# Ghaf Capital Partners

> Ghaf Capital Partners is a VC fund backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 24 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Total investments: 24
- Last investment: Feb 2025
- Lead investor: 17%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ghaf-capital-partners/
- Website: https://ghafcapital.ae/

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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.1M–$18M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $5.2M–$10M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 14 | 58% |
| Cryptocurrency | 10 | 42% |
| Web3 | 5 | 21% |
| Financial Services | 5 | 21% |
| Finance | 4 | 17% |

33 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 14 | 58% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 4 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 13% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 4% |
| Series A | 1 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 25% |
| India | 4 | 17% |
| United Arab Emirates | 3 | 13% |
| China | 1 | 4% |
| Kenya | 1 | 4% |

10 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ilya Tokhner | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ilya-tokhner |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mavryk Dynamics | Mavryk Dynamics simplifies trading real-world assets (RWA) and using decentralized finance (DeFi). | $5.2M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 25, 2025 |  |
| Swarm Network | Swarm Network is a decentralized network for owning, controlling, and monetizing AI agents. | $3M | Seed | Jan 23, 2025 |  |
| Pixelverse | Pixelverse is a blockchain-based, pixelated P2E game. | $7.5M | Seed | Jun 12, 2024 |  |
| Bluwhale | Established in 2022, Bluwhale is a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence platform that specializes in extracting and analyzing comprehensive data from content across various blockchains, as well as contextualizing NFT data for personalization and discovery purposes. This pioneering approach equips DApps and marketplaces with the intelligencenecessary to boost retention, engagement, and revenue. Offering user-friendly tools and analytics, Bluwhale delivers a complete understanding of content, tokens, smart contracts, and wallet activities by employing a graph representation of the underlying data.Through cataloging, labeling, and examining over 200 million NFTs and wallets, Bluwhale enhances on-chain data with valuable contextual information, assisting users in making informed investment decisions and facilitating the seamless integration of data-driven intelligence into their applications. | $7M | Seed | Mar 11, 2024 |  |
| Nibiru Chain | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |

10 of 24 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Big Brain Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/big-brain-holdings) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
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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 is Ghaf Capital Partners's check size?

Ghaf Capital Partners typically joins rounds of $2.1M–$18M at Seed and $5.2M–$10M 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 Ghaf Capital Partners participates in.

### How do I contact Ghaf Capital Partners?

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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.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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