# Big Brain Collective

> Big Brain Collective is a VC fund backing Cryptocurrency and Decentralized Finance (DeFi). See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Aug 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Big Brain Collective is an investment firm.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cryptocurrency | 2 | 67% |
| Decentralized Finance (DeFi) | 2 | 67% |
| Outdoors | 1 | 33% |
| Blockchain | 1 | 33% |
| Consumer Electronics | 1 | 33% |

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Series A | 1 | 33% |
| Initial Coin Offering | 1 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 1 | 33% |
| Cayman Islands | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Wildcat Labs | Wildcat Labs provides on-chain credit and grants access to a detailed view of all market parameters and logs for real-time monitoring. | $3.5M | Seed | Sep 05, 2025 |  |
| aPriori | aPriori is a monad-native MEV infrastructure and liquid staking mechanism developed for parallel executions. | $20M | Series A | Aug 28, 2025 |  |
| Fogo Digital | Fogo Digital builds smart connected outdoor gadgets to keep you connected and safe when your are on the road or trail. Their flagship product is the Fogo, a durable waterproof smart flashlight with GPS and a digital radio (among other goodies). It is perfect for hiking, biking, camping, hunting, climbing, fishing, and all thingsoutdoors/apocalyptic. | $8M | Initial Coin Offering | Jan 24, 2025 |  |

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## Co-investors
- [Pantera Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pantera-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- 4 Ventures — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ambush Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ambush-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Gate](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gate) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Gate](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gate-io) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [GEM Digital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gem-digital-ltd) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Big Brain Collective invest in?

Big Brain Collective invests primarily in Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and Outdoors startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 3 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 Big Brain Collective last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Big Brain Collective closed in Aug 2025. Shizune tracks 3 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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