Theo

AI Agents
$4.1Mtotal raised · 3 rounds on record
$183klatest round · Venture round · Dec 2017 · 8 yr ago
1backers · Hack VC
36team · US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +13% in a year

Overview

Theo builds institutional-grade financial products, including thBILL, thGOLD, and thUSD, making real-world assets tradable, liquid, and globally accessible onchain.

Funding and backers

Total raised
$4.1M
3 rounds on record
Latest round
$183k
Venture round · Dec 2017 · 8 yr ago
Team
36
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +13% in a year
Backers
1
Hack VC
The money's age
Long since its last round
107 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
15/100
in the news
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Dec 5, 2017 Raised a round Venture round $183k · SEC Form D Dec 2, 2015 Raised a round Venture round $1.1M · SEC Form D Dec 22, 2010 Raised a round Venture round $2.8M · SEC Form D
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Dec 2017 $183k — SEC Form D
Venture round Dec 2015 $1.1M — SEC Form D
Venture round Dec 2010 $2.8M — SEC Form D
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity Theo, Inc. SEC Form D
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Gilbert FleitasExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
C. Daniel BremerExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
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Financials

Total raised
$4.1M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
3
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2017 $183k Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2015 $1.1M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2010 $2.8M Details

People

Gilbert Fleitas
Executive Officer, Director
C. Daniel Bremer
Executive Officer
Seymour Kaufman
Director
Mark Sachleben
Director
Sy Kaufman
Director
Steven Mavromihalis
Director
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Shared investors1
Hack VCVia a fund
112 portfolio companies: Glow, Not A Dream, Inc., Rome and 109 more

News

News Theo Steiner 3 months ago
ChatGPT Is a Japanese Internet Degen, or: How Fried Chicken Sent Me Down a Tokenizer Rabbit Hole
A stray piece of 2ch boilerplate in a ChatGPT answer sent me down a rabbit hole through Japanese internet history, tokenizers, training data, and one very weird token.
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Theo - t3.gg (@theo) on X
Your Mac is slowing you down. Moving to Linux has exponentially improved performance for my agents, in particular on the file system side.
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News thenewcritic.com 3 months ago
Present at the Creation
Postscript No. 22 Theo Jaffee on documenting the Singularity
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News firstprinciples.com 3 months ago
AI system 'Theo Conjecture' solves 35-year-old math conjecture, finds a term no one predicted FirstPrinciples Hub
Jul 29, 2026 An automated discovery system built at FirstPrinciples by Randy Davila has proven a 1989 prediction by Paul Erdős and William Staton linking prime numbers to the Riemann zeta function, and uncovered a second mathematical term that had gone un
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News X (formerly Twitter) 4 months ago
Theo - t3.gg (@theo) on X
"Why do you use gpt-5.6 and kimi k3 inside of Claude Code?"This vid goes in depth on what Claude Code gets right, what Codex gets wrong, and how to copy my setup :)Blessed by Tibo btw https://t.co/lVuVKbRcto
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News X (formerly Twitter) 4 months ago
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gpt-5.6-sol without hitting limits
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gpt-5.6-sol is meaningfully better in Claude Code than in CodexI'm going to crash out so badly over this
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"Fable 5 will be included for up to 50% of weekly usage limits through July 7, after which it will be available via usage credits"
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
San Francisco United States
HQ
10-50 est. staff