We Back Builders Before the Story is Obvious.
Arcanum Ventures is an early-stage venture capital and advisory firm backing pre-seed and seed founders across AI, fintech, blockchain, and other frontier technologies.
The New Venture Capital Model
Arcanum Ventures combines early-stage venture capital with hands-on advisory for founders working across frontier technology.
We enter at the pre-seed and seed stages, then support teams across strategy, fundraising, go-to-market, business development, business strategy, and growth.
Conviction Before Consensus
The best early-stage companies rarely look obvious at the beginning. We look for founders with strong conviction, technologies with real utility, and markets where new capabilities can create lasting change.
We bring capital, operating experience, and honest perspective to the table, while giving founders the room to build something that does not yet fit neatly into an existing category.
Across the Frontier Technology Ecosystem
Arcanum works alongside founders, investors, institutions, and technology companies across some of the world’s fastest-moving emerging markets.
Why We Built Arcanum
Venture Capital Should Be More Useful.
Arcanum exists around a simple belief: the earliest stages of building a company are too complex for capital alone.
Founders are making consequential decisions about product, markets, fundraising, positioning, incentives, distribution, and growth, often all at once. We built Arcanum to work closer to those problems, combining early-stage venture capital with the experience, network, and company-building capabilities that can help turn conviction into a lasting business.
We do not believe investors need to run the companies they back. We do believe they should be willing and able to contribute when it counts.
THE PEOPLE BEHIND ARCANUM
Sasha Asheghi
Founding Partner
Sasha is a problem solver by trade with a strong intuition for business strategy. Having spent over a decade in operations and project management, he understands the need for creating a strong foundation to ensure consistent business growth. Sasha has helped take dozens of blockchain products and projects to market since 2020.
Carmelo Giuliano
Founding Partner
With 20+ years in finance, Carmelo is a savvy investor/entrepreneur with a strong background in marketing, research, and business management across a multitude of industries. With extensive travels and immersion into different cultures around the world, Carmelo’s passion for financial independence, empowering others, and improving the world through cutting edge technology has continued to grow.
Evelin Csányi, Ph.D
Operations Manager
Evelin is an operations leader with a strong foundation in project leadership and cross-disciplinary coordination. With a Ph.D. in Chemistry, she has led multi-stakeholder initiatives and collaborated across global institutions to deliver high-impact projects. She has published peer-reviewed research on quantum materials, presented at international conferences, and organized public-outreach events, bringing academic rigor and a structured execution to fast-moving environments.
King Fatrick Añasco
Research Analyst
King is a dedicated researcher and an innovator by profession with a firm affinity for blockchain. He recognizes the value of information in keeping businesses ahead of the curve and capitalizing on the data gathered. Since 2014, he has worked in the agricultural, medical, and eCommerce industries and is now exploring the possibilities of blockchain technology.
Uri Charles
Technical Advisor
Uri is a technical expert with over a decade of experience, specializing in the intersection of artificial intelligence and Web3. He’s previously built blockchains, designed protocols for cross-chain interoperability, and developed multiple decentralized applications across different blockchain platforms.
Build What Comes Next
We work with founders, investors, and partners who share our conviction that the most interesting opportunities often emerge before the market agrees on what they are.
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