GSR
Fund snapshot
- Lookout tier
- Tier 2
- Lookout score
- 81/100
- AUM
- —
- Vintage
- 2013
- Check size
- $250K – $5M
- Stage
- Seed, Series A, Strategic
Lookout's read
How Lookout reads this fund.
Less a classic VC than a trading powerhouse with a venture arm — GSR's real value is liquidity, market-making and post-token-launch support, exactly what a project needs the day after TGE. Note the naming trap: the crypto GSR (2013, trading) is not the Menlo Park GSR Ventures (2004, generalist tech). Bring them in for markets expertise and listing-stage muscle, not for lead conviction at seed.
Fund thesis
What they back.
As crypto's capital-markets partner, invest multi-stage across the companies and protocols shaping the future of finance, pairing venture capital with market-making, liquidity and trading infrastructure.
Portfolio
Notable bets · 2
L1/L2 infrastructure (300+ book)
DePIN compute/storage networks
Team
Who runs the capital.
Rich Rosenblum
Co-founder & President
Co-founded GSR in 2013; ex-commodities/derivatives trader who built GSR into a leading crypto market maker.
Co-investors
Who they ride with.
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