Mentha Partners
Venture capitalPre-Seed–Seed
Investment thesis
Mentha Partners positions itself as a hands-on, early-stage investor that works closely with founders as an extension of their team, providing support through fundraising and subsequent growth. The firm combines traditional finance experience with deep knowledge of decentralized finance and crypto culture, backing protocols and companies in the blockchain and Web3 space. Testimonials from portfolio companies emphasize the firm's active, attentive involvement and its distinctive edge in bridging conventional financial expertise with crypto-native understanding.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
What they invest in
from 23 of 39 portfolio companiesCrypto & Web3 ×20Fintech ×12Data & Infrastructure ×8Developer Tools ×8AI & Machine Learning ×5Cloud Computing ×4Gaming ×3Deep Tech ×2
HQs:United States×3United Kingdom×1
Investments · 39 tracked
founders shown can be your intro path1inch develops decentralized finance (DeFi) technology and products aimed at giving users and partners secure, compliant access to DeFi.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Sergej Kunz(Founder)in
Co-investorsBig Candle CapitalBlockchain CapitalBR CapitalDragonflyFabric VenturesFenbushi Capital+12 more
Anthropic is an AI safety research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Dario Amodei(Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer)Daniela Amodei(Co-founder & President)inTom Brown(Co-founder)inJack Clark(Co-founder & Head of Policy)inJared Kaplan(Co-founder & Chief Science Officer)Chris Olah(Co-founder & Interpretability Research Lead)
Co-investors3Comma Capital7BC Venture CapitalA.Capital VenturesAccelAlkeon InnovationAllen Institute for AI (AI2) Incubator+84 more
AI research and products focused on safety.
Arweave is a decentralized ecosystem that offers grants and investment opportunities through various organizations including non-profits, DAOs, and venture studios to support projects and developers building on its network.
Cloud ComputingCrypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintechLondon, GB
Sam Williams(Founder & CEO)
Co-investors1k(x)1kxa16z cryptoAdvanced BlockchainAndreessen HorowitzArrington Capital+21 more
Aurora is an Ethereum-compatible scaling solution built as a Virtual Chain on the NEAR Protocol, offering an EVM engine and a bridge for transferring ETH and ERC-20 tokens between Ethereum and Aurora.
Cloud ComputingCrypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Co-investorsD1 VenturesIOSG VenturesLemniscapPantera CapitalPuzzle VenturesCrypto com Capital+2 more
Co-investorsComma3 VenturesK300 VenturesOlive Tree Capital
Bonfida is a project in the cryptocurrency/blockchain space offering integration tools and governance features.
Crypto & Web3Developer Tools
New money for the old Internet.
Clearpool is a decentralized finance protocol offering on-chain credit and yield products, including financing for fintechs, payment service providers, and institutions, short-term US treasury yield, trading yield strategies, and real-world-asset yield on Bitcoin, gold, and global currencies.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investorsArrington CapitalBitDAOMantle NetworkRyze LabsWintermuteArrington XRP Capital
CFX Labs provides wholesale infrastructure for programmable money services, including stablecoin issuance, wallet solutions that accept cash and wires, and real-time payouts across 220+ markets.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investorsCorazon CapitalDecasonicPetRock Capital
Eclipse builds an Ethereum Layer 2 network that uses the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) as its execution environment, combining Solana's high-throughput execution with Ethereum's liquidity and security.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Neel Somani(Founder)Vijay Chetty(CEO)Ben Livshits(CTO)
Co-investorsDBAFenbushi CapitalHack VCMaven 11OKX VenturesPlaceholder+4 more
Ethereum L2 powered by the Solana Virtual Machine.
IPOR provides onchain vault infrastructure (Fusion) for institutional-grade DeFi yield, letting asset managers, curators, and protocols build, deploy, and manage ERC-4626 vaults with modular strategy modules and risk controls across chains like Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, and Unichain.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintech
Co-investorsArrington CapitalBloccelerate VCCrypto DiscoverSpace Whale CapitalArrington XRP Capitalgumi Cryptos Capital (gCC)
Multi-modular ecosystem for zero-knowledge applications.
Manta Network is a modular Layer 2 blockchain platform offering low gas fees and high performance for building decentralized applications.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Co-investorsAdvanced BlockchainAlliance DAO (ex DeFi Alliance)AZDAGGenblock CapitalHypersphere VenturesLongHash Ventures+3 more
Co-investorsArcane GroupHivemind Capital PartnersLongHash Ventures
Web3 game-centric experiences for next-gen gamers.
