Flori Ventures
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Flori Ventures is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Flori is an impact web3 seed-stage venture fund supporting a more inclusive financial system. We want to accelerate those who believe that a new financial system built on blockchain technologies can be vastly more inclusive than the one we have today, and who are committed to making that vision a reality.
- Total investments:
- 106
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 10%
Last updated:
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Industries Flori Ventures invests in
Stages Flori Ventures invests in
Countries Flori Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $250k–$11M
- Pre-Seed
- $100k–$3.5M
- Series A
- $2.8M–$11M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 37 (35%)
- Cryptocurrency 28 (26%)
- FinTech 26 (25%)
- Financial Services 22 (21%)
- Web3 12 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 63 (59%)
- Pre-Seed 27 (25%)
- Series A 4 (4%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (4%)
- Funding Round 1 (1%)
Country
- United States 40 (38%)
- United Kingdom 6 (6%)
- Israel 4 (4%)
- India 3 (3%)
- Brazil 3 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Maria Alegre
Co-Founder & General Partner
|
Co-Founder & General Partner | Total investments: 10 | Find email | |
Barb Izzo
Co-Founder & General Partner
|
Co-Founder & General Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Ryan Nesbitt
Co-Founder and General Partner; Co-Founder and General Partner
|
Co-Founder and General Partner; Co-Founder and General Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Tomer Bariach
Co-Founder and General Partner
|
Co-Founder and General Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mento Labs is a decentralized EVM platform for launching and managing multi-currency stable assets. | $10M / Oct 16, 2024 | ||
| Thrive is the top protocol for powering ROI-positive decentralized grant-making across crypto ecosystems. | $1M / Seed / Oct 01, 2023 | ||
| Learn.xyz’s is a mixture of Duolingo and Wikipedia, powered by AI, creating bite-sized “Curiosities” which feature slides and a quiz, in mere seconds just from taking in a user’s question. Find the app on iOS and Android. | $3M / Seed / Sep 14, 2023 | ||
| Kotani Pay is a technology stack that enables blockchain protocols, dapps, and blockchain fintech companies to integrate seamlessly to local payment channels providing them with a reliable on ramp and off ramp service to reach a wider customer base in Africa. | $2M / Pre-Seed / Sep 04, 2023 | ||
| Small businesses drive the economy. They deserve to own a piece of it. Jia gives entrepreneurs anywhere in the world power to control their financial destiny. We provide blockchain-based financing to businesses in emerging markets and reward them with ownership, enabling them to create wealth and prosperity for themselves and their communities. | $4.3M / Seed / Apr 26, 2023 | ||
| Releaf is a supply chain technology firm that sources ingredients for African food factories. It aims to create climate-adaptive supply chains as Africa's population grows by 3 billion people. Releaf also provides extension services to smallholders, acts as a buyer of their products, and converts the raw material into factory-grade inputs forvegetable oil factories. Releaf uses digital technologies such as USSD and open banking, in addition to hardware, to work seamlessly with its network of over 2,000 smallholder farmers, who have supplied over 15 million kilograms of quality palm kernel nuts to food factories. | $250K / Seed / Feb 28, 2023 | ||
| Our mission is to grow the export volume of small and medium size agribusinesses in Latin America, generating a sustainable impact in their rural communities while increasing export volume to countries with food deficit | $1.8M / Pre-Seed / Feb 03, 2023 | ||
| ValuesCo is building a gamified platform for brands to engage consumers through onchain campaigns towards social & environmental impact and brand engagement goals. We are building gamification and rewards infrastructure that will power the next generation of consumer acquisition and engagement. | $2.7M / Seed / Jan 25, 2023 | ||
| Defy Tends is an all-in-one, intuitive, and real-time AI and data analytics web and mobile application and chrome extension that provides traders real-time data empowering better and informed crypto investments. Defy Trends uses on-chain analysis and high-tech data science algorithms to provide data insights based on fundamentals and sentiment. | Seed / Jan 01, 2023 | ||
| Tradegen operates a decentralized trading platform focusing on asset management, algo trading, and virtual trading. The company aims to make financial markets more accessible. | Seed / Jan 01, 2023 | ||
| See all 106 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Flori Ventures invest in?
Flori Ventures invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 106 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Flori Ventures invest in?
Flori Ventures typically joins rounds of $250k–$11M at Seed, $100k–$3.5M at Pre-Seed and $2.8M–$11M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Flori Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Flori Ventures took part in.
How do I contact Flori Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Flori Ventures?
The team at Flori Ventures includes Maria Alegre (Co-Founder & General Partner), Barb Izzo (Co-Founder & General Partner) and Ryan Nesbitt (Co-Founder and General Partner; Co-Founder and 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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