Castle Island Ventures
VC Fund
Cambridge, United States
Castle Island Ventures is a VC fund in Cambridge focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. They are a venture capital firm focused exclusively on public blockchains. They invest in infrastructure and application companies that will enable these transformative protocols to power services for the next billion users.
- Total investments:
- 143
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 34%
- Fund size:
- $250M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Castle Island Ventures invests in
Stages Castle Island Ventures invests in
Countries Castle Island Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.9M–$10M
- Pre-Seed
- $125k–$8M
- Series A
- $6M–$50M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 41 (29%)
- Cryptocurrency 35 (24%)
- FinTech 21 (15%)
- Financial Services 20 (14%)
- Software 15 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 60 (42%)
- Series A 25 (17%)
- Pre-Seed 11 (8%)
- Series B 9 (6%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 7 (5%)
Country
- United States 60 (42%)
- India 2 (1%)
- China 1 (1%)
- Canada 1 (1%)
- France 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ria Bhutoria
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Hunter Merghart
Venture Partner
|
Venture Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Matt Walsh
Founding Partner
|
Founding Partner | Total investments: 16 | Find email | |
Nic Carter
Founding Partner
|
Founding Partner | Total investments: 32 | Find email | |
Sean Judge
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 11 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Félix is a chat-based platform that enables Latinos in the US to send money abroad. We combine Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence to disrupt how remittances are done today and build the future of cross-border payments. | $87M / Series C / Sep 01, 2026 | ||
| Birdai Labs provides software and data services for measuring execution quality in onchain markets. Its infrastructure reconstructs transaction flows from public blockchain data and analyzes the gap between an order and its fill, including fees, price impact, and ordering effects. The company offers trade-level execution scoring, value attribution,historical analytics, and REST API access for traders, market makers, protocols, decentralized exchanges, and validators. Birdai Labs also publishes research and a regulatory intelligence feed covering digital-asset market structure and related rules. | $4M / Seed / Jul 28, 2026 | ||
| Cyclops.io is a team of serial entrepreneurs with backgrounds from Cisco, Nuance, Bessemer Venture Partners, MIT, Caltech and Harvard. They have an extensive background in online video and collaboration, machine vision and deep learning. Their mission is to replicate the feeling and collaborative richness of being in the same room. It could be usedinternally by distributed teams or by sales or customer service with customers or partners. Everything should be as simple as a click. They are constantly looking for ways to improve your experience. Stay tuned for new and exciting features. | $20M / Series A / Jul 15, 2026 | ||
| XFX makes global money movement fast, transparent, and capital-efficient across fiat and stablecoin rails. | $17M / Series A / Mar 26, 2026 | ||
| Cyclops.io is a team of serial entrepreneurs with backgrounds from Cisco, Nuance, Bessemer Venture Partners, MIT, Caltech and Harvard. They have an extensive background in online video and collaboration, machine vision and deep learning. Their mission is to replicate the feeling and collaborative richness of being in the same room. It could be usedinternally by distributed teams or by sales or customer service with customers or partners. Everything should be as simple as a click. They are constantly looking for ways to improve your experience. Stay tuned for new and exciting features. | $8M / Seed / Mar 04, 2026 | ||
| Valinor is a digital investment firm that offers flexible financial capital for fintech companies. | $25M / Seed / Feb 05, 2026 | ||
| Project Eleven is a development company dedicated to advancing post-quantum cryptography solutions. | $20M / Series A / Jan 14, 2026 | ||
| ARX smart contracts and HaLo chips enable creators build decentralized, immutable and composable physical crypto assets. | $6.1M / Seed / Nov 06, 2025 | ||
| Atrium is an AI-powered intelligence platform built for investors, analysts, and bankers who need to move fast. | $4M / Seed / Oct 22, 2025 | ||
| Tesser is a low-code blockchain payment solution platform that provides stability coin payments. | $4.5M / Seed / Oct 21, 2025 | ||
| See all 143 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Castle Island Ventures invest in?
Castle Island Ventures invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 143 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 Castle Island Ventures's check size?
Castle Island Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.9M–$10M at Seed, $125k–$8M at Pre-Seed and $6M–$50M 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 Castle Island Ventures participates in.
How do I contact Castle Island Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Castle Island Ventures?
The team at Castle Island Ventures includes Ria Bhutoria (General Partner), Hunter Merghart (Venture Partner) and Matt Walsh (Founding 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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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