# FTX Ventures

> FTX Ventures is a VC fund in Nassau backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 94 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nassau, Bahamas
- Total investments: 94
- Last investment: Nov 2022
- Lead investor: 55%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://ventures.ftx.com

FTX Ventures is a VC fund in Nassau focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. FTX Ventures invests in equity and/or tokens, at any check size and stage of blockchain. It leverages resources across FTX and the ecosystem of global partners. It supports founders and wants the team to retain flexibility and decision-making, not to get in their way.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for FTX Ventures. Shizune tracks 2 team members at FTX Ventures. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/ftx-ventures?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $250k–$14M |
| Series A | $9M–$135M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $459k–$32M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 39 | 41% |
| Cryptocurrency | 22 | 23% |
| Software | 18 | 19% |
| Information Technology | 13 | 14% |
| Gaming | 11 | 12% |

81 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 34 | 36% |
| Series A | 13 | 14% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 12 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 11 | 12% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 4% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 35 | 37% |
| Singapore | 6 | 6% |
| Canada | 4 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 4% |
| India | 2 | 2% |

18 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sam Bankman-Fried | CEO | 35 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sam-bankman-fried |
| Sam Bankman-Fried | CEO | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-j-ray-iii |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lemon Cash | Lemon Cash is digital wallet with FIAT and crypto capabilities. End to end digital ecosystem for Latin America. | $27.8M | Series A | Nov 24, 2022 |  |
| Joepegs | Joepegs is an Avalanche blockchain NFT marketplace. | $5M | Seed | Nov 14, 2022 |  |
| Lens Protocol | Lens Protocol is a composable and decentralized social network serving the Web3 community. It enables creators to build their own web3 social media platforms and accounts, giving them control over their connections with their communities and also ownership over their content. | $1M | Seed | Nov 04, 2022 |  |
| Martian | Martian provides to store, send, receive tokens and manage & mint NFTs in a secure. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Oct 27, 2022 |  |
| Paragraph | Powerful stories and powerful storytellers. Each week find seven of the world's best shorts in text, audio, and video: http://bit.ly/1usXQd5 | $1.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 24, 2022 |  |
| Paragraph | Paragraph is a platform that allows creators to publish content-developed blogs and web3-native newsletters for communities. | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | Oct 24, 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 |  |
| 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. |  | Series B | Oct 19, 2022 |  |
| Exponential DeFi | Exponential DeFi platform makes it easy to discover, assess, and invest in DeFi yield opportunities. | $14M | Seed | Oct 03, 2022 |  |
| MSafe | MSafe develops a multi-signature, non-custodial digital assets management solution built on Move. They focus on true decentralization, enhanced security, and full interoperability. | $1.3M | Seed | Oct 01, 2022 |  |

10 of 94 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Tiger Global Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tiger-global) — VC Fund, 14 deals together
- [Jump Crypto](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jump-crypto) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does FTX Ventures invest in?

FTX Ventures invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 94 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 FTX Ventures's check size?

FTX Ventures typically joins rounds of $250k–$14M at Seed, $9M–$135M at Series A and $459k–$32M 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 FTX Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact FTX Ventures?

Public channels for FTX Ventures include 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 FTX Ventures?

The team at FTX Ventures includes Sam Bankman-Fried (CEO) and Sam Bankman-Fried (CEO). 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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