# Kanav Kariya

> Kanav Kariya is a seed investor at Jump Crypto (Chicago) backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Jump Crypto](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jump-crypto)
- Location: Chicago, United States
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 43%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kanav-kariya/

Kanav Kariya is a seed investor at Jump Crypto in Chicago focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Kanav Kariya is the President of Jump Crypto. He attended University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2014.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 2 | 29% |
| Cryptocurrency | 2 | 29% |
| Trading Platform | 2 | 29% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 29% |
| Web3 | 1 | 14% |

10 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 14% |
| Series A | 1 | 14% |
| Series B | 1 | 14% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 14% |
| Initial Coin Offering | 1 | 14% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Apolink | Apolink is building the world’s most interoperable satellite relay network in low Earth orbit. The hybrid communication architecture combines RF and optical inter-satellite links to enable real-time, continuous connectivity for satellite operators across industries. | $4.3M | Seed | Jul 11, 2025 |  |
| Coral | Coral is involved in Solana as the architect of the network's Anchor development framework. | $20M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 27, 2022 |  |
| Mysten Labs | Mysten Labs develops tools that make web3 secure, reliable, and ready for mass adoption. |  | Series B | Sep 08, 2022 |  |
| Mysten Labs | Mysten Labs develops tools that make web3 secure, reliable, and ready for mass adoption. | $300M | Series B | Sep 08, 2022 |  |
| Injective | Injective Protocol is a DeFi protocol that is used for cross-chain derivatives trading across a wide range of financial products. By providing the unrestricted and unprecedented ability to express diverse views in the decentralized financial markets, Injective gives individuals the ability to more efficiently allocate capital in the society.Injective Protocol's mission is to create a more free and inclusive financial system through decentralization. | $40M |  | Aug 10, 2022 |  |
| Injective | Injective Protocol is a DeFi protocol that is used for cross-chain derivatives trading across a wide range of financial products. By providing the unrestricted and unprecedented ability to express diverse views in the decentralized financial markets, Injective gives individuals the ability to more efficiently allocate capital in the society.Injective Protocol's mission is to create a more free and inclusive financial system through decentralization. | $40M | Initial Coin Offering | Aug 10, 2022 |  |
| Hashflow | Hashflow is a DEX Aggregator that enables users to trade digital assets on and across leading blockchains including Ethereum, Arbitrum, Avalanche, BNB Chain, Optimism, Polygon, and Solana in just a matter of seconds. Hashflow leverages an intent-based smart order routing architecture to offer traders the best prices, access over $8B in liquidity,and the ability to trade every token. Since launching in April 2021, Hashflow has facilitated over $18B in total trade volume.Hashflow's team consists of top minds from both web2 and web3 including Airbnb, Amazon, Arbitrum, Booz Allen Hamilton, Creative Artists Agency, Goldman Sachs, Google, Meta, Citadel, Genesis Trading, NASA, NBCUniversal, Twitter, Uber, Vayner3, and more. Backers include Dragonfly Capital, Electric Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Galaxy Digital, GSR, Wintermute Trading, Balaji Srinivasan, Meltem Demirors, Anthony Sassano, and Jason Choi. | $25M | Series A | Jul 21, 2022 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [FTX Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ftx-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [a16z crypto](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a16z-crypto) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Apollo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/apollo-global-management-llc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [BH Digital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bh-digital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [YZi Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/binance-labs-b05e) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Circle Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/circle-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Jump Crypto

VC Fund · Chicago, United States

Jump Crypto is building a cryptocurrency infrastructure to help the blockchain and all things Web3 grow. It was founded in 2015 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

5 contacts available at Jump Crypto.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Dev Bharel | Developer Advocate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dev-bharel |
| Saurabh Sharma | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/saurabh-sharma-2 |
| Kanav Kariya | President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kanav-kariya-67bf |
| Nathan Roth | CMO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nathan-roth-66d1 |
| Shanav Mehta | Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shanav-mehta |

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## FAQ

### What does Kanav Kariya invest in?

Kanav Kariya invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Trading Platform startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 7 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 Kanav Kariya last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Kanav Kariya closed in Jul 2025. Shizune tracks 7 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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