial destiny. We provide blockchain-based financing to businesses in emerging markets and reward them with ownership, enabling them to create wealth and prosperity for themselves and their communities.

Our mission is to grow the export volume of small and medium size agribusinesses in Latin America, generating a sustainable impact in their rural communities while increasing export volume to countries with food deficit

Revolutionising Sustainable Infrastructure Finance.

Toucan is building technology to unlock climate action at scale. Its digital infrastructure is helping to grow the voluntary carbon market (VCM) in a transparent and high-integrity way by increasing the flow of revenue to the most effective climate impact projects. Toucan is an early entrant into the market of tokenized credits and its technology is designed to bring both established and nascent environmental assets on the blockchain.

The carbon markets are predicted to be 50x in size up to $50B by 2030. The majority of this market is going to be created through forward investments. One of the big things holding back the forward market today is carbon projects underperforming and the illiquid nature of the carbon investment market. Investing in a project gives you a forward contract for future credits. These forward contracts often underdeliver, and you can't do anything with this illiquid future promise for credits in 5+ years. Solid World DAO accelerates carbon project development through fair, transparent and liquid markets. We de-risk carbon investments and make them liquid. The added safety of investing in carbon space will result in accelerated capital deployment and expansion cycles for carbon projects. They´ve partnered with the top companies in this space like SCB, Vlinder, Emsurge, Arbol, SustGlobal, Toucan, Flowcarbon, OFP. Since they started in October 2021, they designed special-purpose blockchain infrastructure, have $4M forwards committed for the liquidity pools, and have built a one-of-a-kind world-class team with deep industry knowledge(ACT Commodities, BeZero, eAgronom) and blockchain knowledge(Toucan, Mercado Bitcoin, KlimaDAO) with serial-entrepreneur founders(Glia, eAgronom) who have been featured in Time, sourced tens of millions of forward credits, and are in late-stage talks with multiple trading houses for them to become LP-s on their automated market maker. Their protocol will serve as a financial primitive to build derivatives, collateralised loans, on-chain insurance and other innovations. They have a first-mover advantage in building forward carbon credit infrastructure.

Treeswift utilizes robotic and machine learning technology to build forestry tools.

Composer allows users to build, test, and manage automated investment strategies without writing a line of code. the company was founded in 202 and is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Candid Wholesale is a SaaS platform to help businesses buy, sell and pay for wholesale.

CompScience is a platform that offers AI-driven solutions for workers' compensation insurance, focusing on workplace safety through data analysis and risk identification. The company provides tools that help organizations assess their safety protocols, identify potential hazards, and implement effective risk management strategies. By leveraging machine learning algorithms, CompScience analyzes historical data to predict future incidents and recommend preventive measures. This enables businesses to reduce claims costs and enhance employee safety. Additionally, CompScience facilitates communication between safety teams and management, ensuring that safety initiatives are aligned with organizational goals.

The world's first intent engine powering the intent-centric future. A layer-1 tendermint-based blockchain, storing state from EVM, SVM, and MVM chains to enable execution on all blockchain frameworks.

Side Inc. is a real estate brokerage company based in San Francisco, California, that empowers high-performing agents, teams, and independent brokerages to establish and grow their own businesses. Founded in 2014, Side partners exclusively with top agents, providing them with proprietary technology and comprehensive support to enhance productivity, legal compliance, and marketing efforts. This approach allows agents to develop their own boutique brands while maintaining full ownership of their businesses. By leveraging advanced advertising tools and a dedicated support team, Side enables its partners to effectively compete in the online real estate market and focus on delivering exceptional service to their clients.

In 2012, Jonathan Benassaya discovered Bitcoin and blockchain technology through Wences Casares, famed entrepreneur and cryptocurrency advocate. While the notion of cryptocurrency may have seemed outlandish at the time, the technological innovation and potential impact of the blockchain - a worldwide, secure, and distributed system - was nothing short of revolutionary. For the first time in history, a transactional architecture without any physical boundaries or limitations, completely free from governmental oversight or intermediation, was created. In contrast to the birth of Internet, billions of computers and a large communication network already existed, thereby providing the infrastructure for blockchain technology and its native currencies to flourish and thrive. Fast forward to 2017, the digital asset market is experiencing unprecedented and meteoric growth, with application development for the blockchain also occurring at a record pace. The comparisons to the early days of the Internet are not only inevitable, but eerily similar. Reminiscent of the late 1990s, they are embarking on a new world order that is destined to forever change how they view financial services, technology, and governmental involvement. Cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology hold the promise of revolutionizing the global monetary system, just as the Internet permanently altered how they communicate and access information. For the greater population, however this new revolution is challenging to not only understand, but also to participate in. Enter IronChain Capital, a new company focused on a singular and all-important mission: to provide all investors with easy and secure access to the cryptocurrency asset class, on a highly cost-effective and diversified basis.

Fig is a curated platform for funding and developing games with the direct support of passionate players. Our platform brings together rewards-based community publishing and investing to create a more balanced and sustainable approach to game development. Fig is a curated platform for funding and developing games with the direct support of passionate players like you. Our platform brings together rewards-based community funding and investing to create a more balanced and sustainable approach to game development.

