# Awesome People Ventures

> Awesome People Ventures is a VC fund backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: May 2024
- Lead investor: 7%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.awesomepeople.ventures/

Awesome People Ventures is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Awesome People Ventures operates as a ventures capital firm.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.5M–$4.8M |
| Pre-Seed | $3.6M–$4.4M |
| Series A | $18M–$36M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 5 | 36% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 29% |
| Blockchain | 3 | 21% |
| Health Care | 3 | 21% |
| Cryptocurrency | 3 | 21% |

38 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 50% |
| Series A | 3 | 21% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 14% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 71% |
| Estonia | 1 | 7% |
| Colombia | 1 | 7% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Julia Lipton | Founder | 27 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julia-lipton |
| Julian Nachtigal | Investment Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julian-nachtigal |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| El Dorado | El Dorado is a P2P marketplace that helps to buy and sell cryptocurrencies, money transfers, foreign exchange, and digital wallet services. | $3M | Seed | May 28, 2024 |  |
| MetaBlox | MetaBlox is a Decentralized ID (DID) enabled network with key building blocks for Web3 and Metaverse. | $5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 01, 2023 |  |
| Roam | Roam offers roaming and advanced network security to users through a global wifi network. | $5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 01, 2023 |  |
| Jia | Small businesses drive the economy. They deserve to own a piece of it. Jia gives entrepreneurs anywhere in the world power to control their financial destiny. We provide blockchain-based financing to businesses in emerging markets and reward them with ownership, enabling them to create wealth and prosperity for themselves and their communities. | $4.4M | Pre-Seed | Aug 01, 2022 |  |
| Treeswift | Treeswift utilizes robotic and machine learning technology to build forestry tools. | $4.8M | Seed | Mar 28, 2022 |  |
| Solid World | The carbon markets are predicted to be 50x in size up to $50B by 2030. The majority of this market is going to be created through forward investments. One of the big things holding back the forward market today is carbon projects underperforming and the illiquid nature of the carbon investment market. Investing in a project gives you a forwardcontract for future credits. These forward contracts often underdeliver, and you can't do anything with this illiquid future promise for credits in 5+ years.
Solid World DAO accelerates carbon project development through fair, transparent and liquid markets. We de-risk carbon investments and make them liquid. The added safety of investing in carbon space will result in accelerated capital deployment and expansion cycles for carbon projects. They´ve partnered with the top companies in this space like SCB, Vlinder, Emsurge, Arbol, SustGlobal, Toucan, Flowcarbon, OFP.

Since they started in October 2021, they designed special-purpose blockchain infrastructure, have $4M forwards committed for the liquidity pools, and have built a one-of-a-kind world-class team with deep industry knowledge(ACT Commodities, BeZero, eAgronom) and blockchain knowledge(Toucan, Mercado Bitcoin, KlimaDAO) with serial-entrepreneur founders(Glia, eAgronom) who have been featured in Time, sourced tens of millions of forward credits, and are in late-stage talks with multiple trading houses for them to become LP-s on their automated market maker. Their protocol will serve as a financial primitive to build derivatives, collateralised loans, on-chain insurance and other innovations. They have a first-mover advantage in building forward carbon credit infrastructure. | $2.7M | Seed | Feb 01, 2022 |  |
| spritz.finance | Choose where to draw funds from. Do you prefer to fund your expenses from your extensive investment holdings to let your gains run? Or do you prefer to use your stablecoin yield farm? We support dozens of ways to program your payments. Link your existing crypto wallets. Keep control and custody of your funds and invest however you like in betweenbills. Revoke access or change your linked wallets at any time. Integrate with all your bills. Use Plaid to safely link to your accounts and we’ll help you make payments when and how you want to do so, with over 1000+ integrations available in the US. |  | Seed | Jan 05, 2022 |  |
| NOVOS | NOVOS is a Longevity supplements brand. Its goal is to help people live longer, healthier lives by developing science-based products that slow down the aging process. | $3.6M | Pre-Seed | Oct 01, 2021 |  |
| Mast Reforestation | DroneSeed is making reforestation scalable--to make a dent in carbon emissions. It is paid per acre to plant tree seed vessels with DroneSwarms. It is one of the most advanced drone companies in the US as it has obtained three precedent setting FAA approvals. It is the 1st and only company allowed to operate heavy-lift drone swarms each carrying a57lb payload. It is also the first to be able to operate heavy lift swarms BVLOS (Beyond visual line of sight). Its customers include timber companies, non-profits such as The Nature Conservancy, and government agencies. It was founded by Grant Canary in 2015 and went through Techstars Seattle in 2016. | $36M | Series A | Sep 29, 2021 |  |
| Mast Reforestation | Mast Reforestation built the only vertically integrated solution to reforest the growing pool of millions of acres that have been damaged by wildfire. The company removes the financial, procedural, and seed supply barriers that typically stand in the way of getting reforestation done, which led to a large and growing project pipeline. It recentlyacquired two legacy businesses to become the largest seed and seedling vendor in the West, which is the primary bottleneck to reforestation. Mast is now executing on the project backlog by leveraging project finance to generate high-quality carbon removal credits for corporate buyers. | $36M | Series A | Sep 29, 2021 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Awesome People Ventures invest in?

Awesome People Ventures invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Blockchain startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 14 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 Awesome People Ventures's check size?

Awesome People Ventures typically joins rounds of $2.5M–$4.8M at Seed, $3.6M–$4.4M at Pre-Seed and $18M–$36M 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 Awesome People Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Awesome People Ventures?

Public channels for Awesome People Ventures include 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 Awesome People Ventures?

The team at Awesome People Ventures includes Julia Lipton (Founder) and Julian Nachtigal (Investment Partner). 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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