dlab
VC Fund
New York, United States
dlab is a VC fund in New York focused on Blockchain and Software. Early-stage venture capital and resources for startups exploring new frontiers in web3, decentralization, and blockchain technology.
- Total investments:
- 33
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 3%
Last updated:
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Industries dlab invests in
Stages dlab invests in
Countries dlab invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.3M–$15M
- Pre-Seed
- $300k–$650k
Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 14 (42%)
- Software 6 (18%)
- Cryptocurrency 6 (18%)
- Financial Services 5 (15%)
- FinTech 4 (12%)
Stage
- Seed 17 (52%)
- Pre-Seed 7 (21%)
- Convertible Note 2 (6%)
- Series A 1 (3%)
- Funding Round 1 (3%)
Country
- United States 5 (15%)
- Canada 2 (6%)
- France 2 (6%)
- Germany 2 (6%)
- Greece 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Nick Plante
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
Paul Saint-Donat
Principal
|
Principal | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Shawn Broderick
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 241 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Credit Coop is a software company that provides custom financing solutions with assets and cash flow. | $4.5M / Seed / Aug 28, 2025 | ||
| Daler is an algorithmic trading firm and crypto market maker specializing in options and futures. We provide liquidity and market-making services for the cryptocurrency ecosystem and Real-World Assets (RWA) across over 30 centralized (CEX) and decentralized exchanges (DEX). | Pre-Seed / Aug 02, 2024 | ||
| WeatherXM is a community-powered weather network that rewards weather station owners while also providing accurate weather data to Web3 businesses. They provide decentralized and hyper local weather data collection for the emerging Web3 data economy. | $7.7M / Series A / May 22, 2024 | ||
| FleetOperate is a truck driver marketplace platform that enables drivers to provide on-demand driving services to carriers and shippers. The company's platform offers booking shipment from a particular location with registered truck drivers and permits tracking of their location eliminating the problem of driver shortages, driver turnover, andunseated trucks while maintaining low costs, enabling people to transport their essentials with ease. The carriers and shippers avail Driver-as-a-Service to solve the problem of driver shortages, driver turnover, and unseated trucks while maintaining low costs.FleetOperate was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba. | Convertible Note / Dec 21, 2022 | ||
| Light Protocol sends crypto privately and enables developers to integrate private transactions at scale. Light protects sensitive user data at scale so that crypto can go mainstream. | $4.5M / Seed / Oct 18, 2022 | ||
| Onchained lab is the company behind EtherScore, a decentralized reputation system. Blockchain users can earn NFT badges based on their past actions, such as the number or type of transactions executed on a DeFi platform, early participation in a project, or governance of a DAO. Other Dapps can then use the badge information to certify a user'sinvolvement, statistics, or experience on a specific platform. Based on these addresses, protocols can more efficiently distribute their incentives to their trusted users, such as discounts on services provided, access to events or exclusive features (airdrops, ICO whitelists, better credit line, voting power). | Seed / Sep 30, 2022 | ||
| Contango is a decentralised protocol bringing perpetual futures built on top of money markets. | $4M / Seed / Jul 14, 2022 | ||
| Fig is a technology platform that helps financial services firms such as banks, portfolio managers, and broker dealers to offer crypto structured & direct indexing products as a white-label solution for their high net worth clients. | $650K / Pre-Seed / Jul 01, 2022 | ||
| WeatherXM is a community-powered weather network that rewards weather station owners while also providing accurate weather data to Web3 businesses. They provide decentralized and hyper local weather data collection for the emerging Web3 data economy. | $5M / Seed / Jun 30, 2022 | ||
| Kotal is a developer of cloud-native deployment tools for managing the lifecycle of blockchain infrastructure. It was founded in 2020 and is based in Middletown, DE. | Seed / Jun 09, 2022 | ||
| See all 33 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does dlab invest in?
dlab invests primarily in Blockchain, Software and Cryptocurrency startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 33 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 dlab invest in?
dlab typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$15M at Seed and $300k–$650k at Pre-Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not dlab's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds dlab took part in.
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Who are the partners at dlab?
The team at dlab includes Nick Plante (General Partner), Paul Saint-Donat (Principal) and Shawn Broderick (General Partner). 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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