# Anatoly Yakovenko

> Anatoly Yakovenko is a seed investor at Solana (London) backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 67 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Solana](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/solana-io)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 67
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 1%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/guillaumepousaz/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Adnann.t
- Website: https://winning168.com/jleague-score/

Anatoly Yakovenko is a seed investor at Solana in London focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Anatoly is the creator of Solana. He led development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox. He holds 2 patents for high performance Operating Systems protocols, was a core kernel developer for BREW which powered every CDMA flip phone (100m+ devices), and led development of tech that madeProject Tango (VR/AR) possible on Qualcomm phones.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.5M–$10M |
| Pre-Seed | $500k–$6M |
| Series A | $9.5M–$73M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 24 | 36% |
| Cryptocurrency | 14 | 21% |
| Software | 12 | 18% |
| Financial Services | 8 | 12% |
| Web3 | 7 | 10% |

74 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 31 | 46% |
| Series A | 13 | 19% |
| Pre-Seed | 6 | 9% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 4 | 6% |
| Angel | 3 | 4% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 22 | 33% |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 9% |
| Singapore | 5 | 7% |
| France | 3 | 4% |
| Spain | 2 | 3% |

13 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| worm.wtf | worm.wtf is the prediction marketplace for the Solana ecosystem. | $4.5M | Pre-Seed | Dec 17, 2025 |  |
| Ryder | Ryder develops the Ryder One hardware wallet to provide an easy and secure way for users to control their cryptocurrency holdings offline. The wallet uses simple tap-to-pay technology for fast setup and transaction authorization, combined with an EAL6+ Secure Element for protection against digital and physical attacks. | $3.2M | Seed | Oct 17, 2025 |  |
| Inference | Inference is a distributed GPU cluster for LLM inference based on Solana, providing a fast, scalable, and token-based API for models such as DeepSeek V3 and Llama 3.3. | $11.8M | Seed | Oct 14, 2025 |  |
| Raiku | Raiku is a Web3 infrastructure startup focused on enhancing the Solana blockchain's reliability and predictability. | $11.3M | Seed | Sep 24, 2025 |  |
| Circuit & Chisel | Circuit & Chisel is an agentic AI platform that enables agents to make transactions between autonomous agents. | $19.2M | Seed | Sep 22, 2025 |  |
| TITAN | Titan provides users with the best swap price by searching through Solana’s on-chain liquidity through trusted sources. It then deploys revolutionary routing algorithms based on cutting-edge mathematics to determine the best price a user can get when trading any token. | $7M | Seed | Sep 18, 2025 |  |
| Vanish Trade | Vanish Trade is a Solana-based trading platform focused on anonymity. | $1M | Seed | Aug 22, 2025 |  |
| ZAR | ZAR establishes a connection between cash-based economies and the web3 framework, facilitating adoption of stablecoins. | $7M | Seed | Apr 30, 2025 |  |
| MagicBlock | MagicBlock Labs is a gaming and technology firm that creates infrastructure for fully on-chain games. | $7.5M | Seed | Apr 24, 2025 |  |
| FrodoBots Lab | FrodoBots Lab is pioneering advancements in Embodied AI research at the intersection of crypto and gaming. | $6M | Seed | Feb 13, 2025 |  |

10 of 67 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Solana Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/solana-capital) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [Multicoin Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/multicoin-capital) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Electric Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/electric-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [6th Man Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/6th-man-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Big Brain Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/big-brain-holdings) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Robot Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robot-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

## About Solana

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Solana is a crypto startup that builds and develops crypto apps for decentralized apps and marketplaces. The startup was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

5 contacts available at Solana.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Anatoly Yakovenko | Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anatoly-yakovenko |
| Spencer Spinell | Strategic Advisor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/spencer-spinell |
| Anatoly Yakovenko | Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/guillaume-pousaz |
| Austin Federa | Head of Strategy | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/austin-federa |
| Caesar Chad | Rust Developer and Investor Relationship | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caesar-chad |

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## FAQ

### What does Anatoly Yakovenko invest in?

Anatoly Yakovenko invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 67 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 Anatoly Yakovenko's check size?

Anatoly Yakovenko typically joins rounds of $2.5M–$10M at Seed, $500k–$6M at Pre-Seed and $9.5M–$73M 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 Anatoly Yakovenko participates in.

### When did Anatoly Yakovenko last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Anatoly Yakovenko closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 67 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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