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Circle Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm

VC

Circle Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A venture capital firm investing in Developer Tools, SaaS. The firm has 5 portfolio companies in our records.

Portfolio
5 companies on record
Partners
10 listed
AUM
$1.5B
Stage
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Sectors
Developer Tools, SaaS
Check size
Not in our records
How to approach: warm intro preferred
Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A

AUM

$1.5B

Portfolio

5+ companies

Team

10 partners

Investment Thesis

Strategic venture investor supporting companies building on stablecoin and programmable money infrastructure. The firm publicly supports programmable money and the agentic economy through ecosystem investment networks.

How Circle Ventures invests

Circle Ventures is a vc firm. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages, with a focus on Developer Tools, SaaS.

Circle Ventures manages approximately $1.5B in assets. Our records include 2 funds raised by the firm.

Circle Ventures has backed 5 companies in our records, including edgeX, Elliptic, Centrifuge.

Partners & Team

PH

Patrick Hansen

Senior Director of Strategy and Policy

GM

Gagan Mac

Vice President of Developer Products

MS

Mayank Singhal

Director of Financial Partnerships

DO

David OHara

Senior Director of Tax

EB

Emily Ball

Director of Marketing Operations

JA

Jeremy Allaire

Founder

HM

Holly Maddox

Vice President of Corporate Communications

KM

Kristin McCarron

Director of Production

JG

Jeremy Geen

Chief Financial Officer

RC

Rachel Charlesworth

Director Of Marketing

Industry Focus

Invests In

Developer Tools
SaaS

Funds

Circle Ventures II

$500M2023
investing

Circle Ventures

$1.0B2022
investing

Portfolio Companies (5)

Other

ED

edgeX

DeFi/infrastructure·Strategic investment announced in 2026

Decentralized trading infrastructure for perpetual markets

EL

Elliptic

Crypto compliance / infrastructure·Investment referenced in 2026 partner-program coverage

Blockchain analytics/compliance company

CE

Centrifuge

DeFi / tokenization·Series A in the company’s own announcement thread naming Circle Ventures as an investor

Tokenization and institutional DeFi platform

MO

Morpho

DeFi·2026 funding round/strategic participation reported by investment trackers that cite the round

DeFi lending protocol

LA

LayerZero

Infrastructure / interoperability·Series B in 2023 coverage referenced by investment trackers

Omnichain interoperability protocol

How to pitch Circle Ventures
  • •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • •Lead with your fit in Developer Tools, SaaS — the sectors they actively back.
  • •warm intro preferred
  • •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Patrick Hansen, Senior Director of Strategy and Policy.
  • •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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