# Pragma Ventures

> Pragma Ventures is a VC fund in Yeoksamdong backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Yeoksamdong, South Korea
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pragma-ventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/PragmaVentures
- Website: http://Pragma.ooo

Pragma Ventures is a VC fund in Yeoksamdong focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Pragma Ventures supports talented blockchain startups with real-world potential. We are based in Seoul and Vancouver, led by professionals with backgrounds in computer science, marketing, and UX/UI design.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 5 | 50% |
| Cryptocurrency | 4 | 40% |
| Decentralized Finance (DeFi) | 3 | 30% |
| Web3 | 2 | 20% |
| FinTech | 2 | 20% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 70% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 30% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Switzerland | 2 | 20% |
| United States | 2 | 20% |
| Estonia | 1 | 10% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 10% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Zoo Finance | Zoo Finance is a pioneering DeFi protocol focused on unlocking liquidity from locked assets, empowering users to access capital more efficiently while maximizing the utility of their on-chain holdings. | $8M | Seed | Dec 02, 2025 |  |
| OpenGradient | OpenGradient is a leading decentralized AI platform for open-source model hosting, secure inference, agentic reasoning, and application deployment. By developing tooling and a feature-rich platform that makes developing AI workflows both secure and seamless, OpenGradient empowers developers with the ability to build in its ecosystem of intelligentand optimized AI-empowered applications. With native model hosting, permissionless composability, and secure inference execution, OpenGradient also aims to accelerate open-source AI by democratizing model ownership, improving verifiability guarantees, and promoting censorship-resistant model access.Our heterogeneous AI compute architecture (HACA) and our proprietary library NeuroML scale secure AI workflows with features like inference, agentic reasoning, statistical analysis, and more. OpenGradient also accelerates open-source innovation with a web portal and SDK for Web2 developers to leverage our AI stack without navigating blockchain complexities, while enjoying the security and composability benefits of decentralized infrastructure. | $9.5M | Seed | Oct 09, 2024 |  |
| XSwap | XSwap is a cross-chain swaps protocol that provide protocols and end-users with secure, reliable, and simple cross-chain payments, all supported by Chainlink CCIP. |  | Seed | May 09, 2024 |  |
| Crestal | Crestal offers a decentralized platform that meets the objectives of Web3 applications through modular service architecture. The Crestal blockchain monitors and scores services using a Proof of Performance (PoP) consensus process. | $2M | Pre-Seed | May 03, 2024 |  |
| D8X | D8X is an institutional-grade perpetual futures DEX with a financial engineering approach that significantly transforms the way perpetual futures can be traded on-chain. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Aug 04, 2023 |  |
| Intmax | Intmax uses stateless Layer 2 zkRollup to provide cost-effective, private, and interoperable solutions to blockchain applications. | $5M | Seed | Apr 15, 2023 |  |
| Ryodan Systems | Ryodan Systems develops zkRollup to construct an infrastructure based on Ethereum encryption technology, achieving almost no gas costs and data sovereignty. | $4.9M | Seed | Apr 13, 2023 |  |
| Fondo | Fondo helps with bookkeeping and beyond so founders can grow their businesses with more resources. The company strives to help founders build an enduring business by taking work off of their plate, providing them with the data needed to make key business decisions, and making sure the startup is in compliance at the state and federal level. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Feb 13, 2023 |  |
| TEN (Obscuro Labs) | Obscuro is a layer 2 solution for Ethereum that brings privacy. It ensures the inputs, ledger state and execution are always encrypted. No changes to Dapps, just migrate and gain privacy. | $3.5M | Seed | Nov 01, 2022 |  |
| Primex Finance | Primex is the cross-chain prime brokerage liquidity protocol for cross-DEX margin trading with trader scoring mechanisms.In Primex, lenders provide liquidity to pools where traders can use it for leveraged trading in cross-DEX environments, while lenders then have an opportunity to earn high yields; their interest is generated from margin feesand profits on successful trades.Lenders have the flexibility to manage their risks and return by providing liquidity to a variety of risk buckets, subsets of liquidity pools that regulate trader risk strategies. | $5.7M | Seed | Dec 28, 2021 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Cogitent Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cogitent-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Mask Network](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dimension-293e) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [HG Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hg-ventures-5797) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [P2 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/polygon-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Zephyrus Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zephyrus) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Antalpha](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antalpha) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Pragma Ventures invest in?

Pragma Ventures invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Decentralized Finance (DeFi) startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Switzerland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Pragma Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Pragma Ventures closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 10 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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