# 280 Capital

> 280 Capital is a VC fund in New York backing Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Financial Services. See 28 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 28
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/102803617
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/280Capital
- Website: https://www.280.xyz/

280 Capital is a VC fund in New York focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. 280 Capital serves as the Web3 investment arm of the Huang, Liu, and Chen Family Office, managing a $2 billion portfolio. With roots the Web3 domain since 2014, the family currently manages a $400 million digital assets portfolio, anchored by an early acquisition of Bitcoin, showcasing a profound commitment to advancing the blockchain industry.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.3M–$9M |
| Pre-Seed | $100k–$5M |
| Series A | $10M–$38M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 10 | 36% |
| Cryptocurrency | 8 | 29% |
| Financial Services | 6 | 21% |
| Bitcoin | 5 | 18% |
| Decentralized Finance (DeFi) | 5 | 18% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 17 | 61% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 14% |
| Series A | 4 | 14% |
| Initial Coin Offering | 1 | 4% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 25% |
| Singapore | 4 | 14% |
| Spain | 1 | 4% |
| Panama | 1 | 4% |
| Germany | 1 | 4% |

10 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Superpower | Superpower is a revenue-sharing protocol for AI agents. |  | Pre-Seed | Mar 06, 2026 |  |
| BRKT | BRKT is creating the future of prediction markets through our two distinct product offerings: BRKT and Hookt. | $1.8M | Seed | Nov 27, 2024 |  |
| GAIB | GAIB is the economic foundation for the future of artificial intelligence and computers. GAIB is a crypto-AI platform under development that tokenize GPUs, making AI computing—the processing power required to train and run AI models—more accessible. | $5M | Pre-Seed | Nov 03, 2024 |  |
| Yala | Yala operates a multi-token system and unlocks a thriving and interconnected DeFi ecosystem on Bitcoin​. | $8M | Seed | Oct 10, 2024 |  |
| Echelon | Echelon is a high-efficiency money market that allows users to borrow and lend assets via non-custodial pools, earning interest and increasing purchasing power through leverage. | $3.5M | Seed | Aug 27, 2024 |  |
| Bitlayer | Bitlayer is the first Bitcoin second-layer network, based on BitVM, offering ultra-scalability and L1 security, aiming to be Bitcoin's computing layer. | $11M | Series A | Jun 05, 2024 |  |
| Movement Labs | Movement Labs is a modular framework platform that builds and deploys move-based blockchains and applications in distributed settings. Its platform offers a composable and horizontally scalable network that provides unparalleled smart contract security and asset portability to help users solve the cold start problem with unprecedentedinteroperability. | $38M | Series A | Apr 25, 2024 |  |
| BEVM | BEVM is a decentralized platform that offers solutions for the Ethereum ecosystem to operate on Bitcoin L2. | $10M | Seed | Mar 25, 2024 |  |
| UXLINK | UXLINK is a social infrastructure comprised of social protocols and a collection of Dapps.UXLINk creates groundbreaking landing sceneries for web3 groups. | $9M | Seed | Mar 13, 2024 |  |
| Scallop | Scallop is the pioneering Next Generation peer-to-peer Web3 Decentralized Finance lending Money Market. | $3M | Seed | Mar 03, 2024 |  |

10 of 28 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does 280 Capital invest in?

280 Capital invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 28 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is 280 Capital's check size?

280 Capital typically joins rounds of $2.3M–$9M at Seed, $100k–$5M at Pre-Seed and $10M–$38M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds 280 Capital participates in.

### When did 280 Capital last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for 280 Capital closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 28 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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