John Paul Milciunas

Founder + Managing Director at BaseLayer Ventures

📍 New York, New York, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 14 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2024
VC🌍 United States
14
Total investments
4
Early stage
1
Mid stage
1
Late stage
14y
Years active

Portfolio

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Investor
Apr 2024
Abra is a global digital asset wealth and treasury management platform providing clients a suite of sophisticated digital asset products and services. Clients can trade 500+ digital assets, borrow USD against their digital assets, and access yield opportunities through a multitude of strategies (including staking), all on a secure platform. Abra Prime serves institutions, BTC miners, ATMs and more, providing OTC trading, borrowing, derivatives, and lending. Abra Private is part of our SEC-registered investment advisor, serving high net worth investors, RIAs, family offices, and more providing custody, investment strategies, yield opportunities and BTC-backed loans, and more. These services are all provided by Abra directly, but can also be offered on behalf of other asset managers.
Investor + Advisor
Feb 2024
We’re TapHero and we’re here to make your service business more profitable and your meeting sessions more convenient – for you and your customers. Start with a 1:1 video chat, diagnose, and get paid automatically without dispatching trucks. Set yourself apart from your competitors and get paid without customers leaving the comfort of their home or office. It’s never been easier to be a hero with TapHero.
Investor + Advisor
Aug 2023
Olympus is the safer way for users to connect their data to AI.
Investor
Apr 2023
Supermind is a precision mental health therapy for depression, anxiety, and PTSD. Using EEG brainwave data to personalize treatment plans, Supermind therapy combines CBT, MBSR and neuro-biofeedback, with preliminary data showing 86-90% of patients have clinically meaningful improvement (n=54) (20% or greater improvement).
Investor + Board Observer
Jan 2023
BrandGuard is the world’s #1 AI-powered brand governance platform. We teach machines to understand brands better than anyone else in the world. With a skilled team, advanced tech, and strong ties to top brands, our leading platform accelerates approvals, monitors AI-generated brand assets, and ensures consistency at every customer touchpoint.
Investor
May 2022
Mighty Health is the first all-in-one exercise, nutrition, and chronic health program designed for adults 50+. Mighty partners with leading Medicare Advantage and commercial plans to cover over 9 million lives nationwide.
Investor
Apr 2022
Mytaverse is the enterprise B2B Metaverse, enabling customers to connect people, products, and ideas through persistent branded showrooms, meeting spaces, and executive briefing centers in 3D immersive environments. We help customers with distributed workforce connect with their employees and external stakeholders in an engaging, meaningful way. Customers use Mytaverse to accelerate their sales cycles, maintain company culture, create unique experiences, and collect actionable metrics in a secure, controlled environment. ABOUT MYTAVERSE Mytaverse is building the Metaverse for enterprise. Founded in 2020 by Kenneth Landau and Jaime Lopez, Mytaverse is a cloud-based platform that allows 3D-immersive, multiplayer workplace environments. Mytaverse takes a hardware-agnostic approach, enabling users to enter the metaverse via any browser on any device, from mobile to desktop to VR goggles. Mytaverse raised a $7.6mm Seed Round in February 2022, led by Blumberg Capital. Companies like PepsiCo, Dassault Corporation, Zaha Hadid Architects, Asian Sky group, and Tekni-plex have already experienced the power of Mytaverse to bring their teams, partners, and customers together. Mytaverse allows companies to experience face-to-face interactions anytime, anywhere, from any device.
Angel Investor Fellowship - ODA6
Mar 2022
Our mission is to help more people start better startups. ODF is a program we created over four years ago to help those at the exploration stage of starting a company. So far, weve helped over 1000 companies get started and raise over $2 billion. Starting a company is really exciting, but there are so many things you need to figure out in order to actually build one. - "Who might I start my company with?" - “What might we build?” - “Who might our initial customers be?” - “Should we raise funding soon, or should we try to bootstrap in the beginning?" These and many more questions are what we refer to as the "missing pieces"—the things you need to figure out to know if starting a company is right for you and what company you should ultimately build. With ODF, we bring together 80 to 100 people who are at the very same stage as you. Theyre all exceptionally talented, and theyre all trying to figure it out together.
Investor (EXITED)
Jan 2022
Archive is a technology company that enables brands to launch and scale profitable resale businesses. We work with more than 50 global brands including The North Face, Oscar de la Renta, and New balance to develop innovative resale programs that keep products in use, while simultaneously bringing in a new revenue stream, building customer loyalty, and driving new customer acquisition. Our proprietary software includes both a customized, user-centric online marketplace site, as well as the underlying infrastructure and operations to power a brand’s global resale strategy.
Investor + Board Observer
Jan 2022
A fully integrated AI platform optimizing eCommerce from acquisitions to fulfillment. Subscribe to our newsletter series to become an ecommerce expert in no time! https://ecommerceacceleration.substack.com/
Investor + VP of G.S.D.
Mar 2012
Braze is the leading customer engagement platform that empowers brands to Be Absolutely Engaging.™ Braze allows any marketer to collect and take action on any amount of data from any source, so they can creatively engage with customers in real time, across channels from one platform. From cross-channel messaging and journey orchestration to Al-powered experimentation and optimization, Braze enables companies to build and maintain absolutely engaging relationships with their customers that foster growth and loyalty. The company has been recognized as a 2024 U.S. News & World Report Best Companies to Work For, 2024 Best Small & Medium Workplaces in Europe by Great Place to Work®, 2024 Fortune Best Workplaces for Women™ by Great Place to Work® and was named a Leader by Gartner® in the 2024 Magic Quadrant™ for Multichannel Marketing Hubs and a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Email Marketing Service Providers, Q3 2024. Braze is headquartered in New York with 15 offices across AMER, LATAM, EMEA, and APAC. Learn more at braze.com.
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2024
Investor
Apr 2024
Abra is a global digital asset wealth and treasury management platform providing clients a suite of sophisticated digital asset products and services. Clients can trade 500+ digital assets, borrow USD against their digital assets, and access yield opportunities through a multitude of strategies (including staking), all on a secure platform. Abra Prime serves institutions, BTC miners, ATMs and more, providing OTC trading, borrowing, derivatives, and lending. Abra Private is part of our SEC-registered investment advisor, serving high net worth investors, RIAs, family offices, and more providing custody, investment strategies, yield opportunities and BTC-backed loans, and more. These services are all provided by Abra directly, but can also be offered on behalf of other asset managers.
Investor + Advisor
Feb 2024
We’re TapHero and we’re here to make your service business more profitable and your meeting sessions more convenient – for you and your customers. Start with a 1:1 video chat, diagnose, and get paid automatically without dispatching trucks. Set yourself apart from your competitors and get paid without customers leaving the comfort of their home or office. It’s never been easier to be a hero with TapHero.
2023
Investor + Advisor
Aug 2023
Olympus is the safer way for users to connect their data to AI.
Investor
Apr 2023
Supermind is a precision mental health therapy for depression, anxiety, and PTSD. Using EEG brainwave data to personalize treatment plans, Supermind therapy combines CBT, MBSR and neuro-biofeedback, with preliminary data showing 86-90% of patients have clinically meaningful improvement (n=54) (20% or greater improvement).
Investor
Mar 2023
Atomic is the venture studio that pioneered the model of starting companies by pairing founders with the best ideas, teams, and resources. When entrepreneurs team up with Atomic, they join a group of experienced founders and a ready-made team of experts who have successfully built many companies, generating billions of dollars in value. Our fourth fund of $320 million is used exclusively to fund companies started at Atomic.
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