# Serum

> Serum is a VC fund in New York backing Blockchain, FinTech and Software. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Aug 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/projectserum
- Website: https://projectserum.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Project-Serum-101772921635935/

Serum is a VC fund in New York focused on Blockchain and FinTech. Serum is the world's first completely on-chain cryptocurrency ecosystem with trustless trading brought to you by Project Serum, in collaboration with a consortium of crypto trading and DeFi experts. Built on Solana, Serum is fast and efficient. While we built the Serum protocol, it is permission less – we do not hold special power anymore. Itis up to you, the crypto community, to use it as you will.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.4M–$7.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 5 | 50% |
| FinTech | 2 | 20% |
| Software | 2 | 20% |
| Cryptocurrency | 2 | 20% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 20% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 70% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 10% |
| Series A | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 2 | 20% |
| United States | 2 | 20% |
| Ukraine | 1 | 10% |
| South Korea | 1 | 10% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Everlend | Everlend continuously offers the highest yield on deposits and the lowest interest rate on loans. As market conditions change, Everlend uses automatic rebalancing and refinancing mechanisms to continually optimize the user's position. | $2.6M | Seed | Aug 18, 2022 |  |
| Cashmere | Cashmere creates a safer crypto wallet that secures treasury. It transfers funds using the multi-signature signing feature, which combines the flexibility of hot wallets with the storage security of cold wallets. Cashmere focuses on assisting people in securely storing their cryptocurrency. It will safeguard cryptocurrencies even if hot walletssuch as Slope and Phantom are compromised. | $3M | Seed | Aug 08, 2022 |  |
| Cashmere | Cashmere creates a safer crypto wallet that secures treasury. It transfers funds using the multi-signature signing feature, which combines the flexibility of hot wallets with the storage security of cold wallets. Cashmere focuses on assisting people in securely storing their cryptocurrency. It will safeguard cryptocurrencies even if hot walletssuch as Slope and Phantom are compromised. | $3M | Seed | Aug 08, 2022 |  |
| Fig Investments | Fig is a technology platform that helps financial services firms such as banks, portfolio managers, and broker dealers to offer crypto structured & direct indexing products as a white-label solution for their high net worth clients. | $650K | Pre-Seed | Jul 01, 2022 |  |
| Vybe Network | Vybe Network is a data infrastructure solution that enables the solana community to query, index, and share on-chain data to build web 3.0 dApps and analytics. | $10.4M | Series A | Jun 07, 2022 |  |
| CrowdPad | CrowdPad is building an AI-powered end-to-end marketing assistant. It was founded in 2021 and is based in London, England. | $2.5M | Seed | Apr 29, 2022 |  |
| Amulet Protocol | DeFi insurance protocol | $6M | Seed | Apr 27, 2022 |  |
| Aver | Aver is a decentralized peer-to-peer betting exchange built on the Solana blockchain and the world’s first decentralized Web3 betting exchange. | $7.5M | Seed | Jan 24, 2022 |  |
| Cypher | Cypher is a decentralized synthetic asset protocol, allowing retail and institutional investors to create and trade pre-public markets. | $2.1M | Seed | Nov 18, 2021 |  |
| Dexlab | Dexlab is a decentralized exchange where the best Solana projects mint and list their tokens.solana customer care number solana customer care | $1.4M | Seed | Jun 30, 2021 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Big Brain Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/big-brain-holdings) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [FBG Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fbg-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [GBV Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/genesis-block-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Mirana](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mirana) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Mirana](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mirana-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [NGC Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/neo-global-capital-ngc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Serum invest in?

Serum invests primarily in Blockchain, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Serum's check size?

Serum typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$7.5M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Serum participates in.

### When did Serum last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Serum closed in Aug 2022. Shizune tracks 10 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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