# IPOSharks

> IPOSharks is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Wilmington, United States
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Jun 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/74325527
- Website: https://iposharks.pro

IPOSharks is a VC fund in Wilmington focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. IPOSharks manages special purpose vehicles to offer access to equity in sectors such as artificial intelligence infrastructure, blockchain, and biotechnology. It focuses on identifying businesses with established data and network advantages before they transition to public markets. Potential participants select specific targets rather thancommitting to traditional locked-up fund structures. The organization performs technical evaluations and market analysis to filter for companies nearing significant valuation events.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for IPOSharks. Shizune tracks 1 team members at IPOSharks. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/iposharks?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 7 | 41% |
| Software | 6 | 35% |
| Blockchain | 6 | 35% |
| Analytics | 4 | 24% |
| Cryptocurrency | 4 | 24% |

51 industries tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 16 | 94% |
| France | 1 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aleksandr Stolypin | General Partner, Fund Manager | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fireblocks | Fireblocks is a platform that protects digital assets in transit, focusing on protecting the transmission of customers' digital assets between exchanges, counter brokers, hot wallets, and cold stores.Fireblocks enables banks, fintech, exchanges, liquidity providers, OTCs, and hedge funds to securely manage digital assets across a wide rangeof products and services. The technology consists of the Fireblocks Network and MPC-based Wallet Infrastructure. |  | Secondary Market | Jun 01, 2024 |  |
| Paradromics | Paradromics is building a high data-rate brain computer interface (BCI) to provide technology solutions for people with neurological and brain-related conditions. |  | Secondary Market | Apr 01, 2024 |  |
| Discord | Discord operates as a voice, video, and text communication service to talk and hang out with friends and communities. It was originally created for people who loved to play games, but these passionate people realized it could be enjoyed for more purposes. Discord is now used by everyone from local hiking clubs, to art communities, to study groups. |  | Secondary Market | Mar 01, 2024 |  |
| Epic Games | Epic Games is an American video game and software company that creates games and offers its game engine technology to other developers. It specializes in developing games and engine technology and operates a game store that empowers others to make quality games and 3D content, thereby providing game developers the ability to build high-fidelity,interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and virtual reality devices. |  | Secondary Market | Feb 20, 2024 |  |
| ThoughtSpot | ThoughtSpot is the AI-native Intelligence Platform for every enterprise. Our mission is to create a more fact-driven world by empowering everyone to explore any data, ask any question, and uncover actionable insights faster—leading to growth, better business outcomes, and efficiency in their organizations. With ThoughtSpot’s intuitive naturallanguage search, every user can confidently generate answers from their business data at every point of decisioning. The platform’s unified capabilities, along with our agentic AI analyst, Spotter, enable users to create precise, transparent, personalized, and actionable insights with enterprise grade trust, security, and scale. Accessible via the web and mobile app, ThoughtSpot ensures intelligent decision-making happens seamlessly, wherever and whenever needed. For developers, ThoughtSpot Embedded offers a low-code solution to integrate AI-powered analytics directly into products and services, driving data monetization and boosting user engagement for customers. Industry leaders like NVIDIA, Hilton Worldwide, Capital One and Huel rely on ThoughtSpot to transform how their employees and customers take advantage of data to create better business outcomes. Try ThoughtSpot today and experience the new era of analytics.The company was co-founded in 2012 by its CEO Ajeet Singh and six other technical co-founders from Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Oracle. It is based in Palo Alto, CA, and is currently expanding operations in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. |  | Secondary Market | Feb 01, 2024 |  |
| Circle | Circle is a financial technology company that develops and manages digital currencies and blockchain-based financial infrastructure. It issues USD Coin (USDC) and Euro Coin (EURC), both fully backed stablecoins designed for global payments and digital transactions. Circle's platform supports businesses in integrating stablecoins into theiroperations, including cross-border payments and financial applications. Through the Circle Payments Network, it enables real-time settlement for financial institutions using USDC and EURC. |  | Secondary Market | Jan 26, 2024 |  |
| Quicknode | QuickNode is a Web3 developer platform which helps you build & operate blockchain-powered applications (dApps).A lightning-fast global API provides instant access to Ethereum & Bitcoin networks (JSON-RPC over https:// or wss://).Monitor usage with analytics dashboard and ship faster with tools like 1-click WebHooksfor smart-contract events.Over 3000 nodes launched; trusted by top blockchain projects; helping the blockchain ecosystem grow since 2017! |  | Secondary Market | Jan 01, 2024 |  |
| Cross River Bank | Cross River combines innovative technologies with the expertise of a bank to create new services and solutions for fintech companies that are redefining global financial services. In addition to traditional banking, the company has developed partnerships with financial technology leaders to build compliant and integrated products for themarketplace lending and payment processing arenas. |  | Secondary Market | Nov 01, 2023 |  |
| SambaNova | SambaNova develops artificial intelligence computing infrastructure that combines AI processors, hardware systems, and software for deploying and managing AI inference workloads. Its platform supports cloud, on-premises, and hybrid deployments, enabling organizations to run and manage large language models and AI applications using compatible APIsand orchestration tools. |  | Secondary Market | Oct 01, 2023 |  |
| Weights & Biases | Weights & Biases offers performance visualization tools for machine learning. It helps companies turn deep learning research projects into deployed software by helping teams track their models, visualize model performance, and easily automate training and improving models. |  | Secondary Market | Sep 01, 2023 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [2Shares](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/2shares) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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- E1 Ventures — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- Irving Investors — VC Fund, 1 deal together
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## FAQ

### What does IPOSharks invest in?

IPOSharks invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Blockchain startups, most often at Secondary Market stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact IPOSharks?

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### Who are the partners at IPOSharks?

The team at IPOSharks includes Aleksandr Stolypin (General Partner, Fund Manager). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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