Fund profile / United States

Portal Ventures

Geography
United States
Stage
Pre-Seed
Fund size
$75M
Focus
Web3 Infrastructure
Signals
Published
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N°01 / About

About Portal Ventures

Portal Ventures is a venture capital firm based in United States, focusing on Pre-Seed stage investments. The fund actively supports founders building innovative solutions in Web3 Infrastructure, providing strategic guidance and capital to help startups scale.

N°02 / Thesis

Investment Focus

Location / RegionUnited States
Funding StagePre-Seed
Industry Focus
Web3 Infrastructure

Investor Signals Profile

active

Sweet Spot

Early-stage crypto founders with strong fundamentals, protocol economics expertise

early-stage crypto
fundamentals-driven
Web3
protocol-economics
seed-to-exit

Bullish Signals

Fundamentals-driven crypto focusexternal
Small team, high conviction betsexternal
Partnership structure, aligned incentiveslinkedin
Website live: portal.vclinkedin
EF invested $600M+ at Insight Partnerslinkedin
Seed-to-IPO investment experience across sectorslinkedin
TradFi expertise meets crypto native convictionlinkedin
EF manages $90B AUM fund pedigreelinkedin
Goldman Sachs IBD banking background + cryptolinkedin
EF bridges traditional finance + protocol modelslinkedin

Contrarian Signals

2-10 person team, limited bandwidthexternal
Only 5 employees totallinkedin

Founder Do's

Show strong crypto fundamentals
Be early-stage, pre-traction OK
Demonstrate deep protocol knowledge
Bring novel business model perspectives
Pitch TradFi + crypto hybrid theses

Founder Don'ts

Avoid hype-driven pitches
Don't pitch late-stage deals

23 signals on Portal Ventures

10 bullish · 2 contrarian · 5 pitch do's · 2 don'ts · 4 GP profiles, each with its source. From €9/month, cancel anytime.

Facts

Fund Overview

Fund Size$75M
Saves0
People

Key People

Evan Fisher, Catrina Wang

Catrina WangPartner
Evan FisherFounder & Managing Partner
Evan SolomonPartner
Zituo (Henry) ChenTeam Member
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