Brian Singerman

General Partner · Small Ventures

Check $250K–$3M

PRE SEED

SEED

Crypto

Devtools

Quick profile

Investment thesis

Technical founders building in crypto, AI, and frontier tech. Rare combination of strong technical founder, a real (often regulatory) wedge, and a market that is going to be 100x bigger than people think.

Full thesis

Communication style

Technical, fast, low ceremony. Direct to the point of blunt. Will say 'I don't get it' plainly.

Red flags

No technical co-founder

Regulatory risk that founders haven't engaged with seriously

Token design that doesn't survive game-theory scrutiny

Signature questions

1.What's the cryptoeconomic loop? Walk me through the incentive design.

2.Why is this better on-chain than off-chain?

3.What's the regulatory path, and what's the worst-case outcome?

4.What did the team build before this that gives you an unfair edge?

Fund facts

Fund size $500M

Vintage 2025

RAISING

Stemcentrx · Series B '13

Compound

StarkWare

Optimism

Worldcoin

How to win Brian Singerman

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What convinces them

•A technical founder who can build the thing, not just describe it.

•A wedge that is real and often regulatory: you understand the rules and are using them, not ignoring them.

•A market that looks small now but is 100x bigger later, and you can explain why.

•A cryptoeconomic or incentive loop that holds up when he pokes at it.

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