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Ethereal Ventures
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Ethereal Ventures believes that permissionless networks and digital assets are driving a paradigm shift for civilization, bringing sovereignty, ownership, and access to communities everywhere. The firm invests globally, scaling companies from inception to growth, and supports extraordinary founders from day one by incubating, accelerating, and co-building alongside a team of operators, former founders, and technical and security experts. Ethereal holds that open and composable systems will outpace closed incumbents, leaving an endless amount of market opportunity for startups that want to redefine commerce and communication. With just under $150 million across two funds and 80+ portfolio companies, the firm focuses on crypto-native protocols, decentralized finance, blockchain infrastructure, ZK technology, decentralized identity, and AI platforms.
Notable quotes
“Building Ethereal Ventures with our dream team and our community of exceptional founders has been the biggest privilege of my life. We're doubling down on crypto and the evolution of money and value onto blockchains, during the most exciting transition of the internet.”
“Ethereal Ventures offered the first term sheet for our seed round at Eigen Labs, and have been an excellent partner since day 1. In the early stages of a project, it is extremely helpful to have a VC who will go out of the way to bat for your project: Ethereal exemplifies that behavior. Min, Praneeth and the rest of the team are always on the look out for ways to help and add value.”
“Joe, Min and the Ethereal team have been fantastic partners for us at Aztec over the last 4 years. Joe has been an active director on our board since inception, providing wisdom, counsel and legitimacy for us as a startup in an un-chartered frontier space.”
Recent investments
| Company | Round | Size | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utexo | Seed | $8m | 2026-03-26 |
| 1Money | Seed | — | 2025-01-16 |
| Bleap Finance | Seed | $2m | 2024-11-28 |
| Yala | Seed | $8m | 2024-10-10 |
| EigenLayer | Seed | — | 2022 |
| Aleo | Seed | $28m | 2021 |
| Aztec Protocol | Seed | — | 2021 |
| Flashbots | Seed | — | 2021 |
| Alluvial | Seed | — | 2022 |
| Osmosis | Seed | — | 2021 |
Frequent co-investors
| VC firm | Deals together |
|---|---|
| Robot Ventures | 5 |
| Polychain Capital | 4 |
| Paradigm | 3 |
| Maven 11 Capital | 3 |
| Electric Capital | 3 |
| Dragonfly Capital | 3 |
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