# Movement Labs

> Movement Labs is a VC fund in San Francisco backing Web3 and Gaming. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last fund: Oct 2024
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/movementlabsxyz
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/movementlabsxyz
- Website: https://movementlabs.xyz/

Movement Labs is a modular framework platform that builds and deploys move-based blockchains and applications in distributed settings. Its platform offers a composable and horizontally scalable network that provides unparalleled smart contract security and asset portability to help users solve the cold start problem with unprecedentedinteroperability.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Movement Labs. Shizune tracks 6 team members at Movement Labs. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/movement-labs-7111?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.2M–$4.4M |
| Series A | $10M–$25M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Web3 | 2 | 22% |
| Gaming | 2 | 22% |
| Bitcoin | 2 | 22% |
| Mobile Apps | 2 | 22% |
| Cryptocurrency | 2 | 22% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 44% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 22% |
| Series A | 2 | 22% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Panama | 2 | 22% |
| Singapore | 2 | 22% |
| United States | 2 | 22% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 11% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rushi Manche | Co-Founder | 10 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rushi-manche |
| Brian Hennessey-Hsieh | Head of Strategy | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-hsieh |
| Carmen Pearson | Head of PR and Comms | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carmen-pearson |
| Ko Kyat | Co-Founder | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cooper-scanlon |
| Torab Torabi | Founding labs | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/torab-torabi |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sorted Wallet | Sorted Wallet simplifies crypto transactions for feature phones in emerging markets. | $4.4M | Seed | May 20, 2026 |  |
| Bluwhale | Established in 2022, Bluwhale is a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence platform that specializes in extracting and analyzing comprehensive data from content across various blockchains, as well as contextualizing NFT data for personalization and discovery purposes. This pioneering approach equips DApps and marketplaces with the intelligencenecessary to boost retention, engagement, and revenue. Offering user-friendly tools and analytics, Bluwhale delivers a complete understanding of content, tokens, smart contracts, and wallet activities by employing a graph representation of the underlying data.Through cataloging, labeling, and examining over 200 million NFTs and wallets, Bluwhale enhances on-chain data with valuable contextual information, assisting users in making informed investment decisions and facilitating the seamless integration of data-driven intelligence into their applications. | $10M | Series A | Oct 22, 2025 |  |
| BluWhale | BluWhale's mission is to leverage AI and ML to allow game developers to focus on ways to improve the game rather than wrangling and making sense of astronomical amounts of data. BluWhale's smart automation will do the heavy lifting usually reserved for data analysts and data scientists all in the background, and surface actionable insight |  | Series A | Jan 28, 2025 |  |
| Bluwhale | Established in 2022, Bluwhale is a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence platform that specializes in extracting and analyzing comprehensive data from content across various blockchains, as well as contextualizing NFT data for personalization and discovery purposes. This pioneering approach equips DApps and marketplaces with the intelligencenecessary to boost retention, engagement, and revenue. Offering user-friendly tools and analytics, Bluwhale delivers a complete understanding of content, tokens, smart contracts, and wallet activities by employing a graph representation of the underlying data.Through cataloging, labeling, and examining over 200 million NFTs and wallets, Bluwhale enhances on-chain data with valuable contextual information, assisting users in making informed investment decisions and facilitating the seamless integration of data-driven intelligence into their applications. | $25M | Series A | Jan 28, 2025 |  |
| Novastro | Novastro is a Layer 2 chain for RWAs powered by AI that integrates MoveVM and EigenLayer AVS, delivering Ethereum-level security and Move’s scalability to unlock tokenised yield opportunities across RWAs & DeFi protocols. | $1.2M | Seed | Jan 09, 2025 |  |
| BRKT | BRKT is creating the future of prediction markets through our two distinct product offerings: BRKT and Hookt. | $1.8M | Seed | Nov 27, 2024 |  |
| Echo Protocol | Echo is a versatile protocol that specializes in bridging, liquid staking and restaking, and yield solutions. |  | Pre-Seed | Oct 21, 2024 |  |
| LYNC | LYNC provides a scalable infrastructure for launching web3 games, without hampering the gaming experience. LYNC SDKs can be easily integrated into game engines like Unity 3D and Unreal Engine. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Aug 08, 2024 |  |
| Altcoinist | Altcoinist is an interoperable community gating infrastructure that transforms private communities into vibrant on-chain economies by bringing cutting-edge token gating, community staking pools, and enabling new revenue sources for creators and communities. | $1.5M | Seed | Jul 05, 2024 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Aptos](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aptos-96b4) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Castrum Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/castrum-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [DWF Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dwf-labs) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Hub71](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hub71) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [KAHUNA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kahuna-5a96) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [London Real Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/london-real-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Movement Labs invest in?

Movement Labs invests primarily in Web3, Gaming and Bitcoin startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Panama. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Movement Labs's check size?

Movement Labs typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$4.4M at Seed and $10M–$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 Movement Labs participates in.

### How do I contact Movement Labs?

Public channels for Movement Labs 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 Movement Labs?

The team at Movement Labs includes Rushi Manche (Co-Founder), Brian Hennessey-Hsieh (Head of Strategy) and Carmen Pearson (Head of PR and Comms), among 6 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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