What does PL Capital invest in?
PL Capital invests most often at Seed (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Computing, Frontier Technology and Decentralized Infrastructure.
PL Capital highlights
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1 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Seed: 100% of its rounds
What they do
PL Capital is a family of venture funds backing extraordinary founders scaling breakthrough R&D.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Sectors
- ComputingFrontier TechnologyDecentralized Infrastructure
- Cold pitches
- Accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first1 appearances
- 2026
1 round
- May
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration6 named
BHBrad HoldenManaging Member of the General Partner and the Investment ManageriFiling they signed
BPBradley Phipps HoldenManaging PartneriForm ADV
JWJohn W. PalmerJohn W. Palmer is the President of PL Capital, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, which is the General Partner of PL Capital/Focused Fund, L.P.iFiling they signed
MFMark Ferris DempseyChief Compliance OfficeriForm ADV
RJRichard J. LashleyCo-Managing Member of PL Capital, LLC, which is Co-Managing Member of the General PartneriFiling they signed
RBRobert BarnardManaging Member of Black Maple BF GP, LLC, which is Co-Managing Member of the General PartneriFiling they signed
We also hold 7 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$350Massets it managesOct 2026
Registeredinvestment adviserfull reporting to the SEC
- Legal name
- Protocol VC LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 332272