# GSR

> GSR is a VC fund in Wan Chai backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 229 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Wan Chai, Hong Kong
- Total investments: 229
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 7%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gsr-markets
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/GSR_io
- Website: https://www.gsr.io

GSR is a VC fund in Wan Chai focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. GSR has nine years of deep crypto market expertise as a market maker, ecosystem partner and active, multi-stage investor. GSR sources and provides spot and non-linear liquidity in digital assets for token issuers, institutional investors, miners, and leading cryptocurrency exchanges. GSR employs over 300 people around the globe, and its tradingtechnology is connected to 60 trading venues, including the world's leading DEXs. We have a culture of approaching complex problems with tenacity and imagination. We build long-term relationships by offering exceptional service, expertise and trading capabilities tailored to the specific needs of our clients.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for GSR. Shizune tracks 4 team members at GSR. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/gsr?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$12M |
| Series A | $4M–$50M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $5M–$22M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 99 | 43% |
| Cryptocurrency | 79 | 34% |
| Financial Services | 42 | 18% |
| FinTech | 33 | 14% |
| Information Technology | 27 | 12% |

99 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 112 | 49% |
| Series A | 31 | 14% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 24 | 10% |
| Pre-Seed | 17 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 11 | 5% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 67 | 29% |
| Singapore | 13 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 12 | 5% |
| Switzerland | 8 | 3% |
| France | 5 | 2% |

27 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cristian Gil | Co-Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cristian-gil |
| Eva Sanchez | CLO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eva-sanchez-ccc8 |
| Quynh Ho | VP, M&A and Investments | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/quynh-ho-b89b |
| Rich Rosenblum | Co-Founder | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rich-rosenblum |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bundle | Bundle is the first networked rewards platform in the world, revolutionizing how companies interact with and reward their clients.Bundle provides companies with access to significantly more incentives than they could provide on their own by pooling brand incentive funds into common reward pools. Even though they only contribute a small portion ofthe total incentive value, brands can increase conversions. | $5.5M | Pre-Seed | Jul 30, 2026 | https://x.com/joinbundle |
| Ekiden | Ekiden is a next-generation decentralized exchange that combines a virtual AMM (vAMM), perpetual futures, and a central limit order book to provide the fastest, most equitable, and liquid on-chain trading experience with extremely low costs and MEV resistance. | $2M | Seed | May 04, 2026 | https://x.com/ekidenfi |
| Legend. trade | Legend. trade is a crypto trading company by decentralized exchange. | $3.5M | Seed | Apr 29, 2026 | https://x.com/legendtrade |
| Enhanced | Enhanced is a crypto/DeFi startup building next-generation structured product infrastructure on the blockchain to help users earn higher yields on their crypto assets using derivative strategies. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Apr 09, 2026 | https://x.com/enhanced_defi |
| Libeara | Libeara is a financial service company that provides tokenization, financial assets, government securities, and savings services. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 07, 2026 | https://x.com/libeara |
| Midas | Midas is a cryptocurrency application that allows users to sell and invest in cryptocurrency and tokens. | $50M | Series A | Mar 30, 2026 | https://midas.app/ |
| Noise Labs | Noise Labs offers a programmatic liquidity platform for people to trade trends and narratives as assets. | $7.1M | Seed | Jan 14, 2026 | https://x.com/noise_xyz |
| Ostium | Ostium enables users to trade off their assets directly on-chain. Ostium Labs is developing a quick trading mechanism for real-world goods on the chain, driven by Arbitrum and Chainlink. | $20M | Series A | Dec 03, 2025 | https://www.ostium.io |
| Axis | Axis provides infrastructure for global price synchronization and yield generation. | $5M | Seed | Dec 03, 2025 | https://x.com/AxisFDN |
| RateX | RateX is the operator of a decentralized exchange platform designed for yield trading. The company provides leveraged yield trading, earning, and synthetic assets akin to perpetual futures contracts. | $7M | Seed | Nov 21, 2025 | https://x.com/RateX_Dex |

10 of 229 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Animoca Brands](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/animoca-brands-corporation) — VC Fund, 17 deals together
- [ParaFi Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/parafi-capital) — VC Fund, 17 deals together
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- [OKX Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/okx-ventures) — VC Fund, 14 deals together
- [Amber Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amber-ai) — VC Fund, 13 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does GSR invest in?

GSR invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 229 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 GSR's check size?

GSR typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$12M at Seed, $4M–$50M at Series A and $5M–$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 GSR participates in.

### How do I contact GSR?

Public channels for GSR 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 GSR?

The team at GSR includes Cristian Gil (Co-Founder), Eva Sanchez (CLO) and Quynh Ho (VP, M&A and Investments). 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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