# IOVLabs

> IOVLabs is a VC fund in Buenos Aires backing Bitcoin and FinTech. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: May 2024
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/iovlabs/?originalSubdomain=ar
- Website: https://iovlabs.org

IOVLabs is a VC fund in Buenos Aires focused on Bitcoin and FinTech. IOVLabs builds low-cost, highly secure, easy-to-use platforms for the new global economy.

## Contacts

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

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | $100k–$100k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bitcoin | 4 | 25% |
| FinTech | 4 | 25% |
| Blockchain | 4 | 25% |
| Cryptocurrency | 4 | 25% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 25% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 9 | 56% |
| Seed | 3 | 19% |
| Series A | 1 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 6% |
| Corporate Round | 1 | 6% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 31% |
| Argentina | 4 | 25% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 13% |
| Spain | 1 | 6% |
| Uruguay | 1 | 6% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Braz | Senior Software Engineer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-braz |
| Alexis Nicosia | Account Executive | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexis-nicosia |
| Sascha Götz | Head of Business Operation | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sascha-g%C3%B6tz |
| Daniel Fogg | CEO | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-fogg |
| Diego Gutiérrez Zaldívar | CEO & Co-Founder | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/diego-guti%C3%A9rrez-zald%C3%ADvar |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Joltz | Joltz offers a full product suite spanning Bitcoin, Lightning, and the cutting-edge Taproot Assets protocol so any business can easily integrate stablecoins on Lightning, wallet functionality, user incentives, or other infrastructure such as swapping services or nodes into their existing tech stack.We've built the world's firstnon-custodial Taproot Assets enabled wallet & SDK to prepare for the massive adoption wave when stablecoins come to the Lightning Network later this year. Beyond stablecoins, Taproot Assets also enables many compelling new use cases on Bitcoin for both Web3 and non-Web3 businesses.Our services cover the following: - Enterprise-level API for developers - Standalone Bitcoin/Lightning/Taproot Asset Wallet & Licensed Wallet SDK - Bitcoin/Lightning Service & Swapping Infrastructure - Zapier automations for thousands of 3rd party apps | $100K | Pre-Seed | May 01, 2024 |  |
| Sati | Sati is revolutionising financial inclusion, beginning in Latin America, by making digital currencies more accessible. With our revolutionary WhatsApp-based platform, users can easily acquire, trade, and receive stable currencies and Bitcoin | $100K | Pre-Seed | Feb 21, 2024 |  |
| SimpleFi | SimpleFi is a user-friendly cryptocurrency payment interface that allows merchants + users in Latin America to transact with low fees. | $100K | Pre-Seed | Feb 21, 2024 |  |
| Loka Mining | Loka is a platform that allows retail investors to buy bitcoin at a cheaper price than the market by giving liquidity to Bitcoin miners without exposing them to centralised party risk through our trustless non-custodial escrow and fully decentralised mining pool. |  | Pre-Seed | Feb 21, 2024 |  |
| Deep Lake | Deep Lake is developing APIs within the L1 mainnet Bitcoin to enable the development of financial applications directly into the L1 mainnet | $100K | Pre-Seed | Feb 21, 2024 |  |
| Takenos | Takenos provides the best way to get paid in LATAM for freelancers and contractors. | $100K | Pre-Seed | Feb 21, 2024 |  |
| Bloom | Bloom is a secure wallet hub for trading tokens and NFTs, that helps to discover new dApps, and optimises one's DeFi investments. | $100K | Pre-Seed | Feb 21, 2024 |  |
| Buenbit | Buenbit is a Cryptocurrency Exchange and Cross-Border payment platform. Cryptocurrency exchange with presence in Argentina & Perú. Leveraging cryptocurrency trading to offer a low cost Cross-Border payment solution. It was founded in 2018 and is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. |  | Series A | Oct 01, 2022 |  |
| Tropykus Finance | Tropykus Finance is a digital platform that enables users to save Bitcoins and cryptocurrencies and use them to apply for loans. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2022 |  |
| Greengage | Greengage is a digital finance pioneer, that provides a platform of relationship-based e-money account services to entrepreneurs, SMEs, family offices and digital asset firms to the highest ethical, secure and compliance standards. Alongside our account services, we provide clients access to a B2B lending platform offering digital sources ofmoney. Our tailored services are delivered by people, empowered by technology.For more information please visit our website: www.greengage.co | $3.3M | Corporate Round | Aug 09, 2021 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Plassa Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/plassa-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Outlier Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/outlier-ventures-ltd-llp) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [280 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/280-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [MSW Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/msw-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does IOVLabs invest in?

IOVLabs invests primarily in Bitcoin, FinTech and Blockchain startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 16 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 IOVLabs's check size?

IOVLabs typically joins rounds of $100k–$100k at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds IOVLabs participates in.

### How do I contact IOVLabs?

Public channels for IOVLabs include LinkedIn 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 IOVLabs?

The team at IOVLabs includes Alex Braz (Senior Software Engineer), Alexis Nicosia (Account Executive) and Sascha Götz (Head of Business Operation), 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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