About

Cataclysm Is in the Name

A Crypto-First Founders' Fund...

Together with our sister fund, Narwhal Ventures, we support early-stage founders targeting cataclysmic impact. Direct equity investing, private listings and public drops, backing top-flight funds as LPs, running the tech & protocols, validating & staking, participating in the communities - whatever works best for the ecosystem.

Offices in Portland, ME, and Louisville, KY, with a Metaverse Docking Station / NFT gallery down the street from Churchill Downs in a historic bourbon bar, named after a horse: The LongTail Building.

Advice

Thrive in Cataclysm

Tick, Tock... another Epoch...

We’ve seen this show before. "There is no vital human challenge today that did not emerge in the crucible of the later Middle Ages and Early Modern Times." Ledger-Based Fintech meets hyper-realistic images; decentralized IT using memes to take down empires; distributed financial trade markets defining the common-as-sacred with fruit bowls. Each time the tech, much less the art, seems odd to those holding power, before they adopt, then attempt to appropriate.

From a historical perspective the Internet, much less the Internet of Value, is a blip - it hasn’t really started. We’ve seen the teasers in historical analogies, but we’re about to witness something truly unique on a scale that will define the epoch.

Crypto Renaissance

Half a millennium ago a renaissance in decentralized fintech and distributed info/communication tech unraveled aggregated power structures, empowered a new class with distributed value, and engendered community formation with decentralized identity via art endemic to the new tech. This time, prepare for a much bigger, cataclysmic impact. #CryptoRenaissance

KABOOM!

People

Founders with Repeat Successful Exits Turned Crypto-First Investors

Melanie Rosenthal

Aspiring Ent

EY Entrepreneur of the Year / Yale / Human Genome Project. Work featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, Forbes, Bloomberg, & US News / Named a CMS Innovator.

Co-founder & CEO @ Sprigley [Acquired by Eliza, 2009]. Deal team @ Eliza [majority stake investment by Parthenon Capital, 2011]. Co-founder & CEO @ RowdMap, Inc. [Acquired by Cotiviti (COTV), 2017].

3rd-Shift Factory Worker / College Basketball Player / Volunteer in Kazakhstan / Venture Capital at Socially Responsible Fund / High School Girls Basketball Color Commentary.

Burak Sezen

New-School Turk

EY Entrepreneur of the Year / Bogazici University. Work featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, Forbes, Bloomberg, & US News / Named a CMS Innovator. Board Member @ Maine Center for Entrepreneurs

Co-founder & CTO @ Sprigley [Acquired by Eliza, 2009]. Deal team @ Eliza [majority stake investment by Parthenon Capital, 2011]. Co-founder & CTO @ RowdMap, Inc. [Acquired by Cotiviti (COTV), 2017].

PwC / Fidelity / Fluent in Turkish, German and all sorts of CS Languages.

Josh Rosenthal, PhD

Rehabilitated Historian

EY Entrepreneur of the Year / Fulbright / PhD / Sorbonne’s Institute for Advanced Studies (EPHE) / Guest Lecturer @ Harvard, MIT, Hopkins, SXSW, etc. Work featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, Forbes, Bloomberg, & US News / Named a CMS Innovator.

Co-founder & CSO @ Sprigley [Acquired by Eliza, 2009]. Deal team @ Eliza [majority stake investment by Parthenon Capital, 2011]. Co-founder & CSO @ RowdMap, Inc. [Acquired by Cotiviti (COTV), 2017].

Served as Expert Advisor to OSTP, ONC, HHS, NCVHS, NCQA, Robert Wood Johnson, etc.

Labs

What's New & Crack'n

Trying a little something new... from Test Net to Main Net...

Providing validation, liquidity, proof of work, proof of stake, and playing with NFTs.

NFTiest thing about crypto now is collegiality. Public markets are zero-sum - you bet against someone else; private venture capital is network exclusivity - you're in and someone else is out. Crypto's got your back - allocation, private listings, public drops. Crypto-lings are really family working towards generational transfer via fiat-to-digital exchange. Crypto means asymmetric advantage for the little guy.

Avalanche

Open-Source Crypto

Helium

The People's Network

HydraDX

Liquidity Protocol

InsurAce

Insurance Protocol

Kusama

Multichain Network

Polkadot

Decentralized Interoperability

Radicle

Peer-to-Peer Stack

Solana

Composable Ecosystem

The Graph

Decentralized Indexing

THORChain

Decentralized Liquidity

Portfolio

Select Funds & Investments

MultiCoin

Thesis-Driven Investment

Standard Crypto

Crypto-Focused VC

CoinFund

Cryptoassets & Blockchain

ParaFi

Blockchain & DeFi

Blockchange

Early-Stage Blockchain

Hack VC

Global DeFi-Focused VC

Metaversal Ventures

Metaverse-Native Creation

Wilder World

A NEW DIMENSION IN REALITY

A Decentralized & Community Owned Nation | Experienced in our Immersive Photorealistic 5D.

Wilder World is the first truly liquid, fully decentralized, community-led NFT marketplace with no artist fees and its own dynamic token system that rewards participants.

The First of Many Metaverses to be Released on Powerful DAO Architectural Platform ZERO.

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