Faction
VC Fund
Menlo Park, United States
Faction is a VC fund in Menlo Park focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Lightspeed Faction is a joint venture with Lightspeed Venture Partners, and as a result, combines Faction's crypto-only approach with Lightspeed's deep Silicon Valley roots and platform business scaling resources. Faction collaborates with Lightspeed on blockchain-related matters, but operates the fund independently.
- Total investments:
- 66
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 45%
- Fund size:
- $285M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Faction invests in
Stages Faction invests in
Countries Faction invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 7 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $3.1M–$15M
- Series A
- $7.7M–$94M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $3M–$35M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 26 (39%)
- Cryptocurrency 15 (23%)
- Software 12 (18%)
- Financial Services 11 (17%)
- Web3 10 (15%)
Stage
- Seed 26 (39%)
- Series A 17 (26%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 6 (9%)
- Pre-Seed 4 (6%)
- Funding Round 4 (6%)
Country
- United States 26 (39%)
- United Kingdom 6 (9%)
- Singapore 4 (6%)
- Greece 1 (2%)
- Israel 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Clara Boh
Deal Partner
|
Deal Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Banafsheh Fathieh
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 15 | Find email | |
Justin Barlow
Venture Partner
|
Venture Partner | Total investments: 8 | Find email | |
Raymond Feng
Technical Partner
|
Technical Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Samuel Harrison
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 36 | Find email | |
| See all 7 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Latitude is working on a global payments system that links stablecoin-based settlement with local currency payout systems. | $35M / Series A / Sep 09, 2026 | ||
| Diameter Pay is a financial service company that provides financial inclusion, fintech, blockchain, and social entrepreneurship services. | $10M / Series A / Sep 03, 2026 | ||
| Glacis Labs is a middleware protocol. It enables developers to control cross-chain risk. Glacis provides a plug-and-play solution that eliminates the research and decision-making process in cross-chain processes, simplifying interchain execution. | $6.8M / Seed / Jul 15, 2026 | ||
| Turnkey is an encryption service provider that offers secure APIs to manage private keys. | $12.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / May 14, 2026 | ||
| OpenFX is redefining the future of global money movement. We enable money to flow across borders as effortlessly as data, unbound by time zones, legacy systems, or banking hours. Our FX infrastructure transforms how finance teams operate, delivering cross-border transfers with industry-leading spreads, real-time settlement and 24/7availability. We are a team of serial entrepreneurs from Affirm, BofA, Charles Schwab, Goldman Sachs, Intuit, JPM, Kraken, Microsoft, Meta, PayPal, and Slack. | $94M / Series A / Mar 31, 2026 | ||
| Latitude is working on a global payments system that links stablecoin-based settlement with local currency payout systems. | $8M / Seed / Mar 31, 2026 | ||
| Meld empowers developers to build a Multi Vendor Fintech stack. With a few lines of code, developers gain access to a wide range of financial integrations across multiple domains. Meld helps you lower your overall 3rd party vendor costs, increase coverage and conversion rates, and save you time by launching integrations across markets faster. Weprovide performance analytics for every provider you integrate with - putting you back in control of your fintech stack. | $7M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 14, 2026 | ||
| Founded in 2015, PhotonPay is a digital financial infrastructure provider offering global payment solutions to businesses. Our innovative core products include Global Accounts, Card Issuing, Online Payments, Payouts, FX Management and Embedded Finance. PhotonPay has become a Mastercard issuer in Hong Kong and the fintech card issuer in the GreaterChina region of Discover® Network. With a strong compliance culture and technological innovation capabilities, PhotonPay is building a digital payment network to take the friction out of global payments and enhance operational efficiency for businesses operating on a global scale. Headquartered in Hong Kong and providing localized services through nine international offices, PhotonPay partners with a network of top-tier banks and global financial institutions and serves more than 200,000 customers globally. | Series B / Jan 09, 2026 | ||
| OpenEden is a financial system that helps bring real-world assets on-chain to unlock value. | Seed / Dec 01, 2025 | ||
| TransCrypts is a tool for Human Resource Departments to automate the issuance of employment and income verification documents using the blockchain. Our proprietary process not only saves HRs time, money, and headache in dealing with compliance but also gives employees total control over how their work information is being shared. | $15M / Seed / Oct 08, 2025 | ||
| See all 66 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Faction invest in?
Faction invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 66 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 Faction's check size?
Faction typically joins rounds of $3.1M–$15M at Seed, $7.7M–$94M at Series A and $3M–$35M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Faction participates in.
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Who are the partners at Faction?
The team at Faction includes Clara Boh (Deal Partner), Banafsheh Fathieh (General Partner) and Justin Barlow (Venture Partner), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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