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Insights from Fabrica Ventures Team.

April 22, 2026

Excited to share an announcement from Fabrica Ventures that their Fund III will be powered by Sacra.

Sacra was built on a simple premise: private markets deserve the analytical rigor public markets take for granted. This means institutional-grade depth on fundamentals, with modeling […]
April 20, 2026

Alexandre Villela Joins Fabrica Ventures — Leaning Into InfraTech

I first met Alexandre Villela about five years ago at a small get-together at a friend’s house in San Jose — an early Tesla investor and […]
April 16, 2026

Fund III’s Analytical Edge: Fabrica Ventures and Sacra

We’ve known the core Sacra team — Marcelo Ballve, Jan-Erik Asplund, and Walter Chen — for many years. Sacra is a venture research powerhouse — one […]
April 10, 2026

Three Sequential Shocks Hitting Tech

2026 began with high expectations for a reopening of the IPO window — “IPO markets look primed to accelerate in 2026,” PwC, Dec 12, 2025 … […]
April 6, 2026

Defense, Rewritten by AI: Shield AI’s Software-Defined Platform

Defense tech has been on a tear lately, emerging as one of the clearest beneficiaries of a rapidly shifting geopolitical landscape. Venture capital deployment into the […]
March 27, 2026

Orgs in the Age of Agents

In his 1983 classic High Output Management, Andrew Grove (Intel co-founder and third CEO) explores how to optimize information flow and managerial leverage. He argues that […]
March 23, 2026

Fed Rails and Nasdaq Tokens

Two watershed milestones were recently achieved by Kraken, a Fabrica Ventures portfolio company: 1. Kraken becomes the first crypto company to secure Fed master account access […]
March 13, 2026

After Palantir, Anduril

Accessing Anduril through the secondary market turned out to be one of the hardest companies for Fabrica Ventures to get into. Our first approach was to […]
March 6, 2026

The Curious Case of Plaid’s Journey

Plaid is the fintech infrastructure company most people never see — yet almost every fintech depends on it. Its APIs connect bank accounts to applications like […]