Archetype is an early-stage venture fund founded in 2021 and headquartered in New York City, dedicated to accelerating the decentralized future. The firm backs the next generation of crypto founders who are disrupting the status quo and creating new markets. Archetype invests across infrastructure, decentralized finance (DeFi), consumer applications, and emerging crypto primitives that will shape the future of technology and finance. This includes a focus on onchain social networks, stablecoins, payments, crypto AI, modular protocols, decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePIN), and mobile applications built on crypto rails. The crypto-native team provides visionary founders with capital, hands-on support, and expertise across investing, engineering, protocol design, mechanism design, policy, and community-building.