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Pre-Pitch Briefing

Julien Passagne

Venture Partner at CV VC

Check size: CV VC publicly invests up to $500,000 in qualifying pre-seed and seed companies. CV Pad and launchpad transactions can have different token terms; no reliable public source establishes Julien's personal allocation authority.

Pre-SeedSeedToken LaunchBlockchain InfrastructureArtificial IntelligenceAI AgentsLayer 1Web3Digital AssetsDeveloper InfrastructureToken Networks

Their Thesis

Julien brings a technical, crypto-native lens to early blockchain and AI opportunities. His background spans building a Big Four blockchain practice, operating at a Layer-1 company, bootstrapping an eight-figure fund, and leading investment decisions for a token launchpad. Within CV VC's current mandate, the strongest fit is defensible frontier infrastructure—especially AI and autonomous systems intersecting with verifiable ownership, transactions, and coordination—rather than token narrative alone.

How to Pitch Them

Bring a technical architecture, security model, and working product—not only a white paper. Explain why decentralization is required, what the network or token does, how incentives resist extraction, how developers or users are acquired, and the path to regulatory and liquidity readiness. For AI-agent infrastructure, show identity, permissioning, verifiability, wallet security, and the loop by which the system improves.

What Excites Them

Technically deep founders; infrastructure that enables new behavior rather than repackaging existing crypto products; coherent architecture, security, and token utility; credible community and developer adoption; disciplined launch design; and teams that understand both protocol engineering and market formation.

What They Pass On

No personal pass list is public. His documented technical and fund-building background suggests weaker fit for copied protocols, token-first projects without durable utility, unaudited or weakly secured infrastructure, speculative communities without product usage, and teams unable to explain incentives, distribution, or regulatory exposure.

Key Frameworks

Protocol necessity test

Ask whether blockchain changes trust, ownership, coordination, or settlement in a way a conventional database cannot; reject tokenization that does not alter the product's value.

Token-system coherence

Trace token utility, supply, incentives, governance, liquidity, security, and regulatory exposure as one system rather than evaluating tokenomics in isolation.

Agent-onchain safety

For autonomous agents, assess wallet permissions, identity, verifiable computation, failure containment, and human control before valuing autonomy.

CV VC Portfolio

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L12

Stage Distribution

Seed1
Series A1
Casper NetworkL1
Seed
ConcordiumL1
Series A
Accelchain
Altify
Asvin
Fardoesoftware
Blocksport
Chroniclelabs
Coalapay
Coinrule

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