# KR1

> KR1 is a VC fund in Douglas backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 51 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Douglas, Isle of Man
- Total investments: 51
- Last investment: Feb 2025
- Lead investor: 39%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kr1plc
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/KR1plc
- Website: https://KR1.io/

KR1 is a VC fund in Douglas focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. KR1 plc (KR1:AQSE) is Europe's leading digital asset investment company focused on decentralised and open-source blockchain networks. Founded in March 2016 and publicly traded on London’s AQSE Exchange, KR1 plc has been an early investor in many foundational projects in the emerging digital asset industry.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for KR1. Shizune tracks 3 team members at KR1. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/kr1?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $100k–$6M |
| Series A | $2.5M–$43M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 27 | 53% |
| Cryptocurrency | 11 | 22% |
| Internet | 10 | 20% |
| FinTech | 9 | 18% |
| Information Technology | 9 | 18% |

46 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 30 | 59% |
| Series A | 5 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 8% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 6% |
| Initial Coin Offering | 2 | 4% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 20% |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 12% |
| Switzerland | 4 | 8% |
| Singapore | 3 | 6% |
| Estonia | 2 | 4% |

12 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| George McDonaugh | Co-Founder, CEO and Managing Director | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/george-mcdonough-050a |
| Janos Berghorn | Head of Research | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/janos-berghorn |
| Keld van Schreven | Co-Founder and Managing Director | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/keld-van-schreven |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Code & State | Code & State is a venture studio building and scaling stablecoin ventures. | $3M | Seed | Feb 27, 2025 |  |
| Avail | Avail is a team of innovators dedicated to transforming the blockchain world. | $43M | Series A | Jun 04, 2024 |  |
| Mode Network | Mode Network is a DeFi blockchain platform that builds new on-chain economic systems to enable developers to scale their applications. | $550K | Seed | Apr 19, 2024 |  |
| Tanssi Network | Tanssi is an app chain infrastructure protocol that simplifies app chain deployment, making it secure, efficient, and easy while eliminating the lengthy and complex process of traditional blockchain implementation. | $6M | Seed | Mar 21, 2024 |  |
| Tanssi Network | Tanssi is an app chain infrastructure protocol that simplifies app chain deployment, making it secure, efficient, and easy while eliminating the lengthy and complex process of traditional blockchain implementation. | $6M | Seed | Mar 21, 2024 |  |
| Interop | Interop is an investment firm. | $3.9M | Seed | Nov 09, 2023 |  |
| Side Protocol | Side Protocol is a distributed mesh liquidity solution that makes use of cutting-edge inter-blockchain asset trading application protocols. Side Protocol, in contrast to liquidity hubs, intends to decentralize liquidity between various blockchain networks while maintaining interconnection. | $300K | Pre-Seed | Jul 26, 2023 |  |
| Anoma | A sovereign, proof-of-stake blockchain protocol that enables private, asset-agnostic cash and private bartering among any number of parties. | $25M | Series C | May 30, 2023 |  |
| Superchain Network | Superchain Network solution promotes a mental change away from "Web2" centralized systems and towards "Web3" decentralized design.The objective of Superchain is to realize a truly decentralized data protocol built around users instead than computer constraints. | $4M | Seed | Feb 21, 2023 |  |
| Autonomys | Subspace Labs is a distributed research and development company behind the Subspace Network. While based in Palo Alto, CA, we are a global, remote-first team of protocol hackers and cryptocurrency enthusiasts.The Subspace Network is a layer zero protocol that is fully interoperable with any layer one, allowing it to serve as an infrastructurelayer for the entire Web3 ecosystem. Based on years of original R&D, Subspace is the first protocol to truly resolve the blockchain trilemma, providing an open, scalable platform for both storage and compute. Subspace currently supports Polkadot and Kusama, with more networks coming soon. | $32.9M | Series A | Mar 01, 2022 |  |

10 of 51 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Hypersphere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hypersphere-ventures) — VC Fund, 18 deals together
- [IOSG Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/iosg-ventures) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [CMS Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cms-holdings) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Hashkey Exchange](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hashkey) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Signum Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/signum-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [NGC Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/neo-global-capital-ngc) — VC Fund, 6 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does KR1 invest in?

KR1 invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 51 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is KR1's check size?

KR1 typically joins rounds of $100k–$6M at Seed and $2.5M–$43M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds KR1 participates in.

### How do I contact KR1?

Public channels for KR1 include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at KR1?

The team at KR1 includes George McDonaugh (Co-Founder, CEO and Managing Director), Janos Berghorn (Head of Research) and Keld van Schreven (Co-Founder and Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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