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CV VC

Venture capital

Zug · Pre-Seed–Series A · 41 people tracked

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Investment thesis

CV VC backs early-stage, category-defining founders building companies powered by AI and blockchain across Europe, the USA, and the Middle East. It views AI as becoming embedded in every function once requiring human judgment, with blockchain providing trust and authenticity. Its strategy centers on three pillars: Digital Finance (programmable, verifiable financial infrastructure), Automation (AI, robotics, and autonomous systems redefining physical and digital labor), and Intelligent B2B (active intelligence layers orchestrating complex value chains). Through its venture capital fund suite, CV VC offers qualified investors exposure to frontier technologies, while its CV Labs arm supports startups, corporates, and investors with acceleration programs and ecosystem services.

Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.

Stage
Pre-Seed–Series A
Check
$1 – $500K
HQ
Zug, CH
Instruments
Equity
Founded
2019
Tracked investments
64

Team · 41 people

from the firm's website & curated
Diana Seara· Facility Management
Rony Vogel· Advisor (Africa)
Sascha Erni· Head of Operations

What they invest in

from 36 of 64 portfolio companies

Fintech ×19Crypto & Web3 ×18AI & Machine Learning ×13SaaS ×10Cybersecurity ×9Data & Infrastructure ×6Deep Tech ×3Developer Tools ×3

HQs:United States×3Switzerland×2Germany×2United Kingdom×2South Africa×2Egypt×1

Who they back

founder profiles across 9 portfolio companies
67%
solo founders
6 of 9 mapped founding teams

Founding team size:solo founder×62 founders×13 founders×2

Investments · 64 tracked

founders shown can be your intro path

By year:2024 · 12023 · 12020 · 13 dated

Accelchainaccelchain.xyz

AI-powered no-code platform for building, testing, and deploying secure decentralized applications on blockchain

Assembl

Software platform that interconnects scientific data sources and incentivizes data interchange

Asvinasvin.ioin

asvin provides an AI-powered cybersecurity platform for protecting complex OT, IoT, and agentic AI environments.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityIoT

Block Sportblocksport.ioin𝕏

Blocksport offers a SuperApp and a data platform ("Cockpit Hub") that helps sports organizations engage fans through gamification, collect fan data, and run marketing campaigns to convert fans into subscribers and buyers.

AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaSSports Tech

Vladimir Liulka(Chairman & Founder)inArtem Nefedov(Head of Product)inBohdan Yurchuk(CTO)in

Co-investorsBlockrocketSyntax Capital

BlockFrauds

AI-powered fraud detection platform for insurers using advanced speech and image analytics

Chronicle Labschroniclelabs.org

Co-investors6th Man VenturesBitDAOMantle NetworkUDHC

Chronicle Protocol

Blockchain-agnostic Oracle solution for scalable, decentralized, and verifiable on-chain data transfer

Coala Paycoalapay.orgin𝕏

Coala Pay provides a settlement layer and payment infrastructure for humanitarian and development aid programs, handling institutional grants, household cash transfers, frontline worker payments, and vendor settlements.

Crypto & Web3FintechImpact & Social Good

Co-investorsLattice CapitalReflexive CapitalCastle Island VenturesCommerce VenturesFactor Capital

coinpanionaltify.appin𝕏

Altify is a regulated investing platform offering access to alternative and traditional assets including private credit, tokenised stocks, cryptocurrencies, crypto bundles, commodities, stablecoins, structured products, and pre-IPO stocks.

AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3FintechLondon, GB

Sean Sanders(CEO & Founder)in

Co-investorsFounders Factory AfricaAdaverseCalm/Storm VCCoastCapHansmann Family Office

Coinrulecoinrule.comin𝕏

Coinrule provides automated cryptocurrency trading bots that execute buy and sell strategies on crypto exchanges without requiring coding.

AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3FintechSaaSLondon, GB

Gabriele Musella(CEO, Founder)inOleg Giberstein(Founder)inZdeněk Höfler(Founder)in

Co-investorsKube VCNZVCUrban InnovationY Combinator

Cyberacybera.aiin

Cybera provides IT and SCADA security consulting services to organizations across multiple sectors, including risk assessments, penetration testing, security architecture design, and compliance management.

