# G1 Ventures

> G1 Ventures is a VC fund in London backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 49 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 49
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 22%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/g1vc/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/G1_Ventures
- Website: https://g1.vc/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/g1venturecapital/

G1 Ventures is a VC fund in London focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Blockchain VC with practical approach

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$11M |
| Series A | $5M–$14M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 27 | 55% |
| Cryptocurrency | 16 | 33% |
| Financial Services | 14 | 29% |
| FinTech | 11 | 22% |
| Software | 6 | 12% |

36 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 21 | 43% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 12% |
| Series A | 5 | 10% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 6% |
| Initial Coin Offering | 3 | 6% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 9 | 18% |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 12% |
| Switzerland | 4 | 8% |
| Germany | 2 | 4% |
| Singapore | 2 | 4% |

12 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Gilts | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-gilts |
| Arseny Klekovkin | Managing Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arseny-klekovkin |
| Artem Petrikeev | Investment manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/artem-petrikeev |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fincom | FinCom ensures business from small to large to meet the regulatory demands, avoiding the extremely high financial fines & penalties. FinCom is a non intrusive cloud solution , with immediate deployment and user friendly interface for daily use. FinCom is a result of over 7 year effort by AI & Linguistics mathematicians and industry experts,that developed the first automated technology driven methodology for Self Compliance for any company. Tested & harden technology, FinCom enables regulatory conformity at a fraction of the today's cost. | $5.7M | Series B | May 13, 2025 |  |
| Azuro | Azuro is a global decentralized betting protocol, utilizing smart-contracts to bring full transparency to the betting process and to deliver a classic betting experience with plentiful markets & liquidity and funky innovations like collectible bets and gamification via NFTs | $3.5M | Seed | Apr 11, 2024 |  |
| Arkis - DeFi Prime Broker | The only institutional-grade undercollateralized leverage protocol with a DeFi-native portfolio margin. | $2.3M | Pre-Seed | Feb 27, 2024 |  |
| Arkis - DeFi Prime Broker | The only institutional-grade undercollateralized leverage protocol with a DeFi-native portfolio margin. | $2.3M | Pre-Seed | Feb 27, 2024 |  |
| Altitude | Altitude is a Decentralized Finance (DeFi) protocol offering a first-of-its-kind actively managed collateralized loan, which uses the volatility of the value of the collateral to repay itself over time. | $4M | Seed | Jan 09, 2024 |  |
| Coinchange | Coinchange is a Canadian fintech company founded in 2018 with the mission to enable access to a fair, innovative, and inclusive financial future for all. Coinchange provides cutting-edge products and services to businesses, individuals, and institutions looking to unlock the full potential of digital assets. A user-friendly platform andinnovative solutions allow financial advisers, crypto hedge funds, and high net worth clients to automate earnings, invest in institutional crypto funds, trade seamlessly, and access yield as a service.Coinchange prioritizes security, compliance, and risk-mitigation, working with industry leaders, to earn and maintain the trust and assets of its clients.With Coinchange it's easy to automate earnings, invest in institutional crypto funds, and earn with confidence regardless of the market conditions due to their risk-managed yield strategies that provide a consistent return on investments.Join today and yield the impossible with Coinchange. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 29, 2023 |  |
| D8X | D8X is an institutional-grade perpetual futures DEX with a financial engineering approach that significantly transforms the way perpetual futures can be traded on-chain. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Aug 04, 2023 |  |
| Nillion | Nillion is a computer and network security company that provides node operation that signifies implications for data, security, and privacy. The company decentralized public network based on a new cryptographic primitive called Nil Message Compute (NMC). | $22M | Seed | Dec 12, 2022 |  |
| Finery Markets | Finery Markets is a leading over-the-counter, multi-dealer electronic marketplace for institutional participants and a trading solutions provider for crypto markets. Serving clients since 2019, Finery Markets provides solutions throughout the whole trade lifecycle: - High-performance execution venue with deep institutional liquidity and firmquotes. - Price intelligence and pre-trade risk management tools. - Position management, risk controls, reporting tools and cost analysis, as well as flexible settlement based on a noncustodial model. - Single entry point to global liquidity providers via API and GUI. - Robust infrastructure: 99.99+% uptime and full automation.The Finery Markets platform is available as a white-label solution for prime brokers, OTC desks and exchanges that are willing to develop and expand a low-touch client business. | $5.5M | Seed | Nov 30, 2022 |  |
| Azuro | Azuro is a global decentralized betting protocol, utilizing smart-contracts to bring full transparency to the betting process and to deliver a classic betting experience with plentiful markets & liquidity and funky innovations like collectible bets and gamification via NFTs | $4M | Seed | Jun 27, 2022 |  |

10 of 49 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [gumi Cryptos Capital (gCC)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gumi-cryptos) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Borderless Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/borderless-capital) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Borderless Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/algo-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Maven 11 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maven-11-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Arrington XRP Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arrington-xrp-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Polymorphic Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/polymorphic-capital-0c3e) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does G1 Ventures invest in?

G1 Ventures invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 49 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 G1 Ventures's check size?

G1 Ventures typically joins rounds of $1M–$11M at Seed and $5M–$14M 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 G1 Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact G1 Ventures?

Public channels for G1 Ventures 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 G1 Ventures?

The team at G1 Ventures includes Alex Gilts (Partner), Arseny Klekovkin (Managing Partner) and Artem Petrikeev (Investment manager). 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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