Bitfury Group
VC Fund
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Bitfury Group is a VC fund in Amsterdam focused on Software and Blockchain. Bitfury is the leading full service Blockchain technology company and one of the largest private infrastructure providers in the blockchain ecosystem. Bitfury develops and delivers both the software and the hardware solutions necessary for businesses, governments, organizations and individuals to securely move an asset across the blockchain.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Bitfury Group invests in
Stages Bitfury Group invests in
Countries Bitfury Group invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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Round size
- Seed
- $3.5M–$12M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (40%)
- Blockchain 3 (30%)
- Bitcoin 2 (20%)
- Cryptocurrency 2 (20%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 2 (20%)
- Corporate Round 2 (20%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (10%)
- Series C 1 (10%)
- Funding Round 1 (10%)
Country
- The Netherlands 2 (20%)
- Barbados 1 (10%)
- Argentina 1 (10%)
- Switzerland 1 (10%)
- United States 1 (10%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bob Dykes
Board Member
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Board Member | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Brian P. Brooks
Chief Executive Officer
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Chief Executive Officer | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Bill Tai
Chair of Strategy & Board Director
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Chair of Strategy & Board Director | Total investments: 59 | Find email | |
George Kikvadze
Executive Vice Chairman
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Executive Vice Chairman | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Gigi Brisson
Board Of Directors
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Board Of Directors | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
| See all 11 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Axelera AI
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Axelera AI is a company that delivers purpose-built hardware and software platforms designed to accelerate artificial intelligence tasks, particularly in edge computing. The company's flagship product, the Metis™ AI Platform, integrates both hardware and software components to deliver high-performance, energy-efficient AI inference solutions.This platform has been recognized for its innovation, notably being named a CES® 2024 Innovation Awards Honoree.Incubated in 2019 by the emerging technologies leader Bitfury and joined by the leading nano-technology group imec in early 2020, Axelera AI launched as a new company in 2021. Headquartered in the AI Innovation Center of the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, Axelera AI has R&D offices in Belgium, Switzerland, and Italy. Its team of experts in AI software and hardware hail from top AI firms and Fortune 500 companies. | $250M / Series C / Feb 24, 2026 | |
Gonka
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Gonka is a decentralized network that maximizes the usage of global GPU capacity for significant AI workloads Gonka gives researchers and builders unrestricted access to computational resources by doing away with centralized gatekeepers. | $50M / Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 02, 2025 | |
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Axelera AI
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Axelera AI is a company that delivers purpose-built hardware and software platforms designed to accelerate artificial intelligence tasks, particularly in edge computing. The company's flagship product, the Metis™ AI Platform, integrates both hardware and software components to deliver high-performance, energy-efficient AI inference solutions.This platform has been recognized for its innovation, notably being named a CES® 2024 Innovation Awards Honoree.Incubated in 2019 by the emerging technologies leader Bitfury and joined by the leading nano-technology group imec in early 2020, Axelera AI launched as a new company in 2021. Headquartered in the AI Innovation Center of the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, Axelera AI has R&D offices in Belgium, Switzerland, and Italy. Its team of experts in AI software and hardware hail from top AI firms and Fortune 500 companies. | $12M / Seed / Sep 15, 2021 | |
Cipher Mining
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Cipher Mining is an industrial-scale Bitcoin mining company dedicated to expanding and strengthening the Bitcoin network's critical infrastructure. Its goal is to be the leading Bitcoin mining company in the United States. Cipher Mining aims to leverage best-in-class technology, market-leading power purchase arrangements, and a seasoned,dedicated senior management team to become the market leader in Bitcoin mining. | $425M / Post-IPO Equity / Aug 30, 2021 | |
Shyft
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Shyft Network is a public protocol for directly validating identity and power compliance in blockchain data. Shyft Network provides meaningful user information that institutions can use to secure cryptocurrency while maintaining privacy by facilitating the transfer of verifiable data between centralized and decentralized ecosystems. | Mar 10, 2021 | |
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Shyft
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Shyft Network is a public protocol for directly validating identity and power compliance in blockchain data. Shyft Network provides meaningful user information that institutions can use to secure cryptocurrency while maintaining privacy by facilitating the transfer of verifiable data between centralized and decentralized ecosystems. | Mar 10, 2021 | |
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Shyft
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Shyft Network is a public protocol for directly validating identity and power compliance in blockchain data. Shyft Network provides meaningful user information that institutions can use to secure cryptocurrency while maintaining privacy by facilitating the transfer of verifiable data between centralized and decentralized ecosystems. | Corporate Round / Dec 11, 2019 | |
Final Frontier
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Final Frontier is a specialist blockchain and cryptocurrency investment firm. Our mission is to develop institutional grade financial products and services that allow professional investors to confidently gain exposure to the blockchain and cryptocurrency asset class. | Corporate Round / Nov 20, 2018 | |
Crystal
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Crystal is a blockchain investigative tool that provides a comprehensive view of the public blockchain ecosystem. It was designed for law enforcement and financial institutions and uses advanced analytics and data scraping to map suspicious transactions and related entities. | Pre-Seed / Feb 01, 2018 | |
RSK Labs
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RSK is the first open-source smart contract platform with a 2-way peg to Bitcoin that also rewards the Bitcoin miners via merge-mining, allowing them to actively participate in the Smart Contract revolution. RSK goal is to add value and functionality to the Bitcoin ecosystem by enabling smart-contracts, near instant payments and higher-scalability. | $3.5M / Seed / May 22, 2017 |
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FAQ
What does Bitfury Group invest in?
Bitfury Group invests primarily in Software, Blockchain and Bitcoin startups, most often at Seed and Corporate Round stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in The Netherlands. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Bitfury Group invest in?
Bitfury Group typically joins rounds of $3.5M–$12M at Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Bitfury Group's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Bitfury Group took part in.
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Who are the partners at Bitfury Group?
The team at Bitfury Group includes Bob Dykes (Board Member), Brian P. Brooks (Chief Executive Officer) and Bill Tai (Chair of Strategy & Board Director), among 11 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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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