# Iterative Capital Management

> Iterative Capital Management is a VC fund backing Blockchain and EdTech. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Sep 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Fund size: $1.4M
- Last fund: Oct 2016
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/iterative-instinct
- Website: http://iterativeinstinct.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iterative/

Iterative Capital Management is an alternative investment management firm specializing in cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. The firm is offering liquidity services to the emerging digital currency markets. The market for skilled knowledge work has adapted, as evidenced by new ways of working seen at the margins of the global softwareindustry. It owns and operates proof-of-work mining operations for the Bitcoin and Decred networks in the US and China.Iterative Capital Management generates original research focusing on the secular trends that act as drivers of the cryptocurrency phenomenon, looking for analogical concepts across technical disciplines, and identifying historical precedents that contribute to deeper understanding.Iterative Capital Management was founded in 2016 and is based in New York, NY, United States.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Iterative Capital Management. Shizune tracks 3 team members at Iterative Capital Management. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/iterative-instinct?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 2 | 33% |
| EdTech | 1 | 17% |
| Mobile | 1 | 17% |
| Bitcoin | 1 | 17% |
| Internet | 1 | 17% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 50% |
| Angel | 1 | 17% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Indonesia | 2 | 33% |
| United States | 2 | 33% |
| China | 1 | 17% |
| Canada | 1 | 17% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Brian Ma | Founder and Managing Partner | 34 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-ma |
| Brandon Buchanan | CoFounder & General Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brandon-buchanan |
| Chris Dannen | Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-dannen |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Neutronpay | Neutronpay offers a platform for payments and transactions with seamless integration to accept bitcoin lightning payments risk-free. | $2.3M | Seed | Sep 14, 2022 |  |
| LingoTalk | LingoTalk is a personalised remote language learning solution with one-on-one real-time tutoring. With technology, LingoTalk aims to empower students by delivering efficient and all-encompassing language education. | $500K | Seed | Jul 04, 2022 |  |
| Ringkas | Ringkas aims to solve the housing problem by digitizing the overall value chain and creating an intelligent platform that would simplify the mortgage process, efficiently match customer profiles, and target assets to the risk appetite of the financial institutions. | $2.3M | Pre-Seed | May 31, 2022 |  |
| Js Designs | 'xiaopiu', a product of Beijing Xueyun Ruichuang Technology Co., Ltd., is an online APP prototyping tool. You can enjoy a software-level smooth experience by opening a browser, cloud component library, interactive motion customization, and efficient and friendly operation. Your creativity is instantly presented. * Cloud resources,one-click reference: Users can refer to shared resources shared by others with one click, so that users can focus more on expressing their ideas and ideas, and avoid creating wheels repeatedly. * Quickly build interactive animation: After creating the state and modifying the component to the desired style, we will automatically generate the tween animation. The user can preview and adjust the animation at any time through the bottom timeline, which is quick and convenient. * Global architecture, free to master: multi-view panel lists all the pages of the project, users can quickly process and logically arrange the page, so that the entire project architecture is unobstructed. |  | Angel | May 02, 2018 |  |
| Chronicled | Chronicled builds trust and automation in the life science industry, powered by blockchain. Based in San Francisco, Chronicled is the custodian of MediLedger, the primary blockchain-based network in the healthcare and life science industry that powers solutions to facilitate trust and automation between companies. Chronicled develops solutions forrevenue management and supply chain on the MediLedger Network. |  | Seed | Mar 01, 2017 |  |
| Storj | For developers who demand ownership of their data and who want to build with confidence, Storj Decentralized Cloud Storage (DCS) is private by design and secure by default—delivering unparalleled data protection and privacy when compared to traditional centralized cloud object storage alternatives.Storj DCS offers affordable and predictablepricing, S3 compatibility, a robust library of open source technical documentation and familiar development tools—along with a vibrant community of customers—which enables developers to economically and easily learn and leverage decentralized cloud storage technology to take control of their data when building the next great application or service. |  |  | Oct 01, 2016 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Creative Gorilla Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/creative-gorilla-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [EduSpaze](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eduspaze) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Fulgur Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fulgur-venture) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Hivemind Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hivemind-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Init 6](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/init-6) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Iterative Capital Management invest in?

Iterative Capital Management invests primarily in Blockchain, EdTech and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Indonesia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Iterative Capital Management?

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### Who are the partners at Iterative Capital Management?

The team at Iterative Capital Management includes Brian Ma (Founder and Managing Partner), Brandon Buchanan (CoFounder & General Partner) and Chris Dannen (Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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