# Tekne Capital

> Tekne Capital is a VC fund backing Software, Data Center and Information Technology. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Tekne Capital is an investment firm.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 29% |
| Data Center | 2 | 29% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 29% |
| SaaS | 1 | 14% |
| Sales | 1 | 14% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series D | 2 | 29% |
| Series A | 1 | 14% |
| Series C | 1 | 14% |
| Series E | 1 | 14% |
| Series F | 1 | 14% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| China | 1 | 14% |
| India | 1 | 14% |
| France | 1 | 14% |
| Estonia | 1 | 14% |
| Singapore | 1 | 14% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Metropolis | Metropolis develops artificial intelligence and computer vision technology designed to simplify real-world transactions. The company’s platform enables frictionless interactions between people and physical environments by using visual recognition and data processing tools. Its primary focus is on transforming parking operations, allowing users toenter and exit parking facilities without manual payments or tickets. Metropolis applies its AI technology to automate identification, payment, and access processes, creating seamless and efficient mobility experiences. | $500M | Series D | Nov 06, 2025 |  |
| Global Data Solutions | Global Data Solutions designs, builds, and operates data centers in the People's Republic of China together with its subsidiaries. It provides colocation, managed hosting, and managed cloud services, as well as consulting services. Global Data Solutions's data centers service customers that primarily operate in the Internet and bankingindustries in Shanghai and Beijing municipalities; and Jiangsu, Guangdong, Sichuan, and Hebei Provinces. It serves cloud service providers, Internet companies, financial institutions, telecommunications and IT service providers, and large domestic private sector and multinational corporations. William Wei Huang founded Global Data Solutions in 2000. It has its headquarters in Shanghai in the People's Republic of China. | $587M | Post-IPO Equity | Mar 26, 2024 |  |
| DayOne | GDS International portfolio currently comprises approximately 480 MW of data center capacity in service and under construction and an additional 590 MW held for future development across strategic locations in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia (Johor), Indonesia (Batam), and Japan (Tokyo). | $587M | Series A | Mar 26, 2024 |  |
| Ola Electric | Ola Electric Mobility engages in the leasing of electric cars. It is working with vehicle and battery manufacturers, cities, driver-partners, and the mobility ecosystem to make electric mobility convenient, dependable, and affordable. Ankit Jain and Anand Shah founded Ola Electric Mobility on May 26, 2017. It has its headquarters in Bengaluru inIndia. | $200M | Series D | Jan 24, 2022 |  |
| Bolt | Bolt is a transportation platform providing ride-hailing, micromobility, and food delivery services. It is one of the fastest-growing startups in the world with over 75M happy customers in 45+ countries, from Europe to Latam to Africa. It is building the future of logistics – one platform that connects with cars, motorcycles, scooter sharing, orfood delivery from restaurants.It believes in a future with less car ownership and flexible urban mobility. By bringing reliable on-demand transport to the masses, it helps cities evolve towards decreased traffic congestion and pollution.Bolt was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia. | $713.8M | Series F | Jan 11, 2022 |  |
| Bolt | Bolt is a transportation platform providing ride-hailing, micromobility, and food delivery services. It is one of the fastest-growing startups in the world with over 75M happy customers in 45+ countries, from Europe to Latam to Africa. It is building the future of logistics – one platform that connects with cars, motorcycles, scooter sharing, orfood delivery from restaurants.It believes in a future with less car ownership and flexible urban mobility. By bringing reliable on-demand transport to the masses, it helps cities evolve towards decreased traffic congestion and pollution.Bolt was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia. | $712.4M | Series E | Aug 02, 2021 |  |
| Ledger | Ledger develops security and infrastructure solutions for cryptocurrencies as well as blockchain applications for individuals and companies, by leveraging a distinctive, proprietary technology.Launched in 2014, Ledger has designed an acclaimed line of hardware security devices quickly placing the company as a global leader on the market with1,000,000 units sold in more than 165 countries. For enterprises and corporations, Ledger introduced the Vault: a fully managed SaaS solution addressing the need to safeguard a very large amount of multiple cryptocurrencies while mitigating both IT and physical assault threats. The company is also active in the industrial IoT market, leveraging its secure hardware technology to interface sensors and machines to smart contracts or blockchain-based assets.Ledger is headquartered in Paris, has a production facility in Vierzon (France), and offices in San Francisco. | $380M | Series C | Jun 10, 2021 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Boyu Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boyu-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [D1 Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/d1-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Molten Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/draper-esprit) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Ghisallo Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ghisallo-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [G Squared](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/g-squared-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Tekne Capital invest in?

Tekne Capital invests primarily in Software, Data Center and Information Technology startups, most often at Series D and Series A stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in China. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Tekne Capital last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Tekne Capital closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 7 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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