Marin Digital Ventures
Venture capitalPre-Seed–Seed · 4 people tracked
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Investment thesis
The firm focuses on early-stage founders working at the frontier of decentralized technology, seeking opportunities where risk and reward converge rather than in the safe middle of established markets. It invests at the very first spark of a company's formation, backing entrepreneurs who translate bold, radical visions into durable, market-defining businesses.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 4 people
from the firm's websiteWhat they invest in
from 47 of 63 portfolio companiesCrypto & Web3 ×42Fintech ×26AI & Machine Learning ×8Data & Infrastructure ×7Developer Tools ×7Enterprise Software ×5Deep Tech ×3Hardware ×3
HQs:United States×13Italy×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 26 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×142 founders×113 founders×1
Where their founders studiedfrom 26 founders with education data
University of California, Berkeley ×2University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business ×2University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 29 founders with career history
AlleyCorp ×2Dorm Room ×2Goldman Sachs ×2Kraken ×2Xerox PARC ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
6 founders hold a PhD · 4 hold an MBA (of 27 with degree data)
Investments · 63 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2024 · 12021 · 12 dated
Revolutionizing space technology to make life multi-planetary
Hawthorne, US
Elon Musk(Founder, CEO & Chief Engineer)in
Co-investors1/1 Capital137 Ventures4DX VenturesA*Abstract VenturesAccess Technology Ventures+110 more
Agoric builds secure infrastructure for a composable cross-chain crypto economy, along with products that automate fragmented crypto workflows.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsFintech
Dean Tribble(Chief Executive Officer)inMark S. Miller(Chief Scientist)inMichael Jablon(Chief Operating Officer)in
Co-investorsAGE CryptoBollinger Investment GroupDanu VenturesFigmentRed Beard VenturesRipple+11 more
Akash Network operates a decentralized cloud computing platform that connects infrastructure providers with users deploying applications, offering cost-effective alternatives to centralized cloud providers.
AI & Machine LearningB2B MarketplacesCloud ComputingCrypto & Web3
Co-investorsAGE CryptoBorderless VentureCrunchFundD1 VenturesElliptiGenblock Capital+2 more
Squads is a financial technology company building products and APIs for the stablecoin economy, including a Solana multisig tool, a business account (Altitude), a personal finance app (Fuse), and its stablecoin infrastructure and developer platform (Grid).
Crypto & Web3Developer ToolsFintech
Co-investorsHaun VenturesMulticoin CapitalCoinbase VenturesElectric Capital6th Man VenturesCollab+Currency+6 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
Anagram describes itself as an institution focused on crypto and the "ownership economy," offering staking services and deploying human and financial capital in the space.
Crypto & Web3
Autopools provides automated DeFi vaults that optimize yield by rebalancing across major protocols and assets including ETH and stablecoins.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investorsElectric CapitalLemniscapUDHC
Beluga publishes crypto market analysis, insights, and educational articles covering topics such as Solana staking and DeFi.
Crypto & Web3Media & Entertainment
Sonny Singh(CEO)inWill McKinnon(Chief Strategy Officer)inPratik Bhuyan(Head of Content)
Co-investorsKraken VenturesRRE Ventures2 Punks CapitalBorderless VentureUDHCW11 Capital+1 more
Camp Network is a Layer-1 blockchain for intellectual property infrastructure, providing a global IP registry that lets users own and monetize their IP and enables AI agents to train on user-owned IP.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Data & Infrastructure
James Chi(Founder)inNirav Murthy(Founder)in
Co-investors1k(x)1kxBlockchain CapitalEterna CapitalHyperithmOnePiece Labs+6 more
Co-investorsCVP NoLimitNo Limit Holdings (NLH)
Derive is an on-chain options protocol in DeFi, offering crypto options and perpetuals trading with institutional-grade execution and risk systems.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Nick Forster(Team Lead)in
Co-investorsVariant Fund
Ducat Protocol builds non-custodial Bitcoin lending and credit infrastructure, letting users borrow against BTC through 2-of-2 Taproot multisig vaults that settle directly on Bitcoin L1 without bridges, sidechains, or L2 dependencies.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investorsHivemind Capital Partners
Extropic builds thermodynamic computing hardware, including thermodynamic sampling units (TSUs) designed to be more energy efficient than GPUs for probabilistic AI workloads.
