Daedalus
PL. I Daedalus, Master Craftsman
◆  A COLLECTIVE OF FOUNDERS AT THE EDGE OF AI & WEB3  ◆

DAEDALUS

We forge wings for the worthy. The sun is not the hazard. Hubris is.

◆ I.  THE PARABLE

Icarus fell. Daedalus did not.

In Greek myth, Daedalus was an inventor, architect, master craftsman. Trapped in a labyrinth of his own making, he fashioned wings of feathers and wax, and warned his son not to fly too low, nor too close to the sun. Icarus, drunk with power, ignored the warning. He was, as the market would later say, immediately rug-pulled into the sea. Many blockchain upstarts share his fate: talent, ambition, no counsel. We are the father, not the son. We provide the tools, the strategy, and the insider know-how so our founders never fly alone.

I. Mastery We are builders. Every founder we back has shipped, scaled, and scarred.
II. Wisdom Capital is cheap. Counsel that keeps you whole is not.
III. Restraint We back the ascent. We prevent the fall. Craft outlives spectacle.
The maker's hand
˙ ˖ ✦   FROM THE MAKER'S HAND, FLIGHT IS GIVEN   ✦ ˖ ˙

Daedalus Investments

Not a logo wall. A ledger of the works we have helped to forge, each entry a living record of craft, counsel, and flight.

Witness the Forge →
Icarus falling
◆ CAVEAT - WHY WE EXIST

Every cycle, another Icarus.

Tokens shipped before the protocol. Treasuries spent on spectacle. Founders who believed their own fumes. We do not scold the fallen. We build the wings that doesn't melt, and we stand at the workshop door when you decide to take off.

73% of seed-stage crypto projects die within 24 months
0 Daedalus portfolio companies have rug-pulled

Angels of the forge

Ten operators who have built what you are building. They do not do Zoom calls with a check. They pick up the phone at midnight.

Where the builders gather

The forge does not work in silence. We convene the people building agentic AI and the automation that follows: two flagship gatherings at the frontier of AI, autonomous agents, and onchain systems.

◆ Flagship Event

Agentic Zero

A conference on the convergence of AI, autonomous agents, and onchain finance, where the people building the agentic stack convene. The inaugural Buenos Aires edition drew 1,000+ attendees, 28 speakers (Cognition, MetaMask, Ethereum Foundation, Uniswap Foundation) and 13,000+ livestream viewers. Next: San Francisco Tech Week 2026.

Agentic AI Autonomous Agents AI × Crypto
agenticzero.xyz →
◆ Flagship Event

Automation Summit

The gathering for the people automating real work with AI: agents, workflows, and the tools that let small teams operate like large ones. A practitioner's summit for the age of AI-driven automation.

AI Automation Agent Workflows Tooling
automation-summit.com →
◆ TO THE BUILDERS ◆

If you are building something worth the flight

Tell us what you're forging. We read every letter.