# Kenneth Seiff

> Kenneth Seiff is a seed investor at Blockchange Ventures (New York) backing Software and Internet. See 45 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Blockchange Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blockchange-ventures)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 45
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 36%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/seiff/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/seiff

Kenneth Seiff is a Managing Partner at Blockchange Ventures. He previously worked at Brickwork and attended The Wharton School.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 20% |
| Internet | 7 | 16% |
| Information Technology | 7 | 16% |
| Blockchain | 6 | 13% |
| FinTech | 4 | 9% |

44 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 17 | 38% |
| Series A | 5 | 11% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 9% |
| Series B | 2 | 4% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 18 | 40% |
| Germany | 2 | 4% |
| Japan | 1 | 2% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |
| France | 1 | 2% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Precise | Precise is an AI-powered data collaboration company to protect user privacy while enabling advertisers to harness actionable insights | $7M | Seed | Jun 17, 2026 |  |
| Balcony | Balcony Technology Group is a blockchain infrastructure company. Its mission is to create the global standard for Real Estate tokenization. | $12.7M | Seed | May 05, 2026 |  |
| Akave Cloud | Akave is a decentralized data management network that supports the next generation of data-driven apps and marketplaces. | $6.7M | Seed | Mar 02, 2026 |  |
| Kira | Kira is a unified API platform for organizations to execute payrolls, remittances, wallets, and cross-border payments. | $6.7M | Seed | Aug 25, 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 |  |
| Spexi | Spexi is the first-of-its-kind FLY TO EARN network enabling drone pilots to earn rewards for flying and capturing aerial imagery at scale.Spexi also enables organizations to quickly and easily access high-resolution aerial imagery to better prepare for disasters, enable smart cities, remotely inspect infrastructure, monitor natural resources, andso much more without needing to own drones or hire pilots. | $11.5M | Series A | Dec 04, 2024 |  |
| Akave Cloud | Akave is a decentralized data management network that supports the next generation of data-driven apps and marketplaces. | $3.5M | Pre-Seed | Nov 11, 2024 |  |
| Mawari | Mawari is a pioneer in cloud rendering and streaming technology for interactive AR experiences. Mawari provides an AR-focused streaming SDK that renders 3D content in the cloud and delivers it efficiently to devices. Core to the AR Streaming SDK is Mawari’s unique, patent-pending compression technology that minimizes the weight of 3D content andenables real-time rendering and streaming to smartphones and AR glasses. | $10.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 26, 2024 |  |
| Hivello | Hivello engages in DePIN (Decentralised Physical Infrastructure Networks) protocols for Web3 applications without any specialized technical knowledge. | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Dec 14, 2023 |  |
| Afterparty | Afterparty is a technology company behind the new Web3 platform enabling creators to directly monetize and manage NFT collector relationships | $5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 19, 2023 |  |

10 of 45 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Novel TMT Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/novel-tmt-ventures) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Forerunner](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/forerunner-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [ParaFi Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/parafi-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Acrew Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acrew-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [FTX Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ftx-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Hashed](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hashed-f96b) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Blockchange Ventures

VC Fund · New York, United States

Blockchange Ventures is a venture capital firm investing exclusively in early-stage blockchain companies, protocols, and applications that are trying to make a dent in the universe.

5 contacts available at Blockchange Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cailleach De Weingart-Ryan | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cailleach-de-weingart-ryan |
| Cindy Lincks | Chief Post-Investment Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cindy-lincks |
| Kenneth Seiff | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ken-seiff-9efb |
| Kenneth Seiff | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ken-seiff |
| Matthew Immerso | General partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matthew-immerso |

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## FAQ

### What does Kenneth Seiff invest in?

Kenneth Seiff invests primarily in Software, Internet and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 45 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 Kenneth Seiff last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Kenneth Seiff closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 45 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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