# Lightning Ventures

> Lightning Ventures is a VC fund in New York backing Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency. See 61 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 61
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lightning%E2%9A%A1%EF%B8%8Fventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/ltngventures
- Website: https://ltng.ventures

Lightning Ventures is an exclusively Bitcoin focused network of investors, operators, and developers, dedicated to supporting Lightning Network adoption worldwide. We invested directly through our fund as well as our investor syndicate.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$6M |
| Pre-Seed | $250k–$2.8M |
| Series A | $6M–$15M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bitcoin | 21 | 34% |
| Cryptocurrency | 10 | 16% |
| FinTech | 9 | 15% |
| Financial Services | 8 | 13% |
| Blockchain | 5 | 8% |

58 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 22 | 36% |
| Pre-Seed | 19 | 31% |
| Series A | 4 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 3% |
| Series B | 1 | 2% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 21 | 34% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |
| France | 1 | 2% |
| Israel | 1 | 2% |
| Poland | 1 | 2% |

13 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| JAN3 | JAN3's mission is to accelerate hyperbitcoinization. Bitcoin will fix the world. | $5M | Seed | Jan 03, 2025 |  |
| Vida | Vida is a platform for communication designed to give users the means to hold private messaging and call discussions directly. Influencers can interact and engage with their fans via the company's platform, which supports meaningful engagement through paid texting, calling, and streaming with zero spam. | $3M | Seed | Jul 02, 2024 |  |
| OrdinalsBot | OrdinalsBot is a blockchain platform that offers resources for token creations, inscriptions, and Bitcoin ecosystem. | $3M | Seed | Mar 26, 2024 |  |
| Relai | Relai is the easiest way to invest in Bitcoin for the long-term investor. A simple and intuitive app that allows users to buy and sell Bitcoin directly from their bank account within 1 minute, without registration, KYC verification or deposits. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 17, 2024 |  |
| OrdinalsBot | OrdinalsBot is a blockchain platform that offers resources for token creations, inscriptions, and Bitcoin ecosystem. | $1M | Seed | Oct 09, 2023 |  |
| Pnkfrg Studios | Pnkfrg Studios is a mobile gaming studio establishing a new gaming genre based on mash-ups of entertainment formats (video and games) creating a game that feels like a social entertainment platform for Gen Z. |  | Seed | May 24, 2023 |  |
| Azteco | Azteco simplifies the process of obtaining Bitcoin so that anyone anywhere can understand and use it. The Azteco solution is a merchant platform where vendors can sell Bitcoin through a system of familiar and simple-to-use 16-digit voucher codes. Simple to use retail Bitcoin is the missing link to where it will sweep across the entire globe. It isthe final step that will onboard billions of people to global e-commerce, and Azteco addresses this market perfectly. | $6M | Seed | May 18, 2023 |  |
| Cloaked Wireless | We created Cloaked Wireless because we believe that everyone deserves private and secure wireless access. With Cloaked Wireless, you get the same great service at competitive prices with privacy and security included at no extra cost. |  | Pre-Seed | May 10, 2023 |  |
| Beaver Bitcoin | Beaver Bitcoin is a non-custodial Bitcoin exchange that allows fully-automated weekly Bitcoin buy directly from the bank account. |  | Pre-Seed | May 08, 2023 |  |
| THNDR | THNDR is a B2B skill games company. It sells a white-label skill games layer to operators, sportsbooks, DFS platforms and lottery apps, and earns revenue on every bet placed.Operators add THNDR to solve their number 1 problem: retention. Skill games are one of the strongest retention levers an operator has, and the same games that bring playersback earn revenue on every bet. THNDR's games go fully native to the operator's product, down to the pixel, so players never know they left, and a partner is live in 5 to 10 days because nothing has to be rebuilt to fit.THNDR has been running, not just building, since 2019: hundreds of thousands of real-money skill tournaments, 160m+ games played, a 99.99% fill rate, and 25+ partners live. Real paying players not bots, patent-pending game verification, a 50/50 target win rate and skill brackets keep the operator's licence and margin protected. THNDR's CEO chairs the Skill Games Committee within the International Gaming Standards Association (IGSA) in the US, so operators are on the right side of the rules as they tighten.THNDR is the best games layer, paired with best-in-class specialists for everything else. It is not a payments platform, a full-stack operator solution, or a crypto product. |  | Seed | May 04, 2023 |  |

10 of 61 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Fulgur Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fulgur-venture) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Ten31](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ten31) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
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- [Timechain](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/timechain-f403) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Concentric](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/concentric) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Lightning Ventures invest in?

Lightning Ventures invests primarily in Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 61 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 Lightning Ventures's check size?

Lightning Ventures typically joins rounds of $1M–$6M at Seed, $250k–$2.8M at Pre-Seed and $6M–$15M 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 Lightning Ventures participates in.

### When did Lightning Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Lightning Ventures closed in Jan 2025. Shizune tracks 61 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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