STATELESS
VENTURES
A Full Stack Venture Firm
Investing in World Changing Founders Building the Future
The Future Is Stateless
Stateless Ventures is a full stack venture firm investing across all stages of the startup life cycle. Our primary focus is on the intersection of AI, crypto and web3. With a family of funds including a liquid fund, venture fund and opportunistic SPVs, we cover the full range of venture investing opportunities. We invest from pre seed, seed and series A through late stage growth rounds. We partner with founders from the very beginning and help them navigate the life cycle of a startup.
We look for startups with highly asymmetric risk reward potential. Often, these are good ideas that start out looking like bad ideas. Identifying the crossover between what the smartest people are working on during nights/weekends and where the world is going.
The Stateless investment team has deployed over 150m across liquid vehicles, venture and growth SPVs.
We believe the future is stateless and invest in protocols and companies bringing about that change.
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We have over 20 years of combined GP investment experience in venture capital and crypto asset markets.
$150 million
Stateless partners have invested over 150m+ across more than 100 companies globally.
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Stateless partners run one of the largest investor syndicates with over 5000 investors.
TEAM
Matt Slater
Managing Partner
Matt is founder and Managing Partner at Stateless Ventures where he leads the investment team across all sectors and asset classes. Matt brings extensive operating experience both as a startup founder and VC and has a deep appreciation for technical founders. Matt is chair of the investment committee at Stateless.
Prior to Stateless, Matt was Co-founder and CEO of Hedgy – a blockchain derivatives startup backed by Tim Draper and Marc Benioff. A pioneer of smart contract technology, Hedgy built one of the first decentralized exchanges for crypto derivatives. Hedgy was acquired by Wyre, Inc. in 2018.
Matt holds a BSc in Business from USC, a Masters in Finance from Hult and a J.D in Law from Loyola Law School.Reid Stender
Junior Partner
Reid is an junior partner at Stateless Ventures where he helps the investment team across all sectors. Reid leads venture sourcing, dilligence and research and sits on the investment committee at Stateless.
Prior to Stateless, Reid covered internet and media sectors at Balyasny Asset Management (BAM) - a long/short hedge fund focused on public equities. Reid also worked in the Advisory practice at KPMG, assisting technology businesses with M&A.
Reid graduated from the University of Oregon, doubling majoring in Finance and Economics.
Twitter: @Decryptcrypto
Zach Ginsburg
Venture Partner
Zach is a Venture Partner at Stateless Ventures where he leads private syndicate investments from early stage to growth equity. Zach is responsible for deal sourcing, dilligence, investor relations and sits on the investment committee at Stateless.
Zach is founder/GP at Calm Ventures, a top angel list syndicate with over 5000 investors. Notable investments include SpaceX, Brex, Headspace, Omaze and SuperRare.
Previously, Zach was partner at OCV Ventures leading growth equity deals. Zach graduated from USC with a BSc in Finance.
Twitter: @zachgins
Sam Trautwein
Venture Partner
Sam is a Venture Partner at Stateless Ventures where he sources DeFi and early stage crypto deals.
Sam co-founded Carbon Money during his senior year at Stanford, raising funds from Y Combinator and General Catalyst, among others. Sam started mining Bitcoin in his dorm room in 2014 and, prior to Carbon, was one of the founding engineers at Plenty, a Softbank backed AI and hydroponics company. Sam is passionate about decentralization and tech enabled disintermediation.
Sam studied Computer Science at Stanford.
Portfolio
Ethereum
2014 Seed
Celestia
Series B
MakerDAO
2017
Cosmos Network
2017 Seed
Synthetix
2018 Seed
Aave
2020
0x
2017 Seed
Theta Labs
2018 Seed
Augur
2017 Seed
Hop Protocol
Seed
Futureswap
2019 Seed
Keep
2018 Seed
Republic Protocol
2018
POAP
Seed
Loopring
2020
Authereum
Seed
district0x
2018 Seed
Bancor Network
2020
Nexus Mutual
2020
Stargaze
Seed
Metalink
Seed
BreederDAO
Seed
Decentral Games
Synapse Protocol
Seed
xToken
Tessera
(Previously fractional.art)
Series A
decent.xyz
Seed
Nomad
Seed
Matchbox
Seed
Burnt Finance
Series A
IPOR
Seed
Alexandria Labs
Seed
Smoothy Finance
Seed
Tokemak
Series A
Layer N
Seed
Ostium
Seed
Canza Finance
Seed
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