# Sky

> Sky is a VC fund in Santa Cruz backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Cruz, United States
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/10146072/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/MakerDAO
- Website: https://makerdao.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MakerDAOOfficial/

Sky is a VC fund in Santa Cruz focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Maker is a decentralized autonomous organization on the Ethereum blockchain.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Sky. Shizune tracks 7 team members at Sky. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/makerdao?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$14M |
| Pre-Seed | $150k–$1.1M |
| Debt Financing | $7M–$100M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 7 | 58% |
| Cryptocurrency | 6 | 50% |
| Financial Services | 6 | 50% |
| FinTech | 4 | 33% |
| Software | 3 | 25% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 42% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 17% |
| Debt Financing | 2 | 17% |
| Series A | 1 | 8% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 8% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 42% |
| Poland | 1 | 8% |
| Vietnam | 1 | 8% |
| Isle of Man | 1 | 8% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 8% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Andy Milenius | CTO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andy-milenius |
| Doo Wan Nam | Korea Lead & Asia Partnership | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/doo-wan-nam |
| Rune Christensen | Founder & CEO | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rune-christensen |
| Soren Peter Nielsen | Head of Product | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/soren-peter-nielsen |
| Charles St.Louis | Governance System Architect & Technical Consultant | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-st-louis |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ethereum Institutional | Ethereum Institutional is a non-profit organization that focuses on increasing institutional use of the Ethereum ecosystem, including its Layer 2 networks and applications. The organization provides institutional education and engagement for banks, asset managers, custodians, fintechs, market infrastructures, and public institutions evaluatingEthereum. It produces neutral research explaining how Ethereum works, its development roadmap, and its implications for institutional users. Ethereum Institutional also coordinates ecosystem marketing around ETH and real-world deployments to inform institutional strategies. In addition, it gathers industry requirements for tokenization, custody, and settlement on Ethereum and convenes events where institutions and Ethereum ecosystem stakeholders can discuss priorities and implementation approaches. |  | Seed | Jul 29, 2026 |  |
| Osero | Osero operates as a stablecoin yield infrastructure startup. | $13.5M | Seed | May 12, 2026 |  |
| Obex | Obex helps to fund stablecoin projects backed by compute, energy and fintech credit on the Sky protocol. | $37M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 18, 2025 |  |
| Huntingdon Valley Bank | Huntingdon Valley Bank has offices located across Philadelphia. | $100M | Debt Financing | Aug 25, 2022 |  |
| Contango | Contango is a decentralised protocol bringing perpetual futures built on top of money markets. | $4M | Seed | Jul 14, 2022 |  |
| Multis | Multis is building a financial backbone for every web3 organization. We want to power the next generation of professionals that will thrive in an open financial world. | $7M | Series A | Dec 17, 2021 |  |
| CitaDAO | Citadao.io specializes in leveraging Ethereum blockchain technology to unlock the value of global real estate. The company focuses on tokenizing real-world assets, providing solutions to issues such as lack of liquidity, access limitations, and composability in the real estate ecosystem. Citadao.io offers a platform for buying real estate tokens24/7 on Uniswap, optimized for desktop and iOS mobile within the MetaMask browser. The company's buyout process facilitates a 2 Way Bridge, enhancing the flexibility and accessibility of real estate investments. Citadao.io aims to transform the traditional real estate market by making it more accessible, liquid, and composable through blockchain technology. | $1M | Seed | Sep 28, 2021 |  |
| Harbor | Harbor is the engine through which SME's can access cost effective, user-friendly and efficient financing for trade. In addition to working capital, the HarborTrade platform offers automation tools to improve visibility and operational efficiency among trading partners.Harbor also provides a platform for asset origination partners and retailinvestors, DeFi protocols and other traditional market participants to support such funding activities through a distributed origination and funding model. | $7M | Debt Financing | Aug 06, 2021 |  |
| ConsenSys | ConsenSys is an Ethereum software web3 company. ConsenSys enables developers, enterprises, and people worldwide to build next-generation applications, launch modern financial infrastructure, and access the decentralized web. ConsenSys' product suite, composed of Infura, Quorum, Truffle, Codefi, MetaMask, and Diligence, serves millions ofusers, supports billions of blockchain-based queries for its clients, and has handled billions of dollars in digital assets. Ethereum is a programmable blockchain in the world, business adoption, developer community, and DeFi activity. On this trusted, open-source foundation, ConsenSys is building the digital economy of tomorrow. | $65M | Convertible Note | Apr 13, 2021 |  |
| Ramp Network | Ramp connects blockchain with banks using open banking APIs. The company's mission is to create a meshed, easily accessible connection between the open blockchain financial system and the old, closed banking system, with no need for a trusted third party in between.Ramp was founded in 2017 by Przemek Kowalczyk and Szymon Sypniewicz and isheadquartered in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | Jul 12, 2019 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Framework Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/framework-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SNZ Holding](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/snz-holding) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [3F](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/3f-a805) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ADI DLT Foundation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adi-dlt-foundation) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Advanced Blockchain](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/advanced-blockchain) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Aerodrome Finance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aerodrome-finance) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Sky invest in?

Sky invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 12 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 Sky's check size?

Sky typically joins rounds of $1M–$14M at Seed, $150k–$1.1M at Pre-Seed and $7M–$100M at Debt Financing. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Sky participates in.

### How do I contact Sky?

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### Who are the partners at Sky?

The team at Sky includes Andy Milenius (CTO), Doo Wan Nam (Korea Lead & Asia Partnership) and Rune Christensen (Founder & CEO), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. 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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