Protofund
VC Fund
Los Angeles, United States
Protofund is an early-stage venture fund founded by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. We invest in passionate teams building blockchain/web3 and consumer products.
- Total investments:
- 28
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 4%
Last updated:
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Industries Protofund invests in
Stages Protofund invests in
Countries Protofund invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.7M–$15M
- Pre-Seed
- $3M–$6.5M
- Series A
- $11M–$55M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 10 (36%)
- Software 8 (29%)
- Cryptocurrency 8 (29%)
- Financial Services 8 (29%)
- FinTech 5 (18%)
Stage
- Seed 10 (36%)
- Series A 9 (32%)
- Pre-Seed 4 (14%)
- Series B 1 (4%)
- Funding Round 1 (4%)
Country
- United States 15 (54%)
- United Arab Emirates 2 (7%)
- Spain 1 (4%)
- Argentina 1 (4%)
- Liechtenstein 1 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Edward Moncada
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
|
Co-Founder & Managing Partner | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Jonathan Chu
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
|
Co-Founder & Managing Partner | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
Naveen Molloy
Partner + VP Operations
|
Partner + VP Operations | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Payman gives your AI Agents the ability to have access to capital so that they can pay humans for their expertise in completing specialized tasks they need done. | $3M / Pre-Seed / May 01, 2024 | ||
| tanX.fi is a trading platform that provides access to trade multiple assets across multiple networks chains. | $16.5M / Series A / Sep 08, 2023 | ||
| Gasless | Instant Multi-Chain | Secure Trustless. | $16.5M / Series A / Sep 07, 2023 | ||
| Cybever is a metaverse content creation platform. | Series A / Jul 17, 2023 | ||
| Nestment helps first-time homebuyers navigate the homebuying process with confidence through 1:1 support, a trusted network of agents and lenders, practical education, and AI-powered tools. | $3.5M / Pre-Seed / Feb 21, 2023 | ||
| Spice Finance specializes in the fields of financial services. | $1.7M / Seed / Oct 27, 2022 | ||
| 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. | $55M / Series A / Oct 19, 2022 | ||
| Magna develops a token vesting and DeFi investment management platform. The company's first product is Carta for Web3, where companies can manage their cap tables and distribute their token equity to employees, advisors, or investors. It aims to use locked tokens as composable building blocks to power collateralized lending, liquid secondarymarkets, and other DeFi applications. | $15.2M / Seed / Sep 15, 2022 | ||
| Mysten Labs develops tools that make web3 secure, reliable, and ready for mass adoption. | Series B / Sep 08, 2022 | ||
| Mysten Labs develops tools that make web3 secure, reliable, and ready for mass adoption. | $300M / Series B / Sep 08, 2022 | ||
| See all 28 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Protofund invest in?
Protofund invests primarily in Blockchain, Software and Cryptocurrency startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 28 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 Protofund's check size?
Protofund typically joins rounds of $1.7M–$15M at Seed, $3M–$6.5M at Pre-Seed and $11M–$55M 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 Protofund participates in.
How do I contact Protofund?
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Who are the partners at Protofund?
The team at Protofund includes Edward Moncada (Co-Founder & Managing Partner), Jonathan Chu (Co-Founder & Managing Partner) and Naveen Molloy (Partner + VP Operations). 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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