# NEO

> NEO is a VC fund in Shanghai backing Software and Blockchain. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shanghai, China
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 11%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/neo-blockchain/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/neo_blockchain
- Website: https://neo.org/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NEOSmartEcon/

NEO is a non-profit community-based blockchain project that utilizes blockchain technology and digital identity to digitize assets, to automate the management of digital assets using smart contracts, and to realize a "smart economy" with a distributed network.NEO was founded in 2014 and was real-time open source on GitHub in June 2015.Since its inception, the NEO team has experienced the upsurge and boom of the blockchain industry and the frenzy and cooling of the digital money market. They believe technology drives progress and together they can create the future. Motivated by this, NEO has been created to shift their traditional economy into the new era of the "Smart Economy".

## Contacts

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

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.6M–$18M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 44% |
| Blockchain | 4 | 44% |
| Cryptocurrency | 3 | 33% |
| Web3 | 1 | 11% |
| FinTech | 1 | 11% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 56% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 11% |
| Series A | 1 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 11% |
| Initial Coin Offering | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Singapore | 4 | 44% |
| China | 1 | 11% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 11% |
| United States | 1 | 11% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Erik Zhang | Founder & Core Developer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/erik-zhang-7feb |
| Hongfei Da | Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hongfei-da |
| Johnson Zhao | General Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/johnson-zhao |
| John Wang | Global Development Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-wang-5a4f |
| Lili Zhao | Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lili-zhao |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Anecdote |  | $12M | Series A | Sep 15, 2025 |  |
| ICC Venture | ICC Venture is the venture capital and incubation arm of ICC Camp, supported by ABGA. With a focus on long-term strategy and value-driven investments, ICC Venture is dedicated to fostering innovation across a range of blockchain applications. The fund’s primary investment focus includes Web3 gaming as well as emerging sectors like AI, DePIN ,SocialFi, and RWA. | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | Jun 01, 2024 |  |
| Shentu Chain | Shentu Chain is a software company that provides security insights and prevents attacks on cryptocurrency. |  | Seed | Mar 12, 2024 |  |
| Highlight | Highlight develops a platform for debugging apps and gives full transparency into the errors, interactions, and performance metrics. They believe that by giving people the best tools to solve customer and engineering issues, they can spend more time building their business, and less time searching through logs, manually trying to reproduce errors,and investing too early in their support processes. | $8M | Seed | Aug 15, 2023 |  |
| GoPlus Security | GoPlus Security is an open, permissionless, user-driven security service platform for all types of blockchain users. |  |  | Apr 01, 2022 |  |
| GoPlus Security | GoPlus Security is an open, permissionless, user-driven security service platform for all types of blockchain users. |  | Seed | Apr 01, 2022 |  |
| Dora Factory | Dora Factory is the digital infrastructure builder of the Global Hacker Movement. It creates protocols, toolings, and public good infrastructures that help open source communities and frontier tech builders to thrive. | $17.5M | Seed | Feb 07, 2021 |  |
| Liquefy | Liquefy is a technology solution that enables innovative business models through blockchain technology and digitization. Liquefy Platform, the first product of Liquefy, enables digitization of assets such as private companies, public shares, funds, real estates and any other assets using blockchain technology. Security Tokens will enable issuers toraise capital faster, easier and cheaper while unlocking liquidity for investors.Liquefy Platform utilizes our core proprietary technologies, which allows asset owners and institutions to tokenize any assets, providing compliance services and manage fractional ownership. | $2.6M | Seed | Jun 12, 2019 |  |
| Loopring | Loopring is an opened source protocol based on smart contracts for decentralized exchanges on the Ethereum blockchain. Loopring allows for multiple exchanges to mix and match orders, off-chain order-matching and on-chain transaction clearing and payment.The company provides traders, participants, and institutions with a decentralized, automatedtrade execution system that intelligently implements their trades across the world’s crypto exchanges, shielding them from counterparty risk and reducing their trading costs. | $45M | Initial Coin Offering | Aug 01, 2017 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [KuCoin Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kucoin-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [SevenX Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sevenx-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Arweave](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arweave) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Avalanche Asia Star Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avalanche-asia-star-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Craft Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/craft-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Crypto.com Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crypto-com-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does NEO invest in?

NEO invests primarily in Software, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Singapore. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is NEO's check size?

NEO typically joins rounds of $2.6M–$18M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds NEO participates in.

### How do I contact NEO?

Public channels for NEO 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 NEO?

The team at NEO includes Erik Zhang (Founder & Core Developer), Hongfei Da (Founder) and Johnson Zhao (General Manager), 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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