Investors / The Venture Dept.
The Venture Dept.
Venture capital
The Venture Dept. is an early-stage venture capital firm that backs founders building financial infrastructure. It supports portfolio companies with expertise in regulatory policy, compliance, and government.
Invests inFintech
In its own wordsfintechfinancial infrastructuredigital assetscryptoregtechcompliance
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Or find every investor that fitsThe Venture Dept. lists 27 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 4 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Fintech (66%), Crypto & Web3 (14%) and Cybersecurity (7%). 82% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside DCG, White Star Capital and New Form Capital.
Counts come from funding rounds that name The Venture Dept., 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 The Venture Dept.'s whole history. Rounds on record name 4 companies; its own site lists 27. 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 | 100% |
| Series A | 0% |
| 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 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 3 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 64th | 27 companies |
| Recent activity | 76th | 3 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 80th | 11% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 90th | 66% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 70th | 4 countries |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| DCG | 4 |
| White Star Capital | 4 |
| New Form Capital | 3 |
| North Island Ventures | 3 |
| Strobe Ventures | 3 |
| Arche Capital | 2 |
| Archetype | 2 |
| Blockchain Capital | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers27100%
- 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
Show as a table
| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Fintech | 66% | 12% |
| Crypto & Web3 | 14% | 1% |
| Cybersecurity | 7% | 4% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 7% | 18% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 2% | 3% |
| Legal & Compliance | 2% | 2% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 2% | 6% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare The Venture Dept. 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 The Venture Dept.| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Oct 2026 | Seed | |
| 16 Sept 2026 | Seed | |
| 28 Jul 2026 | Seed | |
| 1 Jul 2025 | Seed |
Round details for The Venture Dept.
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in The Venture Dept.'s rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
27 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alfred Pay provides stablecoin payment infrastructure for Latin America, allowing businesses to move money across the region in seconds | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Portfolio page | ||
| Birdai measures and aims to return the value lost between an order and its fill in on-chain markets | Fintech | Jul 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| The company provides stablecoin infrastructure and APIs for developers to move, store, and accept stablecoins. | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Portfolio page | ||
| Circuit Security provides digital asset recovery and incident response services | CybersecurityFintech | Jul 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| DPM Labs helps brands optimize their presence in AI shopping results | AI & Machine LearningE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Etherfuse puts idle cash to work earning interest through top-tier sovereign bonds. | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Fission provides liquidity for tokenized funds, allowing eligible investors to access liquidity 24/7 with atomic settlement in stablecoins. | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Flyra provides a programmable financial system for launching global financial products | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Invent Money allows users to earn money by training AI | AI & Machine LearningFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Mountain Protocol offers a stablecoin called USDM and related services | Fintech | 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 | |
| Nashpoint provides infrastructure for tokenized assets and yield-bearing products | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Omnia enables banks to capture the opportunity of stablecoins by allowing bank accounts to send and receive stablecoin payments | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Onrail turns real-world loans into verifiable, cashflowing assets onchain that can be monitored, financed, pooled, and distributed globally. | FintechReal Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| Opacity provides reusable credentials and investor verification tech for asset managers, fintechs, and Tokenized Securities Venues (TSVs). | FintechCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Predicate provides a platform for built-in compliance for digital assets, allowing companies to embed rules into their assets and enforce them on every transfer. | FintechCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Rhythmic provides financial services, including rewards, cards, and money holding, to be delivered as part of a client's product. | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides analytics on tokenized real-world assets. | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Portfolio page | ||
| Squid provides a platform for bridging, swapping, and building across multiple blockchain chains and tokens. | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Portfolio page | ||
| Stable Sea provides a platform for onchain capital management, allowing companies to access and manage SEC-registered funds | Fintech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- theventuredept.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 1 Jul 2025
- Companies checked
- 27
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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