Fulgur Ventures

19 Sep 2025

Fulgur Ventures is backing Lombardor, a Hamburg-based, Bitcoin-only fintech building regulated euro loans secured by Bitcoin held in cold storage with a German custodian, with its first loan product targeted for Q2 2026.

Fulgur Ventures invests in Lendasat

16 Aug 2025

Fulgur Ventures is investing in Lendasat, a peer-to-peer platform delivering non-custodial, Bitcoin-collateralised loans in stablecoins or fiat using Discreet Log Contracts, with no rehypothecation, KYC or credit checks.

Why we invested in SQRIL

13 Jul 2025

Fulgur Ventures invested in SQRIL, the Singapore-based payments switch letting banks, e-wallets and fintechs scan and pay QR codes across Asia, Africa and Latin America in real time using stablecoins and local fiat rails.

Welcoming Resolvr to the Fulgur portfolio

10 Jun 2025

Fulgur Ventures is welcoming Resolvr to the portfolio, a Miami-based team building Bitcoin-native insurance infrastructure with embedded coverage, real-time premium management and DLC-powered oracle and dispute tooling.

Fulgur Ventures backs Lexe

7 May 2025

Fulgur Ventures is backing Lexe, a self-custodial Bitcoin and Lightning wallet that runs each user's node inside Intel SGX hardware enclaves in the cloud, delivering always-on payments without ever taking custody of keys.

Investment announcement: PPQ.ai

4 Apr 2025

Fulgur Ventures is backing PPQ.ai, a pay-per-prompt AI gateway that lets anyone query frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google over Bitcoin's Lightning Network with no accounts and no subscriptions.

Fulgur Ventures partners with Hercle

1 Mar 2025

Fulgur Ventures is partnering with Hercle, the Milan-based institutional infrastructure platform connecting fiat, digital assets and stablecoins for over 200 banks, brokers and payment service providers across Europe and beyond.

Why we invested in Deedsats

25 Nov 2025

Fulgur Ventures has invested in Deedsats, a privacy-friendly digital-asset platform built on RGB and Bitcoin. Founded by Rahim Taghizadegan, Deedsats brings real-estate ownership on-chain via tokenized deeds linked to its Citadel Garden Bitcoin villages — uniting hard money, hard assets and individual sovereignty.

Welcoming Utexo to the Fulgur portfolio

22 Oct 2025

Fulgur Ventures welcomes Utexo to the portfolio. Backed by a $7.5M seed led by Tether, Utexo is enterprise infrastructure that lets financial institutions, wallets and exchanges process USDT stablecoin payments natively on Bitcoin via Lightning and RGB — bringing the world's largest stablecoin home to the world's hardest money.

Investment announcement: Hoseki

19 Sep 2025

Fulgur Ventures backs Hoseki, the white-label API for real-time Bitcoin proof-of-ownership and proof-of-reserves. Founded by Sam Abbassi, Hoseki gives institutions and consumers verifiable, privacy-respecting cryptographic proof of their bitcoin — the trust layer the next era of regulated Bitcoin finance has been waiting for.

Fulgur Ventures invests in NexPlace

16 Aug 2025

Fulgur Ventures has invested in NexPlace, a regulated next-generation digital-asset exchange based in El Salvador. Together with sister company NexBridge, NexPlace enables compliant trading across cryptocurrencies and real-world assets, building the institutional venue for a world where Bitcoin and tokenized markets meet.

Why we invested in Jiko

13 Jul 2025

Fulgur Ventures has invested in Jiko, a US bank and brokerage platform giving institutions and corporates direct access to T-bills as a treasury management tool. Where safety meets innovation, Jiko reimagines how cash is held — and points to a future where Bitcoin and Treasuries coexist on modern, transparent rails.

