Paperclip Partners 🖇

www.paperclip.partners

VCMatch tracks Paperclip Partners 🖇 as an investor focused on Blockchain Crypto and Marketplace companies and Pre-Seed and Seed rounds. Upload your deck to compare your startup against the full private matching profile.

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Stages

Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A

Focus Areas

Blockchain Crypto, Marketplace

Geography

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Investment Thesis

Paperclip Partners positions itself as a web3-native, early-stage investor that helps “take crypto companies from zero to one” by combining capital with technical and strategic support. They emphasize long-term thinking, hands-on engagement, and ecosystem-building (open-source research, playbooks, and education) to help high-integrity teams navigate technical, regulatory and product hurdles and to “build long-term sustainable projects that maximize value creation.”

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Investment Focus

Who should take a closer look

Paperclip Partners 🖇 is most relevant for founders raising Pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A rounds in Blockchain Crypto and Marketplace.

Focus statement

Paperclip focuses on early-stage web3/blockchain projects—protocols, infrastructure, token/NFT marketplaces and developer tools—backing and advising "high-integrity teams" from the earliest stages with technical, fundraising and go-to-market support.

Value Add

Web3-native team with long tenure in crypto: "We are crypto natives that have lived and breathed in this space since 2012."
Hands-on, technical + strategic support: they describe themselves as "web3 native investment that helps companies succeed by providing technical and strategic support."
Emphasis on fundraising and go-to-market playbooks tailored to crypto: "Crypto native fundraising strategy i.e. Who to raise from, timing, valuation, pitch and deal structuring."
Strong partner network and warm-referral sourcing: "Partner network of OG crypto investors, ecosystems, and research networks" and "Many of our introductions are through warm referrals."
Proven early-stage track record and incubation capability (example: Magic Eden) and historical ICO investments/exits (Ethereum, Avalanche, Augur @100x, Golem @40x).
Ethical/systemic framing via name and mission—explicit concern for long-term societal outcomes (Paperclip Maximizer origin) which informs investment judgment.