# Dialectic

> Dialectic is a VC fund in Zug backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 48 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zug, Switzerland
- Total investments: 48
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dialectic-ag
- Website: https://dialectic.ch/

Dialectic is a Swiss capital enterprise focused on deployment of human and financial capital into alternative assets.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$15M |
| Series A | $4.1M–$30M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 21 | 44% |
| Cryptocurrency | 15 | 31% |
| Gaming | 8 | 17% |
| Financial Services | 6 | 13% |
| FinTech | 5 | 10% |

40 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 26 | 54% |
| Series A | 7 | 15% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 8% |
| Initial Coin Offering | 4 | 8% |
| Series C | 2 | 4% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 13 | 27% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 8% |
| Switzerland | 3 | 6% |
| Sweden | 2 | 4% |
| Singapore | 2 | 4% |

16 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ryan Zurrer | Founder, Director | 12 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ryan-zurrer |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Squid | Squid is a routing protocol that connects users and developers with cross-chain liquidity. It allows any token to be swapped between blockchains and unlocks access to apps across chains with a single click. | $6M |  | May 22, 2026 |  |
| Hotstuff Labs | Hotstuff Labs is a technology company building financial infrastructure for internet. | $1K | Seed | Nov 25, 2025 |  |
| Alliance Games | Alliance Games provides the next level of decentralized Web3 gaming infrastructure hosting and data storage services for Web3 games, driven by permissionless community nodes. | $5M | Series A | Oct 31, 2024 |  |
| Dora | Dora is a block explorer that is building a cross chain search engine. Dora is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York and was founded in 2022. | $5.5M | Seed | Jul 10, 2024 |  |
| NEBRA Labs | NEBRA Labs is a blockchain services company. | $4.5M | Seed | Apr 17, 2024 |  |
| Glif | Glif builts and maintains essential Filecoin apps. | $4.5M | Seed | Feb 06, 2024 |  |
| Wormhole | Wormhole covers a range of use cases to make chains for tokens, NFTs, apps, and other generic messaging applications. They build protocols on wormholes that can use data, assets, and messages from other chains. |  |  | Nov 29, 2023 |  |
| Wormhole | Wormhole covers a range of use cases to make chains for tokens, NFTs, apps, and other generic messaging applications. They build protocols on wormholes that can use data, assets, and messages from other chains. | $225M | Initial Coin Offering | Nov 29, 2023 |  |
| Ritual | Ritual is a reaction to the aforementioned issues. Fundamentally, it is envisioned as an open, modular, and autonomous AI execution layer. Ritual connects a distributed network of nodes with access to compute and model developers. | $25M | Series A | Nov 08, 2023 |  |
| Anoma | A sovereign, proof-of-stake blockchain protocol that enables private, asset-agnostic cash and private bartering among any number of parties. | $25M | Series C | May 30, 2023 |  |

10 of 48 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Animoca Brands](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/animoca-brands-corporation) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [Maven 11 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maven-11-capital) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
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- [Mechanism Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mechanism-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Dialectic invest in?

Dialectic invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Gaming startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 48 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 Dialectic's check size?

Dialectic typically joins rounds of $1M–$15M at Seed and $4.1M–$30M 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 Dialectic participates in.

### How do I contact Dialectic?

Public channels for Dialectic include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Dialectic?

The team at Dialectic includes Ryan Zurrer (Founder, Director). 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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