FTG Ventures opens rolling submissions

FTG Ventures is now open for rolling submissions. We fund, build, and operate at the convergence of money and machine intelligence, and we are looking for founders building the infrastructure of that convergence — from pre-seed to Series A.

Who we back

We take a small number of deliberate positions rather than spraying cheques, so fit matters more than stage. We are most useful to founders working on the layers we know because we are building in them ourselves:

• Markets — trading, liquidity, custody, and settlement infrastructure for digital value.
• Money — wallets, payments, stablecoin rails, and the tools that make self-custody safe enough for ordinary people.
• Intelligence — applied and agentic AI, with particular interest in Arabic-first and region-resident systems, and in the memory and orchestration layers that actually compound.

If your company sits at the seams between these — where value meets intelligence — we especially want to talk. The seams are where we think the durable value lives, and they are the hardest thing for a single-layer company to build alone.

What "operator-investor" means for you

We are not a passive cheque. FTG is a studio as much as a fund. We have shipped exchange, wallet, and AI infrastructure ourselves, which means we can be useful on the parts that are genuinely hard — custody discipline, key security, model orchestration, regulatory posture — and not only on the parts that fit into a board deck. When we invest, we bring operating capacity and conviction, and we stay close. That is a different relationship than most term sheets describe, and it is the one we think infrastructure founders actually need.

We build region-first, to a global standard. If you are building for the Gulf, or building globally from the Gulf, we understand the terrain — the regulation, the capital, the talent, and the specific advantages of building here now.

How it works

Submissions are rolling — there is no cohort deadline to wait for and no artificial urgency to manufacture. Tell us what you are building, why now, and why you. We read everything, and we try to be fast and straight with you either way, because a slow "maybe" is the least useful thing an investor can give a founder.

If you are building at the intersection of money and machine intelligence, pitch us. If you would rather help build inside the group, see open roles.

We fund, build, and operate — capital with conviction, a studio that ships, owners on the ground.