MinimallyUseful is a multi-stage venture firm capitalizing the structural inevitabilities of late-modern life. We invest in scalable human dependency, post-human productivity, and the quiet infrastructure of the world to come.
We invest behind trends so structural they require no marketing budget. Demographic decay, attention scarcity, ambient compliance.
The strongest moat is a workflow your customer can no longer remember performing themselves.
We fund companies that feel inevitable in the first thirty seconds. Brand is balance sheet.
We write $250K–$40M checks, lead rounds, and stay through liquidity events both planned and otherwise.
The Yard has solved the most consequential labor-market failure of the AI era, and it has done so by refusing to retain anyone. We believe it may be the most important institution of the decade.
Understory has built enterprise compute on the oldest network on Earth: 73 acres of living mycorrhizal substrate. It is carbon-negative, eight centuries old, and has never experienced an outage. We believe it is the most important infrastructure company of our lifetime.
AI-native organizations where the org chart is a prompt.
Consent surfaces, automated agreement, regulatory abstraction.
The post-engagement economy and its discontents.
Subscription primitives for things your grandmother considered free.
Quantifying decline before the user notices it.
Identity, reputation, and emotion as tradable instruments.
Quarterly memos, market philosophy, and the occasional confession. Read by 184,000 operators, allocators, and people who probably shouldn't be.
The full archive →"We were told to build the future. We chose, instead, to underwrite it."