MYSO is a non-custodial decentralized application for writing on-chain covered call option strategies, letting users earn upfront stablecoin income on their crypto holdings while setting custom strike prices and tenors.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investorsAdvanced BlockchainBitDAOMantle NetworkWintermute
NEAR is an open blockchain infrastructure powering the agent economy, providing cross-chain execution, confidential settlement, and private inference capabilities.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCrypto & Web3
Illia Polosukhin(Co-Founder)
Co-investorsA.Capital Venturesa16z cryptoAccompliceAdvanced BlockchainAmbush CapitalAmplify Partners+34 more
Nevermined provides payments infrastructure for AI agents, letting agents make and receive payments autonomously through virtual cards, real-time metering, access control, and settlement.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsFintech
Co-investorsGenerative VenturesPolymorphic CapitalSignature Ventures
Co-investorsW Inc.
Los Angeles, US
Samuel Rowen(Executive Officer, Director)Samuel Abrahamson(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsMapleblock CapitalRana CapitalSora VenturesTPC Club (The presale club)TPC VenturesBitfinex+3 more
OP Games is a publishing ecosystem for indie game developers, offering a gaming marketplace (Arcadia) with play-and-earn mechanics and tournaments, a developer guild for education and game jams, and an in-house studio experimenting with AI and blockchain.
Crypto & Web3GamingMarketplaces
Co-investorsCointelligence FundGenblock CapitalLucidBlue Ventures
Orderly Network builds trading infrastructure for decentralized finance, aiming to make it accessible across multiple blockchains.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsFintech
Ran Yi(Founder)
Co-investorsD1 VenturesDragonflyGate VenturesIOSG VenturesMetastablePantera Capital+9 more
Solana is a blockchain network designed for high-performance internet capital markets, payments, and cryptocurrency applications.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintech
Anatoly Yakovenko(Solana Founder & Solana Labs CEO)in
Co-investors1k(x)1kxa16z cryptoAbstract VenturesAegis VentuesAGE Crypto+34 more
Sovrun (formerly BreederDAO) builds on-chain gaming infrastructure, digital asset creation tools, and Autonomous Worlds, including a Parallel EVM L2 rollup, NFT generation technology, and questing/distribution platforms for web3 games.
Crypto & Web3Gaming
Renz Chong(CEO & Co-founder)inJeth Ang(COO & Co-founder)inNico Odulio(CTO & Co-founder)in
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzLongHash Ventures
Co-investorsAZDAGCatcherVCLucidBlue VenturesV3V Ventures
Automated AI-driven DeFi trading strategies.
Trading Strategy operates a protocol and platform for automated trading strategies in decentralized finance (DeFi), covering topics such as DeFi risk ratings and vaults.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
LLM training, GenAI solutions, and data intelligence.
x.ai builds frontier AI reasoning models, real-time voice AI, and generative media systems.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Yuhuai (Tony) Wu(Founder)
Co-investors7percent VenturesAbstract VenturesAglae VenturesAmity VenturesAndreessen HorowitzArctic Digital+33 more
XLD Finance operates an EVM-based, OP Stack blockchain built for commercial payment applications, offering cross-border payment rails that connect digital assets to the traditional financial system.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investorsDigital Currency GroupIntegra Partners
YGG Play is a publisher of casual games built on blockchain technology, connecting game studios with players and communities in the cryptocurrency gaming space.
Crypto & Web3Gaming
Gabby Dizon(Founder)
Co-investorsA.Capital Venturesa16z cryptoAndreessen HorowitzAscensive AssetsAtelierBitkraft Esports Ventures+11 more
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesAnthropic · Reuters · Aug 15, 2026
Aurora · dupagepolicyjournal.com · Jul 18, 2026
xAI · readsludge.com · Jul 17, 2026
Solana · cryptobriefing.com · Jul 2, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Mentha Partners made?
- Mentha Partners has 39 tracked investments.
- What stage does Mentha Partners invest at?
- Mentha Partners invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
- What sectors does Mentha Partners focus on?
- Mentha Partners focuses on Crypto & Web3, Fintech.
- Who does Mentha Partners co-invest with?
- Mentha Partners most often shares deals with Andreessen Horowitz, Genblock Capital, a16z crypto, among 154 tracked co-investors.
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