Hack VC

Hack VC is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in cryptocurrency, fintech, and marketplaces startups. Based in the United States, the firm backs companies at the seed and early development stages, focusing on innovative digital assets, financial technology, and online marketplace models. Hack VC aims to support ambitious founders building scalable businesses in rapidly evolving digital economies.

Sean Brown

Research Partner

Daniel Bulaevsky

Partner

Tom Chi

Partner

Herbie Fu

Partner

Chichi Hong

Partner

Min H. Kim

Venture Partner

Shuyao Kong

Venture Partner

Darren Langer

Partner

Christopher Maree

Research Partner

Alexander Pack

Managing Partner

Niraj Pant

Venture Partner

Roshun Patel

Partner

Julian Rachman

Venture Partner

Ed Roman

Managing Director

Kevin Rowney

Venture Partner

Rodney Yesep

Partner

Past deals in Trading Platform

Theo

Seed Round in 2025
Theo operates as a trading infrastructure platform.

Spicenet

Seed Round in 2024
Spicenet is a technology company specializing in the development of a custom-built application rollup, designed to enhance trading experiences. This rollup, constructed using the Sovereign SDK stack, facilitates ultra-fast, reliable, and efficient transaction processing, thereby providing traders with an advanced decentralized and verifiable trading environment.

Monkey Tilt

Series A in 2024
Monkey Tilt is a technology company that operates a crypto fantasy sports platform, offering users a unique blend of traditional casino games, sports betting, poker, and cryptocurrency-based gambling experiences. It aims to provide an engaging, social, and lifestyle-integrated entertainment experience for its users.

Variational

Seed Round in 2024
Variational is a decentralized liquidity network and protocol that provides infrastructure for peer-to-peer trading, clearing, and settlement of a range of derivatives, including perpetuals, options, futures, and exotics. It enables bilateral trading and automates end-to-end trading and clearing, offering applications such as Omni for perpetuals and Pro for institutional over-the-counter derivatives, to give traders and institutions access to customizable and efficient derivatives markets.

TrueX

Seed Round in 2024
TrueX is a non-custodial, stablecoin-native exchange that represents the next stage in crypto markets.

Raven

Seed Round in 2024
Raven is a next generation algorithmic high-frequency trading firm that is focused on long-lasting partnerships and building the future of digital finance.

Mezo

Series A in 2024
Mezo is a bitcoin economic layer network that provides fast and cheap bitcoin transactions to hold tokens while earning yield.

Midas

Seed Round in 2024
Midas is a software developer specializing in blockchain technology. It offers a platform for tokenizing real-world assets, enabling transparent management, settlement, lending, and borrowing on decentralized markets.

Monkey Tilt

Venture Round in 2024
Monkey Tilt is a technology company that operates a crypto fantasy sports platform, offering users a unique blend of traditional casino games, sports betting, poker, and cryptocurrency-based gambling experiences. It aims to provide an engaging, social, and lifestyle-integrated entertainment experience for its users.

Nonco

Seed Round in 2023
Nonco is a digital asset brokerage firm tailored for professional investors. It offers institutional services such as electronic spot trading and secure quote requests via dedicated chat, providing clients swift access to diverse markets and investment opportunities.

MYX

Seed Round in 2023
MYX is a decentralized derivative exchange that "uses intelligent rates and exposure hedging mechanisms to ensure protocol stability and provide sustainable high returns" through a peer-to-pool-to-peer paradigm.

Elixir

Series A in 2023
Elixir is a decentralized protocol that facilitates algorithmic market-making across both centralized and decentralized exchanges. It is designed to enhance composability for integrations, allowing retail users to engage in market-making activities and potentially earn profits. Additionally, Elixir provides projects and trading venues with access to active market-making services for their trading pairs, thus promoting liquidity and efficiency in the market. The protocol emphasizes computational security, ensuring that transactions and market activities are conducted safely and reliably.

Hiive

Series A in 2023
Hiive is a brokerage firm that facilitates trading of shares and vested options in privately-held, venture-backed companies. It operates a digital platform that connects buyers and sellers, providing transparency and streamlined transactions in the typically opaque private market. Hiive is registered with FINRA and offers its services through Hiive Markets Limited.

GRVT

Seed Round in 2023
GRVT operates an institutional-grade derivatives trading platform that eliminates counterparty risk. It offers features such as KYC, self-custody, privacy-enabled trading, high transaction throughput, and options for RFQ and CLOB trading in futures, perpetuals, and other derivatives.

Vertex Protocol

Seed Round in 2022
Vertex Protocol is a decentralized FX trading platform.

CoinStats

Seed Round in 2022
CoinStats is a comprehensive platform for tracking and managing diverse cryptocurrency portfolios. It supports over 8000 coins across 300 exchanges, enabling real-time updates via synced wallets and exchanges. The platform offers trading and swapping capabilities, along with customizable alerts such as price limits and market cap notifications.

Overnight

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Overnight is a protocol specializing in asset management, offering passive yield products based on delta-neutral strategies. It introduces USD+, a stablecoin backed by conservative DeFi portfolios, designed for maximum liquidity and loss avoidance even over short periods. Investors can exchange USD+ for USDC upon request.

AscendEX

Series B in 2021
AscendEX operates digital asset exchanges globally, catering to diverse clients ranging from retail investors to institutions. Its platform offers spot and futures trading, copy trading functionalities, decentralized exchange, margin trading, various deposit methods, market news, educational resources, cryptocurrency trading, leveraged tokens, earning programs, and access to new crypto offerings.

CoinList

Series A in 2021
CoinList facilitates the launch and growth of innovative digital assets, connecting early adopters with promising projects like Filecoin and Solana. It offers a full-service trading platform for popular cryptocurrencies and provides access to new tokens before they list on other exchanges.

Wintermute

Series B in 2021
Wintermute is a global leader in algorithmic trading for digital assets. With an average daily trading volume of over $5 billion across 350+ tokens on 80+ exchanges, it facilitates OTC trades and provides liquidity provisioning services. Wintermute actively invests in early-stage DeFi projects, supporting the growth of decentralized finance.
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