IOSG Ventures

IOSG Venture is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2017 and based in Hong Kong, focusing on decentralized protocols and innovative companies in sectors such as blockchain, crypto, machine learning, Web 3.0, and fintech. The firm is community-oriented and research-driven, investing in very early-stage ventures that include open finance infrastructure and cross-chain technologies. IOSG Venture has established itself as a significant investor in prominent projects like Polkadot, NEAR Protocol, and Blockstack, while also participating in the staking of various blockchain networks. The team is distributed across key global locations including China, Seattle, Singapore, and Berlin, allowing them to maintain close connections with emerging scientific talent. With a decade of experience in technology investments, IOSG Venture aims to support ambitious teams by combining capital, expertise, and networks to foster innovation in the decentralized ecosystem.

Momir Amidzic

Principal

Gökhan Er

Managing Director

Jocy Lin

Founding Partner

Yiping Lu

Associate

Ishanee Nagpurkar

Principal

Siddharth Rao

Associate

Queenie Wu

Partner

Jiawei Zhu

Associate

Xinshu Dong Ph.D

Technical Partner

Past deals in Singapore

Polemos

Seed Round in 2022
Polemos is a global GameFi platform that is the first decentralized combination of its own marketplace, educational hub, and community-centric gaming guild. Polemos’ overarching vision is to improve employment and education worldwide by developing a platform that focuses on Metaverse Adoption, Community Engagement and Esports Dominance. Their mission is to become one of the world’s leading Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO) and bring tens of millions of global digital Asset Providers and Gamers together inside a unified GameFi ecosystem. By bridging esports and DeFi communities, we will revolutionize gaming and create unique Play To Earn opportunities unlike anything ever seen before!

Footprint Analytics

Seed Round in 2022
Footprint Analytics is an analysis platform to discover and visualize blockchain data.The product puts user experience first whether you’re an analyst, data scientist, developer, student, teacher, or executive. It provides an intuitive, drag-and-drop interface for interactive data queries.

DeBank

Series A in 2021
Developer of a multi-chain cryptocurrencies portfolio tracker designed for users to manage their DeFi assets. The company's cryptocurrency wallet allows users to track their full portfolio, compare interest rates, manage assets, find DeFi projects, analyze risks and more, enabling users to perform token swaps for token exchange and discover investment opportunities through detailed real-time data.

SynFutures

Series A in 2021
SynFutures operates a decentralized derivatives platform that facilitates the trading of synthetic assets, allowing users to create and trade various digital asset pairs using a single digital token as margin. The platform aims to establish an open and trustless derivatives market by enabling trading on any asset with a price feed. By promoting a free market environment and increasing the diversity of tradable assets, SynFutures seeks to lower the barriers to entry in the derivatives market, thereby fostering a more equitable exchange for digital assets.

Solv Protocol

Seed Round in 2021
Solv Protocol is the decentralized platform for creating, managing, and trading Financial NFTs. As its first Financial NFT product, Vesting Vouchers are fractionalized NFTs representing lock-up vesting tokens, thus releasing their liquidity and enabling financial scenarios such as fundraising, community building, and token liquidity management for crypto projects.

Solv Protocol

Angel Round in 2021
Solv Protocol is the decentralized platform for creating, managing, and trading Financial NFTs. As its first Financial NFT product, Vesting Vouchers are fractionalized NFTs representing lock-up vesting tokens, thus releasing their liquidity and enabling financial scenarios such as fundraising, community building, and token liquidity management for crypto projects.

Solv Protocol

Seed Round in 2021
Solv Protocol is the decentralized platform for creating, managing, and trading Financial NFTs. As its first Financial NFT product, Vesting Vouchers are fractionalized NFTs representing lock-up vesting tokens, thus releasing their liquidity and enabling financial scenarios such as fundraising, community building, and token liquidity management for crypto projects.

