Invest

Ventures open to angel and VC investment, and open-source projects you can back through GitHub Sponsors, Open Collective, or Ko-fi.

A number of the things I build are open to investment. They come in two kinds, and the right way to back them differs. Some projects, like Arcanist, are both.

  1. Ventures On a path to becoming companies, with real users and production intent. Open to angel, venture, and strategic investment. See the ventures
  2. Open-source projects Public goods first, kept alive by sponsorship. The larger ones are open to investment conversations as well. See how to sponsor

Ventures

Early-stage ventures I want to grow into companies. I am looking for angels, funds, and strategic partners who understand early infrastructure and deep-tech products.

  • Open beta

    Archipelag.ioArchipelag.io

    Archipelag.io Decentralized AI compute: AI jobs run on a network of community-operated GPU hosts. Jobs prefer nearby hosts and a preferred region, and every job records where it ran; strict regional enforcement is in development. In free open beta: hosts earn virtual credits while metering is validated, and real-money payouts are not enabled yet.

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  • Public alpha

    CyaneaCyanea

    Cyanea Bioinformatics notebooks that actually re-run. Write, run, and share analyses that execute in your browser on WebAssembly, with nothing to install. Every notebook, dataset, and output is a versioned snapshot you can run again. A Rust analysis stack underneath, 21 file formats built in. Open source, with self-hosting and federation on the way.

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  • In development

    Humankind Human continuity platform for preserving presence across generations. Humankind helps people build a living archive of voice, stories, memories, values, and relational warmth so the texture of a person remains accessible long after distance, aging, or death would otherwise erase it. Consent-first, privacy by default, and explicit about the difference between recorded truth, reconstruction, and inference.

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  • Shipping

    Arcanist Haskell tooling for the age of AI-authored code. hx is a fast package and project manager written in Rust, and bhc is a compiler built to check everything it can. With a registry that records what has been verified, they lead toward a commons where nobody, human or model, has to verify the same thing twice.

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Open-source projects

Infrastructure and tooling that should stay free to use. Sponsorship pays for maintenance, releases, and the time to keep them healthy. Open Collective keeps income and spending public; GitHub Sponsors and Ko-fi suit monthly or one-off support. Companies that depend on a project, or want to build on it, are welcome to talk about investment too.

Everything else at raskell-io takes support through GitHub Sponsors and Ko-fi.

For angels and funds

What I am open to

  • Angel and pre-seed An early ticket in a single venture, from people who want to be close to the work.
  • Venture capital For the ventures that are ready to scale past their first users.
  • Strategic investment From companies that use one of the projects or build on it.
  • Sponsorship at company scale For the open-source projects, with or without equity.

What I can share

Depending on the venture and its stage:

  • A demo A walkthrough of the product, and access to the beta or alpha where there is one.
  • The roadmap Where the venture is going, and what an investment would fund.
  • The numbers Usage and growth, as far as the stage allows.
  • The architecture How it is built. Most of the code is already public on GitHub.
  • A deck And further material once a conversation is under way.

How to reach out

  1. Who you are And whether you invest as an angel, a fund, or a company.
  2. What interests you Which venture or project, and why.
  3. Ticket and stage Your typical ticket size and the stages you invest in.
  4. What you need first Anything you would like to see before a call.