# Diaspora Ventures

> Diaspora Ventures is a VC fund backing Software, Web3 and E-Commerce. See 22 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 22
- Last investment: May 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/diasporavc/
- Website: https://www.diaspora.vc/

Diaspora Ventures is a VC fund focused on Software and Web3. Diaspora Ventures invests in the next generation of french entrepreneurs building tech companies. Diaspora Ventures targets French founders who have true global ambition, by investing early and giving them access to the best tech ecosystem in the world, the United States.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$7.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $525k–$3.6M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 41% |
| Web3 | 2 | 9% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 9% |
| Social Media | 2 | 9% |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 9% |

45 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 36% |
| Pre-Seed | 8 | 36% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 45% |
| France | 3 | 14% |
| Ghana | 1 | 5% |
| Germany | 1 | 5% |
| Slovakia (Slovak Republic) | 1 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Marvin Liao | Diaspora Ventures · Self-employed | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marvin-liao |
| Carlos Diaz | Co-Founder & General Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carlos-diaz |
| Ilan Abehassera | Co-Founder & General Partner | 11 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ilan-abehassera |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dynamiq | Dynamiq streamlines the entire development lifecycle of Generative AI applications. It's a comprehensive solution that supports teams from the initial build phase to testing, deployment, and monitoring in production. |  | Pre-Seed | May 01, 2024 |  |
| Safary | Safary is a community-first company rebuilding the marketing stack in web3 starting with attribution. Web3 teams use our platform to understand their marketing CAC, channel ROI, and customer LTV. | $2.4M | Pre-Seed | Jan 18, 2024 |  |
| Theneo | Next-Gen API Documentation with AI Brilliance. Generate Stripe-like API docs in just a few seconds |  |  | Nov 15, 2023 |  |
| Blockmate | Blockmate is a unified API that provides premium insights into aggregated financial views for accounts, risk and credit scoring, and regulatory compliance. The company provides Blockmate Link, a fast, efficient app that can be installed in minutes. | $1.6M | Seed | Sep 14, 2023 |  |
| Iteration X | Iteration X is an AI-native, context-aware project management app that helps your team ship beautiful, bug-free products faster. The ITX Copilot uses your team’s knowledge base, documents, URLs and project history to help create and resolve all types of tasks, from design to development to product management, all within a powerful issue-trackingand project management dashboard. | $4.7M | Seed | Mar 31, 2023 |  |
| Spaceport Technologies | Spaceport Technologies offers a wide range of tools for creators to monetize IP in the metaverse. | $3.6M | Pre-Seed | Dec 14, 2022 |  |
| Spaceport Technologies | Spaceport Technologies offers a wide range of tools for creators to monetize IP in the metaverse. | $3.6M | Pre-Seed | Dec 14, 2022 |  |
| Spaceport Technologies | Spaceport Technologies offers a wide range of tools for creators to monetize IP in the metaverse. | $3.6M | Pre-Seed | Dec 14, 2022 |  |
| Starchain Gazer | We are on a mission to free players from undesirable constraints coming from the part of today's game creators and allow users to take the wheel. By creating a game economy, we shift the definition of a successful title away from revenue towards real-world benefits for players, thus extending game longevity. Our vision is to be at theforefront of "Play & Earn" games through the implementation of blockchain as an underlying technology. We let gamers own game assets as they invest time and effort to gain power, skills, and ranking. By using game assets, gamers can make their value increase through leveling-up, crafting. Lend, borrow, sell and buy game assets. Gamers should be free to use their assets within a community of gamers in and outside the game itself. Starchain Gazer is working on a 4X RTS type game with the ambition to transition into an MMORPG. | $750K | Pre-Seed | Nov 04, 2022 |  |
| Starchain Gazer | We are on a mission to free players from undesirable constraints coming from the part of today's game creators and allow users to take the wheel. By creating a game economy, we shift the definition of a successful title away from revenue towards real-world benefits for players, thus extending game longevity. Our vision is to be at theforefront of "Play & Earn" games through the implementation of blockchain as an underlying technology. We let gamers own game assets as they invest time and effort to gain power, skills, and ranking. By using game assets, gamers can make their value increase through leveling-up, crafting. Lend, borrow, sell and buy game assets. Gamers should be free to use their assets within a community of gamers in and outside the game itself. Starchain Gazer is working on a 4X RTS type game with the ambition to transition into an MMORPG. | $750K | Pre-Seed | Nov 04, 2022 |  |

10 of 22 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Diaspora Ventures invest in?

Diaspora Ventures invests primarily in Software, Web3 and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 22 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 Diaspora Ventures's check size?

Diaspora Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$7.5M at Seed and $525k–$3.6M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Diaspora Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Diaspora Ventures?

Public channels for Diaspora Ventures 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 Diaspora Ventures?

The team at Diaspora Ventures includes Marvin Liao (Diaspora Ventures · Self-employed), Carlos Diaz (Co-Founder & General Partner) and Ilan Abehassera (Co-Founder & General Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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