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Delphi Ventures

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Fund snapshot

Lookout tier
Tier 1
Lookout score
91/100
AUM
Vintage
2019
Check size
$1M – $28M
Stage
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Role
Leads rounds

Lookout's read

How Lookout reads this fund.

The rare fund where world-class research is the deal-sourcing engine — Delphi's analyst reputation buys first-look access most VCs would kill for. Investing largely off its own balance sheet signals real skin in the game. Tier 1 on track record; the private-capital model makes sizing and pace opaque.

Fund thesis

What they back.

Research-driven, non-consensus conviction: back founders pushing paradigm shifts using Delphi's in-house research, with the ability to both build (Delphi Labs) and fund protocols end-to-end.

Portfolio

Notable bets · 5

2 with realized tokens or exits

Sentient

2024
AISeedActive

Inference Labs

2024
AISeedActive

Allora Network

2024
InferenceStrategicToken live

DoubleZero

2025
DePINSeedActive

Rivalz

2024
DataSeedToken live

In their orbit

Deals Lookout covers.

Team

Who runs the capital.

Tom Shaughnessy

@Shaughnessy119

Co-Founder / Founding Partner

Co-founded Delphi Digital; hosts the firm's crypto VC media.

Yan Liberman

@YanLiberman

Co-Founder / Managing Partner

CFA/CAIA; co-founded Delphi Digital and leads the venture practice.

Co-investors

Who they ride with.

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