Why are 90% of founders pitching the same 5 VCs when there are 145 writing Solana checks?
@a16zcrypto,
@animocabrands,
@dragonfly_xyz — great firms.
But there are 100 other active
@Solana VCs who are writing checks, supporting early-stage teams, and showing up in every funding round.
Here are a few you might have missed:
🔹 Circle Ventures
A venture arm of
@circle. Backs teams driving adoption of their products in DeFi and payments. Very aligned with Solana-native products.
🔹 Paradigm
@paradigm is one of the biggest Web3-focused investors. Cheques range from \$1M to \$ 100 M across DeFi, infra and dev tooling.
🔹 Monke Ventures
An independent investment DAO by the MonkeDAO. DAO partners with leading projects in the Web3, NFT, GameFi, and DeFi ecosystem with a community-driven approach of rallying monkes to concretely value-add and support teams.
🔹 Lucid Ventures
A Solana-focused Venture Syndicate backing the next generation of founders.
An innovative fee structure utilizing a strategic treasury allocation to support the
@luciddrakes collection, delivering value back to holders by enabling treasury buybacks.
🔹 CoinGecko Ventures
The venture arm of
@coingecko. Backing bold teams shaping the future of finance across DeFi, infra, and payments. They leverage CoinGecko's massive user base and market data insights to help portfolio companies scale faster.
🔹 Venture Launch
Solana-focused acceleration arm of
@capital_3x. Venture Launch is supporting Solana founders by providing comprehensive acceleration programs that guide startups from legal frameworks to investor connections in one integrated platform.
Follow for the upcoming announcement of
@venture_launch new program designed to fast-track the next generation of Solana innovators.
And that’s just a few.
@Superteam prepared a list of 145 active VCs investing across different sectors and rounds in the Solana ecosystem.
If you’re raising, thinking of raising, or helping someone who is — drop a comment or DM, and I’ll send you the full list.
📤 Reposting this could help someone land their next check.