CV VC
Venture capitalZug · 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.
Team · 41 people
from the firm's website & curatedWhat they invest in
from 39 of 68 portfolio companiesFintech ×23Crypto & Web3 ×19AI & Machine Learning ×14SaaS ×12Cybersecurity ×10Data & Infrastructure ×9Enterprise Software ×7Deep Tech ×4
HQs:United States×5Switzerland×3Germany×2United Kingdom×2South Africa×2Canada×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 20 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×152 founders×23 founders×14+ founders×2
Where their founders studiedfrom 20 founders with education data
University of Cape Town ×2University of Oxford ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 21 founders with field-of-study data
Computer Science ×6Business & Management ×5Engineering ×4Mathematics & Statistics ×3Politics & Policy ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 24 founders with career history
NATIX ×2PwC Deutschland ×2Videobeat Networks GmbH ×2
3 founders hold a PhD · 2 hold an MBA (of 22 with degree data) · backed the same founder in 2+ companies: 2 founders
Investments · 68 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2024 · 12023 · 22022 · 32020 · 17 dated
AI-powered no-code platform for building, testing, and deploying secure decentralized applications on blockchain
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
Coala Pay simplifies cross-border money transfers for humanitarian aid organizations, delivering more local currency than traditional banking rates.
Crypto & Web3FintechImpact & Social GoodSaaS
Co-investorsLattice CapitalReflexive CapitalCastle Island VenturesCommerce VenturesFactor Capital
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
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
Cybera provides AI-powered intelligence on fraudulent mule accounts to banks, enabling detection of internal threats and blocking of unauthorized payments.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityFintech
Patrick Peterson(CEO)in
Co-investorsArmada Investment AGBantam GroupConvergeDreamit VenturesK20 FundNew North Ventures+3 more
Cybera is a cybersecurity and technology operations organization that provides security delivery, network administration, and IT operations services.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityEdTechEnterprise SoftwareGovTechImpact & Social GoodAlberta, CA
Joe TopjianinBarb Carra(President and CEO)
Co-investorsEdmonton UnlimitedCorrelation VenturesDreamit VenturesFounder CollectiveK20 FundNew North Ventures+1 more
Blockchain-based document management system providing cost-effective infrastructure for enterprise document handling
Co-investorsLevel2 Ventures
Inacta is a Swiss IT consulting and software company that helps businesses with digital transformation, including process automation, custom AI-assisted software development, and document/data processing.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintech
Balz A. Gut(CEO)
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
Jason Smythe(Founder)in
Co-investorsMaven 11
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
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
Co-investorsDEPO VenturesOutlier Ventures
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
GK8 developed self-managed digital asset custody technology for institutions, including a patented air-gapped cold vault and MPC-based wallet infrastructure.
Crypto & Web3CybersecurityFintech
Lior Lamesh(Founder)in
Co-investorsIN VentureaMooniAngels
Real estate virtual siteemap platform enabling remote property interactions and accelerating sales processes
Co-investorsAdaverseFuture AfricaNiche CapitalStartupbootcamp AfriTech
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
Oluwatobi Ajayi(Founder)in
Co-investorsBlockchain Founders Fund
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 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
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
Co-investors9Yards CapitalGreycroftTiger Global Management
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
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
Taro Kimura(Founder)in
Co-investorsNotch VenturesIndustrial Bank of KoreaKorea Development Bank
NATIX builds a decentralized camera network powered by crowdsourced data to support Physical AI applications, autonomous vehicles, and world models across industries.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureMobility & Transportation
Alireza GhodsinLorenz MuckinOmid MogharianinUlrich Lages(CEO & Founder)in
Co-investorsBlockrocket
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)inAlireza Ghods, Ph.D(Core contributor - CEO)inLorenz Muckin
Co-investorsBorderless VentureDigital Currency GroupEv3 Ventures LlcInception Capital (ex OP Crypto)Mulana CapitalRR2 Capital+10 more
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
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)in
Co-investorsBetatron Venture GroupFounders Factory AfricaGarage CapitalLava Ventures Ltd.Mo AngelsOui Capital+1 more
Decentralized network addressing funding challenges in open-source development while maintaining core values of transparency
Orca provides an AI-powered fraud orchestration platform designed to detect and prevent digital fraud in traditional and decentralised financial systems, with a focus on emerging markets in Africa.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityFintechCape Town, ZA
Thalia Pillay(CEO)Carla
Co-investorsNorrsken22Enza CapitalFirst CircleMusha Ventures
Blockchain-based scientific publishing platform offering decentralized peer review and reduced publication timelines
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
Co-investors500 GlobalAdaverseModus Capital
Proof provides sustainability, compliance, and impact management solutions for organizations navigating business-critical challenges around capital access, regulatory exposure, and value creation.
AI & Machine LearningClimate TechData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintechImpact & Social GoodSaaS
Co-investorsBlockchain Founders CapitalBuilders FundOxonian VenturesWorking Capital Fund
Proof provides online notarization and identity verification tools to establish trust for agreements and records executed remotely.
CybersecurityFintechGovTechLegalTechSaaS
Pat Kinsel(Founder & CEO)inLeandra Fishman(Chief Revenue Officer)Eric Fleischman(Chief Technology Officer)Renee Hunter(Chief Legal Officer)Darren Louie(Head of Product)Ian Macallister
Co-investorsCamber CreekCanapi VenturesCurql Collective, LLCJovonoLudlow VenturesAdvaita Capital+5 more
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
Provably builds verifiable data and runtime verification infrastructure, using cryptographic methods to anchor integrity across the AI agent lifecycle, including tool use, handoffs, cross-agent protocols, learning, and governance.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityData & InfrastructureDeep TechDeveloper Tools
Co-investorsNazare VenturesTRGC
Scorechain provides blockchain analytics and AML compliance software for wallet screening, transaction monitoring, and fund-flow investigation across 21+ blockchains.
Crypto & Web3CybersecurityFintechLuxembourg, LU
Pierre Gerard(Founder)in
Co-investorsTioga Capital Partners
Talentir offers automated payout infrastructure for managing creator and campaign payouts, enabling teams to generate payouts from their existing software systems without code and with built-in compliance and approval workflows.
B2B MarketplacesCreator EconomyCrypto & Web3Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS
Co-investorsBlockchain Founders Capital
Tezsure develops decentralized finance (DeFi) applications and developer tools built on the Tezos blockchain.
Crypto & Web3Developer ToolsFintech
Bernd Oostrum(Founder)in
Co-investorsDraper Associates
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
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
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
AssemblBlockFraudsChronicle LabsChronicle ProtocolForward ProtocolIveMoney Math GamesNovumOrca FraudPicnicPurposePyrposeReppo LabsShamba RecordsSoda WorldUbitelUsepicnicyoruZap Labs
Exits · 1
1 acquisitionsGK8acq. by Celsius Network
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companies
Provably · techedgeai.com · Aug 17, 2026
Mazzuma · allbiohub.com · Aug 11, 2026
Wildcards · stadiumrant.com · Aug 1, 2026
Proof · partnerships.vt.edu · Jul 30, 2026
Kasi · lifestyleandtech.co.za · Jul 30, 2026
GenTwo · financialit.net · Jul 11, 2026
manifest · globallegalpost.com · May 4, 2026
Coinrule · trysignalbase.com · Mar 24, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has CV VC made?
- CV VC has 68 tracked investments, 1 of which have exited.
- 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 58 tracked co-investors.
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