# CoinShares

> CoinShares is a VC fund in London backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 42 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 42
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 26%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coinshares/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/coinsharesco
- Website: https://coinshares.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CoinSharesCo

CoinShares is an investment firm. Their technology and infrastructure helps to enable access investment in the digital economy. They provide financial products and services for investors. Their proprietary capital markets support crypto investors, electronic trading, and risk management. They have a track record of regulated investment managementin digital assets.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for CoinShares. Shizune tracks 6 team members at CoinShares. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/coinshares?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$8M |
| Series A | $5M–$28M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 14 | 33% |
| Cryptocurrency | 13 | 31% |
| FinTech | 10 | 24% |
| Financial Services | 10 | 24% |
| Bitcoin | 7 | 17% |

48 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 20 | 48% |
| Series A | 8 | 19% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 5 | 12% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 7% |
| Initial Coin Offering | 1 | 2% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 17 | 40% |
| France | 3 | 7% |
| Singapore | 3 | 7% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 7% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lisa Avellini | Deputy General Counsel | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lisa-avellini |
| Arnaud Dartois | General Manager, Deputy Head of Consumer Solutions EMEA | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arnaud-dartois |
| Jean-Charles Dudek | Head of Consumer Solutions EMEA | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jean-charles-dudek |
| Jean-Marie Mognetti | Chief Executive Officer | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jean-marie-mognetti |
| Meltem Demirors | Chief Strategy Officer | 81 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/meltem-demirors |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Defx | Defx is a non-custodial perps venue. We're built on Arbitrum, and will be coming to Solana very soon. | $2.5M | Seed | Jun 12, 2025 |  |
| Station70 | Station70 provides scalable and resilient disaster recovery solutions. | $5M | Seed | Apr 01, 2024 |  |
| Fig Finance | The missing piece in B2B credit |  | Seed | Feb 06, 2024 |  |
| Fig Finance | The missing piece in B2B credit |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2024 |  |
| Alhena AI | Accurate AI Support You Can Trust : Scale customer support with best-in-class AI solution and human expertise. Accurate answers and seamless integration with a variety of tools for a unified, cross-platform user experience.Helix offers a top-notch support solution for Discord, Telegram, and Twitter communities.Advanced AI: Learns fromdocuments, wikis, and chats for accurate responses; compatible with Discord and websites. Community Engagement: Incentivizes experts to address support tickets, enhancing engagement and efficiency. Unified Ticketing: Centralizes support ticket management across Discord, Telegram, websites & Emails. | $4.3M | Seed | Sep 05, 2023 |  |
| Trugard | Trugard Labs provides digital asset defense with cybersecurity and threat intelligence based compliance and risk automation. |  | Seed | Aug 01, 2023 |  |
| August | Fractal expands the digital economy by providing institutional grade, capital efficient technology for assets on-chain. | $6M | Seed | Apr 17, 2023 |  |
| Ejara | Ejara is an app for Africa and its diasporas to access various investment offers fractional shares, commodities, cryptocurrency, and more. | $8M | Series A | Nov 28, 2022 |  |
| Daylight | Anode Labs is a technology company committed to building a more stable, sustainable, and abundant energy system for humanity. | $4.2M | Seed | Nov 17, 2022 |  |
| React Network | React Network aims to modernize the national power grid by creating a community owned network connecting energy storage assets. | $4.2M | Seed | Nov 17, 2022 |  |

10 of 42 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Digital Currency Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/digital-currency-group) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [CMT Digital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cmt-digital-ventures-llc) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Heavybit](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/heavybit-industries) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Coinbase Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinbase-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Dragonfly](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dragonfly-capital-partners-eed4) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Blockchange Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blockchange-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does CoinShares invest in?

CoinShares invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 42 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 CoinShares's check size?

CoinShares typically joins rounds of $2M–$8M at Seed and $5M–$28M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds CoinShares participates in.

### How do I contact CoinShares?

Public channels for CoinShares 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 CoinShares?

The team at CoinShares includes Lisa Avellini (Deputy General Counsel), Arnaud Dartois (General Manager, Deputy Head of Consumer Solutions EMEA) and Jean-Charles Dudek (Head of Consumer Solutions EMEA), among 6 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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