Animal Ventures
VC Fund
Animal Ventures is a VC fund focused on Blockchain and Software. “By nature, man is a political animal.” In Aristotle’s most well-known observation, “political” means the capacity for speech and reason. This has led to humans becoming social and technological animals, inventing and disseminating new kinds of tools that fundamentally alter our world and our engagement with it. It is what has moved the speciesalong. From fire to Facebook. Today, as in the past, technological inventions are reshaping human life. Many of our conceptions of what work looks like, how we communicate and trade, and even what constitutes a human being are unravelling before our eyes due to advances in technology. And now, more than ever, we need to leverage the Aristotelian part of our animal nature to build forward with purpose.Animal Ventures is a venture studio and consultancy focused on helping clients best adapt to the changing technological landscape. We help build startups, educate executives, and design comprehensive strategies to help corporate, government, and nonprofit clients take advantage some of the most advanced technologies coming to market, among them blockchain, artificial intelligence, digital platforms, and the Internet of Things. Animal Ventures is the umbrella entity that co-founders Tom Serres and Bettina Warburg created for the projects they are working on at the intersection of technology, politics, and broader societal change. Its teams are formed from an extensive network of professional peers, who take on projects germane to their areas of expertise and that require new thinking. Animal Ventures innovates with client companies and governments to develop minimum viable products and comprehensive strategies for innovation across technologies
- Total investments:
- 5
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 20%
Last updated:
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Industries Animal Ventures invests in
Stages Animal Ventures invests in
Countries Animal Ventures invests in
Contacts
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2 more contacts available
Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 4 (80%)
- Software 3 (60%)
- Information Technology 3 (60%)
- Internet 2 (40%)
- Web3 1 (20%)
Stage
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (40%)
- Seed 1 (20%)
- Series B 1 (20%)
- Series C 1 (20%)
Country
- United States 3 (60%)
- Japan 1 (20%)
- Taiwan 1 (20%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Bettina Warburg
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
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Co-Founder and Managing Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Tom Serres
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
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Co-Founder and Managing Partner | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Kelly Gillease
Investor
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Investor | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Coin Metrics
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Coin Metrics is the provider of crypto financial intelligence, providing network data, market data, indexes, and network risk solutions to the most prestigious institutions touching crypto-assets. Coin Metrics is an open-source project to determine the economic significance of public blockchains. Today, we expand on that original purpose to empowerpeople and institutions to make informed crypto-financial decisions. | $35M / Series C / Apr 06, 2022 | |
Astar Network
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Astar Network is a multi-virtual machine scalable smart contract platform on Polkadot supporting cutting-edge layer 2 like Rollups. | $22M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 28, 2022 | |
Decentology
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Decentology operates as a block-chain startup. Decentology is the innovative company behind Hyperverse, the open, composable smart contracts marketplace that makes it easy for developers to discover, build and monetize web3 applications. | $4.3M / Seed / Oct 19, 2021 | |
Livepeer
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Livepeer develops and operates a platform for decentralized live video broadcast on the Internet. It provides an open platform that gives broadcasters, developers, and users the ability to get content and message out.Livepeer combines a blockchain based crypto-token protocol with economic incentives and an open media server. It provides adecentralized video live streaming platform with the peer-to-peer networks and the blockchain. Eric Tang and Douglas Petkanics founded it in 2017, with its head in New York City. | $20M / Series B / Jul 29, 2021 | |
portto / Blocto
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portto aims to make blockchain simple for users and developers. With its most user-friendly blockchain application browser and wallet SDKs, portto has pushed it steps forward for blockchain to be used in real life scenarios. | $8M / Venture - Series Unknown / May 28, 2021 |
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FAQ
What does Animal Ventures invest in?
Animal Ventures invests primarily in Blockchain, Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Venture - Series Unknown and Seed stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Animal Ventures?
The team at Animal Ventures includes Bettina Warburg (Co-Founder and Managing Partner), Tom Serres (Co-Founder and Managing Partner) and Kelly Gillease (Investor). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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