# Paul Kim

> Paul Kim is a seed investor backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Greater Seattle Area, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Feb 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/1paulkim/

Paul Kim is a seed investor in Greater Seattle Area focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. VP Product Strategy & Founder at Apvera

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$8M |
| Pre-Seed | $2M–$2.2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 3 | 38% |
| Cryptocurrency | 3 | 38% |
| Bitcoin | 2 | 25% |
| Web3 | 1 | 13% |
| FinTech | 1 | 13% |

8 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 63% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 38% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 38% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| fomo | Fomo is a cutting-edge fintech startup revolutionizing the financial landscape through innovative technology and strategic partnerships. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Feb 18, 2025 |  |
| Nexio | Nexio is a bitcoin scaling solution platform that helps to improve cryptocurrency's scalability by using parallelizing Bitcoin rollouts. | $2.2M | Pre-Seed | Aug 06, 2024 |  |
| aPriori | aPriori is a monad-native MEV infrastructure and liquid staking mechanism developed for parallel executions. | $8M | Seed | Jul 23, 2024 |  |
| Bima Labs | Bima Labs provides Bitcoin-backed stable coins. | $2.3M | Seed | Jul 15, 2024 |  |
| Ion Protocol | Ion Protocol is a lending protocol that accepts pledged and re-pledged assets, allowing users to deposit any validator-backed asset (including LST and re-pledged holdings, among others). | $2M | Seed | Jul 14, 2023 |  |
| Ion Protocol | Ion Protocol is a lending protocol that accepts pledged and re-pledged assets, allowing users to deposit any validator-backed asset (including LST and re-pledged holdings, among others). | $2M | Pre-Seed | Jul 14, 2023 |  |
| Elusiv | Elusiv offers compliance in mind with next-generation privacy solutions for a better Web3. | $3.5M | Seed | Nov 04, 2022 |  |
| Arcium | Arcium is a parallelized confidential computing network that provides trustless, verifiable and efficient encrypted computation. Arcium implements Multiparty Computation Execution Environments (MXEs) that combine MPC, homomorphic encryption, zero-knowledge proofs, and more to enable computation on encrypted data. | $3.5M | Seed | Nov 04, 2022 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Portal Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/portal-ventures-a465) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Staking Facilities](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/staking-facilities) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Cogitent Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cogitent-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [LongHash Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/longhash) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Marin Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marin-ventures-96eb) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [MonkeVentures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/monkeventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Paul Kim invest in?

Paul Kim invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Bitcoin startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Paul Kim's check size?

Paul Kim typically joins rounds of $2M–$8M at Seed and $2M–$2.2M 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 Paul Kim participates in.

### How do I contact Paul Kim?

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### When did Paul Kim last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Paul Kim closed in Feb 2025. Shizune tracks 8 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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