Bastion Ventures Totally Real VC Est. 2024 · Slack-Funded · Friend-Backed

We back the companies we invent in the group chat.

Bastion is a satire VC run by a tight circle of friends who treat every late-night brainstorm like a Series A. We fund surreal, delightful businesses that only exist because someone said, “wait… what if?”

The Bastion Manifesto

Every great venture starts with a group chat and a shared willingness to take a joke too far. We invest in ideas that feel like fever dreams, build decks with emojis, and measure traction in “laughs per minute.”

This is not a fund. This is a friendship with term sheets. If you can pitch it over voice notes, you are portfolio material.

Surreal Portfolio

Wellness Adjacent

Psychedelic & Yoga Retreats

Breathwork, forest baths, and a waiver long enough to qualify as literature.

Real Estate Ops

Heartfort (Theo's House)

Acquire, raise rent, and add public showers. Radical transparency meets tile grout.

Vertical Property

Frontier Tower Floor Fund

We own a whole floor. The elevator pitch is literal.

Culture & Commerce

Raves + Clothing

Ticketed dance rituals with a merch line that glows under blacklight.

Experiential Luxury

Philosophical VIP Dinners

Eight courses, five paradoxes, and a dessert that questions your free will.

The Chat Is the Fund

Bastion runs on voice notes, screen grabs, and an unhealthy love of naming fictional holding companies. We write checks in the form of encouragement and extremely specific GIFs.

“Due diligence” means someone Googles if the idea already exists. If it does, we improve it by adding a fog machine.

Pitch us the weird one.

We only respond to ideas that make at least three friends laugh out loud.