Blocktech Ventures · Seed · Silicon Valley
A Silicon Valley seed firm founded by two engineers. We back technical founders building AI infrastructure and AI apps, robotics, decentralized infrastructure, payment rails and virtual worlds, from the first check.
Stage
Seed
Companies
20
Sectors with companies
05 of 07
Founders
02 · both engineers
Base
37.34° N 121.89° W
Portfolio · 20 companies · 05 sectors
Twenty companies, each backed at seed. Plotted by sector, then listed in full with what they build.
Twenty companies in five sectors. Choose one to see what we mean by it.
The compute that runs AI models and the products that put them to work.
Machines that move through the physical world: humanoids, vehicles, automation.
Open networks for compute, settlement and ownership.
New rails for moving and holding money.
Shared 3D spaces where people meet, build and trade.
Also watching: security, digital health. No companies yet.
Lambda AI · Infra GPU cloud for training and running AI models. lambda.ai ↗ 
Positron AI · Infra Purpose-built hardware for running generative AI models. positron.ai ↗ 
Go.AI AI · Infra On-premises AI for banks, credit unions, insurers and healthcare. go.ai ↗ 
Pandatron AI · Apps AI coaching and training that turns strategy into day-to-day behavior change. pandatron.ai ↗ 
Higgsfield AI · Apps AI creative suite for generating images, video and voice. higgsfield.ai ↗ 
Artisight AI · Apps AI that turns hospital rooms into smart rooms for virtual nursing and safer care. artisight.com ↗ 
Knit AI · Apps AI-native consumer research: researchers and AI agents run studies end to end for major consumer brands. goknit.com ↗ 
Apptronik Robotics & autonomy General-purpose humanoid robots. apptronik.com ↗ 
Sui Decentralized infrastructure Layer 1 blockchain built for low-latency applications. sui.io ↗ 
DFINITY Decentralized infrastructure The Internet Computer: a decentralized cloud. dfinity.org ↗ 
Cartesi Decentralized infrastructure Rollups that run a full Linux stack. cartesi.io ↗ 
Polkadot Decentralized infrastructure Multichain protocol for interoperable blockchains. polkadot.com ↗ 
Filecoin Decentralized infrastructure Decentralized storage network. filecoin.io ↗ 
NEAR Decentralized infrastructure Layer 1 blockchain built for AI agents and apps. near.org ↗ 
Coinflow Fintech & payments Checkout and payout rails across cards, banks and stablecoins. coinflow.cash ↗ 
MultiBank Fintech & payments Regulated derivatives group with a digital-asset exchange. multibank.io ↗ 
Beep Fintech & payments Agentic finance: accounts and investing tools for AI agents. justbeep.it ↗ 
Origin Fintech & payments Origin Protocol: yield-bearing stablecoin and ETH products. originprotocol.com ↗ 
Decentraland Virtual worlds Virtual world owned and governed by its users. decentraland.org ↗ 
Party Space Virtual worlds Virtual venues for corporate and community events. party.space ↗ Logos shown as monochrome plates: a positive print on light, a negative on dark. Each mark belongs to its company.
02 · How we work
Blocktech Ventures is a Silicon Valley seed firm founded by two engineers, its CEO and its CTO. We back technical founders building frontier technology, from zero to one. We do the technical diligence ourselves, and we stay hands-on after the check.
The cube in our mark is the firm: Fund at the base, Advise at the core, Scale on top.
Seed checks into technical founding teams, held for the long term.
Engineers and operators working with founders, hands-on, from the first check.
Introductions through a global corporate network, and the ground work for the next round.
Team · 02 founders · both engineers
Blocktech Ventures is its two founders. Both are engineers, and both work with every company we back.
Founder & CEO
Engineer. Founder and CEO of Blocktech Ventures. Co-founder and VP of Engineering at Saga, where he leads the engineering organization.
04 · Notes
Essay · Oct 14, 2026 · 6 min
Most of what we check in a first meeting is not on the deck. Five things we look for, and why each one predicts how a company handles its first hard year.
Read the essay →Pitch · read by both founders
One form, no warm introduction needed. Tell us what you are building and which part is hard.