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Pre-Pitch Briefing

Frank Hourigan

Partner, Head of Operations at 1confirmation

Check size: Not publicly disclosed. Public databases show 1confirmation joining early-stage crypto rounds, but round size should not be mistaken for the firm's check size.

Pre-SeedSeedSeries AEarly StageBlockchainCryptocurrencyDecentralized NetworksWeb3 InfrastructureDeFiConsumer CryptoNFTsOnchain Markets

Their Thesis

Frank's public role centers on the operational side of 1confirmation, an early-stage fund supporting founders who decentralize the web and society. His background in regulated finance, asset management, and crypto-fund operations is most relevant to fund structure, risk, execution, and helping a small specialist team operate across venture and digital assets; no separate personal investment thesis is publicly documented.

How to Pitch Them

Frame the company as an early-stage decentralization opportunity and separate durable product utility from token or market narrative. Show founder authenticity, technical or social novelty, real crypto-user demand, responsible operating structure, and the long-term reason an open network wins. Frank's public remit suggests operational and fund-structure questions should be answered precisely.

What Excites Them

At the firm level, 1confirmation seeks exceptional founders building useful, meaningfully innovative products that decentralize the web and society and can endure beyond a short-lived market narrative.

What They Pass On

No personal pass criteria are public. The firm's published and publicly discussed lens disfavors marketing-led crypto narratives without useful products, authentic technical or social innovation, or long-term founder conviction.

Key Frameworks

Operational durability for crypto funds

Assess whether fund and portfolio operations can withstand regulatory, market, custody, and execution stress rather than optimizing only for a favorable crypto cycle.

1confirmation Portfolio

Top Sectors

NFT1
DeFi1
Infrastructure1
Layer 11

Stage Distribution

Token2
Series A1
Seed1
Indexcoop
Gno
Koop
Gokarsa
End
Ethereum
Polymarket
OpenSea
Bitcoin
Worldcoin

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