# The Whittemore Collection

> The Whittemore Collection is a VC fund in Port Chester backing Bitcoin and Blockchain. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Port Chester, United States
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Mar 2022
- Lead investor: 9%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/whittemore-collection-ltd/about/
- Website: http://www.whittemorecollection.com/

The Whittemore Collection is a VC fund in Port Chester focused on Bitcoin and Blockchain. The Whittemore Collection specializes in seed-, early-stage venture, private equity, debt financing, and secondary market investments.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$2M |
| Series A | $1.9M–$15M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bitcoin | 4 | 36% |
| Blockchain | 4 | 36% |
| FinTech | 3 | 27% |
| SaaS | 2 | 18% |
| Payments | 2 | 18% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 36% |
| Seed | 3 | 27% |
| Series B | 1 | 9% |
| Series C | 1 | 9% |
| Series D | 1 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 64% |
| France | 1 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Teambuilder | A better healthcare experience is possible. TeamBuilder technology connects the entire care team and empowers providers, nurses and staff to do their best work, where and when it makes the greatest impact. Our software gives you the speed and flexibility to build the team you need tomorrow, today. | $2M | Seed | Mar 01, 2022 |  |
| Veem | Veem is a payment service provider that helps simplify the way businesses send and receive funds.It offers a platform that enables small businesses to send and receive payments in local currency. Using blockchain as a payment rail, the company eliminates the need for intermediary banks, reducing costs for small- and medium-sized businesses. Itconverts the sender’s funds into bitcoin, selling the digital currency at an exchange for the desired currency of the recipient.Aldo Carrascoso and Marwan Forzley co-founded the company in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. |  | Series B | Aug 14, 2018 |  |
| Filament | Filament builds blockchain hardware and& software solutions for enterprise and IoT.Filament’s distributed blockchain capabilities leverage open protocols so that devices are able to independently process and record transactions, ensuring digital trust. Its new trusted application software and Blocklet Chip, currently in beta, are designed tocommunicate and interact with multiple blockchain technologies natively. The software, implemented on existing hardware, will deliver a secure distributed ledger technology solution. The Blocklet Chip will allow industrial corporations and enterprises to seamlessly extract the value of recording and monetizing data assets, at the edge of the network, on the sensors themselves. | $15M | Series A | Mar 30, 2017 |  |
| Ledger | Ledger develops security and infrastructure solutions for cryptocurrencies as well as blockchain applications for individuals and companies, by leveraging a distinctive, proprietary technology.Launched in 2014, Ledger has designed an acclaimed line of hardware security devices quickly placing the company as a global leader on the market with1,000,000 units sold in more than 165 countries. For enterprises and corporations, Ledger introduced the Vault: a fully managed SaaS solution addressing the need to safeguard a very large amount of multiple cryptocurrencies while mitigating both IT and physical assault threats. The company is also active in the industrial IoT market, leveraging its secure hardware technology to interface sensors and machines to smart contracts or blockchain-based assets.Ledger is headquartered in Paris, has a production facility in Vierzon (France), and offices in San Francisco. | $7M | Series A | Mar 30, 2017 |  |
| Ripio | Ripio, formerly known as Bitpagos, is a financial payments company that provides electronic payment solutions for businesses in Latin America. It offers a range of financial services for the emerging markets using blockchain technology to make a more accessible financial system. The company helps merchants process international transactions withcredit cards or bitcoins for a fraction of the cost as well as consumers buy bitcoins instantly with cash. It deals with clients in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Ecuador. | $1.9M | Series A | Jan 03, 2017 |  |
| Digital Currency Group | Digital Currency Group builds and supports bitcoin and blockchain companies by leveraging insights, network, and access to capital. Based in Stamford, Connecticut, DCG has been an active seed investor in the digital currency industry with 150+ investments in over 30 countries.In addition, DCG owns and operates CoinDesk, the top media and eventsplatform in the blockchain space, Genesis Trading, the industry's leading bitcoin brokerage firm, and Grayscale Investments, the largest digital currency asset management firm. |  | Seed | Oct 27, 2015 |  |
| Veem | Veem is a payment service provider that helps simplify the way businesses send and receive funds.It offers a platform that enables small businesses to send and receive payments in local currency. Using blockchain as a payment rail, the company eliminates the need for intermediary banks, reducing costs for small- and medium-sized businesses. Itconverts the sender’s funds into bitcoin, selling the digital currency at an exchange for the desired currency of the recipient.Aldo Carrascoso and Marwan Forzley co-founded the company in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $1.5M | Seed | Apr 29, 2015 |  |
| Acupera, Inc. | Acupera provides digital health solutions that enable healthcare provider organizations to deliver efficient, effective care to their patient population. Through its scalable, cloud-based population health and care coordination technology, Acupera empowers healthcare providers to better manage care while achieving their operating and performancegoals. | $4M | Series A | Aug 12, 2014 |  |
| Acupera, Inc. | Acupera provides digital health solutions that enable healthcare provider organizations to deliver efficient, effective care to their patient population. Through its scalable, cloud-based population health and care coordination technology, Acupera empowers healthcare providers to better manage care while achieving their operating and performancegoals. | $2M | Series A | Nov 14, 2013 |  |
| Cobalt Technologies | Cobalt Technologies develops technologies that focuses and designed for biofuels. Cobalt is pioneering science that makes possible a new generation of fuels that burn cleaner, are more cost-effective and have a smaller environmental impact. It was founded in 2005 and headquartered in Mountain View, California. |  | Series D | May 02, 2011 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Boost VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boostfunder) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Fenbushi Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fenbushi-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Fenway Summer Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fenway-summer-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Malaysian Life Sciences Capital Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/malaysian-life-sciences-capital-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Pantera Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pantera-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Pinnacle Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pinnacle-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does The Whittemore Collection invest in?

The Whittemore Collection invests primarily in Bitcoin, Blockchain and FinTech startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 11 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 The Whittemore Collection's check size?

The Whittemore Collection typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$2M at Seed and $1.9M–$15M 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 The Whittemore Collection participates in.

### When did The Whittemore Collection last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for The Whittemore Collection closed in Mar 2022. Shizune tracks 11 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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