Founderheads,
Venture capitalSeed · 3 people tracked
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Investment thesis
Founderheads positions itself as a non-standard VC that invests in founders rather than only ideas. Its stated vision is to fuel and support every future crypto unicorn globally, and its mission is to help entrepreneurs thrive in the cryptocurrency industry and contribute positively to the web3 revolution. The firm emphasizes a hands-on, founder-first approach, drawing on its own experience as active users of the products it backs and acting like supportive co-founders to portfolio teams.
Source: firm website, verified Sep 26, 2026.
Team · 3 people
from the firm's websiteWhat they invest in
from 25 of 37 portfolio companiesCrypto & Web3 ×24Fintech ×11AI & Machine Learning ×8Data & Infrastructure ×8Developer Tools ×5Deep Tech ×3Cybersecurity ×2AdTech ×1
HQs:United States×4Germany×1Estonia×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 12 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×82 founders×33 founders×1
Investments · 37 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2023 · 12022 · 12 dated
3DOS is a peer-to-peer 3D printing and manufacturing network that enables users to upload designs, earn royalties, and produce products on demand globally.
Advanced ManufacturingB2B MarketplacesDeep TechHermosa Beach, US
John Dogru(CEO, Founder, Chief Architect)in
Co-investorsEv3 Ventures LlcFronturesKoyamaki VenturesRed Beard VenturesAthena Ventures
Alliance is a selective accelerator and founder community for crypto and AI startups, providing $1M in funding, a 10-week program (in-person in New York City plus remote), mentorship, and connections to investors to help startups reach product-market fit.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3New York City, US
Co-investorsFounders FundAdaverseCoinbase VenturesCoinFundgumi IncInitialized Capital+15 more
Ammalgam is a decentralized lending exchange (DLEX) that combines trading and lending in a single DeFi protocol, letting users lend, trade, and leverage any asset without oracles through Dual Purpose Pools.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investorsFactionHyperithmMarin Digital VenturesAnton BukovBlockchain Founders FundFramework Ventures+3 more
Beraborrow is a decentralized protocol on Berachain that lets users deposit collateral to mint NECT, an over-collateralized stablecoin, and use auto-compounding vaults ("Dens") and onchain leverage tools.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investorsBlack DragonBorderless VentureOptic CapitalSMAPE Capital
Bubblemaps builds visual analytics tools that map token distributions and ownership on-chain, and provides on-chain investigation ("sleuthing") services.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Data & Infrastructure
Nicolas Vaiman(Founder)in
Co-investorsArcanum VenturesFlowdeskINCE CapitalLBANK LabsUnicorn Factory Venturesv3ntures
ChainGPT builds AI-powered tools for the Web3 and blockchain space, including a launchpad and incubation lab for crypto projects.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3
Ilan Rakhmanov(Founder)in
Co-investorsBitDAOCastrum CapitalCoinvestor VenturesMantle NetworkMapleblock CapitalRana Capital
Cookie3 uses blockchain and analytics to turn on-chain user behavior into marketing insights for brands while maintaining data privacy.
AdTechCrypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureMarketing TechTallinn, EE
Wojciech Piechociński(Founder)inFilip Wielanier(Founder)in
Co-investorsAweh VenturesBitDAOBlock54 CapitalCastrum CapitalDigital Finance GroupGrizzly Capital+11 more
Cork provides an onchain programmable risk primitive that lets AI agents underwrite, price, and deploy risk across crypto assets, offering tokenized coverage against illiquidity and depeg events.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investorsHyperithmDEPO VenturesFunFair VenturesPEER VCRoad CapitalStake Capital+1 more
A modular DPoS network built to power orderbook liquidity.
Co-investorsHack VCReflexive CapitalTaisu VenturesMaelstromManifold VenturesMysten Labs
Fiamma Labs operates Ride, a social copy-trading app that aggregates trader activity, whale behavior, and position data into a real-time consensus score and lets users mirror top traders across crypto, prediction markets, stocks, commodities, and ETFs with leverage up to 40x.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Fintech
Yovela Luo(Founder)in
Fjord Foundry is a platform for token sales and liquidity bootstrapping, connecting early-stage projects with backers through methods like Liquidity Bootstrapping Pools.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investorsFOMO VenturesLemniscapNxGenSWGI Ventures (SWISS GEM INVESTMENTS)
Holonym builds "Human Keys," a system for privacy and security in zero trust environments that gives each individual a key they alone control to access digital personhood, privacy, and security rights.
Crypto & Web3CybersecurityDeep TechWilmington, US
Nanak Khalsa(Executive Officer)in
Co-investorsArrington CapitalEdessa CapitalProtagonistArrington XRP Capital
idOS provides privacy-preserving identity verification, including face verification and KYC, with end-to-end encrypted decentralized storage that lets users selectively share and revoke access to their data.
