We back founders building money machines for internet finance.
Allow us to introduce ourselves.
VanEck Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in the next generation of markets and financial services. Our first fund is a $40 million pre-seed / seed fund, built alongside VanEck, a $200+ billion AUM asset management firm.
We write checks up to $2M, partnering with early-stage founders using blockchain and AI to redefine how value is created, exchanged, and stored.
A new era in money.
Every industrial revolution re-architects our financial system. Most financial activity still runs on pre-internet infrastructure. Stablecoins are the “WhatsApp moment” of fintech — the first truly global, internet-native rails for capital.
Putting money where our thesis is.
Tokenized Assets
Companies enabling the creation of new assets and markets that were previously illiquid or hard to access.
Stablecoin Payments
Companies taking a meaningful share of the $150T of annual B2B payment flows as stablecoins become the new global rail.
Infrastructure
Developer building blocks across fintech and AI at scale — data, compute, identity, and privacy.
Flames from funds past.
At Circle, we invested in over 80 companies together — many now leaders of the stablecoin revolution — and took positions in 10+ venture funds including Dragonfly, Multicoin, and Not Boring.
Exchange stablecoins for cash to spend and earn, globally.
We co-led ZAR’s Seed round with Dragonfly, ahead of their $12.9M Series A led by a16z Crypto — the cash-in / cash-out layer for stablecoins in emerging markets.
The fund is managed by Wyatt Lonergan and Juan Lopez, who previously launched and managed Circle Ventures — the corporate venture arm of USDC issuer Circle. They have invested in many of the leading companies across the stablecoin revolution. Jan van Eck, CEO of VanEck, is co-GP and anchor LP, seeding the fund with $10M.
