# Belvedere Strategic Capital

> Belvedere Strategic Capital is a VC fund in Chicago backing Cryptocurrency and Financial Services. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, United States
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/belvedere-strategic-capital/

Belvedere Strategic Capital is a VC fund in Chicago focused on Cryptocurrency and Financial Services. Belvedere Strategic Capital (BSC) invests in people and companies with exceptional ideas surrounding finance and technology.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cryptocurrency | 3 | 50% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 50% |
| Finance | 1 | 17% |
| Marketing | 1 | 17% |
| Blockchain | 1 | 17% |

8 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 50% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 17% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Circuit | Circuit offers cryptocurrency portfolio management and digital asset management services. | $4.5M | Seed | Jun 30, 2025 |  |
| GigaStar | GigaStar is a developer of an online content creators marketplace. This marketplace allows fans and followers to invest in their favorite creators to support them. In addition, creators can monetize their future capital by offering fans rights to a percentage of their channel's potential future revenue, allowing creators to have streamlinedaccess to fan funding, fan engagement, and long-term royalties.The company was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. | $3M | Seed | Dec 28, 2023 |  |
| RQD Clearing | RQD Clearing delivers the technology, solutions, and business model brokers expect from a correspondent clearing. They are built entirely on cloud-native, real-time technology and offer an implementation that scales as clients. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 28, 2023 |  |
| GigaStar | GigaStar is a developer of an online content creators marketplace. This marketplace allows fans and followers to invest in their favorite creators to support them. In addition, creators can monetize their future capital by offering fans rights to a percentage of their channel's potential future revenue, allowing creators to have streamlinedaccess to fan funding, fan engagement, and long-term royalties.The company was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. | $4.8M | Seed | Mar 16, 2023 |  |
| ML Tech | ML Tech is a FinTech startup building the next-generation trading platform within the crypto asset space. | $1.9M |  | Dec 20, 2022 |  |
| ML Tech | ML Tech is a FinTech startup building the next-generation trading platform within the crypto asset space. | $1.9M | Seed | Dec 20, 2022 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [DV Chain](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dv-chain) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Hyperithm](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hyperithm) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Nameless Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nameless-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Nascent](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nascent-91c1) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Tomsic Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tomsic-holdings) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [StreamingFast](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dfuse-5725) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Belvedere Strategic Capital invest in?

Belvedere Strategic Capital invests primarily in Cryptocurrency, Financial Services and Finance startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Belvedere Strategic Capital last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Belvedere Strategic Capital closed in Jun 2025. Shizune tracks 6 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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