# SALT Fund

> SALT Fund is a VC fund in New York backing Blockchain and Biotechnology. See 37 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 37
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 19%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/salt-conference/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/SALTConference
- Website: http://salt.org
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SALTorg

SALT Fund is an investment fund.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.3M–$23M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.6M–$5M |
| Series A | $8M–$42M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 8 | 22% |
| Biotechnology | 6 | 16% |
| Cryptocurrency | 5 | 14% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 11% |
| Finance | 3 | 8% |

39 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 16 | 43% |
| Series A | 6 | 16% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 11% |
| Series C | 3 | 8% |
| Series B | 1 | 3% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 14 | 38% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 5% |
| China | 1 | 3% |
| Germany | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Klokus | Founder and Managing Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-klokus |
| AJ Scaramucci | Founder & Managing Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aj-scaramucci-scaramucci |
| Alexander Klokus | Founder and Managing Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexander-klokus-8cef |
| Steve Andrew | Member Of The Board Of Advisors | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steve-andrew-e9eb |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Avantis Labs | 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 | 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 |  |
| Shuttle Labs | Contributing to secure cross-chain orchestration | $6M | Seed | Oct 23, 2024 |  |
| Fission Labs | Fission Labs democratize access to VC investing by creating a global, liquid, on-chain marketplace. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Oct 10, 2024 |  |
| OpenGradient | 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 | 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 | 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 AI | 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 Labs | 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 | Mira is a decentralized infrastructure platform designed to increase access to advanced AI. | $9M | Seed | Jul 16, 2024 |  |

10 of 37 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [ParaFi Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/parafi-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Coinbase Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinbase-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Kraynos Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kraynos-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
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- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [GSR](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gsr) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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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 is SALT Fund's check size?

SALT Fund typically joins rounds of $2.3M–$23M at Seed, $1.6M–$5M at Pre-Seed and $8M–$42M 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 SALT Fund participates in.

### How do I contact SALT Fund?

Public channels for SALT Fund include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) 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 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 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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