Alameda Research
VC Fund
Central and Western, Hong Kong
Alameda Research is a quantitative cryptocurrency trading firm that provides liquidity in cryptocurrency and digital assets markets. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Central and Western, Hong Kong.
- Total investments:
- 327
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 38%
Last updated:
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Industries Alameda Research invests in
Stages Alameda Research invests in
Countries Alameda Research invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1M–$8M
- Series A
- $2.7M–$35M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $250k–$40M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 129 (39%)
- Cryptocurrency 91 (28%)
- Financial Services 69 (21%)
- FinTech 47 (14%)
- Software 42 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 123 (38%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 42 (13%)
- Series A 37 (11%)
- Funding Round 27 (8%)
- Initial Coin Offering 23 (7%)
Country
- United States 99 (30%)
- Singapore 16 (5%)
- United Kingdom 10 (3%)
- Australia 8 (2%)
- Switzerland 8 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Caroline Ellison
Co-CEO & Trader
|
Co-CEO & Trader | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Charles Yang
Principal, Ventures
|
Principal, Ventures | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Erik Litmanovich
Venture Partner
|
Venture Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Sam Trabucco
Co-CEO
|
Co-CEO | Total investments: 3 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Optim Finance provides investment tools that optimize yield on digital assets. Their financial primitives enable users to rent ADA delegation rights to power novel use cases such as SPO loans, leverage into ISOs, and initial bonds. | $3.9M / Seed / Oct 01, 2022 | ||
| 3Commas develops a crypto-asset management tool for tracking investments and exchanges in a unified platform. It provides access to a unified dashboard as the central hub for trading and portfolio management execution. | $37M / Series B / Sep 22, 2022 | ||
| Fuel Labs is a global decentralized group of passionate developers building the future of blockchain scalability technology. As the leader in blockchain scaling innovation, its engineers created the optimistic rollup design paradigm and have contributed to advancing the frontier of rollup, blockchain virtual machine, and safe smart contractprogramming language research. | $80M / Seed / Sep 06, 2022 | ||
| Jito Labs is the MEV infrastructure company that develops systems to scale Solana and maximize validator rewards. | $10M / Series A / Aug 11, 2022 | ||
| Aurigami Company is a decentralized, non-custodial liquidity protocol. Customers may easily lend, borrow, and earn interest with their digital assets according to this. In exchange for passive income, depositors offer liquidity to the protocol, which allows users to borrow money with excessive collateral. Aurigami, in contrast to similar protocols,places a strong emphasis on gamification. Depositors contribute liquidity to the protocol in order to earn a passive income, whereas borrowers can borrow in an over-collateralized fashion. | $12M / Initial Coin Offering / Jul 28, 2022 | ||
| Trustless Media is a new kind of production hub where ideas people care about actually come to life. | $3.3M / Seed / Jul 27, 2022 | ||
| Aptos is a web3 startup that builds a scalable Layer 1 blockchain. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Palo Alto, California. | $150M / Series A / Jul 25, 2022 | ||
| Cardinal is an NFT infrastructure protocol facilitator that allows NFTs to be conditionally owned. Cardinal offers royalty enforcement, rentals, subscriptions, and staking to increase the utility of NFTs. They provide several options for customizing the expiration and transferability of the issued NFT. | $4.4M / Seed / Jul 22, 2022 | ||
| Empiric is the oracle on Starknet, built to empower native protocols to realize their ambitious potential. | $7M / Seed / Jul 15, 2022 | ||
| ZKX is a permissionless protocol for derivatives built on StarkNet. | $4.5M / Seed / Jul 14, 2022 | ||
| See all 327 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Alameda Research invest in?
Alameda Research invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 327 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Alameda Research's check size?
Alameda Research typically joins rounds of $1M–$8M at Seed, $2.7M–$35M at Series A and $250k–$40M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Alameda Research participates in.
How do I contact Alameda Research?
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Who are the partners at Alameda Research?
The team at Alameda Research includes Caroline Ellison (Co-CEO & Trader), Charles Yang (Principal, Ventures) and Erik Litmanovich (Venture Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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