# L1D

> L1D is a VC fund in Zürich backing Blockchain and Financial Services. See 35 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Switzerland
- Total investments: 35
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 9%
- Fund size: $152M
- Last fund: Aug 2023
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/l1digital
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/l1d_xyz
- Website: https://l1.digital

L1D is a VC fund in Zürich focused on Blockchain and Financial Services. Our thesis is that the blockchain industry will disrupt entire industries. The huge influx of talent and capital leads to rapid innovation, with impressive start-up teams racing to build the most secure, decentralized and scalable Layer1 protocols, as well as developing dApps reaching mass adoption. With the regulatory side and infrastructureimproving, institutional investors are moving into the new asset class.There are in excess of 700 funds active in the space today, with strategies reaching from SAFTs and pre-ICOs to fundamental long-only, long/short trading, trend-following, arbitrage, and market-making. We want to provide investors with access to this new asset class, by- sourcing the best crypto and blockchain funds globally - diversifying across strategies, geographies and managers - providing institutional quality structuring, due diligence and monitoring.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 12 | 34% |
| Financial Services | 9 | 26% |
| Software | 8 | 23% |
| Cryptocurrency | 8 | 23% |
| FinTech | 6 | 17% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 23% |
| Funding Round | 8 | 23% |
| Series B | 7 | 20% |
| Series A | 3 | 9% |
| Series D | 1 | 3% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 20% |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 17% |
| Germany | 3 | 9% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |
| France | 1 | 3% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ray Hindi | Managing Partner | 2 | — |
| Daniel Fischmann | Investment Partner | 0 | — |
| Jake Lynch | Investment Partner | 0 | — |
| Julien Godat | Head of Business Development | 0 | — |
| Louis Thomazeau | Investment Partner | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Exponent Finance | Exponent Finance is a Solana Network DeFi fixed price market that creates time-locked tokens that can generate set returns or be traded for yield. | $5M | Seed | Apr 30, 2026 |  |
| Squads | Squads is a developer of a decentralized program that enables the establishment of better and easier decentralized autonomous groups. The company's application combines all of the key components of a decentralized autonomous organization, such as deployment, treasury, vault management, on-chain voting, and chat, into a single portal with aneasy-to-use interface, allowing users to streamline daily operations using a decentralized autonomous organization structure. | $18M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 29, 2026 |  |
| Oh | Oh is the decentralized and uncensored AI products can offer a range of benefits, such as enhancing privacy, encouraging innovation, and promoting freedom of information. | $7.5M | Series A | Apr 08, 2026 |  |
| Power Protocol | Power Protocol is an infrastructure layer that drives the single, cohesive blockchain entertainment ecosystem. | $3M | Seed | Feb 24, 2026 |  |
| Printr | Printr is a chain-abstracted memecoin launchpad that instantly prints and trades memes. | $2M | Seed | Oct 21, 2025 |  |
| XP | XP, a ticket marketplace. XP, which was built on top of Solana, is already using state-of-the-art Web3 technology to restore control to fans by increasing the resale marketplace's transparency and security. | $6.2M | Seed | May 15, 2025 |  |
| Perpl | Perpl improves financial systems by creating a clear pricing engine on an effective blockchain. | $9.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 13, 2025 |  |
| Pixion Games | Pixion Games is a studio focused on building competitive esports games for mobile device. | $12.4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 28, 2025 |  |
| Opti Games | Opti Games is an operator of a game development company that focuses on creating video entertainment. | $2M | Seed | Oct 22, 2024 |  |
| Oxalis games | Oxalis Games develops games and is now creating the next generation of crypto games. | $2M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 15, 2024 |  |

10 of 35 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Pantera Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pantera-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Blockchain.com Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blockchain-ventures-1104) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [RockawayX](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rockaway-blockchain) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [North Island Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/north-island-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [1kx](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1kx) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Arete Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arete-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does L1D invest in?

L1D invests primarily in Blockchain, Financial Services and Software startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 35 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact L1D?

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### Who are the partners at L1D?

The team at L1D includes Ray Hindi (Managing Partner), Daniel Fischmann (Investment Partner) and Jake Lynch (Investment Partner), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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