# Factorial

> Factorial is a VC fund backing Finance, Database and Security. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Factorial is a investment firm.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | $1M–$1.2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Finance | 1 | 25% |
| Database | 1 | 25% |
| Security | 1 | 25% |
| Analytics | 1 | 25% |
| Blockchain | 1 | 25% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 50% |
| Series A | 1 | 25% |
| Debt Financing | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ukraine | 1 | 25% |
| United States | 1 | 25% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 25% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Graze | Graze is a platform designed for creating custom feeds on Bluesky, allowing users to curate their social media experience. The company enables the creation of personalized feeds, community feeds for friend groups, and specialized feeds centered around specific hobbies. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Apr 16, 2025 |  |
| Sidekick | Sidekick is a wealth management firm that offers access to alternative investments as well as the ability to borrow against these portfolios. Sidekick provides an innovative suite of products, including stocks and cryptocurrency, as well as a funding line for customers to borrow against their portfolios when necessary. Customers will have access tothe Sidekick investment team, which will provide regular updates on portfolio performance as well as share editorial content to help customers build their investment knowledge as they progress. | $5.1M | Debt Financing | Jun 13, 2024 |  |
| Adaptive ML | Adaptive is working on a method to improve the process known as reinforcement learning from human feedback, or RLHF. | $20M | Series A | Mar 11, 2024 |  |
| Hackless | Hackless is a blockchain security platform. It produces novel security solutions like Wallet Rescue and Sentinel. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Dec 12, 2023 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Motier Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/motier-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Apertu Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/apertu-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Betaworks](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/betaworks) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Columbia Lake Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/columbia-lake-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Contentsquare](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/content-square) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cosima Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cosima-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Factorial invest in?

Factorial invests primarily in Finance, Database and Security startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Ukraine. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Factorial's check size?

Factorial typically joins rounds of $1M–$1.2M 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 Factorial participates in.

### When did Factorial last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Factorial closed in Apr 2025. Shizune tracks 4 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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