Maven11

Managing Partners Balder Bomans and Mathijs van Esch lead investment decisions. The firm's research and deal execution flow through the partnership, maintaining a flat, conviction-weighted structure typical of early-stage crypto-native funds.

Maven11 invests in the infrastructure layer of decentralized networks — layer-1 blockchains, oracles, cross-chain communication protocols, and modular blockchain architectures. The firm explicitly prioritizes primitives that other applications can build on top of, rather than consumer-facing dApps.

The firm was an early backer of Chainlink, the decentralized oracle network; Cosmos, the interoperable blockchain ecosystem; and Celestia, the modular data-availability layer. These three positions, across distinct infrastructure sub-sectors, define the thesis coherence that allocators cite when evaluating the firm.

Maven11 deploys primarily through direct equity and token investments from its own pooled vehicles, rather than acting as a fund-of-funds. The firm is not known for making LP commitments into other crypto venture funds.

The management company operates from Amsterdam, while its investment vehicles are domiciled in the Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands — a common structure for crypto-native firms that need to accommodate both equity and token investments across multiple jurisdictions.

Maven11 actively pursues both equity and token-side exposure, often securing token warrants alongside equity rounds in early-stage protocols. This dual-track approach reflects the firm's view that infrastructure-layer protocols will ultimately derive value from token economic models rather than traditional SaaS equity multiples.

Publicly, Maven11 is known only for its venture funds. There is no disclosed liquid-token vehicle, hedge fund strategy, or separately managed account business, though the firm does hold and manage post-launch token positions from its early-stage investments.