Brent & the Best Event

The party is the diligence.

Most Web3 funds source deals on Telegram. Brent Fulfer sources them at the door. As Co-Founder and General Partner of TBV, he runs an early-stage venture firm whose three arms - TBV the fund, TB Advisory, and The Best Event - exist to make sure the same founder shows up three different ways before a term sheet ever lands. Token2049 Singapore drew 8,000 RSVPs for 3,000 spots at the Marquee, where Brent and his partner Tobi reduced one of crypto's biggest weeks to a single guest list. At Devcon Bangkok in November 2024, TBV co-hosted with BitcoinOS at Portal and brought DJ SODA from Seoul. The fund is built on a tidy hypothesis: in a market with too many decks and not enough trust, the room you can throw is the moat you can defend.

He gets to that thesis honestly. Before TBV, Brent ran Investor Relations and Operations at Asymmetry Ventures in San Francisco, a deep tech firm where he scaled the team from one person to ten, built an MBA program and a Venture Partner Network, ran communications for 3,500-plus investors, and raised $21M-plus through SPVs across more than a hundred portfolio companies. Then he went to Singapore, sort of. As a Principal at Blockchain Founders Fund, a $75M vehicle, he ran the venture program and worked with fifteen to twenty founders a week on fundraising and go-to-market. He helped raise more than $40M for early-stage companies there. Across the resume, he has helped raise over $110M for startups doing direct, line-by-line work on pitch decks and intros. That is not a glamorous number; it is an operator's number.

The TBV pitch is more interesting because it does not try to hide what it is. TBV calls itself "an early-stage Web3 venture capital firm built around maximizing deal flow." It is unusually candid: the fund is the wrapper, the events are the funnel, the advisory practice is the customer loyalty program, and TBX, their AI-driven data platform, is the spreadsheet. Founders who get in the door get help raising. Founders who get help raising bring their friends. Friends become LPs. LPs come back to the next party. Repeat in Singapore. Repeat in Bangkok. Repeat in Bali, San Francisco, Paris. The geography is a feature.

It helps that Brent and Tobi have, between them, more than 100,000 people on Telegram and social tracking the brand they call "Web3 with Tobi & Brent." That is a number that quietly humiliates most fund newsletters. It is also a number that explains why founders return the email. In Web3 the distinction between sourcing and marketing has always been narrow; Brent has just stopped pretending it exists.

Watch him work a room and the small mechanics surface. He asks what you are building before he says what he does. He remembers the second answer better than the first. He keeps the introductions tight - two people, one reason, a context line you can paste into a follow-up. The hosting style is closer to a Vincent Musi portrait sitting than a VC mixer: warmer light, fewer props, the subject doing the talking. The same instinct shows up in TBV's branding, which leans hard into typographic confidence and small jokes. "The Best Event" is a name that survives only if you can throw one.

He grew up in California and graduated from California State University, Sacramento in 2012 with a degree in International Politics, not finance. The detail matters less than the fact that he has never used it as an excuse. His first venture role was as an Associate at Mana Ventures, where he helped raise $17M-plus for 45 startups. Each job since has been bigger and weirder. Each job since has involved more people, more events, more late checks, more time zones. He moved from deep tech to crypto in 2023, which in retrospect looks like a deliberate trade of dignity for distribution: deep tech wins are slower and quieter; crypto wins are loud and clustered, and they happen at parties.

TBV is geographically anchored in Southeast Asia and North America, the two regions where Brent thinks the next early-stage Web3 rounds will be led. He is not subtle about this. The fund's mandate is to lead rounds, not stuff allocations. That is a different kind of work and it pairs strangely well with the events business: leading rounds requires conviction; conviction requires repeat exposure; repeat exposure requires a reason to be in the room. He has the reason. He prints it on a wristband.

The thing he probably will not tell you, but is true, is that running a fund in 2026 is mostly a content business and a customer-success business with a small allocation problem at the end. Most VCs hate that framing. Brent appears to have built around it. Look at the org chart and you will find a fund, an advisory shop, and an event production studio. Look at the calendar and you will find Singapore in September, Bangkok in November, and a flight manifest for whatever the next 12 months hold. The vehicle is venture; the engine is hospitality.

The harder question is what he is for. Read his interviews, his LinkedIn, his X feed, and a thesis emerges: he is for the founders who can ship and host. The ones who can stand in front of a screen and a room. The ones whose communities show up before their KPIs do. The Web3 thesis is unfashionably old: distribution beats technology, and the people who can build distribution while also writing the code are vanishingly rare. TBV's bet is that Brent can find them, raise them, sell them, and pour them a drink, in that order.

If you want a single line that explains him, do not pick from his pitch deck. Pick from the math. 8,000 signups. 3,000 attendees. 37 percent acceptance. That is the funnel he ran in a single weekend in Singapore. The rest of TBV is just the same funnel applied to capital.