# Ten31

> Ten31 is a VC fund backing Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency and FinTech. See 35 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 35
- Last investment: Jul 2024
- Lead investor: 26%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ten31
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Ten31vc
- Website: https://ten31.vc/

Ten31 is a cryptocurrency investment platform that focuses solely on the bitcoin environment.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Ten31. Shizune tracks 2 team members at Ten31. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/ten31?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.2M–$4.2M |
| Pre-Seed | $300k–$1.1M |
| Series A | $6M–$25M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bitcoin | 18 | 51% |
| Cryptocurrency | 11 | 31% |
| FinTech | 9 | 26% |
| Blockchain | 8 | 23% |
| Financial Services | 7 | 20% |

49 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 14 | 40% |
| Pre-Seed | 7 | 20% |
| Series A | 4 | 11% |
| Series B | 2 | 6% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 6% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 16 | 46% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 6% |
| Japan | 1 | 3% |
| Spain | 1 | 3% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Grant Gilliam | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grant-gilliam-4851 |
| Jonathan Kirkwood | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jonathan-kirkwood-fca9 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Vida | Vida is a platform for communication designed to give users the means to hold private messaging and call discussions directly. Influencers can interact and engage with their fans via the company's platform, which supports meaningful engagement through paid texting, calling, and streaming with zero spam. | $3M | Seed | Jul 02, 2024 |  |
| Anchor Watch | Anchor Watch assist corporations, fiduciaries, and estates in keeping and ensuring their Bitcoin assets conveniently and safely. | $3M | Seed | Sep 26, 2023 |  |
| Anchor Watch | Anchor Watch assist corporations, fiduciaries, and estates in keeping and ensuring their Bitcoin assets conveniently and safely. | $3M | Seed | Sep 11, 2023 |  |
| Mutiny Wallet | Mutiny is a self-custodial lightning wallet that runs in the browser. | $300K | Pre-Seed | Apr 05, 2023 |  |
| StatMuse | StatMuse is a sports statistics website that allows users to search for players and view customizable statistics. It's a creative technology company and is the leader in conversational AI for sports. It is powered by the personalities of over 25 sports superstars, including Peyton Manning, Todd Gurley, and Scott Van Pelt, StatMuse pioneereda platform for interactive storytelling by combining artificial intelligence with dynamic animation and augmented reality to bring digital personas to life. The company was founded in 2014 by two lifelong friends and is backed by Disney, Techstars Ventures, Greycroft, the NFL Players Association, and NBA Commissioner Emeritus, David Stern. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 27, 2023 |  |
| Standard Bitcoin | Energy company operating on a bitcoin standard. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| Unchained | Bitcoin cold storage and financial services that put you in control of your keys. Our suite of financial services include multisig vaults, a trading desk, bitcoin-backed loans, and bitcoin IRAs. No matter your experience with bitcoin, our team of bitcoin experts will help you get set up with confidence. | $15M | Series A | Dec 19, 2022 |  |
| Debifi | Debifi is a non-custodial Bitcoin-backed lending platform that provides institutional-grade liquidity. |  | Pre-Seed | Nov 21, 2022 |  |
| Strike | Strike is an API used by merchants to accept payments from customers globally. To usher in a new digital economy with fully global money transfers, Strike believes that open payment networks enable widespread participation in the financial system. Strike takes advantage of Bitcoin's open payment network to provide customers with the firstworldwide peer-to-peer payments software and a cutting-edge neobanking experience that is native to Bitcoin. | $90M | Series B | Sep 27, 2022 |  |
| mempool space | Mempool stores pending blockchain transactions before miners validate |  | Seed | Sep 01, 2022 |  |

10 of 35 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lightning Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightning-ventures-a525) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Timechain](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/timechain-f403) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [StillMark](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stillmark) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [TVP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/trammell-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Concentric](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/concentric) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Kingsway Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kingsway-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Ten31 invest in?

Ten31 invests primarily in Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 35 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 Ten31's check size?

Ten31 typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$4.2M at Seed, $300k–$1.1M at Pre-Seed and $6M–$25M 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 Ten31 participates in.

### How do I contact Ten31?

Public channels for Ten31 include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and 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 Ten31?

The team at Ten31 includes Grant Gilliam (Co-Founder & Managing Partner) and Jonathan Kirkwood (Co-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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