# Alliance DAO

> Alliance DAO is a VC fund in Chicago backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 134 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, United States
- Total investments: 134
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 21%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/defi-alliance
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/defialliance
- Website: https://defialliance.co/

Alliance DAO is a VC fund in Chicago focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Alliance is the leading Web3 accelerator and founder community.

## Contacts

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

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 50 | 37% |
| Cryptocurrency | 36 | 27% |
| Software | 27 | 20% |
| Financial Services | 21 | 16% |
| FinTech | 15 | 11% |

91 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 70 | 52% |
| Pre-Seed | 25 | 19% |
| Series A | 17 | 13% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 6 | 4% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 2% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 45 | 34% |
| Singapore | 13 | 10% |
| United Kingdom | 9 | 7% |
| Canada | 3 | 2% |
| Vietnam | 2 | 1% |

19 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jacob Franek | Core Contributor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jacob-franek |
| Jocelyn Robancho | Head Of Operations | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jocelyn-robancho |
| Luc Loja | ALL13 Alumnus | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/luc-loja |
| Qiao Wang | Partner | 32 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/qiao-wang |
| Roberto Riccio | Head of Product | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/roberto-riccio |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Vorflux | Vorflux operates a business-to-business software-as-a-service model providing an autonomous, cloud-based software engineering platform. The company's value proposition centers on moving beyond basic inline code completion assistants by functioning as an end-to-end "autopilot" for development teams. Its infrastructure relies onspecialized, multi-agent cloud environments to handle the entire software development lifecycle—including environment planning, adversarial code reviews, multi-model execution, and testing—on dedicated remote machines. By integrating custom enterprise workflows directly into this model-agnostic harness, the system clears engineering backlogs and generates verified, production-ready pull requests with minimal developer intervention. | $15M | Seed | Jul 14, 2026 |  |
| Timon | Timon is a company that provides travel card for multiple currencies to manage all the expenses from the app. |  | Seed | Jul 08, 2026 |  |
| Daya | Daya Labs operates a unified financial infrastructure that integrates stablecoin rails, real-time foreign exchange, and modern treasury systems. The platform enables enterprise clients to process global business payouts, manage multi-currency balances, and settle international cross-border transactions using local fiat and digital currencies. | $2.4M | Pre-Seed | Jun 24, 2026 |  |
| Uniblock | Uniblock is the world's first unified Web3 API that connects the most popular blockchain networks and protocols into one singular standard | $5.2M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 20, 2026 |  |
| The New Era® of Shopping | The New Era® of Shopping helps merchants make their catalogues discoverable and shoppable inside AI assistants. Key features of the platform include two-way catalog syncing with PIMs/ERPs, SKU-level intelligence to measure AI visibility and ranking of products inside LLM responses, user prompts analysis for trends and volume insights, andautomated content optimization to improve how products rank in conversational answers. The product is already integrated with all major eCommerce platforms like Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, BigCommerce, Wix, etc, as well as main AI discovery platforms: ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Google AI Mode, and Perplexity. | $1.4M | Pre-Seed | Feb 24, 2026 |  |
| worm.wtf | worm.wtf is the prediction marketplace for the Solana ecosystem. | $4.5M | Pre-Seed | Dec 17, 2025 |  |
| Zynk | Zynk is a fintech company that offers global payments and liquidity infrastructure. | $5M | Seed | Nov 04, 2025 |  |
| Hypercars Technologies | Hypercars is the data infrastructure for the specialty and enthusiast car market—delivering an all-encompassing search engine, accurate data streams, market analytics, and vehicle valuations. We are trusted by the top dealers, collectors, and marketplaces to deliver the technological edge in this space. |  |  | Nov 01, 2025 |  |
| Voyage | Voyage AI is an AI infrastructure project building the first GEOFi network to make AI-generated content citable. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Oct 16, 2025 |  |
| UnblockPay |  | $650K | Pre-Seed | Aug 30, 2025 |  |

10 of 134 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [CMT Digital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cmt-digital-ventures-llc) — VC Fund, 15 deals together
- [SevenX Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sevenx-ventures) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [CMS Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cms-holdings) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Delphi Digital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/delphi-digital) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Animoca Brands](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/animoca-brands-corporation) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Hashed](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hashed-f96b) — VC Fund, 9 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Alliance DAO invest in?

Alliance DAO invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 134 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Alliance DAO?

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### Who are the partners at Alliance DAO?

The team at Alliance DAO includes Jacob Franek (Core Contributor), Jocelyn Robancho (Head Of Operations) and Luc Loja (ALL13 Alumnus). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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