# Pfeffer Capital

> Pfeffer Capital is a VC fund backing Cryptocurrency and Bitcoin. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Oct 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-pfeffer-17021125/?originalSubdomain=uk
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/jlppfeffer

Pfeffer Capital is a family investment firm investing in all stages of companies leveraging exponential tech.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Pfeffer Capital. Shizune tracks 1 team members at Pfeffer Capital. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/pfeffer-capital?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.4M–$5.7M |
| Series C | $44M–$60M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cryptocurrency | 3 | 60% |
| Bitcoin | 2 | 40% |
| FinTech | 2 | 40% |
| Biotechnology | 2 | 40% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 40% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 60% |
| Series C | 2 | 40% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 60% |
| Sweden | 1 | 20% |
| Seychelles | 1 | 20% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| John Pfeffer | Co-Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-pfeffer-c883 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kollider | Kollider build tools and services to make financial markets available to everyone, across borders, instantly and simply using Bitcoin’s Lightning Network. | $2.4M | Seed | Oct 26, 2022 |  |
| Vinter | Vinter develops, monitors, and markets the Vinter Indexes, a family of financial benchmarks designed to underlie financial products. Vinter is a firm specializing in thematic indexes capturing the nascent digital asset industry. Vinter is the leading digital asset index provider in Europe, providing indexes to industry leaders in the emergingindustry of exchange-traded digital asset products. | $3.4M | Seed | Jan 20, 2022 |  |
| Clear Labs | Clear Labs harnesses the power of next-generation sequencing (NGS) to simplify complex diagnostics for clinical and applied markets. By creating a fully automated platform that brings together DNA sequencing, robotics, and cloud-based analytics, Clear Labs democratizes genomics applications to deliver increased clarity.Clear Labs’ turnkeyplatform accelerates outcomes and improves accuracy - from food-borne pathogens to infectious diseases, including SARS CoV-2. With a novel approach, Clear Labs is helping the world better understand, track, and mitigate tomorrow’s novel pathogens. | $60M | Series C | May 26, 2021 |  |
| River | River Financial is a challenger financial institution specializing in Bitcoin financial services. River Financial's flagship product, a Bitcoin brokerage, provides sophisticated retail investors with a high-touch platform to buy and sell Bitcoin.Founded in 2019 by Alexander Leishman and Andrew Benson, River's brokerage product providesits clients with best-in-class security, a world-class client service experience, and investment performance tools such as cost basis tracking. | $5.7M | Seed | Jun 17, 2020 |  |
| Genalyte | Genalyte, Inc. is a life sciences company developing and commercializing innovative next-generation multiplexing technology. Genalyte has developed a new approach to immunodetection using silicon chip manufacturing methods. Its Maverick platform uses a technology called silicon photonics to directly measure protein binding between antibodies andantigens or hybridization of nucleic acids. | $44M | Series C | Aug 18, 2015 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Castle Island Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/castle-island-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Polychain](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/polychain-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alameda Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alameda-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [OKX Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/block-dream-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Claremont Creek Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/claremont-creek-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Counterpoint Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/counterpoint-global) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Pfeffer Capital invest in?

Pfeffer Capital invests primarily in Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series C stage. Most of the 5 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 Pfeffer Capital's check size?

Pfeffer Capital typically joins rounds of $2.4M–$5.7M at Seed and $44M–$60M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Pfeffer Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Pfeffer Capital?

Public channels for Pfeffer Capital include LinkedIn and X (Twitter). 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 Pfeffer Capital?

The team at Pfeffer Capital includes John Pfeffer (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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