Blockchain Valley Ventures
VC Fund
Zug, Switzerland
Blockchain Valley Ventures (BVV) is a new accelerator and venture firm incubating, developing and investing in blockchain-enabled businesses.A spin-off from Lykke Corporation, a pioneer in blockchain-powered trading and blockchain-based business models, BVV investments are done from own funding for incubation stages and through investmentvehicles, such as the Blockchain Investment Opportunities Note, in cooperation with Vicenda.Located in the heart of the Crypto Valley in Zug, Switzerland, BVV operates within and supports the world’s most advanced and experienced ecosystem of blockchain companies, blockchain-experienced lawyers, auditors, tax advisors and financial regulators.
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 38%
- Fund size:
- $6.6M
- Last fund:
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Industries Blockchain Valley Ventures invests in
Stages Blockchain Valley Ventures invests in
Countries Blockchain Valley Ventures invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (31%)
- Blockchain 4 (31%)
- Financial Services 4 (31%)
- Information Technology 4 (31%)
- FinTech 3 (23%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (38%)
- Series B 2 (15%)
- Funding Round 2 (15%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (8%)
- Series A 1 (8%)
Country
- United Kingdom 5 (38%)
- Switzerland 3 (23%)
- Australia 1 (8%)
- Singapore 1 (8%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Heinrich Zetlmayer
Founder & General Partner
|
Founder & General Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Paolo Guida
Head of Investments
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Head of Investments | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Leeor Groen
Principal
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Principal | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Sebastian Markowsky
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Measure provides verified, first-party consumer behavior insights that solve the accuracy and scalability issues plaguing modern digital advertising. Unlike traditional data sources that rely on guesswork, our deterministic panel delivers real, high-fidelity behavioral insights, ensuring that brands are targeting actual high-intent consumers, notinferred lookalikes. | $3.4M / Apr 19, 2022 | ||
| CYSEC is a startup working on next generation Confidential Computing solutions securing data at rest, in motion and in use. Currently they have released their ARCA solution which is quickly becoming one of the more popular choices in the market. | $4.4M / Seed / Jan 20, 2022 | ||
| Trovio is an Australian Fintech startup, originating out of the Capital Markets CRC, that has developed a platform for the digitisation of gold and other precious metals. Together with The Perth Mint, one of the largest gold refineries in the world, InfiniGold has developed and is operating GoldPass®, a full-service gold investment platform thatdigitises Perth Mint gold and gives investors the ability to securely buy, store, transfer and sell physical gold via digital certificates. Digital certificates are portable, valuable and fungible. Gold is bought and sold in real time, based upon the spot price of gold at The Perth Mint.Issued GoldPass® digital certificates are stored within a digital vault on the owner's mobile device. They are accessible only by the owner, and always verifiable against the Mint ledger.All GoldPass® digital certificates are 100% backed by physical Perth Mint gold with the weight and purity of every ounce guaranteed by the Government of Western Australia. | $4.2M / Series B / Feb 10, 2021 | ||
| Trovio is an Australian Fintech startup, originating out of the Capital Markets CRC, that has developed a platform for the digitisation of gold and other precious metals. Together with The Perth Mint, one of the largest gold refineries in the world, InfiniGold has developed and is operating GoldPass®, a full-service gold investment platform thatdigitises Perth Mint gold and gives investors the ability to securely buy, store, transfer and sell physical gold via digital certificates. Digital certificates are portable, valuable and fungible. Gold is bought and sold in real time, based upon the spot price of gold at The Perth Mint.Issued GoldPass® digital certificates are stored within a digital vault on the owner's mobile device. They are accessible only by the owner, and always verifiable against the Mint ledger.All GoldPass® digital certificates are 100% backed by physical Perth Mint gold with the weight and purity of every ounce guaranteed by the Government of Western Australia. | $4.8M / Series B / Feb 10, 2021 | ||
| Coadjute is a blockchain property technology business headquartered in London. Their open network is designed to cut the cost and increase the speed of property transactions by connecting the businesses that power property market operations. Over the last 20 months, Coadjute has conducted trials with over 40 leading businesses in the propertyindustry and is due to launch the network in the UK early in 2021. | $3.9M / Seed / Nov 04, 2020 | ||
| Coinfirm is the recognized global leader in blockchain regtech. Their mission is to provide technology for regulatory compliance, bringing new levels of transparency and trust to the world of digital currencies. Their aim is to serve as a foundation for the safe adoption of blockchain by all actors in the economy, including traditional financialinstitutions, governments, regulators as well as ordinary citizens. They do that by applying regulatory technology for blockchain that solves a variety of compliance challenges. Their proprietary solutions streamline compliance to near-automation. Taking anti money laundering effectiveness form around 1% as it is in the current traditional system and take it to over 90% effectiveness. They provide anti-money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) services for virtual currencies and blockchain actors. They enable traditional financial institutions and regulators to safely engage with the crypto world.Their Trudatum product gives users the ability to register and authenticate any type of data, providing instant, secure online confirmation of the authenticity of documents and other files. | $4M / Seed / Jan 30, 2020 | ||
| AlgoTrader is the global institutional leader in algorithmic trading and execution infrastructure for both digital and traditional assets. With its advanced software solutions, AlgoTrader gives banks, hedge funds, brokers, crypto funds and other financial institutions an end-to-end platform for best execution and event-driven alpha generation. Thecompany's offering includes WIRESWARM, a digital asset trading and connectivity platform for banks and brokers, AlgoTrader QUANT, an end-to-end quantitative trading solution with automated trade signal generation and order execution, and AlgoTrader OEMS, a state-of-the-art Order and Execution Management System for systematic and discretionary buy-side institutions with managed connectivity to over 400 liquidity venues. AlgoTrader’s interdisciplinary team of quantitative strategy developers, senior software engineers and financial and crypto experts is shaping institutional trading. Founded in Switzerland and based in Zurich, New York and Singapore, AlgoTrader operates globally. | $4.3M / Series A / Jan 08, 2020 | ||
| Measure provides verified, first-party consumer behavior insights that solve the accuracy and scalability issues plaguing modern digital advertising. Unlike traditional data sources that rely on guesswork, our deterministic panel delivers real, high-fidelity behavioral insights, ensuring that brands are targeting actual high-intent consumers, notinferred lookalikes. | $2.6M / Jan 07, 2020 | ||
| Keyless is a deeptech, cybersecurity company building the world's first privacy-preserving biometric authentication and personal identity management platform.The Keyless Platform empowers businesses to embrace passwordless, protect their remote workforce and enable strong customer authentication with just a look.Keyless Zero-KnowledgeBiometric (ZKB™) solutions provide passwordless multi-factor authentication that eliminates fraud, phishing and credential reuse – all while enhancing customer and employee experiences and protecting their privacy.With Keyless, businesses are finally able to adopt zero-trust security, eliminate passwords, ensure privacy compliance and deliver unified authentication experiences across every touchpoint with just a look.#gokeyless at www.keyless.io | $2.2M / Pre-Seed / Jun 30, 2019 | ||
| Veratrak is a document sharing and master data collaboration platform that is purpose built for the pharmaceutical supply chain allowing partners to communicate sensitive information more efficiently. | $1.3M / Seed / Apr 08, 2019 | ||
| See all 13 investments → | |||
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What does Blockchain Valley Ventures invest in?
Blockchain Valley Ventures invests primarily in Software, Blockchain and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The team at Blockchain Valley Ventures includes Heinrich Zetlmayer (Founder & General Partner), Paolo Guida (Head of Investments) and Leeor Groen (Principal). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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