Welcoming Saf.money to the portfolio

10 Jun 2025

Fulgur Ventures is proud to welcome Saf.money to the portfolio. Founded by former IBEX leaders Mario Aguiluz and Esteban de la Pena, Saf.money offers a white-label settlement platform combining Bitcoin, stablecoin and traditional banking rails to power cross-border payments and remittances at institutional scale.

Fulgur Ventures backs Bringin

7 May 2025

Fulgur Ventures has invested in Bringin, the complete Bitcoin app for Europe. With virtual IBANs, Visa debit cards, and instant Bitcoin-to-euro conversion over the Lightning Network, Bringin makes Bitcoin truly spendable across the Eurozone — the missing bridge between sound money and everyday European life.

Investment announcement: Layerz

4 Apr 2025

Fulgur Ventures backs Layerz, a Bitcoin-first non-custodial wallet unifying access to Lightning, Liquid, Spark, Ark, Citrea, Botanix, Rootstock and more — turning the fragmented Bitcoin Layer-2 landscape into a single, sovereign user experience built for the next era of on-chain Bitcoin.

Why we invested in ALTBG

25 Nov 2025

Fulgur Ventures invested in ALTBG (Capital B, formerly The Blockchain Group), Europe's first listed Bitcoin treasury company. Trading on Euronext Growth Paris, ALTBG adopted the Bitcoin Standard in November 2024 and combines a treasury strategy with operating subsidiaries in data intelligence and AI.

Welcoming Meanwhile to the Fulgur portfolio

22 Oct 2025

Fulgur Ventures is welcoming Meanwhile, the Bermuda-licensed life insurer offering whole-life policies fully denominated and paid out in Bitcoin. Backed by Sam Altman and Gradient Ventures, Meanwhile uses AI-powered underwriting to bring a centuries-old product into a Bitcoin standard.

Investment announcement: Komainu

19 Sep 2025

Fulgur Ventures has invested in Komainu, the regulated institutional digital-asset custodian founded as a joint venture between Nomura, CoinShares and Ledger. The 2025 round, led by Blockstream Capital, supports the next phase of secure custody for global financial institutions.

Fulgur Ventures backs Bipa

16 Aug 2024

Fulgur Ventures is backing Bipa, the Brazilian fintech that combines Bitcoin, USDT and the real in a single account with Pix payments, card spending and Bitcoin cashback. The investment supports a hyperbitcoinization on-ramp tailored to Latin America's largest market.

Why we invested in Debifi

13 Jul 2024

Fulgur Ventures invested in Debifi, a non-custodial peer-to-peer Bitcoin-backed lending platform built by ex-HodlHodl founder Max Kei. Using a multi-signature escrow design, Debifi offers institutions and HNW borrowers credit without surrendering custody of their bitcoin.

Welcoming Finpeers to the portfolio

10 Jun 2024

Fulgur Ventures is welcoming Finpeers, a Swiss fintech structuring capital, credit and liquidity for Bitcoin-integrated companies and serving family offices and HNWIs with institutional-grade Bitcoin strategies. The partnership backs a maturing layer of professional Bitcoin finance in Europe.

Fulgur Ventures partners with Ark Labs

7 May 2024

Fulgur Ventures is partnering with Ark Labs, the team building Arkade, a programmable execution layer based on the Ark protocol. The investment backs a Bitcoin Layer-2 designed for scalable, low-cost, self-custodial payments and applications native to Bitcoin.

Welcoming Berglinde to the Fulgur portfolio

25 Nov 2024

Fulgur Ventures is welcoming Berglinde, the Swiss Bitcoin asset-management and advisory firm offering investment solutions and Bitcoin-collateralised lending to qualified investors and financial institutions. Founded in 2024 by Phil Lojacono and Paolo Guarnerio.

Fulgur Ventures backs Elysium Lab

19 Sep 2024

Fulgur Ventures is backing Elysium Lab, a Swiss digital-asset company building a self-custody wallet for Bitcoin, Lightning, Liquid and stablecoins, alongside its KARE keyless authentication SDK. Founded in 2023 by Aron Clementi and Gianmarco Guazzo.

