# Liberty City Ventures

> Liberty City Ventures is a VC fund backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 93 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 93
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 37%
- Last fund: Apr 2021
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/liberty-city-ventures
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/LCVentures
- Website: http://libertycityventures.com

Liberty City Ventures is a seed-stage fund headquartered in New York City. They invest in startups that are innovating at the cross-sections of technology, media, and commerce. Liberty City Ventures began operations in the summer of 2012 and is led by experienced technology executives and investors.They start backing promising startups at anearly stage so they can provide value and resources throughout their lifetime and fuel further growth. They commit a percentage of each partner’s time to provide value-added services to their portfolio companies using our expertise in PR, marketing, management, and operations.In addition to its general fund, Liberty City Ventures also has a dedicated Digital Currency Fund with a focus on Bitcoin. They invest in and support companies that are building the infrastructure, products, and services that will become the foundation of a new digital currency.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$11M |
| Series A | $7.5M–$60M |
| Series B | $15M–$93M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 23 | 25% |
| Cryptocurrency | 20 | 22% |
| FinTech | 17 | 18% |
| Financial Services | 16 | 17% |
| Software | 15 | 16% |

105 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 27 | 29% |
| Series A | 21 | 23% |
| Series B | 10 | 11% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 4% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 4 | 4% |

13 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 39 | 42% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 5% |
| Hong Kong | 3 | 3% |
| Switzerland | 3 | 3% |
| Pakistan | 2 | 2% |

11 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Emil Woods | Partner | 14 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emil-woods |
| Charles Cascarilla | Founding Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-cascarilla |
| Murtaza Akbar | Partner | 10 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/murtaza-akbar |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Digital Asset | Digital Asset develops distributed ledger technology intended to build distributed, encrypted straight-through processing tools.The company builds platform, developer tools, and leverages modern infrastructure providers to change how businesses interact. Its service offering is Daml, an application platform unconstrained by organizationalboundaries where companies can create new multi-party solutions that transform disparate silos into synchronized networks, eradicating latency and errors by guaranteeing consistent data. The company works with organizations in financial services, healthcare, and insurance, including 5 of the top 10 stock exchanges.In 2014, the New York, New York-based company was established by Don Wilson, Eric Saraniecki, Sunil Hirani, and Yuval Rooz. Digital Asset is backed by strategic investors, including 7RIDGE, Eldridge, Salesforce, Samsung, VMware, Accenture, Citi, Goldman Sachs, IBM, and J.P. Morgan. | $355M | Series E | Jun 11, 2026 |  |
| Digital Asset | Digital Asset develops distributed ledger technology intended to build distributed, encrypted straight-through processing tools.The company builds platform, developer tools, and leverages modern infrastructure providers to change how businesses interact. Its service offering is Daml, an application platform unconstrained by organizationalboundaries where companies can create new multi-party solutions that transform disparate silos into synchronized networks, eradicating latency and errors by guaranteeing consistent data. The company works with organizations in financial services, healthcare, and insurance, including 5 of the top 10 stock exchanges.In 2014, the New York, New York-based company was established by Don Wilson, Eric Saraniecki, Sunil Hirani, and Yuval Rooz. Digital Asset is backed by strategic investors, including 7RIDGE, Eldridge, Salesforce, Samsung, VMware, Accenture, Citi, Goldman Sachs, IBM, and J.P. Morgan. | $355M | Series F | Jun 11, 2026 |  |
| Cloaked | Cloaked provides privacy-focused digital identity and data protection tools for individuals and businesses. The company offers a platform that generates alternative identities such as emails, phone numbers, and payment details to limit exposure of personal information. Its system enables users to manage, share, and revoke access to these identitiesacross online services and transactions. It also includes monitoring features that help track data usage and detect potential exposure risks. The platform integrates with applications and services to support secure authentication and communication. The organization focuses on helping users control how their personal data is shared and stored across digital environments. | $375M | Series B | Mar 19, 2026 |  |
| Mesh | Mesh Pay is a payment infrastructure platform that enables businesses to accept and send digital assets and cryptocurrency transactions through a single integration. It supports connectivity with hundreds of wallets and exchanges, and processes payments, deposits, verification,s and global payouts, settling funds in stablecoins or local currency toreduce volatility risk and increase completion rates. The platform includes SmartFunding™, which orchestrates funding from multiple sources to streamline checkout and payout processes, and offers real-time address validation and settlement features. Mesh Pay also provides programmable wallet capabilities for autonomous commerce and routes funds securely across wallets, banks and exchanges. | $75M | Series C | Jan 27, 2026 |  |
| Canton Strategic Holdings | Hillstream BioPharma is a development-stage company advancing improved therapies for patients with cancer via a unique QUATRAMERTM nanoparticle platform. This unique technology enables intranuclear and intracellular delivery of small molecules, peptides, genes, other macromolecules and biologics to the tumor cello, while significantly minimizingexposure to normal tissues. | $545M | Post-IPO Equity | Nov 03, 2025 |  |
| zerohash | Zero Hash offers a post-trade settlement utility to bridge a fragmented market of diverse execution platforms. It supports a wide range of fiat and digital assets that can be combined into any product pair. Zero Hash combines this with an on-chain settlement for digital assets, which provides an independent ability to verify ownership via theblockchain.Zero Hash was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. | $104M | Series D | Sep 23, 2025 |  |
| LendOS | Right Pedal LendOS is a SaaS/Managed Service fintech company aiming to modernize the way financial institutions provide companies with debt financing around the world. It is founded on modern technology that is easily adoptable, adaptable and scalable; driving liquidity, efficiency and profitability in the lending space. | $8M | Series A | Sep 18, 2025 |  |
| Billions Network | Billions is a global network of AI and humans that was created to foster trust in the AI era. | $30M | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 01, 2025 |  |
| Digital Asset | Digital Asset develops distributed ledger technology intended to build distributed, encrypted straight-through processing tools.The company builds platform, developer tools, and leverages modern infrastructure providers to change how businesses interact. Its service offering is Daml, an application platform unconstrained by organizationalboundaries where companies can create new multi-party solutions that transform disparate silos into synchronized networks, eradicating latency and errors by guaranteeing consistent data. The company works with organizations in financial services, healthcare, and insurance, including 5 of the top 10 stock exchanges.In 2014, the New York, New York-based company was established by Don Wilson, Eric Saraniecki, Sunil Hirani, and Yuval Rooz. Digital Asset is backed by strategic investors, including 7RIDGE, Eldridge, Salesforce, Samsung, VMware, Accenture, Citi, Goldman Sachs, IBM, and J.P. Morgan. | $135M | Series E | Jun 24, 2025 |  |
| Carbon Arc | Carbon Arc uses AI to gather and structure raw data into on-demand, consumption-based insights. The company benefits from being at the center of a marketplace that serves data suppliers and corporate enterprises. | $56M |  | Mar 20, 2025 |  |

10 of 93 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Liberty City Ventures invest in?

Liberty City Ventures invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 93 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 Liberty City Ventures's check size?

Liberty City Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$11M at Seed, $7.5M–$60M at Series A and $15M–$93M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Liberty City Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Liberty City Ventures?

Public channels for Liberty City Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and 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 Liberty City Ventures?

The team at Liberty City Ventures includes Emil Woods (Partner), Charles Cascarilla (Founding Partner) and Murtaza Akbar (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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