# Ganesh Swami

> Ganesh Swami is a seed investor at Covalent (Vancouver) backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Covalent](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/covalent-92e3)
- Location: Vancouver, Canada
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Sep 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ganswami/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/gane5h
- Website: https://www.covalenthq.com/

Ganesh Swami is a seed investor at Covalent in Vancouver focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Ganesh is the CEO & Co-founder of Covalent – a blockchain data analytics company. Covalent is bringing transparency and visibility to the blockchain space. Ganesh is a serial entrepreneur and has over a decade of experience in big data analytics. He started his career in building protein simulation algorithms to solve cancer.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $750k–$18M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 6 | 67% |
| Cryptocurrency | 3 | 33% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 22% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 22% |
| B2B | 1 | 11% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 56% |
| Angel | 1 | 11% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 11% |
| Series A | 1 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 2 | 22% |
| Germany | 1 | 11% |
| Singapore | 1 | 11% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 11% |
| United States | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ZERUAI | ZeruAI builds the behavioral data and inference layer that powers trust, capital allocation, and coordination across onchain and agentic economies - collectively referred to as machine economies. With 320M+ wallets scored and live production use cases, ZeruAI is building the decision layer for the onchain and agentic economy | $300K | Angel | Sep 06, 2024 |  |
| Shardeum | Shardeum is an EVM-based, linearly scalable smart contract platform that provides low gas fees while maintaining true decentralization and solid security through dynamic state sharding. Shardeum uses sharding to increase TPS with the addition of every new node. Shardeum will scale linearly thanks to dynamic state sharding. Every node that joins theShardeum network automatically raises the number of transactions per second (TPS), ensuring cheap transaction costs even as use grows. | $18.2M | Seed | Oct 18, 2022 |  |
| Onmeta | Onmeta | $1.5M | Seed | Sep 13, 2022 |  |
| BuidlersTribe | Buidlers Tribe is an incubator that takes founders/startups from idea/proof-of-concept/MVP stage and works with them to build companies. They focus on Web3 companies and are platform agnostic. They vet appropriate startups for investors according to the investor’s needs and have access to various experts in the blockchain field. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Aug 18, 2022 |  |
| Bware Labs | Bware Labs provides an interface between Blockchain APIs consumers and node providers with integrated payment options and verified reliability, all embedded within our platform and protocol service. | $6M | Series A | Feb 23, 2022 |  |
| Burrata | Burrata is a computer software provider and developer that bridges Web2 to Web3. | $7.8M | Seed | Dec 09, 2021 |  |
| Arcana Network | Arcana is the Decentralized Storage Layer for Ethereum and EVM chains, with a Privacy Stack for Authentication, Identity and Access Control, Key Management, and End-to-End to encryption. With Arcana's Privacy stack, developers can build secure and privacy-preserving apps. | $2.3M |  | Oct 13, 2021 |  |
| Arcana Network | Arcana is the Decentralized Storage Layer for Ethereum and EVM chains, with a Privacy Stack for Authentication, Identity and Access Control, Key Management, and End-to-End to encryption. With Arcana's Privacy stack, developers can build secure and privacy-preserving apps. | $2.3M | Seed | Oct 13, 2021 |  |
| bitsCrunch | The Ecosystem Guardians - Analytics firm making giant strides in the blockchain ecosystem by providing AI enabled securing services that protects the ecosystem integrity, with a cross-functional team of experts backed by the leaders in the industry. | $750K | Seed | Jun 01, 2021 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Woodstock Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/woodstock-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Arcanum Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arcanum-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [AU21 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/au21-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [CoinGecko](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coingecko) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Fenbushi Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fenbushi-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [LD Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ld-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Covalent

VC Fund · Vancouver, Canada

Covalent is the leading modular data infrastructure layer dedicated to solving major challenges in blockchain and AI, including verifiability, decentralized AI inference, and Long-Term Data Availability. Its large reservoir of structured, verifiable data enhances decentralized training and inference, reducing the risk of manipulated or biased AImodels. Additionally, the Covalent Network's Ethereum Wayback Machine ensures secure, decentralized access to Ethereum’s transaction data. Trusted by over 3,000 leading organizations, Covalent powers AI, DeFi, GameFi, and more with unfettered access to on-chain data from over 225 blockchains.Learn about the EWM: Technical | Non-TechnicalFor more information, check out Covalent’s: Official Website | Twitter/X | Linktree

3 contacts available at Covalent.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ganesh Swami | CEO & Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ganesh-swami |
| Adrian Jonklaas | CFO/COO & Head of Research | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adrian-jonklaas |
| Levi Aul | CTO & Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/levi-aul-1850 |

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## FAQ

### What does Ganesh Swami invest in?

Ganesh Swami invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Ganesh Swami's check size?

Ganesh Swami typically joins rounds of $750k–$18M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Ganesh Swami participates in.

### When did Ganesh Swami last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ganesh Swami closed in Sep 2024. Shizune tracks 9 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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