# Bloccelerate VC

> Bloccelerate VC is a VC fund in Seattle backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 37 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, United States
- Total investments: 37
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 5%
- Fund size: $25M
- Last fund: Sep 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bloccelerate/
- Website: http://www.bloccelerate.vc/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Bloccelerate/

Bloccelerate VC is a VC fund in Seattle focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Bloccelerate is a global accelerator and a fund focused on investing in blockchain companies all over the world. They bring together a decentralized community of advisors, mentors, and developers to facilitate the blockchain ecosystem.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3M–$10M |
| Series A | $6M–$16M |
| Series B | $15M–$41M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 17 | 46% |
| Cryptocurrency | 10 | 27% |
| FinTech | 7 | 19% |
| Financial Services | 7 | 19% |
| Software | 5 | 14% |

38 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 13 | 35% |
| Series A | 13 | 35% |
| Series B | 3 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 8% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 15 | 41% |
| Switzerland | 3 | 8% |
| Germany | 2 | 5% |
| Israel | 1 | 3% |
| Belgium | 1 | 3% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sam Onat Yilmaz | General Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sam-onat-yilmaz |
| Charles Tango | Member Board of Advisors | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-tango |
| Kate Mitselmakher | CEO, Founder & General Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kate-mitselmakher |
| Sam Onat Yilmaz | General Partner, CFO, and COO; General Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sam-onat-yilmaz-9a3d |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Interstate | Interstate is an Ethereum pre-confirmation protocol. It aims to make Ethereum transactions near-instant and allow applications to self-order while maintaining full composability with L1. | $1.5M | Seed | Mar 05, 2026 |  |
| Cloudburst Technologies | Cloudburst Technologies provides realtime monitoring solutions and cyber threat intelligence tools. | $7M | Series A | Sep 23, 2025 |  |
| Rover | Rover is a liquid staking protocol on Botanix that exchanges Bitcoin for rovBTC. | $4.1M | Seed | May 20, 2025 |  |
| Tally | Tally is a frontend for DAOs running on Ethereum and other EVM blockchains. Tally gives users real power in their decentralized organizations. On Tally, users can delegate voting power, create or pass proposals to spend DAO funds, manage a protocol, and upgrade smart contracts—all onchain. | $8M | Series A | Apr 22, 2025 |  |
| Validation Cloud | Validation Cloud is a Web3 data streaming and infrastructure company that connects organizations into Web3 through a fast, scalable, and intelligent platform. Headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, Validation Cloud offers highly performant and customizable products in staking, node, and data-as-a-service. Its team brings extensive experience acrossWeb2 and Web3 from the likes of Coinbase, Kraken, Workday, Accenture, Crypto.com, Voyager, and more. Learn more at Validationcloud.io | $15M | Series A | Mar 06, 2025 |  |
| Neptune Protocol | Neptune Protocol is a decentralized lending platform. It enhances capital efficiency by enabling customers to obtain liquidity in a secure manner. | $3.9M | Seed | Dec 10, 2024 |  |
| Magma | Magma is a decentralized liquid staking protocol built on the Monad Network, an Ethereum-compatible Layer 1 blockchain. | $3.9M | Seed | Oct 30, 2024 |  |
| Gelato | Gelato Network is a protocol that automates smart contract executions on Ethereum and beyond. We are building the underlying infrastructure enabling reliable automation on top of Ethereum and with it a key part of the Web3 middleware stack, enabling trustless, automated flows of value between all smart contracts and upcoming Layer 2 networks. | $11M | Series A | Oct 28, 2024 |  |
| Fluid Protocol | Fluid Protocol is a decentralized, over-collateralized lending mechanism designed especially for Fuel Network. In order to maximize capital efficiency, Fluid offers users a safe and effective method of releasing liquidity from their collateral without having to liquidate their underlying assets. | $3.9M | Seed | Oct 23, 2024 |  |
| Hypernative | Hypernative is a digital startup that keeps an eye on off-chain data sources and uses all its machine-learning models to accurately identify dangers to the community, economy, and governance. It blocks zero-day cyber threats, governance, and economic concerns, and shields Web3 apps, protocols, and administrators of digital assets from substantiallosses. | $16M | Series A | Sep 03, 2024 |  |

10 of 37 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [New Form Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-form-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Stake Capital Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stake-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Ulu Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ulu-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Animoca Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/animoca-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Borderless Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/borderless-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Builder Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/builder-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Bloccelerate VC invest in?

Bloccelerate VC invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 37 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 Bloccelerate VC's check size?

Bloccelerate VC typically joins rounds of $3M–$10M at Seed, $6M–$16M at Series A and $15M–$41M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Bloccelerate VC participates in.

### How do I contact Bloccelerate VC?

Public channels for Bloccelerate VC include LinkedIn, the website linked on this profile and Facebook. 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 Bloccelerate VC?

The team at Bloccelerate VC includes Sam Onat Yilmaz (General Partner), Charles Tango (Member Board of Advisors) and Kate Mitselmakher (CEO, Founder & General 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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