The companies that carry it will be the most consequential companies ever built.
We exist to own the frontier with them.
Our Areas of Frontier Focus
Where we plan to invest
We believe AGI will happen — and that intelligence will not be one thing. It will take many forms, across many frontiers. That is why we invest in intelligences, plural.
Superintelligence
Spatial Intelligence
Distributed Intelligence
Financial Intelligence
Scientific Intelligence
Fusion Intelligence
Experiential Intelligence
Physical Intelligence
Property Intelligence
Construction Intelligence
Defense Intelligence
Enterprise Intelligence
Embodied Intelligence
Space Intelligence
One firm. Six investment disciplines.
Ventures
Venture capital, from formation through the early rounds.
Capital
Growth capital for companies ready to scale.
Investments
Strategic and corporate venture capital, for Labs.
Funds
Fund investing, and ownership in emerging managers.
Equities
Private equity, control positions, and buyouts.
Shares
The public markets.
Labs Investor Services
More than capital.
Institutional capabilities built around the needs of investors, companies, funds and markets — the seventh discipline of the firm.
Through VCIFES — Ventures, Capital, Investments, Funds, Equities and Shares — Labs Investor Group applies Investment Intelligence across the full capital chain.
As a multi-strategy, multi-stage investment group, we work with founders building startups, emerging managers building investment firms, and investors becoming limited partners.
We support companies from formation through growth, help emerging managers launch and scale enduring funds, and help prospective LPs become informed allocators capable of investing in both companies and the investors behind them.
By connecting founders and funders through Investment Intelligence, LIG enables people to build companies, build funds, allocate capital and compound ownership across stages, strategies and markets — to progress humankind, ecosystems and economies at large.
Founders and funders are one network, not two sides of a table.
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Intelligence is the frontier. We invest where it is being built.
03
Conviction over consensus — we back the non‑obvious, early.
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Transparency is a feature. You will always know where you stand with us.
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Access is the product; capital is table stakes.
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Patience with the thesis, urgency with the founder.
Platform
LEAP
LI Economic Allocation Platform
The AI platform for capital allocation — bringing Investment Intelligence to founders, managers and allocators through a suite of purpose-built tools.
Soon
Fund AI
Intelligence for fund construction, allocation and portfolio management — for managers and LPs.
Soon
Equity AI
Intelligence for private and public equity — diligence, valuation and position management.
Soon
Raise AI
Intelligence for founders and managers raising capital — from first conversation to close.
LeapOS
Our goal is for LEAP to run on LeapOS — an operating system for diligence and decisions, open to founders and funders alike.
Planned
Due Diligence Evaluator
A guided workup that scores a company or fund against the questions we plan to ask — so diligence is open, not opaque.
Planned
Deck Evaluator
Upload a pitch deck for structured, honest feedback on story, clarity and gaps — before it ever reaches us.
Planned
Cap Table Simulator
Model rounds, dilution and ownership over time — for founders planning a raise and funders sizing a check.
Planned
Valuation Calculator
Work pre- and post-money, option pools and conversions — a shared, transparent basis for terms.
You’re on the list.We’ll be in touch as early access to LEAP opens.
The Platform
Forward Deployed Networks
Portfolio networks · Planned
Our goal is for every company and fund we back to plug into the firm’s networks. Capital is table stakes — the networks are the product. LEAP is the engine underneath; these are the people.
Planned
Talent & Hiring
Recruit executive and technical talent — from the first engineers to a CFO and independent board members.
Planned
Customers & Go‑to‑Market
Warm introductions to buyers — execs and leaders at large enterprises and government, through an executive‑briefing model.
Planned
Expert Networks
The people at the frontier of each field — to pressure‑test the thesis and go deep, fast.
Planned
Co‑investor Community
The right names around the cap table — and help raising the next round when the time comes.
Planned
Brand & Comms
Positioning, launches and visibility — with Labs Media behind you.
Planned
Onboarding & Support
A hospitality mindset from Day 0 — understand the need, find the quick wins, stay close.
Membership
Founder Funder Club
FFC · By invitation
A private membership uniting the people who build and the people who back them — with exclusive access to the Ventureconomy, the venture economy Labs is building, where founders and funders meet, co‑invest and compound together.
Access
The Ventureconomy
Entry to LIG’s private network of founders, funders and operators — dealflow, introductions and co‑investment across the Labs ecosystem.
Members
Founders & Funders
Curated matching between builders and backers — capital, counsel and conviction, with the firm as the connective tissue.
Priority
First access
Priority on LEAP, members‑only convenings such as LPGP Day, and access to Labs Media, Foundations and Impact.
Your request is in.We’ll be in touch as Founder Funder Club membership opens.
Labs Events
Convenings
A calendar of convenings for the Ventureconomy — dinners, retreats and summits that put founders, funders and allocators in one room.
LPGP Day
A convening of Limited Partners and General Partners — the allocators and managers of the Labs Ventureconomy, together for a day of capital, conviction and connection.
Date to be announced · Founder Funder Club members notified first
Founder & Funder Dinners
Curated, city‑by‑city dinners — a handful of builders and backers around one table, one theme at a time.
Planned · by invitation
Founder Retreat
An annual gathering of the people we back — time away to think, compare notes and compound the network.
Planned · date to be announced
Ventureconomy Summit
The flagship convening of the Ventureconomy — founders, funders, operators and allocators, in public.
Planned · date to be announced
Ecosystem
The pipeline
Our goal is to grow the Ventureconomy from the earliest signal up — backing the people who find and build the next frontier companies before anyone else does.
