SALT Fund
VC Fund
New York, United States
SALT Fund is an investment fund.
- Total investments:
- 37
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 19%
Last updated:
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Industries SALT Fund invests in
Stages SALT Fund invests in
Countries SALT Fund invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $2.3M–$23M
- Pre-Seed
- $1.6M–$5M
- Series A
- $8M–$42M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 8 (22%)
- Biotechnology 6 (16%)
- Cryptocurrency 5 (14%)
- Information Technology 4 (11%)
- Finance 3 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 16 (43%)
- Series A 6 (16%)
- Pre-Seed 4 (11%)
- Series C 3 (8%)
- Series B 1 (3%)
Country
- United States 14 (38%)
- Switzerland 2 (5%)
- China 1 (3%)
- Germany 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alex Klokus
Founder and Managing Partner
|
Founder and Managing Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
AJ Scaramucci
Founder & Managing Partner
|
Founder & Managing Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Alexander Klokus
Founder and Managing Partner
|
Founder and Managing Partner | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
|
Steve Andrew
Member Of The Board Of Advisors
|
Member Of The Board Of Advisors | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avantis Labs promises to offer institutional and private investors the opportunity to trade cryptocurrencies and RWAs with up to 100x leverage on their decentralized exchange. Better market-making and trading infrastructure for DeFi derivatives is also intended to be provided, as well as "scalable, capital-efficient composability, | $8M / Series A / Jun 03, 2025 | ||
| Manifest is the simplest way for investors worldwide to access institutional-grade U.S. real estate through onchain ownership. | $2.5M / Pre-Seed / Mar 20, 2025 | ||
| Contributing to secure cross-chain orchestration | $6M / Seed / Oct 23, 2024 | ||
| Fission Labs democratize access to VC investing by creating a global, liquid, on-chain marketplace. | $1.6M / Pre-Seed / Oct 10, 2024 | ||
| OpenGradient is a pioneering platform that enables secure execution of open-source models, employs agentic reasoning, and facilitates application deployment without permission. | $8.5M / Seed / Oct 09, 2024 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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. | Seed / Oct 09, 2024 | ||
| Third Dimension's focus on immersive quality suggests they prioritize creating engaging and realistic experiences, which can be particularly beneficial for fields like gaming, virtual reality, architecture, and simulation training. | $7M / Seed / Oct 08, 2024 | ||
| Hemi (https://hemi.xyz) is a modular protocol that integrates Bitcoin and Ethereum to amplify and extend the core capabilities of the two leading blockchain networks. This offers a novel perspective on blockchain interoperability and scaling by approaching Bitcoin and Ethereum as components of a single supernetwork. The result providessecurity that exceeds that of Bitcoin (“superfinality”) and new levels of blockchain programmability, portability, and potential. Hemi was co-founded by Jeff Garzik (former Bitcoin core developer) and Max Sanchez (inventor of the Proof-of-Proof consensus protocol), and is surrounded by a team of renowned blockchain engineers, strategic partners and investors. | $15M / Seed / Sep 18, 2024 | ||
| Mira is a decentralized infrastructure platform designed to increase access to advanced AI. | $9M / Seed / Jul 16, 2024 | ||
| See all 37 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does SALT Fund invest in?
SALT Fund invests primarily in Blockchain, Biotechnology and Cryptocurrency startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 37 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 SALT Fund invest in?
SALT Fund typically joins rounds of $2.3M–$23M at Seed, $1.6M–$5M at Pre-Seed and $8M–$42M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not SALT Fund's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds SALT Fund took part in.
How do I contact SALT Fund?
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Who are the partners at SALT Fund?
The team at SALT Fund includes Alex Klokus (Founder and Managing Partner), AJ Scaramucci (Founder & Managing Partner) and Alexander Klokus (Founder and Managing Partner). 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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