# Redbeard Ventures

> Redbeard Ventures is a VC fund backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 57 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brooklyn, United States
- Total investments: 57
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 5%
- Last fund: Aug 2024
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/red-beard-ventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/RedBeardVC
- Website: https://redbeard.ventures/
- AngelList: https://angel.co/red-beard-ventures-drew-austin/syndicate

Redbeard Ventures is a VC fund in Brooklyn focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Red Beard Ventures is a full-stack web3 fund investing across Web 3.0 and crypto, including consumer applications, infrastructure, gaming, the metaverse, and DeFi with a focus on pre-seed through Series B investments in equity and tokens.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.5M–$11M |
| Pre-Seed | $450k–$2.7M |
| Series A | $6M–$40M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 25 | 44% |
| Cryptocurrency | 13 | 23% |
| Software | 10 | 18% |
| Information Technology | 7 | 12% |
| Gaming | 6 | 11% |

57 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 26 | 46% |
| Series A | 13 | 23% |
| Pre-Seed | 7 | 12% |
| Angel | 1 | 2% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 2% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 33 | 58% |
| Australia | 2 | 4% |
| The Netherlands | 2 | 4% |
| France | 1 | 2% |
| Greece | 1 | 2% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Drew Austin | Founder & Managing Partner | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/drew-austin-drew-austin |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| RDC | Receipts Depositary Corporation (RDC) provides a platform for investing in digital and alternative assets. The company leverages the Depositary Receipt (DR) structure to simplify the investment process. RDC does not operate or hold assets directly but facilitates investments through its platform. The company focuses on making it easier forinvestors to access a variety of asset classes, including cryptocurrencies and other digital assets. | $7M | Seed | Jun 16, 2026 |  |
| MAIGA | MAIGA platform leverages AI to automate and optimize DeFi trading and compliance operations using technologies such as MCP, trusted execution environments (TEE), and multimodal AI. | $2M | Seed | Sep 04, 2025 |  |
| Watergenics | Watergenics mission is to map the water quality of the planet and help the society transit to a renewable economy. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 01, 2024 |  |
| GasHawk | GasHawk is a blockchain company that prevents failed and stuck transactions via our intelligent queue manager. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Sep 12, 2024 |  |
| Skyfire Systems | Skyfire, a financial stack designed to enable autonomous agentic AI commerce, is to establish the first fully autonomous, open agentic AI economy in history. | $8.5M | Seed | Aug 21, 2024 |  |
| Mintify | Mintify is the best consumer experience to trade every asset, every network, and every market directly onchain. | $3.4M | Seed | Jul 30, 2024 |  |
| WeatherXM | 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 |  |
| Airstack | Airstack is the developer of an artificial intelligence-powered platform that allows for on-chain data across several projects and blockchains. The company organizes decentralized application transactions into virtual stacks of data, allowing developers to access and incorporate any web3 on-chain data and related off-chain data into their apps. | $4M | Seed | May 02, 2024 |  |
| Azuro | Azuro is a global decentralized betting protocol, utilizing smart-contracts to bring full transparency to the betting process and to deliver a classic betting experience with plentiful markets & liquidity and funky innovations like collectible bets and gamification via NFTs | $3.5M | Seed | Apr 11, 2024 |  |
| Truflation | Truflation is a data hub providing independent, daily economic data and price indexes for fiat and crypto markets. Truflation aggregates real-market prices from merchants, research institutions, and commercial data providers, to calculate the most accurate and current daily inflation rates. It also offers other indices, including top NFT indexes,all available on-chain for DeFi and web3 applications. | $6M | Series A | Feb 06, 2024 |  |

10 of 57 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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- [Collab+Currency](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/collab-currency) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Redbeard Ventures invest in?

Redbeard Ventures invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 57 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 Redbeard Ventures's check size?

Redbeard Ventures typically joins rounds of $2.5M–$11M at Seed, $450k–$2.7M at Pre-Seed and $6M–$40M 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 Redbeard Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Redbeard Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Redbeard Ventures?

The team at Redbeard Ventures includes Drew Austin (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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