Push Protocol

Seed Round in 2021
Push Protocol, officially known as Ethereum Push Notification Service Private Limited, is a decentralized notification protocol founded in 2020 and based in Allahabad, India. The protocol allows decentralized applications (dApps) and smart contracts to send dynamic and platform-agnostic notifications directly to user wallets. By facilitating communication between various services and user wallets, Push Protocol enables users to receive important alerts and updates while also allowing them to earn from these notifications. The service aims to enhance user engagement by providing a reliable way for crypto services to inform users about relevant activities and events.

Razor Network

Seed Round in 2020
Razor Network PTE. LTD. is a Singapore-based company that specializes in developing a decentralized oracle network for decentralized finance applications. Established in 2019, Razor Network provides a platform that automates the fetching of external data, allowing smart contracts to operate without the risks associated with centralized servers. Its features include a secure and scalable proof-of-stake system, which enhances the reliability of data delivery. By eliminating centralized bottlenecks, Razor Network enables developers to build and manage decentralized applications more effectively. The platform is currently live on the Rinkeby test network and offers free querying of key financial data, such as the ETH/USD price, showcasing its commitment to facilitating access to essential information for the decentralized finance ecosystem.

Razor Network

Seed Round in 2020
Razor Network PTE. LTD. is a Singapore-based company that specializes in developing a decentralized oracle network for decentralized finance applications. Established in 2019, Razor Network provides a platform that automates the fetching of external data, allowing smart contracts to operate without the risks associated with centralized servers. Its features include a secure and scalable proof-of-stake system, which enhances the reliability of data delivery. By eliminating centralized bottlenecks, Razor Network enables developers to build and manage decentralized applications more effectively. The platform is currently live on the Rinkeby test network and offers free querying of key financial data, such as the ETH/USD price, showcasing its commitment to facilitating access to essential information for the decentralized finance ecosystem.

Persistence

Initial Coin Offering in 2020
Persistence operates a platform that enables users to borrow stablecoins by leveraging real-world assets, such as invoices, as collateral. This approach effectively connects decentralized finance with traditional finance, addressing real-world financing challenges. The platform aims to enhance liquidity for users by aggregating resources from crypto investors and lenders. By facilitating the seamless exchange of value, Persistence seeks to improve the speed and efficiency of cross-border trade and financing, ultimately addressing the financing gap faced by many businesses.

Persistence

Initial Coin Offering in 2020
Persistence operates a platform that enables users to borrow stablecoins by leveraging real-world assets, such as invoices, as collateral. This approach effectively connects decentralized finance with traditional finance, addressing real-world financing challenges. The platform aims to enhance liquidity for users by aggregating resources from crypto investors and lenders. By facilitating the seamless exchange of value, Persistence seeks to improve the speed and efficiency of cross-border trade and financing, ultimately addressing the financing gap faced by many businesses.

Marlin

Seed Round in 2019
Marlin is a decentralized content delivery network.

Marlin

Seed Round in 2019
Marlin is a decentralized content delivery network.

VeChain

Seed Round in 2018
VeChain Foundation develops information transformation platform based on blockchain technology. It offers product lifecycle management, supply chain process control, data deposit, data certification, and process certification. The company offers its products for luxury, alcohol, agriculture, automotive, and other multi-sector. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Singapore with additional offices in Shanghai, China; Paris, France; Luxembourg, Palo Alto, California; Tokyo, Japan; and Hong Kong.

VeChain

Venture Round in 2018
VeChain Foundation develops information transformation platform based on blockchain technology. It offers product lifecycle management, supply chain process control, data deposit, data certification, and process certification. The company offers its products for luxury, alcohol, agriculture, automotive, and other multi-sector. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Singapore with additional offices in Shanghai, China; Paris, France; Luxembourg, Palo Alto, California; Tokyo, Japan; and Hong Kong.

