# Figment

> Figment is a VC fund in New York backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 37 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 37
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/figment-io/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Figment_io
- Website: https://figment.io

Figment is a VC fund in New York focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Figment offers institutional-grade staking solutions for established and emerging Proof-of-Stake protocols, allowing users to earn rewards and secure digital assets. The company provides resources for staking with protocols like Ethereum, Solana, and Polkadot, featuring security and validator performance monitoring. Figment delivers staking APIs,rewards reporting tools, and on-chain data sets for asset managers and exchanges.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Figment. Shizune tracks 9 team members at Figment. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/figment-networks?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3M–$21M |
| Series A | $5M–$32M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 23 | 62% |
| Cryptocurrency | 14 | 38% |
| FinTech | 8 | 22% |
| Software | 8 | 22% |
| Finance | 7 | 19% |

37 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 15 | 41% |
| Series A | 9 | 24% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 8% |
| Initial Coin Offering | 3 | 8% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 5% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 11 | 30% |
| Singapore | 4 | 11% |
| Germany | 2 | 5% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |
| France | 1 | 3% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lorien Gabel | Co-Founder and CEO | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lorien-gabel |
| Reza Sabernia | Product - Staking - ETH and SOL | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/reza-sabernia |
| Andrew Cronk | Co-founder, Chief Product Officer | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-cronk |
| Annalea Sanders | COO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/annalea-sanders |
| Christoph Richter | Head of Business Development in the Middle East | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christoph-richter-01a6 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ethereum Institutional | Ethereum Institutional is a non-profit organization that focuses on increasing institutional use of the Ethereum ecosystem, including its Layer 2 networks and applications. The organization provides institutional education and engagement for banks, asset managers, custodians, fintechs, market infrastructures, and public institutions evaluatingEthereum. It produces neutral research explaining how Ethereum works, its development roadmap, and its implications for institutional users. Ethereum Institutional also coordinates ecosystem marketing around ETH and real-world deployments to inform institutional strategies. In addition, it gathers industry requirements for tokenization, custody, and settlement on Ethereum and convenes events where institutions and Ethereum ecosystem stakeholders can discuss priorities and implementation approaches. |  | Seed | Jul 29, 2026 |  |
| Gateway | Gateway is a decentralized protocol for creating, consuming, and displaying verifiable credentials. | $4.2M | Seed | Jan 19, 2023 |  |
| t3rn | t3rn offers fast, secure and cost-efficient bridging, optimizing cross-chain executions by leveraging the modular layers of the t3rn stack for storage, validation, settlement and consensus t3rn was founded in 2020 and is based in BVI | $6.5M | Private Equity | Nov 25, 2022 |  |
| Celestia | Celestia is a pluggable consensus and data availability layer, to enable anyone to quickly deploy a decentralised blockchain without the overhead of bootstrapping a new consensus network. | $55M | Series A | Oct 19, 2022 |  |
| Pine Street Labs | Pine Street Labs builds enterprise wallet software designed to expand and democratize the usage of public blockchains. The company handles the complexity of supporting and maintaining access to different networks so enterprises can focus on their business. Pine Street Labs' walletOS solution is designed to face difficulties and accelerateenterprises using current custody infrastructure, moving custody operations in-house, and introducing new blockchain initiatives to the market. | $6M | Seed | Oct 14, 2022 |  |
| Eclipse | Eclipse customizable blockchain platform powered by Solana enables developers to build apps for Web2. | $6M | Pre-Seed | Sep 27, 2022 |  |
| Hyperlane | Hyperlane platform helps developers connect applications across blockchains. | $18.5M | Seed | Sep 22, 2022 |  |
| Hyperlane | Hyperlane is the best way to get your Craft CMS and WordPress websites online.Hyperlane is made for creative agencies and offers: - Hyperfast cloud hosting - Out-of-the-box and consistent development, staging & production environments - A kick ass developer toolset that automates deployments and seamlessly clones websites across environmentsCheck it out and launch your first development environment for free on hyperlane.co | $18.5M |  | Sep 22, 2022 |  |
| Lit Protocol | Lit Protocol is a decentralized access control infrastructure designed to bring more utility to the web. | $13M | Series A | Sep 22, 2022 |  |
| Omni | Launched in 2021, Omni is a comprehensive Web3 wallet supporting assets across 25+ blockchain networks, enabling seamless token management, DeFi activity, NFTs, and multi-chain staking with a single mnemonic. It aggregates bridging and DEX services for efficient swaps, abstracts staking complexity, integrates Ledger for security, and offersWalletConnect, fiat on-ramp, and broad NFT support. For more information, visit www.omni.app. | $11M | Series A | Sep 07, 2022 |  |

10 of 37 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [The Spartan Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-spartan-group-4202) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Polychain](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/polychain-capital) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Hypersphere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hypersphere-ventures) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Chorus One](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chorus-one) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Coinbase Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinbase-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Blockchain Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crypto-currency-partners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Figment invest in?

Figment invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 37 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 Figment's check size?

Figment typically joins rounds of $3M–$21M at Seed and $5M–$32M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Figment participates in.

### How do I contact Figment?

Public channels for Figment 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 Figment?

The team at Figment includes Lorien Gabel (Co-Founder and CEO), Reza Sabernia (Product - Staking - ETH and SOL) and Andrew Cronk (Co-founder, Chief Product Officer), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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