# Mert Mumtaz

> Mert Mumtaz is a seed investor in Toronto backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 24 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 24
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mertmumtaz/?originalSubdomain=ca

Mert Mumtaz is a seed investor in Toronto focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Mert Mumtaz, Co-founder & CEO at Helius.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3M–$20M |
| Series A | $10M–$50M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 9 | 38% |
| Cryptocurrency | 5 | 21% |
| Financial Services | 5 | 21% |
| Web3 | 4 | 17% |
| Apps | 3 | 13% |

27 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 11 | 46% |
| Series A | 4 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 13% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 13% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 8% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 8 | 33% |
| Philippines | 2 | 8% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 8% |
| Canada | 1 | 4% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 4% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| V12 | V12 is an autonomous, AI-powered offensive security agent designed to audit source code, discover critical software vulnerabilities, and generate automated code patches. | $10M | Seed | Jul 30, 2026 |  |
| Zcash Open Development Lab | Zodl is a mobile wallet for sending and managing private Zcash transactions, with encrypted payments and full user control of funds. | $25M | Seed | Mar 09, 2026 |  |
| worm.wtf | worm.wtf is the prediction marketplace for the Solana ecosystem. | $4.5M | Pre-Seed | Dec 17, 2025 |  |
| Inference | Inference is a distributed GPU cluster for LLM inference based on Solana, providing a fast, scalable, and token-based API for models such as DeepSeek V3 and Llama 3.3. | $11.8M | Seed | Oct 14, 2025 |  |
| Loop Crypto | Loop Crypto is a platform that enables autopay with crypto. | $2M |  | Aug 21, 2025 |  |
| MagicBlock | MagicBlock Labs is a gaming and technology firm that creates infrastructure for fully on-chain games. | $7.5M | Seed | Apr 24, 2025 |  |
| Warlock Labs | Warlock Labs is a provider of an omni-chain liquidation engine that improves the safety and profitability of decentralized protocols by recapturing the maximum extractable value. | $8M | Seed | Mar 27, 2025 |  |
| Commonware | Commonware is a startup that supplies developers with a "anti-framework" — effectively all of the building pieces for developing a blockchain — in order to go beyond the era of standardized, general-purpose software kits. | $9M |  | Dec 11, 2024 |  |
| Citrea | Citrea is the first rollup that enhances the capabilities of Bitcoin blockspace with zero-knowledge technology, making it possible to build everything on Bitcoin. | $14M | Series A | Oct 31, 2024 |  |
| Praxis | Praxis is a membership-based platform aiming to build an autonomous city. Cities needed to be built around a source of economic opportunity to attract businesses that would create jobs and entice people to relocate. The platform enables people to live healthier, more purposeful lives. Praxis was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in New York. | $525M |  | Oct 15, 2024 |  |

10 of 24 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Electric Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/electric-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Coinbase Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinbase-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Solana Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/solana-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [6th Man Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/6th-man-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Delphi Digital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/delphi-digital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Foundation Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foundation-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Mert Mumtaz invest in?

Mert Mumtaz invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 24 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 Mert Mumtaz's check size?

Mert Mumtaz typically joins rounds of $3M–$20M at Seed and $10M–$50M 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 Mert Mumtaz participates in.

### When did Mert Mumtaz last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Mert Mumtaz closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 24 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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