Deep TechHardwareSemiconductorsAustin, US
Guillaume Verdon(Founder)in
Co-investorsAtacama VenturesBeyond CapitalBlack FlagHOF CapitalHyperguapJulian Capital+6 more
Folius Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in, promotes, and helps build Web3 projects, with a focus on founders in the Asia-Pacific region and the Chinese-speaking community.
Crypto & Web3New York, US
Chau Kam(Managing Member of the Issuer.)Mapleleafcap(Founder)Brian Chan(CFO / COO)
Co-investorsAdaverseMirana Ventures
Groom Lake provides intelligence, security operations, and incident response services for cryptocurrency protocols, funds, and institutions.
Crypto & Web3CybersecurityNot stated, US
BoardGovernor Hutchinson(Strategic Advisor)
Hubble has created a Bluetooth connection to space and is building a global, battery-efficient, and cost-effective network using satellite technology.
Advanced ManufacturingDeveloper ToolsHardwareIoTSpace TechLas Vegas, US
Alex Haro(Founder)inBen Wild(Founder)in
Co-investorsConvective CapitalRpm Ventures Iii Management, L.L.C.Y CombinatorEarthshot VenturesRPM VenturesSeraph Group+1 more
Immunefi is a crowdsourced security platform for Web3, offering bug bounty programs, audit competitions, invite-only programs, security audits, and PR reviews that connect protocols with security researchers to find and disclose onchain vulnerabilities.
Crypto & Web3Cybersecurity
Mitchell Amador(CEO & Founder)in
Co-investorsBR CapitalElectric CapitalIDEO CoLab VenturesLattice CapitalNIVSamsung Next
Co-investors57Blocks CapitalDraper DragonSyntax Capital
Co-investorsBlueYard CapitalBreedWintermute
Co-investorsA100X VenturesEterna CapitalSerafundTRGCgumi Cryptos Capital (gCC)
Token operations platform, now offered as Coinbase Token Manager, automating vesting, lockups and bulk token distributions.
Robin Ji(Founder)in
Co-investorsAlliance DAO (ex DeFi Alliance)IOSG VenturesNascentStruck CapitalVery Serious Ventures
Lit Protocol provides a verifiable compute and signing infrastructure built on trusted execution environments (TEEs) for DeFi applications, centralized exchanges, and tokenized assets.
Crypto & Web3Developer ToolsEnterprise Software
Chris Cassano(Founder)inDavid Sneider(Founder)in
Co-investors6th Man VenturesA.Capital VenturesCollab+CurrencyEniac VenturesFermionFigment+8 more
Loopscale is a Solana-based, order book lending protocol offering fixed-rate loans against a wide range of collateral.
Luke Truitt(Founder)in
Co-investorsCoinbase VenturesCoinFund
Magna is an all-in-one platform for crypto companies to launch, manage, and scale tokens, offering token operations, treasury management, stablecoin management, and distribution across a global web3 ecosystem.
Crypto & Web3Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSNew York City, US
Bruno Faviero(Founder)inArun Kirubarajan(Founder)in
Co-investorsBehind Genius VenturesBig Brain HoldingsDorm RoomOlive Tree CapitalY CombinatorAsymmetric+2 more
Maple is an onchain asset management platform offering institutional-grade lending and yield strategies to the crypto ecosystem.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Joe Flanagan(Founder)in
Co-investorsArctic DigitalBlack DragonBloccelerate VCGSRMaven 11Narcissus Ventures+4 more
MegaETH is a blockchain platform offering high-throughput transaction processing with real-time capabilities, settling on Ethereum.
