Venture Catalysts

Protofund is an early-stage venture firm that invests in and actively supports passionate teams building web3 and consumer products.

Uniquely foundedBy Buildersfor builders.

Every member of our team has had a hand in building companies from inception to exit. We believe these experiences are incredibly valuable as we invest in and help the next generation of founders.Meet the team

Helping go fromZero to Scale

When we make an investment, we actively roll up our sleeves and support our companies maximally across areas like product, design, marketing, community, operations, strategy, and general leadership.View our portfolio

Our views onbuilding.

Be unfashionably early

We love joining early subcultures that are not being taken seriously but that have serious potential to go mainstream. As an example, we were actively participating on Bitcoin Talk forums as early as 2013.

The mission keeps you going

In our experience, it was those mission-driven teams that believed they could move any mountain together that were able to do just that. We love when founders are truly passionate and excited every day about making incremental progress towards the mission.

Balance the long and short of it

We’ve found success in the times we were able to execute well on short-term focused initiatives while simultaneously keeping an eye out on longer term opportunities that competitors were not seeing.

PrototypeNoun first, earliest form, originalfundingVerb investing a sum of capital or other resources

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