# Portico Ventures

> Portico Ventures is a VC fund backing Blockchain and Financial Services. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Mar 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://portico.vc/

Portico Ventures is an early-stage venture firm with an emphasis on technical development focused on companies in the blockchain sector

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $181k–$5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 7 | 64% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 27% |
| Web3 | 2 | 18% |
| Software | 2 | 18% |
| Gaming | 1 | 9% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 73% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 27% |
| Canada | 1 | 9% |
| Ukraine | 1 | 9% |
| Singapore | 1 | 9% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 9% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Tom Joseph | Co-Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tom-joseph-1325 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Flash Protocol | Flash Protocol is a Bitcoin-native platform for issuing NFTs. |  | Seed | Mar 18, 2024 |  |
| Guardian Labs | Complete protection across Web3. Guardian is the ultimate interoperable solution to dynamically protect Web3 Users, Assets and Businesses. |  | Seed | Mar 31, 2023 |  |
| Everlend | Everlend continuously offers the highest yield on deposits and the lowest interest rate on loans. As market conditions change, Everlend uses automatic rebalancing and refinancing mechanisms to continually optimize the user's position. | $2.6M | Seed | Aug 18, 2022 |  |
| Sonr | Sonr provides digital freedom, true-ownership, and cutting edge security, on a robust user controlled network. | $5M | Seed | Jan 01, 2022 |  |
| Sonr | Sonr provides digital freedom, true-ownership, and cutting edge security, on a robust user controlled network. | $5M | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2022 |  |
| AAG Ventures | AAG Ventures is the IT business behind AAG, one of the fastest-growing Play-To-Earn guilds in the industry. | $181K | Seed | Dec 01, 2021 |  |
| Decentology | Decentology operates as a block-chain startup. Decentology is the innovative company behind Hyperverse, the open, composable smart contracts marketplace that makes it easy for developers to discover, build and monetize web3 applications. | $4.3M | Seed | Oct 19, 2021 |  |
| Ardana | Ardana is an on-chain asset backed stablecoin protocol and decentralized exchange stable asset liquidity pool built on Cardano. The stablecoin is overcollateralized with on-chain Cardano native assets facilitating borrowing and the decentralized exchange allows for highly capital efficient trading between stablecoins and identical assets with lowrisk income from fees for liquidity providers. | $6.6M |  | Oct 15, 2021 |  |
| Snickerdoodle Labs | Snickerdoodle is using blockchain technology to build a data economy that protects user privacy and distributes value to all stakeholders, including the data owners. We are building the infrastructure to allow people to own their data and monetize it in a secure way. | $2.4M | Seed | Jun 06, 2021 |  |
| Defined | Defined is a data platform for the open web that empowers users to query on-chain data and interact across multiple blockchains and Defi protocols. | $2.5M | Seed | May 28, 2021 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Kosmos Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kosmos-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Shima Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shima-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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- [Ascensive Assets](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ascensive-asset-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Portico Ventures invest in?

Portico Ventures invests primarily in Blockchain, Financial Services and Web3 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 Portico Ventures's check size?

Portico Ventures typically joins rounds of $181k–$5M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Portico Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Portico Ventures?

Public channels for Portico Ventures include the website linked on this profile. 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 Portico Ventures?

The team at Portico Ventures includes Tom Joseph (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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