# Permit Ventures

> Permit Ventures is a VC fund in Boston backing Apps, Web3 and Sports. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Sep 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.permitventures.com/

Permit Ventures is an investment firm.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 2 | 15% |
| Web3 | 2 | 15% |
| Sports | 2 | 15% |
| FinTech | 2 | 15% |
| Software | 2 | 15% |

40 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 62% |
| Series A | 3 | 23% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 8% |
| Series B | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Trident Digital | Trident Digital is restoring market liquidity by providing the next-generation digital asset platform that addresses issues with access, security, and capital efficiency. It allows lenders and borrowers to connect transparently and not rely on a central counterparty. | $8M | Seed | Sep 06, 2023 |  |
| Rithmm | Rithmm is personalized predictive analytics for sports betting. Using unique analytical algorithms, Rithmm assists people in placing wise bets with simple models to create and get evaluations and predictions for every game. | $2M | Seed | Jun 05, 2023 |  |
| StellarFi | StellarFi is a fintech infrastructure company building white-label and private-label credit card rails for brands and platforms serving non-prime and near-prime consumers. Its technology enables companies to embed Visa-issued credit cards into their products without building the underlying stack, powered by a proprietary underwriting and servicinglayer built for the complexity of thin-file and credit-damaged borrowers.The company's thesis is that the non-prime credit market is underserved not because of a lack of demand, but because of a lack of responsible, scalable infrastructure. Founded as a direct-to-consumer credit-building platform, StellarFi evolved into an infrastructure business after identifying that durable impact in non-prime credit requires reaching consumers at scale through trusted distribution partners rather than through a standalone consumer brand. | $15.5M | Series A | Mar 28, 2023 |  |
| BG Networks | BG Networks’ is an Internet of Things (IoT) cybersecurity software company focused on enabling IoT security everywhere. Our mission is to make it easy to do cybersecurity right. Our approach uses low-code automation tools to add customized security for automotive, industrial, consumer, and healthcare applications. BG Networks' award winningSecurity Automation Tool (BGN-SAT) helps engineers quickly improve security, reduce development time, and take advantage of in-silicon security features. With our Security Automation Tools, we aim to remove all obstacles preventing embedded engineers from including robust cybersecurity in their applications. | $4.5M | Seed | Mar 14, 2023 |  |
| Splitero | Splitero is to provide homeowners with better options to access home equity without new debt or additional monthly payments. | $11.7M | Series A | Jan 17, 2023 |  |
| Spren | Spren helps fitness and wellness brands deliver a more personalized, engaging, and effective user experience. It assists in avoiding the perplexity and frustration of false plateaus. Spren measures small changes in body composition using evidence-based machine learning algorithms, empowering the quest to slow aging. The company is using a patentedimaging technology—simply snap a full-body selfie on the smartphone and let Spren go to work. | $11.3M | Seed | Oct 11, 2022 |  |
| Endstate | Endstate offers shoes with digital features, enabling customers to avail of a physical product to wear and create a digital twin. The startup incorporates an NFC chip into the tongue of each sneaker, and its proprietary encoding process connects each NFC chip to an NFT. This physical-digital entanglement enables token-gated in-person and digitalexperiences available only to Endstate holders. They can use NFTs to connect experiences ranging from digital art to physical products, special access to our collaborators and their communities, and the ability to walk in the shoes of others in the metaverse (including video games and other online environments). | $5.5M | Seed | Jun 20, 2022 |  |
| JADU | Jadu AR Inc. is an augmented reality company building immersive mobile games powered by custom technology that brings high-fidelity spatial gameplay to mobile devices.The studio has released two titles: Jadu: Fight in AR, a real-time PvP game, and PANIC AR, a story-driven wave shooter. PANIC, currently in development, features hundreds ofconcurrently simulated enemies, 3D projectiles, and advanced post-processing effects. The result is a level of immersion not previously possible on mobile.Jadu’s generative authoring and scene understanding tools enable character-driven scenarios that stay responsive to player actions and physical context. Both games have received strong player enthusiasm, with a 4.9-star average rating across 400,000 installs.Founded in 2019, Jadu began with a fascination for how virtual characters interacting with physical spaces could shape culture. The company rose to prominence when its AR-enabled Web3 assets saw over $30 million in secondary trading. Over the years, the team has collaborated with cultural icons including Elton John, GRIMES, Lewis Hamilton, Lil Nas X, Michael Bay, Serena Williams, and Snoop Dogg.Jadu has raised $42 million from investors including Bain Capital, General Catalyst, LG Tech Ventures, and Com2Us. | $36M | Series A | May 26, 2022 |  |
| Splitero | Splitero is to provide homeowners with better options to access home equity without new debt or additional monthly payments. | $5.8M | Seed | Apr 12, 2022 |  |
| Tappp | TAPPP makes it easy for consumers to access sports content and bet by unlocking multiple payment options. TAPPP has made MLB and NFL streaming products available across the largest physical and digital retailers in the US. TAPPP is now extending those payment options for sports betting, making it safer and easier for millions of customers to top uptheir accounts using cash. Headquartered in New York City, TAPPP's mission is to make sports content more engaging and accessible to fans. | $10M | Series B | Apr 05, 2022 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Accomplice](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accomplice-atlas-venture) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Boston Seed Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boston-seed-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Fiat Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fiat-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Joint Effects](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joint-effects) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- Stackpoint Ventures — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Acrew Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acrew-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Permit Ventures invest in?

Permit Ventures invests primarily in Apps, Web3 and Sports startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Permit Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Permit Ventures closed in Sep 2023. Shizune tracks 13 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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