# Brandon Potts

> Brandon Potts is a seed investor at Framework Ventures backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Framework Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/framework-ventures)
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 88%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonpotts/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/b_potts23
- Website: https://x.com/b_potts23

Brandon Potts is a Partner at Framework Ventures.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 7 | 41% |
| Cryptocurrency | 4 | 24% |
| Software | 3 | 18% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 18% |
| Web3 | 2 | 12% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 47% |
| Series A | 5 | 29% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 12% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 29% |
| Brazil | 2 | 12% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 12% |
| Nicaragua | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Spearbit | Spearbit connects independent security experts to Web3 projects that need them.The company offers a range of services, including expert-conducted security reviews and ongoing security reviews through retainer agreements. These services provide clients with an operational layer, freeing them from time-consuming administrative tasks and clientsourcing and due diligence. | $8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 30, 2026 |  |
| Crown | Crown is a fintech focused on the Issuer of BRLV, a BRL-backed stablecoin built for safety, liquidity, and compliance. | $8.1M | Seed | Oct 14, 2025 |  |
| Plasma | Plasma is an operational setting that supports payments, real-world assets, and DeFi, with trustless settlement on Bitcoin. | $20.5M | Series A | Feb 13, 2025 |  |
| Hyve Labs | Hyve Labs is about creating a comprehensive social gaming experience. and each game offers a chance to create deep connections and participate in a virtual world, going beyond simple entertainment. | $2.8M | Pre-Seed | Jan 16, 2025 |  |
| Glow Labs | Solar farms on the Glow network are paid with GLW tokens for electricity output and stablecoins for carbon credits. According to the business, their incentive model prioritizes incentives for solar farms with the greatest environmental benefit, focusing on places where clean energy can best balance high carbon emissions. | $30M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 31, 2024 |  |
| Parfin | Parfin is a financial technology company building enterprise-grade software products to allow financial institutions to adopt blockchain rails. Founded in 2019 by seasoned veterans of investment banking and blockchain technology, Parfin is the core developer of Rayls, taking a unified finance (UniFi) approach that enables traditional finance to usethe latest blockchain technology with the required level of compliance, security and privacy. Building blockchain technology products for the world’s leading financial institutions, digital assets traders, and developers, Parfin is paving the way for a world with more efficient, transparent and inclusive markets. Learn more at https://www.parfin.io. | $10M | Series A | Aug 14, 2024 |  |
| Sentient | Sentient is an AI research organization fostering a new Open AGI Economy for AI Builders and Creators. | $85M | Seed | Jul 02, 2024 |  |
| Asset Reality | We build software for law enforcement to seize, manage dispose of crytpocurrencies from criminals. | $6.8M | Series A | Jan 04, 2024 |  |
| BabylonChain | Babylon is a VC-backed blockchain project founded by Claude. E. Shannon Award recipient, Professor David Tse from Stanford University. The project’s mission is to bring Bitcoin’s unparalleled security to all PoS blockchains in the world. To this end, we are building, as the bridge between Bitcoin and the PoS world, a new public Cosmos-based PoSblockchain called Babylon with a native token. | $18M | Series A | Dec 07, 2023 |  |
| Spearbit | Spearbit connects independent security experts to Web3 projects that need them.The company offers a range of services, including expert-conducted security reviews and ongoing security reviews through retainer agreements. These services provide clients with an operational layer, freeing them from time-consuming administrative tasks and clientsourcing and due diligence. | $7M | Seed | Aug 10, 2023 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Hack VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hack-vc) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Multicoin Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/multicoin-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Robot Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robot-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [32bit Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/32bit-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Builder Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/builder-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Framework Ventures

VC Fund · Toronto, Canada

They are a team of technologists, researchers and investors who buy assets of, who build for, and who participate in open crypto networks. At its core, Framework is a technology company, building products and services to support the open blockchain networks that they invest in. Framework was started in 2019.

5 contacts available at Framework Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brandon Potts | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brandon-potts-144c |
| John DiCerbo | Chief Financial Officer / Chief Compliance Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-dicerbo |
| Michael Anderson | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-anderson-4 |
| Roy Learner | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/roy-learner |
| Vance Spencer | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vance-spencer |

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## FAQ

### What does Brandon Potts invest in?

Brandon Potts invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 17 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 Brandon Potts last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Brandon Potts closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 17 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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