Placeholder
VC Fund
New York, United States
Placeholder is a venture capital firm that invests in decentralized networks and web services.
- Total investments:
- 91
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 32%
Last updated:
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Industries Placeholder invests in
Stages Placeholder invests in
Countries Placeholder invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
1 more contact available
Round size
- Seed
- $2M–$6.5M
- Series A
- $5.5M–$38M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 29 (32%)
- Cryptocurrency 16 (18%)
- Information Technology 10 (11%)
- Software 9 (10%)
- Financial Services 9 (10%)
Stage
- Series A 23 (25%)
- Funding Round 23 (25%)
- Seed 21 (23%)
- Series B 3 (3%)
- Initial Coin Offering 2 (2%)
Country
- United States 27 (30%)
- United Kingdom 4 (4%)
- Cayman Islands 3 (3%)
- Switzerland 2 (2%)
- Spain 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alex Evans
Researcher
|
Researcher | Total investments: 8 | Find email | |
Christopher Burniske
Partner & Founder
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Partner & Founder | Total investments: 16 | Find email | |
|
Joel Monegro
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
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Co-Founder & Managing Partner | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Joel Monegro
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
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Co-Founder & Managing Partner | Total investments: 3 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Squads
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Squads is a developer of a decentralized program that enables the establishment of better and easier decentralized autonomous groups. The company's application combines all of the key components of a decentralized autonomous organization, such as deployment, treasury, vault management, on-chain voting, and chat, into a single portal with aneasy-to-use interface, allowing users to streamline daily operations using a decentralized autonomous organization structure. | $18M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 29, 2026 | |
ARX
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ARX smart contracts and HaLo chips enable creators build decentralized, immutable and composable physical crypto assets. | $6.1M / Seed / Nov 06, 2025 | |
Kamino
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Kamino Finance is a Solana DeFi protocol for capital-efficient lending, borrowing, and yield generation. | $10M / Series A / Sep 12, 2025 | |
Tally
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Tally is a frontend for DAOs running on Ethereum and other EVM blockchains. Tally gives users real power in their decentralized organizations. On Tally, users can delegate voting power, create or pass proposals to spend DAO funds, manage a protocol, and upgrade smart contracts—all onchain. | $8M / Series A / Apr 22, 2025 | |
Celestia
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Celestia is a pluggable consensus and data availability layer, to enable anyone to quickly deploy a decentralised blockchain without the overhead of bootstrapping a new consensus network. | $100M / Series B / Sep 23, 2024 | |
Astria
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Astria is a shared sequencing network that allows many rollups to share a single decentralized network of sequencers. These sequencers are simple and permissionless to join, completely replacing centralized sequencers. | $12.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 01, 2024 | |
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Squads
|
Squads is a developer of a decentralized program that enables the establishment of better and easier decentralized autonomous groups. The company's application combines all of the key components of a decentralized autonomous organization, such as deployment, treasury, vault management, on-chain voting, and chat, into a single portal with aneasy-to-use interface, allowing users to streamline daily operations using a decentralized autonomous organization structure. | $10M / Series A / Jun 10, 2024 | |
WeatherXM
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WeatherXM is a community-powered weather network that rewards weather station owners while also providing accurate weather data to Web3 businesses. They provide decentralized and hyper local weather data collection for the emerging Web3 data economy. | $7.7M / Series A / May 22, 2024 | |
Botanix Labs
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Botanix Labs is a fully Ethereum-equivalent second-layer virtual machine built on top of Bitcoin. It unites Bitcoin's market cap with Ethereum's dApp ecosystem to meet its diverse applications, igniting a new frontier. | $8.5M / May 07, 2024 | |
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Botanix Labs
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Botanix Labs is a fully Ethereum-equivalent second-layer virtual machine built on top of Bitcoin. It unites Bitcoin's market cap with Ethereum's dApp ecosystem to meet its diverse applications, igniting a new frontier. | $8.5M / Seed / May 07, 2024 | |
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FAQ
What does Placeholder invest in?
Placeholder invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round stage. Most of the 91 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 Placeholder's check size?
Placeholder typically joins rounds of $2M–$6.5M at Seed and $5.5M–$38M 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 Placeholder participates in.
How do I contact Placeholder?
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Who are the partners at Placeholder?
The team at Placeholder includes Alex Evans (Researcher), Christopher Burniske (Partner & Founder) and Joel Monegro (Co-Founder & Managing Partner). 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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