A first-check venture firm in Brooklyn, NY

Apr 1, 2021

Grapevine, giving and a $5k match

2020 was a tough year. Full stop. For those fortunate enough to be in a position to help, it was often hard to know where to start and how to measure one’s impact. Much of the giving we did personally and via Notation was done through informal recommendations from…

Evaluate Market

NFTs have been a special part of the crypto ecosystem for several years now, and take many forms — From the early CryptoPunks project to Cryptokitties to music as mathematical art on Eulerbeats to individual creators, ranging from wildly popular like beeple to emerging digital artists like Justin…

Tally

Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) have been around as long as crypto, and community governance of DAOs takes many forms. But as the value of many high-profile protocols has increased rapidly in recent years, the quality of DAO governance varies widely. Aside from the gigantic value of crypto at stake, we…

Notation III-A — Community Fund

Broadening access to Notation and venture capital — LINK.

The Notation Community Fund

Broadening access to Notation and venture capital by opening up Notation III on AngelList.

Talos

A few weeks ago, after more than a year in stealth, Talos unveiled their new crypto trading platform, and today we’re announcing that in late 2018 we led their initial round of funding, alongside Castle Island, Arianna Simpson, and Founder Collective, and joined more recently by Initialized.