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What does Placeholder invest in?
Placeholder invests most often at Seed and Series B (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Crypto, Blockchain and Decentralized Networks.
Placeholder highlights
- 01
2 rounds on record
- 02
Mostly Seed and Series B: 100% of its rounds
- 03
Led 1 rounds
What they do
Placeholder is a venture capital firm.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries A
- Sectors
- CryptoBlockchainDecentralized Networks
- Based in
- New York, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first2 appearances
- 2024
1 round
- Oct
- 2019
1 round
- Sept
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 registration4 named
CWChristopher Wines BurniskeManaging MemberiFiling they signed
JMJoel MonegroManaging Member; Chief Compliance OfficeriForm ADV
RBR. Bradford BurnhamManaging MemberiFiling they signed
RBRufus Bradford BurnhamMemberiForm ADV
We also hold 4 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
$345Massets it managesOct 2026
Registeredinvestment adviserfull reporting to the SEC
- Legal name
- Placeholder Management, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 292362
Funds on its Form ADV
4 private funds, $970M in gross assets · filed May 2024
Venture 2Private equity 1Digital assets fund 1
- Placeholder Fund II, L.P.Venture60 investors$568M
- Placeholder Fund I, L.P.Private equity45 investors$252M
- Placeholder Fund III, L.P.Venture20 investors$94M
- Placeholder LONG TERM L.P.Digital assets fund45 investors$57M
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
12 of 28 we have independently watched raise
AleoArxCelestiaGearboxGyroscopeKaminoMonadSolanaSolendSquadsWeatherXMZerionAvantgardeBackpackBotanixEclipseEthereumJitoMagicMovementObolOrcaPocketPolymerSagaTallyTensorzkSync
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.