# J17 Ventures

> J17 Ventures is a VC fund in North York backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 29 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: North York, Canada
- Total investments: 29
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/j17-capital-inc/
- Website: https://www.j17capital.com/

J17 Ventures is a VC fund in North York focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. J17 Capital has its sights focused squarely on North America with the aim of investing in and bringing needed capital to technology, pharmaceutical, and therapeutic industries.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 10 | 34% |
| Cryptocurrency | 5 | 17% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 17% |
| Web3 | 3 | 10% |
| FinTech | 3 | 10% |

61 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 21% |
| Series A | 6 | 21% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 10% |
| Series B | 3 | 10% |
| Series D | 3 | 10% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 14 | 48% |
| Singapore | 4 | 14% |
| Canada | 2 | 7% |
| Argentina | 1 | 3% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cambium | Cambium develops biomaterials for fields such as defense, space transport, aerospace, and renewable energy. Leveraging the Deep Tech convergence between synthetic biology, materials science, computation & automation, it delivers radical step changes in advanced material performance and sustainability to improve today’s products and enabletomorrow’s. | $100M | Series B | Jan 05, 2026 |  |
| inshAllah | inshAllah is a cryptocurrency staking platform that works on cutting edge applications of Islamic finance built on crypto rails. | $2.1M | Seed | Jul 01, 2025 |  |
| SkyX | SkyX is a blockchain-powered weather network that uses an incentive system and web3 protocol. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Nov 07, 2024 |  |
| GAIB | GAIB is the economic foundation for the future of artificial intelligence and computers. GAIB is a crypto-AI platform under development that tokenize GPUs, making AI computing—the processing power required to train and run AI models—more accessible. | $5M | Pre-Seed | Nov 03, 2024 |  |
| Pell Network | Pell Network is a precisely constructed multi-layered restaking network with a great user experience, clear role segregation, and a closed-loop business logic chain. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Oct 15, 2024 |  |
| Huma Finance | Huma is an Income backed DeFi. | $10M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 11, 2024 |  |
| Openmart | AI agent that automates B2B sales for brands and manufacturers. | $2.8M | Seed | Aug 21, 2024 |  |
| Aligned Layer | Universal Verification Layer for Ethereum using Eigenlayer | $20M | Series A | Apr 25, 2024 |  |
| Huma Finance | Huma is an Income backed DeFi. |  |  | Jan 01, 2024 |  |
| rabbit | Revolutionizing human-machine interaction | $10M | Series A | Dec 21, 2023 |  |

10 of 29 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Hack VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hack-vc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [N47](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/next47) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Blue7](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blue7) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Blue Cloud Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blue-cloud-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bware Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bware-labs) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does J17 Ventures invest in?

J17 Ventures invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 29 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 J17 Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for J17 Ventures closed in Jan 2026. Shizune tracks 29 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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