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BlockTower Capital
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BlockTower Capital is an institutional investment firm applying professional trading, venture investing, credit underwriting, and portfolio management to digital and traditional assets. The firm partners with companies and projects building paradigm-shifting blockchain technology — as investors and as users — from early stage through the liquid market journey, and uses blockchain infrastructure to create the future of financial services, including securitizing traditional assets on-chain and working with real-world credit originators. BlockTower's venture practice targets finance-minded crypto projects focused on interoperability between blockchains, credit, and payments, while also backing 'digital asset adjacent' businesses in mobile, social media, decentralized governance, and future of work that may use crypto as a key part of their business. The firm writes $500k–$5m checks it can lead or co-lead at early stages, aiming for equity stakes of up to 10% in startups or up to 5% of a token protocol, prioritizing a high-conviction, low-velocity approach.
Notable quotes
“You can't fake being a crypto native. The DNA of winning venture franchises is different today than the Sand Hill Road game of the last 40 years.”
“We're living and breathing the stuff we're investing in because otherwise, who are we to give them advice? We want to lead by actions and hope our actions speak for themselves.”
“The spinout is motivated by a strategic decision to remain small, focused, and contrarian, versus the trends of multi hundred million dollar to multi billion dollar funds and fast deployment in web3 venture, which matches the fund's strategy and deployment to date.”
Recent investments
| Company | Round | Size | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superform Labs | Seed | $3m | 2024-12-12 |
| vlayer | Pre-Seed | $10m | 2024-11-04 |
| Morpho Labs | Strategic | $50m | 2024-08-01 |
| Midas Protocol | Seed | $9m | 2024-03-30 |
| Ethena | Seed | $6m | 2023-07-17 |
| Maple Finance | Strategic | $5m | 2023-08-22 |
| Aptos | Strategic | $200m | 2022-03-16 |
| Obol Labs | Series A | $13m | 2023-01-17 |
| Centrifuge | Strategic | $4m | 2022-11-02 |
| MobileCoin | Series B | $66m | 2021-08-18 |
Frequent co-investors
| VC firm | Deals together |
|---|---|
| Coinbase Ventures | 8 |
| a16z crypto | 6 |
| Pantera Capital | 5 |
| Multicoin Capital | 4 |
| Nascent | 3 |
| Tioga Capital | 3 |
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