Aptos
VC Fund
Palo Alto, United States
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.
- Total investments:
- 40
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 23%
Last updated:
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Industries Aptos invests in
Stages Aptos invests in
Countries Aptos invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $2M–$10M
- Pre-Seed
- $50k–$12M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 17 (43%)
- Cryptocurrency 11 (28%)
- Web3 8 (20%)
- Gaming 5 (13%)
- Software 5 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 14 (35%)
- Pre-Seed 8 (20%)
- Grant 4 (10%)
- Series A 3 (8%)
- Corporate Round 3 (8%)
Country
- United States 13 (33%)
- Singapore 5 (13%)
- India 4 (10%)
- Canada 1 (3%)
- Romania 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Avery Ching
Co-Founder & CTO
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Co-Founder & CTO | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
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Christie Lee
Head of Korean partnerships
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Head of Korean partnerships | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Greg Nazario
Software Engineer (Founding Team)
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Software Engineer (Founding Team) | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Lisa LeFever
Senior Commercial Counsel
|
Senior Commercial Counsel | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ekiden is a next-generation decentralized exchange that combines a virtual AMM (vAMM), perpetual futures, and a central limit order book to provide the fastest, most equitable, and liquid on-chain trading experience with extremely low costs and MEV resistance. | $2M / Seed / May 04, 2026 | ||
| Goblin.fi is a DeFi yield platform that automates multi-strategy vaults and enhanced liquid staking for optimized returns. | $1M / Seed / Dec 11, 2025 | ||
| AllScale is a next-generation platform empowering small businesses to scale globally faster with stablecoin. Payroll: Automate cross-border payroll in stablecoins—simplify contractor payments, eliminate costly intermediaries, and ensure instant global delivery.Invoicing: Create, e-sign, and send professional contracts and invoices in seconds.Get paid by clients in their preferred method and instantly receive stablecoin—maximizing liquidity, minimizing friction.Social Commerce: Transform your followers into customers. Embed a dynamic AllScale biolink on your social profiles, showcase your offerings, and securely collect instant stablecoin payments directly from your audience. | $5M / Seed / Dec 08, 2025 | ||
| Threely is onboarding billions onto Web3 with universal identities. Threely addresses are blockchain-agnostic identities that can be used across Web3 as a profile, chain-agnostic payment endpoints, logins, zkKYCs, and more. Threely is doing the crucial work of helping the top blockchain protocols, wallets, and dApps cast a wider net to onboard abroader part of the internet to Web3. | $12M / Pre-Seed / Oct 14, 2025 | ||
| Rhuna is an AI and blockchain platform that transforms event management with NFT ticketing and token rewards. | $2M / Seed / Oct 09, 2025 | ||
| Hyperion is an on-chain DEX that combines an order book and AMM, built for Aptos. | Apr 11, 2025 | ||
| Klickl is a Web3 open finance platform that offers banking and online payment methods. | $25M / Series A / Dec 10, 2024 | ||
| Kratos is the intellectual property owner of the gaming DAO IndiGG. Kratos is also an active investor in the global web3 gaming. | $10M / Corporate Round / Nov 20, 2024 | ||
| Echo is a versatile protocol that specializes in bridging, liquid staking and restaking, and yield solutions. | Pre-Seed / Oct 21, 2024 | ||
| TrueX is a non-custodial, stablecoin-native exchange that represents the next stage in crypto markets. | $9M / Seed / Sep 18, 2024 | ||
| See all 40 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Aptos invest in?
Aptos invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Web3 startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 40 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Aptos invest in?
Aptos typically joins rounds of $2M–$10M at Seed and $50k–$12M at Pre-Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Aptos's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Aptos took part in.
How do I contact Aptos?
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Who are the partners at Aptos?
The team at Aptos includes Avery Ching (Co-Founder & CTO), Christie Lee (Head of Korean partnerships) and Greg Nazario (Software Engineer (Founding Team)). 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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