# Bankless Ventures

> Bankless Ventures is a VC fund in Norfolk backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 38 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Norfolk, United States
- Total investments: 38
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 3%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bankless-vc/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/banklessvc
- Website: https://www.bankless.ventures/

Bankless Ventures is an early-stage Web3 fund empowering pioneers to explore the frontier of Web3.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $4M–$9M |
| Series A | $6M–$225M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $7M–$13M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 13 | 34% |
| Cryptocurrency | 7 | 18% |
| Web3 | 3 | 8% |
| Ethereum | 3 | 8% |
| Software | 3 | 8% |

27 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 14 | 37% |
| Series A | 7 | 18% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 5% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 3% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 3% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 12 | 32% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 5% |
| Cayman Islands | 2 | 5% |
| Spain | 1 | 3% |
| Israel | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Megapot | Megapot is a decentralized peer-to-peer protocol that connects liquidity providers, apps, and gamers, allowing anyone to effortlessly sell tickets while also using them for retention and monetization purposes, allowing customers to earn huge yields. | $5M | Pre-Seed | Mar 26, 2026 |  |
| Tenbin Labs | Tenbin Labs is a New York-based startup developing a tokenized asset protocol for real-world assets like commodities and foreign exchange markets. | $7.1M | Seed | Jan 27, 2026 |  |
| Almanak | Almanak is a decentralized finance (DeFi) smart agent platform that harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to automate, optimize, and intelligently manage a wide range of DeFi investment strategies. It enables users to create and deploy automated DeFi trading and risk-management strategies through coordinated AI agents. It provides anenvironment where AI handles strategy coding, backtesting across thousands of Monte Carlo simulations, optimization, risk monitoring, deployment via non-custodial Safe-based multisig accounts, and real-time performance monitoring with alerting capabilities. The platform supports seamless interaction with multiple blockchains and protocols via an LLM-powered interface.Almanak targets active DeFi participants, developers building financial applications, investment professionals, and users seeking automated portfolio insights. It emphasizes enhanced automation, continuous strategy execution, and adaptive automation driven by emerging AI techniques to respond to evolving market conditions. | $8.5M | Seed | Aug 17, 2025 |  |
| Build on Bitcoin | Build on Bitcoin is a hybrid Layer-2 network Bitcoin blockchain | $9.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 07, 2025 |  |
| Euphoria | Euphoria is a crypto derivatives trading app that aims to simplify options and perpetual trading. | $5M | Seed | Aug 07, 2025 |  |
| Beam | Beam is a payment service that uses stablecoins to help people send money globally faster and cheaper. | $7M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 27, 2025 |  |
| Blu | Blu is a data science company. | $2.9M |  | Mar 01, 2025 |  |
| Hyperbolic | Hyperbolic is the open-access AI cloud made for AI developers, providing fast, affordable access to compute, inference, and AI services. | $12M | Series A | Dec 10, 2024 |  |
| Gevulot | Gevulot is a blockchain technology solutions provider that focuses on zero-knowledge proofs. It allows developers to apply ZK proofs and delegate computing chores to a network of advanced hardware operators. |  | Seed | Dec 05, 2024 |  |
| Schuman Financial | Schuman Financial develops technologies, infrastructure, and products that bring financial services on-chain. | $7.3M | Seed | Nov 26, 2024 |  |

10 of 38 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Robot Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robot-ventures) — VC Fund, 14 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Bankless Ventures invest in?

Bankless Ventures invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Web3 startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 38 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 Bankless Ventures's check size?

Bankless Ventures typically joins rounds of $4M–$9M at Seed, $6M–$225M at Series A and $7M–$13M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Bankless Ventures participates in.

### When did Bankless Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Bankless Ventures closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 38 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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