Bybit
VC Fund
Singapore, Singapore
Bybit is a cryptocurrency exchange founded in March 2018 to provide a professional platform with an ultra-fast matching engine, excellent customer service, and multilingual community support for crypto traders. The company offers innovative online spot and derivatives trading services, mining and staking products, and API support to retail andinstitutional clients worldwide, and aims to be the most dependable exchange for the emerging digital asset class.
- Total investments:
- 33
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 21%
Last updated:
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Industries Bybit invests in
Stages Bybit invests in
Countries Bybit invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 10 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1.3M–$11M
- Series A
- $7.5M–$23M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $1M–$3M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 16 (48%)
- Cryptocurrency 15 (45%)
- FinTech 8 (24%)
- Financial Services 5 (15%)
- Software 4 (12%)
Stage
- Seed 14 (42%)
- Series A 6 (18%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (9%)
- Funding Round 2 (6%)
- Initial Coin Offering 2 (6%)
Country
- United States 7 (21%)
- Singapore 4 (12%)
- South Korea 2 (6%)
- Cayman Islands 2 (6%)
- China 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alessio Ippolito
Top italian affiliate crypto partner
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Top italian affiliate crypto partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Ben Zhou
Founder,CEO
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Founder,CEO | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Francesca Tay
Chief Content Strategist
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Chief Content Strategist | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Haroon Baig
Content Creator (Technical & General)
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Content Creator (Technical & General) | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Helen Liu
Chief Operating Officer
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Chief Operating Officer | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
| See all 10 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hata is a regulated platform where businesses & consumers can transact and access cryptocurrencies with fiat currency such as the US Dollar & Malaysia Ringgit. Our vision is to enable safe & effortless access to cryptocurrency for all. We're committed to achieve that by providing a reliable platform for all to accesscryptocurrency easily, through our commitment to customers and compliance with regulations. Hata is regulated by the Securities Commission of Malaysia as a Recognised Market Operator (Digital Asset Exchange & Digital Broker) , and the Labuan Financial Services Authority (Malaysia) as a Licensed Money Broker & Payment System Operator. Learn more at : https://hata.io | $8M / Series A / Apr 20, 2026 | ||
| Founded in 2020, Mesh's mission is to build an open, connected and secure financial ecosystem. Mesh is a modern financial operating system that provides enterprise clients with the ability to enable digital asset transfers, crypto payments, account aggregation and registered securities trading, all within their platform. With integrations toover 300+ platforms like Robinhood, Coinbase and MetaMask, Mesh is creating an embedded financial ecosystem that is more open, connected and secure for businesses and users alike. To learn more, visit https://www.meshconnect.com/. | Aug 14, 2025 | ||
| Mesh Pay is a payment infrastructure platform that enables businesses to accept and send digital assets and cryptocurrency transactions through a single integration. It supports connectivity with hundreds of wallets and exchanges, and processes payments, deposits, verification,s and global payouts, settling funds in stablecoins or local currency toreduce volatility risk and increase completion rates. The platform includes SmartFunding™, which orchestrates funding from multiple sources to streamline checkout and payout processes, and offers real-time address validation and settlement features. Mesh Pay also provides programmable wallet capabilities for autonomous commerce and routes funds securely across wallets, banks and exchanges. | Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 14, 2025 | ||
| Plasma is an operational setting that supports payments, real-world assets, and DeFi, with trustless settlement on Bitcoin. | $373M / Initial Coin Offering / May 27, 2025 | ||
| EthicHub connect groups of smallholder coffee producers, with investors from all over the world and with direct buyers (rosters), creating value to all parties. By combining lending and product sale services we use the coffee as collateral for the loan and improve unit economics. Now it is possible to serve smallholder farmers in a very profitableway. EthicHub creates value from mutual benefit: Lenders provide affordable loans to the smallholder farmers (only coffee producers in early stage) and direct buyers (coffee roasters in early stage) offer faire prices for the crops, enabling farmers to have the resources to payback the loans and to get free from the poverty and low productivity cycle. | $1M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 23, 2025 | ||
| Hata is a regulated platform where businesses & consumers can transact and access cryptocurrencies with fiat currency such as the US Dollar & Malaysia Ringgit. Our vision is to enable safe & effortless access to cryptocurrency for all. We're committed to achieve that by providing a reliable platform for all to accesscryptocurrency easily, through our commitment to customers and compliance with regulations. Hata is regulated by the Securities Commission of Malaysia as a Recognised Market Operator (Digital Asset Exchange & Digital Broker) , and the Labuan Financial Services Authority (Malaysia) as a Licensed Money Broker & Payment System Operator. Learn more at : https://hata.io | $4.2M / Seed / Oct 21, 2024 | ||
| Mezo is a bitcoin economic layer network that provides fast and cheap bitcoin transactions to hold tokens while earning yield. | $7.5M / Series A / Jul 26, 2024 | ||
| Lombard is committed to leveraging Bitcoin's potential as a dynamic financial tool by integrating it to DeFi collaborating with technological and infrastructural partners on a common, ecosystem-driven aim to bring Bitcoin to DeFi. | $10.7M / Seed / Jul 02, 2024 | ||
dvts.network
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dvts.network is an ethereum liquidity staking protocol that reduces the initial capital requirements for ethereum validators. | $10M / Series A / Apr 29, 2024 | |
| LightCycle is a lifestyle metaverse platform. | $3M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 08, 2024 | ||
| See all 33 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Bybit invest in?
Bybit invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 33 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Bybit invest in?
Bybit typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$11M at Seed, $7.5M–$23M at Series A and $1M–$3M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Bybit's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Bybit took part in.
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Who are the partners at Bybit?
The team at Bybit includes Alessio Ippolito (Top italian affiliate crypto partner), Ben Zhou (Founder,CEO) and Francesca Tay (Chief Content Strategist), among 10 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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