# Paribu Ventures

> Paribu Ventures is a VC fund in Istanbul backing Blockchain and Gaming. See 21 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Turkey
- Total investments: 21
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 10%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/paribu-ventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/paribuventures
- Website: https://paribus.ventures/

Paribu Ventures is a VC fund in Istanbul focused on Blockchain and Gaming. Investing in a decentralized blockchain-based future.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 9 | 43% |
| Gaming | 7 | 33% |
| Software | 7 | 33% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 24% |
| Apps | 3 | 14% |

34 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 48% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 6 | 29% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 19% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 33% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 10% |
| Israel | 1 | 5% |
| Turkey | 1 | 5% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Erman Taylan | Principal | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/erman-taylan |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Brix | Brix Money is a blockchain platform tokenizing sovereign yield from emerging markets into programmable on-chain assets like the iTRY stablecoin, backed by Turkish money market funds for DeFi applications. | $5.5M | Seed | Apr 15, 2026 |  |
| Roamless | Roamless is a mobile app that provides global mobile connectivity solutions for travelers and digital nomads. | $5M | Seed | Jun 13, 2024 |  |
| Roamless | Roamless is a mobile app that provides global mobile connectivity solutions for travelers and digital nomads. | $2.6M | Seed | Dec 19, 2023 |  |
| SubQuery | SubQuery’s mission is to make the world’s decentralised data more accessible. We’re a data-as-a-service provider that aggregates and organises data from Polkadot projects, serving up well-structured data for developers to use for a wide array of projects. Operating between layer-1 blockchains and decentralised apps (dApp), our service allowsdevelopers to focus on their core use case and front-end, without needing to waste time on building a custom backend for data processing.SubQuery allows every Substrate/Polkadot team to process and query their data. The project is inspired by the growth of data protocols serving the application layer and its aim is to help Polkadot/Substrate projects build better dApps by allowing anyone to reliably find and consume data faster. Today, anyone can query and extract Polkadot network data in only minutes and at no cost. | $2.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 14, 2023 |  |
| No Surrender Studio | NoSurrender is a entertainment experience focused tech company, developing realtime multiplayer games with blockchain technology | $600K | Pre-Seed | Feb 15, 2023 |  |
| Dria | FirstBatch provides personalized, accessible and safer web3 for DApps and blockchain users. | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Jan 30, 2023 |  |
| Bunch | Bunch is the first app that allows its users to play their favorite games with friends over video chat. Its platform is the easiest way for players to discover, play, and share live mobile games with their friends. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in New York City, New York. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 09, 2023 |  |
| Envio | Envio is a dev-friendly, speed-optimized, modern blockchain indexing solution that addresses the limitations of traditional blockchain indexing approaches and gives developers peace of mind. By harnessing the power of Envio, developers can overcome the challenges posed by latency, reliability, and costs across various sources. Envio serves as thefront door for any application’s need to access, transform, and save real-time or historical data, from any EVM smart contract.If you're a blockchain developer looking to enhance your development process and unlock the true potential of Web3 infrastructure, look no further. Join our growing community of elite developers, check out our docs, and let's work together to revolutionize the blockchain world and propel your project to the next level. Follow Envio on Twitter and/or Lenster for updates on new features, or jump into our Discord for any questions. | $5M | Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| Levana | Levana is a decentralized exchange protocol designed to enable leveraged positions for any asset. Levana is a cross-chain leverage AMM DEX for the Cosmos ecosystem, bringing leverage to any asset; Index Tokens, Perpetual Swaps, Tokenized Swaps, Perps and more.Founded in 2021, Levana offers permission-less, censorship-resistant, capital-efficientmarkets and a crypto-derivated trading platform that helps to spread awareness and adoption of decentralized finance that enables clients to create a place to trade on the blockchain and onboard a global audience of web2 users to the world of web3. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| Fnatic | Fnatic is a global esports entertainment brand focused on seeking out, leveling up, and amplifying gamers and creators. Founded by Sam and Anne Mathews in 2004 in the early days of the professional video gaming industry, Fnatic has since helped shape the new world sport into a fast-growing phenomenon.Today, driven by its ability to advanceesports performance, Fnatic is the channel through which the most forward-thinking brands communicate with young people. It delivers content, experiences, and activations through offices and facilities in cities between Los Angeles and Tokyo. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 30, 2022 |  |

10 of 21 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Paribu Ventures invest in?

Paribu Ventures invests primarily in Blockchain, Gaming and Software startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 21 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### Who are the partners at Paribu Ventures?

The team at Paribu Ventures includes Erman Taylan (Principal). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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