# Sparkle Ventures

> Sparkle Ventures is a VC fund in Luxembourg backing Blockchain, Software and Cryptocurrency. See 20 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: Aug 2025
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sparkle-ventures
- Website: https://www.sparkleventures.vc/

Sparkle Ventures is a VC fund in Luxembourg focused on Blockchain and Software. Sparkle Ventures fund investing equity and tokens to support prominent technologies in Web 3.0 and highly scalable businesses participating in the build-up of the Metaverse.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.5M–$11M |
| Series A | $6.5M–$26M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 7 | 35% |
| Software | 5 | 25% |
| Cryptocurrency | 3 | 15% |
| Gaming | 2 | 10% |
| Metaverse | 2 | 10% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 13 | 65% |
| Series A | 5 | 25% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 25% |
| France | 3 | 15% |
| Canada | 2 | 10% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 10% |
| Estonia | 1 | 5% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Almanak | Almanak is a decentralized finance (DeFi) smart agent platform that harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to automate, optimize, and intelligently manage a wide range of DeFi investment strategies. It enables users to create and deploy automated DeFi trading and risk-management strategies through coordinated AI agents. It provides anenvironment where AI handles strategy coding, backtesting across thousands of Monte Carlo simulations, optimization, risk monitoring, deployment via non-custodial Safe-based multisig accounts, and real-time performance monitoring with alerting capabilities. The platform supports seamless interaction with multiple blockchains and protocols via an LLM-powered interface.Almanak targets active DeFi participants, developers building financial applications, investment professionals, and users seeking automated portfolio insights. It emphasizes enhanced automation, continuous strategy execution, and adaptive automation driven by emerging AI techniques to respond to evolving market conditions. | $8.5M | Seed | Aug 17, 2025 |  |
| Freename | Redefining Web3 Naming System. Web3 Registrar: custom TLDs and Domains | $6.5M | Series A | Jul 22, 2025 |  |
| ChainOpera AI | ChainOpera AI the blockchain and protocol for collaboratively developing and owning decentralized AI applications and humanity's agents. | $3.5M | Seed | Dec 26, 2024 |  |
| Katara | Katara is an advanced agentic workflow automation platform that allows you to manage a fleet of AI workers and expand your team's bandwidth. | $2.2M | Seed | Aug 27, 2024 |  |
| Helika | Helika is an AI character platform that helps brands and IP owners create interactive AI characters that engage audiences across websites, social media, and online communities. Founded three years ago in North America, the company serves more than 60 studios, including Nexon, Ubisoft, Yuga Labs, and Com2Us, and has co-designed projects withUbisoft. Helika has raised $15M from investors including Sagard, Pantera Capital, Animoca Brands, Fenbushi Capital, and Big Brain Holdings. | $8M | Series A | Feb 15, 2024 |  |
| Freename | Redefining Web3 Naming System. Web3 Registrar: custom TLDs and Domains | $2.5M | Seed | Sep 05, 2023 |  |
| Absolute Labs | Absolute Labs provides an infrastructure for identifying, segmenting, engaging, and managing customers in Web 3. They offer NFT marketplaces, asset publishers, chains, protocols, payment platforms, exchanges, games, and brands. | $8M | Seed | Apr 11, 2023 |  |
| Helika | Helika is an AI character platform that helps brands and IP owners create interactive AI characters that engage audiences across websites, social media, and online communities. Founded three years ago in North America, the company serves more than 60 studios, including Nexon, Ubisoft, Yuga Labs, and Com2Us, and has co-designed projects withUbisoft. Helika has raised $15M from investors including Sagard, Pantera Capital, Animoca Brands, Fenbushi Capital, and Big Brain Holdings. | $4M | Seed | Mar 01, 2023 |  |
| Polyhedra Network | Polyhedra Network is constructing the infrastructure for Web3 interoperability through the use of advanced zero-knowledge proof protocols. | $10M | Seed | Feb 21, 2023 |  |
| QED Protocol | QED is the world's first zk-Native blockchain protocol, built to scale trustless computation and privacy for the next generation of the internet. |  | Seed | Feb 01, 2023 |  |

10 of 20 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [The Sandbox](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-sandbox-f24f) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Animoca Brands](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/animoca-brands-corporation) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Diagram Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/diagram-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Sfermion](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sfermion) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [ABCDE](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abcde) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Amber Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amber-ai) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Sparkle Ventures invest in?

Sparkle Ventures invests primarily in Blockchain, Software and Cryptocurrency startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 20 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 Sparkle Ventures's check size?

Sparkle Ventures typically joins rounds of $2.5M–$11M at Seed and $6.5M–$26M 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 Sparkle Ventures participates in.

### When did Sparkle Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sparkle Ventures closed in Aug 2025. Shizune tracks 20 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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