Portal Ventures

Founded in 2022, Portal Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Austin, Texas. It partners with innovative crypto builders and protocols to invest in the early stages of software and cryptocurrency projects.

Gary Devin

Investor

Evan Fisher

General Partner

Ori Shimony

Venture Partner

Catrina Wang

Partner

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Arch

Series A in 2025
Arch is a Blockchain Infrastructure Premier Bitcoin-Native Application Platform

Offline Protocol

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Offline Protocol is a pioneering technology company focused on developing infrastructure for decentralized communication and peer-to-peer payments in environments without internet or telecom connectivity. Its innovative platform employs offline networking, decentralized cryptography, and local serverless tools to facilitate secure messaging and information sharing, as well as financial transactions. By addressing the challenges faced by underserved communities and individuals in scenarios such as natural disasters or large public events, Offline Protocol aims to bridge the digital divide and enhance access to essential services. Its technology stands as a vital solution for maintaining communication and financial functionality in areas with limited or disrupted connectivity.

Uranium Digital

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Uranium Digital is a technology startup that employs tokenization to modernize the uranium market. It represents uranium ore with blockchain-based tokens, enabling secure, transparent, and efficient trading among institutions. Each token corresponds to one pound of verified uranium, facilitating immediate and regulated transactions, thereby enhancing liquidity and operational efficiency in this traditionally underfunded and heavily regulated sector.

Agridex

Seed Round in 2024
Agridex is a company that specializes in developing a blockchain-based supply chain platform tailored for the digital agriculture sector. Its platform facilitates a global digital marketplace, enhancing supply chain transparency for all participants in the food chain. Agridex's offerings include features that automate transaction costs, prevent fraud, track procurement, and manage insurance. By enabling farmers and producers to trade their products directly with buyers, Agridex creates a trusted and unified environment that streamlines agricultural transactions and improves efficiency across the industry.

Liquidium

Seed Round in 2024
Liquidium is a decentralized peer-to-peer lending platform operating exclusively on the Bitcoin blockchain. It enables users to borrow and lend native Bitcoin using unique digital assets called Ordinals as collateral. Ordinals are created by inscribing data on the smallest units of Bitcoin, known as Satoshis. Liquidium's platform uses Discreet Log Contracts and Partially Signed Bitcoin Transactions to facilitate these loans, allowing users to retain ownership and exposure to their Ordinals while borrowing. The platform is trust-minimal and custodian-free, with loan outcomes validated by DeepLake oracles. Liquidium is the leading Bitcoin NFT lending protocol by volume on the Stacks blockchain, facilitating crypto transactions through its innovative platform.

SkyTrade

Pre Seed Round in 2024
SkyTrade is a pioneering company that operates a blockchain-based marketplace for air rights. It enables property owners to monetize their airspace by buying, selling, or leasing it to others. The platform facilitates various use cases, such as vertical construction, preserving unobstructed views, and supporting low-altitude drone operations. SkyTrade allows clients to register, manage, and govern access to airspace over their land and property, providing a novel way to unlock the value of vertical real estate.

Plume Network

Seed Round in 2024
Plume Network develops a blockchain platform specializing in onboarding and managing diverse real-world assets. With over 180 projects on its private development network, it offers an end-to-end tokenization engine and collaborates with financial infrastructure partners to simplify asset onboarding and facilitate seamless integration with decentralized finance (DeFi) applications.

Arch

Seed Round in 2024
Arch is a Blockchain Infrastructure Premier Bitcoin-Native Application Platform

Open Social

Venture Round in 2024
Open Social is a firm that focuses on creating a decentralized and sustainable ecosystem for creators, protocol developers, and Dapp developers.

Ord.io

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Ord.io operates a platform dedicated to exploring and interacting with Bitcoin Ordinals. Users can browse various ordinals, analyze their inscriptions using object recognition technology, and engage with them by upvoting or downvoting.

Zama

Series A in 2024
Zama is a cryptography company focused on developing open-source homomorphic encryption solutions that enhance user privacy across various applications, including blockchain and artificial intelligence. The company's innovative framework allows organizations to perform fast and accurate inference on encrypted data while maintaining minimal performance overhead. This technology is compatible with any neural network, eliminating the need for retraining, and enables clients to securely analyze encrypted user data without compromising privacy. By providing these advanced encryption solutions, Zama aims to empower businesses to protect sensitive information while leveraging the benefits of AI and blockchain technologies.

Bison Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Bison Labs is a pioneering blockchain company specializing in Bitcoin rollups. It enhances transaction speeds and facilitates advanced functionalities on the native Bitcoin network.

Inco

Seed Round in 2024
Inco develops a global confidentiality layer for Ethereum and other networks. It enables a wide range of new apps, spanning various verticals such as gaming and gambling, DeFi, including dark pools, private lending, and blind auctions, and enterprise solutions such as confidential stable coins, private RWAs, and private voting.

