# Avery Ching

> Avery Ching is a seed investor at Aptos backing GPU, Blockchain and Cloud Computing. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Aptos](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aptos-96b4)
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/averyching/
- Website: https://x.com/AveryChing

Avery Ching is a Co-Founder & CEO of Aptos.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| GPU | 1 | 25% |
| Blockchain | 1 | 25% |
| Cloud Computing | 1 | 25% |
| Cloud Infrastructure | 1 | 25% |
| Information Technology | 1 | 25% |

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 75% |
| Series A | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Goblin Finance | Goblin.fi is a DeFi yield platform that automates multi-strategy vaults and enhanced liquid staking for optimized returns. | $1M | Seed | Dec 11, 2025 |  |
| Miden | Miden grants applications the power to scale with public and private transactions. | $25M | Seed | Apr 29, 2025 |  |
| io.net | Io.net Cloud provides a decentralized computing network enabling machine learning engineers to access distributed clusters at a small fraction of the cost of comparable centralized services. The company's mission is to put together one million GPUs in a DePIN - decentralized physical infrastructure network. | $30M | Series A | Mar 05, 2024 |  |
| Panora | Panora is a one-stop trading hub, aggregating all liquidity on Aptos. |  | Seed |  |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Hack VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hack-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [MH Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mh-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [OKX Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/okx-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [1kx](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1kx) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [6th Man Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/6th-man-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [a16z crypto](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a16z-crypto) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Aptos

VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States

Aptos is a web3 startup that builds a scalable Layer 1 blockchain. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

4 contacts available at Aptos.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Avery Ching | Co-Founder & CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avery-ching-579b |
| Christie Lee | Head of Korean partnerships | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christie-lee-b18e |
| Greg Nazario | Software Engineer (Founding Team) | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greg-nazario-c23f |
| Lisa LeFever | Senior Commercial Counsel | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lisa-lefever |

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## FAQ

### What does Avery Ching invest in?

Avery Ching invests primarily in GPU, Blockchain and Cloud Computing startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Avery Ching last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Avery Ching closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 4 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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