Gavin Wood
Founder @ Kusama
Berlin, Germany
Gavin Wood is a seed investor at Kusama in Berlin focused on Blockchain and Information Technology. Gavin Wood is based out of London, England and is the Founder of Polkadot. Gavin Wood attended the University of York.
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Gavin Wood invests in
Stages Gavin Wood invests in
Countries Gavin Wood invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $5.5M–$10M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $6M–$22M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 4 (44%)
- Information Technology 3 (33%)
- Internet 2 (22%)
- Software 2 (22%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (22%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (33%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (22%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (11%)
- Series A 1 (11%)
- Funding Round 1 (11%)
Country
- Japan 1 (11%)
- France 1 (11%)
- Austria 1 (11%)
- Singapore 1 (11%)
- Switzerland 1 (11%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Acurast
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Acurast Decentralized Serverless Cloud, leveraging the multipliers of mobile phones for compute. | $11M / Nov 13, 2025 | |
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Minimize Influence
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Social Marketing | $760K / Pre-Seed / Sep 10, 2024 | |
Redpill AI
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Redpill's objective is to make the best AI resources accessible to everyone. The platform functions as a permissionless LLM router network, providing seamless integration across several AI models. | $5.5M / Seed / Jul 24, 2024 | |
Zama
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Zama's mission is to bring end-to-end encryption to AI. Using their homomorphic inference platform, companies can process their customer's data without seeing it, thereby preventing data breaches and surveillance.Zama's solution is based on a breakthrough in homomorphic encryption, which enables evaluating deep neural networks overencrypted data, without changing anything to the network architecture. Zama is open-source by design, as they believe privacy-enabling technologies should benefit the widest possible community of developers and researchers.Zama's cofounders are Dr Pascal Paillier, one of the most renowned cryptography researcher, and Dr Rand Hindi, a serial entrepreneur who formerly founded Snips. | $73.4M / Series A / Mar 07, 2024 | |
Music Protocol
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Music Protocol is a blockchain services provider that uses the blockchain to tokenize music rights and royalties into RWA. The company specializes in tokenized music royalties, investment pools, risk-sharing pools, consistent yield generation, liquidity flexibility, and diversified asset classes. | $6M / Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 12, 2022 | |
AltLayer
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AltLayer is a system of highly scalable application-dedicated execution layers that derive security from an underlying L1/L2. | $7.2M / Seed / Jul 01, 2022 | |
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Redpill AI
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Redpill's objective is to make the best AI resources accessible to everyone. The platform functions as a permissionless LLM router network, providing seamless integration across several AI models. | Seed / Jul 01, 2022 | |
Satori
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Satori is an on-chain derivatives exchange built for both retail and institutional investors in the Polkadot ecosystem. | $10M / Seed / May 12, 2022 | |
Astar Network
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Astar Network is a multi-virtual machine scalable smart contract platform on Polkadot supporting cutting-edge layer 2 like Rollups. | $22M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 28, 2022 |
Co-Investors
About Kusama
Kusama is a scalable multi-chain network offering security solutions for the Polkadot network. Kusama allows developers to build and deploy decentralized parachains and applications. It provides warnings and issues developers have to manage while developing projects on Polkadot.
Kusama Contacts
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Gavin Wood
Founder
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FAQ
What does Gavin Wood invest in?
Gavin Wood invests primarily in Blockchain, Information Technology and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Japan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Gavin Wood's check size?
Gavin Wood typically joins rounds of $5.5M–$10M at Seed and $6M–$22M 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 Gavin Wood participates in.
When did Gavin Wood last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Gavin Wood closed in Nov 2025. 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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