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Blockchain Wave Partners

VC
Toronto, CanadaWebsite

Blockchain Wave Partners is a Pre-Seed venture capital firm based in Toronto, Canada investing in Other, Security, AI / ML. The firm typically writes $60K–$100K checks and has 5 portfolio companies in our records.

How to approach: cold outreach ok
Stage

Pre-Seed

Check Size

$60K – $100K

Portfolio

5+ companies

Team

9 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Invests early in transformative blockchain technologies with global reach.

How Blockchain Wave Partners invests

Blockchain Wave Partners is a vc firm based in Toronto, Canada. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed stage, with a focus on Other, Security, AI / ML, Developer Tools. It does not invest in Traditional Finance.

Blockchain Wave Partners typically writes checks of $60K–$100K per investment.

Blockchain Wave Partners has backed 5 companies in our records, including CoinSecure, Wave, standard.tech (Standard Protocol).

Meet the Team

DD

Drew Durbin

CEO

AT

Aude Toe

Head of Legal

AS

Adama Sumareh

Partner Operations Specialist

NS

Neil Sturrock

Director of Global Customer Support

MK

Mamadou Kolade

Director of Operations

NM

Nneka Madubugwu

Head of People Experience

DD

Dieudonné Diouf

Customer Support Manager

CK

Christian Kouassi

Liquidity Manager

MY

Markus Yong

Founder & GP

Crypto
Blockchain

Industry Focus

Invests In

Other
Security
AI / ML
Developer Tools

Does Not Invest In

Traditional Finance

Portfolio Companies (5)

Other

CO

CoinSecure

Crypto Security
WA

Wave

Mobile Money

Deposit, withdraw, pay bills for free. Send for only 1%.

ST

standard.tech (Standard Protocol)

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) / DePIN·Seed / Private Round·Blockchain Wave Partners (Direct/GP)

A collateralized borrow-and-earn platform and decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) protocol.

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Polkadex

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) / Blockchain Infrastructure·Seed / Private Round·Blockchain Wave Partners (Direct/GP)

A non-custodial peer-to-peer orderbook-based decentralized exchange (DEX) built on the Substrate framework.

MA

Manta Network (p0xeidon labs)

Privacy / Layer 2 Infrastructure·Strategic / Private Round·Blockchain Wave Partners (Direct/GP)

A zero-knowledge (ZK) application platform offering a multi-modular ecosystem for zero-knowledge applications and decentralized privacy.

How to pitch Blockchain Wave Partners
  • •Raising at Pre-Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • •Lead with your fit in Other, Security, AI / ML — the sectors they actively back.
  • •Size your ask to their typical $60K – $100K check.
  • •cold outreach ok
  • •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Drew Durbin, CEO.
  • •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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