Profile
Corporate information
Also known as
Placeholder Ventures
Placeholder VC
Investment activity status
Active investor
Company type
Venture capital firm that invests in decentralized protocols and web3 services.Team
Current employees
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Chris Burniske | ||
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Joel Monegro |
Investments
Selected investments
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WeatherXM AG Hyperlocal weather data provider. |
Switzerland | 23 May 2024 | Series A Initial investment. Round participant. Active |
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Movement Labs Layer 2 blockchain development firm. |
United States | 25 Apr 2024 | Series A Initial investment. Round participant. Active |
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Monad Labs Inc The team supporting the Monad blockchain. |
14 Feb 2023 | Chris Burniske | Seed Initial investment. Round participant. Active |
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Orca |
22 Sep 2021 | Series A Initial investment. Led the investment round. Active |
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Zerion The easiest way to build and manage your entire DeFi portfolio from one place. |
7 Jul 2021 | Series A Initial investment. Round participant. Active |
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Aleo Systems Inc "The first platform for fully private applications." |
United States | 20 Apr 2021 | N/A Initial investment. Round participant. Active |
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UMA Fast, flexible and secure way to create decentralised financial products. |
N/A Initial investment. Round participant. Active |
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Enzyme |
N/A Initial investment. Round participant. Active |
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Radicle Peer-to-peer code collaboration network built on open protocols. |
N/A Initial investment. Round participant. Active |
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Decred |
N/A Initial investment. Round participant. Active |
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Solana Web-scale blockchain for fast, secure, scalable decentralized apps and marketplaces. |
N/A Initial investment. Round participant. Active |
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Polkadot Layer-0 blockchain that allows for blockchain interoperability and scalability. |
N/A Initial investment. Round participant. Active |
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Bitcoin Decentralised digital currency. |
N/A Initial investment. Round participant. Active |
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Polygon Framework that builds and connects Ethereum-compatible blockchain networks. |
N/A Initial investment. Round participant. Active |
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NXM |
N/A Initial investment. Round participant. Active |
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Balancer Automated portfolio manager and trading platform. |
N/A Initial investment. Round participant. Active |
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Numeraire |
N/A Initial investment. Round participant. Active |
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Aragon Enabling the building decentralized autonomous organisations (DAO) on open-source infrastructure with governance plugins. |
N/A Initial investment. Round participant. Active |
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Maker Decentralized credit facility which lends the synthetic dollar-like asset DAI. |
N/A Initial investment. Round participant. Active |
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API3 First-party blockchain oracle. Web APIs for trustless apps. Decentrally governed, quantifiably secure data feeds. |
N/A Initial investment. Round participant. Active |