November 24, 2025
Arcadia Raises $10M
Arcadia closes $10M Founding Capital Round to build the world’s next creative capital in Puerto Rico.
We extend our gratitude to our extraordinary for their participation in this historic round: Balaji Srinivasan, Shervin Pishevar (Sherpa Capital), Patri Friedman (Pronomos Capital), Ye (Formerly Kanye) West, Masha Bucher (Day One Ventures), Rishi Patel (Plus Eight Equity Partners), Adam Draper (Boost VC), Orlando Bravo (Bravo Family Foundation), Story Protocol, OKX Ventures, Asylum Ventures, IDEO Co-Lab, and more.
Inside Arcadia, artists can leverage build_ to host events, launch collaborative projects, organize residencies, and activate grants. Whether it’s an experimental concert, a gallery installation, or a public program, build_ makes it easy for our community to self-organize and move their ideas forward. As we open Studio Atlanta and grow Arcadia’s presence in cities around the world, build_ becomes the connective tissue for the Arcadia network across all our spaces, scenes, and initiatives. It allows us to coordinate artists and projects across geography while keeping the energy grounded in local communities.
build_ is helping us design a custom framework where cultural projects are not just shared, but funded, scaled, and sustained by all local stakeholders in an ecosystem. Through grants, micro-economies, and civic coordination, our artists will tap into capital that supports real-world creative work, from one neighborhood to an entire district. Over time, build_ will help us operationalize a city-scale creative economy, one where networks of artists, builders, and organizers can launch and sustain cultural infrastructure collaboratively. It’s a protocol for creative sovereignty, and a system for economic coordination in the new world we’re building.
We’re honored to activate this partnership through live campaigns, project launches, community experiments, and global expansion in 2025 and beyond.