# Permanent Ventures

> Permanent Ventures is a VC fund in Coeur D'alene backing Software and Blockchain. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Coeur D'alene, United States
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Feb 2025
- Lead investor: 45%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://permanent.ventures

Permanent Ventures is a fund focused on investing in decentralized applications which will exist forever.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3.5M–$6M |
| Pre-Seed | $900k–$1M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $7.9M–$35M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 55% |
| Blockchain | 5 | 45% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 18% |
| SaaS | 1 | 9% |
| Web3 | 1 | 9% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 36% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 18% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 18% |
| Series A | 1 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 36% |
| Singapore | 1 | 9% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 9% |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| FrodoBots Lab | FrodoBots Lab is pioneering advancements in Embodied AI research at the intersection of crypto and gaming. | $6M | Seed | Feb 13, 2025 |  |
| Irys | Irys is the only provenance layer. It enables users to scale permanent data and precisely attribute its origin. | $3.5M | Seed | Jun 12, 2024 |  |
| Community Labs | Blockchain Development Company | $35M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 11, 2024 |  |
| Grove | Pocket Network is decentralized infrastructure for developers who want to build peer-to-peer applications. Pocket Network was founded to make the exponential growth of cryptocurrencies coming into existence easier to use and more accessible for people worldwide. | $7.9M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 30, 2023 |  |
| WeaveDB | WeaveDB is a decentralized NoSQL database on Arweave as a smart contract. | $900K | Pre-Seed | Jan 17, 2023 |  |
| Bundlr Network | Bundlr is a decentralized platform that makes it fast and easy to store data on web3. It is a reliable, multichain solution that enables easy access to Arweave. Bundlr is responsible for processing over 90% of all data uploaded on Arweave and increases upload speeds by ~3000%. Bundlr is integrated on most platforms and is multi-chain compatibleincluding Ethereum, Solana, and Avalanche. | $5.2M | Seed | May 04, 2022 |  |
| Irys | Irys is the only provenance layer. It enables users to scale permanent data and precisely attribute its origin. | $5.2M | Seed | May 04, 2022 |  |
| KYVE | KYVE is an initiative to store any data stream, with built-in validation. By leveraging the Arweave blockchain. The network is powered by decentralized uploaders and validators. These nodes reside in pools, each pool focusing on archiving a specific data stream. Pools are funded by KYVE tokens. | $2.8M | Series A | Oct 26, 2021 |  |
| KYVE | KYVE is an initiative to store any data stream, with built-in validation. By leveraging the Arweave blockchain. The network is powered by decentralized uploaders and validators. These nodes reside in pools, each pool focusing on archiving a specific data stream. Pools are funded by KYVE tokens. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Jun 28, 2021 |  |
| Meson Network | Meson Network is committed in creating an efficient bandwidth marketplace on Web3, using blockchain protocol model to replace the traditional labor based sales models, consolidating and monetizing idle bandwidth from long-tail users with low cost. Meson is the foundation of data transmission for decentralized storage, computation and the emergingWeb3 dapp ecosystem. | $3.5M |  | Jun 21, 2021 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Arweave](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arweave) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Hypersphere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hypersphere-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [CMT Digital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cmt-digital-ventures-llc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Mask Network](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dimension-293e) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Formless Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/formless-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Framework Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/framework-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Permanent Ventures invest in?

Permanent Ventures invests primarily in Software, Blockchain and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 11 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 Permanent Ventures's check size?

Permanent Ventures typically joins rounds of $3.5M–$6M at Seed, $900k–$1M at Pre-Seed and $7.9M–$35M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Permanent Ventures participates in.

### When did Permanent Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Permanent Ventures closed in Feb 2025. Shizune tracks 11 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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