#PI Today's Pi network main screen update, the content translation is as follows:

Establishment of Pi Network Ventures: Investing 100 million dollars in innovative startups
Today marks a turning point for the Pi community. The Pi Foundation is pleased to officially launch the Pi Network Ventures project. This is a development plan totaling $100 million, which will make strategic investments in startups and businesses, including those that can enhance the utility, popularity, and real impact of Pi, denominated in Pi and USD.
Pi Network Ventures is initiated by the Pi Foundation, which is a non-owner organization aimed at leading the long-term development of the Pi ecosystem and helping to promote the sustainability and functionality of the network's future. The Pi funds used for this program come from 10% of tokens specifically allocated by the foundation (for more information about Pi supply and token economics, please click here). This moment marks a critical step forward for Pi—especially with the Open Network (Open Network) now online and enabling external connections—opening the door to creating more impactful tools and integration with the real world.
Pi Network Ventures represents a targeted strategic initiative aimed at helping Pi transition from a widely held token to a widely used token.
The vision behind Pi Network Ventures
The core goals of Pi Network Ventures are threefold:
Enhancing the utility of Pi: Supporting startups and businesses that integrate Pi into their products, services, and customer experiences.
Bring more real-world production into the Pi Network: by investing early in startups and creating companies that facilitate such processes, allow more real-world production processes (whether in the form of applications, transactions, or companies) to enter Pi.
Bringing Pi into the real world: supporting use cases and applications in real life, showcasing Pi's unique value as a widely distributed, accessible, and usable cryptocurrency.
By adjusting incentives and providing resources to high-potential founders, startups, and companies, the program aims to create a feedback loop of innovation and adoption, designed to benefit builders, businesses, and most importantly, the global community of pioneers.
Pi Network Ventures is part of Pi's diversified high-level strategy aimed at enhancing utility and empowering the Pi ecosystem: high-signal investment and incubation run parallel to grassroots utility and ecosystem movements. High-signal investment and incubation are typically based on very stringent standards, targeting and supporting a limited number of high-quality startups and enterprises, while grassroots movements can leverage the existing Pi community and have the potential to generate large-scale utility attempts. Pi adopts both strategies simultaneously. Pi Network Ventures belongs to the former strategy, while measures such as hackathons and any other platforms that expand utility building fall under the latter strategy.
Support builders from seed to scale
The investment scope of Pi Network Ventures covers companies from early-stage startups to Series B financing and beyond. The broad investment range provides Pi with more opportunities to engage with high-potential innovators as well as scaled and mature enterprises, all of which offer more opportunities to enhance Pi's utility.
Pi Network Ventures is different from most cryptocurrency ecosystem plans in at least two key aspects.
First of all, while blockchain-native startups will definitely be part of the investment portfolio, Pi Network Ventures will also focus its investments on general technology fields, including generative artificial intelligence and AI applications, fintech, embedded payments, e-commerce platforms, marketplace platforms, social networks, and real-world consumer and enterprise applications. This strategy resonates with the second goal of Pi Network Ventures mentioned above and is derived from it.
From global e-commerce platforms accepting Pi, to artificial intelligence services utilizing Pi for access or rewards, to traditional enterprises integrating Pi into their loyalty programs—if a company can drive real-world utility and ecosystem advancement, the Pi Foundation plans to explore investment opportunities to support it.
Secondly, the investment process of Pi Network Ventures is designed to reflect the practices of traditional Silicon Valley venture capital firms in procurement, selection, and review processes, aiming to identify and support high-impact and disruptive startups and enterprises.
Strategic interests of pioneers
The establishment of Pi Network Ventures is centered around the pioneer community. The Pi Foundation believes that it will benefit the pioneers and the community in the following ways:
Provide more practical features for your Pi
The most important benefit for pioneers is the enhancement of practicality. As more and more businesses adopt Pi and integrate it into real-world applications—products, services, transactions, and experiences—you will be able to use Pi in more diverse ways.
A more powerful ecosystem
When enterprises adopt Pi, they introduce it to new users and use cases. This leads to natural growth while aligning usage with actual activities and utility, creating a more robust ecosystem. A stronger ecosystem means that pioneers have more opportunities to engage— as users, builders, workers, and entrepreneurs.
Incentivize high-quality integration
The Pi Foundation is committed to investing in high-potential startups and top companies across industries and regions, including those that integrate Pi. This focus will attract builders, scale up, expand network vision, and accelerate applications in a strategic and sustainable manner.
Network effects are at play.
Every enterprise joining the ecosystem has the potential to create value for other participants. Pioneers can gain new services. Developers can acquire more tools and inspiration. Businesses can leverage Pi's user base. This compound growth effect helps Pi transition from a newly opened network to a widely recognized decentralized utility standard.
Access one of the largest crypto user communities in the world
Companies invested by Pi Network Ventures will have the opportunity to gain a rare advantage in both the cryptocurrency and traditional venture capital fields: these funds come with market access — which may address two key entrepreneurial elements often mentioned in entrepreneurial literature. Portfolio companies will have the opportunity to connect with a large, active, and KYC-verified user base of Pi Network, which has tens of millions of users across over 200 countries and regions, with more than 19 million users having passed Pi KYC verification.
The global audience is not only a valuable asset for enterprises but can also become a competitive advantage. It may enable network-driven growth, customer feedback loops, and unique token economic models, which were previously unattainable.
How investment works
Although investments are usually denominated in US dollars, Pi Network Ventures will seek to make most investments directly in the form of Pi. This means that companies joining the ecosystem will receive monetary incentives in the currency they are helping to grow and develop.
Please note that the investment of Pi Network Ventures is aimed at providing capital and strategic value to those institutions deemed most capable of creating global value and expanding the use of Pi applications worldwide. The Pi Foundation is not obligated to fully invest the $100 million, and the specific amount depends on the quality of the applicants and the number of startups joining the program. Pi Network Ventures may invest in phases, irregularly, and may also cease investment at any time.
Turning point of the open network
The launch of the open network has ushered Pi into a new era. Now, with the establishment of Pi Network Ventures, the Pi Foundation can focus more on its mission to support and expand the global utility of Pi.
By investing in startups and enterprises (many of which are building, integrating, and innovating with Pi, bringing real-world utility to the network), Pi Network Ventures is laying the foundation for a globally accessible, community-driven, and economically meaningful decentralized ecosystem.
Let us work together to create the future.
This announcement is just the beginning. Entrepreneurs interested in discussing with Pi Network Ventures can click here to apply.
We can't wait to see what this network will co-create.