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Castle Island Ventures

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Total investments 71
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$14M
Portfolio companies 50
Rounds per year 11.83
Lead investments 8
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.30
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Cryptocurrency
  • Blockchain
  • FinTech
  • Financial Services
  • Software
Summary

The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Cambridge. The venture was found in North America in United States.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Flipside Crypto, DUST Identity, ErisX. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Internet, Cyber Security. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups.

The top activity for fund was in 2018. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5 partakers. Despite the Castle Island Ventures, startups are often financed by True Ventures, Vestigo Ventures, The Chernin Group. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Vestigo Ventures, True Ventures, Digital Currency Group. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by gumi Cryptos Capital, Vestigo Ventures, Unblock Ventures.

The overall number of key employees were 2.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Alpen Labs

$10M10 Apr 2024 New York, New York, United States

Monad

Blockchain
$225M09 Apr 2024 -

Station70

$5M02 Apr 2024 Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Build on Bitcoin

$10M27 Mar 2024 Midland, Cayman Islands

Dynamic Labs

Software
$13M13 Dec 2023 -

BabylonChain

Bitcoin
Financial Exchanges
Security
$18M07 Dec 2023 Palo Alto, California, United States

DUST Identity

Cyber Security
Information Technology
Internet of Things
Nanotechnology
Security
Software
Supply Chain Management
$40M05 Dec 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

PYOR

Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
$4M18 May 2023 Bangalore, Karnataka, India

CAT Labs

Computer
Network Security
$4M10 Apr 2023 Miami, Florida, United States
News
Two months after its Series A, Pintu gets $35M in new funding led by Lightspeed

– Indonesian crypto assets platform Pintu has closed a $35m Series A+.
– The new round was led by Lightspeed Ventures, with participation from returning investors like Alameda Ventures, Blockchain.com Ventures, Castle Island Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Intudo Ventures and Pantera Capital.
– Pintu is the latest investment app in Southeast Asia to quickly raise a much larger follow-on round as interest in retail investing grows.

ZenLedger Raises $6M in Series A Funding

– ZenLedger is a cryptocurrency tax software and blockchain analytics startup.
– Company raised $6m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Bloccelerate VC with participation from Mark Cuban’s Radical Ventures, G1 VC, Borderless Capital, 4RC, Centrality, BIGG Digital Assets, CoinGecko, Accelerator Ventures, angel investors Jon Staenberg and Darren Lau, as well as previous investors Vestigo Ventures, Castle Island Ventures, Migration Capital, Blackwater Capital, and Karl Muth.
– The company intends to use the funds to release its cryptocurrency portfolio management solution, to grow its team through new hires in marketing, enterprise sales, customer service, and software engineering, to further advance the product and customer experience.

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Total investments 71
Average round size 14M
Rounds per year 11.83
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 8
Follow on index 0.30
Group Appearance index 0.92

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Alpen Labs

$10M10 Apr 2024 New York, New York, United States

Monad

Blockchain
$225M09 Apr 2024 -

Station70

$5M02 Apr 2024 Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Build on Bitcoin

$10M27 Mar 2024 Midland, Cayman Islands

Dynamic Labs

Software
$13M13 Dec 2023 -

BabylonChain

Bitcoin
Financial Exchanges
Security
$18M07 Dec 2023 Palo Alto, California, United States

DUST Identity

Cyber Security
Information Technology
Internet of Things
Nanotechnology
Security
Software
Supply Chain Management
$40M05 Dec 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

PYOR

Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
$4M18 May 2023 Bangalore, Karnataka, India

CAT Labs

Computer
Network Security
$4M10 Apr 2023 Miami, Florida, United States
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