# NLS Ventures

> NLS Ventures is a VC fund in Hong Kong backing Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence. See 22 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Total investments: 22
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 5%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nlsventures/
- Website: http://www.nlsventures.com

NLS Ventures is an early stage investment firm based in Hong Kong.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $500k–$13M |
| Series A | $5M–$22M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 7 | 32% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 27% |
| FinTech | 4 | 18% |
| Software | 3 | 14% |
| Cryptocurrency | 3 | 14% |

37 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 11 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 18% |
| Series A | 2 | 9% |
| Series B | 1 | 5% |
| Series C | 1 | 5% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Hong Kong | 6 | 27% |
| United States | 4 | 18% |
| Singapore | 3 | 14% |
| Canada | 1 | 5% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 5% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hyperbond Studio | Hyperbond Studio is creating the next generation of emotionally intelligent AI apps. | $500K | Seed | Feb 09, 2026 |  |
| ForU AI | ForU AI operates as a real-world AI agent. | $2.5M | Seed | Sep 25, 2025 |  |
| ForU AI | ForU AI operates as a real-world AI agent. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 17, 2025 |  |
| Mandala Chain | Mandala Chain provides blockchain and cryptocurrency solutions for government and enterprise integration. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Dec 09, 2024 |  |
| Haven1 | EVM multi-app blockchain |  | Pre-Seed | Apr 03, 2024 |  |
| Louisa AI | Louisa is a collective intelligence platform. The company's platform connects to a company's various data sources and auto-creates a comprehensive map of who and what everyone in the company knows. By providing employees with a centralized platform to access the collective intelligence of the company, Louisa is the one-stop shop for allyour knowledge and expertise needs. | $4.3M | Seed | Sep 01, 2023 |  |
| LunarCrush | Discover how social media impacts cryptocurrency markets. | $5M | Series A | Jul 12, 2023 |  |
| Anthropic | Anthropic conducts AI research and develops AI products, including the Claude AI model family. The company focuses on building AI for human well-being, emphasizing safety in its research, policy work, and product design. Anthropic offers various Claude models, such as Opus and Sonnet, for AI-powered applications and custom experiences, supportingcoding and AI agents. | $450M | Series C | May 23, 2023 |  |
| LeapXpert | LeapXpert enables enterprises to embrace consumer messaging applications and integrate them into their business-critical applications and processes. The company's Federated Messaging Orchestration Platform (FMOP™) is an enterprise conversational solution between Employees and Clients. It empowers companies to securely communicate from acentral source while allowing customers to use the messaging app of their choice. FMOP elevates messaging to a formal business communication channel, similar to calling or emailing. It allows companies to control communications between employees, suppliers, customers, and other interested parties. It resolves the business, compliance, and regulatory challenges the rise of messaging applications’ use in business channels has created. It currently has three of the ten top global banks as customers, with tens of thousands of users. | $22M | Series A | Mar 29, 2023 |  |
| KIN Food Halls | KIN is the first omnichannel food app allowing users to eat everything that they watch. Founded in 2019 by proven forward-thinking entrepreneurs Matt Reid, Jonathan Yeoh and Malcolm Wood, best known for their hospitality group Maximal Concepts, KIN combines AI and automation to foster human connection through food and is the first food app to bepurpose-built by restaurant owners. Strategically focused on high-density urban areas, KIN challenges the fundamentals of traditional delivery in ways that are financially, socially and environmentally more beneficial. With its first ecosystem opened in 2022 at Taikoo Place’s Devon House, KIN plans to expand with multiple locations to change targeted vertical populations’ eating habits and naturally create positive environmental impact. KIN is going to change the way we eat. |  | Seed | Mar 08, 2023 |  |

10 of 22 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Animoca Brands](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/animoca-brands-corporation) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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- [IBC Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ibc-group-dd94) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does NLS Ventures invest in?

NLS Ventures invests primarily in Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 22 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Hong Kong. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is NLS Ventures's check size?

NLS Ventures typically joins rounds of $500k–$13M at Seed and $5M–$22M 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 NLS Ventures participates in.

### When did NLS Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for NLS Ventures closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 22 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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