# BFC

> BFC is a VC fund backing Software, Blockchain and Trading Platform. See 22 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Neustadt An Der Weinstraße, Germany
- Total investments: 22
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 14%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/blockchain-founders-capital/?viewAsMember=true
- Website: https://www.bfc.vc

BFC is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage startups.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for BFC. Shizune tracks 3 team members at BFC. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/blockchain-founders-capital?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $225k–$4.7M |
| Pre-Seed | $500k–$2.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 23% |
| Blockchain | 4 | 18% |
| Trading Platform | 3 | 14% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 14% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 14% |

47 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 45% |
| Pre-Seed | 9 | 41% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 32% |
| Germany | 4 | 18% |
| Austria | 2 | 9% |
| India | 1 | 5% |
| Canada | 1 | 5% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Benjamin Horvath | General Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benjamin-horvath |
| Sagar Barvaliya | General Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sagar-barvaliya |
| Wolfgang Männel | General Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wolfgang-m%C3%A4nnel |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Talentir | Content Monetization | $4.5M | Seed | Jun 25, 2026 |  |
| Silas Insurtech | Streamlining manually intensive and laborious Insurance Underwriting processes within Commercial and Specialty Lines. |  | Pre-Seed | Sep 30, 2025 |  |
| Tergle | Tergle specializes in the development of artificial intelligence agents designed for auditing applications. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Mar 12, 2025 |  |
| Recall | Recall uses AI to build your own personal knowledge graph from the content you consume so you can safely forget everything and trust that Recall will resurface it when it's needed. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Dec 03, 2024 |  |
| River Platform Company | River is a distributed community event platform connecting top podcasters, creators, and influencers with their fans. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Oct 15, 2024 |  |
| River Platform Company | River is a distributed community event platform connecting top podcasters, creators, and influencers with their fans. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Oct 15, 2024 |  |
| River Platform Company | River is a distributed community event platform connecting top podcasters, creators, and influencers with their fans. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Oct 15, 2024 |  |
| Unified API | One API to integrate them all | $807.6K | Pre-Seed | Oct 07, 2024 |  |
| Bayesline | We are changing the way investment managers interact with financial analytics. From one-size-doesn't-fit-all to highly customizable and blazing fast. Our first goal is to revolutionize equity risk models and analytics. Traditional models don't align with realistic investment universes or styles - we're changing that. We aim to be theone stop shop analytics provider for the modern investment manager. All asset classes, all strategies, all in one place. | $2M | Seed | Sep 09, 2024 |  |
| Level | Level is a stakblecoin backed by restaked dollar tokens. | $3.6M | Seed | Aug 29, 2024 |  |

10 of 22 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Solana Foundation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/solana-foundation) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [LAUNCH](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/launch-co) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does BFC invest in?

BFC invests primarily in Software, Blockchain and Trading Platform startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 22 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 BFC's check size?

BFC typically joins rounds of $225k–$4.7M at Seed and $500k–$2.3M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds BFC participates in.

### How do I contact BFC?

Public channels for BFC include LinkedIn 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 BFC?

The team at BFC includes Benjamin Horvath (General Partner), Sagar Barvaliya (General Partner) and Wolfgang Männel (General 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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