Placeholder
Venture capitalNew York
Fund manager profile
Placeholder is a venture fund manager based in New York. SEC filings show 4 venture funds on record, most recently Placeholder Fund III, LP ($200M offering) filed July 2023.
Source: SEC EDGAR Form D filings. Firm website data not yet available.
What they invest in
from 12 of 13 portfolio companiesCrypto & Web3 ×11Fintech ×7Data & Infrastructure ×4Developer Tools ×3AI & Machine Learning ×1Cloud Computing ×1Cybersecurity ×1Deep Tech ×1
HQs:Finland×1United States×1
Investments · 13 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 22025 · 12024 · 12023 · 12022 · 16 dated
Eclipse is a Layer 2 blockchain network for Ethereum that runs the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM), combining Solana's execution speed with Ethereum's liquidity to support high-throughput decentralized applications.
Crypto & Web3Developer ToolsFintech
Neel Somani(Founder)Vijay Chetty(CEO)Terry Chung(Head of Strategy)Ben Livshits(CTO)
Co-investorsHack VCDBAFenbushi CapitalMaven 11OKX VenturesPolychain Capital+5 more
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 VenturesPolychain Capital+5 more
Sarcophagus is a decentralized dead man's switch built on the BASE blockchain.
Crypto & Web3Cybersecurity
Co-investors3SE HoldingsCompoundLattice CapitalLD CapitalHinge CapitalNxGen
Matter Labs builds Prividium, an Ethereum-secured blockchain platform designed for banks and financial institutions to issue, settle, and manage digital assets with privacy and compliance controls.
Crypto & Web3Enterprise SoftwareFintechGeorge Town, Grand Cayman
Alex Gluchowski(Executive Officer, Director)inAleksandr Vlasov(Director)
Board seatChristopher Burniske· per SEC Form D · $39.7M raise · filed Jan 2022
Co-investors1k(x)1kxa16z cryptoAndreessen HorowitzBlockchain CapitalDragonfly+9 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 VenturesMarin Digital Ventures+6 more
Arx develops secure chips that embed blockchain authentication into physical items like apparel, collectibles, and certificates, enabling decentralized provenance verification and digital experiences without centralized servers.
Crypto & Web3Deep TechHardware
Co-investorsInflection.xyzPlaceholder VC1kxCastle Island VenturesSeed Club Ventures
Freatic builds Murmur, a monetization layer for information goods based on decentralized mechanisms, cryptography, and game theory that enables trustless trading of valuable insights.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Data & Infrastructure
Co-investorsa16z cryptoAndreessen HorowitzArchetypeElectric Capital
Gearbox provides institutional credit infrastructure for tokenized real-world assets and stablecoins, offering margin, prime brokerage, and portfolio loan products.
Crypto & Web3FintechSaaS
Co-investorsPlaceholder VCPolymorphic Capital1kxVariant Fund
Gyroscope operates a decentralized finance protocol enabling passive liquidity provision through concentrated swap yields on volatile and stable asset pairs, and issues GYD, a stablecoin designed for efficient liquidity.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investorsPlaceholder VC
Monad is a high-performance EVM-compatible blockchain designed for fast, low-cost transactions.
Cloud ComputingCrypto & Web3Data & Infrastructure
Co-investorsAlphaLab CapitalAmbush CapitalArchetypeBankless VenturesBig Brain HoldingsBloccelerate VC+23 more
A venture capital partnership investing in cryptonetworks to decentralize access to data, wealth, and power.
Co-investorsAmbush CapitalFoundryUnion Square Ventures (USV)Hack VCParadigmPlaceholder VC
Squads delivers financial services to businesses, individuals, and developers using open infrastructure and global internet capital markets.
Fintech
Stepan Simkin(Founder & CEO)
Co-investorsCoinbase VenturesCollab+CurrencyElectric CapitalMulticoin CapitalPlaceholder VCReciprocal Ventures+9 more
Zerion is a self-custodial, multichain wallet and data platform that aggregates assets and positions across 58+ blockchains in real time, offering swap routing, trading, and an API for wallet data access.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintechSan Francisco, US
Evgeny Yurtaev(Founder & CEO)in
Co-investorsAlliance DAO (ex DeFi Alliance)BitDAODigital Currency GroupMantle NetworkMosaic VenturesPlaceholder VC+8 more
Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companies
Monad · crypto-economy.com · Jul 17, 2026

Arx · resiliencemedia.co · Jul 17, 2026
Zerion · tradingview.com · Jun 30, 2026
Eclipse · mercomcapital.com · Jun 17, 2026
Matter Labs · en.ain.ua · Jun 10, 2026
Squads · fintechfutures.com · May 7, 2026
Altitude · fintechfutures.com · May 7, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- Where is Placeholder located?
- Placeholder is headquartered in New York, US.