Crypto & Web3
Shuyao Kong (孔姝尧)(Founder)in
Co-investorsInception Capital (ex OP Crypto)MITONShumo Chu
Membrane Labs provides an institutional infrastructure platform for digital asset credit, unifying counterparty discovery, loan workflows, and collateral management with real-time visibility, automated margin enforcement, and multi-custodian connectivity.
Crypto & Web3Enterprise SoftwareFintech
Carson Cook(Founder)in
Co-investorsArca FundsElectric CapitalFourth Revolution Capital (4RC)Lvna CapitalPoint72 VenturesUDHC+7 more
A venture capital firm led by operators and AI technologists that invests in founders building defensible technologies and AGI-aware companies positioned for positive civilization-scale impact.
Vishal Maini(Founder & Managing Partner)inJonathan Eng(Partner)inPaul Gu(Partner)in
Oceans provides full-time, AI-fluent executive operators ("Divers") who are vetted, trained on clients' tools, and matched to run business functions such as marketing, operations, finance, and customer success.
Future of WorkHR TechMarketplaces
Opacity provides infrastructure for issuing compliant financial products with global distribution and liquidity through decentralized finance integration, targeting capital markets participants.
Crypto & Web3FintechNew York, US
Andrew Bledsoe(Executive Officer)in
BoardAaron Marz(Director)Hersh Patel(Director)
Co-investorsArchetypeDepartment of XYZEv3 Ventures LlcGD1Inception Capital (ex OP Crypto)NIV+2 more
Orca is a liquidity protocol and trading platform on the Solana blockchain that enables users to discover, deploy, and manage yield strategies across decentralized liquidity pools.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investors6th Man VenturesCollab+CurrencyPlaceholder VCRockawayXRyze LabsJump Crypto+2 more
Osmosis is a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange built on the Cosmos blockchain that enables users to access liquidity and assets from over 100 blockchain ecosystems.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investors1confirmationBloccelerate VCFigmentNascentParadigmZero Knowledge Validator (ZKV)+3 more
ParagonsDAO was a web3 gaming project offering playable NFT assets, guild infrastructure, analytical tools, and educational materials to help players earn rewards in games like Parallel TCG.
Crypto & Web3Gaming
Co-investorsPentos Ventures
Speedstake is a Solana-based product that lets stakers sell their future staking rewards for SOL upfront without unstaking, keeping their principal delegated.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investorsCoinbase VenturesPaper VenturesVariant FundSolana Labs
Radical AI develops AI software that generates experimental designs for self-driving labs to accelerate materials discovery.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechNew Materials
Joseph F. Krause(Founder)inJorge Colindres(Founder)in
Co-investorsAlleyCorpWorking Capital FundAlley Robotics Venturesnoa
Raven is a proprietary algorithmic high-frequency trading firm that provides liquidity and market-making services for crypto exchanges and token projects, prediction markets, and traditional finance venues.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investorsWintermute
Raydium is a Solana-based on-chain order book AMM offering swaps, liquidity pools, yield farms and the AcceleRaytor launchpad.
Co-investorsCeras VenturesCoinbase VenturesPetRock CapitalJump Crypto
Robot (RBT Network) provides an AI system delivered as a cloud service or an on-premises rack-ready appliance that connects to enterprise systems, databases, and documents to build a structured business context layer.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareHardware
Co-investorsA100X VenturesArctic Digital
Co-investorsPlaceholder VCReverieRockawayX
Sapience operates on-chain prediction markets that function like auctions, where users and AI agents forecast the probability of future events and compete to offer the best odds.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investorsCrucible Capital
Seed Club Ventures is a venture DAO that invests in early-stage founders building at the intersection of web3 and community, with a membership of crypto investors and innovators.
Crypto & Web3
Co-investorsMulticoin Capital
Shaga operates a decentralized cloud gaming network that connects gamers to shared computing power from underutilized PCs, removing the need for expensive hardware upgrades.
