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FunFair Ventures

Venture capital

Pre-Seed–Seed · 13 people tracked

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Investment thesis

FunFair Ventures backs early-stage web3 companies, providing both capital and hands-on advisory support. The team draws on experience building, scaling, and exiting web3 businesses. Investments span pre-seed and seed stages across verticals including DeFi, CeFi, gaming, infrastructure, DePIN, NFTs, and social, using equity, token, or combined equity-plus-token structures.

Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.

Stage
Pre-Seed–Seed
Instruments
Equity
Last 12 months
1 investment
Tracked investments
11

Team · 13 people

from the firm's website & curated
Fred Kessler· CPO, Partner
Lloyd Purser· COO, Partnerin
Michael O’Connor· CFO, Partnerin
Oliver Hopton· CTO, Partnerin
Ettienne Ward· Operations + HR Managerin
Mark Ridgwell· Senior Analyst
Peter Heywood· Senior Analystin

What they invest in

from 8 of 11 portfolio companies

AI & Machine Learning ×5Fintech ×5Crypto & Web3 ×4Data & Infrastructure ×3Enterprise Software ×2Developer Tools ×1SaaS ×1

HQs:United States×2Denmark×1Peru×1

Investments · 11 tracked

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By year:2026 · 12025 · 22023 · 22021 · 27 dated

Velvet Capitalvelvet.capitalin𝕏Jul 2025 · $3.7M✓ verified

Velvet is an all-in-one non-custodial trading terminal for executing spot, perpetual, and yield trades across seven blockchains with integrated DeFi protocol access, real-time onchain analytics, and an AI copilot.

Crypto & Web3Fintech

Vasily Nikonov(Founder)in

Co-investorsBlockchain Founders FundDWF LabsGains AssociatesLucidBlue VenturesMindfulness CapitalMucker Capital+2 more

Abstractionabstraction.devinApr 2025 · $1.3M

Abstraction builds a code comprehension layer that compiles source code into a universal semantic model to generate auto-validated wikis, process graphs, system maps, and semantic PR reviews.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaS

Co-investorsInception Fund2048 Ventures25MadisonAlumni VenturesAntlerBankless Ventures+11 more

Cork Protocolcork.techin𝕏Jan 2026

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

Phil Fogel(Co-Founder & Co-CEO)Rob Schmitt(Co-Founder & Co-CEO)Anna Stone(Co-Founder & COO)in

Co-investorsFounderheads,HyperithmDEPO VenturesPEER VCRoad CapitalStake Capital+1 more

Kashinkashin.appin𝕏Seed

Kashin is a peer-to-peer lending platform operating in Peru that provides instant personal loans from 50 to 800 Peruvian soles to individual consumers, with approval in under one hour.

FintechLima, PE

Christophe Robilliard(Founder)inJose Palacios(Founder)in

Co-investorsFirst Check VenturesMeridian 75StartupsY CombinatorFriends Family CapitalGoodwater Capital+9 more

LunarCrushlunarcrush.comin𝕏Jul 2023 · $5M

LunarCrush analyzes millions of social media posts in real time across networks like X, Reddit, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and news to produce sentiment and influence metrics for crypto assets, stocks, brands, and people.

AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintechCosta Mesa, US

Joe Vezzani(Founder)in

Co-investorsDraper AssociatesDraper Goren BlockchainLBANK LabsManutara VenturesTechstarsTRGC+8 more

Northstakenorthstake.dkin𝕏Jun 2023 · $3M

Northstake develops regulatory compliant crypto staking solutions for regulated financial institutions, digital asset managers, and custodians, working with custodians and liquidity providers to provide staking yields.

Crypto & Web3Enterprise SoftwareFintechCopenhagen, DK

Jesper Johansen(Founder)in

Co-investorsDelta BlockchainFabric VenturesMorph CapitalPSV

Velvetvelvetlab.aiin𝕏

Velvet creates datasets and evaluations for training multimodal AI models, serving AI labs and enterprises building systems with improved spatial reasoning and latency performance.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

Lucas Mantovani(Founder)inLucas Tucker(Founder)in

Co-investorsY CombinatorAmino CapitalAndreessen HorowitzBlockchain Founders FundCRV (Charles River Ventures)Dorm Room+5 more

Velvetvelvet.video

Velvet creates datasets and evaluations for multimodal AI models, working with AI labs and enterprises to improve models' interactive capabilities and spatial reasoning.

AI & Machine LearningData & Infrastructure

Co-investorsThe Venture Reality FundBlockchain Founders FundMindfulness Capital

Other

Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.

Award PoolCambridge Compute Co.Virtue Poker

Frequently asked questions

How many investments has FunFair Ventures made?
FunFair Ventures has 11 tracked investments, including 3 dated in the last 24 months.
What stage does FunFair Ventures invest at?
FunFair Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
What sectors does FunFair Ventures focus on?
FunFair Ventures focuses on Crypto & Web3, Fintech, Gaming.

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