Crypto & Web3CybersecurityData & Infrastructure
Co-investorsCircle VenturesFabric Ventures
Lava Network provides decentralized RPC access for interacting with blockchains, handling requests such as trading, swapping, deploying, and staking across multiple chains.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
YairGil
Co-investorsAlliance DAO (ex DeFi Alliance)AlphaLab CapitalBlack DragonBreakOrbitCaladanDivergence+15 more
LAYER builds WAVS, a framework for creating full-stack, multichain decentralized protocols that combine off-chain compute with on-chain verification.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Co-investors1kxBetter Tomorrow VenturesBTVEmergence Capital Partners
Lightshift is an early-stage venture firm that writes first checks and co-builds with founders of decentralized, web3 projects.
Crypto & Web3Deep Tech
Mode is a Layer 2 blockchain built with Optimism that hosts DeFi applications and provides infrastructure for verifiable AI trading agents.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investorsDigital Finance GroupMoonhill CapitalTRGCOptimism Foundation
Velora is an intent-based decentralized trading protocol that offers crosschain token swaps, gasless trades, limit orders, on-chain RFQ, and yield optimization, aggregating liquidity from 160+ protocols and market makers across multiple L1 and L2 chains.
Crypto & Web3Developer ToolsFintech
Co-investorsArrington CapitalBlack DragonBlockchain CapitalBlockchain CoinvestorsBootNodeExtra Watts+12 more
Portals is a DeFi yield-discovery tool that aggregates real-time prices, APY, TVL, and trends for pools, vaults, lending markets, and staking positions across 70+ protocols on 9+ chains.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintech
Adam Gomez(Founder)in
Co-investorsBankless VenturesDigital Currency GroupAlameda ResearchBonfire VenturesFiat VenturesGreylock Partners+2 more
Sablier is a blockchain protocol for streaming token distributions, enabling vesting, airdrops, payroll, and grants by distributing assets continuously over time rather than in lump sums.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Paul Razvan Berg(Founder)in
Co-investorsA.Capital VenturesDCV CapitalGD1AirTree Ventures
Sapien builds PoQ, an open blockchain-based infrastructure that produces verifiable quality signals for AI training data, letting teams audit and prove the provenance and trustworthiness of data used in AI systems.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Data & Infrastructure
Rowan Stone(CEO)inTony Marks(Founder)inTrevor Koverko(CSO)inKelly Ryan(CTO)in
Co-investorsCoinbase VenturesReflexive CapitalSoma CapitalTranspose Platform ManagementVariant FundWeb3com Ventures+3 more
Talent Protocol computes a "Builder Score" that turns a person's public GitHub and blockchain activity into a verified onchain reputation score, run in the browser using public APIs with no account required.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Developer Tools
Co-investorsCoinbase VenturesFlori VenturesGood News VenturesProtocol Labs
Theta Capital operates Theta Blockchain Ventures, a multi-vintage venture fund-of-funds program that gives professional and institutional investors diversified early-stage exposure to blockchain infrastructure through a portfolio of crypto-native venture funds and select co-investments.
Crypto & Web3
Tribe3 is a trading platform for going long or short on NFT collection futures with leverage, aimed at NFT traders.
Crypto & Web3FintechGaming
Co-investorsCogitent VenturesSpirit DAOBlockBuildersBlockhypeLapin DigitalModular Capital+1 more
Union is a blockchain infrastructure project building interoperability technology for connecting decentralized networks, with work spanning liquid staking and DeFi.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsNorfolk, US
Emir B(Co-founder & CSO)Karel(Co-founder & CEO)Cor(Co-founder & CTO)
Co-investorsAGE CryptoBlockchain CoinvestorsBorderless VentureEterna CapitalLongHash VenturesLvna Capital+14 more
w3.fund is a Web3-focused investment group operating a content- and community-driven venture arm that backs pre-seed and seed startups in the Web3 application layer (stablecoins, tokenization, Web3 x AI, B2B, DeFi, gaming), a liquid token fund, a Berlin co-working and event hub, and a compliant staking infrastructure offering.
Crypto & Web3FintechBerlin, DE
Co-investorsExpedite Ventures
ZeroLend was a multi-chain, non-custodial DeFi lending protocol focused on Ethereum layer 2 networks.
Co-investorsAndromeda CapitalMapleblock CapitalStakez CapitalWWVenturesConsenSysMorningstar Ventures+1 more
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
BlockGamesBloodloopCreatorETHXYFig FinanceInsrt FinanceOmnia ProtocolstabbleStarpowerWallchain
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Fjord Foundry · techbullion.com · Sep 8, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Founderheads, made?
- Founderheads, has 37 tracked investments, 1 of which have exited.
- What stage does Founderheads, invest at?
- Founderheads, invests at the Seed stage.
- What sectors does Founderheads, focus on?
- Founderheads, focuses on Crypto & Web3.
- Who does Founderheads, co-invest with?
- Founderheads, most often shares deals with Black Dragon, Coinbase Ventures, Blockchain Coinvestors, among 101 tracked co-investors.
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