Cloud ComputingCreator EconomyCrypto & Web3GamingDover, US
Guido Rocco Pardini(Director)Daeshawn Ballard(Director)in
Co-investorsArca FundsAmber GroupBlocktower CapitalEveryrealmIOSG VenturesMH Ventures
Cosmos builds enterprise-grade blockchain technology and digital ledger solutions that enable businesses and governments to manage, scale, and adapt tokenization and banking services.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintechNew York City, US
Co-investorsReciprocal Ventures
Solana is a blockchain network designed for high-performance internet capital markets, payments, and cryptocurrency applications.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintechSan Francisco, US
Anatoly Yakovenko(Solana Founder & Solana Labs CEO)inAlan Yu
Co-investors1k(x)1kx500 Globala16z cryptoAbstract VenturesAegis Ventues+37 more
Solflare is a self-custodial crypto wallet for the Solana blockchain, letting users hold and control their own digital assets with a focus on security.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Vidor Gencel(Cofounder & Co-CEO)inFilip Dragoslavić(Cofounder & Co-CEO)inDamjan Marković(Chief Operating Officer)in
Co-investorsAlliance DAO (ex DeFi Alliance)ParaFi CapitalReciprocal Ventures
SQD provides data infrastructure that extracts and decodes blockchain events, transactions, and traces across 130+ networks, streaming the results into users' own data warehouses for SQL-based analytics.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Wanja S. Oberhof(CEO)
Tallahassee, US
Jackson Jessup(Founder)Mitchell Gildenberg(Founder)
Co-investorsCollab+CurrencyLemniscapRockawayX
Synthetix is a decentralized perpetual futures protocol built on Ethereum that combines off-chain order matching with on-chain settlement to provide low-latency trading of cryptocurrency derivatives.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investorsCoinbase VenturesElliptiFenbushi CapitalGenblock CapitalIOSG VenturesMerkle Tree Capital+5 more
A venture capital firm investing in tokens and equity across cryptocurrency, blockchain, and AI sectors, providing founders with introductions to service providers and strategic partners while bridging traditional finance and crypto expertise.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Deep Tech
Hyperliquid Labs develops the Hyperliquid blockchain, a decentralized platform for financial markets.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintech
Jeff Yan(Founder)iliensinc(Founder)
Co-investorsAZDAGMulticoin CapitalParadigm
Tria offers a self-custodial crypto platform where users can spend digital assets via a Visa card in over 150 countries, earn yield through on-chain strategies, swap tokens cross-chain, trade perpetual futures, and cash in/out crypto.
Crypto & Web3FintechCologno Monzese, IT
Vijit Katta(Founder)in
Co-investorsCogitent Ventures
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 CryptoBorderless VentureEterna CapitalLongHash VenturesLvna CapitalNascent+9 more
Zest Protocol is a self-custodial lending protocol for Bitcoin that lets users borrow stablecoins against their BTC and earn yield in BTC, using BitVM to keep collateral on the Bitcoin base layer.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Tycho Onnasch(Founder)in
Co-investorsDraper AssociatesGossamer CapitalHyperithmMitonCAsymmetric
Exits · 1
IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfoliospace-xNASDAQ: SPCX
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companies
Magna · techcrunch.com · Sep 1, 2026

Raydium · coingabbar.com · Aug 25, 2026

Zest · infotechlead.com · Aug 21, 2026

Maple Finance · cryptonews.net · Aug 19, 2026
space-x · businessinsider.com · Aug 16, 2026
Extropic · interestingengineering.com · Aug 3, 2026
Solflare · manilatimes.net · Jul 30, 2026
Auto Finance · autofinancenews.net · Jul 28, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Marin Digital Ventures made?
- Marin Digital Ventures has 63 tracked investments, 3 of which have exited via acquisition or IPO.
- What stage does Marin Digital Ventures invest at?
- Marin Digital Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
- What sectors does Marin Digital Ventures focus on?
- Marin Digital Ventures focuses on Crypto & Web3.
- Who does Marin Digital Ventures co-invest with?
- Marin Digital Ventures most often shares deals with RockawayX, UDHC, Coinbase Ventures, among 146 tracked co-investors.
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