We are bringing back the personal touch lost when businesses migrated to the internet. We all have our favorite brands. But it breaks our heart when they try to engage us with generic experiences, canned messages, and random pop-ups. And we know the future is not just remembering a visitor’s first name — it’s about delivering a personal experience optimized for each person. We are using the power of AI to help online businesses create personalized and delightful experiences for their users. We saw the amazing potential of machine learning while working at Google years ago. But instead of developing it for the big companies, we want to make it accessible for every business. That’s our mission at ByteGain.

Showroom is a tech company that has leveraged 35 years of manufacturing experience to empower interior designers to leverage their brand by creating their own furniture.

SevenFifty powers a connected beverage alcohol supply chain, bringing innovative technology to the massive but antiquated wholesale alcohol sales and distribution industry. A first-of-its-kind communication platform and marketplace, SevenFifty helps importers, producers, distributors, and retail buyers connect with each other and do business in a modern world. Founded by industry professionals in 2012, SevenFifty now operates in 40 U.S. markets. In 2017, SevenFifty launched SevenFifty Daily, an online magazine about the business and culture of the beverage alcohol industry.

Side Inc. is a real estate brokerage company based in San Francisco, California, that empowers high-performing agents, teams, and independent brokerages to establish and grow their own businesses. Founded in 2014, Side partners exclusively with top agents, providing them with proprietary technology and comprehensive support to enhance productivity, legal compliance, and marketing efforts. This approach allows agents to develop their own boutique brands while maintaining full ownership of their businesses. By leveraging advanced advertising tools and a dedicated support team, Side enables its partners to effectively compete in the online real estate market and focus on delivering exceptional service to their clients.

Mytable is a marketplace and delivery service for home cooked meals. They partner with the best cooks in your community to bring home cooked meals direct to your door. They believe that everyone deserves a home cooked meal and the best meals come from home kitchens.

Sawyer connects children, parents, and providers of the best enriching childhood experiences through a suite of industry-leading technology solutions with a goal to ensure every child has the opportunity to discover their own love of learning. Sawyer empowers small business owners, enterprise organizations, non-profits, and traditional educational institutions by streamlining their online registration and booking processes, providing business intelligence tools to drive decision making, and connecting them to a curated community of industry experts, resources, and cutting-edge research to grow their businesses and increase their impact. They help parents navigate the intense, fragmented world of early childhood development by creating tools that help them balance and manage their children’s day-to-day lives, discover a whole world of adventure right in their own neighborhoods, and make booking their next educational experience as simple and accessible as possible. Sawyer is on a mission to change the way the world thinks about learning–that a great education isn’t just about high test scores or a flawless report card, it’s about building the capacity for discovery in children through adventures that delight them today and prepare them for tomorrow.

Aspire is the influencer marketing platform empowering ecommerce brands to build and cultivate influential communities of influencers, ambassadors, affiliates, customers, and more. Brands using Aspire can discover authentic partners, streamline relationships, scale their programs, and measure true business impact — regardless of where they are in their influencer marketing journey. Aspire is trusted by Glossier, Coola, Bombas, Newell, Ruggable, and over 400 additional customers. Investors include Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Pear.vc, and more. For more information, visit www.aspire.io.

FabFitFun offers subscription services that allow its members to discover brands and products. FabFitFun is a team of self-starters, working together to achieve their mission. It’s a fast-paced environment, but they always take the time to celebrate birthdays, big wins, and cheer each other on. abFitFun was founded in 2010 and is backed by tier-one investors, including New Enterprise Associates, Upfront Ventures, and Simon Venture Group.

Chain, Inc. is an enterprise software company based in San Francisco, California, established in 2012. It specializes in developing cryptographic ledger systems designed to enhance the security and efficiency of financial services. The company's key offerings include the Chain Open Standard, an open-source blockchain protocol for large-scale financial applications, Chain Core, an enterprise-grade production node, and Chain Sandbox, a prototyping environment. Chain's technology allows organizations to securely track and transfer financial assets in a token format across both private and public networks, facilitating programmatic and peer-to-peer transfers of digital assets. Its clientele includes major financial institutions such as Visa, Nasdaq, and Citigroup, as well as emerging startups focused on innovative financial products.

We're a fast-growing Y-Combinator (S15) backed startup, based in New York. Hickory is the only training tool focused on retention, turning Sales and Customer Service staff into brand experts. The app predicts when a rep will forget what they’ve learned, and schedules review exercises tailored to their strengths and weaknesses to prevent that from happening.

Shyp provides shipping services that range from picking-up the package to delivering it to the destination. It connects the package to USPS, FedEx, UPS, OnTrac, or other regional carriers - automatically figuring out the best carrier to use for each individual delivery. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Livefyre is a social depth platform according to top industry analysts, gives marketers the tools they need to easily weave on-brand user-generated content into their own websites and other marketing experiences. Livefyre’s intuitive technology gives brands and publishers the ability to add social content to their branded websites, driving audience exploration of products and services that drive traffic, conversions, and revenue. Livefyre is powering real-time content marketing experiences for over 1,500 leading brands including CBS, Cisco Systems, Conde Nast, Cox Media Group, CNN, Dow Jones/WSJ, FedEx, Hallmark, Intel, Mashable, Motorola, NASCAR, the PGA Tour, and Universal Music Group. In 2015, Livefyre announced game-changing partnerships and integrations with Adobe, Salesforce, and Twitter. Livefyre was founded in 2009 and is backed by Adobe Systems, Salesforce Ventures, Greycroft, and U.S. Venture Partners. For more information, visit www.livefyre.com or follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @livefyre.