# Injective

> Injective is a VC fund in New York backing FinTech and Blockchain. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/injective-protocol/about/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/injectivelabs?lang=en
- Website: https://injectiveprotocol.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/injectiveprotocol/

Injective is a VC fund in New York focused on FinTech and Blockchain. Injective Protocol is a DeFi protocol that is used for cross-chain derivatives trading across a wide range of financial products. By providing the unrestricted and unprecedented ability to express diverse views in the decentralized financial markets, Injective gives individuals the ability to more efficiently allocate capital in the society.Injective Protocol's mission is to create a more free and inclusive financial system through decentralization.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Injective. Shizune tracks 3 team members at Injective. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/injective-protocol?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 5 | 71% |
| Blockchain | 5 | 71% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 43% |
| Finance | 2 | 29% |
| Cryptocurrency | 2 | 29% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 43% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 14% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 14% |
| Post-IPO Equity | 1 | 14% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 29% |
| Japan | 1 | 14% |
| Canada | 1 | 14% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 14% |
| Russian Federation | 1 | 14% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Albert Chon | Co-Founder and CTO | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/albert-chon |
| Eric Chen | CEO & Co-Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-chen-750b |
| Mirza Uddin | Head of Business Development | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mirza-uddin |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pineapple | Pineapple specializes in mortgages, refinances, purchases, and private mortgages. The company utilizes cutting-edge cloud-based tools and AI-driven systems to enable its brokers. It offers purchases, refinancing, equity takeouts, debt consolidations, and renewals services for clients. | $100M | Post-IPO Equity | Sep 05, 2025 |  |
| Hex Trust | 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. |  |  | Feb 02, 2025 |  |
| t1 (aka t1 protocol) | t1 protocol cross-chain applications and scalability are facilitated by real-time proofs and immediate settlement. | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Sep 09, 2024 |  |
| Hydro | Hydro is a specialize injective-native LSD+LSDFi protocol for maximizing yield with LSD, Real-Yielding Assets (RYA), and farming. |  | Seed | Feb 12, 2024 |  |
| Astar Network | Astar Network is a multi-virtual machine scalable smart contract platform on Polkadot supporting cutting-edge layer 2 like Rollups. | $22M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 28, 2022 |  |
| Symbiosis Finance | Symbiosis Finance is a decentralized multi-chain liquidity enabler. | $2M | Seed | Oct 21, 2021 |  |
| Burnt | Burnt Finance is a decentralized auction protocol to enable fast and seamless auctions for a diverse array of assets. It provides an intuitive interface for minting new assets. These assets can be synthetics, NFTs, and even new digital assets. In less than a few minutes a user can mint a new asset and set up an entirely decentralized auction. Burntallows users to customize their auctions which allows asset minting and trading to take place in a completely permissionless ecosystem.It is based in Solana Beach, California. | $3M | Seed | May 06, 2021 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Vessel Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vessel-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Alameda Research](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alameda-research) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Mechanism Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mechanism-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [0x](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/0x-project) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [a16z crypto](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a16z-crypto) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Abraxas Global Asset Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abraxas-global-asset-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Injective invest in?

Injective invests primarily in FinTech, Blockchain and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed 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.

### What is Injective's check size?

Injective typically joins rounds of $2M–$3M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Injective participates in.

### How do I contact Injective?

Public channels for Injective 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 Injective?

The team at Injective includes Albert Chon (Co-Founder and CTO), Eric Chen (CEO & Co-Founder) and Mirza Uddin (Head of Business Development). 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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