Seed Labs: Web3 SPV, making community investment more compliant and convenient
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Seed Labs: Web3 SPV, making community investment more compliant and convenient
Is there a way to simplify the initiation and establishment of SPVs, enabling individual community members to participate in Web3 investments?
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insights
Author: aya, TechFlow Intern
Editor: Ting
What is an SPV?
Literally, it stands for "Special Purpose Vehicle," a legal entity established solely for a specific, targeted purpose. Unlike regular companies, an SPV typically has no independent operations or business functions. Its primary goal is to hold certain assets at as low a cost as possible—including operational costs, management fees, tax burdens, and time expenses.
In practical applications, an SPV acts like a wall, isolating risks and liabilities, enabling investors to conduct commercial activities more safely. Asset securitization and red-chip listings both require setting up SPVs. In the world of Web3 investing, SPVs are equally essential.
At its core, SAFT is a legally flawed compromise. Many legitimate projects in Europe and the U.S. still rely primarily on equity investment. When a project valued at hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars raises funds, the entry barrier is high. Often, smaller and mid-sized VCs pool together, forming an SPV to participate collectively—indirectly holding project assets through ownership of SPV shares.
In the booming DAO investment space, enabling communities or individual participants to join formal, high-quality equity investments remains particularly challenging—due to high investment thresholds and high SPV setup costs. For individuals, the process is overly complex. Is there a way to simplify the creation of SPVs so that community members can also participate in Web3 investments?
To address this, Seed Labs has built the first Web3 SPV.
Leveraging the foundational features of blockchain technology, Seed Labs has significantly improved upon traditional financial tools—enabling instant settlements using BTC, USDT, and other assets. Anyone can now create an SPV on-chain and deploy it via smart contracts. After setting key parameters, project teams can send investment invitations to their community. Only wallets holding specific NFTs or tokens can gain access. Achieving all this requires nothing more than a single click.
How to Quickly Launch an SPV On-Chain?
First, set various parameters including base investment amount, fundraising period, eligibility requirements (which tokens or NFTs must be held), management fees, legal compliance, etc.
Next, generate an investment link and invite contributors.
Once fundraising is complete, you can manage investors from the backend, sign legal documents, and choose to accept or reject individual participation.
Finally, deploy the capital into investments. The system will then mint $SPV tokens distributed to each investor, and $CARRY tokens allocated to the organizer—providing concrete "on-chain proof" for the investment activity.
Overall, Seed Labs' on-chain SPV makes launching and establishing SPVs faster and more efficient. By enabling settlements with USDC and other stablecoins, it breaks geographical barriers and allows for a more diverse group of investors—whether angel investors, venture firms, or investment DAOs—to use Seed Labs’ Web3 SPV for rapid deployment.
Of course, Seed Labs’ ambitions extend beyond just on-chain SPVs. It aims to build a full ecosystem supporting the entire venture investment lifecycle—fundraising, sourcing, due diligence, and post-investment management—and explore token incentives to encourage community-driven investing, ultimately creating an open Web3 investment network.
However, Seed Labs currently does not disclose its team members or critical legal compliance information—for example, Syndicate partners with Latham & Watkins, a globally leading law firm.
Compared to mature DAO investment platforms like Syndicate, backed by major capital such as a16z, Seed Labs remains in a very early stage and thus requires further observation.
At the end of the official website appears a bold slogan: “Welcome to the future of venture capital.” We wait and see what changes may come.
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