Protagonist
VC Fund
Miami Beach, United States
Protagonist is an investment management company.
- Total investments:
- 51
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 14%
- Fund size:
- $112M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Protagonist invests in
Stages Protagonist invests in
Countries Protagonist invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $2.2M–$20M
- Series A
- $5.2M–$55M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $5M–$6M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 11 (22%)
- Artificial Intelligence 11 (22%)
- Blockchain 10 (20%)
- Cryptocurrency 7 (14%)
- Financial Services 6 (12%)
Stage
- Seed 29 (57%)
- Series A 10 (20%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (6%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (4%)
- Series C 2 (4%)
Country
- United States 28 (55%)
- United Arab Emirates 2 (4%)
- France 1 (2%)
- Israel 1 (2%)
- Poland 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Harry Hurst
Co-Founder
|
Co-Founder | Total investments: 21 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fab2 is a semiconductor technology company that designs and builds chip fabs, manufacturing tools, components, and software in-house. | $500M / Series A / Sep 08, 2026 | ||
| CreatorFi is a fintech company providing revenue-based financing to gaming studios, independent music labels, and digital content creators. CreatorFi advances capital against recurring platform revenue — Roblox and Fortnite in-game earnings, streaming royalties, YouTube AdSense, and TikTok Shop income — repaid as a percentage of ongoing earningswith no equity dilution, no fixed payments, and no personal guarantees. The company underwrites both the cash flows and the operators behind them, targeting recipients with entrenched audiences and interceptable revenue streams. CreatorFi sits first in the capital stack, making it self-liquidating by design. Founded on the thesis that digital media is the top-of-funnel for all consumer products, CreatorFi has raised $45M to fund the studios, labels, and creators who own the next generation of consumer attention. | $5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 02, 2026 | ||
| Mara builds autonomous, short-range, AI-powered robotic defense systems. | $7M / Pre-Seed / Aug 26, 2026 | ||
| Levl GmbH is a Swiss fintech company based in Zug, focused on cross-border payments and global payment infrastructure. It enables businesses to send and receive payments in over 100 countries via web app or API, with origins as a spin-out from Galaxy Digital. company's primary goal is building and securing approval for a DLT (DistributedLedger Technology) trading system, along with its operation. | $7M / Seed / Feb 11, 2026 | ||
| Modular Full-Stack Renewable Energy Solutions for Commercial and Industrial Applications | $50M / Series A / Nov 13, 2025 | ||
| Capital Markets Built On Canton. A privacy focused technical stack for trading digital assets. | $5M / Seed / Oct 16, 2025 | ||
| ZeroClick weaves paid context directly into AI’s thinking to enrich answers. For AI developers – unlock monetization without breaking user trust. For advertisers – reach AI users with context that resonates. | $55M / Series A / Aug 20, 2025 | ||
| Mill City Ventures III is a non-bank lender and specialty finance company. Mill City Ventures fund the client's operations whether it’s real estate bridge mortgages and loans, cash for operations, or general-purpose loans with sufficient collateral. | $450M / Post-IPO Equity / Jul 28, 2025 | ||
| Blok models product changes, expedites decision-making, optimizes engineering resources, and uses artificial intelligence (AI) to assist you in determining which product experiments should launch first. | $7.5M / Seed / Jul 09, 2025 | ||
| Arago develops a computing system that uses photonic technology to accelerate core operations in artificial intelligence and scientific computing. The company focuses on enhancing matrix multiplication performance, a key computational component in modern AI models, by using light-based processes rather than traditional electronic circuits. Itssystem integrates a PyTorch-based software stack with a multi-physics processor that handles tasks with cubic complexity, while a digital processor manages remaining operations with quadratic complexity. This hybrid approach maximizes memory transfer efficiency and processing capacity. The system supports industry-standard form factors, allowing for integration into existing hardware infrastructure without requiring significant changes. | $26M / Seed / Jul 08, 2025 | ||
| See all 51 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Protagonist invest in?
Protagonist invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 51 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Protagonist invest in?
Protagonist typically joins rounds of $2.2M–$20M at Seed, $5.2M–$55M at Series A and $5M–$6M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Protagonist's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Protagonist took part in.
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Who are the partners at Protagonist?
The team at Protagonist includes Harry Hurst (Co-Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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