# Stepan Simkin

> Stepan Simkin is a seed investor at Squads (Solana) backing Blockchain and Web3. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Squads](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/squads-45a1)
- Location: Solana, Philippines
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/simkinstepan 
- Website: https://x.com/simkinstepan 

Stepan Simkin is a seed investor at Squads in Solana focused on Blockchain and Web3. Stepan Simkin is the co-founder of Squads.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.1M–$7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 5 | 56% |
| Web3 | 3 | 33% |
| Cryptocurrency | 3 | 33% |
| Software | 2 | 22% |
| Finance | 1 | 11% |

14 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 78% |
| Angel | 1 | 11% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Switzerland | 2 | 22% |
| Canada | 1 | 11% |
| Nicaragua | 1 | 11% |
| Singapore | 1 | 11% |
| Philippines | 1 | 11% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Turtle Club | Turtle Club is a protocol for an on-chain liquidity allocation platform that focuses on connecting LPs, protocols, and partners through sustainable and transparent incentives. | $6.2M | Seed | May 12, 2025 |  |
| ZAR | ZAR establishes a connection between cash-based economies and the web3 framework, facilitating adoption of stablecoins. | $7M | Seed | Apr 30, 2025 |  |
| Arcium | Arcium is a parallelized confidential computing network that provides trustless, verifiable and efficient encrypted computation. Arcium implements Multiparty Computation Execution Environments (MXEs) that combine MPC, homomorphic encryption, zero-knowledge proofs, and more to enable computation on encrypted data. | $2M | Angel | Mar 27, 2025 |  |
| Exponent Finance | Exponent Finance is a Solana Network DeFi fixed price market that creates time-locked tokens that can generate set returns or be traded for yield. | $2.1M | Seed | Nov 21, 2024 |  |
| Regolith Labs | Regolith Labs is the operator of a software company dedicated to assisting token airdrops in defending against sybil assaults and spam. | $3M | Seed | Sep 14, 2024 |  |
| Elmnts | Elmnts is a blockchain-based tokenized commodity ecosystem for oil & gas royalties, it offers fewer intermediaries, lower fees, and higher liquidity. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Aug 05, 2024 |  |
| Pluno | AwesomeQA is an AI customer support solution for Web3, designed to deliver best-in-class user support while reducing the need for manual labor. | $2.8M | Seed | Jul 11, 2023 |  |
| DFlow | DFlow is a decentralized order flow marketplace platform. | $5.5M | Seed | Apr 25, 2023 |  |
| Helius | Helius accelerates the adoption of crypto-powered software. | $3.1M | Seed | Aug 01, 2022 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Solana Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/solana-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Coinbase Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinbase-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Foundation Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foundation-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Big Brain Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/big-brain-holdings) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Framework Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/framework-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Robot Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robot-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Squads

VC Fund · Solana, Philippines

Squads is a developer of a decentralized program that enables the establishment of better and easier decentralized autonomous groups. The company's application combines all of the key components of a decentralized autonomous organization, such as deployment, treasury, vault management, on-chain voting, and chat, into a single portal with aneasy-to-use interface, allowing users to streamline daily operations using a decentralized autonomous organization structure.

2 contacts available at Squads.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Deni Ershtukaev | Co-Founder & COO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/deni-ershtukaev |
| Stepan Simkin | Co-Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stepan-simkin |

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## FAQ

### What does Stepan Simkin invest in?

Stepan Simkin invests primarily in Blockchain, Web3 and Cryptocurrency startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Switzerland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Stepan Simkin's check size?

Stepan Simkin typically joins rounds of $2.1M–$7M 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 Stepan Simkin participates in.

### When did Stepan Simkin last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Stepan Simkin closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 9 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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