Trammell Venture Partners Launches Bitcoin-Focused Institutional Investor Fund
Scott P. Arroyo
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Trammell Venture Partners brings together Bitcoin-focused institutional investors in a feeder fund focused on developing Bitcoin and Lightning networks.
- Trammell Venture Partners has launched a series of feeder-fund investments focused on the founders of the Bitcoin and Lightning networks.
- The feeder fund, a collective of investors pooling their funds, focuses on investors who are focused on the development of Bitcoin.
- Bitcoin angel investor Stephen Cole says, “In a sea of crypto noise, TVP is a Bitcoin signal.”
Trammell Venture Partners (TVP) – a venture capital firm focused on both applied artificial intelligence and security and privacy technologies – has launched a series of Bitcoin-native institutional investment funds dedicated solely to founders. relying on the Bitcoin/Lightning network protocol stack, according to the Press release.
“Over the years, the Bitcoin community has rightly been extremely cautious about making changes to Bitcoin Core, but there has been constant development of the layers of Bitcoin’s protocol stack,” says CEO Christopher Calicott. of TVP and founding partner. “We were waiting for the right moment to look at our North Star: Bitcoin.”
TVP is launching this initiative with the VC industry’s first institutional feeder fund focused solely on bitcoin. This feeder fund will serve as a collective effort of involved investors in a way that allows investors to avoid the need for liquidation of their bitcoin.
“Investors should never have to liquidate bitcoin to invest, and on an institutional level that starts with our new feeder fund approach,” says Dustin D. Trammell, founding partner of TVP.
The debut of new values in the institutional investor class remains at the forefront of TVP’s initiatives to drive institutional adoption of Bitcoin and its commonly associated long-term values.
“Safe, secure return and immaculate collateral returns are the future for long-term bitcoin holders,” says founder Calicott.
The venture capital firm intends to hold Bitcoin to its core values, including the values of investors who choose to participate in the fund. A prolific angel investor in Bitcoin, Stephen Cole, has joined TVP as a fundraising VC partner and spoke about the new partnership.
“I’m excited to share TVP’s vision and focus on a bitcoin-based future,” Cole said. “With this fund, we’re positioning ourselves for the kind of long-term value creation that we believe can reshape not just fintech, but the internet, venture capital, and even the global monetary system.”
As venture capital funds flood into the broader cryptocurrency space and buzzwords like ‘NFT’, ‘web3’ and other ‘investment opportunities’ arise, Cole says ” In a sea of crypto noise, TVP is a Bitcoin signal.”
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