IOSG Ventures
Venture capitalHong Kong Β· Pre-SeedβSeries A Β· 12 people tracked
Investment thesis
IOSG Ventures invests in the future of Web3, focusing on protocol-native paradigms with potential to transform the industry. As a research-driven firm, it supports founders building community-friendly protocols across infrastructure, middleware, security, and social consumer applications. Its Kickstarter Program empowers early-stage Web3 founders through two components β IOSG Innovate (project discovery and investment) and IOSG Connect (network expansion and community building) β offering funding plus mentorship, consulting, partnerships, tokenomics support, go-to-market strategy, hiring support, and exchange introductions. The firm is active in areas such as staking/restaking, modular blockchains, zero-knowledge proofs, layer-2 scaling, DeFi, Web3 gaming, and the convergence of AI and crypto.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 7, 2026.
Team Β· 12 people
from the firm's website & public directories
What they invest in
from 55 of 139 portfolio companiesCrypto & Web3 Γ47Fintech Γ19Data & Infrastructure Γ17Developer Tools Γ16AI & Machine Learning Γ10Cloud Computing Γ8Enterprise Software Γ8SaaS Γ5
HQs:United StatesΓ11SwitzerlandΓ1ColombiaΓ1FranceΓ1United KingdomΓ1IsraelΓ1
Investments Β· 139 tracked
founders shown can be your intro path0x provides onchain routing and liquidity aggregation infrastructure for enterprise wallets, payments platforms, and exchanges.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintech
Tortola
Sergej Kunz(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Anton Bukov(Director, Promoter)
Alliance is a selective accelerator and founder community for crypto and fintech startups, offering $500k in funding and a 10-week program (in-person onboarding in New York City followed by remote acceleration) to help teams reach product-market fit.
Crypto & Web3FintechNew York City, US
AltLayer provides infrastructure and autonomous agents for building intelligent applications on decentralized blockchain networks, including services for AI model access, DeFi integration, and rollup deployment.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Developer Tools
BoardBalaji Srinivasan
Ancient8 is a gaming-focused Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain designed for Web3 gaming, hosting fully on-chain games, games on X and Telegram, IP-infused games, and AI-powered games.
Crypto & Web3Gaming
Arweave is a decentralized ecosystem that offers grants and investment opportunities through various organizations including non-profits, DAOs, and venture studios to support projects and developers building on its network.
Cloud ComputingCrypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintechLondon, GB
Sam Williams(Founder & CEO)
The Avalanche Foundation is a non-profit organization that supports innovation and growth in the Avalanche ecosystem through grants, programs, and strategic support for developers, entrepreneurs, and communities building on the Avalanche blockchain platform.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareFintech
Celer is a blockchain interoperability protocol that enables decentralized applications to access tokens, DeFi products, NFTs, and governance across multiple blockchains through a simplified user experience.
Crypto & Web3
Celestia designs and operates custom, high-throughput blockchain infrastructure for enterprises, separating compute and storage to enable independent scaling.
Cloud ComputingCrypto & Web3Enterprise Software
Mustafa Al-Bassam(Chairman & CEO, Celestia Foundation)Nick White(Co-founder & CEO, Celestia Labs)Preston Evans(CTO, Celestia Labs)
Connext provides xCall, a developer tool that enables applications to interact with users, tokens, and other applications across multiple blockchains.
Crypto & Web3Developer ToolsSan Francisco, US
Arjun Bhuptani(Executive Officer, Director)Layne Haber(Executive Officer, Director)Rahul Sethuram(Executive Officer)
DFINITY builds the Internet Computer, a decentralized cloud network that enables applications to run directly on the blockchain with persistent state, native HTTP serving, and built-in security without requiring external databases or a dedicated operations team.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCrypto & Web3Developer Tools
Dominic Williams(Founder)
EigenCloud is a developer platform providing cryptographic trust primitives for applications and AI agents through verifiable computation, inference, and data availability backed by slashable stake on EigenLayer.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Developer Tools
Sreeram Kannan(Founder)
Flashbots is a research and development organization that mitigates negative externalities from Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) on blockchains, primarily Ethereum, through infrastructure and tools for block building, transaction protection, and MEV distribution.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Flux Protocol (SEDA) provides oracle infrastructure that delivers low-latency, continuous data feeds across equities, commodities, indices, pre-IPO/private companies, prediction markets, and custom assets.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintech
Enables Web3 developers to achieve off-chain aware and truly automated smart contracts that are self-executing and gas-less.
Gelato provides smart wallet and rollup infrastructure, enabling developers to launch gasless onboarding, smart wallets, and custom rollups through a single SDK.
Cloud ComputingCrypto & Web3Developer Tools
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does IOSG Ventures invest at?
- IOSG Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What is IOSG Ventures's typical check size?
- IOSG Ventures typically writes checks of $10K β $100K.
- What sectors does IOSG Ventures focus on?
- IOSG Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Crypto & Web3, Data & Infrastructure, Developer Tools, Fintech, Gaming.
- Where is IOSG Ventures located?
- IOSG Ventures is headquartered in Hong Kong, HK.
Co-investors Β· 11
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Gnosis is a Germany-based crypto organization whose homepage promotes Circles, an open protocol in which currency is issued to individuals hourly rather than by banks. The system ties spending power to community membership and reputation and can be used through a Visa card. It operates as a blockchain product builder rather than an investment firm.
Turing is a crypto-focused angel fund founded by entrepreneurs who provide hands-on support to early-stage builders without external investors, allowing backing of ambitious ideas.
RW3 Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in blockchain infrastructure and Web3 companies through equity and token instruments.
Firms observed investing alongside IOSG Ventures, from public investor directories. Shared companies are the overlap with IOSG Ventures's recorded portfolio.
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