Shaping the future of the metaverse
Pancasila is a tokenized investment syndicate dedicated to strategic investments in the emerging metaverse ecosystem, aiming to drive pro-social outcomes and address existential risks like climate change, leveraging the convergence of Mixed Reality, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence.
What is Pancasila
Pancasila is a tokenized investment syndicate for strategic investments into the emerging metaverse stack, which consists of a convergence of Mixed Reality (XR), Blockchain, and Artificial Intelligence as well as the underlying foundational infrastructure-, data-, and enablement layers. We aim to drive this toward prosocial outcomes by leveraging technology to address the existential risk of climate change, AI, and the unintended consequences of technology acceleration.
What is Pancasila
Pancasila’s central thesis is that by providing efficient compute, a decentralised web will decouple the economy from carbon and lead to a more equitable future. Our mission is to accelerate this shift as much as we can.
Current performance of Generative AI is a direct result of a doubling in compute resource to train large language models like ChatGPT that over the past decade has been 3 times faster than Moore’s Law. Conversely, analysis by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz estimates that current demand for compute outstrips supply 10:1: “Access to compute resources — at the lowest total cost — has become a determining factor for the success of AI companies”, with the firm seeing portfolio companies spending up to 80% of capital raised exclusively on compute.
Pancasila was therefore founded around a cornerstone investment into MetaGravity who are developing a new compute framework for establishing the ‘cosmological physics’ of the metaverse, enabling uniformly distributed performance regardless of the complexity of scale imposed, unlocking the aforementioned compute bottlenecks.
Subsequently Pancasila has invested in the following compute stack of the metaverse (see table below) and seeks to build and invest in companies that we believe have disruptive potential across each horizontal layer. It’s second investment is in Metacognitive, an orchestration layer serving as a top down control system to enable humans to benefit from ‘group flow’ with AI, and its third is Becoming a health and wellbeing education platform enabled by the two underlying technologies.
METAVERSE = INTERNET + BLOCKCHAIN + XR + AI
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE:
- GPT-4 and Conversational Interfaces
- Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Computer Learning
- Machine Learning
- Simultaneus Location & Mapping (SLAM)
- Automated Content Creation
- Suggestion Algorithms
- Neural Radiance Fileds (NeRFs)
- Coding Assistants
3D XR:
- Volumetric Conferencing (Project Starline) and Lightfield Displays etc.
- Avatars
- Communication & Collaboration Tools
- VR/AR/ MR (XR)
- Volumetric Capture
- Haptics
- Scent
- Spatial Audio
- Game Engines (Creation Platforms)
BLOCKCHAIN:
- Web3
- Blockchain
- Decentralized Ledger Technology (DLT)
- Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT)
- Tokens Coins
- Distributed Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
- Digital Land
- Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
- Smart Contracts
- Cryptocurrencies
EXPLORE INVESTMENTS Current metaverse portfolio
MetaGravity
MetaGravity is building the distributed compute infrastructure for metaverse gaming and virtual world simulations. We offer game developers (1) arbitrary scale (2) transformational cloud cost efficiences and (3) cloud-agnostic / game-engine agnostic ease of use.Home
Our team
Florence Shaffer
FAST ManagerNamed among the Top 20 Women to Watch in both Luxury and in Business Disruption, Florence Shaffer is a Technology Executive who has led digital transformation for notable brands globally.
Florence’s work sits at the intersection of technology innovation, design, and people. Her 20 years of experience spans multiple industries and cultures – including beauty (Estée Lauder Companies), luxury fashion (Burberry), automotive (BMW), film (Lucasfilm), healthcare (Possible), and hospitality/food (Le Cordon...
Florence led Strategy & Operations at Matterport, the leading company digitizing the physical world to make it more accessible as our digital and physical worlds continue to intertwine.
At Estee Lauder Companies, Florence held the dual position of Global Vice President of Technology Strategy & Operations and Chief of Staff to the CIO. She led tech strategy, innovation and digital transformation globally. In addition she ran operations for the Office of the CIO, leading the teams responsible for portfolio execution, vendor management, and employee culture.
At Burberry Florence served as the Director of Technology for the Americas region, where she drove business growth through digital innovation and transformation. Prior to this role, Florence led Digital Technology in Burberry’s APAC region, where she was responsible for designing and implementing localized technology solutions to grow business and drive customer loyalty in China, Korea, and Japan.
Florence’s interest in growth through digital transformation goes beyond companies and into individual and societal evolution. Her current work is focused in health & wellness with the desire to make people’s every day lives easier and more fulfilled. She is currently at Pay It Forward’s Private Equity arm working to optimize, grow and scale up health clinics focused on pain management and preventative measures to improve longevity. She also recently founded Becoming Co, an integrated wellness solution for mental & emotional health.
In her personal life, Shaffer’s interests mirror her professional pursuits. She enjoys reading about emerging neuroscience concepts, exploring beautiful landscapes both natural and man-made, engaging in sports with enthusiastic participation, and writing poetry. Currently, she is working on scaling these interests using the tech stack invested in by Pancasila. Her work illustrates her commitment to not just improving business performance through technology but also enhancing everyday life and society as a whole.