Nascent (@nascent) — Twitter Score 179 out of 1000

Nascent is a crypto-focused investment and builder firm that backs early-stage founders creating products and primitives for open financial systems. Nascent's Twitter Score is 179 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #2,806 (top 1%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.

Nascent was co-founded by Dan Elitzer, who previously co-founded IDEO CoLab Ventures, a crypto-focused venture firm associated with IDEO, and helped launch YAM Finance. The firm describes itself as building, investing and competing in open markets and permissionless technologies, operating across both venture and liquid strategies as deep users of the crypto ecosystem it is helping to build. Nascent is also affiliated with Nascent Markets.

Nascent's portfolio spans DAO and community projects, DeFi, infrastructure, L1/L2 networks and NFTs. Nascent's portfolio includes Osmosis, Alchemix, PoolTogether, Aevo Fka Ribbon Finance, Thesis, Notional, Primitive and Gro. Notable investments include 0x Labs, Aztec, Ethena, Etherscan, Flashbots, Messari, Morpho, Obol Network, Optimism and Spearbit. Nascent has published 358 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 21 accounts a total of 65 times, reflecting consistent engagement across the crypto builder and investor community.

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Nascent draws a concentrated audience of crypto-native professionals. The accounts that follow Nascent include 750 founders, 263 angel investors, 224 influencers and 23 VCs, among them Chris Burniske, Fred Ehrsam, CL, Robert Leshner, Hsaka and Loomdart.