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Placeholder

North America, New York, United States, New York

Description

Placeholder a thesis-driven venture capital firm that invests in decentralized information networks.

Investor Profile

Placeholder has made 66 investments, with 6 in the past 12 months and 36% as lead.

Stage Focus

  • Series A (32%)
  • Series Unknown (29%)
  • Seed (27%)
  • Series B (5%)
  • Initial Coin Offering (3%)
  • Non Equity Assistance (3%)
  • Undisclosed (2%)

Country Focus

  • United States (59%)
  • United Kingdom (8%)
  • Switzerland (6%)
  • Germany (5%)
  • Greece (3%)
  • Liechtenstein (3%)
  • Spain (3%)
  • Cayman Islands (3%)
  • Philippines (3%)
  • Canada (2%)

Industry Focus

  • Blockchain
  • Cryptocurrency
  • Information Technology
  • Software
  • Financial Services
  • Ethereum
  • Decentralized Finance (Defi)
  • Finance
  • Web3
  • Internet
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Learn who this investor regularly partners with—both firms and angels—and explore their latest activity.

Who does Placeholder frequently co-invest with?

A.Capital Ventures
North America, California, United States, Menlo Park
Co-Investments: 5
1kx
Europe, Berlin, Germany, Berlin
Co-Investments: 7
Blockchain Capital
North America, California, United States, San Francisco
Co-Investments: 6
Coinbase Ventures
North America, California, United States, Oakland
Co-Investments: 7
Robot Ventures
North America, New York, United States, New York
Co-Investments: 6
Maven 11 Capital
Europe, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands, Amsterdam
Co-Investments: 8
The LAO
North America, New York, United States, Brooklyn
Co-Investments: 5
Polychain
North America, California, United States, San Francisco
Co-Investments: 9
Andreessen Horowitz
North America, California, United States, Menlo Park
Co-Investments: 5
Wintermute Ventures
Europe, England, United Kingdom, London
Co-Investments: 5

Which angels does Placeholder often collaborate with?

RL
North America, New York, United States, New York
Shared Deals: 2
Balaji Srinivasan
Asia, Central Region, Singapore, Singapore
Shared Deals: 4
TC
North America, New York, United States, New York
Shared Deals: 2
RG
North America, California, United States, San Francisco
Shared Deals: 3
FM
Europe, Portugal
Shared Deals: 5
SK
Europe, England, United Kingdom, London
Shared Deals: 3
MD
North America, New York, United States, New York
Shared Deals: 3
Mert Mumtaz
North America, Ontario, Canada, Toronto
Shared Deals: 3
NR
North America, California, United States, San Francisco
Shared Deals: 5
Mariano Conti
South America, Argentina
Shared Deals: 2

What are some of recent deals done by Placeholder?

Celestia

Vaduz, Vaduz, Liechtenstein

Celestia provides a modular blockchain network to deploy a blockchain without bootstrapping a new consensus network.

BlockchainCryptocurrencyInformation TechnologyLegal Tech
Series BSep 23, 2024
Amount Raised: $100,000,000
Astria

New York, New York, United States

Astria is a shared sequencing network that allows many rollups to share a single decentralized network of sequencers.

Series UnknownJul 1, 2024
Amount Raised: $12,500,000
Squads

Solana, Misamis Oriental, Philippines

Squads Labs is a technology company dedicated to growing the on-chain economy by developing smart account technology and products.

AppsDeveloper PlatformWeb Development
Series AJun 10, 2024
Amount Raised: $10,000,000
WeatherXM

Athens, Attiki, Greece

WeatherXM is a community powered weather network, that rewards weather station owners and offers accurate weather services.

Information ServicesInformation TechnologyWeb3
Series AMay 22, 2024
Amount Raised: $7,700,000
Botanix Labs

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Botanix Labs is a fully Ethereum-equivalent second-layer virtual machine built on top of Bitcoin.

BitcoinBlockchainCryptocurrencyEthereum
Series UnknownMay 7, 2024
Amount Raised: $8,500,000
Movement Labs

San Francisco, California, United States

Movement Labs is a modular framework platform that builds and deploys move-based blockchains and applications in distributed settings.

BlockchainBusiness IntelligenceCloud ComputingNetwork Security
Series AApr 24, 2024
Amount Raised: $38,000,000
NFTfi

Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa

NFTfi is an NFT collateralized lending marketplace that can use NFT assets as collateral for a loan or lend to other users.

FinanceFinancial ServicesMarketplace
Series AMar 11, 2024
Amount Raised: $6,000,000
Eclipse

San Francisco, California, United States

Eclipse is Ethereum's fastest L2, powered by the Solana Virtual Machine.

BlockchainEthereum
Series AMar 11, 2024
Amount Raised: $50,000,000
Backpack

San Bernardino, California, United States

Backpack is a fully regulated global cryptocurrency exchange.

Information ServicesInformation TechnologyMedia and Entertainment
Series AFeb 28, 2024
Amount Raised: $17,000,000
Polymer Labs

New York, New York, United States

Polymer is building scalable on-chain networking for the on-chain era.

BlockchainCryptocurrencyWeb3
Series AJan 23, 2024
Amount Raised: $23,000,000