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Castle Island Ventures

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Total investments 84
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$10M
Portfolio companies 56
Rounds per year 14.00
Lead investments 12
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.32
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

Hata

Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
Software
21 Oct 2024 Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Yellow Card

Bitcoin
Cryptocurrency
Finance
Financial Exchanges
Financial Services
FinTech
Virtual Currency
16 Oct 2024 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Arch

Credit
Financial Services
FinTech
Lending
$5M22 Aug 2024 New York, New York, United States

Andrena

Telecommunications
Wireless
$18M07 Aug 2024 New York, New York, United States

Nirvana Labs

Blockchain
Ethereum
IaaS
PaaS
Software
Technical Support
$4M19 Jul 2024 Los Angeles, California, United States

Yongsheng Art

Blockchain
Information Services
Virtual Currency
$2M05 Jul 2024 Haikou, Hainan, China

Sendblocks

$8M02 Jul 2024 Giv'atayim, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Mountain Protocol

$8M06 Jun 2024 Pembroke, Massachusetts, United States

Felix

Artificial Intelligence
FinTech
Natural Language Processing
Payments
$15M28 May 2024 San Francisco, California, 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 84
Average round size 10M
Rounds per year 14.00
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 12
Follow on index 0.32
Group Appearance index 0.93

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Hata

Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
Software
21 Oct 2024 Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Yellow Card

Bitcoin
Cryptocurrency
Finance
Financial Exchanges
Financial Services
FinTech
Virtual Currency
16 Oct 2024 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Arch

Credit
Financial Services
FinTech
Lending
$5M22 Aug 2024 New York, New York, United States

Andrena

Telecommunications
Wireless
$18M07 Aug 2024 New York, New York, United States

Nirvana Labs

Blockchain
Ethereum
IaaS
PaaS
Software
Technical Support
$4M19 Jul 2024 Los Angeles, California, United States

Yongsheng Art

Blockchain
Information Services
Virtual Currency
$2M05 Jul 2024 Haikou, Hainan, China

Sendblocks

$8M02 Jul 2024 Giv'atayim, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Mountain Protocol

$8M06 Jun 2024 Pembroke, Massachusetts, United States

Felix

Artificial Intelligence
FinTech
Natural Language Processing
Payments
$15M28 May 2024 San Francisco, California, United States
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