About us - Small team. Unreasonable output.

vDL Digital Ventures is a five-operator venture studio based in Aschheim, Germany. We build trust technology: blockchain infrastructure, verifiable identity, industry dataspaces, and we do it AI-native. Our team runs AI agents, AI coding assistants, and AI knowledge systems as core operational tools. Not as experiments. Not as demos. As the way we work.

Founded in 2018 as StakeNow, we started in Tezos staking and grew to 1,400 delegators. We won hackathons. We open-sourced everything. When crypto crashed post-FTX, we pivoted hard into B2B, partnering with ASCS e.V. and the European automotive industry to build trust infrastructure for simulation data.

Seven years later, we've shipped products across four blockchain ecosystems, built an EU-backed dataspace for the automotive industry, spun off a company, and backed 35+ founders through SpaceshipDAO. Along the way, AI became our operating system, not a tool we bolted on, but the layer everything runs on.

Today, we're proof that small teams with the right architecture can outperform organizations ten times their size. And we help others get there too.

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How we operate - We run lean because we're built lean, not because we're cutting corners.

We don't have a bench of junior devs or a layer of middle management. We have five senior operators with AI-augmented workflows that make overhead irrelevant.

Integrity. We build with intention. Transparency, privacy, and long-term value always beat quick wins. Every project we touch is open-source or open-standard by default.
Craftsmanship. Every line of code, every design decision, every architecture choice reflects a pursuit of quality. We don't ship MVPs and call them products. We ship products.
Sovereignty. We own our infrastructure, our knowledge, and our operational tools. Local LLM inference, self-hosted AI agents, full control over every workflow. No vendor lock-in, no dependency anxiety.