Blueprint Finance

Venture Round in 2024
Blueprint Finance is a technology company that specializes in developing protocols and infrastructure to enhance on-chain finance. It creates decentralized software designed to protect future traders from significant market events, aiming to foster the safety and growth of the global crypto market. The company's platform, an app chain tailored for on-chain debt and credit, provides clients with higher yields, liquidation protection, and advanced predictive capabilities across the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, initially focusing on money markets.

BitFlow Finance

Pre Seed Round in 2024
BitFlow Finance offers bitcoines to trade while utilizing the capital,network, and security of Layer 1 Bitcoin, by eliminating middlemen and intermediaries.

Zorp

Seed Round in 2024
Zorp is a blockchain development company that offers solutions to cyber risk through high-throughput chains and provides proof of computation and storage.

Rome Protocol

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Rome Protocol is a blockchain project focused on enhancing the capabilities of layer-2 solutions by utilizing cryptocurrency as an auxiliary network. The company operates a Solana-based shared sequencer, which facilitates improved performance and security while also enabling liquidity between Solana and Ethereum. By providing shared sequencers and data availability services, Rome Protocol aims to assist blockchain developers in reducing their dependency on modular networks for managing the complex components and functions associated with virtual currencies. Through its innovative design environment, Rome Protocol seeks to create unique products that cater to the evolving needs of the blockchain ecosystem.

Raleon

Seed Round in 2023
Raleon offers a web3 engagement platform that empowers growth and product teams to comprehend, target, and engage their users effectively. Its no-code integration enables businesses to monitor marketing activities across various channels, create custom dashboards, and enhance user loyalty and retention.

Ion Protocol

Seed Round in 2023
Ion Protocol is a blockchain-based lending platform that enables users to deposit and borrow against a wide array of validator-backed assets, including staked and restaked holdings. Its decentralized platform employs zero-knowledge machine learning for credit risk underwriting, facilitating efficient management of user positions and enhancing staking returns.

TransCrypts

Pre Seed Round in 2023
TransCrypts automates issuance of employment and income verification documents for HR departments using blockchain technology. This streamlines compliance processes, saving time and resources, while empowering employees to control how their work information is shared.

Finsire

Seed Round in 2023
Finsire operates a digital public infrastructure platform designed to collateralize income and digitize various asset classes. The company provides application programming interfaces that facilitate the identification and verification of assets, allowing users to manage a diverse range of holdings, including mutual funds, stocks, insurance, bonds, and salaries. By offering tools to streamline the pledging of assets, Finsire enables clients to engage in secured lending with greater ease. The platform enhances data analysis and recommendations, supporting users in navigating their financial assets effectively.

Job Protocol

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Job Protocol operates as a digital recruitment platform. Was shut down in May 2022, founders pivoted to HollyHires.ai.

Satori

Seed Round in 2022
Satori is a decentralized financial derivatives exchange tailored for both retail and institutional investors within the Polkadot ecosystem. The platform is designed to accommodate experienced traders, allowing them to leverage the potential of DOT through access to a dedicated derivatives environment. Satori collaborates with parachains, market makers, and retail users, facilitating a comprehensive trading experience that meets the demands of diverse market participants.

Hedgey Finance

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Hedgey develops a decentralized marketplace for buying and selling custom DeFi offerings on any token. Its platform offers features such as discounts, time locks, customizable vesting schedules, investor lockups, cross-chain compatibility, and governance-enabled token grants, enabling secure management of token allocations with transparency.

Asigna

Asigna project started in late 2022, was established with full decentralization in mind, akin to Bitcoin's original vision. There has always been a pressing need in the Bitcoin community for a personal multi-sig that would offer peace of mind to all its holders. Moreover, Asigna is introducing itself to the rising player in the ecosystem: the Stacks ecosystem, which operates as a layer 2 on top of Bitcoin. Asigna employs a native multisig solution. This makes it the safest multi-sig available since user privacy remains unaffected. Asigna digital vault offers a robust channel for storing, transmitting, and collecting various currencies such as BTC, Stacks, BRC20, and Ordinals. Additionally, it supports batch transactions. Soon to be added to the roadmap are Unisat, sBTC integration. Notably, Asigna integration with other Stacks dApps are flawless, allowing users to stake STX or directly acquire ordinals.

T-Rex

T-Rex is a new blockchain ecosystem intended specifically for consumer-facing applications, with the goal of transforming the Web3 attention layer via its revolutionary Proof of Engagement (PoE).

Asigna

Asigna project started in late 2022, was established with full decentralization in mind, akin to Bitcoin's original vision. There has always been a pressing need in the Bitcoin community for a personal multi-sig that would offer peace of mind to all its holders. Moreover, Asigna is introducing itself to the rising player in the ecosystem: the Stacks ecosystem, which operates as a layer 2 on top of Bitcoin. Asigna employs a native multisig solution. This makes it the safest multi-sig available since user privacy remains unaffected. Asigna digital vault offers a robust channel for storing, transmitting, and collecting various currencies such as BTC, Stacks, BRC20, and Ordinals. Additionally, it supports batch transactions. Soon to be added to the roadmap are Unisat, sBTC integration. Notably, Asigna integration with other Stacks dApps are flawless, allowing users to stake STX or directly acquire ordinals.
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