Bankless Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm
Bankless Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm investing in Other, Developer Tools, AI / ML. The firm has 5 portfolio companies in our records.
- Portfolio
- 5 companies on record
- Partners
- 3 listed
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Other, Developer Tools, AI / ML, Fintech, Consumer
- Check size
- Not in our records
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-10-17
Pre-Seed, Seed
5+ companies
3 partners
Investment Thesis
Angel/rolling-fund style vehicle from the Bankless ecosystem focused on open financial systems and consumer crypto products.
How Bankless Ventures invests
Bankless Ventures is a vc firm. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other, Developer Tools, AI / ML, Fintech, Consumer.
Bankless Ventures has backed 5 companies in our records, including Ion Protocol, Modulus Labs, BSX.
Partners & Team
William Peaster
Senior Writer
David Hoffman
Co-Founder
Ryan Sean Adams
Co-Founder
Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (5)
Other
Ion Protocol
DeFi lending protocol that lets users lend and borrow against validator-backed assets, including liquid-staking and restaking positions.
Modulus Labs
Uses zero-knowledge proofs and machine learning to provide verifiable, “accountable” AI on blockchain networks.
BSX
A self-custodial decentralized perpetuals exchange on Base, with off-chain execution and on-chain settlement.
Umia
On-chain capital-formation infrastructure combining token auctions, zero-knowledge eligibility, decision markets, and legal wrappers for token-native ventures.
Cordant
Financial-infrastructure coordination layer that normalizes records from payment processors, banks, ledgers, blockchain rails, and other systems into a continuously verified operational state.
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Other, Developer Tools, AI / ML — the sectors they actively back.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as William Peaster, Senior Writer.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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