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Portal Ventures

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Portal Ventures

@PortalVentures

We lead first checks into protocol businesses at the pre-seed stage

Joined November 2021

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Portal Ventures
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Nov 14, 2024
We're excited to announce our oversubscribed $75M Portal Ventures Fund 2. Portal exclusively leads crypto pre-seeds with the first check in. Since 2022, we've backed numerous category creators as day-one supporters. Across our two funds we’ve raised $115M. We focus on putting
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Portal Ventures
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Nov 14, 2024
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Link to article below:
Exclusive: Portal Ventures raises oversubscribed $75 million crypto fund backed by Chris Dixon and...
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Portal Ventures
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Nov 25, 2021
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Portal Ventures
@PortalVentures
Jul 13, 2023
1/ Considered the holy grail of encryption, Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) will bring paradigm shifts to data ownership and usage. We published a deep dive into FHE by @evanbfish and @vikramcantsingh. Here’s a short thread walking through an overview:
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Portal Ventures
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Nov 6, 2025
Presenting our thesis on @inversion_cap alongside this fireside between our GP @dotcuriouscat and @santiagoroel at @ThetaInvest’s @Legends4Legends Summit 2025. “The bigger issue around mainstream blockchain adoption is politics and organizational inertia. What needs to happen
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Portal Ventures
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Jul 24, 2023
We'll be putting on some side events around Urbit Assembly Drop us a line if you'll be there ⬇️
Urbit
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Jun 12, 2023
The first public batch of Assembly Lisboa '23 tickets is now on sale at assembly.urbit.org
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Portal Ventures
@PortalVentures
Oct 27, 2025
Crypto Is Doing to Finance What the App Store Did to Software
Evan Fisher
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Oct 27, 2025
Article
Crypto Is Doing to Finance What the App Store Did to Software
Before the App Store, building and distributing software was expensive and slow. Developers had to provision servers, land distribution deals, and manage core services like payments and...
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Jul 13, 2023
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7/ Shoutouts to @randhindi & @linfluence for conversations that helped guide us. A huge shoutout to @khushii_w for her support and review.
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Jul 13, 2023
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8/ Value and computation are transitioning to open, permissionless networks, and we believe FHE will underpin much of the required infrastructure and applications. If you're building in FHE or exploring ideas across the category, get in touch!
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5/ What use cases are we excited about? 1) Private transactions and smart contracts 2) Private information retrieval 3) Preventing MEV front running 4) Secure AI 5) Enabling data economies 6) DAOs and governance 7) Post-Quantum Applications
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Jul 13, 2023
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6/ After great conversations at the @fhe_org conference and @RealWorldCrypto this year, we realized commercialization is approaching. We've been digging into the category since then
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Jul 13, 2023
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3/ Why do we need FHE? Current server-client solutions are broken from a security point of view. They involve sending encrypted data which is then decrypted at the company’s server. Suddenly, your ciphertext data is now plaintext and exposed to possible misuse.
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Jul 13, 2023
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4/ How does FHE solve this? FHE solves this by enabling computation on encrypted data. The server no longer needs to decrypt your file. It just performs the analysis on encrypted data itself. There is no need to decrypt and no trust assumption.
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Jul 13, 2023
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2/ What is FHE? FHE is a technique that allows computation to be performed on encrypted data without decrypting it. What does this mean? No one – except you – should ever see your data, but you can still use third-party data analysis tools on top of your data.
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