By
Godfrey Benjamin
April 23rd, 2024
The focus of the Dispersion Capital fund is to promote decentralization which is at the core of Web 3.0.
American financial technology company Ripple Labs Inc which recently launched a CBDC platform has joined other investors to generate funds for a newly created decentralized infrastructure fund by venture capital firm Dispersion Capital. Dispersion Capital recently launched a $40 million first fund to boost Web 3.0 infrastructure that transcends protocols and networks as it seeks to deepen its foothold in the evolving industry.
Notably, some of its investors are also from the Web 2.0 ecosystem and this includes WeMade Co Ltd (KOSDAQ: 112040), Faction, Lightspeed, Circle Ventures, Alchemy Ventures, Hashkey, Cherubic Ventures, Forte, NGC, and a couple of other general partners. The caliber of investors somewhat highlights the amount of importance and prospects that Web 3.0 infrastructure is likely to produce in the future of decentralized technologies.
As an early-stage VC, Dispersion Capital plans to distribute funds to startups in their pre-seed and seed rounds, and already 10% of the fund has been deployed. From inception to date, Dispersion Capital has contributed capital to about 20 companies in addition to follow-on post investments which the startups receive from time to time.
The focus of the Dispersion Capital fund is to promote decentralization which is at the core of Web 3.0. Also, the fund would equip developers to design innovative applications that would leverage the true potential of blockchain technology.
Dispersion Capital and Its Change Mantra
Founder and managing partner of Dispersion Capital Patrick Chang has vast experience in the Web 3.0 space through his time as lead for Samsung Next’s blockchain investments. A few of the Dispersion Fund participants including Circle Ventures acknowledged his expertise and technical know-how to bring about change in the Web3.0 ecosystem.
Chang believes that evolution, in terms of blockchain infrastructure technology, has lagged but that the firm “believes there’s so much more that needs to be built”.
Noteworthy, Chang is confident that Web 3.0 developers are knowledgeable and possess the ability to develop the next advanced applications. However, they are most times deterred by the lack of infrastructure or the presence of immature infrastructure.
Ultimately, Dispersion Capital has the goal of bridging this gap by funding the creation of standard platforms and tools that will help these developers unleash the true potential of blockchain technology.
“The mission for us is how can we get web3 to a level similar to cloud computing that it’s an invisible technology that everyone doesn’t realize they’re using, but are. In the long term, the focus is on how we bring web3 to the masses and bring it [to] a billion users,” added he.
In the same vein, American cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global Inc (NASDAQ: COIN) introduced a new Web3.0 discovery surface a few months ago. The platform affords users the opportunity to explore the best-decentralized applications (dApps) available in the Web3.0 ecosystem including access to Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), and gaming.