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Placeholder
Venture capital · New York City, NY, United States · North America
Placeholder is a venture capital firm based in New York City that has invested in over 75 early-stage companies and networks across three funds since 2017. It publishes research on crypto networks, tokens, and DeFi protocols.
Invests inFintechHealthcare & BiotechCybersecurity
In its own wordscryptodefiblockchainweb3tokens
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Or find every investor that fitsPlaceholder lists 4 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 5 funding rounds, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 40% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Fintech (67%), Healthcare & Biotech (17%) and Cybersecurity (17%). 75% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside 1kx, Andreessen Horowitz and 186 Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Placeholder, 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 | 40% |
| Series A | 40% |
| Series B | 20% |
| 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 | 3 | 1 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 1 | 0 |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| 1kx | 2 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 2 |
| 186 Ventures | 1 |
| 6th Man Ventures | 1 |
| A.Capital Ventures | 1 |
| BECO Capital | 1 |
| Blockchain Capital | 1 |
| Castle Island Ventures | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers4100%
- 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 | 67% | 12% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 17% | 15% |
| Cybersecurity | 17% | 4% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Placeholder 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 Placeholder| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 29 Apr 2026 | Series A | |
| 7 Nov 2025 | Seed | |
| 8 Nov 2021 | Series B | |
| 20 Apr 2021 | Series A |
Round details for Placeholder
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Placeholder's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
4 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arx Research provides Medical Affairs benchmarking solutions to pharmaceutical executives | Healthcare & Biotech | Nov 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Matter Labs builds and maintains the Prividium blockchain platform for banks and financial institutions. | FintechFintech | Nov 2021Series B | Funding round | |
| Provable equips developers to build secure, private applications on Aleo, redefining trust and empowering digital privacy | FintechCybersecurity | Apr 2021Series A | Funding round | |
| Squads Labs builds financial products and APIs for the stablecoin economy | Fintech | Apr 2026Series A | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- placeholder.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 31 Mar 2021
- Companies checked
- 4
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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