# Tess Ventures

> Tess Ventures is a VC fund in Menlo Park backing Blockchain and Software. See 73 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 73
- Last investment: Aug 2025
- Lead investor: 4%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tessventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/TessVentures
- Website: https://www.tessventures.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tessventures/

Tess Ventures is a VC fund in Menlo Park focused on Blockchain and Software. Tess Ventures does what it takes to move customers from the earliest stage to Series A and beyond. At the earliest stage, they help customers refine the idea, product, and all aspects of the company’s operations, investor relations, and market positioning. They often invest in you through a seed round and sometimes at a later stage.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 28 | 38% |
| Software | 19 | 26% |
| Cryptocurrency | 11 | 15% |
| Information Technology | 11 | 15% |
| Gaming | 9 | 12% |

76 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 44 | 60% |
| Pre-Seed | 6 | 8% |
| Series A | 5 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 5 | 7% |
| Series G | 2 | 3% |

12 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 32 | 44% |
| Singapore | 9 | 12% |
| Japan | 2 | 3% |
| Brazil | 1 | 1% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |

11 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Tess Hau | General Partner, Founder & CEO | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tess-hau |
| Douglas Y. Park | Venture Partner & General Counsel | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/douglas-y-park |
| Wayne Hu | Partner & COO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wayne-hu-9ced |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Joinable Labs | Joinable Labs is a time-to-intelligence advancement platform that helps users to enter raw data into advanced private AI systems by providing privacy, security, and control. | $2M | Seed | Aug 05, 2025 |  |
| Pentagon Games | Pioneering the Future of Gaming Development and Distribution. In the fast-evolving gaming landscape, Pentagon Games stands at the forefront, marrying the digital with the physical through groundbreaking AI and Web3 technologies. | $6M | Seed | Aug 08, 2024 |  |
| Neon Media | Neon Media produces realtime sets for virtual productions. | $20M | Series A | Oct 25, 2023 |  |
| Aethir | Aethir’s Decentralized Cloud Infrastructure (DCI) is the framework that unbinds the macro trajectory of the AI and gaming industry, from the walled garden resources of the incumbent cloud hegemony.Aethir's make complex cloud resources more accessible. | $9M | Seed | Jul 26, 2023 |  |
| MetaZone | MetaZone's mission is to harness and expand the application layer of the metaverse to onboard a billion citizens. MetaZone is the first content distribution platform designed to facilitate the open digital economy. At its core, creators submit Metaverse Enabled Tokenized Applications (METAs) to the marketplace, allowing anyone to own,experience, and deploy them to any virtual world. Anyone connected to the platform can host high-quality functional 3D content on digital lands with the click of a few buttons. | $3M | Seed | May 30, 2023 |  |
| Social Future | Social Future is an AI-driven social networking metaverse company. | $6M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 06, 2023 |  |
| Notifi | Web3 Messaging Infrastructure Services | $10M | Seed | Nov 09, 2022 |  |
| MM3 NFT | MM3 NFT is a social NFT platform for visualizing DIDs and dressing up. | $2M | Seed | Oct 12, 2022 |  |
| Stems Labs | community and platform for collaborative creativity | $4M | Pre-Seed | Oct 03, 2022 |  |
| KNN3 Network | KNN3 Network is a user-centric DataFi solution for d/Apps and smart contracts built on web3. The KNN3 Network enables d/Apps and smart contracts to interact with cross-platform user-centric data in a variety of algorithm-friendly ways. It offers graph solutions for web3 multiverse relational aggregation to power social d/App and AIanalytics. KNN3 aims to be a community-driven data curation protocol that facilitates on-chain data collaboration. | $2.4M | Seed | Sep 09, 2022 |  |

10 of 73 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Tess Ventures invest in?

Tess Ventures invests primarily in Blockchain, Software and Cryptocurrency startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 73 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Tess Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Tess Ventures?

The team at Tess Ventures includes Tess Hau (General Partner, Founder & CEO), Douglas Y. Park (Venture Partner & General Counsel) and Wayne Hu (Partner & COO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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