Pronomos Capital (pronomos.vc)

Posted on Jan 1, 1

Overview & Context

Pronomos Capital, founded in 2019 by Patri Friedman (grandson of Milton Friedman), is a VC firm focused on charter cities—privately governed urban zones with experimental legal and institutional frameworks.

Mission: “Better laws. Better lives.” They partner with citizens, states, and developers to build sovereign-ready urban zones aimed at uplifting regions through streamlined regulation and governance.
Flagship ventures include:
- Próspera (Honduras ZEDE): the first operational charter city.
- Itana (formerly Talent City, Nigeria): developing a hybrid virtual‑physical free zone.
- Other projects: Yung Drung (South Asia) and Praxis Society (Mediterranean).

Key investors include Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Balaji Srinivasan, and others tied to Platinum-era libertarian and Silicon Valley elites.

Pronomos is at the forefront of network‑state architecture—supporting novel governance experiments via crypto-tech, private funding, and semi-autonomous zone creation.
Critics label this a blend of techno-colonialism, neoreactionary, and authoritarian ideology masked as prosperity enhancement.

Overview by: ChatGPT (OpenAI GPT‑4), June 2025