# Kernel Ventures

> Kernel Ventures is a VC fund in Hong Kong backing Blockchain and Information Technology. See 24 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Total investments: 24
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kernelventures/
- Website: https://www.kernel-ventures.com/

Kernel Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on blockchain companies.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$8.6M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $3M–$5.6M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 11 | 46% |
| Information Technology | 8 | 33% |
| Cryptocurrency | 5 | 21% |
| Software | 4 | 17% |
| Gaming | 3 | 13% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 17 | 71% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 8% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 8% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 4% |
| Private Equity | 1 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Singapore | 7 | 29% |
| United States | 4 | 17% |
| New Zealand | 2 | 8% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 8% |
| Israel | 1 | 4% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Poresi | The AI Micro-Emotion Monitoring System is an intelligent assistant that leverages camera, microphone, typing behavior, and interaction rhythms to detect micro-expressions, tone shifts, typing cadence, and language use. It builds a personalized emotional state profile and provides early interventions to prevent anxiety, burnout, and depressiveepisodes before they escalate. | $1M | Seed | Oct 10, 2024 |  |
| Tracknme | Tracknme is an innovative platform that integrates AI agents, community-driven development, and film production into one seamless experience. With unique virtual creators, each with distinct personalities and creative strengths, users can actively participate in scriptwriting, scene building, and visual production. The platform not only streamlinesthe creation process but also rewards participants while connecting to the broader Script Network ecosystem. | $1M | Seed | Oct 06, 2024 |  |
| Lumoz | Opside is a modern, three-layer infrastructure platform that offers ZK-RaaS (ZK-rollup-as-a-service). The ability to deploy applications on Opside layer 3 without having to manage any infrastructure gives developers more freedom. All transactions and generated data are hashed and kept on the layer 2 Opside chain because layer 2 consensus and dataavailability are handled by Opside. For on-chain apps that require quicker transaction processing and reduced fees, including games and social networks, this ground-breaking method opens up a world of new possibilities. | $6M | Seed | Apr 08, 2024 |  |
| SuiPad | SuiPad is an IDO&INO platform, with selected projects, flexible whitelist, and fair level as the core positioning. | $1.6M | Seed | Apr 26, 2023 |  |
| CEBG Studio | CEBG Studio is a gaming studio. | $3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 12, 2023 |  |
| Monopoly Millionaire Game | Monopoly Millionaire Game is a marine-themed GameFi that involves island construction, cultivating, shooting and more. | $1M | Seed | Jul 12, 2022 |  |
| Joystream | JoyStream is a blockchain powered decentralized media distribution, curation, discovery, and monetization platform. | $5.9M |  | Mar 23, 2022 |  |
| InvArch | Invarch is an intellectual property ownership, utility and cross-chain authentication protocol for Web3. | $1.8M | Seed | Feb 02, 2022 |  |
| Mint Gate | MintGate is a blockchain company that helps NFT creators create tokens or keys specific to their community for their users. |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 13, 2022 |  |
| Genius Yield | Cardano's most advanced automated yields optimizer, Genius Yield will revolutionize the decentralized financial world. Genius Yield's aggregator is a scalable, digital, secured, and unbiased ecosystem to carry out on-chain economic activities seamlessly. Genius Yield's aggregator will open the doors for every type of DeFi user;whether they are beginners, intermediate, advance, or unfamiliar with the crypto world, Genius will support them in their journey of achieving financial independence. | $4.2M | Seed | Nov 01, 2021 |  |

10 of 24 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [LD Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ld-capital) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [NGC Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/neo-global-capital-ngc) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
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- [Genblock Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/genblock-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Kernel Ventures invest in?

Kernel Ventures invests primarily in Blockchain, Information Technology and Cryptocurrency startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 24 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Singapore. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Kernel Ventures's check size?

Kernel Ventures typically joins rounds of $1M–$8.6M at Seed and $3M–$5.6M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Kernel Ventures participates in.

### When did Kernel Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Kernel Ventures closed in Oct 2024. Shizune tracks 24 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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