# Samara Asset Group

> Samara Asset Group is a VC fund backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 25 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sliema, Malta
- Total investments: 25
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last fund: Jun 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cryptology-asset-group
- Website: http://cryptology-ag.com/

Samara Asset Group is a VC fund in Sliema focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Samara Asset Group essential investments into crypto assets and blockchain companies.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3.5M–$15M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.5M–$1.8M |
| Series A | $10M–$15M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 13 | 52% |
| Cryptocurrency | 7 | 28% |
| Gaming | 5 | 20% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 12% |
| Web3 | 2 | 8% |

29 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 17 | 68% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 8% |
| Series A | 2 | 8% |
| Series B | 1 | 4% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 24% |
| Taiwan | 2 | 8% |
| Estonia | 2 | 8% |
| Singapore | 2 | 8% |
| China | 1 | 4% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Christian Angermayer | Founder & Advisory Board | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christian-angermayer-4506 |
| Jefim Gewiet | Chief Operating Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jefim-gewiet |
| Mike Novogratz | Founder & Advisory Board | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mike-novogratz-1e51 |
| Patrick Lowry | CEO | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/patrick-lowry |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ducat Protocol | Ducat Protocol allows users to borrow UNIT using BTC as collateral within a non-custodial system, providing full control over their funds. The platform offers risk-based borrowing, allowing users to adjust their collateralization ratios according to risk preferences. Once borrowed, UNIT can be used within the BTC-Fi ecosystem, with the option torepay and unlock the BTC collateral. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | May 27, 2025 |  |
| Surge | Surge is a developer of a composable scaling meta-layer to push the bounds of Bitcoin functionality. The company's infrastructure supports app-specific rollups, GameFi, ordinals, and other DeFi use-cases while inheriting Bitcoin's security and liquidity, allowing developers to unlock Bitcoin innovation and focus on launching their ideas. | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Oct 17, 2024 |  |
| YeagerAI | YeagerAI is a pioneering AI research lab focused on developing technology that promotes sovereignty, transparency, and decentralization. | $7.5M | Seed | Aug 20, 2024 |  |
| GenLayer | GenLayer is a platform that focuses on intelligent contracts. | $7.5M | Seed | Aug 20, 2024 |  |
| Bitlayer | Bitlayer is the first Bitcoin second-layer network, based on BitVM, offering ultra-scalability and L1 security, aiming to be Bitcoin's computing layer. | $5M | Seed | Mar 27, 2024 |  |
| Analog | Analog is the world’s first layer-0, Omni-chain platform that leverages proof-of-time (PoT) to validate time data (events). With PoT, all nodes have a fair chance of being selected to validate time data and participate in the consensus process on the Timechain (an ordered sequence of immutable verified time data). This contrasts with proof-of-work(PoW)-powered networks that require computationally-intensive resources to mine blocks or proof-of-stake (PoS)-enabled networks where nodes must stake enough coins. The Analog network is the first realistic attempt in helping the world to move from a “timeless mess” to a “time-driven” environment via PoT consensus. Besides solving the problem of verifiability of time data, the Analog network also prioritizes interoperability. It establishes a radically decentralized, secure, and trustless layer-0 where multiple networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum can anchor their transactions. Most importantly, the Analog Timegraph leverages zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) to create a validated pipeline of time data that businesses can privately leverage to power the next generation of time-dependent applications. Unlike other Blockchain application programming interface (API) models that involve the use of third-party oracles, Analog’s Timegraph API allows data providers to become their own oracles on the Timechain. This creates an entirely new marketplace of time data that is set to power the next generation of decentralized applications (DApps). | $16M | Seed | Feb 12, 2024 |  |
| VELAR | VELAR is a Multi-Feature DeFi App with Bitcoin Finality. | $3.5M | Seed | Feb 01, 2024 |  |
| HUG | HUG is a social marketplace that links artists with current and prospective collectors by allowing them to sell digital and tangible goods. HUG highlights various creators, including and especially those from underprivileged and marginalised populations, through a community-driven, decentralised selection process, it offers educational and advisoryprograms for Web3 startup founders and creative entrepreneurs. | $5M | Seed | Apr 12, 2023 |  |
| Topl | Topl is an impact technology economy empowering businesses and corporations to unlock the value of their positive impact. Topl empowers the monetization of impact verified on the blockchain. The Topl Blockchain can support projects across borders and industries. | $15M | Series A | Jul 26, 2022 |  |
| Mech | Mech is an NFT-based metaverse game that is currently developing their first versions of a match-3 game in which players can earn the in-game currency ore. | $6M | Seed | Jun 27, 2022 |  |

10 of 25 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Tribe Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tribe-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Shima Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shima-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Samara Asset Group invest in?

Samara Asset Group invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Gaming startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 25 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 Samara Asset Group's check size?

Samara Asset Group typically joins rounds of $3.5M–$15M at Seed, $1.5M–$1.8M at Pre-Seed and $10M–$15M 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 Samara Asset Group participates in.

### How do I contact Samara Asset Group?

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### Who are the partners at Samara Asset Group?

The team at Samara Asset Group includes Christian Angermayer (Founder & Advisory Board), Jefim Gewiet (Chief Operating Officer) and Mike Novogratz (Founder & Advisory Board). 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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