Very Early Ventures is a Web3-native venture capital fund that backs blockchain startups at the pre-seed stage, with a thesis centered on decentralized infrastructure, DeFi, NFTs, and real-world-asset tokenization. Very Early Ventures's Twitter Score is 8.7 out of 1000 as of July 2026, ranking #115,262 among 531,432 tracked accounts.
Very Early Ventures was co-founded by Mathieu Chanson and Jan Baeriswyl, both serving as Founding Partners. The fund positions itself as a technical, hands-on investor, working directly with founders on product decisions, architecture trade-offs, on-chain analytics, token design and distribution, staking and slashing risk modeling, and decentralized-governance planning. Its team draws on experience from MakerDAO, Celo, and Outlier Ventures.
Very Early Ventures has been active on Twitter since 2023, with 234 posts published to date. The account has been mentioned by 7 accounts, with 16 total mentions. The fund's stated focus is on builders of critical Web3 infrastructure, supporting portfolio companies through protocol design, token-supply scenarios, and real-world-impact strategies across its first fund.
Very Early Ventures's portfolio companies include Capsule, Diva, Fluidkey, Gateway, Impossible Cloud, Neutral, nftfi, Olas, Palmera, Parabol, Open Frames, Ponder, Predicate, River, Ryder, Tenor, Valantis, and Talisman, spanning infrastructure, DeFi, and tooling across the Web3 ecosystem.
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The accounts that follow Very Early Ventures include 62 founders, 16 angel investors, 8 influencers and 1 VCs, among them Mando, dcbuilder.eth, Fedes Intern, bill.eth, max.hl and Carl Vogel.