very early Ventures

We make high-conviction, thesis-driven bets in ambitious & visionary crypto founders at the earliest stages. BTVC is a $150m fund that leads / co-leads rounds in pre-seed to Series A stage crypto companies globally, including Lighthouse, Centrifuge, Aptos, and Superform. You can read more about our recent Forbes coverage here. BlockTower VC is one of three primary funds comprising BlockTower Capital, an institutional investment firm founded in 2017. Our family of strategies spans liquid token, quantitative, venture, and credit, and allows us to support teams throughout their entire lifecycle. Beyond providing capital, this unique structure allows us to become active participants and power users of their products and services.

Bankless Ventures is a $30M early-stage Web3 Venture fund to empower pioneers to explore the frontier of Web3.

6MV is a thesis driven Web3 Fund investing in the most talented, inventive and tenacious founders across the global crypto and blockchain landscape. Our ethos stems from the game of basketball, where every legendary team has a strong 6th Man to help off the bench. We are building a world-class team to support a portfolio of 100+ projects, protocols & companies and growth of the broader crypto ecosystem. We are hiring a technical investor - someone with engineering experience who is capable of thesis building, sourcing, evaluating and diligencing deals across technical Web3 categories such as infrastructure, decentralized compute & storage, ZKPs, and DeFi. You will also inform our investment strategies across L1/L2 networks and establish yourself as a thoughtful, trusted developer in the respective subcommunities. Lastly, you will develop frameworks to assess the fundamental value of businesses & protocols to help drive portfolio management decisions and execution.

We believe crypto represents the new socioeconomic primitive that will redefine individual sovereignty and financial paradigms. Over the past 10 years, the team has collectively incubated and invested in over 50 unicorn protocols and on-chain economies. The fund is fully owned by our team without any outside money. We are a team of engineers, builders, and dreamers looking forward to working with the next generation of founders and decentralized economy leaders.

Chapter One is a first check crypto fund focused on the web3 economy. We believe the best companies in web3 will win by making web3 more user-friendly and accessible, and we strive to be a founder’s first check to build products with powerful narratives. The fund has backed meaningful companies from the earliest stages in crypto & web3 including The Graph, Compound Finance, Dapper Labs, MoonPay, Blockfolio (acq FTX), Syndicate, Dharma Protocol (acq OpenSea), Rabbithole, Ondo Finance, and more.

Advanced Blockchain is a publicly-traded venture builder and investor solely dedicated to crypto and Web3. Since 2017, Advanced Blockchain has invested into or incubated some of the top projects in the space, including Polkadot, NEAR protocol, Arweave, Composable Finance, Element Finance, Neon Labs, Fei Protocol, and over 20 more.