Taxa

Seed Round in 2018
Taxa Foundation PTE. LTD. is a Singapore-based company founded in 2018 that operates a decentralized computing network. Its infrastructure is designed to support blockchain applications, providing essential functionalities such as computing power, privacy protection, and flexibility for smart contracts. By leveraging advanced hardware-based technology, Taxa enhances the performance, privacy, and usability of various applications and frameworks, creating a robust environment for developers to build and deploy their solutions. The company's blockchain-agnostic approach allows it to cater to a diverse range of blockchain ecosystems, making it a versatile player in the decentralized computing space.

Taxa

Seed Round in 2018
Taxa Foundation PTE. LTD. is a Singapore-based company founded in 2018 that operates a decentralized computing network. Its infrastructure is designed to support blockchain applications, providing essential functionalities such as computing power, privacy protection, and flexibility for smart contracts. By leveraging advanced hardware-based technology, Taxa enhances the performance, privacy, and usability of various applications and frameworks, creating a robust environment for developers to build and deploy their solutions. The company's blockchain-agnostic approach allows it to cater to a diverse range of blockchain ecosystems, making it a versatile player in the decentralized computing space.

Conflux Foundation

Seed Round in 2018
Conflux Foundation Ltd., established in 2018 and located in Singapore, specializes in blockchain technology services. It operates a public blockchain system designed to achieve high transactions per second (TPS) while maintaining decentralization and security. Utilizing a unique algorithm and an innovative structure known as Tree Graph (TG), Conflux addresses performance limitations typically associated with consensus mechanisms. This approach mitigates various challenges faced in the industrialization of public chains. In its initial phase, Conflux employs a Proof of Work (PoW) mechanism as the foundation for its consensus protocol.

Cortex

Venture Round in 2018
Cortex Labs Pte. Ltd. is a Singapore-based company that specializes in creating a blockchain-based artificial intelligence platform designed to support smart contracts. Founded in 2018, Cortex enables users to upload their machine learning models to the public blockchain, allowing others to access and utilize these models to develop and deploy decentralized applications. The platform's primary objective is to facilitate the deployment of machine-learning models through smart contracts, enhancing the integration of AI capabilities within decentralized systems.

Celer Network

Venture Round in 2018
Celer Network is a coherent technology and economic architecture to enable Internet-scale public blockchains through off-chain scaling techniques. It can scale out to billions of secure and trust-free off-chain transactions per second, and will fully unleash the power of blockchain and decentralized applications.

IoTeX

Seed Round in 2018
IoTeX is a blockchain platform focused on the Internet of Things (IoT), emphasizing privacy and user data ownership. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, the company provides a decentralized infrastructure that allows users to maintain control over their data while adhering to global privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA. IoTeX offers various tools for developers, including a collaborative GitHub environment, a visualization tool for monitoring key metrics on its testnet, and a wallet for currency transactions. The platform supports a wide range of applications, from smart vehicles and city mapping to environmental data tracking and fitness solutions. With a governance foundation based in Singapore and a research and development team operating globally, IoTeX aims to create innovative solutions that enhance interaction between machines, humans, and businesses while ensuring trust and privacy.

Liquid

Initial Coin Offering in 2017
Liquid Group Co., Ltd. is a Tokyo-based company that develops and operates a cryptocurrency trading platform. Founded in 2014, the platform allows users to buy, sell, and trade major cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin and Ethereum, against various fiat currency pairs such as Japanese yen, US dollar, Singapore dollar, Australian dollar, and Euro. By facilitating these transactions, Liquid aims to provide liquidity to the cryptocurrency economy, making it easier for businesses and individuals to engage in cryptocurrency exchanges.

Zilliqa

Seed Round in 2017
Zilliqa Research Pte. Ltd. operates a high-throughput blockchain platform designed to facilitate thousands of transactions per second. Founded in 2017 and based in Singapore, with an additional office in London, Zilliqa enables developers to create decentralized applications, peer-to-peer trading platforms, and marketplaces. The platform utilizes a novel sharding protocol to enhance transaction rates as the network grows, making it suitable for data-driven applications, particularly in machine learning and finance. Zilliqa’s functional programming language, Scilla, allows for static checks and formal verifications, ensuring security and reliability. Additionally, the company employs Proof of Work for miner verification to guard against Sybil attacks and implements Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance to achieve consensus within the network.

