# Kronos Research

> Kronos Research is a VC fund in Taipei backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 36 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Taipei, Taiwan
- Total investments: 36
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 3%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kronosresearch/
- Website: https://kronosresearch.com

Kronos Research is a VC fund in Taipei focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Flag as inappropriate

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$11M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.4M–$1.5M |
| Series A | $8M–$25M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 23 | 64% |
| Cryptocurrency | 16 | 44% |
| Trading Platform | 11 | 31% |
| Financial Services | 8 | 22% |
| Decentralized Finance (DeFi) | 8 | 22% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 23 | 64% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 11% |
| Series A | 3 | 8% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 6% |
| Series C | 1 | 3% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 19% |
| Singapore | 5 | 14% |
| Canada | 2 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 6% |
| Bahamas | 1 | 3% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jack Tan | Chief Executive Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jack-tan |
| Mark Pimentel | Chief Executive Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-pimentel |
| Vincent Liu | Chief Investment Officer | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vincent-liu-24c6 |
| Vincent Wang | CTO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vincent-wang-2e79 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Harbor | Harbor is a purpose-built trading platform for wallets to access liquidity in a performant execution environment. | $4.2M | Seed | Dec 17, 2025 |  |
| Wildcat Labs | Wildcat Labs provides on-chain credit and grants access to a detailed view of all market parameters and logs for real-time monitoring. | $3.5M | Seed | Sep 05, 2025 |  |
| SYNTHR | SYNTHR is redefining instant and slippage-free asset movement across chains |  |  | Jan 14, 2025 |  |
| Valhalla | Valhalla is a decentralized exchange platform provider that allows users to trade cryptocurrencies directly from their wallets without relying on intermediaries. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Dec 20, 2024 |  |
| Yei Finance | Yei Finance a pioneering decentralized, non-custodial money market protocol. | $2M | Seed | Dec 14, 2024 |  |
| BulbaSwap | BulbaSwap is a Morph-based decentralized swap aggregator that uses a search engine driven by multi-source liquidity to help consumers find the best swap prices available. | $1.3M | Seed | Oct 24, 2024 |  |
| Multipool | Multipool is a cutting-edge DEX transforming the trading landscape for RWAs and cryptocurrencies. It is designed for fairness and equality, featuring a fully decentralized on-chain order book, deep liquidity through dynamic bracket pools, and utilizing on-chain compliance tools. |  | Corporate Round | Jul 23, 2024 |  |
| Nubila | Nubila is a pioneer in the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) data industry, committed to revolutionizing sustainability projects with new solutions. Nubila uses AI and ESG tokenization to enhance decision-making, drive sustainable development, and generate financial solutions by creating the DePIN ecosystem's largest ESG Data Oracle. | $2.5M | Seed | Jul 01, 2024 |  |
| Lumoz | Opside is a modern, three-layer infrastructure platform that offers ZK-RaaS (ZK-rollup-as-a-service). The ability to deploy applications on Opside layer 3 without having to manage any infrastructure gives developers more freedom. All transactions and generated data are hashed and kept on the layer 2 Opside chain because layer 2 consensus and dataavailability are handled by Opside. For on-chain apps that require quicker transaction processing and reduced fees, including games and social networks, this ground-breaking method opens up a world of new possibilities. | $6M | Seed | Apr 08, 2024 |  |
| Bitlayer | Bitlayer is the first Bitcoin second-layer network, based on BitVM, offering ultra-scalability and L1 security, aiming to be Bitcoin's computing layer. | $5M | Seed | Mar 27, 2024 |  |

10 of 36 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Wintermute](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wintermute-trading) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Kronos Research invest in?

Kronos Research invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Trading Platform startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 36 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 Kronos Research's check size?

Kronos Research typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$11M at Seed, $1.4M–$1.5M at Pre-Seed and $8M–$25M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Kronos Research participates in.

### How do I contact Kronos Research?

Public channels for Kronos Research include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Kronos Research?

The team at Kronos Research includes Jack Tan (Chief Executive Officer), Mark Pimentel (Chief Executive Officer) and Vincent Liu (Chief Investment Officer). 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 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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