Inception Capital

1/ We are delighted to announce the firm’s rebranding from OP Crypto to 🥳 Inception Capital In this X thread, we bring you: 1. What does rebranding mean to us, 2. Recap of 2023: Major events and conferences 3. Looking ahead to 2024: Our goal and exploring new horizons 👇👇👇

Now live: our own @davidgan1818 joins Aptos Foundation’s @aptAlix to discuss automated finance, founder conviction, emerging markets, and the future of productive capital.

Our founder, @davidgan1818 (@_inceptioncap), joined a strong panel discussion on where the stablecoin market may be headed by 2030. Featuring Brighid Quirke (@withAUSD), Vid Hribar (@qivaliseu), Adrien Stern (@r3vl_xyz), and our founder David Gan. Watch here: youtu.be/FnDsdnG0a_c

We’re looking for a Marketing & Operations Intern to join Inception Capital this summer in New York🗽! If you’re interested in venture capital, digital assets, AI, fintech infrastructure, emerging markets, and how investment platforms build institutional presence, we’d love to hear from you. The role will support community newsletters, research, event execution, speaker opportunities, ecosystem growth, and AI-native workflows. Apply: renee@inception.capital 👇For more details: Marketing & Operations Intern Inception Capital | Summer 2026 New York, NY | Onsite About Inception Capital Inception Capital is an early-stage venture and fund-of-funds platform investing across digital assets, AI, fintech infrastructure, and emerging markets. We partner with founders and emerging managers before consensus forms, with a focus on infrastructure, application-layer opportunities, cross-border markets, and institutional capital formation. The Role Inception Capital is seeking a Marketing & Operations Intern to support content operations, event execution, ecosystem growth, and platform workflows. The intern will work closely with the team on projects that help strengthen Inception’s presence across founders, LPs, GPs, ecosystem partners, and the broader market. What You’ll Do • Write and refine community newsletters, market commentary, email campaigns, website copy, pitch materials, and external-facing content • Turn investment themes, portfolio updates, and market insights into clear and compelling narratives • Research digital assets, AI x crypto, stablecoins, fintech infrastructure, emerging markets, and venture trends • Distill research findings into concise takeaways for content, events, speaker applications, and internal strategy • Support curated events, founder and investor gatherings, ecosystem partnerships, and community initiatives • Help with event planning, attendee research, outreach lists, follow-up workflows, and relationship tracking • Use tools like Apollo, Notion, Google Workspace, Canva, Figma, and AI tools to improve research, content, outreach, and operational workflows What We’re Looking For • Strong interest in venture capital, startups, digital assets, AI, fintech, emerging markets, or institutional investing • Excellent writing, research, and communication skills • Strong judgment, attention to detail, and comfort working on external-facing materials • Proactive ownership mindset; comfortable working with ambiguity and moving projects forward • Familiarity with AI tools, CRM / outreach tools, design tools, or content platforms is a plus • Prior experience in VC, consulting, marketing, content, research, or finance is helpful but not required Benefits • Exposure to venture capital, digital assets, AI, and fintech infrastructure • Hands-on experience across marketing, operations, content, and ecosystem growth • Access to selected industry events and networking opportunities • Team-building events and community gatherings • Opportunity to work closely with a small, fast-moving venture team • Potential for continued collaboration based on performance To Apply Please send your resume and a brief note on your interest in Inception Capital, venture capital, and marketing & operations to renee@inception.capital. A writing sample, research memo, project deck, or relevant work sample is encouraged.

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Congrats to the Mobius team🚀! Unified margin across perp DEXs and chains is a much-needed step toward a better onchain trading experience. Excited to support the team as they build the next phase of DeFi infrastructure.

Emerging markets teach you to care about infrastructure differently. @davidgan1818 's perspective on financial systems was shaped not only as an investor, but as an operator—including his time at @HuobiGlobal, where he helped expand the business across multiple countries. That experience matters. When you’ve seen financial access, market structure, and user behavior vary country by country, you underwrite very differently. At Inception, that’s core to how we think: back teams building financial infrastructure that works under real-world constraints, not just in idealized markets.

As we wrap up this week’s interview process for the @_inceptioncap Research Intern Program, we’ve been encouraged by the quality of applicants coming through. The strongest candidates continue to stand out for their curiosity, writing ability, and genuine interest in venture, emerging markets, AI and deep tech. This process has also reinforced our view that venture is learned best through proximity - which is why we are continuing to shape the program as a highly in-person experience centered in New York. Appreciate everyone who applied. Final decisions will be shared soon.

A great discussion at @CapSummitGlobal around one of the most important shifts in the market: the stablecoin conversation is moving from “should institutions engage?” to “how does this get integrated into real financial workflows?” At this stage, trust, regulation, interoperability, and operational reliability matter more than narrative. That is where the next layer of financial infrastructure gets built.

CeFi and DeFi are moving closer together. Our founder David Gan joined Cornell Tech’s “The Programmable Economy” conference to discuss stablecoins, tokenization, onchain settlement, and programmable financial markets. The opportunity ahead: infrastructure that institutions can trust and markets can program.

If you’re building, exploring, or looking to connect with the next generation of people shaping digital infrastructure, we’d love to have you join us!

Appreciate the strong interest in our research intern program at @_inceptioncap. We’ve been especially encouraged by the quality of applicants coming from Ivy League and other top universities, with many bringing clear intellectual curiosity, strong writing ability, and genuine interest in venture, emerging markets, AI, deep tech, and crypto. As we move into the next round, we’re continuing to shape this as a highly in-person experience centered in New York. We believe venture is learned best through proximity: being close to the conversations, the decision-making, and the day-to-day pattern recognition that informs real judgment. That’s how we’ve designed the program: to give interns real exposure to research, writing, and founder-facing work inside the firm.

We’re looking for Investment Research Interns at Inception Capital, a New York-based first-check venture firm with a focus on early-stage emerging markets opportunities across crypto, deep tech, AI, and other adjacent verticals. Our internship program has a strong track record: past interns have gone on to join or found leading firms across the industry. In this role, you’ll get hands-on exposure across investment workflows, market analysis, and founder-facing insights — all at the intersection of AI, deep tech, and crypto. You: • Strong interest in Emerging Markets, Crypto, AI, and Frontier Tech • Solid writing skills • Proficient in reading and writing English materials • Ready to conduct quantitative & qualitative research and write high-quality reports • Available for a 3–6 month full-time internship (5 days/week) • New York and SF-based candidates preferred • Remote possible If this is you, apply. Send your most representative research or product work + resume + a cover letter sharing your insights on the most promising sectors/projects in the current market to recruit@inception.capital

For more insights on venture and emerging markets, follow @_inceptioncap! We invest early and share what we’re seeing on the ground across frontier tech.

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“ The number of entrepreneurs is growing exponentially, but the quality divide is stark.” Recently our own @davidgan1818 sat down with @HashKeyGroup’s “Crypto First Principles” podcast, sharing our framework on evaluating early-stage projects. Plenty of signal in this one 👇