Welcoming HIDEEZ to the Fulgur portfolio

13 Jul 2019

Fulgur Ventures is welcoming HIDEEZ, a Ukrainian cybersecurity company building FIDO2-certified hardware keys and passwordless identity solutions for enterprises and governments. Founded in 2015, HIDEEZ replaces passwords with phishing-resistant hardware authentication for the workforce.

Fulgur Ventures invests in Graaf One

10 Jun 2019

Fulgur Ventures is backing Graaf One, Canada's first direct-to-Lightning Bitcoin brokerage. Founded by Pavel Dolzhenko in 2018, Graaf lets Canadians buy and sell BTC in CAD over the Lightning Network with seconds-to-settle payments and minimal fees.

Why we invested in Bitlum

7 May 2019

Fulgur Ventures invested in Bitlum, an early online Bitcoin Lightning browser wallet that let users transact without running a node. Though Bitlum wound down in 2019, founder Andrey Samokhvalov went on to become a Fulgur Ventures partner.

Investment announcement: SVORT

4 Apr 2019

Fulgur Ventures invested in SVORT, a neural-biometric authenticator that converts a user's face into an anonymous biometric code. The technology secures access to private data, accounts, and Bitcoin wallets without storing identifiable images or seed phrases.

Welcoming Wizardsardine to the Fulgur portfolio

1 Mar 2020

Fulgur Ventures welcomes Wizardsardine, the Portugal-based Bitcoin security team behind Revault and Liana. They build advanced custody software using timelocks and miniscript, expanding what self-custody and institutional vaults can safely do.

Fulgur Ventures backs Foundation Devices

25 Nov 2020

Fulgur Ventures backs Foundation Devices, the Boston-based team behind the Passport hardware wallet and Envoy mobile app. Foundation builds open-source Bitcoin sovereignty tools that combine elegant design, privacy by default, and uncompromising security.

Investing in Casa: sovereignty for the long term

22 Oct 2020

Fulgur Ventures invested in Casa, the multisig Bitcoin self-custody pioneer. Casa secures keys, eliminates single points of failure, and builds inheritance plans so that bitcoin can be preserved across generations, not just held across cycles.

Fulgur Ventures partners with DitoBanx

19 Sep 2024

Fulgur Ventures partners with DitoBanx, the Salvadoran Bitcoin fintech building wallets, payment processing, and prepaid cards for Latin America's unbanked population, with El Salvador as its launchpad for regional expansion.

Welcoming Osmo: Bitcoin for Latin America

16 Aug 2023

Fulgur Ventures welcomes Osmo, a Guatemala-based Bitcoin wallet built for Latin America. The team enables remittances, savings, and everyday payments in sats across Central America with a relentless focus on local users.

Fulgur Ventures invests in Alby

13 Jul 2022

Fulgur Ventures backs Alby, an open-source Lightning and Nostr toolkit bringing Bitcoin payments and decentralized identity to the web through a browser extension, self-custody Alby Hub, and developer APIs.

Investment announcement: Button Wallet

10 Jun 2019

Button Wallet is a Telegram-based multi-crypto wallet and exchange that lets users buy, hold, and trade digital assets directly inside the messenger, removing the friction of standalone apps for an entire generation of users.

Why we invested in The Bitcoin Company

7 May 2021

The Bitcoin Company is an Austin-based mobile app that lets users spend bitcoin on gift cards and prepaid Visa cards while earning bitcoin rewards on everyday purchases, completing the loop between spending and stacking.

Welcoming Coinmiles to the Fulgur portfolio

4 Apr 2019

Coinmiles is a Montreal-based rewards app that pays shoppers cash or Bitcoin cashback when they purchase from over 1,000 partner brands online and in-store, turning routine spending into ongoing sats accumulation.

