Interchain Foundation
VC Fund
Baar, Switzerland
Interchain Foundation is a VC fund in Baar focused on Blockchain and Software. Interchain Foundation supports research and development for secure, scalable, open, and decentralized networks.The company focuses on the interoperable blockchain technology of the Cosmos Network. It offers a grant program wherein they fund and collaborate with a variety of projects in research, engineering, product, social good, and community.The company was founded in Baar, Zug.
- Total investments:
- 12
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
Last updated:
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Industries Interchain Foundation invests in
Stages Interchain Foundation invests in
Countries Interchain Foundation invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $735k–$5M
- Series A
- $2.8M–$4M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 7 (58%)
- Software 3 (25%)
- Cryptocurrency 2 (17%)
- Information Technology 2 (17%)
- Web3 1 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (33%)
- Grant 3 (25%)
- Series A 2 (17%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (8%)
- Series C 1 (8%)
Country
- United States 3 (25%)
- Japan 1 (8%)
- Greece 1 (8%)
- Panama 1 (8%)
- Liechtenstein 1 (8%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keplr is a non-custodial blockchain wallet designed for websites that let visitors engage with blockchain applications. | $5M / Seed / Jan 22, 2025 | ||
| A sovereign, proof-of-stake blockchain protocol that enables private, asset-agnostic cash and private bartering among any number of parties. | $25M / Series C / May 30, 2023 | ||
| Datachain is the core contributor of YUI, a Hyperledger Lab, which enables interoperability between multiple ledgers through Cosmos IBC. | Grant / Apr 06, 2023 | ||
| Rise of Defenders is a project created by METAHERO S.A. | $734.5K / Seed / Dec 01, 2021 | ||
| KYVE is an initiative to store any data stream, with built-in validation. By leveraging the Arweave blockchain. The network is powered by decentralized uploaders and validators. These nodes reside in pools, each pool focusing on archiving a specific data stream. Pools are funded by KYVE tokens. | $2.8M / Series A / Oct 26, 2021 | ||
| KYVE is an initiative to store any data stream, with built-in validation. By leveraging the Arweave blockchain. The network is powered by decentralized uploaders and validators. These nodes reside in pools, each pool focusing on archiving a specific data stream. Pools are funded by KYVE tokens. | $1M / Pre-Seed / Jun 28, 2021 | ||
| Celestia is a pluggable consensus and data availability layer, to enable anyone to quickly deploy a decentralised blockchain without the overhead of bootstrapping a new consensus network. | $1.5M / Seed / Mar 03, 2021 | ||
| Corestar is a technology company that operates within the blockchain gaming industry. | Grant / Nov 29, 2019 | ||
| Chainflow is a web3 infrastructure operator involved in creating solutions for staking cryptocurrency. They operate validators and staking services for proof of stake blockchains. Their staking networks include agoric, akash, cosmos hub, flow, and the graph. | Grant / Sep 23, 2019 | ||
| Agoric is a framework that provides security and ease in programming smart contracts, beyond anything available today. Agoric’s mission is to provide a secure smart contracts framework to the entire blockchain ecosystem. With Agoric, which makes it easier to build and deploy smart contracts in JavaScript, millions of programmers worldwide will havesafer, simpler tools to build smart contracts and applications. In addition, composability enables rapid development and competitive advantage. With secure smart contracts, we envision unprecedented, widespread forms of global cooperation, and entrepreneurs creating fundamentally new businesses enabled by digital assets. Agoric is here to make that opportunity a reality.The Agoric team includes world-class technologists, economists, business leaders and community builders on a quest to bring smart contracts into the future. Members of the Agoric team have been professional collaborators in smart contracts technology for over 30 years, and have now reunited to enact this mission. Agoric has collaborated with Cosmos and other well-known projects, and is backed by Outlier Ventures, Kilowatt Capital, gumi Cryptos Capital, MetaStable Capital, Lemniscap, Xpring, Rockaway Blockchain and the Interchain Foundation, as well as additional funding from Naval Ravikant and Polychain. | $4M / May 13, 2019 | ||
| See all 12 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Interchain Foundation invest in?
Interchain Foundation invests primarily in Blockchain, Software and Cryptocurrency startups, most often at Seed and Grant stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Interchain Foundation invest in?
Interchain Foundation typically joins rounds of $735k–$5M at Seed and $2.8M–$4M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Interchain Foundation's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Interchain Foundation took part in.
When did Interchain Foundation last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Interchain Foundation closed in Jan 2025. Shizune tracks 12 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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