# Gains Associates

> Gains Associates is a VC fund in Paris backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 35 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, France
- Total investments: 35
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 6%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gains-associates/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/GainsAssociates
- Website: https://www.gains-associates.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gainsassociates

Gains Associates is a VC fund in Paris focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Gains Associates took an early interest in Bitcoin and started investing in ICOs.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$5M |
| Series A | $3M–$5M |
| Initial Coin Offering | $1.3M–$7.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 20 | 57% |
| Cryptocurrency | 11 | 31% |
| Gaming | 9 | 26% |
| Software | 8 | 23% |
| Finance | 3 | 9% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 23 | 66% |
| Initial Coin Offering | 4 | 11% |
| Series A | 2 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 6% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 6% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Singapore | 5 | 14% |
| Estonia | 2 | 6% |
| Germany | 2 | 6% |
| India | 1 | 3% |
| France | 1 | 3% |

15 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alexandre Raffin | Co-Founder and CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexandre-raffin |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aetherium X | AetheriumX is a Web3 platform combining DeFi, GameFi, NFTs, and prediction markets in one non-custodial ecosystem. | $8M | Seed | Jan 27, 2026 |  |
| Mind AI | Mind AI is a trading insights platform that offers elite insights to the investors for a competitive edge in the fast-moving crypto markets. | $1.2M | Seed | Jan 17, 2025 |  |
| STAGE | STAGE is a music competition platform that is always active, allowing fans to vote for their favourite singers and discover new potential. | $2.4M | Seed | Jun 14, 2024 |  |
| Sekuya | Sekuya is an anime gaming metaverse platform that transform the gaming landscape through a community-driven approach in an entirely new anime epic fantasy universe. | $1.6M | Seed | May 14, 2024 |  |
| Plena Finance | Plena Finance is a mobile application for cryptocurrencies and NFTs. It also offers lending, borrowing, liquidity pools, variable asset vaults, NFT marketplace, staking, and DeFi notification, as well as being interoperable and gasless, allowing users to manage and perform a wide range of financial transactions. | $5M | Seed | Apr 16, 2024 |  |
| Safeverse | Safeverse is a training, Learning, and Education to equip people for future jobs in the metaverse and real life. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Sep 12, 2022 |  |
| The Unfettered | The Unfettered is a blockchain PC game. | $2.5M | Seed | May 10, 2022 |  |
| H2O | H2O is a data-backed stable asset with a managed float regime that serves as a medium of exchange and unit of account in decentralized data marketplaces. | $1.3M | Initial Coin Offering | Apr 20, 2022 |  |
| GEMS | GEMS is an Esports 3.0 aggregator Platform that combines the elements of GameFi, Esports, Metaverse and SocialFi (GEMS). | $5M | Seed | Apr 02, 2022 |  |
| GEMS | GEMS is an Esports 3.0 aggregator Platform that combines the elements of GameFi, Esports, Metaverse and SocialFi (GEMS). | $7.5M | Initial Coin Offering | Apr 02, 2022 |  |

10 of 35 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [AU21 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/au21-capital) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [ZBS CAPITAL](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zbs-capital) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
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- [X21 Digital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/x21-digital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Gains Associates invest in?

Gains Associates invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Gaming startups, most often at Seed and Initial Coin Offering stage. Most of the 35 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Singapore. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Gains Associates's check size?

Gains Associates typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$5M at Seed, $3M–$5M at Series A and $1.3M–$7.5M at Initial Coin Offering. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Gains Associates participates in.

### How do I contact Gains Associates?

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### Who are the partners at Gains Associates?

The team at Gains Associates includes Alexandre Raffin (Co-Founder and CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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