Zilliqa

Initial Coin Offering in 2017
Zilliqa Research Pte. Ltd. operates a high-throughput blockchain platform designed to facilitate thousands of transactions per second. Founded in 2017 and based in Singapore, with an additional office in London, Zilliqa enables developers to create decentralized applications, peer-to-peer trading platforms, and marketplaces. The platform utilizes a novel sharding protocol to enhance transaction rates as the network grows, making it suitable for data-driven applications, particularly in machine learning and finance. Zilliqa’s functional programming language, Scilla, allows for static checks and formal verifications, ensuring security and reliability. Additionally, the company employs Proof of Work for miner verification to guard against Sybil attacks and implements Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance to achieve consensus within the network.

Kyber Network

Seed Round in 2017
Kyber Network PTE. Ltd. operates an online platform that facilitates the exchange and conversion of digital assets through an on-chain liquidity protocol. Founded in 2017 and based in Singapore, Kyber aggregates liquidity from various reserves to provide instant and secure token exchanges for decentralized applications. The platform offers vendors the ability to accept payments in multiple tokens while receiving their preferred token, enhancing e-commerce transactions. Additionally, Kyber provides rich payment APIs and a contract wallet that allows users to receive payments seamlessly. The protocol supports a variety of inter-token use cases, enabling decentralized applications to allow non-token holders to access their services, and allowing decentralized financial projects to rebalance portfolios quickly. Overall, Kyber Network serves as a multi-chain trading and liquidity hub, connecting diverse liquidity sources to optimize trading rates.

Kyber Network

Initial Coin Offering in 2017
Kyber Network PTE. Ltd. operates an online platform that facilitates the exchange and conversion of digital assets through an on-chain liquidity protocol. Founded in 2017 and based in Singapore, Kyber aggregates liquidity from various reserves to provide instant and secure token exchanges for decentralized applications. The platform offers vendors the ability to accept payments in multiple tokens while receiving their preferred token, enhancing e-commerce transactions. Additionally, Kyber provides rich payment APIs and a contract wallet that allows users to receive payments seamlessly. The protocol supports a variety of inter-token use cases, enabling decentralized applications to allow non-token holders to access their services, and allowing decentralized financial projects to rebalance portfolios quickly. Overall, Kyber Network serves as a multi-chain trading and liquidity hub, connecting diverse liquidity sources to optimize trading rates.

Zilliqa

Seed Round in 2017
Zilliqa Research Pte. Ltd. operates a high-throughput blockchain platform designed to facilitate thousands of transactions per second. Founded in 2017 and based in Singapore, with an additional office in London, Zilliqa enables developers to create decentralized applications, peer-to-peer trading platforms, and marketplaces. The platform utilizes a novel sharding protocol to enhance transaction rates as the network grows, making it suitable for data-driven applications, particularly in machine learning and finance. Zilliqa’s functional programming language, Scilla, allows for static checks and formal verifications, ensuring security and reliability. Additionally, the company employs Proof of Work for miner verification to guard against Sybil attacks and implements Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance to achieve consensus within the network.

SynFutures

Seed Round in 2012
SynFutures operates a decentralized derivatives platform that facilitates the trading of synthetic assets, allowing users to create and trade various digital asset pairs using a single digital token as margin. The platform aims to establish an open and trustless derivatives market by enabling trading on any asset with a price feed. By promoting a free market environment and increasing the diversity of tradable assets, SynFutures seeks to lower the barriers to entry in the derivatives market, thereby fostering a more equitable exchange for digital assets.

Solv Protocol

Seed Round in 1901
Solv Protocol is the decentralized platform for creating, managing, and trading Financial NFTs. As its first Financial NFT product, Vesting Vouchers are fractionalized NFTs representing lock-up vesting tokens, thus releasing their liquidity and enabling financial scenarios such as fundraising, community building, and token liquidity management for crypto projects.
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