Stellar Development Foundation
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Stellar Development Foundation is a decentralized, fast, scalable, and uniquely sustainable network for financial products and services. It is both a cross-currency transaction system and a platform for digital asset issuance, designed to connect the world’s financial infrastructure. Dozens of financial institutions worldwide issue assets and settle payments on the Stellar network, which has grown to over 4 million accounts. The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) is a non-profit organization that supports the development and growth of Stellar. Founded in 2014, the Foundation maintains Stellar’s codebase, supports the technical and business communities building on the network, and serves as a voice to regulators and institutions. The Foundation seeks to create equitable access to the global financial system, using the Stellar network to unlock the world’s economic potential through blockchain technology.
- Total investments:
- 77
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 40%
- Fund size:
- $100M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Stellar Development Foundation invests in
Stages Stellar Development Foundation invests in
Countries Stellar Development Foundation invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 9 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1.9M–$9.9M
- Grant
- $20k–$200k
- Pre-Seed
- $50k–$2.5M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 32 (42%)
- FinTech 30 (39%)
- Blockchain 28 (36%)
- Payments 19 (25%)
- Cryptocurrency 14 (18%)
Stage
- Grant 24 (31%)
- Seed 12 (16%)
- Pre-Seed 8 (10%)
- Series A 8 (10%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 6 (8%)
Country
- United States 22 (29%)
- Kenya 3 (4%)
- Germany 3 (4%)
- Singapore 3 (4%)
- United Kingdom 3 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Boris Reznikov
Senior Director, Business Development & Partnerships
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Senior Director, Business Development & Partnerships | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
David Mazières
Chief Scientist, Co-founder
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Chief Scientist, Co-founder | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Denelle Dixon
CEO and Executive Director
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CEO and Executive Director | Total investments: 15 | Find email | |
Jason Chlipala
COO
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COO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jed McCaleb
Co-Founder
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Co-Founder | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
| See all 9 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Janus is the financial platform for global freight forwarding. We bring intelligence, settlement, and finance into one system to optimize the order-to-cash cycle. Our industry is held back by fragmented data and slow transactions. This causes unreleased containers and lost profit. Janus removes this friction. We provide a single source of financial truth for every shipment. We use AI built with freight logic. We use modern financial rails for fast, secure payment. The result is real-time visibility and faster cash cycles. We help forwarders protect their margins and grow their business. One platform, financial clarity. | Grant / Sep 17, 2026 | ||
| Yolat is a fintech company providing seamless cross-border payments and remittance solutions for African businesses and immigrants. By leveraging blockchain technology and stablecoins, Yolat offers a fast, cost-effective, and transparent way to move money across borders, eliminating traditional banking inefficiencies and high fees. With operations in Canada and Nigeria, Yolat bridges financial gaps by enabling businesses and individuals to send and receive payments securely, instantly, and at lower costs. Through the use of stablecoins, Yolat ensures that transactions remain stable, reducing exposure to currency volatility while guaranteeing real-time settlements. Yolat is fully licensed, holding an MSB License in Canada and an IMTO License from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), ensuring compliance and security in all transactions. We are on a mission to empower African entrepreneurs, businesses, and immigrants, redefining the future of cross-border payments by making global transactions more inclusive, efficient, and affordable through stablecoin-powered financial infrastructure | Grant / Sep 17, 2026 | ||
| Sorted is a software company that offers a task and time management app built around hyper-scheduling. | Grant / Sep 17, 2026 | ||
| Kutana Technologies leverages AI and Blockchain technologies to revolutionize trade for African SMEs. Their platform, KutanaPay, secures transactions and provides safe and secure B2B payment solutions. The company focuses on building technology solutions tailored for African markets, aiming to facilitate business development and support for bothtechnology and non-technology startups and SMEs across the continent. | Grant / Sep 17, 2026 | ||
| JoonaPay is a digital finance platform providing all-in-one payment processing, financial management, and digital banking solutions for medium to large businesses and banks in Francophone West Africa. We help enterprises automate payments, manage finances, and streamline operations with support for stablecoins, multi-currency payments, and ERP integration. | Grant / Sep 17, 2026 | ||
| Saleem is a pre-launch technology company that builds institutional payment infrastructure for underserved markets. | Grant / Sep 17, 2026 | ||
| DeFa by InvoiceMate is a decentralized finance lending protocol that connects stablecoin investors with invoice-backed lending opportunities. It tokenizes invoice receivables from small and medium-sized enterprises and enables investors to earn returns from the underlying receivables. The platform uses AI-based SME verification, credit insurance, and blockchain infrastructure to manage lending and repayment processes. | Grant / Sep 17, 2026 | ||
| Sly is a manufacturer of dust collectors and air pollution control equipment. | Grant / Sep 17, 2026 | ||
| Crebit is a fintech platform that provides stablecoin-powered foreign exchange and cross-border payment services for consumers and financial institutions. The company offers a mobile app that allows international students, families, and businesses to send funds using local payment rails such as Pix, SPEI, and PSE, which are converted into stablecoins like USDC for fast settlement. Crebit focuses on reducing foreign exchange costs and friction compared with traditional bank wires and remittance channels. In addition to consumer payments, Crebit supplies institutional software infrastructure for credit unions and community banks. Its tools include a rate-locking FX layer that lets enterprises secure blockchain-based FX quotes for extended periods and white-label software that supports stablecoin transfers and ITIN onboarding for international members. These offerings are aimed at enabling regional financial institutions to expand cross-border services and manage global deposits using blockchain-based rails. | Grant / Sep 17, 2026 | ||
| Kaiko is a digital assets market data provider, offering global data connectivity to more than 100 centralized and decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges. Our guiding mission is to bridge the gap between traditional and crypto finance by providing actionable financial data and services. Our four business units — Market Data, Quantitative Analytics,Indices and Research — empower use cases across the investment lifecycle. | $57M / Series B / Sep 14, 2026 | ||
| See all 77 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Stellar Development Foundation invest in?
Stellar Development Foundation invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Blockchain startups, most often at Grant and Seed stage. Most of the 77 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 Stellar Development Foundation invest in?
Stellar Development Foundation typically joins rounds of $1.9M–$9.9M at Seed, $20k–$200k at Grant and $50k–$2.5M at Pre-Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Stellar Development Foundation's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Stellar Development Foundation took part in.
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Who are the partners at Stellar Development Foundation?
The team at Stellar Development Foundation includes Boris Reznikov (Senior Director, Business Development & Partnerships), David Mazières (Chief Scientist, Co-founder) and Denelle Dixon (CEO and Executive Director), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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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