USA – Trammell Venture Partners, an Austin, Texas-based venture capital firm, closed its venture industry’s first fund in a new series dedicated specifically to backing founders building on the Bitcoin/Lightning Network protocol stack.
TVP Bitcoin Venture Fund I’s capital was formed entirely from investors aligned on Bitcoin’s value proposition, values, and mission. This is inclusive of limited partners and an array of TVP advisors also investing in the fund, including: Ryan Gentry, Robert Breedlove, Mark Moss, Stephen Cole, Lyle Pratt, Cory Klippsten, Yan Pritzker, Louis Liu, Karthik Srinivasan, Allan Stevo, and Will Cole.Founded in 2016 and led by Christopher Calicott, TVP managing director and founding partner, and Dustin D. Trammell, TVP founding partner, Trammell Venture Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing in highly technical companies in three core areas including Bitcoin-native technologies, security and privacy tech, and applied AI. Since 2020, TVP has focused on backing founders building on the layers of the Bitcoin protocol stack via the venture capital industry’s first dedicated Bitcoin-native mandated VC fund series: The TVP Bitcoin Venture Fund series of funds. With this fund, TVP launched the industry’s first institutional feeder fund that will allow investors to use bitcoin as base collateral in order to access alternative asset classes like venture capital.The team also includes Stephen Cole, who joined TVP as a venture partner to source select fund deals, and Matthew Snow, who joined TVP as senior analyst. 23/03/2022
