Nazare Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on AI infrastructure, publicly launched in November 2024 and founded by Dr. Steven Waterhouse, who previously served as a founding Partner at Pantera Capital, co-founded Orchid, and was a Venture Partner at Fabric Ventures. Nazare Ventures's Twitter Score is 12 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #76,626 among 487,142 tracked accounts.
Nazare Ventures targets investments across compute, agent primitives such as memory and identity, and open ecosystems including sovereign AI, open weights, and agent compute markets. Its investment thesis centers on agent-first AI infrastructure, with particular emphasis on decentralized compute, privacy, and verifiable systems. The firm's affiliated fund, Nazaré Ventures Fund I LP, was organized in the Cayman Islands in 2024 per an SEC Form D filing.
Nazare Ventures's portfolio includes Squid. Nazare Ventures has 431 followers as of September 2026 on the platform and has published 46 posts. Nazare Ventures has been mentioned by 10 accounts, with 30 total mentions.
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