Too young, too early, too right.
adsc writes the first check to the most daring young founders working at the frontier — then backs them with an operator who's already been through it.
Est. 2026 · NYC & San Francisco
The future of humanity is being built by people you've never heard of. We've already met them.
The defining companies of every era are built by the people the establishment misses — too young, too early, too strange to back. We find them first.
A nineteen-year-old who's been shipping since middle school beats a safe résumé every time. We underwrite outlier energy, not pedigree.
Machine intelligence and programmable value are compounding at once — aimed at the oldest target there is: what a single person can do. We invest at that seam.
The first check is the hardest to write and the only one that matters. We lead when no one else will yet — and stand behind them while they prove everyone wrong.
management
written since 2026
check size
worth > $1B
Fintech & Crypto
The plumbing of money is being re-poured in real time. We back the young teams turning settlement, custody and credit into programmable primitives.
AI & Deep Tech
Past the demo, into the hard problems — compute, evaluation, security and the systems that make autonomous software trustworthy enough to ship at the frontier.
Building foundational infrastructure for the next generation of finance.
Securing the systems that the modern internet quietly runs on.
Rebuilding core financial primitives for a real-time world.
Making frontier compute practical, measurable, and production-ready.
A single, simple interface for moving value across the chain.
The connective layer for the next wave of autonomous software.
A selection of where we're placing first checks. Read the thesis →
Twenty years old, in crypto since he was 13 — VC, trading, his own projects, a full career before most people finish school. He lives where the future starts and knows the other young geniuses personally.
Thirty-two, ten years across crypto, VC, security and building real companies. He's made the mistakes, lived the cycles, and turns a 2am idea into something that ships, raises and survives contact with the real world.
Former research lead. Allergic to demos that don't survive contact with production.
Spends his days making founders dangerous. Recruiting, GTM, the unglamorous parts.
Building something the market isn't ready for? Good.
No warm intro required. Send us the thing you can't stop thinking about — we read every cold email, and we move fast.