# Medici Ventures

> Medici Ventures is a VC fund in Salt Lake City backing Blockchain and FinTech. See 29 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Salt Lake City, United States
- Total investments: 29
- Last investment: Oct 2022
- Lead investor: 55%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/medici-ventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/medici_ventures
- Website: https://www.mediciventures.com

Medici Ventures is a VC fund in Salt Lake City focused on Blockchain and FinTech. Launched in 2014, Medici Ventures is a wholly owned subsidiary of Overstock.com, Inc., created to manage and oversee the company’s investments in firms building solutions leveraging and servicing blockchain technologies. Medici Ventures has a growing portfolio of groundbreaking new companies and tech businesses.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.2M–$8M |
| Series A | $2M–$15M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 11 | 38% |
| FinTech | 10 | 34% |
| Financial Services | 5 | 17% |
| Payments | 3 | 10% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 10% |

49 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 9 | 31% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 21% |
| Seed | 4 | 14% |
| Series B | 4 | 14% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 3% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 12 | 41% |
| China | 1 | 3% |
| Israel | 1 | 3% |
| Belgium | 1 | 3% |
| Barbados | 1 | 3% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jonathan Johnson | President | 11 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jonathan-e-johnson-iii |
| Tron Black | Principal Software Developer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tron-black |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SettleMint | SettleMint's product is an easy to use platform for web2 engineers to build, deploy and integrate on web3 infrastructure. SettleMint's high performance, low code platform covers the complete web3 application development lifecycle and stack: - node hosting as a service: pick your protocol, pick your cloud, pick your region and clickdeploy. 2 minutes to set up your infrastructure. - use case development: choose from the library of fully customizable smart contract templates for more than 50 use cases. - indexing: full Graph QL integration to make querying on chain data super efficient. - storage: full IPFS node deployment for decentralized data storage, Hasura and S3 deployment for centralized storage. - UI builder: fully customizable automated user interface builder.All tools in the platform are fully scalable. With one click, scale up or scale down resources allocated to each deployed service. SOC2 certified and enterprise grade with a world class deployment and orchestration engine to remove risk, complexity and a whole lot of headaches for web3 development. Build fast and don't break things.Active in Europe, MEA, India and APAC with offices in Belgium, Dubai, Delhi, Singapore and Tokyo. | $15.5M | Series A | Oct 11, 2022 |  |
| Nature Mobility | Nature Mobility is a mobile application platform. | $7.7M | Series B | Jul 28, 2022 |  |
| Upstream App | Upstream is the best place to grow your professional community. | $12.5M | Series A | Mar 09, 2022 |  |
| Upstream App | Upstream is the best place to grow your professional community. | $12.5M | Series A | Mar 09, 2022 |  |
| tZERO | tZERO is a technology firm that was founded with the goal of utilizing distributed ledger technology to revolutionize financial technologies so that they are more efficient, accessible and transparent.tZERO is not a registered broker-dealer, funding portal, underwriter, investment bank, investment adviser or investment manager, and is notproviding brokerage, investment banking or underwriting services, recommendations or investment advice to any person, and does not provide any brokerage services. tZERO takes no part in the negotiation or execution of secondary market transactions for the purchase or sale of securities and at no time has possession of investor funds or securities in connection with such transactions. |  |  | Feb 22, 2022 |  |
| tZERO | tZERO is a technology firm that was founded with the goal of utilizing distributed ledger technology to revolutionize financial technologies so that they are more efficient, accessible and transparent.tZERO is not a registered broker-dealer, funding portal, underwriter, investment bank, investment adviser or investment manager, and is notproviding brokerage, investment banking or underwriting services, recommendations or investment advice to any person, and does not provide any brokerage services. tZERO takes no part in the negotiation or execution of secondary market transactions for the purchase or sale of securities and at no time has possession of investor funds or securities in connection with such transactions. |  | Series B | Feb 22, 2022 |  |
| Bitt | Bitt is a global financial software company that catalyzes the transformation from traditional to digital currency systems. Our solutions are critical for the operationalization of CBDC and digital currencies for all ecosystem participants. The Bitt Digital Currency Management System (DCMS) enables central banks to efficiently deploy a CBDC oftheir own, while also enabling financial institutions to integrate with internet native payment rails (CBDCs, stablecoins, and cryptocurrencies), manage their treasury operations, and provide powerful payment services to retail and enterprise clients. | $8M |  | Oct 28, 2020 |  |
| Vital Chain | Vital Chain offers a world-class birth and death certificate solution where data is no longer at risk and efficiency drives expense savings. Through the application of its secure, patent-pending technology, Vital Chain ends the reliance on legacy paper-based systems to manage birth and death certificates and partners with each party in the birthand death certificate ecosystem to reduce their costs in handling them. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 11, 2020 |  |
