# COSIMO Ventures

> COSIMO Ventures is a VC fund in Dublin backing Blockchain and FinTech. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dublin, Ireland
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Feb 2022
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/cosimo-venture-partners
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/cosimopartners
- Website: http://cosimoventures.com

COSIMO Ventures is an emerging venture capital firm that focuses on early stage companies seeking to develop disruptive technology, primarily located in Ireland and the United Kingdom. COSIMO has offices in Boston, Massachusetts and Dublin, Ireland. Our Team have over 100 years of combined entrepreneurial operating and investing experience. We aretechnology pioneers resolute in our mission of helping emerging entrepreneurs build legendary companies. Our mission is to help transform the most promising early stage, Irish and UK technology companies into global leaders that will dominate new market categories or disrupt existing ones. We partner with management teams to help them accelerate and grow into the US market.COSIMO is a team of entrepreneurs that have been at the forefront of value creation for early stage companies over the past 25 years. As technology pioneers, we have developed products used by 100’s of millions of users every day and created many firsts; from the first commercially available financial service on the Internet to the first push notification.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 3 | 50% |
| FinTech | 2 | 33% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 33% |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | 33% |
| Sports | 1 | 17% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 33% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 33% |
| Series A | 1 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ireland | 2 | 33% |
| Japan | 1 | 17% |
| Singapore | 1 | 17% |
| United States | 1 | 17% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 17% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Robert Frasca | Managing Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robert-frasca |
| Ciaran Hynes | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ciaran-hynes |
| Connor Cantwell | Partner - Europe | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/connor-cantwell |
| Ken Lang | Chief Technology Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ken-lang-a8d2 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| BEASY | BEASY was formed to make the benefits of blockchain easy to achieve throughout the consumer and enterprise value chains. Our initial focus in on the multi-billion-dollar annual North American Sports & Entertainment markets, through the commercialization of a scalable, blockchain platform well-suited to meet the demands of small, mid-sized andlarge businesses.Our technology platform is industry or vertical agnostic, but we have selected the sports & entertainment markets as our initial market to commercialize not only because of its size, but because we can solve a very fundamental challenge.Athletes and entertainers can be great entrepreneurs because they already possess this type of mentality and a skill set that is perfect for achieving success in the business world. They understand that certain components of the business world are comparable to sports and entertainment in many ways.But starting and managing a business is complicated. Athletes and entertainers often don’t have the technology and relational resources readily available to enable them to organize and coordinate all of the business opportunities that they want to engage.We solve that problem, leveraging best-in-class, proprietary blockchain technology to deliver business applications that enable our individual and enterprise customers to curate their complex and fluid professional, philanthropic and business activities. |  | Seed | Feb 24, 2022 |  |
| ICHI | ICHI creates a stable currency and economic stimulus platform that allows it to create and manage in-house, non-custodial tokens. The company is headquartered in Japan. |  | Series A | Feb 03, 2022 |  |
| IXS | IXS is licensed infrastructure for the issuance, trading, and settlement of tokenized real-world assets, and the yield layer connecting those assets to agentic finance, where authorized and autonomous agents can custody, transact, and earn yield on regulated RWAs via permissionless and permissioned vaults. Building tokenized RWA infrastructuresince 2018, the team at IXS has spent a combined seven years on regulatory licensing work and closed 60+ deals across private equity, real estate, commodities, private credit, and structured financial products.IXS is licensed under the Digital Assets and Registered Exchanges (DARE) Act by the Securities Commission of The Bahamas (April 2023), and operates with US market access via a chaperone broker-dealer arrangement, providing regulated coverage across the institutional and crypto-native sides of the RWA market.IXS is backed by Coinbase Ventures, UOB Venture Management, Spartan Group, Faculty Group, and Abed Group. Powered by $IXS. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 29, 2021 |  |
| Defactor | Defactor is a creator of integration and risk management platforms intended to create a link between centralized and decentralized finance. Their business uses the native token $FACTR and the Springpad platform, which upends the current centralized banking system and enables companies to manage assets, convert money from FIAT currencies with ease,gain visibility over digital assets despite having little experience with doing so, and access liquidity in decentralized finance. It is being used by Defactor to bring real-world assets to DeFi and unlock working capital for SMEs all over the world. The company's mission is to accelerate the adoption of decentralized finance and enable businesses all over the world to grow economically. | $1M | Seed | Jun 25, 2021 |  |
| Dusk | Dusk Network is the Privacy Blockchain for Financial Applications. A new standard for compliance, control and collaboration. Our mission is to enable any size enterprise to collaborate at scale, meet compliance requirements, and ensure that personal and transaction data remains confidential. Companies use the Dusk Network blockchain to issuetokens, trade, and collaborate via smart contracts. t on-chain privacy. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | May 27, 2021 |  |
| Nova Leah | Nova Leah believe in excellence through knowledge development, sharing and collaboration to enhance the security assurance of medical devices. Nova Leah's product, SelectEvidence, is an intelligent cybersecurity risk management compliance solution aimed at medical device manufacturers and healthcare providers. | $549K |  | Oct 12, 2017 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [BD Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bd-ventures-d568) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Enterprise Ireland](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/enterprise-ireland) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Fundamental Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fundamental-labs) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
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- [GSR](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gsr) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Megala Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/megala-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does COSIMO Ventures invest in?

COSIMO Ventures invests primarily in Blockchain, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Ireland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact COSIMO Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at COSIMO Ventures?

The team at COSIMO Ventures includes Robert Frasca (Managing Partner), Ciaran Hynes (Co-Founder & Managing Partner) and Connor Cantwell (Partner - Europe). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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