Arche Capital — pre-seed/seed VC Firm ($250K–$2.0M Checks)
Arche Capital is a pre-seed/seed venture capital firm based in New York, NY investing in Other, Developer Tools, Security. The firm typically writes $250K–$2.0M checks and has 35 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $250K–$2.0M
- Portfolio
- 35 companies on record
- Partners
- 3 listed
- Stage
- pre-seed/seed
- Sectors
- Other, Developer Tools, Security, Fintech, Consumer
- HQ
- New York, NY
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-10-07
pre-seed/seed
$250K – $2.0M
35+ companies
3 partners
Investment Thesis
Early-stage investor with exposure to fintech and crypto. Well suited to infrastructure plays that sit at the intersection of markets, payments, and digital assets.
How Arche Capital invests
Arche Capital is a vc firm based in New York, NY. The firm invests at the pre-seed/seed stage, with a focus on Other, Developer Tools, Security, Fintech, Consumer.
Arche Capital typically writes checks of $250K–$2.0M per investment.
Arche Capital has backed 35 companies in our records, including Kintsu, Solayer, Alluvial.
Partners & Team
General partner team
GP
Will Wolf is a tech founder and engineering leader who has built and scaled teams of 30+ and developed Web2 payments apps. A Virginia Tech engineering graduate, he joined Polychain in 2018 as Head of Research, where he launched the Genesis Incubation Program and Polychain's first crypto school.
Vanessa Grellet is Managing Partner at Arche Capital and a global executive with over 20 years of experience in financial services and technology. A former executive at ConsenSys, NYSE, and PwC, she serves on the board of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance and holds degrees from Paris II Assas Law School and HEC Paris Business School.
Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (35)
Other
Kintsu
Liquid staking / DeFi infrastructure
Solayer
Blockchain / infrastructure protocol
Alluvial
Infrastructure / liquidity tooling
Squid Router
Cross-chain routing / interoperability
Dora
Multi-chain explorer / search engine
Zealy
Community growth platform
Cometh - Acquired
Switchboard
Oracle / data infrastructure
Glacis
Blockchain infrastructure
Zama
Privacy / zero-knowledge crypto infrastructure
- •Raising at pre-seed/seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Other, Developer Tools, Security — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $250K – $2.0M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as General partner team, GP.
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