LuneX Ventures
VC Fund
Singapore, Singapore
LuneX Ventures is a spin-out from Singapore based VC firm Golden Gate Ventures. LuneX has a global mandate to invest exclusively in high-growth blockchain companies and cryptocurrency assets. Founded by Golden Gate’s former Head of Growth, Kenrick Drijkoningen.
- Total investments:
- 20
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 40%
- Fund size:
- $10M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries LuneX Ventures invests in
Stages LuneX Ventures invests in
Countries LuneX Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $460k–$3.1M
- Series A
- $5.7M–$5.8M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Cryptocurrency 12 (60%)
- Blockchain 11 (55%)
- Financial Services 9 (45%)
- Information Technology 8 (40%)
- FinTech 6 (30%)
Stage
- Seed 12 (60%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (10%)
- Series A 2 (10%)
- Initial Coin Offering 2 (10%)
- Funding Round 1 (5%)
Country
- Singapore 11 (55%)
- United Kingdom 3 (15%)
- South Korea 1 (5%)
- United States 1 (5%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Kenrick Drijkoningen
Founding Partner
|
Founding Partner | Total investments: 10 | Find email | |
Tushar Aggarwal
Associate
|
Associate | Total investments: 2 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Merkle Science is a software company that offers predictive crypto risk and intelligence platforms for businesses and government agencies. It helps crypto companies, financial institutions, and government entities detect, investigate, and prevent illegal activities involving cryptocurrencies. The company's proprietary Behavioral Rule Engineenables their tools to go beyond blacklists so that compliance teams may fulfill their local KYC/AML obligations and industry players may stay keep pace with the industry’s increasingly complex illicit activities. Merkle Science was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Singapore. | $5.8M / Series A / Sep 28, 2021 | ||
| MugglePay is a payment solution enabling global, instant, and low-cost settlements via cryptocurrency. | $1M / Seed / Apr 27, 2021 | ||
| Alpha Impact is a social trading platform for cryptocurrencies that lets users keep funds in their own accounts. | $3.1M / Seed / Apr 23, 2021 | ||
| Delta Exchange is building the financial marketplace for tomorrow by pioneering derivatives for cryptocurrencies. Delta is a crypto native company that offers trading in futures that cryptocurrencies as both the underlying and settlement currencies. Products being traded on Delta include futures on bitcoin and leading altcoins (ether, ripple andstellar lumens). Delta takes pride in being a #TradersFirst exchange that provides 24/7/365 liquidity, unparalleled execution speed and enterprise-grade security to both retail and institutional traders. | $5M / Initial Coin Offering / Mar 30, 2021 | ||
| Transak is a global web3 payment and onboarding infrastructure provider, facilitating seamless transitions between traditional finance and crypto assets. Its product suite includes robust fiat-to-crypto services (On/Off-Ramps), a fiat-to-smart-contract solution (Transak One), and a fiat-to-NFT checkout solution. As a regulated, non-custodialpayments layer, Transak supports onboarding to 160+ crypto assets across 75+ blockchains. Trusted by over 350+ applications, including MetaMask and Coinbase Wallet, Transak is making web3 applications more accessible. | $410K / Seed / Mar 16, 2021 | ||
| Vauld is a Singapore-based crypto platform. It enables customers to buy, lend, borrow and trade crypto assets from one unified platform.Everything we do at Vauld is centered around making the experience of earning, trading, and banking with cryptocurrencies simple — enabling our users to build wealth automatically. With Vauld, taking control ofyour financial future is as simple as depositing and earning. | $2M / Seed / Dec 30, 2020 | ||
| Octowill is the next generation of Blockchain based inheritance solution. This includes writing Digital Wills (for traditional assets), eNominating beneficiary(s) (for digital assets), legacy planning (to inherit email contents, passwords, secure data, digital contents, intellectual property rights,TM, etc.), its administration and distribution.Octowill leverages on technology (such as Ai and machine learning) to disrupt the inheritance planning industry and propel itself into becoming the global standard for individuals to secure digital, liquid, and non-liquid assets alike via blockchain. | $500K / Seed / Nov 01, 2020 | ||
| InsurAce is the leading decentralized insurance protocol, providing reliable, robust and secure DeFi insurance services to the DeFi users. InsurAce not only guarantees unbeatable portfolio premiums but also offers sustainable investment returns. We have a unique insurance product, tailored just for your project. From insuring your smart contractagainst hacks to allowing users to secure their investments against risks. Our community is one of the best in the DeFi space and is a key element to our success. We continue to innovate and improve for them. | $1M / Seed / Oct 20, 2020 | ||
| Persistence facilitates the borrowing of Cryptoassets (Stablecoins) using real-world assets such as invoices as collateral. This bridges Decentralised Finance and traditional finance and uses the features of Decentralised Finance to solve real-world financing problems. | $3.7M / Seed / May 19, 2020 | ||
| Headquartered in Singapore, Accredify is the leading service provider for organisations to create and issue verifiable documents. With a presence in more than nine markets serving 900 clients globally, documents issued by Accredify have been verified close to 7 million times. All digital documents issued by Accredify’s cloud-based system aretamper-proof and traceable back to the source. To verify documents, users simply have to drag and drop the digital document into an online verifier portal; results are instantaneous. In addition to its core value proposition of creating and issuing verifiable documents, Accredify offers a suite of APIs and options for systems-to-systems integration, which means teams can create and prepare verifiable digital credentials at the single click of a button. Accredify’s first vertical was the higher education sector, assisting Asia’s top universities and adult learning institutions in the creation and issuance of digital graduation certificates and transcripts. It was recognised by HolonIQ as one of 2020’s Top 50 Southeast Asia EdTech firms. In July 2020, Accredify ventured into the healthcare sector with the intent of helping the Singapore government manage the COVID-19 pandemic. Accredify assisted in the development of Singapore’s digital verifiable COVID-19 test results known as HealthCerts, an internationally recognized document of an individual’s COVID-19 health status which can be verified with a QR code scan. It was also the first service provider to issue a verifiable COVID-19 swab result in Singapore. Accredify-issued HealthCerts are recognised in more than 32 countries around the world. With a dedicated team that embraces the highest standards of customer service, security, and legal compliance, Accredify’s objective is to be the trusted solution for managing and verifying documents anywhere and anytime. For more information, visit www.accredify.io and follow us on LinkedIn @Accredify | Seed / Mar 09, 2020 | ||
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FAQ
What does LuneX Ventures invest in?
LuneX Ventures invests primarily in Cryptocurrency, Blockchain and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 20 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Singapore. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is LuneX Ventures's check size?
LuneX Ventures typically joins rounds of $460k–$3.1M at Seed and $5.7M–$5.8M 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 LuneX Ventures participates in.
How do I contact LuneX Ventures?
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Who are the partners at LuneX Ventures?
The team at LuneX Ventures includes Kenrick Drijkoningen (Founding Partner) and Tushar Aggarwal (Associate). 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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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