Anatoly Yakovenko
Angel Investor @ Zinal Growth
San Francisco, United States
Anatoly Yakovenko is a seed investor at Zinal Growth in San Francisco focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Anatoly is the creator of Solana. He led development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox. He holds 2 patents for high performance Operating Systems protocols, was a core kernel developer for BREW which powered every CDMA flip phone (100m+ devices), and led development of tech that madeProject Tango (VR/AR) possible on Qualcomm phones.
- Total investments:
- 75
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 1%
Last updated:
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Industries Anatoly Yakovenko invests in
Stages Anatoly Yakovenko invests in
Countries Anatoly Yakovenko invests in
Round sizes
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Round size
- Seed
- $2.5M–$10M
- Pre-Seed
- $500k–$6M
- Series A
- $9.5M–$73M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 26 (35%)
- Cryptocurrency 14 (19%)
- Software 12 (16%)
- Information Technology 9 (12%)
- FinTech 8 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 34 (45%)
- Series A 13 (17%)
- Pre-Seed 7 (9%)
- Angel 5 (7%)
- Funding Round 4 (5%)
Country
- United States 26 (35%)
- United Kingdom 6 (8%)
- Singapore 5 (7%)
- France 3 (4%)
- Spain 2 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| VeryAI develops a privacy-preserving identity verification platform using palm-scan biometrics on the Solana blockchain. | $10M / Seed / Mar 12, 2026 | ||
| worm.wtf is the prediction marketplace for the Solana ecosystem. | $4.5M / Pre-Seed / Dec 17, 2025 | ||
| Ryder develops the Ryder One hardware wallet to provide an easy and secure way for users to control their cryptocurrency holdings offline. The wallet uses simple tap-to-pay technology for fast setup and transaction authorization, combined with an EAL6+ Secure Element for protection against digital and physical attacks. | $3.2M / Seed / Oct 17, 2025 | ||
| Inference is a distributed GPU cluster for LLM inference based on Solana, providing a fast, scalable, and token-based API for models such as DeepSeek V3 and Llama 3.3. | $11.8M / Seed / Oct 14, 2025 | ||
| Raiku is a Web3 infrastructure startup focused on enhancing the Solana blockchain's reliability and predictability. | $11.3M / Seed / Sep 24, 2025 | ||
| Circuit & Chisel is an agentic AI platform that enables agents to make transactions between autonomous agents. | $19.2M / Seed / Sep 22, 2025 | ||
| Titan provides users with the best swap price by searching through Solana’s on-chain liquidity through trusted sources. It then deploys revolutionary routing algorithms based on cutting-edge mathematics to determine the best price a user can get when trading any token. | $7M / Seed / Sep 18, 2025 | ||
| Vanish Trade is a Solana-based trading platform focused on anonymity. | $1M / Seed / Aug 22, 2025 | ||
| ZAR establishes a connection between cash-based economies and the web3 framework, facilitating adoption of stablecoins. | $7M / Seed / Apr 30, 2025 | ||
| MagicBlock Labs is a gaming and technology firm that creates infrastructure for fully on-chain games. | $7.5M / Seed / Apr 24, 2025 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Zinal Growth
Zinal Growth is an investment firm.
Zinal Growth Contacts
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Guillaume Waser
Managing Director
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FAQ
What does Anatoly Yakovenko invest in?
Anatoly Yakovenko invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 75 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 Anatoly Yakovenko's check size?
Anatoly Yakovenko typically joins rounds of $2.5M–$10M at Seed, $500k–$6M at Pre-Seed and $9.5M–$73M 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 Anatoly Yakovenko participates in.
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When did Anatoly Yakovenko last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Anatoly Yakovenko closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 75 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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