Block Ventures
Block Ventures is a Seed venture capital firm based in New York, NY investing in Other, AI / ML, Developer Tools. The firm typically writes $250K–$750K checks and has 16 portfolio companies in our records.
Seed
$250K – $750K
16+ companies
20 partners
Investment Thesis
Invests in infrastructure for decentralized finance and risk management, enabling institutional adoption of blockchain solutions.
How Block Ventures invests
Block Ventures is a vc firm based in New York, NY. The firm invests at the Seed stage, with a focus on Other, AI / ML, Developer Tools. It does not invest in Consumer.
Block Ventures typically writes checks of $250K–$750K per investment.
Block Ventures has backed 16 companies in our records, including SafeChain, Square, Cash App.
Meet the Team
Rebecca Wong
Partner
David Laowei
Principal
Michael North
Principal
Daniel Gross
Principal
Brian Shroeter
Principal
Matt Miller
Principal
Alex Choi
Principal
Rishi Garg
Principal
Chris Krespi
Principal
Industry Focus
Invests In
Does Not Invest In
Portfolio Companies (16)
Other
SafeChain
Square
Cash App
Clearpay
TIDAL
Bitkey
Proto
Afterpay
Square Financial Services, Inc.
Swansea Applegate Investors, LLC (CIK 0001708490)
SEC Form D filing mentioning Block Ventures
- •Raising at Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Other, AI / ML, Developer Tools — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $250K – $750K check.
- •cold outreach ok
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Dusty Stolp, Senior Director of Risk Management.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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