Fulgur Ventures backs Pay with Moon

1 Mar 2021

Pay with Moon issues virtual Visa prepaid cards purchasable with Bitcoin, Lightning, and stablecoins, letting users spend their crypto across millions of online merchants without giving up custody until checkout.

Why we invested in GoSats

25 Nov 2021

GoSats is an Indian bitcoin rewards app that lets users earn bitcoin cashback while shopping with 120+ partner brands online and offline, making sats accumulation a natural part of daily life.

Fulgur Ventures invests in Amber

22 Oct 2019

Amber is a Brisbane-based Bitcoin-only accumulation app that pairs dollar-cost averaging, buy-the-dip automations, and self-custody tools to help Australians turn long-term saving into a low-effort daily habit.

Welcoming Blockrize to the Fulgur portfolio

19 Sep 2019

Blockrize built the first credit card offering bitcoin rewards on every purchase, pioneering a category that has since become a fixture of the consumer crypto landscape before being acquired by Gemini in 2020.

Investment announcement: Hexa Wallet

16 Aug 2020

Hexa Wallet is a Bangalore-based Bitcoin product studio building self-custody tools that make securing bitcoin radically simpler for everyday users, while preserving the sovereignty principles that matter most.

Fulgur Ventures backs Relai

13 Jul 2021

Fulgur Ventures backs Relai, the Swiss-licensed Bitcoin-only app making it simple for Europeans to buy, sell, and save in bitcoin through automated recurring purchases and a relentlessly user-friendly experience.

Why we invested in Satsback

10 Jun 2020

Fulgur Ventures invested in Satsback, a Bitcoin cashback platform paying users sats over Lightning whenever they shop at thousands of online stores, turning everyday e-commerce into a stacking habit.

Fulgur Ventures partners with BlueWallet

7 May 2019

Fulgur Ventures partnered with BlueWallet, the open-source Bitcoin and Lightning wallet for iOS, Android, and Mac focused on security, user experience, and full user control of funds.

Investment announcement: Breez

4 Apr 2019

Fulgur Ventures announced its investment in Breez, the non-custodial Lightning client and SDK powering seamless bitcoin payments, podcast streaming, and merchant integrations inside any app.

Welcoming Fold to the Fulgur portfolio

1 Mar 2019

Fulgur Ventures welcomed Fold to its portfolio, the consumer bitcoin financial services app whose debit card and rewards program let users earn up to 20% cashback in bitcoin on everyday spending.

Fulgur Ventures invests in Bitrefill

25 Nov 2019

Fulgur Ventures invested in Bitrefill, the global service letting users live on crypto by buying gift cards and mobile refills with Bitcoin and Lightning at thousands of merchants worldwide.

Why we invested in Diba

22 Oct 2024

Fulgur Ventures invested in Diba, a Bitcoin-native marketplace for Unique Digital Assets built on the RGB smart-contract protocol and the Lightning Network, bringing programmable digital ownership directly to Bitcoin.

Fulgur Ventures backs Infinite Fleet

19 Sep 2023

Fulgur Ventures is backing Infinite Fleet, a sci-fi MMO from Pixelmatic where in-game and investor economies run natively on Bitcoin's Liquid Network, pioneering hard-money game design at internet scale.

Welcoming Stardust to the Fulgur portfolio

16 Aug 2020

Stardust is a Wallets-as-a-Service and NFT platform that lets game developers integrate in-game wallets, NFTs, and on-chain rewards through simple APIs, removing blockchain complexity from the player and developer experience entirely.

Investment announcement: DMarket

13 Jul 2020

DMarket is a blockchain-based marketplace for in-game items across AAA titles including CS:GO, Dota 2, and Rust, bringing transparent ownership and liquid secondary trading to one of gaming's largest informal economies. Acquired by Mythical Games in January 2023.

Fulgur Ventures partners with Amihan Entertainment

10 Jun 2021

Amihan Entertainment is a Los Angeles game studio founded by veterans of Riot Games, Blizzard, and King, building next-generation interactive entertainment with blockchain-based player economies and a relentless focus on craft.

