Morningstar Ventures
VC Fund
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Morningstar Ventures is an investment firm backing ambitious ideas by early-stage founders. Based in Dubai, Morningstar Ventures focuses primarily on the blockchain and digital assets space and is led by Chief Investment Officer Danilo S. Carlucci. The firm is active in both token investments and equity investments and has a particularly strongfocus on the Elrond ecosystem. In October 2021 Morningstar Ventures launched the Elrond Dubai Incubator to support projects building with Elrond technology.
- Total investments:
- 149
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 11%
Last updated:
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Industries Morningstar Ventures invests in
Stages Morningstar Ventures invests in
Countries Morningstar Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.5M–$10M
- Series A
- $1.6M–$25M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 61 (41%)
- Cryptocurrency 32 (21%)
- Gaming 20 (13%)
- FinTech 16 (11%)
- Financial Services 11 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 74 (50%)
- Funding Round 23 (15%)
- Series A 12 (8%)
- Pre-Seed 4 (3%)
- Initial Coin Offering 4 (3%)
Country
- United States 15 (10%)
- Singapore 11 (7%)
- United Kingdom 4 (3%)
- Germany 3 (2%)
- Canada 2 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Danilo S. Carlucci
Co-Founder & Chief Investment Officer
|
Co-Founder & Chief Investment Officer | Total investments: 5 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Watch.fun is a platform that offers ticket-based entries for luxury watch giveaways. | $8.6M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 26, 2026 | ||
| OPNET is a Bitcoin Layer 1 metaprotocol that enables smart contracts to function directly on the Bitcoin blockchain, without the use of sidechains or Layer 2 solutions. | $5M / Seed / Mar 11, 2026 | ||
| Space is a leveraged prediction market platform built on Solana, designed to reward users for accurate insights while enabling efficient capital flow through competitive forecasting, combining high-performance blockchain infrastructure with advanced market mechanisms to create a transparent, scalable, and engaging environment for decentralizedprediction and informed decision-making. | $3M / Seed / Dec 16, 2025 | ||
| Pieverse is a Web3 platform that turns people’s time into tradable digital value. | $7M / Seed / Oct 24, 2025 | ||
| Fanable is a Web3 marketplace specialized in Pokémon, comic books, and collectibles, allowing users to purchase, sell, and engage with their favorite products in both physical and digital forms. | $11.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 09, 2025 | ||
| FereAI transforms crypto trading with an innovative ecosystem of interconnected AI agents designed to simplify and enhance decision-making. By utilizing multi-agent systems, FereAI delivers dynamic insights, social sentiment analysis, and automated trading tools. Its unique approach allows users to interact with diverse AI agents like Fere Pro andMarket Pulse, optimizing strategies in real time. FereAI envisions a future where users can build custom AI agents through natural language, democratizing access to advanced trading technologies and bridging the gap between investors and the future of finance. | Seed / Feb 11, 2025 | ||
| SYNTHR is redefining instant and slippage-free asset movement across chains | Jan 14, 2025 | ||
| d-cloud.io is a pioneering distributed data sharing and communication platform that is changing the structure of global information exchange. A major driving force behind the creation and development of the revolutionary Ark programming language, d-cloud.io seamlessly bridges the gap between centralized and decentralized networks. Ark delivers asecure, scalable, and cross-platform solution that serves both individual users and businesses. We overcome challenges in traditional systems, such as compatibility issues, security vulnerabilities and multi-chain transaction exploits, by offering a globally distributed storage network, instant messaging protocol, VoIP, and cross-transaction verification capabilities | $1.2M / Series A / Dec 25, 2024 | ||
| COTI AI Agents is an AI Agent platform on the COTI network that focuses on privacy and ease of use. Users can launch, train, and trade AI agents with just one click. Co-own agents to earn revenue share while enjoying personalized tools, fun interactions, and rewards.COTI AI Agents is the first grantee of MomentumX Accelerator - The #1 acceleratorfor startups exploring Web3 privacy, backed by COTI network & Poolz. | Seed / Dec 19, 2024 | ||
| Allo is a platform for tokenization. The technology facilitates on-chain lending and tokenization of real-world assets. | $2M / Seed / Dec 01, 2024 | ||
| See all 149 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Morningstar Ventures invest in?
Morningstar Ventures invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Gaming startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 149 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 Morningstar Ventures's check size?
Morningstar Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$10M at Seed and $1.6M–$25M 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 Morningstar Ventures participates in.
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Who are the partners at Morningstar Ventures?
The team at Morningstar Ventures includes Danilo S. Carlucci (Co-Founder & Chief Investment Officer). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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