Cybersecurity

Co-investorsArgon VenturesFounder CollectiveNew North Ventures

Cyberacybera.ioin

CYBERA is an AI-powered mule intelligence and scam response company that provides financial institutions with real-time intelligence on mule accounts to prevent authorized payment fraud before funds leave the system.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityFintech

Co-investorsArmada Investment AGBantam GroupConvergeDreamit VenturesK20 FundNew North Ventures+1 more

DoxyChaindoxychain.comin

Blockchain-based document management system providing cost-effective infrastructure for enterprise document handling

Co-investorsLevel2 Ventures

Envioenvio.devin𝕏

Envio provides blockchain data infrastructure for developers, including HyperSync (a high-speed on-chain data retrieval layer), HyperIndex (a multichain indexer that turns smart contract events into a queryable GraphQL API), and HyperRPC.

Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools

Co-investorsMaven 11

Fastaggerfastagger.com

Fastagger builds AI infrastructure that runs machine learning models on-device on low-end (4GB) Android smartphones and edge devices, offering SMS-based field workforce attendance/patrol verification, a document foundation model (Auni) for African financial documents, super-app embedded AI, and computer vision at the edge.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechFintech

fijafija.financein𝕏

Fija offers a platform for accessing curated, risk-assessed DeFi yield strategies (such as USDC and crvUSD yield products and an Aave optimizer) that let users earn yield on their crypto in one click.

Crypto & Web3Fintech

Forward Protocolforwardprotocol.io
Fungiesfungies.ioin𝕏

Fungies.io provides a no-code e-store and payment platform where it acts as Merchant of Record, handling payment processing and tax compliance for sellers of digital products.

E-commerceFintechGamingSaaSPalo Alto, US

Duke Vu(CEO & Founder)in

Co-investorsDEPO VenturesOutlier Ventures

GenTwogentwo.comin

GenTwo provides infrastructure and a platform (GenTwo Pro, powered by investOS) for financial institutions and asset managers to turn any investment strategy or asset into a bankable security with an ISIN.

Crypto & Web3FintechSaaS

Co-investorsPoint72 Ventures

GK8gk8.ioin𝕏acquired by Celsius Network

GK8 developed self-managed digital asset custody technology for institutions, including a patented air-gapped cold vault and MPC-based wallet infrastructure.

Crypto & Web3CybersecurityFintech

Co-investorsIN VentureaMooniAngels

HouseAfricahouseafrica.ioMar 2023 · $400K

Real estate virtual siteemap platform enabling remote property interactions and accelerating sales processes

Co-investorsAdaverseFuture AfricaNiche CapitalStartupbootcamp AfriTech

Ivorypayivorypay.ioin𝕏

Ivorypay provides a bi-directional crypto and stablecoin payment infrastructure that lets African businesses accept payments from global customers and pay suppliers internationally, with automatic settlement to local African currencies via banks and mobile money.

Crypto & Web3FintechSaaS

Co-investorsBlockchain Founders Fund

Jamitjamit.appin𝕏

Jamit is a mobile app for discovering and listening to audio stories through a swipeable feed, where users can react to, boost, and share stories.

ConsumerCreator EconomyMedia & Entertainment

Kasikasi.moneyin𝕏Dec 2020

Kasi is a fully digital, mobile banking service offering a Mastercard debit card, EFTs, bill payments, savings goals, auto-investing, international money transfers, and access to loans and credit.

FintechReston, US

Johnson Agogbua(Executive Officer, Director)Mark Adams(Director)

Lawyerd!lawyerd.netin𝕏

Lawyerd provides supervised content-takedown and online reputation services, removing unauthorized use of brands, copyrighted material, defamatory press, clone domains, phishing pages, counterfeit listings and deepfakes across 30+ jurisdictions under statutes such as the Berne Convention, EU Directive 2019/790, the DMCA and GDPR Article 17.

Crypto & Web3CybersecurityLegalTechWrocław, PL

Unnamed founder(Founder)

Co-investorsTechstars

Letoleto.gg𝕏

Leto provides an IPFS gateway that serves content to end-users while generating anonymous, open analytics on how IPFS objects are requested across the network.

Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools

manifestmanifest.finance𝕏

Manifest is a financial protocol that tokenizes U.S. residential real estate as an ERC-20 token called USH, enabling global users to stake, earn yield, and access liquidity through decentralized finance.

