Escape Velocity (EV3)
ev3.xyz Direct investor
Escape Velocity (EV3) is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage companies at the frontier of internet infrastructure and decentralized networks. It focuses on tokenization of money, data, identity, energy, and intelligence.
Escape Velocity (EV3) is a venture capital firm headquartered in New York, United States. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to Series A, in crypto, internet infrastructure and decentralized networks. Its stated cheque size is $500K–$5M.
“We believe the tokenization of money, data, identity, energy, and intelligence will re-shape the world’s most important industries.”
— Escape Velocity (EV3), own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- New York, United States
- Sectors
- crypto, internet infrastructure, decentralized networks
- Cheque size
- $500K–$5M
Team, as Escape Velocity (EV3) publishes it
- Mahesh Ramakrishnan Co-founder & Managing Partner
- Salvador Gala Co-founder & Managing Partner
- Brandon Leppke COO & General Counsel
Names and roles exactly as listed on ev3.xyz. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 17 co-investors found.
- Borderless Management LLC 3 shared companies: inversioncap.com, natix.network, xnet.company
- Archetype Management LLC 2 shared companies: opacity.network, dawninternet.com
- 6th Man Ventures 2 shared companies: 375.ai, dawninternet.com
- Room40 Capital LLC 2 shared companies: godaylight.com, natix.network
- GD1 1 shared company: opacity.network
- ZAKA VC 1 shared company: prograd.uk
- Union Square Ventures 1 shared company: glow.org
- VentureSouq 1 shared company: aukilabs.com
- Delphi Ventures General Partner LLC 1 shared company: 375.ai
- Hack VC 1 shared company: 375.ai
and 7 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Escape Velocity (EV3) publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://ev3.xyz/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description
- https://ev3.xyz/team/mahesh-ramakrishnanpeople
- https://ev3.xyz/team/salvador-galapeople
- https://ev3.xyz/team/brandon-leppkepeople
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Record 3919 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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