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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.

HQ
New York, US
Founded
2017
Last 12 months
3 investments
Tracked investments
13

What they invest in

from 12 of 13 portfolio companies

Crypto & Web3 ×11Fintech ×7Data & Infrastructure ×4Developer Tools ×3AI & Machine Learning ×1Cloud Computing ×1Cybersecurity ×1Deep Tech ×1

HQs:Finland×1United States×1

Investments · 13 tracked

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By year:2026 · 22025 · 12024 · 12023 · 12022 · 16 dated

Eclipseeclipse.builders𝕏✓ verified

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

Eclipseeclipse.xyz𝕏✓ verified

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

Sarcophagussarcophagus.io𝕏✓ verified

Sarcophagus is a decentralized dead man's switch built on the BASE blockchain.

Crypto & Web3Cybersecurity

Co-investors3SE HoldingsCompoundLattice CapitalLD CapitalHinge CapitalNxGen

Matter Labsmatter-labs.ioin𝕏Jan 2022SEC filingmedium confidence

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

Altitude𝕏Apr 2026 · $18M

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

Arxarx.org𝕏Nov 2025 · $6.1M

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

Freaticfreatic.team𝕏Sep 2023 · $3.6M

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

Gearboxgearbox.fi𝕏

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

Gyroscopegyro.finance𝕏

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

Monadmonad.xyzin𝕏

Monad is a high-performance EVM-compatible blockchain designed for fast, low-cost transactions.

Cloud ComputingCrypto & Web3Data & Infrastructure

Keone Hon(Founder & CEO)in

Co-investorsAlphaLab CapitalAmbush CapitalArchetypeBankless VenturesBig Brain HoldingsBloccelerate VC+23 more

New York, NYplaceholder.vc𝕏Mar 2024

A venture capital partnership investing in cryptonetworks to decentralize access to data, wealth, and power.

Co-investorsAmbush CapitalFoundryUnion Square Ventures (USV)Hack VCParadigmPlaceholder VC

Squadssquads.so𝕏Apr 2026 · $18M

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

Zerionzerion.ioin𝕏

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.

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