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Early Riders
Venture capital · Austin, TX, United States · North America
Early Riders is a venture capital firm that raises, holds, and returns capital in Bitcoin, and requires its portfolio companies to maintain Bitcoin reserves. It invests in early-stage digital asset infrastructure companies and runs a program called The Stables for founders.
Invests inFintech
In its own wordsbitcoindigital assetscrypto infrastructureaidefiearly stage
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Or find every investor that fitsEarly Riders lists 8 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 1 funding round, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Fintech (50%), Space & Defense (8%) and Healthcare & Biotech (8%). 57% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside BBQ Capital, Baboon VC and Battery Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Early Riders, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 0% |
| Series A | 100% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 1 | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 15th | 8 companies |
| Recent activity | 59th | 1 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 85th | 50% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 70th | 4 countries |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| BBQ Capital | 1 |
| Baboon VC | 1 |
| Battery Ventures | 1 |
| Blume Ventures | 1 |
| Contour Venture Partners | 1 |
| Correlation Ventures | 1 |
| Craft Ventures | 1 |
| DCG | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers8100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Fintech | 50% | 12% |
| Space & Defense | 8% | 3% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 8% | 15% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 8% | 7% |
| Enterprise Software | 8% | 8% |
| Media & Entertainment | 8% | 4% |
| Human Resources | 8% | 1% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Early Riders head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Early Riders| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 14 May 2026 | Series A Led |
Round details for Early Riders
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Early Riders' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
8 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch provides data management and reporting services for private markets investments | FintechIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Aureo allows users to buy and sell Bitcoin in Mexico | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Flash provides a platform for managing benefits, people, and expenses | Human ResourcesFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| OnRamp provides a customer onboarding and engagement platform for businesses | Space & DefenseHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Onramp provides bitcoin financial services, including custody, trading, and loans, built on multi-institution custody | Fintech | May 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| Onramp MENA provides institutional-grade Bitcoin custody services | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Stables provides USDt payments infrastructure for Asia and MENA | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Argo provides a platform to watch short films and documentaries. | Enterprise SoftwareMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- earlyriders.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 14 May 2026
- Companies checked
- 8
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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