ABOUT
ESTD 2015
Blackletter is an investment firm based in Boulder, Colorado, founded by Daniel Scrivner in 2015. We back founders building what’s next with $50,000 to $1,000,000 at the earliest stages, and we invest from permanent capital.
At a glance
Legal name: Blackletter Capital LLC
Founded: 2015
Founder: Daniel Scrivner
Headquarters: 885 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder, CO 80302
Focus: Early-stage venture capital. Seed and Series A make up 97% of our investments.
Check size: $50,000 to $1,000,000
Also invests in: limited partnership interests, general partnership stakes, secondaries, private credit and crypto
Capital base: Permanent capital, with no fund lifecycle
Related fund: Ligature: The Design VC, established by Blackletter in 2019
Contact: general@blackletter.com
Blackletter (blackletter.com) is the Boulder, Colorado investment firm founded by Daniel Scrivner. It is not affiliated with unrelated companies that use the Blackletter name.
Portfolio
Blackletter has backed companies including Anthropic, Anduril, Mercury, Notion, Palantir, Perplexity, Ramp and Vercel, and funds including Avenir Growth, NfX and Weekend Fund. See the full portfolio.
Daniel Scrivner founded Blackletter in 2015.
Daniel Scrivner is VP of Design at Aleph and the founder of Blackletter. Before Aleph, he was Head of Creative at Dojo, the maker of ClassDojo, and Head of Design at Square and Digit, after starting his career as a designer at Apple. He also co-founded Ligature, the design VC, and writes about history’s greatest entrepreneurs and investors at danielscrivner.com.
