// early-stage  ·  ai  ·  crypto  ·  energy

First checks for founders building compute, capital, and power

8082 Ventures writes $50K–$500K initial checks into pre-seed through early-stage companies. Sometimes we're on the cap table. Sometimes we're in the founding seats.

// where we invest

three sectors, one bet
AI
Compute
The intelligence layer — agents, infrastructure, and applied models that do real work.
CRYPTO
Capital
New rails for money and markets — onchain settlement, agentic trading, and programmable value.
ENERGY
Power
What everything above runs on — generation, storage, and the grid for an AI-hungry world.
Check size
$50K – $500K
Stage
Pre-seed → Series B
Role
Investor & co-founder
Positions
4 active
// current positions

Portfolio

Littlebird Littlebird
Seed Family safety

Screen-free wearable safety and location tracking made for kids, with a shared circle of care for parents and caregivers.

littlebird.care ↗
AgentFit AgentFit
Pre-seed AI · Health Co-founder

AI coaching that adapts to your schedule, sleep, and goals — fitness that fits the life you actually have.

agentfit.io ↗
Agentic Markets & Arbitrage Agentic M&A
Pre-seed AI · Crypto Co-founder

Agentic AI applied to markets and arbitrage.

agenticorporation.com ↗ agenticrypto.io ↗
Kokino Kokino
Pre-seed AI Co-founder

In development.

kokino.ai ↗
// next position

Building at the machine layer?

pitch us :8082 ↘
// open port

Building at the machine layer?

Send us what you're making. The earlier the better — we like being the first call.