# Hex Trust

> Hex Trust is a VC fund in Hong Kong backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/13752894
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Hex_Trust
- Website: https://www.hextrust.com

Hex Trust is a fully-licensed and insured provider of bank-grade custody for digital assets. Through our proprietary platform Hex Safe™, we deliver custody, DeFi, brokerage, and financing solutions for financial institutions, digital asset organizations, corporate and private clients. Hex Trust has offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Vietnam andis expanding across Europe and the Middle East.Our mission is to provide the infrastructure that enables banks and financial institutions to adopt and integrate digital assets into their business models within a highly secure, scalable and compliant custody framework.Hex Trust is registered as a Trust Company under the Hong Kong Trust Ordinance and holds a Trust or Company Service Provider (TCSP) license under the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Ordinance. In Singapore, Hex Trust holds a Capital Markets Services (CMS) license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) allowing the company to provide custodial services regulated under Singapore’s Securities and Futures Act.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Hex Trust. Shizune tracks 9 team members at Hex Trust. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/hex-trust?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.8M–$11M |
| Series A | $11M–$25M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 5 | 63% |
| Cryptocurrency | 5 | 63% |
| Trading Platform | 3 | 38% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 25% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 25% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 63% |
| Series A | 2 | 25% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 13% |
| Singapore | 1 | 13% |
| Seychelles | 1 | 13% |
| United States | 1 | 13% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 13% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alessio Quaglini | CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alessio-quaglini |
| Rafal Czerniawski | CTO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rafal-czerniawski |
| Calvin Shen | Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/calvin-shen |
| Dario Capodici | Head of Financing | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dario-capodici |
| Federico Fabiano | Head of Legal & Compliance | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/federico-fabiano |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Everything | Everything.co is a crypto trading platform offering leveraged trading, rewards, and NFTs via Telegram-linked services. | $6.9M | Seed | Jan 01, 2026 |  |
| XION | XION is the first Generalized Abstraction layer designed specifically for consumer use. | $25M | Series A | Apr 01, 2024 |  |
| MANTRA DAO | MANTRA develops a vertically-integrated and regulatory-compliant blockchain ecosystem. It allows users around the world to trade, issue, and earn from both digital assets and tokenized securities alike. | $11M | Series A | Mar 19, 2024 |  |
| MANTRA | MANTRA develops a vertically-integrated and regulatory-compliant blockchain ecosystem. It allows users around the world to trade, issue, and earn from both digital assets and tokenized securities alike. | $11M | Seed | Mar 19, 2024 |  |
| Synnax | Synnax is an artificial intelligence-powered financial platform which helps to forecast financial performance | $1M | Pre-Seed | Mar 06, 2024 |  |
| Kaleidoco | Kaleidoco is a technology company built for Web3 experiences. | $7M | Seed | Jun 15, 2022 |  |
| Neptune Mutual | Neptune Mutual platform explores new avenues to creating user-centric hedging products on the blockchain. | $1.8M | Seed | Nov 26, 2021 |  |
| Clearpool | Clearpool is a decentralized capital markets ecosystem, where institutional borrowers can create single borrower liquidity pools and compete for uncollateralized liquidity directly from the DeFi ecosystem. Liquidity providers on Clearpool can earn attractive yields, with pool interest rates enhanced by additional LP rewards paid in $CPOOL —Clearpool’s utility and governance token. Clearpool LP tokens, called cpTokens, are the building blocks for a system of tokenized credit that will provide Clearpool LPs with risk management and hedging capabilities. As more institutions realize the benefits that decentralized finance can bring to their organizations, Clearpool is providing the new architecture to facilitate flows between the $120 trillion traditional capital markets and the burgeoning DeFi ecosystem. Clearpool is backed by a long list of top investors from both traditional venture capital and blockchain, including Sequoia Capital India, Arrington Capital, Sino Global Capital, Hex Trust, Huobi Ventures, Kenetic, HashKey, GBV and many more. | $3M | Seed | Sep 28, 2021 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [GameFi Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gamefi-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Animoca Brands](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/animoca-brands-corporation) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Three Point Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/three-point-capital-6603) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Caladan](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alphalab-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Forte Securities](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/forte-securities) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Kenetic](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kenetic-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Hex Trust invest in?

Hex Trust invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Trading Platform startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Hong Kong. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Hex Trust's check size?

Hex Trust typically joins rounds of $1.8M–$11M at Seed and $11M–$25M 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 Hex Trust participates in.

### How do I contact Hex Trust?

Public channels for Hex Trust 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 Hex Trust?

The team at Hex Trust includes Alessio Quaglini (CEO), Rafal Czerniawski (CTO) and Calvin Shen (Managing Director), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. 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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