Side Door Ventures
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Side Door Ventures is a global venture capital firm investing in audacious founders building the future at the fringe. We’re generalist investors and back teams across software, life sciences, space, frontier tech, blockchain, gaming, and financial services that aim to transform industries and improve lives. The Future Starts at the Fringe.
- Total investments:
- 78
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 3%
Last updated:
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Industries Side Door Ventures invests in
Stages Side Door Ventures invests in
Countries Side Door Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.4M–$8M
- Pre-Seed
- $710k–$3.6M
- Series A
- $5M–$20M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 19 (24%)
- FinTech 13 (17%)
- Cryptocurrency 13 (17%)
- Software 11 (14%)
- Financial Services 9 (12%)
Stage
- Seed 34 (44%)
- Pre-Seed 18 (23%)
- Series A 7 (9%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 7 (9%)
- Funding Round 4 (5%)
Country
- United States 30 (38%)
- Canada 9 (12%)
- United Kingdom 6 (8%)
- Spain 2 (3%)
- India 1 (1%)
Team
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Ashwini Anburajan
Investor
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Investor | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
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Myriad Markets is a decentralized prediction‑market protocol that lets users trade short‑term, outcome‑based markets on events across crypto, sports, politics, gaming, and culture. | Seed / Mar 19, 2026 | |
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DeepNode connects researchers, data scientists, and enterprises into one transparent, verifiable network for building real-world AI. DeepNode AI a technology service provider focusing on decentralized AI infrastructure, | $3M / Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 05, 2025 | |
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Scorbit develops a platform for pinball players and pinball machine owners and operators. | $5M / Seed / Nov 13, 2025 | |
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Walkway is an AI-powered growth platform that offers price intelligence to tour and activity operators while also tracking and benchmarking competitors. | $1.7M / Pre-Seed / Oct 13, 2025 | |
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Stablecorp is a Canadian fintech firm building bank-grade blockchain technology. | $3.6M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 24, 2025 | |
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Bitlight Labs builds infrastructure using the RGB protocol and the Bitcoin Lightning Network. | $9.6M / Seed / Sep 19, 2025 | |
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DataHive delivers for AI companies hard-to-collect web data - collected, labeled, and ready for model training. If you are building in AI and need data for model training (text or multi-modal), check us out. We will deliver an initial pilot dataset for free - to ensure it is exactly what you need. Learn more and request your pilot dataset atwww.DataHive.ai | $3.5M / Seed / Sep 01, 2025 | |
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Dominion Dynamics is an advanced technology firm building a dual-use, AI-driven Arctic sensing network designed for both military and civilian applications, focusing on seamless multi-domain coordination and persistent regional surveillance. | $3.6M / Pre-Seed / Aug 01, 2025 | |
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Stablecorp is a Canadian fintech firm building bank-grade blockchain technology. | $1.8M / May 13, 2025 | |
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Validation Cloud is a Web3 data streaming and infrastructure company that connects organizations into Web3 through a fast, scalable, and intelligent platform. Headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, Validation Cloud offers highly performant and customizable products in staking, node, and data-as-a-service. Its team brings extensive experience acrossWeb2 and Web3 from the likes of Coinbase, Kraken, Workday, Accenture, Crypto.com, Voyager, and more. Learn more at Validationcloud.io | $15M / Series A / Mar 06, 2025 | |
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FAQ
What does Side Door Ventures invest in?
Side Door Ventures invests primarily in Blockchain, FinTech and Cryptocurrency startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 78 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 Side Door Ventures's check size?
Side Door Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$8M at Seed, $710k–$3.6M at Pre-Seed and $5M–$20M 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 Side Door Ventures participates in.
How do I contact Side Door Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Side Door Ventures?
The team at Side Door Ventures includes Ashwini Anburajan (Investor). 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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