# Alchemy Ventures

> Alchemy Ventures is a VC fund in Sydney backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 24 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, Australia
- Total investments: 24
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 4%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/company/alchemy-ventures-pty-ltd
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/alchemyvc
- Website: http://www.alchemyventures.com.au/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alchemyvc/

Alchemy Ventures is a conditionally registered ESVCLP Fund focused on investing in early to later stage mining, financial, agricultural and consumer technology opportunities originating from Australia and the AsiaPacific Region.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $4M–$20M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.8M–$8M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 7 | 29% |
| Cryptocurrency | 5 | 21% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 21% |
| Software | 4 | 17% |
| Internet | 3 | 13% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 15 | 63% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 13% |
| Series A | 1 | 4% |
| Series B | 1 | 4% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 12 | 50% |
| Japan | 1 | 4% |
| Cayman Islands | 1 | 4% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Darren Patterson | Managing Partner, Co-Founder, Fund Manager | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/darren-patterson |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AEON | AEON is a crypto payment framework designed for AI-driven and real-world transactions. It supports omni-chain payments across ecosystems like EVM, SVM, and TON, enabling seamless cross-chain usage. Its solutions include AI-powered payments, Web3 online and mobile payments, QR/contactless acceptance, and swap pay, all designed to simplifyadoption for users and merchants. | $8M | Pre-Seed | May 18, 2026 |  |
| Shield USDT | Shield is a user security automation for web 3 platforms. Their bot acts as a firewall to allow telegram and Discord communities to expand securely. They offer both standard and unique platforms. They sell a variety of goods, including community security systems. |  | Seed | Jul 09, 2025 |  |
| Optimum | Optimum constitutes a decentralized, high-performance memory infrastructure tailored for use across various blockchains. | $11M | Seed | Apr 15, 2025 |  |
| p0 | p0 is a platform where issues in your code are surfaced noiselessly and intelligently. | $6.5M | Seed | Jan 29, 2024 |  |
| Bastion | Bastion blends the best of web2 and web3 technologies to broaden opportunities for organizations and their customers. | $25M | Seed | Sep 18, 2023 |  |
| 0xPass | 0xPass develops a wallet connector with inbuilt support for authentication, identity management, and account abstraction. It provides a secure and customizable onboarding flow for DApp and simplifies wallet-based authentication and authorization. | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Sep 11, 2023 |  |
| Blocktorch | Blocktorch is a multi-chain observability platform that empowers web3 developers to scale every decentralized component globally. With Blocktorch engineers can access metrics, logs, and traces across the used decentralized stack in one place. | $4.2M | Seed | May 09, 2023 |  |
| Antimetal | Making cloud savings automated, effortless, and risk-free Start saving in 2 minutes; no code or engineering is required. | $4.3M | Seed | May 08, 2023 |  |
| Vibe | Vibe operates as a non-fungible token (NFT) platform that enables creatives to turn NFTs into fully fledged applications. | $4M | Seed | May 04, 2023 |  |
| Catalyst | Building liquidity for the modular future | $4.2M | Seed | Apr 26, 2023 |  |

10 of 24 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Soma Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/soma-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [a16z crypto](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a16z-crypto) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Alchemy](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alchemy-insights) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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- [Shima Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shima-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Alchemy Ventures invest in?

Alchemy Ventures invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 24 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 Alchemy Ventures's check size?

Alchemy Ventures typically joins rounds of $4M–$20M at Seed and $1.8M–$8M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Alchemy Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Alchemy Ventures?

Public channels for Alchemy Ventures 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 Alchemy Ventures?

The team at Alchemy Ventures includes Darren Patterson (Managing Partner, Co-Founder, Fund Manager). 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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