Deribit
VC Fund
Ermelo, The Netherlands
Deribit is a VC fund in Ermelo focused on Cryptocurrency and Blockchain. Deribit offers a platform for trading cryptocurrency derivatives, specializing in options and futures contracts. The company supports a wide range of digital assets, including Bitcoin and Ethereum, with tools designed for both individual and institutional traders. Deribit provides services like real-time market data, order types, and riskmanagement features, along with a user-friendly interface. The platform also facilitates spot trading with zero fees and offers seamless integration with other financial services. Traders can access a variety of options strategies and manage their portfolios with advanced analytical tools.
- Total investments:
- 12
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
Last updated:
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Industries Deribit invests in
Stages Deribit invests in
Countries Deribit invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $3.5M–$28M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Cryptocurrency 7 (58%)
- Blockchain 5 (42%)
- Financial Services 5 (42%)
- FinTech 4 (33%)
- Trading Platform 2 (17%)
Stage
- Seed 9 (75%)
- Series A 2 (17%)
- Funding Round 1 (8%)
Country
- United States 3 (25%)
- Portugal 1 (8%)
- Singapore 1 (8%)
- Switzerland 1 (8%)
- United Kingdom 1 (8%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
John Jansen
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
|
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Luuk Strijers
Chief Executive Officer
|
Chief Executive Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Marius Jansen
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer
|
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Marius Jansen
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer
|
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer | Total investments: 1 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arbelos Markets provides unprecedented access and transparency to counterparties through powerful technology. | $28M / Seed / May 08, 2024 | ||
| Kemet provides the industry’s leading digital asset derivatives trading platform. Kemet’s turnkey, all-in-one technology platform supports the full trade lifecycle with high-performance portfolio, execution and risk management capabilities and a full suite of APIs, enabling institutions to execute across the entire digital asset derivatives marketfrom a single endpoint. Built on state-of-the-art technology, the Kemet platform provides maximum flexibility and can be enhanced quickly in response to client requests.Led by a team of technologists from the world’s most advanced trading institutions, including D.E. Shaw, Jump Trading, DRW and Cboe, Kemet’s platform meets the most demanding standards for latency, reliability and security. Kemet is backed by some of the biggest names in digital asset trading and VCs in addition to a host of some of the best angels in the industry. | $5M / Seed / Mar 19, 2024 | ||
| Digital Euro for the Financial Industry | $3.5M / Seed / Nov 07, 2023 | ||
| Ethena provides a synthetic dollar protocol on the Ethereum blockchain that supports a crypto-native form of digital money. The protocol issues USDe, a synthetic dollar backed by crypto assets and short futures positions, using delta hedging to maintain stability relative to the US dollar. Ethena also introduces sUSDe, a yield-bearing version ofUSDe that allows holders to stake their assets and earn returns from protocol operations. In addition, the platform includes a governance token, ENA, which enables participation in decisions on risk management, integrations, and updates. Ethena integrates with both decentralized and centralized finance platforms, offering transparency and tools that support ecosystem composability. | $6.5M / Seed / Jul 17, 2023 | ||
| Finst a revolutionary cryptocurrency investment platform with 82% lower fees. Finst is backed by some of the founders and ex-core team of DEGIRO. | $4.4M / Seed / Apr 05, 2023 | ||
| Greeks.live is an ever-adapting trading tools solution provider to crypto options traders. We listen and quickly respond to clients' needs. Our mission is to make crypto options trading easier and more seamless. | Seed / Feb 01, 2023 | ||
| Thetanuts Finance's DeFi structured products and its customizable vaults are the future of generating yield. The platform is designed to provide treasury management for DAOs, as well as help retail traders earn yield on their tokens. Thetanuts' vaults simplify the process of options trading, making previously complex instruments easy forany investor to access, empowering users to monetize volatility in a risk-adjusted manner. | $18M / Seed / Mar 01, 2022 | ||
| Colizeum is a gaming platform that will house a variety of games and applications and operate as a user funnel similar to Steam. The company aims to be the first blockchain mass adoption in mobile gaming. Colizeum was founded in 2021 and is located in Zug, Switzerland. | $8.4M / Series A / Jan 26, 2022 | ||
| Horizen Labs is a blockchain technology company that enables businesses to build distributed ledger solutions that are fast, secure, private and scalable. Horizen Labs leverages Horizen’s privacy-focused public infrastructure and Horizen Labs’ proprietary sidechain deployment tool.Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies enable a shift fromcentralized to decentralized architectures which help to bridge a divide in global trust. | $7M / Seed / Aug 10, 2021 | ||
| Qredo is a platform that provides secure and fast movement of digital assets.Qredo powers institutional traders to secure and accelerate the movement of digital assets 24/7 on an open protocol.Qredo eliminates the operational and security burden of wallet key management and the cyber-threats that result from trading operations, storage, andtransfer of digital assets | $11M / Seed / May 03, 2021 | ||
| See all 12 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Deribit invest in?
Deribit invests primarily in Cryptocurrency, Blockchain and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Deribit invest in?
Deribit typically joins rounds of $3.5M–$28M at Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Deribit's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Deribit took part in.
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Who are the partners at Deribit?
The team at Deribit includes John Jansen (Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer), Luuk Strijers (Chief Executive Officer) and Marius Jansen (Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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