Asylum Ventures

Asylum Ventures is a venture capital firm dedicated to the creative act of building companies, based in Brooklyn, New York. The firm believes the best founders are artists, obsessive about new and unusual ideas and often misunderstood for long periods of time, with a stated promise to defend their efforts at all costs. Operating as a small, tight-knit partnership, Asylum encourages founders to ignore market noise and most conventional VC advice in favor of building their own way, thinking in decades rather than months or years, aiming for partnerships that last a lifetime. The firm invests from pre-seed through seed, both leading and supporting rounds, across a range of frontier categories including robotics, AI infrastructure, gaming, music technology, and semiconductor distribution. Portfolio companies include Ark Robotics, Hilbert's AI, Pantograph, Concentric, and Recast, with The Clearing Company as a notable exit, acquired by Coinbase. Asylum's investment approach centers on cultural and creative alignment with founders over rigid financial frameworks, prioritizing long-term, deeply personal partnerships and giving founders the space to build authentically rather than chasing market trends or conventional playbooks.