Crypto & Web3Fintech

Co-investorsCompoundLattice CapitalFirst Round CapitalKleiner PerkinsMenlo VenturesQuiet Capital

Mazzumamazzuma.com

Cryptocurrency payment ecosystem providing low-cost, instantaneous transactions for mass adoption

Co-investorsAdaverse

Money Math Games

Educational app teaching children financial literacy and positive money management through gamified learning

Mycelmycel.land𝕏

Mycel is a blockchain infrastructure for cross-chain asset exchange, using an Ownership Transfer Protocol (OTP) and a CometBFT-based consensus layer (HyphaBFT) to swap native tokens across isolated blockchain ecosystems.

Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDeep Tech

Co-investorsNotch VenturesIndustrial Bank of KoreaKorea Development Bank

Natixnatix.ioin𝕏

NATIX operates a decentralized, crowdsourced camera network that collects and validates multi-camera video data from smartphones and Tesla vehicles to support physical AI, autonomous driving, and advanced mapping.

AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Mobility & Transportation

Co-investorsBlockrocket

NATIXnatix.networkin𝕏

NATIX operates a decentralized, crowdsourced camera network that collects multi-camera driving and street-level data globally.

AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDeep TechMobility & TransportationHamburg, DE

Alireza GhodsinOmid MogharianinUlrich Lages(CEO & Founder)inLorenz Muckin

Co-investorsBorderless VentureDigital Currency GroupEv3 Ventures LlcInception Capital (ex OP Crypto)Mulana CapitalRR2 Capital+10 more

Novum

Self-hosted advertising platform allowing publishers and advertisers to serve ads and manage campaigns on-premise

Novumpathnovumpath.comin

Novum provides an advertising platform that lets advertisers collect and store first-party campaign performance data on their own servers, with a marketplace offering a direct advertiser-to-publisher supply path for real-time bidding and programmatic deals.

AdTechData & InfrastructureMarketing Tech

Co-investorsBlockchain Founders Capital

Nuvlionuvlio.comin𝕏

Nuvlio provides AI-based risk models, autonomous monitoring agents, and agricultural data services for assessing credit, insurance, reinsurance, trade finance, and environmental risks.

AgTechAI & Machine LearningFintech

OkHiokhi.comin𝕏

OkHi provides AI-powered digital address verification that businesses integrate into their mobile apps to capture and verify where customers live.

AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaSNairobi, KE

Timbo Drayson(Founder)

Co-investorsBetatron Venture GroupFounders Factory AfricaGarage CapitalLava Ventures Ltd.Mo AngelsOui Capital+1 more

Open Source Economyopen-source-economy.com

Decentralized network addressing funding challenges in open-source development while maintaining core values of transparency

Orcaorca-fraud.comin

Orca Fraud provides real-time transaction monitoring and AI-based anomaly detection that integrates directly into payment flows for banks and fintechs, covering onboarding, transaction authorisation, merchant monitoring and case workflows.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityFintechCape Town, ZA

Thalia Pillay(CEO)

Co-investorsEnza CapitalFirst CircleMusha Ventures

Orca Fraud

Real-time fraud intelligence platform for payment environments using adaptive intelligence in transaction flows

Orviumorvium.io

Blockchain-based scientific publishing platform offering decentralized peer review and reduced publication timelines

Picnic

Decentralized investment platform enabling simple and secure investment in digital assets through smart accounts

Ponosponos.technology

Zero-knowledge proof acceleration platform optimizing ZK proving solutions for blockchain protocols and appchains

Pravicapravica.ioin𝕏

Pravica provides institutional-grade infrastructure that enables banks and enterprises to adopt programmable money for use cases such as digital payments, remittances, and global settlement.

Crypto & Web3Enterprise SoftwareFintech

Mohamed Abdou

Co-investors500 GlobalAdaverseModus Capital

Proofproof.ioin

Proof provides sustainability business intelligence and compliance services combining expert advisors, data procurement, and AI automation to help organizations manage regulatory risk, disclosure, and reporting.

