A four-week sprint from idea to commercial business
Why The Stables
Founders are encouraged to apply to the stables if they would like to receive at least 2-5 BTC in funding to get the business off the ground, and create a commercial product with a wonderful experience.
At the stables, founders can get away from the distractions to get down to the core of the challenges they’re trying to solve, and work alongside others who have tackled the same issues in the past, and drove commercialization.
Visitors will find access to GPs, operators, and customers who have deep industry experience, offering early stage guidance many founders desire, and de-risking the business for many founders.
Bitcoin infrastructure companies are benefitting from a professionalization of the industry, driving a significant opportunity for Early Riders and founders in the industry.
Early company formation is the most critical time. Aligning business plans and operational roadmaps from day one can significantly accelerate profitability in early stage businesses.
What you’ll find here
At Early Riders Ranch, you’ll find the Early Riders HQ, Onramp’s HQ, and portfolio company office space.
The Stables offers meeting rooms, an event space, podcast studios, and wellness, including a gym, sauna, and yoga. Founders will also find on-site living, with a 3 bedroom home, and 3 smaller homes for resting. The space also includes childcare and early education for guests.
The Stables will also house Early Riders Guild member events for investors, educational events, and portfolio company retreats.
A team with a proven track record
Early Riders has a history of being non-consensus and right. The firm pioneered the use of bitcoin as the institutional hurdle rate before it became mainstream, commercialized multi-institution custody before it was widely adopted, and built Onramp into bitcoin’s leading infrastructure platform. The Stables represents the next evolution of this mission and portfolio: a permanent home for founders, portfolio companies, and the broader bitcoin ecosystem.
Who we’re looking for
We’re looking for pre-seed to seed investments, with differentiated founders who are masters of their domain first and foremost. People who are at the top of their fields and identify with our core ethos.
We believe that every company will be a bitcoin company, and encourage founders to apply across industries.
Where we want to fund builders
We continue to back builders across our core verticals: custody, financial services, payments, treasury, and savings built on sound money rails. As we wrote in our mid-year investor letter, we are also leaning into the intersection of Bitcoin and AI.
Digital Asset Infrastructure
— Multi-Institution Custody key managers with specialized and unique offerings
— Institutional rails (OTC / Prime Brokerage)
— E-cash/Chaumian mint tooling compatible with enterprise custody standards
— Bitcoin lenders with institutional grade controls
— Seamless integration for bitcoin as money for in-demand services
The Agentic Stack
Memory & Data Ownership
Durable, portable context as the real moat. Not your model, not your data; not your weights, not your alpha.
Isolation & Sandboxing
Keeping autonomous agents inside safe boundaries so they cannot break the business or access sensitive data.
The Loop: Autonomy & Self-Reinforcement
Systems that run and improve reliably without a human in every step.
Identity & Payments for Agents
As agents transact with each other, the authentication, gateway, and registry layer is wide open.
Early Riders is the venture firm pioneering bitcoin as the hurdle rate. The firm invests in traditional founder ventures, as well as incubates businesses based on gaps on the gaps in the market partners spot through operating and investing in the industry.