Metaplanet

What is Metaplanet?

Metaplanet is an evergreen investment firm focused on backing mission-driven founders who aim to create technologies promoting humanity's long-term survival. With a belief in investing in 'missionaries over mercenaries,' Metaplanet supports those who build safe, deep tech solutions that aspire to leave a lasting, positive impact on a societal and civilizational scale. They are committed to transformative tech development across various sectors such as AI and Big Data, HealthTech and Fitness, Healthcare and Wellness, and Consumer technologies.

Metaplanet's investment approach favors opportunities that present both a challenge to the status quo and the potential for multi-generational influence. Their portfolio showcases a diverse spectrum of companies, from AI research initiatives prioritizing safety to start-ups like URA, which focuses on translating body signals into actionable health data, and Protocol Labs, which works on innovations in computing.

Metaplanet underlines the importance of compatibility between the founder's mission and its philosophy, which emphasizes a blend of academic mentality with evidence-based R&D and an inherent moat derived from either technology or business model. The firm operates autonomously as a single-source fund without external investors, thus prioritizing long-term value over quick returns.

The fund has an investment range with a minimum of $100,000, a maximum of $5,000,000, and a sweet spot of $1,500,000, primarily focusing on Seed and Series A stages. Their specialties also include supporting ventures like those in enterprise tech for impact on productivity and sustainability, as well as emerging domains like cryptocurrency.

Metaplanet sustains a hands-off approach, yet remains swift to provide support when needed, maintaining a lean yet responsive team of enablers. They have backed over 170 companies and boast of more than 50 exits by 2025.

The success of their investment strategy enables them to fund grants that address risks to our collective existence, primarily arising from AI developments.

What they say:

Metaplanet is an early-stage investment firm making long-term bets on contrarians and leveraging the knowledge and network across sectors. We back mission-driven founders working on positively disruptive deep technologies.

What we look for: We invest in novel and evidence based innovation that could produce an outsized return for the benefit of humankind. Focus on AI, biotech, crypto, healthcare, transportation.

How we help: We help with bringing you into a deep network in Silicon Valley, fundraising and Talent support.