# Nascent Ventures

> Nascent Ventures is a VC fund in London backing Cryptocurrency, FinTech and Financial Services. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Apr 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/NascentVenture
- Website: https://nascentventures.co.uk/

Nascent Ventures is a London-based venture capital investment and management firm that provides support for gig entrepreneurs and technology startups. It provides funds for pre-seeded technology startups working on innovative solutions that support remote-working gig entrepreneurs in the creative-arts, bespoke events, and food retail/cateringspace.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$21M |
| Series A | $10M–$15M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cryptocurrency | 5 | 71% |
| FinTech | 3 | 43% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 43% |
| Finance | 2 | 29% |
| Software | 2 | 29% |

12 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 57% |
| Series A | 2 | 29% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 43% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 29% |
| Seychelles | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Porter Finance | Porter Finance is the web’s fastest growing binary options trading platform, offering an unmatched 1500% rate of returns on maximum returns on digital options. With a fast learning curve, user friendly interface and excellent customer support, Porter Finance offers its traders the best online trading experience on the net. The binary optionsplatform offers a wide variety of currencies, stocks, commodities and indices to trade binary options. In total, Porter Finance offers well over 100 different assets for trading options of all types. Offering one of the most comprehensive trading platforms, every investor is sure to find what they are looking for at Porter Finance.The company was formed on the principal that knowledge is power and though knowledge comes success. Launched in 2014, the company prides itself on excellent service and guarantees the best environment for success to their traders passing on their knowledge to traders in order to maximize their trading potential. | $5M | Seed | Apr 08, 2022 |  |
| Shipyard Software | Shipyard Software is building a fleet of exchanges and DeFi tools to suit every crypto trader. Our first flagship product, Clipper DEX, is specifically tailored for retail traders and is designed to offer the best prices for crypto trades valued at <$50k. Shipyard’s latest product, Longship, is a derivatives DEX that prevents toxic order flowwhile giving savvy traders access to DeFi-native perpetual contracts with up to 100x leverage. Shipyard’s products occupy a broader DeFi ecosystem governed by AdmiralDAO, a vanguard of builders working to level the playing field of global exchange by creating free and fair markets. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $21M | Seed | Jul 17, 2021 |  |
| Notional Finance | Notional is a decentralized protocol for fixed rate, fixed term lending and borrowing of crypto assets on Ethereum. Users can lend or borrow stablecoins at fixed rates of interest for terms of up to six months using a variety of assets as collateral. Notional achieves fixed rate lending via a primitive called fCash, which is redeemable for anunderlying currency like DAI upon the fCash token’s maturity date. Notional operates specialized liquidity pools that allow users to efficiently trade cash for fCash and vice versa. The exchange rate that a user receives on their trade implies a fixed rate of interest from the time of trade until the fCash token’s maturity.Notional is flexible and configurable. The protocol can add additional assets for lending and borrowing, additional collateral types, and additional maturities beyond six months. The community intends to broaden Notional’s scope over time to include a wider array of supported assets and extended available maturities.Notional prioritizes security. The protocol team works with industry leaders to ensure that the smart contracts are technically secure and that the economic assumptions applied in the protocol’s design are sound. | $10M | Series A | Apr 29, 2021 |  |
| Gro | Gro builds products, called protocols or autonomous programs, for a more simple and friendly DeFi experience. Gro empowers people to easily create and share wealth, by combining the best of decentralized and legacy finance. | $7.1M | Seed | Mar 30, 2021 |  |
| Syndicate | Syndicate is a decentralized asset management platform and social network. | $1M | Seed | Mar 17, 2021 |  |
| CoinFLEX | CoinFLEX operates as a crypto derivatives exchange and yield platform. It creates innovative solutions to bring investors and crypto markets through intuitive yield products such as flexUSD, the world’s first interest-earning stablecoin, and AMM+, a capital-efficient automated market maker worldwide. CoinFLEX is backed by crypto heavyweights,including Roger Ver, Mike Komaransky, Polychain Capital, and Dragonfly Capital. | $1.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 19, 2021 |  |
| 0x | 0x is an open protocol that facilitates low friction peer-to-peer exchange of tokens on the Ethereum blockchain. | $15M | Series A | Feb 05, 2021 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Nascent](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nascent-91c1) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Alliance DAO](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/defi-alliance) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Electric Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/electric-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [IOSG Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/iosg-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Nima Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nima-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Pantera Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pantera-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Nascent Ventures invest in?

Nascent Ventures invests primarily in Cryptocurrency, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 7 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 Ventures's check size?

Nascent Ventures typically joins rounds of $1M–$21M at Seed and $10M–$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 Nascent Ventures participates in.

### When did Nascent Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Nascent Ventures closed in Apr 2022. Shizune tracks 7 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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