# Tom Serres

> Tom Serres is a seed investor at Animal Ventures (San Francisco) backing Web3 and Bitcoin. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Animal Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/animal-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Oct 2021
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tomserres
- Website: http://www.animalventures.com

Tom Serres is a seed investor at Animal Ventures in San Francisco focused on Web3 and Bitcoin. Founder of Rally, Founder of Animal Ventures, Managing Partner at Warburg Serres. Spending my days investing in legendary founders.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Web3 | 1 | 33% |
| Bitcoin | 1 | 33% |
| Hardware | 1 | 33% |
| Software | 1 | 33% |
| Blockchain | 1 | 33% |

8 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Angel | 1 | 33% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Decentology | Decentology operates as a block-chain startup. Decentology is the innovative company behind Hyperverse, the open, composable smart contracts marketplace that makes it easy for developers to discover, build and monetize web3 applications. | $4.3M | Seed | Oct 19, 2021 |  |
| Foundation | Foundation Devices builds the open hardware foundation for Bitcoin and the sovereign Internet.They started Foundation Devices to make beautifully designed, open-source hardware for Bitcoin and the decentralized Internet. To bring great design and UX to hardware wallets, nodes, and more. To empower individuals to securely use and store Bitcoinwhile maintaining their sovereignty. To help our industry cross the chasm while staying true to its founding ideals. We call this open hardware. And we are excited to bring it to the world! | $665K | Pre-Seed | Sep 09, 2020 |  |
| Foundation | Foundation Devices builds the open hardware foundation for Bitcoin and the sovereign Internet.They started Foundation Devices to make beautifully designed, open-source hardware for Bitcoin and the decentralized Internet. To bring great design and UX to hardware wallets, nodes, and more. To empower individuals to securely use and store Bitcoinwhile maintaining their sovereignty. To help our industry cross the chasm while staying true to its founding ideals. We call this open hardware. And we are excited to bring it to the world! | $665K | Angel | Sep 09, 2020 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Borderless Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/algo-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ascensive Assets](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ascensive-asset-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Autonomy Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/autonomy-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Borderless Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/borderless-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Dapper Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dapper-labs) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Federman Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/federman-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Animal Ventures

VC Fund

“By nature, man is a political animal.” In Aristotle’s most well-known observation, “political” means the capacity for speech and reason. This has led to humans becoming social and technological animals, inventing and disseminating new kinds of tools that fundamentally alter our world and our engagement with it. It is what has moved the speciesalong. From fire to Facebook. Today, as in the past, technological inventions are reshaping human life. Many of our conceptions of what work looks like, how we communicate and trade, and even what constitutes a human being are unravelling before our eyes due to advances in technology. And now, more than ever, we need to leverage the Aristotelian part of our animal nature to build forward with purpose.Animal Ventures is a venture studio and consultancy focused on helping clients best adapt to the changing technological landscape. We help build startups, educate executives, and design comprehensive strategies to help corporate, government, and nonprofit clients take advantage some of the most advanced technologies coming to market, among them blockchain, artificial intelligence, digital platforms, and the Internet of Things. Animal Ventures is the umbrella entity that co-founders Tom Serres and Bettina Warburg created for the projects they are working on at the intersection of technology, politics, and broader societal change. Its teams are formed from an extensive network of professional peers, who take on projects germane to their areas of expertise and that require new thinking. Animal Ventures innovates with client companies and governments to develop minimum viable products and comprehensive strategies for innovation across technologies

3 contacts available at Animal Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bettina Warburg | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bettina-warburg-2 |
| Tom Serres | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tom-serres |
| Kelly Gillease | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kelly-gillease |

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## FAQ

### What does Tom Serres invest in?

Tom Serres invests primarily in Web3, Bitcoin and Hardware startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Tom Serres last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Tom Serres closed in Oct 2021. Shizune tracks 3 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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