# DV Chain

> DV Chain is a VC fund in Toronto backing Cryptocurrency and FinTech. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 14%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/company/dvchain
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/dv_chain
- Website: https://dvchain.co/

DV Chain is a VC fund in Toronto focused on Cryptocurrency and FinTech. DV Chain provides world-class cryptocurrency trading and technology. From easy-to-use, web-based charting and click trading to white glove, specialized algorithmic orders, institutions around the globe depend on DV Chain’s robust, stable tech stack to power and scale their businesses.DV Chain is an affiliate of DV Trading, a Chicago-basedproprietary trading firm and also an affiliate of Independent Trading Group, a Canadian broker-dealer. In 2016, the founders of DV Trading launched DV Chain to adapt the technology and trading strategies employed by DV Trading to bring liquidity to cryptocurrency markets. Since then, DV Chain has become one of the world’s global crypto leaders providing reliable, accessible, and technologically advanced cryptocurrency liquidity solutions.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3M–$5.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cryptocurrency | 4 | 57% |
| FinTech | 3 | 43% |
| Blockchain | 3 | 43% |
| Bitcoin | 2 | 29% |
| Software | 2 | 29% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 29% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 14% |
| Series A | 1 | 14% |
| Series B | 1 | 14% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 29% |
| Canada | 1 | 14% |
| Cyprus | 1 | 14% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dino Verbrugge | co-founder | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dino-verbrugge-6acf |
| Jared Vegosen | Co-Founder | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jared-vegosen |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| LayerBank | LayerBank is the universal liquidity hub and on-chain money market designed to be compatible with all networks | $2.3M | Pre-Seed | Dec 05, 2025 |  |
| GigaStar | GigaStar is a developer of an online content creators marketplace. This marketplace allows fans and followers to invest in their favorite creators to support them. In addition, creators can monetize their future capital by offering fans rights to a percentage of their channel's potential future revenue, allowing creators to have streamlinedaccess to fan funding, fan engagement, and long-term royalties.The company was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. | $3M | Seed | Dec 28, 2023 |  |
| EDX Markets | EDX Markets operates an institutional digital asset marketplace that provides cryptocurrency spot trading, clearing, and settlement services. The company offers a non-custodial trading venue with a central clearing model designed to streamline trade settlement, manage counterparty exposure, and support institutional trading workflows. It alsoprovides perpetual futures trading for eligible international institutional participants, along with API connectivity, market access tools, and crypto infrastructure services. Its platform supports trading across a range of digital assets while emphasizing transparent market operations and operational efficiency for financial institutions. |  |  | Jun 20, 2023 |  |
| EDX Markets | EDX Markets operates an institutional digital asset marketplace that provides cryptocurrency spot trading, clearing, and settlement services. The company offers a non-custodial trading venue with a central clearing model designed to streamline trade settlement, manage counterparty exposure, and support institutional trading workflows. It alsoprovides perpetual futures trading for eligible international institutional participants, along with API connectivity, market access tools, and crypto infrastructure services. Its platform supports trading across a range of digital assets while emphasizing transparent market operations and operational efficiency for financial institutions. |  | Series A | Jun 20, 2023 |  |
| GigaStar | GigaStar is a developer of an online content creators marketplace. This marketplace allows fans and followers to invest in their favorite creators to support them. In addition, creators can monetize their future capital by offering fans rights to a percentage of their channel's potential future revenue, allowing creators to have streamlinedaccess to fan funding, fan engagement, and long-term royalties.The company was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. | $4.8M | Seed | Mar 16, 2023 |  |
| Finery Markets | Finery Markets is a leading over-the-counter, multi-dealer electronic marketplace for institutional participants and a trading solutions provider for crypto markets. Serving clients since 2019, Finery Markets provides solutions throughout the whole trade lifecycle: - High-performance execution venue with deep institutional liquidity and firmquotes. - Price intelligence and pre-trade risk management tools. - Position management, risk controls, reporting tools and cost analysis, as well as flexible settlement based on a noncustodial model. - Single entry point to global liquidity providers via API and GUI. - Robust infrastructure: 99.99+% uptime and full automation.The Finery Markets platform is available as a white-label solution for prime brokers, OTC desks and exchanges that are willing to develop and expand a low-touch client business. | $5.5M | Seed | Nov 30, 2022 |  |
| Newton.co | Newton.co is a cryptocurrency trading platform that buys and sells sell Bitcoin and Ethereum instantly from iPhone, Android, or web apps. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. | $19.7M | Series B | Feb 09, 2022 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Communitas Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/communitas-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Belvedere Strategic Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/belvedere-strategic-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Citadel Securities](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/citadel-securities) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Fidelity Digital Assets](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fidelity-digital-assets) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [GSR](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gsr) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does DV Chain invest in?

DV Chain invests primarily in Cryptocurrency, FinTech and Blockchain startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 7 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 DV Chain's check size?

DV Chain typically joins rounds of $3M–$5.5M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds DV Chain participates in.

### How do I contact DV Chain?

Public channels for DV Chain include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) 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 DV Chain?

The team at DV Chain includes Dino Verbrugge (co-founder) and Jared Vegosen (Co-Founder). 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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