# Istari Ventures

> Istari Ventures is a VC fund backing Blockchain, Gaming and Cryptocurrency. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://istari.ventures

Istari Ventures is a blockchain fund with a mission to provide visionary Web3 founders with the capital, network, and long-term support needed to succeed. Istari Ventures believe in the inevitability of Web3 and its disruptive potential. Istari Ventures achieves this primarily through venture capital arm, as well as our crypto incubator.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 6 | 75% |
| Gaming | 2 | 25% |
| Cryptocurrency | 2 | 25% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 25% |
| Bitcoin | 1 | 13% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 63% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 25% |
| Vietnam | 1 | 13% |
| Singapore | 1 | 13% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Takadao | Takadao provides Shariah-compliant insurance alternatives. It operates on blockchain and offers products like Takaturn and Takasure. | $1.5M | Seed | Nov 12, 2025 |  |
| Uptopia | Uptopia is the Base Chain ecosystem game startup platform. | $4M | Pre-Seed | Jun 17, 2025 |  |
| PumpBTC | PumpBTC is a liquid staking protocol that aims to help Bitcoin holders to stake their bitcoins and earn yield while bolstering the security. | $10M | Seed | Oct 29, 2024 |  |
| Entangle Protocol | Entangle is the first fully customizable Web3 messaging Infrastructure designed to unify web3 and optimize ecosystem liquidity. Entangle provides Builders & dApps authenticated and interoperable data pathways from any source with full configurability in executing operations. | $4M | Seed | Jan 09, 2024 |  |
| NoRamp | NoRamp is a financial software company known for its zero-knowledge-proof enabled payment infrastructure and suite of onboarding APIs. | $300K | Pre-Seed | Aug 14, 2023 |  |
| Aura Network | Aura Network is an NFT – centric blockchain platform that provides infrastructure assisting to bring assets to the decentralized market. The company aims to provide an open system, maximize interoperability, and moẻ utilities for NFTs on the Internet of blockchain. Aura Network was founded in 2021. | $4M | Seed | Feb 15, 2023 |  |
| C14 | C14 enables seamless, ecommerce-like payments widget that can be embedded in websites and dApps across partner blockchain ecosystems. | $2.5M | Seed | Jan 09, 2023 |  |
| Summoners Arena | Summoners Arena is an idle-RPG blockchain-based game that integrates traditional and blockchain gaming to provide countless opportunities for players to take part in immersive gameplay, experience true ownership over gaming assets whilst earning crypto assets. | $3M |  | Feb 11, 2022 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Zentry](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/guildfi) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Arche Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coin98-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Kyber Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kyber-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Pantera Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pantera-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Sharding Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sharding-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Istari Ventures invest in?

Istari Ventures invests primarily in Blockchain, Gaming and Cryptocurrency startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Istari Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Istari Ventures closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 8 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 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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