Strobe Ventures

On March 12, 2025, BlockTower VC announced that it was now Strobe, with the same team starting a new chapter. Strobe said it is a lean team by design, invests pre-consensus, and takes a hands-on approach with fewer founders; at the time it had over $235 million in assets under management and significant dry powder ready to deploy.⁠[1][1][1][1]

The same manifesto summed up the problems that recur in the crypto industry as “seven deadly sins”: greed, insularity, opacity, short-term narratives, laziness (an abundance of copied and forked projects), deceit, and arrogance; using portfolio companies such as Maple Finance, Ethena, Chronicle, TYB, Morpho, and Winston Artory as examples, it set out seven virtues it hopes to back.⁠[1][1][1][1][1][1][1][1][1][1][1][1]

On March 19, 2025, Strobe announced its investment in Dripster. Dripster is a token launchpad built on Solana that aims to reimagine how products are designed, funded, and brought to life; Strobe said the investment rests on its view of the intersection of AI and crypto.⁠[2][2]

On March 25, 2025, Strobe announced its lead investment in the $12 million seed round of oracle project Chronicle Labs. Strobe said the Chronicle team wrote the first-ever oracle on Ethereum as part of MakerDAO in 2017 and spun out of Maker in the third quarter of 2023; other investors in the round included Galaxy Digital, Brevan Howard, Tioga Capital, 6th Man Ventures, and Robot Ventures, as well as individuals such as Rune Christensen, Andre Cronje, and Stani Kulechov.⁠[3][3][3]

On September 2, 2025, Strobe Onshore Fund II LP filed a Form D with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an offering of pooled investment fund interests; the initial filing checked hedge fund as the fund type (the September 2026 amendment changed it to venture capital fund). The fund was organized in Delaware in 2025, its investment manager was Strobe Ventures LP, and no sale had yet occurred; the filing was signed by Thomas Klocanas as Chief Investment Officer and Managing Partner. The corresponding offshore fund, Strobe Offshore Fund II LP, was organized in the Cayman Islands in 2025.⁠[4][4][4][5][4][4][4][6][6]

In March 2026, Brooklyn-based fintech company Tare closed a $13.25 million seed round led by Blockchain Capital, with Strobe Ventures joining alongside Janus HendersonJanus HendersonJanus Henderson is a global active asset manager whose predecessors were the British Henderson Group and the American Janus Capital Group; the company was formerly listed on the New York Stock Exchange (ticker JHG) and is now a private company.Open the full entry, the Venture Dept, Neoclassic CapitalNeoclassic CapitalNeoclassic Capital is a digital asset and blockchain investment firm headquartered in Miami, co-founded by Michael Bucella and Steve Lee. It mainly invests in early-stage blockchain applications and distinguishes itself by connecting East Asian and North American markets.Open the full entry, and the Avalanche FoundationAvalanche FoundationThe Avalanche Foundation is a nonprofit organization that supports the ecosystem of the Avalanche public blockchain, promoting the network’s development and adoption through grants, seed investments, liquidity incentives, and AVAX token transactions; it is a separate entity from the development company Ava Labs.Open the full entry; the round was announced on September 16, 2026. Tare plans to use the funding to build software on the Avalanche blockchain that creates digital records of loans and automates the administrative work of managing them; Strobe’s portfolio describes it as a company that aims to disintermediate everything between a consumer loan buyer and a borrower, starting with unsecured personal loans.⁠[7][7][7][7][7][8]

Tare CEO Kevin Miao previously founded BlockTower Credit, a private-credit fund of about $2 billion focused on bringing real-world credit assets and securitizations onto blockchain networks; as of October 2026, he is also listed as a venture partner at Strobe.⁠[7][8][8]

Form D amendments filed on September 2, 2026 showed that both Fund II vehicles first sold interests on November 10, 2025: the onshore fund had sold $39,250,100 to 17 investors, and the offshore fund had sold $1,750,000 to 4 investors. The onshore fund’s registered address had changed to 300 Kent Avenue in Brooklyn, New York.⁠[5][5][5][6][6][6][5]

As of October 2026, Strobe’s core team consists of: Managing Partner Thomas Klocanas, who leads investments across DeFi, infrastructure, and consumer crypto, and who did equity research at Barclays, served as Director of Strategy at ConsenSys, helped launch White Star Capital’s $50 million Digital Asset Fund, and later was a General Partner and Head of Venture at BlockTower Capital; General Partner Steven Venino, previously a Partner at BlockTower Venture Capital and before that part of the original team at 10T Fund, who began his career at Morgan Stanley and helped manage a fund at Point72; Partner Winnie Lau, previously a Principal at BlockTower VC, who focuses on consumer crypto, DeFi, and AI; and CFO Michael Bondar, who has headed BlockTower Capital’s finance and operations since 2019.⁠[8][8][8][8][8][8][8][8][8][8][8]

Venture partners include Kevin Miao, Ivan de Lastours de Bernarde, Constantine Karides, Kevin Li Chan, and Kaushik Swaminathan. Strobe describes itself as based in New York City, with the team in New York City and Miami.⁠[8][8][8]

As of October 2026, Strobe’s listed portfolio includes Ethena, Ledger, Maple, Morpho, Aptos, TYB, Architect, Chronicle, Centrifuge, Definitive, Winston Artory Group, Sky Money, Midas, Ambient, SonarX, Daisy, Dimes, Soxton, vLayer, Open Game Protocol, Anon, Obol Labs, Due, Tesser Payments, Narval, Jia, 375ai, Baxus, Codigo, Clanker, Superform, OlaGG, Multiliquid, STS Digital, TYTL, and Tare. Strobe says its vision is for crypto to become the foundational layer for global innovation, replatforming entire industries.⁠[8][8][8][8]

Strobe Ventures: Official website: https://strobe.fund/ (opens in a new window).⁠[8][1]

X: Public account: https://x.com/strobefund (opens in a new window)⁠[8]

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