Congrats Zoe!
Proud to emerge from stealth today to announce the launch of ex/ante, the first-ever venture fund dedicated to agentic tech: technology that advances individuals’ agency and control—over their privacy, data, assets, and information. We all know that we’re living in an age of digital authoritarianism and surveillance capitalism. Every move is tracked. We don’t own our data, or even know who does. We’re more vulnerable than ever to disinformation and manipulation. We think it’s time for that to change. ex/ante is a venture fund backing pre-seed & seed stage companies tackling challenges like privacy, data ownership, security, identity, and information integrity. We believe democratic resilience requires technology that advances individual rights and human agency. Thank you Forbes and Alex Konrad, and for the amazing group of co-conspirators who have supported us along the way: Eric Schmidt, Protocol Labs, Union Square Ventures, Cendana Capital, Ford Foundation, The Klarman Family Foundation, Brad Burnham, Fred Wilson, Kirsten Green, and others.