Planned
LI Scouts
We plan to back operators and insiders to write first checks — surfacing the earliest signal from inside the rooms where it starts.
Planned
Emerging Managers
We plan to seed and partner with the next generation of fund managers — the Funds discipline and the LI Fellowship, put to work.
Planned
Frontier Accelerator
Our goal is a program and community for founders at formation — capital, curriculum and the network, from day one.
Members
Portfolio Perks
Give & get · Planned
Our goal is to build Portfolio Perks — a members’ exchange where the founders and funders of the Ventureconomy give and get from one another. The plan: every member arrives with something to offer, and leaves with something to use.
Planned
Give
Members plan to offer perks to the network — credits, tools, services, discounts, introductions and time.
Planned
Get
And to claim what others offer — the working capital of a company that never shows up on the cap table.
Planned
Exchange
Founders help funders; funders help founders. Our goal is a marketplace of goodwill that compounds with the firm.
The belief
Firms + Funds
A fund is a vehicle. The firm compounds.
Our mandate
Our goal is to provide capital across primary commitments, co‑investments and secondaries — to select early‑stage managers backing the next generation of frontier‑intelligence companies, and to startup companies building the next frontiers of intelligence.
Three ways in
Labs Investor Fund I, L.P.
The flagship private fund and the core of the First Close.
First Close 2026 · Debut 2027
Labs Investor Exchange Fund, Inc. (LIFE)
The public-market entity, which will operate Labs Investor Fund Exchange I, L.P. for public and crossover exposure.
Contemplated
LI Economic Amusements Fund I, L.P.
LEAF I — a structure around different capital strategies, pairing equity with non-dilutive and revenue-based financing, and a vehicle for deploying them across the sectors the firm backs — building and backing CPG brands across entertainment, experience and play.
Contemplated
How capital flows
The vehicles capitalize the firm; the firm deploys across VCIFES; and VCIFES, in turn, deploys across a set of underlying funds — each aimed at a different frontier.
Frontier Fund One
The broad flagship — frontier technologies and frontier companies.
Blockchain infrastructure, crypto networks, protocols and digital assets.
ExEx Fund One
Experiential and experience technologies.
Hardware Fund One
Hardware, devices and physical systems.
Labs Funds — Specialty & Fund-of-Funds
Thesis-driven vehicles such as TestTubeFund I, Yuhmmy Fund I and Sprout Fund I.
Across the Labs family
LIG also allocates funds elsewhere in Labs — for example Start Fund One, the fund for Labs Start (operated by Labs Studio Group).
How we measure
Labs Investor Group introduces measures of its own — TVOF, AUA and AUD — alongside the industry‑standard AUM and AUC.
TVOF — Total Value of the Firm
The value of the firm's ownership platform itself — GP stakes and buyouts, ownership in the management entities and GP LLCs of existing and newly created firms, and the portions of those sold to outside investors. Where fund metrics measure investment performance, TVOF measures the firm; beneath it sits AUA. On Labs' balance sheet and consolidated financial statements it is carried as a single line — F2I, Frontier Investment Intelligence.
AUA — Assets Under Attribution
Capital attributed from Labs Companies to Labs Investor Group, and from LIG to the underlying investment VCIFES entities.
AUD — Assets Under Deployment
Capital actively being deployed by the managers.
AUM — Assets Under Management
Future third-party capital raised and managed.
AUC — Assets Under Custody
Assets held through Labs Investor Services.
The general partners
Duránd Fránçiscus Davis Jr.
Founder · Managing General Partner · Co-CEIO
Strategy, allocation, ownership.
Founder, Executive Chairman and CEO of Labs. Builder of the Labs family — from Yuhmmy to the frontier labs — and manager of multiple venture entities, including Family of Firms, M&D Ventures and Sivad VC. Chicago-born, Detroit-raised; based in Beverly Hills.
Co-Founder, Executive Vice Chairwoman, President and CESO of Labs. Computer scientist by training and in private equity since her early teens — from technological-transformation programs for U.S. federal agencies to founding MDFG. Washington, D.C.-born; based in Beverly Hills.
Founders and funders backed by LIG gain access to Labs Foundations — establishing a 1‑1‑1‑1 framework of time, product, profit and equity, shaped around the philanthropic and charitable efforts that best suit them.
We haven’t opened for investment yet — but this is how we plan for it to work, for founders raising and funders building alike. Our goal is a process that is fast, candid and respectful of your time.
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Share your materials. Send a deck, data room or fund memo. We know it’s a work in progress — we plan to focus on the team and the idea.
2
We’ll review and respond. If it isn’t a fit, our goal is to tell you quickly and clearly — no silence.
3
If it is, we’ll schedule a call. Mostly our questions — the specifics behind the story.
4
Diligence, together. We plan to run LeapOS diligence openly and share what we find as we go.
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A decision, and terms. Our goal is a clear yes or no — and if yes, terms that respect the relationship.
The long game
How we partner over time
We haven’t opened for investment yet — but the relationship is meant to outlast any single round. Here’s how we plan to show up, before and long after, for founders and funders alike.
Before we invest
Build the relationship
Earn trust and pay it forward — long before any check. Our goal is to grow the pipeline of the founders and funders of the future.
Day 0
Win it together
Activate the networks to help you win the round. Our goal is to make the choice feel obvious.
The first months
A hospitality mindset
Deeply understand the need — immediate and future — and go find the quick wins.
The compounding years
Preferential attachment
Open doors, compound growth and earn the right to lead the next round — an unfair advantage for the companies and funds we back.
Alumni
Stay in the Ventureconomy
Post‑exit, members stay connected. Happy leavers start what’s next — and our goal is to back them again.
