# Valour

> Valour is a VC fund in Toronto backing Blockchain and Financial Services. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/defitechnologies/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/DEFI_NEO
- Website: https://defitechnologies.ca/

Valour is a VC fund in Toronto focused on Blockchain and Financial Services. DeFi Technologies is a Canadian company that carries on business with the objective of enhancing shareholder value through building and managing assets in the decentralized finance sector. DeFi Technologies changed its name to Valour. At the opening of the markets on June 1, 2022, the Company’s common shares will commence trading under the new name“Valour.”.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 6 | 50% |
| Financial Services | 5 | 42% |
| Cryptocurrency | 4 | 33% |
| Asset Management | 2 | 17% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 17% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Corporate Round | 4 | 33% |
| Seed | 2 | 17% |
| Series A | 2 | 17% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 17% |
| Series C | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 33% |
| Switzerland | 3 | 25% |
| Nigeria | 1 | 8% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 8% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Wouter Witvoet | Co-Founder | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wouter-witvoet |
| Johan Wattenström | Chief Operating Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/johan-wattenstr%C3%B6m |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| cNGN | cNGN is the first regulated stablecoin, created to enhance capital market and financial activities in the digital era. |  | Seed | Sep 16, 2025 |  |
| Improbable | Improbable is dedicated to building powerful technology designed to help solve previously impossible problems and enable the creation of new realities. In gaming and entertainment, Improbable unlocks truly next-generation gameplay through virtual worlds of unprecedented scale, persistence, and richness. In other industries, they hope to help answercritical questions through simulations that could lead to a better functioning world.Their platform, SpatialOS, lets developers transcend the limits of regular computation, allowing swarms of servers running in the cloud to cooperate in order to simulate worlds far larger and more complex than any single server could.They are a British technology company proudly building a diverse workforce, driven by a shared desire to improve and achieve extraordinary things. They are crafting technology for the future and fostering a problem-solving culture that embraces innovation through iteration and experimentation.stitutions across the world. | $100M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 03, 2022 |  |
| Boba Network | Boba Network is an EVM-equivalent hybrid computing platform built on an optimistic rollup architecture, helping developers build more feature-rich apps by enabling smart contracts to leverage complex off-chain computations or bring in off-chain data. Boba offers one of the easiest to use blockchain platforms for end-users through their multi-tokenon-ramp, fast exit, and NFT bridge. | $45M | Series A | Apr 05, 2022 |  |
| Wilder World | Wilder World is a community-owned, fully decentralized, liquid NFT market and social platform. | $30M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 17, 2022 |  |
| AMINA Bank AG | SEBA Bank is a cryptocurrency company that provides a seamless, secure, and easy-to-use bridge between digital and traditional assets. Its services allow customers to secure, trade, and manage cryptocurrencies, digital assets, and conventional securities all in one place. It also allows customers and clients to have access to convenient andtransparent investment solutions for their crypto and traditional assets.The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Zug, Zug, Switzerland. | $120.3M | Series C | Jan 12, 2022 |  |
| Luxor Technology | Luxor Technologies is a fully integrated blockchain company. Currently, we run mining pools for high quality altcoins: Bitcoin, ZCash, Horizen, Pirate, Monero, Sia, Decred, AION, LBRY, and moreOur mission is to address the shortage of blockchain infrastructure that exists to satisfy the growing demand of cryptocurrency mining. By building andprofessionalizing the underlying infrastructure that allows for the decentralization of digital assets, we believe that we can help make cryptocurrency more accessible to the world. | $5M | Series A | Jun 09, 2021 |  |
| SDK:meta | SDK:meta, a privately held web3 blockchain technology company driving mass adoption of user-centric platforms and mobile consumption of decentralized finance. |  | Corporate Round | Jun 08, 2021 |  |
| saffron.finance | Saffron.finance is a protocol for DeFi that offers asset collateralization and customized risk. | $2M | Seed | Mar 08, 2021 |  |
| saffron.finance | Saffron.finance is a protocol for DeFi that offers asset collateralization and customized risk. | $2M | Seed | Mar 08, 2021 |  |
| MAPS.ME | MAPS.ME is #1 free mobile offline map for travellers with over 140 million installations all over the world (as of Q3 2019), available for iOS and Android and translated into 28 languages. MAPS.ME covers all countries of the world which are available for download from within the application. After the download, the maps and all the built-infeatures work offline and do not require an internet connection (map, search, filters, car/pedestrian/bike/transit routing and navigation with voice instructions). With the internet connection, you can also get free car traffic in 38 countries and access a public catalog with thousands of travel guides and itineraries, created by professional companies and individual bloggers and active travelers. MAPS.ME gets its map data from OpenStreetMap.org (Wikipedia of maps) – an open database of geographic information which is updated by the community of 5.7M contributors. The application includes the map data in full details with streets, house names, tourist attractions, hiking/cycling trails, local businesses and many other information.The map is fast and detailed thanks to several breakthrough technologies: extremely compact map data compression and high speed rendering, which is 4-10x faster than other map apps. |  | Corporate Round | Jan 27, 2021 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Coinbase Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinbase-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [DeFi Technologies](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/defi-technologies-f632) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Dragonfly Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dragonfly-capital-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Multicoin Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/multicoin-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [10X Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/10x-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [6th Man Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/6th-man-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Valour invest in?

Valour invests primarily in Blockchain, Financial Services and Cryptocurrency startups, most often at Corporate Round and Seed stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Valour?

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### Who are the partners at Valour?

The team at Valour includes Wouter Witvoet (Co-Founder) and Johan Wattenström (Chief Operating Officer). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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