AI & Machine LearningClimate TechSaaS

Co-investorsBlockchain Founders CapitalBuilders FundOxonian VenturesWorking Capital Fund

Proof of Impactproofofimpact.comFeb 2024

Miami, US

Fleur Heyns(Executive Officer, Director)Chadd Evans(Director)Oskar Miel(Director)Karl Kleissner(Director)Kevin Farrelly(Director)Jeffrey Kaditz(Director)

Co-investorsAusum Ventures

Provablyprovably.aiin𝕏

Provably.ai builds SourceryKit, an SDK that creates verifiable handoffs between AI agents, tools, and networks so downstream agents can confirm answers came from the correct source and were not altered.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper Tools

Co-investorsNazare VenturesTRGC

Purpose

Impact investment platform offering verified on-chain carbon reduction with financial returns

Pyrposepyrpose.io
Repporeppo.xyzin𝕏
Reppo Labs

Platform simplifying Web3 technology for enterprise adoption and enabling decentralized AI model development

Scorechainscorechain.comin𝕏

Scorechain provides blockchain analytics and AML compliance software for wallet screening, transaction monitoring, and fund-flow investigation across 21+ blockchains.

Crypto & Web3CybersecurityFintechLuxembourg, LU

Co-investorsTioga Capital Partners

ServBlockservblock.comin𝕏

ServBlock provides a platform for material traceability, verification, and compliance management across supply chains, letting users confirm an asset's geographic location in a tamper-proof way.

Enterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply ChainSaaS

Shamba Recordsshambarecords.com
Soda Worldsodaworld.tv

Co-investorsExpert DOJO

Talentirtalentir.comin𝕏

Talentir provides a payout infrastructure layer that automates global mass payments, acting as Merchant of Record to handle KYC, AML, tax and compliance liability for payees, and delivering funds in the recipient's chosen method and currency.

Crypto & Web3FintechSaaS

Co-investorsBlockchain Founders Capital

Turnstayturnstay.comin

TurnStay provides payment processing and global finance infrastructure for African travel businesses, helping them reduce booking fees and transaction costs through a platform offering multiple currency options and lower payment processing rates.

B2B MarketplacesFintechTravel & Hospitality

Alon Stern(Founder)in

Co-investorsDigital Currency GroupEnza CapitalFirst CircleIncisive VenturesTLcom CapitalDFS Lab

Ubiubi.telin𝕏

Ubitel offers an eSIM and companion app providing mobile data in over 200 countries without roaming fees on 4G/5G networks.

ConsumerSaaSTravel & Hospitality

Ubitel

Internet connectivity platform building cheaper and faster global ISP infrastructure using open hardware and zero-knowledge proofs

Usepicnicusepicnic.com
Vereignvereign.comin

Vereign builds Verimesh (formerly the Stargate project), an infrastructure layer for verified exchange between organisations that replaces centralised trust systems with bilateral cryptographic verification, where each organisation manages its own identity without a certificate authority.

CybersecurityData & InfrastructureDigital HealthEnterprise SoftwareZug, CH

Georg Greve(Geschäftsführer (Managing Director) & Co-founder)inDr. Felix Greve(Chief Operating Officer & Co-founder)in

Exits · 1

IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolio

GK8acq. by Celsius Network

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Frequently asked questions

How many investments has CV VC made?
CV VC has 63 tracked investments, 1 of which have exited via acquisition or IPO.
What stage does CV VC invest at?
CV VC invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
What is CV VC's typical check size?
CV VC typically writes checks of $1 – $500K.
What sectors does CV VC focus on?
CV VC focuses on AgTech, AI & Machine Learning, Crypto & Web3, Cybersecurity, Deep Tech, Defense Tech, EdTech, Enterprise Software, Fintech, Healthtech, Robotics, SaaS.
Where is CV VC located?
CV VC is headquartered in Zug, CH.
Who does CV VC co-invest with?
CV VC most often shares deals with Adaverse, Blockchain Founders Capital, Digital Currency Group, among 56 tracked co-investors.

Media · Podcasts & interviews

featuring the team

#CVApodcast with Mathias Ruch from CV VC and CV Labs

Crypto Valley · Mathias Ruch

Mathias Ruch - Founder CV VC

CV VC · Mathias Ruch

From Dot-Com to Blockchain Entrepreneur - Mathias Ruch, Lakeside Partners/CV VC

Manuel Stagars · Mathias Ruch

WEB3 HUB DAVOS 2026: Investing In The Future

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Lisk Africa Incubation Hub Demo Day

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Meet CV VC's new Head of Acceleration

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