# Hailstone Ventures

> Hailstone Ventures is a VC fund backing FinTech, Blockchain and Finance. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Mar 2023
- Lead investor: 14%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Hailstone Ventures is a venture capital firm.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 3 | 43% |
| Blockchain | 3 | 43% |
| Finance | 2 | 29% |
| Cryptocurrency | 2 | 29% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 29% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 86% |
| Series A | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 43% |
| Australia | 1 | 14% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Narwhal Finance | Narwhal Finance operates as a decentralized cross-market perpetual trading platform. | $1M | Seed | Mar 24, 2023 |  |
| Panoptic | Panoptic is a fully onchain DeFi platform for earning yield, lending, borrowing, and trading perpetual options. Built on Ethereum and powered by Uniswap liquidity, Panoptic enables oracle-free options markets with no expiries, instant onchain settlement, and permissionless market creation for any token, RWA, or tokenized asset. | $4.5M | Seed | Oct 24, 2022 |  |
| Volare Finance | Volare Finance provides a transparent, trustless, and convenient decentralized option trading without intermediaries. |  | Seed | Jul 26, 2022 |  |
| Time Shuffle | TimeShuffle is a play-and-earn turn-based strategy game with heroes from across history battling together and against each other in procedurally generated . | $2.1M | Seed | May 10, 2022 |  |
| MetaDerby | MetaDerby redefines the horse race-gaming experience, making it accessible and profitable to gamers with its free-to-play model and blockchain-based integration, including a create-to-earn land system, decentralized finance staking, and a nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace. | $2.5M | Seed | Mar 22, 2022 |  |
| Wombat Exchange | Wombat Exchange is a BNB native multichain stableswap focused on re-engineering the stableswap experience with our innovative algorithm design. | $5.3M | Series A | Mar 16, 2022 |  |
| Platypus Finance | Platypus Finance is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that offers a new mechanism for Automatic Market Makers (AMM) for stablecoins to optimize capital efficiency. | $3.3M | Seed | Dec 02, 2021 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Blizzard Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blizzard-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [KeyChain Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/keychain-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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- [Ava Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ava-labs) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [AVentures DAO](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aventures-dao) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [DWeb3 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dweb3-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Hailstone Ventures invest in?

Hailstone Ventures invests primarily in FinTech, Blockchain and Finance startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Hailstone Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Hailstone Ventures closed in Mar 2023. Shizune tracks 7 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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