# Alameda Research

> Alameda Research is a VC fund backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 324 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Central and Western, Hong Kong
- Total investments: 324
- Last investment: Oct 2022
- Lead investor: 38%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/alameda-research
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/AlamedaResearch
- Website: https://www.alameda-research.com

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.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Alameda Research. Shizune tracks 4 team members at Alameda Research. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/alameda-research?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$8M |
| Series A | $2.7M–$35M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $250k–$40M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 128 | 40% |
| Cryptocurrency | 90 | 28% |
| Financial Services | 68 | 21% |
| FinTech | 47 | 15% |
| Software | 41 | 13% |

131 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 122 | 38% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 41 | 13% |
| Series A | 37 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 27 | 8% |
| Initial Coin Offering | 23 | 7% |

15 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 98 | 30% |
| Singapore | 15 | 5% |
| United Kingdom | 10 | 3% |
| Australia | 8 | 2% |
| Switzerland | 8 | 2% |

39 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Caroline Ellison | Co-CEO & Trader | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caroline-ellison-2538 |
| Charles Yang | Principal, Ventures | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-yang-50e0 |
| Erik Litmanovich | Venture Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/taiyang-zhang |
| Sam Trabucco | Co-CEO | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sam-trabucco |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Optim Finance | 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 | 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 |  |
| 3Commas | 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 | 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 | Jito Labs is the MEV infrastructure company that develops systems to scale Solana and maximize validator rewards. | $10M | Series A | Aug 11, 2022 |  |
| Aurigami | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 Network | Empiric is the oracle on Starknet, built to empower native protocols to realize their ambitious potential. | $7M | Seed | Jul 15, 2022 |  |

10 of 324 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [CMS Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cms-holdings) — VC Fund, 34 deals together
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- [DeFiance Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/defiance-capital-96c1) — VC Fund, 27 deals together
- [Three Arrows Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/three-arrows-capital) — VC Fund, 25 deals together

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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 324 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?

Public channels for Alameda Research include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### 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 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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