Ghaf Capital Partners
VC Fund
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Ghaf Capital Partners is a VC fund in Dubai focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. GHAF Capital Partners was formed in Q1 of 2021 and is one of the fastest growing & first blockchain venture capital fund based in Dubai, U.A.E. The name was inspired by the beauty and characteristics of the Ghaf tree. Known for its strong roots, extreme self-sustenance, essential source of shade, food & medical supplies for all species,being one of the only evergreen trees in the harsh conditions of the desert. For us at GCP, we believe it is the perfect formula for a fund to base its values on. Our key focus is to bring value to all our partners and act as their extended team or bridge to the U.A.E.
- Total investments:
- 24
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 17%
Last updated:
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Industries Ghaf Capital Partners invests in
Stages Ghaf Capital Partners invests in
Countries Ghaf Capital Partners invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $2.1M–$18M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $5.2M–$10M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 14 (58%)
- Cryptocurrency 10 (42%)
- Web3 5 (21%)
- Financial Services 5 (21%)
- Finance 4 (17%)
Stage
- Seed 14 (58%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (17%)
- Funding Round 3 (13%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (4%)
- Series A 1 (4%)
Country
- United States 6 (25%)
- India 4 (17%)
- United Arab Emirates 3 (13%)
- China 1 (4%)
- Kenya 1 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ilya Tokhner
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mavryk Dynamics simplifies trading real-world assets (RWA) and using decentralized finance (DeFi). | $5.2M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 25, 2025 | ||
| Swarm Network is a decentralized network for owning, controlling, and monetizing AI agents. | $3M / Seed / Jan 23, 2025 | ||
| Pixelverse is a blockchain-based, pixelated P2E game. | $7.5M / Seed / Jun 12, 2024 | ||
| Bluwhale is a platform for decentralized knowledge data that enables Dapps to add intelligence via API calls. | $7M / Seed / Mar 11, 2024 | ||
| Nibiru Chain is a breakthrough L1 blockchain and smart contract ecosystem providing superior throughput and unparalleled security. Nibiru aims to be the most developer-friendly and user-friendly smart contract ecosystem, leading the charge toward mainstream Web3 adoption by innovating at each layer of the stack: dApp development, infrastructure,consensus, a comprehensive developer toolkit, and value accrual.Since late 2022, dozens of projects have begun building on Nibiru across sectors such as DeFi, gaming, real-world assets, NFTs, developer tools, and bridges—each sharing the common mission of making interactions with digital assets fast, secure, and user-friendly for everyone.Core Token Utility: The staking and utility token of Nibiru Chain is called ‘NIBI’. This token plays a pivotal role in powering the network’s Proof-of-Stake consensus and decentralized governance, a process by which NIBI stakers can decide on and bring about changes in the network. Additionally, NIBI is utilized to secure the network and pay for computation in the form of gas fees, essential for facilitating the creation of new blocks on the chain.“Dev Gas” Royalty Mechanism: Imagine protocols like Uniswap or Aave earning half of the ETH expended on them. This distinctive feature attracts developers to Nibiru, where builders automatically earn half of the NIBI gas expended on their smart contracts, encouraging network growth and sustained development of the ecosystem. | $12M / Seed / Feb 01, 2024 | ||
| Ithaca Finance a cross-chain derivatives trading and settlements protocol, is composed of an on-chain settlement layer with an innovative off-chain matching engine. | $2.5M / Pre-Seed / Jan 31, 2024 | ||
| BluWhale's mission is to leverage AI and ML to allow game developers to focus on ways to improve the game rather than wrangling and making sense of astronomical amounts of data. BluWhale's smart automation will do the heavy lifting usually reserved for data analysts and data scientists all in the background, and surface actionable insight | Seed / Mar 11, 2023 | ||
| FluidAI makes tokenized market access more efficient for institutions, trading platforms, and retail investors by using predictive AI-based models to solve inefficiencies in digital asset markets. FluidAI is driven by technologists, academics, data scientists, institutional digital asset platform founders, and investment bankers whose experiencespans across tier-one TradFi and crypto institutions such as Bank of America, HAYVN, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Jefferies, Bloomberg, Citigroup, Refinitiv, and leading data science academic institutions such as Imperial College London, and Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 01, 2023 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Walken develops a free2play blockchain game that aims to onboard millions to DeFi and Web3 while rewarding players for walking. | $2.3M / Seed / Sep 26, 2022 | ||
| See all 24 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Ghaf Capital Partners invest in?
Ghaf Capital Partners invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Web3 startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 24 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Ghaf Capital Partners invest in?
Ghaf Capital Partners typically joins rounds of $2.1M–$18M at Seed and $5.2M–$10M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Ghaf Capital Partners's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Ghaf Capital Partners took part in.
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Who are the partners at Ghaf Capital Partners?
The team at Ghaf Capital Partners includes Ilya Tokhner (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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