Building the open web
with founders who go first
Building the open web
with founders who go first
Ironclad Ventures backs ambitious early-stage founders taking web3 to the next billion people.
We put on Europe’s largest crypto gathering: Paris Blockchain Week.
"Trust, speed, and warmth in the right proportions"
Clément Foucher,
Co-Founder of Metav.rs
"Steady, useful notes, real backing, and the right introductions"
Eytan Messika
CEO of Nilos
"An investor’s eye, real sector depth, and help tightening the product so we can take share"
Roy Sagi
CEO of Embed
We back web3 teams cracking everyday markets
We underwrite the builders putting web3 in front of the next billion people — the rails and products that make the open web usable at scale. We look for operators who think globally, know both web2 and web3 from the inside, and will not stop at the current edge of what works.
Companies that put real, usable value in customers’ hands
Teams that absorb the web3 shift and give users real ownership — so the product, not the pitch, carries the value. We stay after companies with a durable edge, a sharp path to market, and the chance to grow under their own steam. The aim is books that reset what web3 can do.
Paris Blockchain Week
We co-host Paris Blockchain Week, Europe’s largest
crypto, blockchain, DeFi and web3 gathering.
"This afternoon at the Louvre for @ParisBlockWeek I talked through the shift underway. Paris — city of light and of the Enlightenment — is the right room for it. For centuries new ideas started in cafés and lecture halls and then walked out into the street."
Joseph Lubin
Consensys
We run the world’s largest Web3 startup contest. Early-stage teams pitch 200+ investors and take home more than $2M in prizes, grants and capital. The last round drew over 900 applicants from every region.
On stage with Google, Binance, Tim Draper, Node Capital, Kering, Web3 Foundation, Meta, XAnge, Orange DAO, and others.
The book
The desk
We live inside the web3 network — same horizon, same heat, same pace as the founders we back. The desk has shipped in web2 and web3, hit the same walls, and works with the same stubbornness so the book can win.
LPs are a mixed bench of operators who have already built, specialist fund managers, and corporates worldwide. They hold the same brief, the same standards, the same ambition.
Daniel Avraham, General Partner
is a repeat founder (France, Silicon Valley, Israel) who has been in digital money since 2009. Daniel co-founded — and later sold — Chain Accelerator in 2017, Europe’s first blockchain accelerator, and in 2018 Paris Blockchain Week, still Europe’s largest gathering on web3, blockchain and crypto.
Samuel Baruch, Partner
is a working web3 builder across DeFi, NFTs, cross-chain rails, and games. On-chain analytics is his home turf, and he sits in several DAOs of builders, investors, and collectors.
The network
