# Aptos Foundation

> Aptos Foundation is a VC fund in Palo Alto backing Software, Blockchain and Financial Services. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://aptosfoundation.org

Aptos Foundation is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on Software and Blockchain. Aptos Foundation is dedicated to supporting the growth of the Aptos protocol, decentralized network, and developer ecosystem.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $900k–$5.7M |
| Grant | $15k–$150k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 25% |
| Blockchain | 2 | 17% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 17% |
| Gaming | 1 | 8% |
| FinTech | 1 | 8% |

8 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Grant | 3 | 25% |
| Seed | 2 | 17% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 25% |
| Singapore | 2 | 17% |
| Panama | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Daya | Daya Labs operates a unified financial infrastructure that integrates stablecoin rails, real-time foreign exchange, and modern treasury systems. The platform enables enterprise clients to process global business payouts, manage multi-currency balances, and settle international cross-border transactions using local fiat and digital currencies. | $2.4M | Pre-Seed | Jun 24, 2026 |  |
| PathPulse.AI | PathPulse.ai sits at the crossroads of big data, AI, and mobility. It is like the brains of a smarter world city, constantly processing streams of information to create urban environments that are not only more efficient but also cost-effective, safer, and easier to navigate. | $900K | Seed | Dec 03, 2025 |  |
| Questflow | Questflow Labs seeking to give customers with an all-in-one solution for user intent perception and distribution, AI agentic workflow automation, and human-AI cooperation. Questflow Labs is pioneering a novel approach to decentralized AI agentic workflow. |  | Grant | Jul 22, 2025 |  |
| Shinami | Shinami is powering the future of web3 | $5.7M | Seed | Nov 20, 2024 |  |
| Tamago Labs | An NFT development lab in Fukuoka focused on building secure, composable NFT infrastructure, tooling and use case development | $15K | Grant | Jul 30, 2024 |  |
| Qiro Finance | Qiro is an on-chain private credit protocol that has a strong infrastructure for credit underwriting. | $150K | Grant | Jun 11, 2024 |  |
| Mountain Protocol | At Mountain Protocol, we believe that everyone deserves access to the "risk-free rate" through a secure, regulated, and enterprise-grade product that elevates the world finance industry. Our yield-bearing stablecoin, USDM, provides permissionless composability, regulatory compliance, and an enterprise-grade setup with a seamless userexperience. Backed by US Treasuries and custodied by Fidelity in a bankruptcy-remote setup. | $8M | Series A | Jun 06, 2024 |  |
| Yooldo | Yooldo provides blockchain gaming accessible and encourages players to have fun and play fairly. |  | Grant | Jan 31, 2024 |  |
| Pontem Network | Pontem Network is a product studio building the first-ever suite of foundational dApps for Aptos. Pontem Wallet, the secure and powerful wallet for Aptos, is available for Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, iOS and Android.Use Pontem Wallet to store and send any tokens on Aptos. The wallet is integrated with our Liquidswap DEX, the first DEX and AMM forAptos, Topaz and Souffl3 NFT marketplaces, Ditto and Tortuga liquid staking platforms, Argo and Aries lending protocols, and all other major Aptos dApps. Our other products include the browser code editor Move Playground, the Move IntelliJ IDE plugin for developers, and the Solidity-to-Move code translator ByteBabel – the first ever implementation of the Ethereum Virtual Machine for Aptos. | $6M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 11, 2024 |  |
| Duo | Duo is a web3 company that provides cryptocurrency and blockchain solutions to the gaming industry. | $50K | Pre-Seed | Jul 10, 2023 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Outlier Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/outlier-ventures-ltd-llp) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Coinbase Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinbase-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [6th Man Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/6th-man-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Altonomy](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altonomy) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bankless Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bankless-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Baselayer Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/baselayer-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Aptos Foundation invest in?

Aptos Foundation invests primarily in Software, Blockchain and Financial Services startups, most often at Grant and Seed stage. Most of the 12 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 Aptos Foundation's check size?

Aptos Foundation typically joins rounds of $900k–$5.7M at Seed and $15k–$150k at Grant. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Aptos Foundation participates in.

### When did Aptos Foundation last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Aptos Foundation closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 12 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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