# Hedera Foundation

> Hedera Foundation is a VC fund backing Banking, Financial Services and Financial Exchanges. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 67%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hederafndn/
- Website: https://x.com/HederaFndn

Hedera Foundation is a VC fund focused on Banking and Financial Services. Hedera Foundation supports projects that use the Hedera network and related open technologies. The organization provides grants, ecosystem programs, and mentoring for builders, researchers, and nonprofits. It runs application-based funding rounds, hackathons, and cohort programs focused on payments, tokenization, identity, and sustainability usecases. Teams receive access to technical resources, program management, and connections to ecosystem partners. The foundation also publishes educational content and community guidelines to help projects launch and operate responsibly. Impact tracking frameworks monitor milestones, adoption metrics, and public-goods outcomes. Governance practices guide proposal evaluation, risk review, and treasury stewardship.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Banking | 1 | 33% |
| Financial Services | 1 | 33% |
| Financial Exchanges | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| BlockBolt | BlockBolt is a decentralized payment protocol on the Multichain. It offers seamless, secure, and efficient transactions for businesses and consumers, encouraging cryptocurrency adoption. BlockBolt provides an open-source SDK, plug-and-play services, and resources for developers to create or integrate payment solutions. |  | Grant | Jan 21, 2026 |  |
| YieldFX | YieldFX is a financial services company that enables instant access to high yield foreign currency deposits. |  | Grant | Jul 15, 2025 |  |
| Isle Finance | Isle Finance operates an online financial technology platform designed for supply chain finance that solves the liquidity problem with DeFi. |  | Pre-Seed | Jun 20, 2024 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Outlier Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/outlier-ventures-ltd-llp) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Anti Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anti-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Celo Foundation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/celo-foundation) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Defactor](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/defactor) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Mask Network](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dimension-293e) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Hedera Foundation invest in?

Hedera Foundation invests primarily in Banking, Financial Services and Financial Exchanges startups, most often at Grant stage. Most of the 3 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 Hedera Foundation last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Hedera Foundation closed in Jan 2026. Shizune tracks 3 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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