# Bware Labs

> Bware Labs is a VC fund backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: May 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bwarelabs/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/BwareLabs
- Website: https://bwarelabs.com/

Bware Labs is a VC fund focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Bware Labs provides an interface between Blockchain APIs consumers and node providers with integrated payment options and verified reliability, all embedded within our platform and protocol service.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 3 | 60% |
| Cryptocurrency | 3 | 60% |
| Smart Contracts | 2 | 40% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 40% |
| Bitcoin | 1 | 20% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 20% |
| Private Equity | 1 | 20% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Switzerland | 2 | 40% |
| Germany | 1 | 20% |
| United States | 1 | 20% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Flavian Manea | Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flavian-manea |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| BabylonChain | Babylon is a VC-backed blockchain project founded by Claude. E. Shannon Award recipient, Professor David Tse from Stanford University. The project’s mission is to bring Bitcoin’s unparalleled security to all PoS blockchains in the world. To this end, we are building, as the bridge between Bitcoin and the PoS world, a new public Cosmos-based PoSblockchain called Babylon with a native token. | $70M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 30, 2024 |  |
| Shardeum | Shardeum is an EVM-based, linearly scalable smart contract platform that provides low gas fees while maintaining true decentralization and solid security through dynamic state sharding. Shardeum uses sharding to increase TPS with the addition of every new node. Shardeum will scale linearly thanks to dynamic state sharding. Every node that joins theShardeum network automatically raises the number of transactions per second (TPS), ensuring cheap transaction costs even as use grows. | $5.4M |  | Jul 08, 2023 |  |
| Shardeum | Shardeum is an EVM-based, linearly scalable smart contract platform that provides low gas fees while maintaining true decentralization and solid security through dynamic state sharding. Shardeum uses sharding to increase TPS with the addition of every new node. Shardeum will scale linearly thanks to dynamic state sharding. Every node that joins theShardeum network automatically raises the number of transactions per second (TPS), ensuring cheap transaction costs even as use grows. | $5.4M |  | Jul 07, 2023 |  |
| t3rn | t3rn offers fast, secure and cost-efficient bridging, optimizing cross-chain executions by leveraging the modular layers of the t3rn stack for storage, validation, settlement and consensus t3rn was founded in 2020 and is based in BVI | $6.5M | Private Equity | Nov 25, 2022 |  |
| Subsquid | Subsquid provides a query node infrastructure with a high level of customization and scalability to make blockchain data usable. Subsquid offers an easy way to build and deploy a custom ETL or GraphQL API for on-chain data. | $3.8M | Seed | Nov 11, 2021 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Jsquare](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jsquare) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Luganodes](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/luganodes) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Amber Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amber-ai) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Blue7](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blue7) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [CryptoViet Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cryptoviet-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [D1 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/d1-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Bware Labs invest in?

Bware Labs invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Smart Contracts startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Switzerland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Bware Labs?

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### Who are the partners at Bware Labs?

The team at Bware Labs includes Flavian Manea (Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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