Tephra Capital is a pre-seed fund backing infrastructure at the intersection of stablecoins, payments and custody. Four partners: our managing partner ran digital asset trading at GSR and headed digital asset markets at Goldman Sachs before that, our protocol engineer has shipped two L1 clients, and I spent years building and auditing Solidity contracts before moving to the investing side. We write the first check into 6-8 teams a year. Any fund worth your time survives a Google, our people and our deals are easy to find.
The role:
We are opening a small number of Venture Partner seats for people who already live in the crypto markets and want a formal seat on the other side of the table. This is sourcing and judgment work, not sales. You bring the network and the market sense, we bring the capital, the diligence process and the term sheets.
What you do:
- Source 2-3 genuine pre-seed opportunities per year from your own network, stablecoins, payments, custody, DeFi infrastructure
- Open warm doors for portfolio founders in your region
- Join quarterly all-hands with the full partnership and our founders, engineering deep-dives included
- What qualifies you
- A personal digital asset portfolio of $100,000 or more, self-custodied or on reputable venues. This is our conviction filter: partners here eat their own cooking 5+ years trading, operating or angel investing in crypto markets
- Based in the US, Canada, UK, EU, UAE, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea or Taiwan
- Genuine network among traders, exchange operators or protocol engineers
- What you get
- Documented carry on deals you source
- Co-invest rights from $50K per deal, your own capital, your own decision
- A modest fixed retainer so the role respects your time, the upside is the carry, not the retainer
- Direct line to the partners, no junior gates, fast answers either way
- A diligence process worth stealing: you sit inside technical reviews on everything you source, with our protocol engineer reading code before any deck
ProcessTwo calls total: 30 minutes with me, then a working session on one live deal. Start within two weeks of first contact. We respond to every serious application within 72 hours.
How to apply:
Apply here on LinkedIn, or email with one paragraph on your background in the markets and where your network is strongest. Interviews run in our own Zoom room, the booking confirmation includes the link.
