# Tate Berenbaum

> Tate Berenbaum is a pre-seed investor at Community Labs (New York) backing Blockchain and Database. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Community Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/community-labs)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/TateBerenbaum
- Website: https://x.com/TateBerenbaum

Tate Berenbaum is a founder at The Verto Protocol.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | $325k–$1M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 3 | 75% |
| Database | 1 | 25% |
| Software | 1 | 25% |
| Cryptocurrency | 1 | 25% |
| Data Integration | 1 | 25% |

6 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 75% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 50% |
| United States | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| LiquidOps | LiquidOps is a lending and borrowing protocol that providers users the ability to earn interest on their Arweave and AO assets. As well as borrowers the ability to use that lent liquidity in various decentralised applications. | $325K | Pre-Seed | Jan 07, 2025 |  |
| Astro | AstroUSD is a platform that supports cross-chain stablecoin functionality. It enables bridging, trading, and earning with USDA, the native stablecoin of the AO network in the Arweave and AO ecosystem. The platform supports activities such as trading, lending, borrowing, prediction markets, GameFi, and AgentFi, with integrations for assets likeUSDC, USDT, and DAI. | $410K | Pre-Seed | Sep 18, 2024 |  |
| LiquidOps | LiquidOps is a lending and borrowing protocol that providers users the ability to earn interest on their Arweave and AO assets. As well as borrowers the ability to use that lent liquidity in various decentralised applications. |  |  | May 01, 2024 |  |
| KYVE | KYVE is an initiative to store any data stream, with built-in validation. By leveraging the Arweave blockchain. The network is powered by decentralized uploaders and validators. These nodes reside in pools, each pool focusing on archiving a specific data stream. Pools are funded by KYVE tokens. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Jun 28, 2021 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [ao Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ao-ventures-be55) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [4SV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/4sv) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Arweave](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arweave) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ava Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ava-labs) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bering Waters Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bering-waters-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Compute Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/compute-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Community Labs

VC Fund · Jersey City, United States

Blockchain Development Company

2 contacts available at Community Labs.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Karen OBrien | CMO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/karen-obrien-002b |
| Tate Berenbaum | Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tate-berenbaum |

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## FAQ

### What does Tate Berenbaum invest in?

Tate Berenbaum invests primarily in Blockchain, Database and Software startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Tate Berenbaum's check size?

Tate Berenbaum typically joins rounds of $325k–$1M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Tate Berenbaum participates in.

### When did Tate Berenbaum last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Tate Berenbaum closed in Jan 2025. Shizune tracks 4 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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