# Nascent

> Nascent is a VC fund in San Francisco backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 86 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 86
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 10%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nascentxyz
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/nascentxyz
- Website: https://www.linkedin.cn/company/nascentxyz

Nascent is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Nascent invests in early-stage teams with a focus on missionary founders who are building category-defining companies and protocols It was founded in 2020.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.9M–$18M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.2M–$5.5M |
| Series A | $7.5M–$25M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 39 | 45% |
| Cryptocurrency | 23 | 27% |
| Financial Services | 21 | 24% |
| Software | 19 | 22% |
| FinTech | 13 | 15% |

55 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 46 | 53% |
| Series A | 19 | 22% |
| Pre-Seed | 7 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 5 | 6% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 4 | 5% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 45 | 52% |
| Canada | 5 | 6% |
| Singapore | 3 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 2% |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 2% |

12 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dan Elitzer | Co-Founder | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dan-elitzer |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bundle | Bundle is the first networked rewards platform in the world, revolutionizing how companies interact with and reward their clients.Bundle provides companies with access to significantly more incentives than they could provide on their own by pooling brand incentive funds into common reward pools. Even though they only contribute a small portion ofthe total incentive value, brands can increase conversions. | $5.5M | Pre-Seed | Jul 30, 2026 |  |
| Tenor Labs | Tenor helps people borrow and lend money at a fixed rate without needing permission. |  | Seed | Jul 22, 2026 |  |
| Cordant | Cordant serves as the connective operational fabric for modern financial infrastructure. Operating as a shared context layer above existing legacy systems, it enables institutions to analyze activity, surface underlying risk, and coordinate critical payment decisions in real time. The platform provides a single operational picture acrossdisconnected networks to help risk and treasury teams remain proactive rather than reactive. | $8M | Seed | Jul 21, 2026 |  |
| Birch Hill Holdings | Birch Hill Holdings provides digital asset infrastructure for institutions allocating capital onchain. The firm focuses on onchain lending, tokenized asset markets, and digital asset treasury workflows. It offers risk curation, yield vault management, and portfolio visibility tools that emphasize disciplined credit underwriting, constraints, andcontinuous monitoring. Its services aim to bridge traditional and decentralized finance for institutional participants managing digital asset exposure. | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Feb 11, 2026 |  |
| Tenbin Labs | Tenbin Labs is a New York-based startup developing a tokenized asset protocol for real-world assets like commodities and foreign exchange markets. | $7.1M | Seed | Jan 27, 2026 |  |
| Project Eleven | Project Eleven is a development company dedicated to advancing post-quantum cryptography solutions. | $20M | Series A | Jan 14, 2026 |  |
| Pye Labs | Pye Finance is a Web3 startup that builds a staking-market infrastructure on the Solana blockchain. | $5M | Seed | Dec 08, 2025 |  |
| SpaceComputer | SpaceComputer uses satellites to create a secure blockchain system that resists cyberattacks and physical tampering. | $10M | Seed | Nov 26, 2025 |  |
| Takenos | Takenos provides the best way to get paid in LATAM for freelancers and contractors. | $5M | Seed | Oct 06, 2025 |  |
| Flying Tulip | Flying Tulip introduces a new capital allocation mechanism and tokenomics designed for capital preservation and sustainable value creation through yield-funded buybacks and long-term protocol growth. | $200M | Seed | Sep 29, 2025 |  |

10 of 86 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Coinbase Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinbase-ventures) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Robot Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robot-ventures) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Variant](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/variant-9ecc) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [ParaFi Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/parafi-capital) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Ethereal Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ethereal-ventures) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Framework Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/framework-ventures) — VC Fund, 8 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Nascent invest in?

Nascent invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 86 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 Nascent's check size?

Nascent typically joins rounds of $1.9M–$18M at Seed, $1.2M–$5.5M at Pre-Seed and $7.5M–$25M 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 Nascent participates in.

### How do I contact Nascent?

Public channels for Nascent 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 Nascent?

The team at Nascent includes Dan Elitzer (Co-Founder). 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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