Accomplice

Today we are announcing Accomplice Blockchain. Accomplice Blockchain mirrors our early stage, high conviction approach of nearly 20 years, yet it’s a concentrated effort with dedicated individuals focusing on what we think is the next compute paradigm shift. At Accomplice, we relish big, complex, ambitious technology bets and we love tough shit. Some of the things we have taken on:

• Reverse compiling binaries while looking for security vulnerabilities in the underlying code without actually needing the source code? Sure, despite the Dean of Harvard Computing telling us it couldn’t be done.
• Enterprise security based on the human immune system? Check, even if it requires building the world’s largest software hash database.
• Indexing the entire search history of the web to predict future events with Machine Learning? Let’s roll, and we’ll find a killer use case for it later.

Fundamentally, we see crypto and blockchain as Legos: they’re the infrastructure for how we think decentralized and resilient computing should work. We believe decentralization and true federation is the next technology paradigm shift (away from cloud) and is the next wave in compute with the potential to securely enable true IOT, disrupt current platform monopolies, step change down the cost of compute, and (thankfully) replace legacy contracts/dynamics/industries with code and math. Many of the components of this wave have been around for almost a decade now.

The Accomplice Blockchain team consists of myself; Rob Shavell, founder of Abine, the pioneering online privacy company; David Galper, Israeli-based serial entrepreneur and former owner of TinyURL; Ash Egan, formerly of ConsenSys Ventures and who we knew previously from Converge VC; and Mike Viscuso, founder and CTO of Carbon Black. We bolster this group with a tight orbit to Naval and our friends at AngelList, MetaStable, and CoinList.

Our team has been investing in crypto assets since ‘before it was cool’ (collectively 10 years), and our portfolio includes Hedera Hashgraph, Ontology, Coda, FileCoin, CoinList, Circle, Brave, and over a dozen others. We were there from the earliest of stages for many of these projects. And while we haven’t been voyeurs in this market, we haven’t exactly been public about our involvement either, given the fair amount of antithetical “get-rich-quick” noise and arrogance that’s everywhere. We believe in the journey and the mission-driven compass of entrepreneurs who want to change something because it needs to be changed. We aren’t looking for speculative assets and have no interest in coin-picking or attempting to time an early volatile market in a zero sum game. It’s about a long grind to leave an indelible mark. We are company builders, paired with a long-term ethos.