| GrainChain | GrainChain creates an exchange platform with blockchain-based solutions for prompt payment and accountability.Since the dawn of agriculture, human beings have continually sought higher efficiency and security in the production and trading of food. The modern age has seen the economics of agriculture and soft commodities repeatedly transformed bysudden technical innovations, a pattern which will continue to repeat itself. In the 1850’s advancements in refrigeration and food preservation dramatically lowered food prices and increased availability. In the 1940’s innovation came in the form of gasoline tractors replacing horse drawn plows. Today, blockchain technology is poised to play a major part in the agricultural revolution of our time. GrainChain’s patent pending solution utilizes blockchain technology to address numerous issues present within the soft commodities markets, such as fraud at all stages, large and small-scale corruption, payment delays, access to futures commodities market, and a cycle of debt that is difficult to escape. GrainChain changes this. GrainChain utilizes the well-known properties of blockchains to address the systemic problems present in soft commodities markets, an industry in which the GrainChain team already has first hand experience in building software solutions. The GrainChain system greatly increases transparency and accountability within the agriculture business by eliminating disparate and wasteful paper trails, greatly eliminating the opportunity for fraud and dramatically reducing time and costs. It ensures the prompt and secure execution of contracts between farmers and buyers, by both automatically facilitating payment to the farmer and making available the corresponding financial instrument for trading on commodities markets while verifying it is backed by only real assets in the system. This shortens a process that can currently take weeks down to a nearly instantaneous one. GrainChain benefits farmers, buyers, brokers, storage facilities, banks, suppliers of agricultural goods, governments, and ultimately every food consumer on earth; everyone that benefits from a more honest and efficient agricultural industGrainChain was first introduced in 2013 by an inventor and entrepreneur Luis Macias. | $8.2M |  | Mar 08, 2020 |  |
| GrainChain | GrainChain creates an exchange platform with blockchain-based solutions for prompt payment and accountability.Since the dawn of agriculture, human beings have continually sought higher efficiency and security in the production and trading of food. The modern age has seen the economics of agriculture and soft commodities repeatedly transformed bysudden technical innovations, a pattern which will continue to repeat itself. In the 1850’s advancements in refrigeration and food preservation dramatically lowered food prices and increased availability. In the 1940’s innovation came in the form of gasoline tractors replacing horse drawn plows. Today, blockchain technology is poised to play a major part in the agricultural revolution of our time. GrainChain’s patent pending solution utilizes blockchain technology to address numerous issues present within the soft commodities markets, such as fraud at all stages, large and small-scale corruption, payment delays, access to futures commodities market, and a cycle of debt that is difficult to escape. GrainChain changes this. GrainChain utilizes the well-known properties of blockchains to address the systemic problems present in soft commodities markets, an industry in which the GrainChain team already has first hand experience in building software solutions. The GrainChain system greatly increases transparency and accountability within the agriculture business by eliminating disparate and wasteful paper trails, greatly eliminating the opportunity for fraud and dramatically reducing time and costs. It ensures the prompt and secure execution of contracts between farmers and buyers, by both automatically facilitating payment to the farmer and making available the corresponding financial instrument for trading on commodities markets while verifying it is backed by only real assets in the system. This shortens a process that can currently take weeks down to a nearly instantaneous one. GrainChain benefits farmers, buyers, brokers, storage facilities, banks, suppliers of agricultural goods, governments, and ultimately every food consumer on earth; everyone that benefits from a more honest and efficient agricultural industGrainChain was first introduced in 2013 by an inventor and entrepreneur Luis Macias. | $8.2M | Series B | Mar 08, 2020 |  |

10 of 29 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Fenbushi Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fenbushi-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Overstock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/overstock-com) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Alpaca VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alpaca-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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- [Human Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/human-ventures-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Medici Ventures invest in?

Medici Ventures invests primarily in Blockchain, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round stage. Most of the 29 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 Medici Ventures's check size?

Medici Ventures typically joins rounds of $2.2M–$8M at Seed and $2M–$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 Medici Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Medici Ventures?

Public channels for Medici 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 Medici Ventures?

The team at Medici Ventures includes Jonathan Johnson (President) and Tron Black (Principal Software Developer). 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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