Why we invested in Satoshis Games

7 May 2019

Satoshis Games pioneered Lightning-powered micro-reward games with LightNite and now operates Elixir, a Web3 marketplace for indie games and digital assets that brings Bitcoin-native economics to a global gaming audience.

Fulgur Ventures invests in Blockade Games

4 Apr 2019

Blockade Games is an Indianapolis-based Web3 game studio building blockchain layer-two infrastructure and NFT-driven titles, best known for the cyberpunk RPG Neon District and a long track record of crypto-native game design.

Welcoming MetaBit Games to the Fulgur portfolio

1 Mar 2022

MetaBit Games is a London mobile studio fusing free-to-play mechanics with a play-and-earn model, paying out Bitcoin rewards over the Lightning Network so casual players earn real sats just by playing.

Fulgur Ventures backs Shock Wallet

25 Nov 2019

Shock Wallet is an open-source, non-custodial Lightning wallet that connects to remote LND nodes over Nostr, unlocking multi-user, multi-device workflows and social features for everyday Lightning payments.

Investment announcement: Scarce City

22 Oct 2021

Scarce City is an online marketplace and auction house where physical goods and digital collectibles change hands for bitcoin over the Lightning Network, blending Bitcoin culture with commerce in a curated, creator-friendly storefront.

Fulgur Ventures partners with Fountain

19 Sep 2021

Fountain is a podcast platform built on Podcasting 2.0 that lets listeners earn Bitcoin and stream sats directly to creators over the Lightning Network, redefining how value flows between audiences and podcasters.

Why we invested in pnkfrg

16 Aug 2021

pnkfrg is a Berlin-based gaming studio creating social casual mobile games for Gen Z, built on the Lightning Network and designed around digital ownership, social play, and bitcoin-native micro-rewards.

Fulgur Ventures invests in ZEBEDEE

13 Jul 2019

ZEBEDEE is a Bitcoin payments platform for the games industry, using the Lightning Network to power instant in-game rewards, tipping, and real-money micropayments at the scale modern games require.

Welcoming THNDR to the Fulgur portfolio

10 Jun 2021

THNDR is a mobile games studio and platform building casual games on the Lightning Network, letting players earn real bitcoin through familiar gameplay loops and reaching users in markets where micro-earnings genuinely matter.

Investment announcement: Synota

7 May 2024

Synota is a Bitcoin Lightning-based energy payments platform that delivers instant settlement and synchronised data for contracts between utilities, energy suppliers, and Bitcoin miners.

Fulgur Ventures backs Nexbridge

4 Apr 2024

Nexbridge is a regulated digital-asset issuer based in El Salvador that tokenises real-world assets such as US Treasury bills on Bitcoin-aligned infrastructure through the Liquid Network.

Why we invested in STOKR

1 Mar 2023

STOKR is an EU-regulated digital investment marketplace that tokenises alternative assets on Bitcoin layer-2 networks like Liquid, opening private-market opportunities to retail and professional investors across Europe.

Welcoming Blockstream to the Fulgur portfolio

25 Nov 2023

Blockstream is a foundational Bitcoin infrastructure company building core protocol software, the Liquid Network sidechain, Lightning tools, hardware wallets, and mining hardware. Few teams have shaped Bitcoin's technical trajectory more directly.

Fulgur Ventures invests in Mion

22 Oct 2023

Mion (formerly Eden, Lightning Company, and LC Pay) is a Vienna-based Bitcoin Lightning payment platform that lets European merchants accept Bitcoin and settle in euros, with lower fees and no chargebacks.

Fulgur Ventures partners with Jan3

19 Sep 2023

Jan3 is a Bitcoin technology company founded by Samson Mow that builds products and infrastructure — including the AQUA wallet — to accelerate hyperbitcoinization and support nation-state Bitcoin adoption.

