# BlockFi

> BlockFi is a VC fund backing Cryptocurrency and Financial Services. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Jersey City, United States
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Jan 2024
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/blockfi
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/blockfi
- Website: https://blockfi.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BlockFi

BlockFi is a secured non-bank lender that offers USD loans to crypto-asset owners who collateralize the loan with their crypto-assets. Their products bring additional liquidity to the blockchain asset sector and meet the needs of both individuals and institutions holding blockchain assets. BlockFi holds clients' Bitcoin and Ether with aregistered custodian and issues loans in USD to their bank accounts. Currently operating in beta launch, lending in 35 US states to retail investors and companies.BlockFi’s mission is to provide liquidity, transparency, and efficiency to digital financial markets by creating products that meet the needs of consumers and corporations across the globe. They leverage a sophisticated infrastructure that integrates with multiple blockchains, they plan to expand their product set based on their retail and institutional client's needs.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for BlockFi. Shizune tracks 8 team members at BlockFi. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/blockfi-inc?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $4.3M–$5.8M |
| Series A | $10M–$70M |
| Series B | $15M–$61M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cryptocurrency | 9 | 60% |
| Financial Services | 9 | 60% |
| Blockchain | 8 | 53% |
| FinTech | 6 | 40% |
| Bitcoin | 5 | 33% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 6 | 40% |
| Seed | 2 | 13% |
| Series B | 2 | 13% |
| Angel | 1 | 7% |
| Series C | 1 | 7% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 9 | 60% |
| Brazil | 1 | 7% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 7% |
| South Korea | 1 | 7% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 7% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Flori Marquez | Co-Founder & SVP of Operations | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flori-marquez |
| John Bekas | VP of Product Delivery, Mobile & Web | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-bekas |
| Rene van Kesteren | GM of Institutions | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rene-van-kesteren |
| Wittney Rachlin | Chief Growth Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wittney-rachlin |
| Justin Pease | VP, Engineering | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/justin-pease |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| HealthBridgeHQ | HealthBridgeHQ is a med tech company supporting Providers and Patients in improving practice outcomes and patient outcomes. | $1M | Angel | Jan 16, 2024 |  |
| Delio | Crypto Financial Services Provider | $621.6M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 07, 2022 |  |
| Elwood Technologies | Elwood is a leading fintech firm specializing in comprehensive digital asset trading, portfolio, and risk management software for institutions. Its front-to-back solutions connect clients to global crypto exchanges, liquidity providers, custodians, and fund administrators while offering advanced execution management, portfolio analytics, and riskmanagement tools. Built by industry experts with deep experience in traditional finance and digital technology, Elwood empowers financial institutions to navigate digital asset markets with efficiency, security, and confidence. | $70M | Series A | May 16, 2022 |  |
| ABC Projects | ABC Projects focused on Bitcoin mining operations. It is a joint venture comprising Alborz LLC, Bear LLC, and Chief Mountain LLC. | $46.9M | Debt Financing | May 06, 2022 |  |
| GamerGains Lab | GamerGains Labs is the first-ever token and cryptocurrency-based play and earn platform serving traditional gamers – a community of hundreds of millions of people around the world that enjoy playing on PCs and consoles such as Xbox and PlayStation. Offering an easy-to-use interface, the innovative platform will allow members to earn crypto withconfidence through an automated contest lifecycle, which is impartial, transparent, and features instant payout settlement. | $5.8M | Seed | Apr 26, 2022 |  |
| Coin Metrics | Coin Metrics is the provider of crypto financial intelligence, providing network data, market data, indexes, and network risk solutions to the most prestigious institutions touching crypto-assets. Coin Metrics is an open-source project to determine the economic significance of public blockchains. Today, we expand on that original purpose to empowerpeople and institutions to make informed crypto-financial decisions. | $35M | Series C | Apr 06, 2022 |  |
| Hex Trust | Hex Trust is a fully-licensed and insured provider of bank-grade custody for digital assets. Through our proprietary platform Hex Safe™, we deliver custody, DeFi, brokerage, and financing solutions for financial institutions, digital asset organizations, corporate and private clients. Hex Trust has offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Vietnam andis expanding across Europe and the Middle East.Our mission is to provide the infrastructure that enables banks and financial institutions to adopt and integrate digital assets into their business models within a highly secure, scalable and compliant custody framework.Hex Trust is registered as a Trust Company under the Hong Kong Trust Ordinance and holds a Trust or Company Service Provider (TCSP) license under the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Ordinance. In Singapore, Hex Trust holds a Capital Markets Services (CMS) license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) allowing the company to provide custodial services regulated under Singapore’s Securities and Futures Act. | $88M | Series B | Mar 15, 2022 |  |
| Trace Finance | Trace Finance empowers Payment Facilitators, Crypto & Cross-border companies with best in class FX, Non Resident accounts and cross-border payments. Companies such as Dlocal, Volt.io and Okx are processing their local and cross border payments with us. Our mission is to provide faster and better payments globally for enterprises. 40% ofpayments in stablecoins | $4.3M | Seed | Feb 15, 2022 |  |
| Notabene | Notabene was founded to build SWIFT for Crypto. Notabene Transact, their core offering is now processing $5B of transactions a day between thousands of regulated institutions for purposes. They just launched Notabene Flow, the only B2B focused VisaNet like pull payment layer for stablecoins to their network. Notabene Flow allows their networkmembers to offer better high margin B2B high margin services, such as recurring and agentic cross border B2B payments that no one has been able to solve at scale using stablecoins. | $10.2M | Series A | Nov 08, 2021 |  |
| Elementus | Elementus, a data science and blockchain intelligence company at its core, is defining the future of crypto intelligence. Founded in New York in 2017, Elementus combines proprietary data with patented algorithms to deliver unique insights, increase productivity, and enable fast, actionable decision-making within the crypto economy. | $12M | Series A | Oct 28, 2021 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Goldman Sachs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goldman-sachs) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Castle Island Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/castle-island-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Highland Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/highland-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Avon Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avon-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Blockchain.com Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blockchain-ventures-1104) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Heavybit](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/heavybit-industries) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does BlockFi invest in?

BlockFi invests primarily in Cryptocurrency, Financial Services and Blockchain startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 15 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 BlockFi's check size?

BlockFi typically joins rounds of $4.3M–$5.8M at Seed, $10M–$70M at Series A and $15M–$61M 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 BlockFi participates in.

### How do I contact BlockFi?

Public channels for BlockFi include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and 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 BlockFi?

The team at BlockFi includes Flori Marquez (Co-Founder & SVP of Operations), John Bekas (VP of Product Delivery, Mobile & Web) and Rene van Kesteren (GM of Institutions), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. 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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