Inflection is an early-stage venture capital firm that backs engineering moonshots at the idea stage, writing first checks typically between $0.5 million and $1.5 million. Inflection's Twitter Score is 15 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #65,947 among 486,860 tracked accounts.
Inflection was co-founded by Alexander Lange, Robert Shapiro, Rebecca Mahoney, and Jon Levin. The firm concentrates on a small number of investments per year, taking positions in both equity and digital assets across early-stage companies and stakeholder-owned software networks. Its backers include Galaxy Digital, Digital Currency Group, Accolade Partners, Evanston Capital, and individual investors such as Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon, and Erik Voorhees.
Inflection launched Inflection Mercury, its $40.7 million Fund II, in January 2022, targeting what it described as an open economy built from stakeholder-owned software networks. Earlier portfolio companies included Balancer, Radicle, and Anytype, while Mercury-era investments named at launch included Unstoppable Finance, Violet, Defined, and Catalog. The firm's current website lists Flashbots and MoonPay among its selected portfolio companies, and the firm has remained active with published writings into 2026.
Inflection has published 145 posts on the platform. Inflection's portfolio includes Centrifuge, Balancer, Async Art, FOUNDATION, Sarcophagus, Molecule, Entropy and Catalog.
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The accounts that follow Inflection include 60 founders, 22 angel investors, 10 influencers and 5 VCs, among them Erik Voorhees, Loomdart, Sreeram Kannan, Matthew Graham, Jane Lippencott and Martin Shkreli.