# Danish Chaudhry

> Danish Chaudhry is a seed investor at Paper Ventures backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 30 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Paper Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paper-ventures)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 30
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 7%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/danish-chaudhry/3b/643/6b0
- Website: https://x.com/djchaudhry_

Danish Chaudhry is a GP & Co-Founder at Paper Ventures.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.6M–$7M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.5M–$3.3M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $5.5M–$10M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 12 | 40% |
| Cryptocurrency | 9 | 30% |
| Web3 | 4 | 13% |
| Software | 4 | 13% |
| Decentralized Finance (DeFi) | 4 | 13% |

33 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 21 | 70% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 13% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 7% |
| Series A | 1 | 3% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 3% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 17% |
| Bulgaria | 3 | 10% |
| India | 1 | 3% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |
| Panama | 1 | 3% |

11 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Neutral Trade | Neutral Trade, an on-chain multi-strategy hedge fund platform, offers innovative delta-neutral trading and liquidity provisioning strategies to deliver consistent, risk-adjusted returns. | $2M | Seed | May 31, 2025 |  |
| Turtle Club | Turtle Club is a protocol for an on-chain liquidity allocation platform that focuses on connecting LPs, protocols, and partners through sustainable and transparent incentives. | $6.2M | Seed | May 12, 2025 |  |
| Rena Labs | Rena was creating the execution environment (TEE) abstraction Layer, designed to streamline deployment and execution workflows. This innovation aimed to enable a broad spectrum of verifiable AI use cases by providing a secure and efficient framework. Rena’s approach bridged the gap between advanced AI applications and the need for trusted, seamlessexecution, offering a foundation for reliability and scalability in AI-driven solutions. | $3.3M | Pre-Seed | Jan 09, 2025 |  |
| Nexio | Nexio is a bitcoin scaling solution platform that helps to improve cryptocurrency's scalability by using parallelizing Bitcoin rollouts. | $2.2M | Pre-Seed | Aug 06, 2024 |  |
| Term Labs | Term Labs is a blockchain research and development business, is to provide scalable, transparent fixed-rate lending on blockchains. It helps to provide institutional-scale borrowers and lenders transparent, affordable, and crypto-native options. | $5.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 09, 2024 |  |
| Camp Network | Camp Network is a purpose-built Layer 1 blockchain to power AI agents. | $4M | Seed | Apr 03, 2024 |  |
| Sophon | Sophon is a developer of a gaming and AI platform that aims to have an impact on communities. The company has enabled consumers to make an impact on web3. | $10M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 29, 2024 |  |
| Hedgehog Protocol | Hedgehog Protocol operates as a cryptocurrency trading fee hedging protocol. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Mar 06, 2024 |  |
| ZeroLend | ZeroLend is the largest lending protocol on zkSync and the third largest lending protocol on Manta, with a focus on DeFi, lending on RWAs, privacy and account abstraction. | $3M | Seed | Feb 20, 2024 |  |
| Forgotten Playland | Forgotten Playland, designed to be a playground for abandoned toys,has been a passion project for Vermilion Studios. | $7M | Seed | Jan 29, 2024 |  |

10 of 30 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Ascensive Assets](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ascensive-asset-management) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [AU21 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/au21-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Genblock Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/genblock-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [LD Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ld-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Morningstar Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/morningstar-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [OKX Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/okx-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

## About Paper Ventures

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Our mission at Paper Ventures is to be at the very forefront of innovation, fostering groundbreaking ideas that redefine the boundaries of technology and finance. We believe in the transformative power of blockchain and are committed to supporting those who are as passionate about its potential as we are.

5 contacts available at Paper Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Danish Chaudhry | GP & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/danish-chaudhry |
| Ivailo Jordanov | GP & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ivailo-jordanov |
| Kevin Kurian | VP | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kevin-kurian-61b6 |
| Oliver Blakey | GP & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oliver-blakey |
| Sascha Epp | VP | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sascha-epp |

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## FAQ

### What does Danish Chaudhry invest in?

Danish Chaudhry invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Web3 startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 30 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 Danish Chaudhry's check size?

Danish Chaudhry typically joins rounds of $1.6M–$7M at Seed, $1.5M–$3.3M at Pre-Seed and $5.5M–$10M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Danish Chaudhry participates in.

### When did Danish Chaudhry last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Danish Chaudhry closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 30 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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