# GateCap Ventures

> GateCap Ventures is a VC fund in Austin backing Blockchain and FinTech. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Austin, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Nov 2024
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.gatecapventures.com/

GateCap Ventures is a VC fund in Austin focused on Blockchain and FinTech. GateCap Ventures investing in early-stage companies building the infrastructure for the digitization of traditional financial assets. The firm draws on a 20+ year history of managing and advising multi-billion dollar private equity portfolios for large institutional investors. It was founded in 1998.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 3 | 100% |
| FinTech | 2 | 67% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 67% |
| SaaS | 1 | 33% |
| Web3 | 1 | 33% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Series A | 1 | 33% |
| Series B | 1 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 67% |
| Panama | 1 | 33% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Frank Fernandez | Founder and Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frank-fernandez-8e6c |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nuva Labs | ProvLabs is a fintech company that offers blockchain SaaS solutions for financial institutions. | $17.7M | Seed | Nov 08, 2024 |  |
| Blueberry Protocol | Blueberry is an interface for interacting with the rest of DeFi with the ability to leverage and hedge by borrowing from an internal lending market. | $2.5M | Series A | Jun 04, 2024 |  |
| Prime Trust | Prime Trust is a technology-driven trust company unlike anything else in existence. We are doing to the traditional trust industry what Paypal did to merchant processing; completely disrupting it by writing software that brings services to the masses and that business partners can build on top of. As a chartered, regulated financial institution weare overseen by the banking commissioner’s office at the Financial Institutions Division. As a trust company we hold cash and non-cash assets such as stocks, bonds, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, tokens, real estate, and private business ownership interests. We act as custodian and trustee for a wide variety of personal and corporate trusts, as well as a major part of the crowdfunding industry, and work with individuals, corporations, lawyers, brokers, investment advisers and others on holding and managing specialized custodial, escrow and trust services. | $107M | Series B | Jun 22, 2022 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Trajectory Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/trajectory-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alchemix](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alchemix-7452) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
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- [Blockchange Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blockchange-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CMT Digital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cmt-digital-ventures-llc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does GateCap Ventures invest in?

GateCap Ventures invests primarily in Blockchain, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact GateCap Ventures?

Public channels for GateCap Ventures include 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 GateCap Ventures?

The team at GateCap Ventures includes Frank Fernandez (Founder and Managing 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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