# Gemini

> Gemini is a VC fund in New York backing Cryptocurrency and Blockchain. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/geminitrust/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/gemini
- Website: https://gemini.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GeminiTrust/

Gemini is a next-generation cryptocurrency exchange and custodian that allows customers to buy, sell, and store digital assets. The company was founded in 2014, by brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, to build a bridge to the future of money. Its goal to build a world-class digital asset exchange and custodian based in the United States.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Gemini. Shizune tracks 10 team members at Gemini. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/gemini-99b2?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3.5M–$7M |
| Series A | $9M–$135M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cryptocurrency | 7 | 41% |
| Blockchain | 6 | 35% |
| FinTech | 4 | 24% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 24% |
| Marketplace | 3 | 18% |

27 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 11 | 65% |
| Series A | 5 | 29% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 13 | 76% |
| Canada | 1 | 6% |
| Portugal | 1 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Andrew Candres | Director, Institutional Support | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-candres |
| Michael Breu | Chief Compliance Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-breu |
| Mike Oppenheim | Team Lead, Threat Detection & Response - Threat Analysis Group | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mike-oppenheim |
| Patrick McLaren | Chief Operating Officer, Nifty Gateway | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/patrick-mclaren-3f74 |
| Robert Cornish | Chief Technology Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robert-cornish-4e66 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pye Labs | Pye Finance is a Web3 startup that builds a staking-market infrastructure on the Solana blockchain. | $5M | Seed | Dec 08, 2025 |  |
| BitVault | BitVault is a DeFi protocol that provides a crypto-native money solution via its BTC-backed stablecoin, bvUSD, and yield-bearing staked stablecoin, sbvUSD. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Jun 18, 2025 |  |
| Octane | Octane is a developer-focused platform that leverages cutting-edge artificial intelligence to battle-test smart contracts. | $6.8M | Seed | Apr 08, 2025 |  |
| Skyfire Systems | Skyfire, a financial stack designed to enable autonomous agentic AI commerce, is to establish the first fully autonomous, open agentic AI economy in history. | $8.5M | Seed | Aug 21, 2024 |  |
| Unite | We started Unite because we saw a problem.Two problems, in fact. A problem faced by marketplace sellers like you, who see high- quality traffic on your pages but have no way of retargeting shoppers who don’t end up purchasing, leaving potential sales on the table. And a problem faced by the marketplaces where you sell, which win by helping youdrive sales but aren’t equipped to offer you the sorts of online advertising tools like retargeting pixels, audience creation, and campaign management platforms that big brands have been using for years.That’s where we come in. Understanding these constraints and sharing the frustration faced by both sellers and marketplaces over lost revenue and lost customers, we created the perfect platform to put the industry’s most powerful advertising technology capabilities in the hands of people like you, building them into the marketplaces where you already sell. The result? Higher traffic and higher conversion rates. In other words, higher sales.Today, thousands of sellers across the Internet are using Unite to advertise like a big brand and drive sales. It’s time to join them. | $3M | Seed | Jun 11, 2024 |  |
| Turnkey | Turnkey is an encryption service provider that offers secure APIs to manage private keys. | $15M | Series A | Apr 23, 2024 |  |
| Ethena | Ethena provides a synthetic dollar protocol on the Ethereum blockchain that supports a crypto-native form of digital money. The protocol issues USDe, a synthetic dollar backed by crypto assets and short futures positions, using delta hedging to maintain stability relative to the US dollar. Ethena also introduces sUSDe, a yield-bearing version ofUSDe that allows holders to stake their assets and earn returns from protocol operations. In addition, the platform includes a governance token, ENA, which enables participation in decisions on risk management, integrations, and updates. Ethena integrates with both decentralized and centralized finance platforms, offering transparency and tools that support ecosystem composability. | $6.5M | Seed | Jul 17, 2023 |  |
| reNFT | reNFT is a rental protocol that enables lending and borrowing of NFTs. | $5M | Seed | Jul 26, 2022 |  |
| Empiric Network | Empiric is the oracle on Starknet, built to empower native protocols to realize their ambitious potential. | $7M | Seed | Jul 15, 2022 |  |
| Supermojo | Supermojo is building the embedded customer lending experiences to power the growth of NFTs as a powerful new asset class. | $6M | Seed | Jul 14, 2022 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Coinbase Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinbase-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [CMT Digital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cmt-digital-ventures-llc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Everyrealm](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/Everyrealm) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Nascent](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nascent-91c1) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Inception Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/op-crypto) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Ripple](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ripple-labs) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Gemini invest in?

Gemini invests primarily in Cryptocurrency, Blockchain and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 17 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 Gemini's check size?

Gemini typically joins rounds of $3.5M–$7M at Seed and $9M–$135M 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 Gemini participates in.

### How do I contact Gemini?

Public channels for Gemini 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 Gemini?

The team at Gemini includes Andrew Candres (Director, Institutional Support), Michael Breu (Chief Compliance Officer) and Mike Oppenheim (Team Lead, Threat Detection & Response - Threat Analysis Group), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. 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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