# Encode Club

> Encode Club is a VC fund in London backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 14%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/encode-club
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/encodeclub
- Website: https://www.encode.club

Encode Club is a blockchain education platform that aims to educate the future generation of blockchain professionals. Encode Club was founded in 2019 by Damir Bandalo and is located in London.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Encode Club. Shizune tracks 1 team members at Encode Club. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/encode-club?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.3M–$10M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.4M–$2.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 3 | 43% |
| Cryptocurrency | 2 | 29% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 29% |
| FinTech | 1 | 14% |
| Finance | 1 | 14% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 71% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 29% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Spain | 1 | 14% |
| Singapore | 1 | 14% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Damir Bandalo | Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/damir-bandalo |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SpaceComputer | SpaceComputer uses satellites to create a secure blockchain system that resists cyberattacks and physical tampering. | $10M | Seed | Nov 26, 2025 |  |
| Rysk Finance | Rysk Finance is developing a dynamic hedging vault to assist in the creation of alternative, decentralized financial assets that can be used to protect against financial market risks. The service allows customers to buy and sell options on crypto assets, giving them the opportunity to protect themselves against downturns in the market if they sodesire. | $1.4M | Pre-Seed | Jan 31, 2023 |  |
| Envio | Envio is a dev-friendly, speed-optimized, modern blockchain indexing solution that addresses the limitations of traditional blockchain indexing approaches and gives developers peace of mind. By harnessing the power of Envio, developers can overcome the challenges posed by latency, reliability, and costs across various sources. Envio serves as thefront door for any application’s need to access, transform, and save real-time or historical data, from any EVM smart contract.If you're a blockchain developer looking to enhance your development process and unlock the true potential of Web3 infrastructure, look no further. Join our growing community of elite developers, check out our docs, and let's work together to revolutionize the blockchain world and propel your project to the next level. Follow Envio on Twitter and/or Lenster for updates on new features, or jump into our Discord for any questions. | $5M | Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| revert | Revert is a platform designed to enhance the experience of liquidity providers (LPs) on Uniswap v3 through innovative features like Auto-Exit and Auto-Range. It focuses on providing actionable analytics for decentralized finance (DeFi) liquidity providers, aiming to optimize their strategies in automated market makers (AMMs). Revert offers toolsfor opening LP positions on Uniswap V3, V2, and Sushiswap, including capabilities for backtesting strategies. Additionally, it introduces mechanisms for liquidity mining on Uniswap v3, designed to incentivize sustained liquidity through rewards that vest over time. The platform also supports LPs in collateralizing their positions to secure loans while maintaining control over their liquidity. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| Tenderize | Tenderize enables users to unlock liquidity, collateralize loans and trade tokens, by maintaining a staked position using ERC20 token. | $3M | Seed | Jul 07, 2022 |  |
| Gearbox Protocol | Gearbox is a generalized leverage protocol. It has two sides to it: passive lenders who earn low-risk APY by lending single-assets; and active farmers, firms, or even other protocols who borrow those assets to trade or farm with even x10 leverage.Gearbox Protocol brings you composable leverage, allowing anyone to margin trade on Uniswap, leveragefarm on Curve, leverage stake on Lido, and use 10X more capital on many other DeFi protocols you already love. Making decentralized leverage a reality thanks to Credit Account abstraction!Gearbox Protocol uses Credit Account abstraction to bring together lending and prime brokerage in the same protocol. Lenders deposit assets to earn passive yield, while the composable leverage side users borrow these assets to create spot leverage positions, which can be used across DeFi. That could be margin trading on Uniswap, farming on Curve and Balancer, leverage staking on Lido and Rocketpool, and a lot more. All of that is made possible with Gearbox’s innovative Credit Account abstraction, creating the base layer of DeFi leverage. | $2.3M | Pre-Seed | May 01, 2021 |  |
| Gearbox Protocol | Gearbox is a generalized leverage protocol. It has two sides to it: passive lenders who earn low-risk APY by lending single-assets; and active farmers, firms, or even other protocols who borrow those assets to trade or farm with even x10 leverage.Gearbox Protocol brings you composable leverage, allowing anyone to margin trade on Uniswap, leveragefarm on Curve, leverage stake on Lido, and use 10X more capital on many other DeFi protocols you already love. Making decentralized leverage a reality thanks to Credit Account abstraction!Gearbox Protocol uses Credit Account abstraction to bring together lending and prime brokerage in the same protocol. Lenders deposit assets to earn passive yield, while the composable leverage side users borrow these assets to create spot leverage positions, which can be used across DeFi. That could be margin trading on Uniswap, farming on Curve and Balancer, leverage staking on Lido and Rocketpool, and a lot more. All of that is made possible with Gearbox’s innovative Credit Account abstraction, creating the base layer of DeFi leverage. | $2.3M | Seed | May 01, 2021 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [1kx](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1kx) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Ascensive Assets](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ascensive-asset-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Daedalus Angel Syndicate](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daedalus-angel-syndicate) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [eGirl Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/egirl-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Focus Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/focus-labs) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Gnosis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gnosis) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Encode Club invest in?

Encode Club invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Spain. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Encode Club's check size?

Encode Club typically joins rounds of $2.3M–$10M at Seed and $1.4M–$2.3M 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 Encode Club participates in.

### How do I contact Encode Club?

Public channels for Encode Club 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 Encode Club?

The team at Encode Club includes Damir Bandalo (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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