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IDEO Ventures

Venture arm of IDEO that invests in early-stage web, finance and work technologies

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About IDEO Ventures

IDEO Ventures, listed here from its CoLab Ventures site, combines venture capital with design. It works with founders at the earliest stages to create products and protocols that people like to use.

It also runs a collaborative lab where designers, academics, professionals and communities explore large systemic problems.

Services

  • Early-stage investment: backs founders from the start.
  • Rearchitecting the internet: tools and infrastructure for the next web.
  • Open financial systems: decentralised products and services for finance.
  • Future of work and play: marketplaces, organisations and networks that connect people.
  • Venture incubation: with WE3, it incubates new ventures for the next chapter of the internet.

Who it works with

Founders working at the point where emerging technology, social systems and human needs meet. Past lab themes include distributed web, future of work, cities, and health.

Key facts

  • Part of: IDEO's CoLab
  • Focus areas: change over time as the lab's partners and world events shift

Profile written by TrustList from the business's own published information, Oct 2026.

Categories & features

  • Prototyping
  • It
  • Learning
  • Design
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