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VC Firm Ethereal Ventures Shares Details on Strategy and Investments
Ethereal Ventures, spun off from Consensys in 2021, has invested in over 80 startups with assets under management nearing $150 million. The firm focuses on early-stage companies, including crypto-related projects like EigenLayer. It reported a distribution to paid-in capital rate in the top 10% for funds launched that year.
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Ethereal Ventures, a venture capital firm established in 2021 after spinning off from Consensys, has maintained a low public profile until recently. The firm manages just under $150 million across two funds and has invested in more than 80 startups at pre-seed and seed stages.
Its investments include EigenLayer, a company offering crypto-based restaking services, which achieved a $1.05 billion valuation in a June funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Min Teo, who co-founded Ethereal Ventures with Joe Lubin, stated that the firm joined Consensys in 2018 to manage its investment arm.
The spin-off occurred amid efforts to organize Consensys's investing processes.
Ventures reported a distribution to paid-in capital rate of 0.12 for its first fund. According to Carta data cited by the firm, this places it in the top 10% of funds launched in 2021. The performance includes contributions from liquid tokens and investments like EigenLayer.
The firm's second fund, launched in 2023, has deployed less than a quarter of its capital. Teo noted that Ethereal focuses on early-stage startups and avoids later-stage trends, such as the current interest in prediction markets with competitors to Kalshi and Polymarket.
Although named after Ethereum and connected to Lubin, an Ethereum co-founder, the firm invests in non-crypto projects and other blockchains. Teo described the approach as broad, allowing for diverse opportunities.
In other venture capital activity, Chance Studios, a Los Angeles-based app for trading card game collectors, raised $3.2 million in funding led by Makers Fund and Hashed, with participation from Arbitrum Gaming Ventures, Gam3Girl Ventures, and Digital Elm.