Investment announcement: Lastbit (now Striga)

16 Aug 2019

Lastbit (later Striga) built compliant crypto and banking APIs — IBANs, custody, and cards — for European fintechs, before rebranding to Striga and being acquired by Lightspark in October 2025.

Welcoming Zaprite to the Fulgur portfolio

13 Jul 2022

Zaprite is a Bitcoin-native payments platform that lets businesses send invoices, accept both Bitcoin and fiat, and manage their receivables without relying on traditional payment intermediaries.

LN Markets joins the Fulgur portfolio

10 Jun 2020

LN Markets is a Bitcoin derivatives platform built natively on the Lightning Network, enabling instant, trust-minimised deposits and withdrawals from any Lightning wallet and removing the custodial frictions of legacy crypto exchanges.

Fulgur Ventures backs Synonym

7 May 2021

Synonym is a Bitcoin software company building an ecosystem of open products and protocols — including the Bitkit wallet, Blocktank Lightning service provider, and the Pubky web — for a self-sovereign digital economy.

Why we invested in HodlHodl

4 Apr 2020

HodlHodl is a global peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading and lending platform that never custodies user funds, using multisig escrow to let counterparties transact and borrow directly without trusting a centralized intermediary.

Investment announcement: Vaultoro

1 Mar 2019

Vaultoro is a London-founded trading platform pairing Bitcoin with allocated, vaulted physical gold and silver in Switzerland — giving holders an instant on-chain bridge between hard digital and hard physical money.

Welcoming Umbrel to the Fulgur portfolio

25 Nov 2021

Umbrel is a personal home cloud and operating system for self-hosting. Through umbrelOS and Umbrel Home, anyone can run a Bitcoin and Lightning node, file storage, media servers, and hundreds of apps on a private home server in one click.

Fulgur Ventures partners with Amboss

22 Oct 2021

Amboss is a Nashville-based Bitcoin Lightning Network company providing the leading explorer, analytics, and infrastructure tools for node operators. Its products include Amboss Space, the Magma liquidity marketplace, Hydro automated liquidity, and RailsX.

Backing Nayuta: Lightning for IoT

19 Sep 2021

Nayuta is a Fukuoka-based Bitcoin company developing Lightning Network protocol technology for micropayments and IoT. The team built Ptarmigan, one of the earliest Lightning implementations, and pioneers Lightning integrations for licensed enterprises in Japan.

Fulgur Ventures invests in Neutronpay

16 Aug 2022

Neutronpay is a Lightning Network payments company building cross-border infrastructure for Southeast Asia. Its APIs power remittances, payouts, and merchant acceptance, with a focus on Vietnam, the Philippines, and the wider region's underbanked population.

Investment announcement: Galoy

13 Jul 2021

Galoy builds Bitcoin-native core banking infrastructure that lets banks, fintechs, and communities offer Bitcoin, Lightning, and stablecoin services. The company's open-source stack powers Blink, Bitcoin Beach Wallet, Bitcoin Jungle, Lava, and Stablesats.

Why we invested in OpenNode

Research

10 Jun 2021

OpenNode is a Bitcoin payment infrastructure provider that lets merchants and platforms accept and pay out bitcoin instantly over Lightning, through a developer API, ecommerce plugins, and a hosted checkout used by businesses around the world.

The role of Bitcoin is insane

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21 Jun 2026

While in our last publication we have laid the groundwork for understanding the 'habitat', this one is meant to provide its keen reader with a more detailed overview of one specific part of the system's 'inhabitants' — the various different Lightning implementations — by showing their key characteristics, usage, development statistics, and features.

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21 Jun 2026

Welcoming IBEX to the Fulgur portfolio

5 Jul 2021

IBEX is a Miami-based infrastructure-as-a-service company delivering fintech on Bitcoin's Lightning Network. Through IBEXHub, the team gives banks, fintechs, telecoms, and merchants turnkey APIs for instant, programmable, low-cost global settlement.

Fulgur Ventures backs Voltage