Nicolas Bacca
Co-Founder & Innovation Lead @ Ledger
Paris, France
Nicolas Bacca is a Computer Science Engineer specialized in smartcard technologies, fascinated about efficient coding. After 5 years at Oberthur Technologies developping mobile solutions and as head of the “Cards & solutions Innovation” team, he founded Simulity of which he was CTO and lead architect, and then Ubinity of which he is CEO. He hasbeen developing there many projects and solutions, including OS for smartcards, and software & hardware “Secure Element” solutions. Then he has created BTChip, first smartcard based security solution dedicated to Bitcoin, and has co-founded the Ledger startup, initiating the World most secure Bitcoin hardware wallet.
- Total investments:
- 14
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 7%
Last updated:
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Industries Nicolas Bacca invests in
Stages Nicolas Bacca invests in
Countries Nicolas Bacca invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $822k–$18M
- Pre-Seed
- $300k–$4.3M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 9 (64%)
- Cryptocurrency 4 (29%)
- Web3 3 (21%)
- Decentralized Finance (DeFi) 3 (21%)
- Internet 2 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 7 (50%)
- Pre-Seed 6 (43%)
- Funding Round 1 (7%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Inflow
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Inflow delivers payment solutions that integrate affordability, efficiency, innovation, and tailored service. | $1.1M / Pre-Seed / Apr 21, 2025 | |
Byzantine Finance
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Byzantine is the gateway infrastructure for restaking. We enable anyone to build customizable restaking vaults that give them full control over their risks and rewards. The Byzantine protocol is designed to make risk management of restaking strategies permissionless and flexible allowing for a more competitive, risk-optimised yield. | $3M / Pre-Seed / Feb 25, 2025 | |
Keplr
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Keplr is a non-custodial blockchain wallet designed for websites that let visitors engage with blockchain applications. | $5M / Seed / Jan 22, 2025 | |
Spiko
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Spiko is a tokenization platform that offers to be the supplier of tokenized Money Market Funds. | $4.3M / Pre-Seed / Jun 11, 2024 | |
Zyfi
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Zyfi is a flexible paymaster-as-a-service that allows you to pay for gas using any ERC-20 on zksync. | $2M / Seed / Jun 10, 2024 | |
Hylé
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Hylé is the modular ZK stack's core layer, providing a secure, decentralized, and censorship-resistant settlement layer for all ZK proofs. | $800K / Pre-Seed / May 14, 2024 | |
Usual
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Usual Labs operates as a decentralized finance(DeFi) protocol. | $7.2M / Apr 17, 2024 | |
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Usual
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Usual Labs operates as a decentralized finance(DeFi) protocol. | $4.2M / Seed / Apr 17, 2024 | |
Lobster
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Lobster Protocol is a software development that is 100% automated by multi-protocol strategies. Lobster is committed to offering increasingly efficient strategies for those who wish to maximize their returns on their crypto-assets, is the most simple and accessible way. | $300K / Pre-Seed / Jan 31, 2024 | |
Bubblemaps
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Bubblemaps is the most powerful tool for on-chain investigation!Featuring a playful and engaging visual interface, Bubblemaps simplifies access to on-chain data and lowers the entry barrier for users. We have partnered with several blockchains that share our vision for easy on-chain data, such as Arbitrum, Polygon, Avalanche, BNB Chain, some ofthem even participating in our fundraising round. Additionally, our visuals are directly accessible on leading DeFi platforms like OpenSea | $3.2M / Seed / Sep 18, 2023 | |
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Co-Investors
Triton Capital
3 deals together
LBANK Labs
3 deals together
Stake Capital Group
3 deals together
StarkWare Industries
3 deals together
50 Partners
2 deals together
Bing Ventures
2 deals together
About Ledger
Ledger develops security and infrastructure solutions for cryptocurrencies as well as blockchain applications for individuals and companies, by leveraging a distinctive, proprietary technology.Launched in 2014, Ledger has designed an acclaimed line of hardware security devices quickly placing the company as a global leader on the market with1,000,000 units sold in more than 165 countries. For enterprises and corporations, Ledger introduced the Vault: a fully managed SaaS solution addressing the need to safeguard a very large amount of multiple cryptocurrencies while mitigating both IT and physical assault threats. The company is also active in the industrial IoT market, leveraging its secure hardware technology to interface sensors and machines to smart contracts or blockchain-based assets.Ledger is headquartered in Paris, has a production facility in Vierzon (France), and offices in San Francisco.
Ledger Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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Rodrigo Carraresi
Head of Developer Relations
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Alexandre Lemarchand
Vice President of Global Sales
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David Balland
Co-founder
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Ian Rogers
Chief Experience Officer
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Jean-Baptiste Bédrune
Security Researcher
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FAQ
What does Nicolas Bacca invest in?
Nicolas Bacca invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Web3 startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Nicolas Bacca's check size?
Nicolas Bacca typically joins rounds of $822k–$18M at Seed and $300k–$4.3M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Nicolas Bacca participates in.
When did Nicolas Bacca last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Nicolas Bacca closed in Apr 2025. Shizune tracks 14 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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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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