# Saxon

> Saxon is a VC fund in London backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Jul 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/saxon-advisors/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/saxonadvisors/
- Website: https://www.saxon.xyz

Saxon is a VC fund in London focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Saxon serves companies and crypto networks across the digital asset ecosystem through each of it's business lines.ADVISORS Our advisory division provides corporate finance advice to projects to prepare for and execute private placements of crypto assets.VENTURES Our ventures arm seeks to play an active role in the development ofearly-stage projects that we beleive are radicially innovative.NODES Through our Nodes as a Service offering we provide solutions to investors and developers. For developers of blockchain networks, we operate nodes to support the network alongside technical advice. Meanwhile, for investors, we enable them to capture the rewards from validating transactions without the technical skills to manage and deploy nodes.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 2 | 29% |
| Cryptocurrency | 2 | 29% |
| Web3 | 1 | 14% |
| FinTech | 1 | 14% |
| Internet | 1 | 14% |

9 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 43% |
| Initial Coin Offering | 2 | 29% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 14% |
| Series A | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gibraltar | 1 | 14% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 14% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 14% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| James Sherborne | Managing Parter | 0 | — |
| Ultan Miller | Managing Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ultan-miller |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| assisterr | Assisterr is building an AI tokenization stack to ensure fair compensation for data owners and contributors. The platform manages the entire lifecycle of SLM training, enabling features like data provenance tracking, fine-tuning, and the launch of SLM-powered Agents. Web3 component allows data owners to contribute their data and expertise todomain-specific SLMs and capture the value from such contributions. | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | Jul 23, 2024 |  |
| Crypto Valley Exchange | CVEX is a decentralized exchange that provides cryptocurrency holders with futures and options trading, using specific bid-offer dynamics to undercut other trading platforms. | $7M | Seed | Apr 16, 2024 |  |
| Merlin Starter | Merlin Starter is the flagship IDO launchpad on Merlin Chain and a dedicated Bitcoin Layer‑2 accelerator, focused on unlocking native asset circulation and expediting growth within the BTC ecosystem. Its platform offers diverse launch formats, AMP pricing, and Merlin Shield insurance to protect early investors, all within an EVM-compatible,scalable Layer-2 built on ZK-Rollup and decentralized oracles. Backed by Bitmap Tech and supporting major BTC protocols, Merlin Starter empowers project success through funding, technical assistance, marketing, tokenomics advisory, and streamlined token distribution via its token ecosystem. |  | Seed | Mar 31, 2024 |  |
| jiritsu.network | Jiritsu is a decentralized protocol enabling verifiable compute. | $10.2M | Series A | Sep 19, 2023 |  |
| Syntropy | Syntropy is transforming the public internet into a secure and user-centric internet through a unifying layer where the encryption and optimized performance are built-in and automatically enabled for anything and everything connected to it. | $4M | Seed | May 23, 2023 |  |
| jiritsu.network | Jiritsu is a decentralized protocol enabling verifiable compute. |  | Initial Coin Offering | Jul 01, 2022 |  |
| Smart Token Labs | Smart Token Labs is creating a new standard for a tokenized future. |  | Initial Coin Offering | May 01, 2021 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Comma3 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/comma3-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Moonhill Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/moonhill-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [A100x Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a100x) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alpha Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alpha-group-706c) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alphemy Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alphemy-capital-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
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## FAQ

### What does Saxon invest in?

Saxon invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Web3 startups, most often at Seed and Initial Coin Offering stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Gibraltar. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Saxon?

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### Who are the partners at Saxon?

The team at Saxon includes James Sherborne (Managing Parter) and Ultan Miller (Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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