# Austin Federa

> Austin Federa is a seed investor at DoubleZero (New City) backing Blockchain and Web3. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [DoubleZero](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/doublezero)
- Location: New City, United States
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/austin-federa/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/austin_federa
- Website: https://x.com/austin_federa

Austin Federa is a seed investor at DoubleZero in New City focused on Blockchain and Web3. Austin Federa is based out of New York, New York and is the Co-Founder of DoubleZero. Austin previously worked at the Solana Foundation as a Head of Strategy. Austin Federa attended Lawrence University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $5.5M–$11M |
| Pre-Seed | $2M–$3M |
| Series A | $10M–$50M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 8 | 80% |
| Web3 | 2 | 20% |
| Cryptocurrency | 2 | 20% |
| Retail | 1 | 10% |
| Finance | 1 | 10% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 40% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 30% |
| Series A | 2 | 20% |
| Post-IPO Equity | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 40% |
| Estonia | 1 | 10% |
| Singapore | 1 | 10% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Raiku | Raiku is a Web3 infrastructure startup focused on enhancing the Solana blockchain's reliability and predictability. | $11.3M | Seed | Sep 24, 2025 |  |
| ZAR | ZAR establishes a connection between cash-based economies and the web3 framework, facilitating adoption of stablecoins. | $7M | Seed | Apr 30, 2025 |  |
| Upexi | Upexi is a multi-faceted brand owner that focuses on direct-to-consumer and Amazon brands. The company pursues organic growth for its present brands while operating in sectors with high growth trends. The objective of Upexi is to keep gathering consumer information and develop a sizable client database across all markets we serve. | $100M | Post-IPO Equity | Apr 21, 2025 |  |
| Elmnts | Elmnts is a blockchain-based tokenized commodity ecosystem for oil & gas royalties, it offers fewer intermediaries, lower fees, and higher liquidity. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Aug 05, 2024 |  |
| Rome Protocol | Rome Protocol is an SS that uses solana to create a new design environment and a unique product.Rome Protocol is a solana-based shared sequencer that employs solana directly for performance and security, as well as the ability to unlock liquidity between solana and ethereum. | $9M | Seed | Jul 09, 2024 |  |
| Compute Labs | computing Labs is a tokenized real-world asset (RWA) company dedicated to democratizing access to the computing industry using blockchain technology. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Jul 03, 2024 |  |
| Arcium | Arcium is a parallelized confidential computing network that provides trustless, verifiable and efficient encrypted computation. Arcium implements Multiparty Computation Execution Environments (MXEs) that combine MPC, homomorphic encryption, zero-knowledge proofs, and more to enable computation on encrypted data. | $5.5M | Seed | May 09, 2024 |  |
| Raiku | Raiku is a Web3 infrastructure startup focused on enhancing the Solana blockchain's reliability and predictability. | $2.3M | Pre-Seed | Apr 01, 2024 |  |
| Eclipse | Eclipse customizable blockchain platform powered by Solana enables developers to build apps for Web2. | $50M | Series A | Mar 11, 2024 |  |
| Jito Labs | Jito Labs is the MEV infrastructure company that develops systems to scale Solana and maximize validator rewards. | $10M | Series A | Aug 11, 2022 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Anagram](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anagram-43bc) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Big Brain Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/big-brain-holdings) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [OKX Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/okx-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [OKX Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/block-dream-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Coinbase Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinbase-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Delphi Digital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/delphi-digital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About DoubleZero

VC Fund

DoubleZero is developing a global fiber network intended for high-performance distributed systems and blockchains. It seeks to enhance blockchain performance by establishing a dedicated physical infrastructure layer for communication.

1 contacts available at DoubleZero.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Austin Federa | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/austin-federa |

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## FAQ

### What does Austin Federa invest in?

Austin Federa invests primarily in Blockchain, Web3 and Cryptocurrency startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 10 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 Austin Federa's check size?

Austin Federa typically joins rounds of $5.5M–$11M at Seed, $2M–$3M at Pre-Seed and $10M–$50M 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 Austin Federa participates in.

### When did Austin Federa last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Austin Federa closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 10 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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