Lightning Ventures stands at the forefront of the emerging Bitcoin venture capital landscape. We believe that Bitcoin is the global monetary asset of the future, and we invest in companies that align with the success of Bitcoin.
Our mission is to support and accelerate the growth of innovative Bitcoin-native companies through which the future of finance and technology is being built. We invest exclusively in startups focused on Bitcoin and its ecosystem, completely ignoring other cryptocurrencies, tokens, or coin offerings.
Everyone who has sought to truly understand Bitcoin knows that the rabbit hole is deep.
Bitcoin is a fundamentally transformative technology disrupting traditional financial systems, driving financial inclusion, and enabling a new era of tech innovation. We aim to capitalize on this opportunity by investing in promising Bitcoin-native startups poised to redefine their respective industries.
Our investment focus includes Bitcoin infrastructure, payment solutions and financial services, and innovative applications built on Bitcoin. We will invest in companies developing foundational technologies and services that benefit from and support the Bitcoin ecosystem, such as mining operations, financial empowerment tools, node infrastructure, wallet solutions, and free and open-source technologies. Some areas of particular interest are:
- Lightning Network: We seek to support startups building tools, products, and services that leverage the Lightning Network to enable fast, low-cost, and scalable Bitcoin transactions. We believe that the Lightning Network will be crucial for mainstream adoption and fuel the next wave of innovative applications and use cases for Bitcoin. Startups in this sector can potentially drive mass adoption of Bitcoin as a payment and value transfer method.
- Financial Products, Services & Inclusion: We are keen to support startups that leverage Bitcoin's unique properties to provide financial services to banked, unbanked, and underbanked populations. On-ramps, off-ramps, and neo-banks, led by those striving and driving for global financial inclusion, individual empowerment, bridging the gap between traditional finance, and building the Hyperbitcoinized future. Bitcoin has the potential to serve more than 1.7 billion unbanked people. We are interested in startups leveraging the Bitcoin network to facilitate fast, secure, low-cost payment processing, remittance use cases, and other financial services. This includes lending, estate planning, insurance, retirement accounts, and corporate enterprise benefits.
- Privacy, Security & Telecommunications: We prioritize investments in startups that enhance Bitcoin's privacy and security features, making the network more robust and user-friendly. Security and privacy improvements will increase Bitcoin's adoption and market penetration. These innovations will contribute significantly to ushering in the Consumer Bitcoin era. Eliminating technical misunderstandings or other frictions fuels the ecosystem's demand and value. Secure communications, micropayments, and the telecommunications industry are also ripe for Bitcoin disruption.
- Decentralized applications (dApps): We will support innovative projects built exclusively on the Bitcoin protocol stack, such as decentralized, permissionless markets, decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms, wallet infrastructure, tokenized assets on Bitcoin layers or sidechains, and other emerging applications.
