Founder-led sales is the part of the startup journey post-fundraise where the founders themselves are handling the majority of the go-to-market (GTM) and sales activities. This is typically within the post-seed pre-Series A part of the company building process. Last week, my partners at Race Capital hosted a private discussion…

We are excited to announce that Race Capital has led the $3M pre-seed investment into Martian, the most used MoveVM-based Web3 wallet on Aptos and other Move chains, partnering with Utkarsh Sinha, Siddharth Jain, and the Martian team. Martian is the most popular wallet on Aptos and the Move ecosystem…

We are excited to announce that Race Capital led the $3.1M pre-seed round for Ottr Finance, a Solana-based Web3 mobile app that makes holding and using crypto as easy as Venmo, partnering with Aleksei Zakharov and the entire Ottr team. Ottr is a Solana-based self-custody Web3 mobile app. With Ottr…

We are excited to announce that Race Capital has led the $3.7M seed investment into Hedge, an interest-free liquidity platform building on Solana, partnering with Sebastian Grubb, Chris Coudron, and the Hedge team. Hedge is building Solana (SOL) based vaults which allow holders to deposit their assets and instantly borrow…

We are excited to announce that Race Capital has invested in Kado, a payments infrastructure company focused on UST and stablecoins, in its $5.4 million seed round partnering with Emery Andrew, Vince Dowdle and the Kado team. Kado is building the core payment infrastructure for Web3 starting with UST stablecoins…

We are excited to announce that Race Capital has co-led an investment into Notifi Network, a Web3 notification infrastructure platform, in its $2.5M pre-seed round partnering with Paul Kim, Nimesh Amin, and the Notifi team. Notifi is building the Twilio for Web3, starting with decentralized application (dApp) developers on the…

Director of Operations. SF Bay Area / Operations / Full Time Apply for this job Race Capital is an early stage venture capital firm focused on investing in exceptional founders who are building market-transforming companies in the data, enterprise, infrastructure, and fintech sectors. …

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is redefining the future of finance. There is a major shift going on in the underlying infrastructure powering financial applications, and it’s changing the way we think about permission and control, transparency and risks. DeFi is a developing market sector within the intersection of blockchain technologies, digital…

In the past few weeks we’ve seen a flood of high growth tech companies filing to go public. I read through each of these companies’ S-1 filings and pulled out some of the more interesting stats to highlight. …