We started Delphi Digital seven years ago because we saw crypto as the most important, interesting, and impactful technological development we’d ever encountered.
We didn’t come from backgrounds in distributed systems or cryptography—but what we lacked in experience, we made up for with obsession. As researchers by nature, we were driven by a singular focus: to understand, master, and ultimately build in a space we knew was poised to transform the world.
So we went all in. Consuming everything we could get our hands on, we moved fast, thought deeply, and built with intent. What began as a steep learning curve became a competitive edge. Research stayed at the heart of everything—and it still does.
Keeping research at our core, we seeded Delphi Ventures to back exceptional builders and launched Delphi Labs to incubate and accelerate early-stage ideas into investable businesses. This multidimensional researcher-investor-builder perspective proved invaluable, enabling our collective Hivemind to compound insight toward a single mission: to help crypto happen sooner and better than it would without us.
Seven years later, we’re proud of how far we’ve come — and even more excited to see crypto well on its way to validating our original thesis and permeating every aspect of society.
At the same time, we have found ourselves increasingly nerd-sniped by another once-in-a-generation technological shift: artificial intelligence. For many of us, the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022 was a Bitcoin whitepaper moment. We felt the gravitational pull of the rabbit hole again — so, true to form, we followed our intellectual curiosity.
As our understanding deepened, it became clear that embracing AI wasn’t optional; it was critical to our future as researchers, builders, and investors. That conviction has already shown up across Delphi. We’ve applied the same multidimensional approach that served us so well in crypto: Delphi Ventures has invested $25M+ at the intersection of AI x crypto, hosting AI industry leaders on our podcast starting 2+ years ago, while also anchoring Mythos.vc — a pre-seed fund that’s already backing a wave of promising early AI projects. Our researchers published what’s arguably the canonical report series on AI x crypto, and Delphi Labs has run two AI x crypto-focused accelerators, reviewing over 400 applicants and incubating multiple new ventures. Over the past few years, we’ve been planting seeds in every way we can — getting closer to a world we can’t stop thinking about. Our fascination with AI isn’t a departure from our roots, but a continuation of what’s always driven us: a belief in the transformative power of technology, and an obsession with being early, informed, and deeply engaged.
