
Galaxy Ventures
P.O. Box 491, Belmont, CA, 94002, U.S.A.
Overview
Galaxy Ventures is a boutique private investment & investment banking firm. Founded in 1999, the firm invests directly and/or with co-investors, including venture capital (VC) firms (private, institutional & corporate), private equity (PE) firms and private/angel investors. Galaxy Ventures also identifies sources of capital and syndicates deals, and the firm's principal is a licensed securities Broker/Dealer registered representative for investment banking. The firm also acts as an intermediary and originates VC, PE and merger & acquisition (M&A) transactions (equity, debt, etc.), and provides retained transactional advisory & consulting services. The firm is sector-agnostic and will consider investments of any size and stage of company development, including seed funding. Geographic preference is the U.S. West Coast, but the firm will consider investments and clients regardless of locale. Galaxy Ventures is a private, closely-held entity and does not generally publicly disclose its amount of invested funds, portfolio companies, client transactions, investment returns and the identities of its (co)investors.
- Total investments
- 35
- Lead investments
- 15
- Investments · 12mo
- 16
- Active investors
- 5
Investment portfolio
- Ornn
Participated · Seed · Jun 2026
Ornn develops infrastructure for the compute capacity market, including OCPI, a transaction-based index intended to provide a unified, trusted pricing benchmark for compute. The company also launched Ornn Compute, which aggregates dedicated GPU capacity from multiple neoclouds into a single platform with unified access, secondary transfer markets, and on-demand subleasing. Ornn says its approach enables operators to underwrite diversified demand through a single underwriting contract while buyers can view booked cluster site, hardware configuration, and terms. The OCPI index is intended to support risk-transfer products such as futures and options and has been referenced by partners including ICE. The articles do not report revenue, user metrics, founding year, valuation, or prior financing rounds.
- Karta
Led · Series A · Jun 2026
Karta offers U.S.-issued Visa credit cards to clients living outside the United States who maintain assets in American banks or brokerages, enabling approval without a Social Security number or ITIN. Approved customers can receive a virtual card immediately and a physical card later, with credit lines of up to $200,000. Most customer interactions—alerts, disputes, and concierge requests—are handled through a 24/7 WhatsApp chat. The card carries premium Visa perks including no foreign exchange fees, reward points, and access to select invite-only events. Karta was founded by Freddy Juez and Orlando Espinoza and is based in Miami. The company partners with roughly 85 private banks and wealth managers, including Itaú, Raymond James, and XP International US.
- Checker
Led · Equity · May 2026
Checker provides a single-API network that gives regulated financial institutions access to stablecoin liquidity, fiat on- and off-ramps, payment rails, and tools for trading, payments, treasury, and credit. Over the past year its initial stablecoin liquidity product scaled from $0 to $3B in total processing volume across about 30 institutional customers, including Rail, Braza Bank, and Belo. The platform processes roughly 1% of annual global B2B stablecoin payments volume and supports 75 global currencies for FX, collections, payouts, named accounts, and trading. Checker emphasizes reducing fragmentation by orchestration of liquidity and compliance across markets so institutions do not need to integrate multiple providers. With the new funding the company plans to expand global payments coverage to reduce correspondent banking dependencies, add embedded borrowing and lending to lower pre-funding needs, and deploy AI-powered agents for treasury and back-office automation. The company is backed by leading investors and strategic financial partners including Galaxy Ventures, Al Mada Ventures, Framework, Bitso, and Airtm.
- Boundary
Led · Seed · May 2026
Boundary Labs designs and operates the Boundary Protocol and USBD, a stablecoin built for continuous on-chain verifiability of reserves and performance for institutional counterparties. The protocol emphasizes institutional-only onboarding via a dedicated dApp with rigorous KYC/KYB workflows and aims to support use cases such as treasury management, regulated wrappers, and on-chain collateral. Boundary completed a security audit by Cyfrin and demonstrated a proof-of-concept for its protocol's self-funding capability through derisked decentralized market participation. The company has set an initial operational target of $100M in Total Value Locked (TVL) in 2026 and plans a Private Placement Campaign to onboard initial institutional partners. Boundary raised $2M in a pre-seed round led by Galaxy Ventures with participation from BlackWood, FirstBlock Capital, and other institutional partners and angels. The firm is based in New York City and is mandated by the Boundary Foundation and Boundary OpCo to lead the project's design, development, and commercial representation.
- Turnkey
Participated · Equity · May 2026
Turnkey builds programmable infrastructure that combines non-custodial embedded wallets with a verifiable cloud environment to enable automated on-chain transactions, gas sponsorship, and secure off-chain workload enforcement. The company powers major digital-asset platforms including Polymarket, Flutterwave, Anchorage Digital, and Tools for Humanity’s World App. Turnkey is led by CEO and co-founder Bryce Ferguson alongside co-founder Jack. It has raised over $65m in total funding to date and recently secured an additional $12.5m. The new capital is earmarked to accelerate the public launch of its Turnkey Verifiable Cloud, expand its engineering team, and grow operational infrastructure across crypto, fintech, and AI. The company is headquartered in New York City.