# Julien Bouteloup

> Julien Bouteloup is a seed investor at Stake Capital Group backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 26 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Stake Capital Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stake-capital-group)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 26
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 4%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jbouteloup/

Julien Bouteloup is a Founder and CEO at Stake Capital Group. Julien previously worked at The British Blockchain Association as a Information Technology Advisor.Julien Bouteloup is a serial entrepreneur and inventor addicted to crazy innovative ideas. He has started his entrepreneurial career building websites and selling hardware technologies atage 14. He holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Union Graduate College (USA) and a Master's degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from GEM (France), specializing in Artificial Intelligence.He started working in the research sector in USA and then went back to Europe where he started freelancing full-time and consulting in the IT sector for Security & Defence. After 2 years, he quit his freelance position to become a full-time entrepreneur and left to Asia. He has helped and started multiple tech startups in different locations: NYC, Paris, London, Hong-Kong, Brussels and Singapore.In 2017, he founded the Flyingcarpet Network.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$10M |
| Angel | $250k–$2.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $960k–$3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 8 | 31% |
| Cryptocurrency | 8 | 31% |
| FinTech | 6 | 23% |
| Finance | 5 | 19% |
| Financial Services | 5 | 19% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 15 | 58% |
| Angel | 3 | 12% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 12% |
| Series A | 3 | 12% |
| Series B | 1 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 9 | 35% |
| United States | 3 | 12% |
| Singapore | 2 | 8% |
| India | 1 | 4% |
| Estonia | 1 | 4% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Self Protocol | Self is spearheading a secure, human-first internet by allowing users to verify their identities while maintaining their privacy. Self Protocol is an identity and proof-of-humanity solution that uses zero-knowledge technology to confirm personhood and distinctive traits, like age and nationality, without revealing private information. | $9M | Seed | Nov 13, 2025 |  |
| Raiku | Raiku is a Web3 infrastructure startup focused on enhancing the Solana blockchain's reliability and predictability. | $11.3M | Seed | Sep 24, 2025 |  |
| Zama | Zama's mission is to bring end-to-end encryption to AI. Using their homomorphic inference platform, companies can process their customer's data without seeing it, thereby preventing data breaches and surveillance.Zama's solution is based on a breakthrough in homomorphic encryption, which enables evaluating deep neural networks overencrypted data, without changing anything to the network architecture. Zama is open-source by design, as they believe privacy-enabling technologies should benefit the widest possible community of developers and researchers.Zama's cofounders are Dr Pascal Paillier, one of the most renowned cryptography researcher, and Dr Rand Hindi, a serial entrepreneur who formerly founded Snips. | $57M | Series B | Jun 25, 2025 |  |
| Turtle Club | Turtle Club is a protocol for an on-chain liquidity allocation platform that focuses on connecting LPs, protocols, and partners through sustainable and transparent incentives. | $6.2M | Seed | May 12, 2025 |  |
| Usual | Usual Labs operates as a decentralized finance(DeFi) protocol. | $2.5M | Angel | May 15, 2024 |  |
| Raiku | Raiku is a Web3 infrastructure startup focused on enhancing the Solana blockchain's reliability and predictability. | $2.3M | Pre-Seed | Apr 01, 2024 |  |
| Zama | Zama's mission is to bring end-to-end encryption to AI. Using their homomorphic inference platform, companies can process their customer's data without seeing it, thereby preventing data breaches and surveillance.Zama's solution is based on a breakthrough in homomorphic encryption, which enables evaluating deep neural networks overencrypted data, without changing anything to the network architecture. Zama is open-source by design, as they believe privacy-enabling technologies should benefit the widest possible community of developers and researchers.Zama's cofounders are Dr Pascal Paillier, one of the most renowned cryptography researcher, and Dr Rand Hindi, a serial entrepreneur who formerly founded Snips. | $73.4M | Series A | Mar 07, 2024 |  |
| Waltio | Waltio is a French cryptocurrency tax assistant. We are on a mission to drive crypto adoption through an easy to use.With automated synchronization to exchanges and wallets, our tax bot computes net asset value / Gain and loss, provide advanced analytics dashboards, tax reporting. Waltio tracks trading and Defi products and variouscrypto-incomes. | $1.8M | Seed | Nov 26, 2023 |  |
| Giza | Giza changes this by using zero-knowledge cryptography to bring model inferencing on-chain, unlocking a new depth for smart contract design. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Jul 11, 2023 |  |
| Swaap | We build the market neutral AMM protocol. | $4.6M | Seed | Apr 19, 2023 |  |

10 of 26 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Pareto Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pareto-holdings) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [White Loop Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/white-loop-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Stake Capital Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stake-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Wintermute](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wintermute-trading) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [AngelDAO](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angeldao) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Stake Capital Group

VC Fund · Zug, Switzerland

Stake Capital Group is an Investment firm.

1 contacts available at Stake Capital Group.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Julien Bouteloup | Founder and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julien-bouteloup |

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## FAQ

### What does Julien Bouteloup invest in?

Julien Bouteloup invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 26 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Julien Bouteloup's check size?

Julien Bouteloup typically joins rounds of $1M–$10M at Seed, $250k–$2.5M at Angel and $960k–$3M 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 Julien Bouteloup participates in.

### When did Julien Bouteloup last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Julien Bouteloup closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 26 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?

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