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Sancus Ventures is investing in software infrastructure, including the next generation of AI and Blockchain infrastructure, open source, and developer tools.

We are a team of ex-founders and passionate nerds. We invest in software infrastructures, open source, and developer tools. We love AI and Blockchain. We were born from and supported by developer communities. We want to build a VC firm that we wished to raise money from when we were founders. 

We understand software infrastructure, and we know how to build a startup. All team members are technologists, former founders, and developer community builders.

We bring insights into product-market fit and customers. Our community is 600+ members strong, comprised of software infrastructure experts and decision-makers from S&P 500, NASDAQ 100, and fast-growing technology startups.

We have a senior tech talent pool that includes CTOs, CIOs, VP of Engineering, Senior Directors, and other experienced technologists who can serve as advisors, board members, and full-time hires for our portfolio companies.

Sancus Ventures

Valent is a decentralized money market delving into liquid staking derivatives finance (LSDFi) and real-world assets (RWAs). Immutable smart contract platform that powers DeFi applications starting with lending/borrowing.

Valent

Nikita Kolmogorov is CTO at Big Whale Labs.

Nikita Kolmogorov

FirstMate helps NFT creators and admins own more of their relationship with their collectors.

FirstMate offers creators an aggregator to consolidate orders from various NFT marketplaces like Opensea, LooksRare, x2y2, and Foundation, while utilizing decentralized protocols to ensure transparency and freedom for community trades.

FirstMate

David Bailey has been invested in bitcoin since 2012; sits on the Board of Directors at Maven (owner of TheStreet and Sports Illustrated, among other media properties); is a general partner at Off The Chain; and an active venture investor in Kraken, BitPay, Coinbase and Protocol Labs (the creator of Filecoin), to name a few. David also founded one of the first hedge funds in the space, 402 Digital, in 2015. In 2013, he founded BTC Inc and guides its operations as CEO today. BTC Inc is the parent company of Bitcoin Magazine, the first and longest-running source of Bitcoin news in the space. David bought the publication from Mihai Alisie and Vitalik Buterin, whom you may know as the founder of Ethereum. Across all of its brands, BTC Inc has raised north of $40 million. The company also owns the largest Bitcoin conference in the space.

David Bailey

SolidProof is specialized in auditing smart contracts and can find vulnerabilities in your blockchain project using manual and automated tests. With our informative report you give your community a good sense of security.

SolidProof

Club3 is the web3 native community operating platform that helps brands, projects and creators build tokenized business strategies and high-gravity communities. It enhances brand exposure, expands user base, and improves community loyalty and influence.

Club3

v3ntures is deeply immersed and connected to the web3 ecosystem, sharing the same vision, passion and drive as our founders. Our team brings a wealth of experience in web2, web3 and overcome the same challenges and work with the same relentless determination to make our portfolio companies successful. Our investors are a diverse group of successful entrepreneurs, highly skilled fund managers and corporates from around the globe. They share our vision, values, and ambitions.

v3ntures

Hungri Games is a game studio that dreams big in Web3 frontier, pushing limits of traditional gaming.

Established in 2019, with a team formed by mobile gaming industry experts, Hungri Games has developed a portfolio of developing and publishing innovative mid-core and core games in the industry. Our latest titles focus on RPG and SLG genres and aim to define the playbook of mid-core / core development of games and setting a publishing benchmark for the next generation. The goal at Hungri Games has always been to create fun, unique games to help diversify and enrich the global gaming audience and make a lasting impact on mobile gaming industry.

Hungri Games

Lyvely was created by Farah Zafar, a Supreme Court Lawyer and acclaimed C-suite executive, and Dave Catudal, a health entrepreneur and digital nomad. The two were living completely opposite lifestyles when they met in S.E Asia, at a wellness retreat where Dave was lecturing on health and longevity.

Differences aside, they quickly became best friends and business partners. Together, they observed a global problem and shared a vision of how to solve it at scale.

Our mission is to help over 100 million people around the world improve their quality of life by getting paid for doing what they love. We’ve designed Lyvely to be your all-in-one HQ to generate revenue online so you can stop worrying about Big Tech’s Algorithms, annoying ads, and exhausting yourself with uninspired short-form content. With Lyvely, you can relax and focus on making quality interactions to build an online presence that fulfills you and actually matters to your community.

Lyvely is the platform for the people. We put the power to earn in your hands, offering all of our monetization features to everyone, for free.

Lyvely

Socket is a cybersecurity platform that protects companies from software supply chain attacks. Companies use Socket to protect their software applications and critical services from malware and security threats originating in open source code.

Socket

Neighborhood is a fair NFT crowd-funding platform that helps you discover investment opportunities. Neighborhood Protocol lets you launch Web3 communities with ease - no coding necessary!

CypherHunter

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