# LuneX Ventures

> LuneX Ventures is a VC fund backing Cryptocurrency and Blockchain. See 20 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Singapore
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: Sep 2021
- Lead investor: 40%
- Fund size: $10M
- Last fund: Aug 2018
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lunex-ventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/LunexVC
- Website: http://lunex.vc/

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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $460k–$3.1M |
| Series A | $5.7M–$5.8M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cryptocurrency | 12 | 60% |
| Blockchain | 11 | 55% |
| Financial Services | 9 | 45% |
| Information Technology | 8 | 40% |
| FinTech | 6 | 30% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 12 | 60% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 10% |
| Series A | 2 | 10% |
| Initial Coin Offering | 2 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Singapore | 11 | 55% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 15% |
| South Korea | 1 | 5% |
| United States | 1 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kenrick Drijkoningen | Founding Partner | 10 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kenrick-drijkoningen |
| Tushar Aggarwal | Associate | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tushar-aggarwal-3997 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Merkle Science | 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 | MugglePay is a payment solution enabling global, instant, and low-cost settlements via cryptocurrency. | $1M | Seed | Apr 27, 2021 |  |
| Alpha Impact | Alpha Impact is a social trading platform for cryptocurrencies that lets users keep funds in their own accounts. | $3.1M | Seed | Apr 23, 2021 |  |
| Alpha Impact | Alpha Impact is a social trading platform for cryptocurrencies that lets users keep funds in their own accounts. | $3.1M |  | Apr 23, 2021 |  |
| Delta Exchange | 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 | 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 | 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 Inc | 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 Protocol | 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 One | 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 |  |

10 of 20 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [GBV Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/genesis-block-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [gumi Cryptos Capital (gCC)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gumi-cryptos) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [SGInnovate](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sginnovate) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Arrington XRP Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arrington-xrp-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Axia8 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/axia8-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Coinbase Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinbase-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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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?

Public channels for LuneX Ventures 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 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 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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