# Genblock Capital

> Genblock Capital is a VC fund backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 145 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 145
- Last investment: Apr 2024
- Lead investor: 6%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/genblock-capital
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/GenblockCapital
- Website: https://genblock.capital/

Genblock Capital is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Genblock Capital invests exclusively in blockchain and cryptocurrency, with a focus on decentralized finance.We have been deeply entrenched in the crypto markets since early 2017, and invest in liquid cryptocurrencies on the secondary market as well as early-stage funding rounds.We aim to be power users of the project we invest in and helpprojects with bootstrapping liquidity, token economics, market making, marketing, and connecting founders with our vast network.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.2M–$8M |
| Initial Coin Offering | $5M–$314M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 62 | 43% |
| Cryptocurrency | 35 | 24% |
| Financial Services | 23 | 16% |
| Software | 19 | 13% |
| Gaming | 18 | 12% |

70 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 97 | 67% |
| Funding Round | 14 | 10% |
| Initial Coin Offering | 8 | 6% |
| Pre-Seed | 7 | 5% |
| Series A | 5 | 3% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 37 | 26% |
| Singapore | 13 | 9% |
| United Kingdom | 8 | 6% |
| Estonia | 4 | 3% |
| Switzerland | 4 | 3% |

25 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bilal Junaid | Founder | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bilal-junaid-1d3b |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sanctum | Sanctum offers the ability to launch millions of new LSTs utilizing solana. |  | Seed | Apr 03, 2024 |  |
| AINN Layer2 | AINN Layer2 is a decentralized Bitcoin Layer2 network development.It promotes large-scale AI applications |  | Seed | Mar 21, 2024 |  |
| OX.FUN | OX.FUN is a decentralized trading platform for everlasting contracts and provides complete ownership of profits. | $4M | Seed | Feb 23, 2024 |  |
| ZeroLend | ZeroLend is the largest lending protocol on zkSync and the third largest lending protocol on Manta, with a focus on DeFi, lending on RWAs, privacy and account abstraction. | $3M | Seed | Feb 20, 2024 |  |
| BitFlow Finance | BitFlow Finance offers bitcoines to trade while utilizing the capital,network, and security of Layer 1 Bitcoin, by eliminating middlemen and intermediaries. | $1.3M | Pre-Seed | Jan 25, 2024 |  |
| Root Protocol | Root Protocol is developing an operating system that combines an intent-centric aggregator of digital identities, virtual accounts, social graphs, and other components to provide unified access to Web3. | $10M | Seed | Jan 19, 2024 |  |
| Saros Finance | Saros Finance is a fintech platform that offers trading, staking, and yield farming services in a blockchain network. | $3.8M |  | Jan 08, 2024 |  |
| Sleek | ChapterX is a web3 event experience platform that strives to enable event organisers to transform their events into one-of-a-kind experiences. The startup offers attendees the option of engaging them through physical events or customizable virtual worlds in the metaverse, with features such as decentralised autonomous organisation (DAO) governanceor GameFi. | $5M | Seed | Nov 17, 2023 |  |
| Firechain | Firechain is an async, event-driven smart contract platform built for the next generation of decentralized applications. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Apr 01, 2023 |  |
| DFYN Network | Dfyn is a multi-chain AMM DEX which is building to be an inter-connected AMM with nodes spread on different blockchains and those AMMs will be able to share liquidity and enable cross-chain swaps. Dfyn is a true multi-chain AMM optimized for the cross-chain universe.Polygon instance deployed of Dfyn is a gasless exchange where users have to justsign the transactions and none of the fees is passed to users.With Dfyn nodes spread across multiple Layer 1 and Layer 2 blockchains, Dfyn will act as a multi-chain DEX. This will allow Dfyn to plug into a liquidity super-mesh, enabling users to perform their asset trades seamlessly on several blockchains from a single interface. Dfyn will also build a decentralized swap station to swap large assets natively like BTC, ETH, ADA in a non-custodial way.An ultra-fast gasless AMM optimized for the multi blockchain universe, Dfyn AMM will address traditional AMM DEX issues, such as impermanent loss, as well as provide enhanced trader analytics. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |

10 of 145 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [AU21 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/au21-capital) — VC Fund, 39 deals together
- [LD Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ld-capital) — VC Fund, 32 deals together
- [Shima Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shima-capital) — VC Fund, 27 deals together
- [X21 Digital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/x21-digital) — VC Fund, 24 deals together
- [Alameda Research](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alameda-research) — VC Fund, 21 deals together
- [Double Peak Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/double-peak-group) — VC Fund, 21 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Genblock Capital invest in?

Genblock Capital invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 145 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 Genblock Capital's check size?

Genblock Capital typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$8M at Seed and $5M–$314M 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 Genblock Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Genblock Capital?

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### Who are the partners at Genblock Capital?

The team at Genblock Capital includes Bilal Junaid (Founder). 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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