Prest Ventures partners with early teams building onchain financial products.
We invest where crypto unlocks a better product or user experience.
Investment Thesis
Stablecoins are payment rails. Assets are programmable.
We help teams create faster, simpler products.
Infrastructure is becoming a commodity. Products win on trust, reach, and day-one usefulness.
24/7 settlement and global liquidity create new product
categories, not just cheaper ones.
The strongest companies start narrow, win one user completely, and expand from there.
Areas of Focus
Our mandate is intentionally focused. We invest where financial infrastructure
and consumer behavior are being rebuilt around internet-native rails.
Money movement, cards, settlement, remittances, and payroll.
Public and private assets, credit, yield
products, and market access.
Brokerages, exchanges, social trading, and portfolio products.
Wallets, neobanks, savings, credit, and
financial superapps.
Identity, custody, risk, compliance, liquidity, and APIs for financial products.
Products emerge when money and assets
are programmable and globally accessible.
What We Look For
The category can be crowded. The market can be early. What matters is a real
reason the company should exist, why the timing is right, and why this team
has an edge.
Clear pain, clear customer, and a product that solves something important
enough to change behavior.
Being onchain has to make the product materially better, not just easier to market.
Focused starting points that can grow into core infrastructure or category-defining products.
Teams that learn quickly, ship quickly, recruit well, and can make good decisions
with incomplete information.
How We Partner
CapitalPatient capital, from the first check through later rounds.
ProductFeedback on product,
onboarding, pricing, and
financial UX.
DistributionLaunches, partnerships, and channels that reach real users.
NetworkIntroductions in fintech,
payments, tokenization,
and capital.
About Prest Ventures
Founders should spend their time building, not fundraising. We move quickly and always tell you where you stand.
We are building financial products ourselves,
which shapes how we evaluate companies and
how we work with founders.
We focus on details that determine a fintech
product's success: distribution, user
experience, infrastructure, integrations, trust,
regulation, and execution speed.
We back exceptional founders early and stay useful as they build.
FAQ
Prest Ventures focuses on pre-seed and seed-stage companies. We are comfortable
meeting founders very early, including before a formal round is underway.
No. We are chain-agnostic. We back teams building on whichever rails give their product the best combination of distribution, liquidity, and user experience.
No. Most of the companies we back are equity businesses. If a token is core to how the product works we are happy to discuss it, but it is never a requirement.
A short note on what you are building, who it is for, why now, what you have shipped so far, and where the round stands. A deck or product link helps but is not required.
We invest globally. We are comfortable working with remote and distributed teams wherever they are building, as long as the product can reach a large market.
Send us a concise introduction. We care more about a clear
idea and a strong team than a polished fundraising process.
founders@prest.ventures
