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Strobe Ventures
Venture capital · New York City, NY, United States · North America
Strobe Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in New York City, formerly known as BlockTower VC. It invests in crypto and blockchain founders, describing a lean team, pre-consensus investing, and a hands-on approach with fewer founders.
Invests inFintechCrypto & Web3
In its own wordscryptoblockchainstablecoinsinfrastructureonchain tradingtokenization
Your fit with Strobe Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsStrobe Ventures lists 34 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 7 funding rounds, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 86% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Fintech (50%), Crypto & Web3 (17%) and AI & Machine Learning (6%). 56% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Escape Velocity, Hack VC and The Venture Dept..
Counts come from funding rounds that name Strobe Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Strobe Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 7 companies; its own site lists 34. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 86% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 14% |
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 | 3 | 0 |
| '26 | 4 | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 74th | 36 companies |
| Recent activity | 86th | 5 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 85th | 86% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 80th | 11% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 85th | 50% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 88th | 7 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Fintech | 50% | 12% |
| Crypto & Web3 | 17% | 1% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 6% | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 6% | 8% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 4% | 3% |
| Developer Tools | 4% | 0% |
| Gaming | 4% | 1% |
| Legal & Compliance | 2% | 2% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Escape Velocity | 3 |
| Hack VC | 3 |
| The Venture Dept. | 3 |
| 6th Man Ventures | 2 |
| Arrington Capital | 2 |
| Bloccelerate VC | 2 |
| CMT Digital | 2 |
| Cathay Innovation | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers34100%
- 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.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Strobe Ventures 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 Strobe Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Oct 2026 | Seed | |
| 16 Sept 2026 | Seed | |
| 26 Feb 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 2 Dec 2025 | Seed | |
| 21 Oct 2025 | Seed | |
| 8 Oct 2025 | Seed |
Round details for Strobe Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Strobe Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
34 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 375ai builds infrastructure to produce continuous, structured, and privacy-disciplined annotation of public space for companies building physical AI. | AI & Machine LearningReal Estate & Construction | Oct 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| Ambient runs a decentralized trading protocol | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Anon enables you to build and deploy agents that can authenticate, navigate, and extract data from any web-based application, even those without APIs. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| The company provides an app for scanning prices of bottles and earning points | E-commerce & MarketplacesConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Centrifuge provides infrastructure for tokenizing real-world assets and managing funds onchain, including tokenized products, DeFi distribution, and fund structuring services. | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Clanker launches tokens on multiple blockchain platforms | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Código provides an end-to-end Solana AI development platform with features such as cloud-native IDE, intelligent code generation, and live collaboration | AI & Machine LearningFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Daisy helps brands create momentum for their content by activating a network of targeted creators to comment, share, and repost it | Media & EntertainmentIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Dimes provides embedded leverage infrastructure for prediction market platforms | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Due provides a global payment platform for sending and receiving money across borders. | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Portfolio page | ||
| Ethena issues and manages a digital dollar product called USDe, offering rewards and savings rates to users. | FintechDeveloper Tools | Portfolio page | ||
| The company advances invoices and provides financing solutions to businesses | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Ledger develops and provides crypto wallets and related services for securely managing digital assets. | FintechCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Maple Finance provides on-chain asset management and lending services. | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Morpho provides open onchain lending infrastructure where users and institutions can lend, borrow, and build financial products through its lending markets and vaults. | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Portfolio page | ||
| Multiliquid connects regulated real-world assets and institutional capital providers through one unified integration layer for tokenized assets | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Oct 2026Seed | Page + round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- strobe.fund
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 8 Oct 2025
- Companies checked
- 34
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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