Protocol Ventures
Protocol Ventures is a Pre-Seed venture capital firm based in New York, NY investing in Other, SaaS, AI / ML. The firm typically writes $1.0M–$3.0M checks and has 13 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $1.0M–$3.0M
- Portfolio
- 13 companies on record
- Partners
- 4 listed
- Stage
- Pre-Seed
- Sectors
- Other, SaaS, AI / ML, Enterprise
- HQ
- New York, NY
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-07-09
Pre-Seed
$1.0M – $3.0M
13+ companies
4 partners
Investment Thesis
Invests in blockchain-powered innovations for enterprise, governance, and compliance-heavy use cases.
How Protocol Ventures invests
Protocol Ventures is a vc firm based in New York, NY. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed stage, with a focus on Other, SaaS, AI / ML, Enterprise.
Protocol Ventures typically writes checks of $1.0M–$3.0M per investment.
Protocol Ventures has backed 13 companies in our records, including Civic, Stacks, Bluesky.
Partners & Team
David Lin
Founding Partner
Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (13)
Other
Civic
Stacks
Bluesky
Celestia
CoinList
FrodoBots
Gensyn
Glow
Privy
Science Corp
- •Raising at Pre-Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Other, SaaS, AI / ML — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $1.0M – $3.0M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Brad Holden, Managing Partner, PLC Crypto.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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