Bankless Ventures

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Bankless Ventures is a venture capital fund co-sponsored by Bankless founders David Hoffman and Ryan Sean Adams. The initial fund size is US$35 million. LPs include a16z founding partner Marc Andreessen, a16z Crypto founder Chris Dixon, Ethereum Foundation researcher Dankrad Feist, Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal, NGC et al.

Category:

Crypto-Native Fund

Founded: 2023

Location: United States

Team

David Hoffman

Founding Partner

Ryan Sean Adams

General Partner

Ben Lakoff

Partner

Investment Map

Investment Size

Investments

Tag

Ecosystem

Token Issuance

Region

Operating Status

AltLayer

Execution and elastic scaling layer as blockchain

Monad

High-performance layer 1 blockchain

Puffer Finance

Anti-Slashing Liquid Staking

Ether.Fi

Decentralized staking protocol

Kelp DAO

Triple rewards for restaking protocol

Movement

A Network of Modular Move-Based Blockchains

Aligned Layer

ZK verification layer

Othentic

Web3 modular components library

BounceBit

BTC native restaking chain

MyShell

Decentralized AI consumer layer

BOB

EVM rollup stack with native Bitcoin support

Eclipse

Customizable, modular rollups

Nocturne

Usable on-chain privacy for Ethereum

NEBRA

Proof aggregation service on Ethereum

BSX

Institutional-grade derivatives DEX

0G

Modular AI Chain

Succinct

The Protocol for Programmable Truth

Clique

Identity oracles

INIT Capital

Liquidity Hook Money Market

OMEGA

Omnichain & BTC DeFi

Modulus

Bring AI on-chain using zkps

Fhenix

Blockchain powered by homomorphic encryption

Portals

DeFi yield and protocol aggregator

lon Protocol

The solution to unlocking validator staked assets

aori

The Orderbook Protocol

Sorella

Creating sustainable on-chain markets

0xbow

DeFi privacy and regulatory compliance platform

Frens

A messaging app for web3 explorers

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Name	Round	Amount	Valuation	Date
Kelp DAO	Private	$ 9 M	$ 90 M	May 22
Movement	Series A	$ 38 M	--	Apr 25
Othentic	Seed	$ 4 M	--	Apr 22
NEBRA *	Seed	$ 4.5 M	--	Apr 17
Aligned Layer	Seed	$ 2.6 M	--	Apr 15
Monad	--	$ 225 M	--	Apr 09
BSX	--	--	--	Apr 01
MyShell	Pre-A	$ 11 M	--	Mar 27
BOB	--	$ 10 M	--	Mar 27
0G	Pre-Seed	$ 35 M	--	Mar 26
Succinct	Series A	$ 43 M	--	Mar 21
Clique	Series A	$ 8 M	--	Mar 14
Eclipse	Series A	$ 50 M	--	Mar 11
BounceBitBB	Seed	$ 6 M	--	Feb 28
Ether.FiETHFI	--	$ 27 M	--	Feb 27
INIT Capital	Seed	$ 3.1 M	--	Feb 21
AltLayerALT	Strategic	$ 14.4 M	$ 180 M	Feb 19
OMEGA	--	$ 6 M	--	Feb 07
Modulus	Seed	$ 6 M	--	Nov 01, 2023
Nocturne	Seed	$ 6 M	--	Oct 25, 2023

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