Thomas Klocanas

After 3+ years of building @BlockTower VC, we’re extremely excited to double down on teams who push the space forward in our next chapter, as we spin out the franchise, portfolio and team with my partners @spvenino33 & @winnielaux under a new independent venture focused firm: @strobefund.

gm 🗽

last @strobefund Padel Williamsburg roof session with @SkyEcosystem of the season and we've got room for a few more

come join us if you want to meet/catch up with founders and leaders in DeFi, and get some good games in:
luma.com/wb45ad5y

this week in @strobefund portfolio:
- @superformxyz Earn Stocks
- @ethena x @EtherFi white label stablecoin
- @Architect_Fi Liquid Inference

and @Ledger Op3n loading for next week 👀

When @humancapitol walked us @strobefund through @tarecredit’s vision, one thing immediately struck us: the scale of the problem and opportunity in what is often seen as boring credit piping, and rarely challenged despite its inefficiencies.

Trillions of dollars evaporate into legacy infrastructure; origination fees, servicing middlemen, fragmented rails. Not because that's the right cost structure, but simply because no one has rebuilt the pipes in decades (spoiler, it’s not easy).

Today, @tarecredit is rebuilding those pipes, obsessing over every little problem in the supply chain today.
Onchain loan infrastructure, AI native servicing, and a direct lending product that proves the model before opening it to the market.

We invested in @tarecredit because we believe the next generation of credit infrastructure won't look like the last one. Tare is a strong signal of what's coming. @humancapitol, @lucasvo, and @keerthimoudgal are the avengers of tokenization, and we’re proud to back them in their journey.

One of our core theses here at @strobefund is how blockchains and onchain primitives will replatform different industries.

This morning we chatted about the replatforming of Sotheby’s, and now we’re sitting down with leaders in TradFi and DeFi to chat about how Wall Street will be replatformed on crypto rails.

@humancapitol sits down with @itsbhaji (@Centrifuge), @PaulFrambot (@MorphoLabs), Nick Cherney (@JanusHenderson) and Max Stein (@BlackRock) to chat about how DeFi protocols are actually partnering with major financial institutions.