# Ava Labs

> Ava Labs is a VC fund in Brooklyn backing Blockchain and FinTech. See 27 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brooklyn, United States
- Total investments: 27
- Last investment: Sep 2024
- Lead investor: 26%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/avalabsofficial
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/avalabsofficial
- Website: https://avalabs.org/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AvaLabsOfficial

Ava Labs is a VC fund in Brooklyn focused on Blockchain and FinTech. AVA Labs makes it simple to launch finance applications using blockchain technology–with highly scalable and efficient networks, customizable public and private blockchains, the capability to create any digital asset, and more. We are empowering people to build an open, simple, and democratic internet of finance.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $250k–$15M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $6M–$10M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 10 | 37% |
| FinTech | 5 | 19% |
| Finance | 5 | 19% |
| Software | 5 | 19% |
| Cryptocurrency | 5 | 19% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 33% |
| Grant | 5 | 19% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 11% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 7% |
| Series A | 2 | 7% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 37% |
| Turkey | 2 | 7% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 7% |
| Chile | 1 | 4% |
| Canada | 1 | 4% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| John Wu | President | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-wu-a3e4 |
| Justin Kim | Head of Korea | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/justin-kim-783c |
| Kevin Sekniqi | Chief Protocol Architect | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kevin-kevin-sekniqi |
| Emin Gün Sirer | Founder and CEO | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emin-g%C3%BCn-sirer |
| Jay Kurahashi-Sofue | VP of Marketing | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jay-kurahashi-sofue |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Forge | Forge is where gamers go to earn rewards and recognition from their achievements in gaming. |  | Seed | Sep 17, 2024 |  |
| Record | Record is a financial technology platform for alternative assets ranging from Music, Web3, Film, TV, Literature & Content royalties. | $3M | Seed | Jul 01, 2024 |  |
| Playground | Playground lets advertisers attach media and rewards to any onchain community with a no-code platform. |  | Seed | May 15, 2024 |  |
| Blueprint Finance | Blueprint Finance develops protocols and infrastructure to advance on-chain financing. | $7.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 15, 2024 |  |
| Onomy Protocol | Onomy is bridging Forex and Decentralized Finance through cross-chain liquidity aggregation and digital currencies. | $10M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 24, 2022 |  |
| Magna | Magna develops a token vesting and DeFi investment management platform. The company's first product is Carta for Web3, where companies can manage their cap tables and distribute their token equity to employees, advisors, or investors. It aims to use locked tokens as composable building blocks to power collateralized lending, liquid secondarymarkets, and other DeFi applications. | $15.2M | Seed | Sep 15, 2022 |  |
| Trustless Media | Trustless Media is a new kind of production hub where ideas people care about actually come to life. | $3.3M | Seed | Jul 27, 2022 |  |
| Time Shuffle | TimeShuffle is a play-and-earn turn-based strategy game with heroes from across history battling together and against each other in procedurally generated . | $2.1M | Seed | May 10, 2022 |  |
| MetaDerby | MetaDerby redefines the horse race-gaming experience, making it accessible and profitable to gamers with its free-to-play model and blockchain-based integration, including a create-to-earn land system, decentralized finance staking, and a nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace. | $2.5M | Seed | Mar 22, 2022 |  |
| KYVE | KYVE is an initiative to store any data stream, with built-in validation. By leveraging the Arweave blockchain. The network is powered by decentralized uploaders and validators. These nodes reside in pools, each pool focusing on archiving a specific data stream. Pools are funded by KYVE tokens. | $2.8M | Series A | Oct 26, 2021 |  |

10 of 27 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Mechanism Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mechanism-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Arrington XRP Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arrington-xrp-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Ascensive Assets](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ascensive-asset-management) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [The Spartan Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-spartan-group-4202) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Vendetta Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vendetta-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Genesis Block](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/genesis-block) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Ava Labs invest in?

Ava Labs invests primarily in Blockchain, FinTech and Finance startups, most often at Seed and Grant stage. Most of the 27 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 Ava Labs's check size?

Ava Labs typically joins rounds of $250k–$15M at Seed and $6M–$10M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Ava Labs participates in.

### How do I contact Ava Labs?

Public channels for Ava Labs 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 Ava Labs?

The team at Ava Labs includes John Wu (President), Justin Kim (Head of Korea) and Kevin Sekniqi (Chief Protocol Architect), among 14 team members tracked by Shizune. 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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