One of the only venture funds that lives with its founders.
Curious Ventures
Why Curious
Pre-seed is a bet on a person before the product is proven. So we stay consistent on how we find and back founders, and open on what they build.
On the ground
Pulled live from Curious House. Every founder counted here was met in person.
Where we have lived
Where Curious found its footing. 42 of our first 53 founders, met in one village.
Home base for the fund, and a room full of the people backing it.
Founder evenings with Delhi's operators and first-time builders.
A month building side by side with founders who moved there to ship.
Builders & Backers Night. 60 seats, founders and the people who back them, in one room.
Long tables, sharp questions, and a founder scene moving fast.
Three weeks at Edge City India, living alongside the builders in the village.
The road keeps going. Run a residency, a founder house or a startup society? That is where we are headed next.
Who we back
The product is rough, the numbers are early, and the founder is already becoming someone the market will chase in two years. That moment is where we invest.
Today
The world moves faster than any sector thesis can keep up with. AI, creators, wellness, longevity, energy, deep tech: if a founder is on the way up, we are interested, wherever they are building.
Where we find them
Residencies, founder houses, popup villages and network states. Every place we live in becomes a high-trust node, and when a great founder appears inside one, we are already there.
How we work
Categories will change. Cities will change. The road will keep going. What stays constant is the method.
We move into residencies, founder houses and network states, and live where the next generation of founders is building. Young talent, experienced builders and senior operators, all in one house.
Weeks of building side by side tell us more than any deck. A pitch shows you a founder's best hour. A residency shows you all of them. Diligence is a byproduct of living together.
We write the first check on potential, at the moment one believer changes the trajectory. Pre-seed is the longest relationship you will have with a founder, and we show up for all of it.
A pre-seed investor is a multiplier. Customers, co-investors, talent, distribution and a house full of builders: whatever leverage our ecosystem holds goes to work for our founders.
Distribution isthe only moat.
Programs
Curious Grants
A residency grant that covers a founder's ticket and housing at the villages and founder houses we live in. Weeks of building, sitting next to capital.
Apply for a grantResidency partnerships
Founder houses, popup villages, startup societies. Partner with Curious to bring capital, a founder cohort and content into your village, and exclusive deal flow to your members.
Start a partnershipThe Curious House
A personally vetted founder, investor and Network State operating system. Run by an agent army, held together by real relationships.
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Nodes and partners
Partners
Places we have lived and built
