# Blank Ventures

> Blank Ventures is a VC fund backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 27 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 27
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 26%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/blankventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/blank_vc
- Website: https://www.blank.com

Blank Ventures is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on FinTech and Financial Services. We invest in founders reinventing the way the world works, trades, and transacts.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$7.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $700k–$3.1M |
| Series A | $10M–$35M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 6 | 22% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 15% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 11% |
| SaaS | 2 | 7% |
| Payments | 2 | 7% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 33% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 7% |
| Series A | 2 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 4% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ron Pragides | Limited Partner | 221 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ron-pragides |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Novella | Novella is an InsurTech company that develops products for general liability, commercial property, and Lloyd's of London using AI. | $21M | Series A | May 14, 2026 |  |
| Cnuic Technologies | Cnuic Technologies has developed a working prototype of a completely new type of photolithography device. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Apr 28, 2026 |  |
| Runloop AI | Runloop AI provides a Python workflow engine for AI. It orchestrates complex AI techniques to handle intricate workflows. It also streamlines the tracking of system events and application states, ensuring clear observability | $7M | Seed | Jul 30, 2025 |  |
| Caspian | Caspian helps companies reclaim customs duties, taxes, and fees—faster and easier than ever before. | $5.4M | Seed | Jul 29, 2025 |  |
| Caspian | Caspian helps companies reclaim customs duties, taxes, and fees—faster and easier than ever before. | $5.4M | Seed | Jul 29, 2025 |  |
| Receive | Receive develops an earned revenue access platform for small and medium-sized businesses. |  | Debt Financing | Jul 17, 2025 |  |
| Blok | Blok models product changes, expedites decision-making, optimizes engineering resources, and uses artificial intelligence (AI) to assist you in determining which product experiments should launch first. | $7.5M | Seed | Jul 09, 2025 |  |
| Blok | Blok models product changes, expedites decision-making, optimizes engineering resources, and uses artificial intelligence (AI) to assist you in determining which product experiments should launch first. | $7.5M | Seed | Jul 09, 2025 |  |
| Seeds | Seeds empowers financial advisors to more deeply understand investors and to automatically deliver custom portfolios that align. Founded in 2019, Seeds is enabling the evolution toward truly intentional, purposeful, and personalized investing. | $10M | Series A | May 14, 2025 |  |
| Agree.com | Agree.com is the best solution for creating and managing contracts, streamlining negotiations, enhancing compliance, optimizing workflows, and converting more customers — all within one intuitive platform. View edits, track signatures, and get alerted on all upcoming key milestones. Include free, one-click e-signatures with identity verification onevery agreement. Increase deal velocity and drive revenue impact with integrated payments. | $7.2M | Seed | May 06, 2025 |  |

10 of 27 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Verissimo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/verissimo-ventures) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Blank Ventures invest in?

Blank Ventures invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 27 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 Blank Ventures's check size?

Blank Ventures typically joins rounds of $2M–$7.5M at Seed, $700k–$3.1M at Pre-Seed and $10M–$35M 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 Blank Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Blank Ventures?

Public channels for Blank Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Blank Ventures?

The team at Blank Ventures includes Ron Pragides (Limited Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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