# Arweave

> Arweave is a VC fund in London backing Blockchain and Software. See 40 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 40
- Last investment: Jun 2024
- Lead investor: 18%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/arweave/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/ArweaveTeam
- Website: https://www.arweave.org/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/ArweaveTeam

Arweave is an information technology company that specializes in data storage, blockchain, and serverless web. It features a software platform thet offers unparalleled levels of data replication and security for users and financial incentives for participants in the network. The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in London, England.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Arweave. Shizune tracks 4 team members at Arweave. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/arweave?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $250k–$17M |
| Pre-Seed | $50k–$4M |
| Series A | $2.8M–$30M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 19 | 48% |
| Software | 15 | 38% |
| Cryptocurrency | 8 | 20% |
| Information Technology | 8 | 20% |
| Web3 | 5 | 13% |

47 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 16 | 40% |
| Pre-Seed | 9 | 23% |
| Series A | 6 | 15% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 10% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 5% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 11 | 28% |
| Singapore | 4 | 10% |
| Germany | 2 | 5% |
| Hong Kong | 2 | 5% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 5% |

10 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| India Raybould | Web/UI/UX Designer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/india-raybould |
| Sam Williams | Co-Founder & CEO | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sam-williams-7fad |
| Sebastian Campos Groth | Chief Operating Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sebastian-campos-groth |
| ian foley | Chief Business Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ian-foley |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Starpower | Starpower is an energy protocol that partners with renewable energy manufacturers to create advanced batteries. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Jun 04, 2024 |  |
| CARV | CARV focused on gaming, enabling players with achievement display, semantic social, and access to gaming premiums. It was founded in 2022. | $10M | Series A | Apr 25, 2024 |  |
| Carv | Carv improves resource management by bridging the gap between sales and project team capacity. The app helps agencies proactively align sales efforts with resourcing forecasts via productization and a new approach to modeling projects.Our app allows services businesses to attach high-level project models to sales opportunity before the project iscontracted, when resource problems become locked in. Users can quickly create models with customizable curves given budget and resource constraints to effectively engineer their sales pipelines. With Carv you will: Eliminate feast or famine \| Improve resourcing decisions \| Empower sales negotiations \| Increase profitability \| Keep more consistent workloads | $10M | Series A | Mar 21, 2024 |  |
| 4Everland | 4Everland is a cloud computing platform that offers website and app design and development services. | $2M | Seed | Dec 20, 2023 |  |
| Fileverse | Fileverse Web3 is not only about speculation & finance. Try just sharing files peer-to-peer with no one snooping on and selling your personal data. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Oct 17, 2023 |  |
| Freatic | Freatic bridges the gap between people who have untapped knowledge and actors who can capitalize on these opportunities. The Freatic strategy, which employs decentralization, game theory, and current cryptography, tries to overcome these constraints and allow untapped information marketplaces to grow. | $3.6M | Seed | Sep 21, 2023 |  |
| Releap Protocol | Music for Creators. Music for Fans. | $2.1M | Seed | Jul 25, 2023 |  |
| HackerNoon | Hacker Noon is a technology publishing platform serving 4M readers per month. Hacker Noon designed to help creators monetize content and provide a premium experience to consumers. | $250K | Seed | May 15, 2023 |  |
| WeaveDB | WeaveDB is a decentralized NoSQL database on Arweave as a smart contract. | $900K | Pre-Seed | Jan 17, 2023 |  |
| Fleek | Fleek is an open web platform that installs anything on a computer or deals with the command line. The platform is helping to build the tools necessary to make the Open Web available to anyone, and easy to build on. It makes it easy to build websites and apps on the new open web: permissionless, trustless, censorship-resistant, and free ofcentralized gatekeepers. Using Open Web protocols that make a decentralized, trustless, and permissionless infrastructure native to the web. This stack is ever-shifting and open-source. | $25M | Series A | Dec 01, 2022 |  |

10 of 40 investments shown.

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- [Mask Network](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dimension-293e) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [SevenX Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sevenx-ventures) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Coinbase Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinbase-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [IOSG Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/iosg-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Permanent Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/permanent-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Avalanche Asia Star Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avalanche-asia-star-fund) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Arweave invest in?

Arweave invests primarily in Blockchain, Software and Cryptocurrency 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 is Arweave's check size?

Arweave typically joins rounds of $250k–$17M at Seed, $50k–$4M at Pre-Seed and $2.8M–$30M 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 Arweave participates in.

### How do I contact Arweave?

Public channels for Arweave 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 Arweave?

The team at Arweave includes India Raybould (Web/UI/UX Designer), Sam Williams (Co-Founder & CEO) and Sebastian Campos Groth (Chief Operating Officer). 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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