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    Faction

    Menlo Park, California, United StatesFounded 2022

    Faction is a blockchain-native venture capital firm backing disruptive crypto projects at the early stage, investing in the best entrepreneurs at Seed and Series A across both equity and tokens. It was launched as a joint venture with Lightspeed Venture Partners.

    They made 1 investments in the last 12 months. Their most common stage is seed (67% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $15.5M (across 6 rounds with reported amounts).

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    Portfolio

    5

    Fund Size

    $285M

    Top Stage

    Seed

    Last 12 Mo

    2

    Team

    SAMUEL HARRISON

    SAMUEL HARRISON

    Managing Partner

    BANAFSHEH FATHIEH

    BANAFSHEH FATHIEH

    General Partner

    Clara Boh

    Clara Boh

    Deal Partner

    RAYMOND FENG

    RAYMOND FENG

    Technical Partner

    TIM KHOURY

    TIM KHOURY

    Deal Partner

    WILL LEAS

    WILL LEAS

    Deal Partner

    Jaleesa Banwait

    Jaleesa Banwait

    Chief Of Staff

    Portfolio Breakdown

    Stage Distribution

    Investment Activity

    DealsAvg Round Size

    Portfolio

    6 investments
    CompanyRoundAmountDate
    DDiameter PaySeries A$10MJan 2026
    IInversion LabsSeed$26.5MSep 2025
    FFabric ProtocolUnknown$20MJan 2025
    IInversion LabsSeed$26.5MJan 2025
    FLock.io logoFLock.ioSeed$3M
    ZZero Delta (Glacis Labs)Seed$6.8M

    Top Co-Investors

    Last updated: 8 September 2026