# Aquanow

> Aquanow is a VC fund in Vancouver backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vancouver, Canada
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aquanow/about/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/getaquanow
- Website: https://www.aquanow.io

Aquanow is a leading digital assets infrastructure provider enabling crypto financial services for institutional clients. Each month, the company facilitates billions of dollars of trade volume for a broad range of use cases. Aquanow serves an international customer base that includes the world’s fastest-growing banks, neobanks, brokerages, andpayment companies. Established in 2018 and headquartered in Canada, Aquanow currently has 100+ team members. In 2023 and 2024, Aquanow ranked amongst the fastest growing companies growing in North America, according to Deloitte.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$5M |
| Pre-Seed | $3.5M–$4M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 5 | 42% |
| Cryptocurrency | 4 | 33% |
| FinTech | 2 | 17% |
| Software | 2 | 17% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 17% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 67% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 17% |
| Series A | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 17% |
| Spain | 1 | 8% |
| Canada | 1 | 8% |
| Panama | 1 | 8% |
| United States | 1 | 8% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Andy Leung | CTO and Co-Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andy-leung-b96a |
| Kevin Lindsay | Director of Engineering | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kevin-lindsay |
| Michael Kwok | Head Of Corporate Development | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-kwok-bd71 |
| Phil Sham | Co-Founder & CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/phil-sham |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Datagram | Datagram is an AI-driven, decentralized infrastructure platform operating as a DePIN baselayer. The company provides a live, scalable node network for launching custom DePIN networks and real-world decentralized applications, with cost savings over traditional cloud providers. | $4M | Pre-Seed | Jun 30, 2025 |  |
| Ooga Booga | Ooga Booga is a liquidity aggregator designed to support the goal of becoming the most capital efficient blockchain. | $1.5M | Seed | Jan 10, 2025 |  |
| Accountable | Accountable is developing a data platform focused on privacy that allows for real-time verification of borrowers' assets, liabilities, and transaction risks. | $2.3M | Seed | Dec 30, 2024 |  |
| Accountable | Accountable is developing a data platform focused on privacy that allows for real-time verification of borrowers' assets, liabilities, and transaction risks. | $2.3M | Seed | Dec 30, 2024 |  |
| Origami Finance | Origami Finance is an automated leverage protocol that allows users to maximise capital efficiency and integrated with third-party lenders. | $1.5M | Seed | Aug 27, 2024 |  |
| tread.fi | Distributed trading infrastructure for digital assets | $3.5M | Pre-Seed | Jul 10, 2024 |  |
| Honeypot Finance | Honeypot Finance is a community-run DeFi hub that includes a novel AMM approach to unify a community-led launchpad (Dreampad) and DEX (HenloDex). |  | Seed | Jun 10, 2024 |  |
| Blueberry Protocol | Blueberry is an interface for interacting with the rest of DeFi with the ability to leverage and hedge by borrowing from an internal lending market. | $2.5M | Series A | Jun 04, 2024 |  |
| Tevaera | Tevaera enhances multi-genre game launch and play using zkStack-based L3 gaming chain, offering multiplayer features and UX-focused apps, facilitating user, liquidity, and builders' free flow within zkNation. | $5M | Seed | Apr 24, 2024 |  |
| Uniblock | Uniblock is the world's first unified Web3 API that connects the most popular blockchain networks and protocols into one singular standard | $2.3M | Seed | Nov 15, 2023 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Blockchain Founders Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blockchain-founders-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [CMCC Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cmcc-global) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Draper Dragon](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/draper-dragon) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [GBV Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/genesis-block-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Maven 11 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maven-11-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [MitonC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/miton-c) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Aquanow invest in?

Aquanow invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Aquanow's check size?

Aquanow typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$5M at Seed and $3.5M–$4M 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 Aquanow participates in.

### How do I contact Aquanow?

Public channels for Aquanow 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 Aquanow?

The team at Aquanow includes Andy Leung (CTO and Co-Founder), Kevin Lindsay (Director of Engineering) and Michael Kwok (Head Of Corporate Development). 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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