# Ajit Tripathi

> Ajit Tripathi is a seed investor at Aave (London) backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Aave](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ethlend)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajitkt
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/triptananda?lang=en
- Website: https://x.com/chainyoda

Ajit Tripathi is a Head of Institutional Business at Aave.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $660k–$9M |
| Series A | $4.1M–$18M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 5 | 36% |
| Cryptocurrency | 4 | 29% |
| Finance | 3 | 21% |
| Ethereum | 3 | 21% |
| Internet | 3 | 21% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 71% |
| Series A | 3 | 21% |
| Angel | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Singapore | 4 | 29% |
| India | 1 | 7% |
| France | 1 | 7% |
| Argentina | 1 | 7% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 7% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Veda | Veda operates as a vault infrastructure platform
in DeFi. | $18M | Series A | Jun 22, 2025 |  |
| Mira | Mira is a decentralized infrastructure platform designed to increase access to advanced AI. | $9M | Seed | Jul 16, 2024 |  |
| Spark | Spark is a decentralized network that provides a predicate-based central limit order book. | $1.5M | Seed | May 14, 2024 |  |
| Aligned Layer | Universal Verification Layer for Ethereum using Eigenlayer | $2.6M | Seed | Apr 14, 2024 |  |
| Reown | WalletConnect is an open source standard for connecting desktop Dapps to mobile Wallets using end-to-end encryption by scanning a QR code. It is a simple infrastructure that can be setup by any developer. Using a Bridge server to relay the messages without having access to any of its contents. The contents are encrypted using the session datashared by the QR code between the desktop and mobile. | $11.3M | Series A | Mar 08, 2022 |  |
| Flint | Flint is a global crypto investment app. Flint leverages the power of crypto to deliver incredibly high returns on idle money. | $5.1M | Seed | Jan 25, 2022 |  |
| Router Protocol | Router Protocol is developing the bridging infrastructure to allow contract-level data flow across various blockchains, thus enabling asset-level data transfer. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Singapore, Central Region, Singapore. | $4.1M | Series A | Dec 10, 2021 |  |
| PStake | Pstake is a platform that stakes your assets safely to receive staking rewards and pegged staked representative tokens that can be utilized in DeFi. | $10M | Seed | Nov 16, 2021 |  |
| Arcana Network | Arcana is the Decentralized Storage Layer for Ethereum and EVM chains, with a Privacy Stack for Authentication, Identity and Access Control, Key Management, and End-to-End to encryption. With Arcana's Privacy stack, developers can build secure and privacy-preserving apps. | $2.3M | Seed | Oct 13, 2021 |  |
| Coinshift | Coinshift provides a smart treasury management platform that helps businesses and decentralized autonomous organizations manage their crypto assets easily and empowers users to collaborate, approve transactions, and execute mass payouts. Their treasury management solution includes cash management, asset management, risk management, and reporting. | $2.5M | Seed | Sep 30, 2021 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [BR Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blockrock-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [LD Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ld-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Peak XV Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-india-2) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Alameda Research](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alameda-research) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Arcanum Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arcanum-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [YZi Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/binance-labs-b05e) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Aave

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Aave is an open source non-custodial protocol on Ethereum for decentralized lending and borrowing.

5 contacts available at Aave.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ajit Tripathi | Head of Institutional Business | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ajit-tripathi |
| Nader Dabit | Director of Developer Relations | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nader-dabit |
| Daniel Martín Jiménez | Senior Software Developer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-martin-jimenez |
| Emilio Frangella | Head of smart contracts | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emilio-frangella |
| Jordan Lazaro Gustave | COO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jordan-lazaro-gustave |

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## FAQ

### What does Ajit Tripathi invest in?

Ajit Tripathi invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Finance startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Singapore. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Ajit Tripathi's check size?

Ajit Tripathi typically joins rounds of $660k–$9M at Seed and $4.1M–$18M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Ajit Tripathi participates in.

### When did Ajit Tripathi last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ajit Tripathi closed in Jun 2025. Shizune tracks 14 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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