# Tezos Foundation

> Tezos Foundation is a VC fund in Zug backing FinTech and Blockchain. See 25 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zug, Switzerland
- Total investments: 25
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 12%
- Fund size: $10k
- Last fund: Jan 1900
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tezosfoundation
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/tezosfoundation
- Website: https://tezos.foundation/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tezosfoundation

Tezos Foundation is a VC fund in Zug focused on FinTech and Blockchain. Tezos is a technology that powers a distributed, peer-to-peer, permissionless network. No single entity owns, manages, or controls “Tezos.” Understanding this paradigm is fundamental to understanding Tezos.The Tezos Foundation is a Swiss foundation, supervised by the Swiss Federal Foundation Supervisory Authority which is part of the SwissFederal Department of Home Affairs. Its purpose is the promotion and development of new technologies and applications, especially in the fields of new open and decentralized software architectures including the promotion and development of the Tezos protocol and related technologies.As highlighted in the Tezos position paper, the success of any decentralized network is determined by the efforts of a robust, diverse, and flourishing community. The Foundation exists as a part of this ecosystem, alongside developers, scientists, network validators (“bakers”), enthusiasts, and many others all working towards the success of a platform that we believe will ultimately drive innovation on a global scale.The Foundation’s role within the community is to deploy resources that support the long-term future of the Tezos project. Grants and other capital deployment vehicles offer a strategic way to help community members, such as educational and research institutions, developers, or activists from all over the world to support the advancement of the Tezos technology.Tezos’ potential rests in the hands of its community which is among the strongest and most exceptional in the blockchain ecosystem. All interested parties are welcome to join the Tezos community and contribute to the project.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $500k–$5M |
| Series A | $5M–$28M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 6 | 24% |
| Blockchain | 6 | 24% |
| Financial Services | 6 | 24% |
| Software | 5 | 20% |
| Cryptocurrency | 5 | 20% |

40 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 12 | 48% |
| Series A | 4 | 16% |
| Grant | 2 | 8% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 8% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 5 | 20% |
| United States | 5 | 20% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 8% |
| Austria | 1 | 4% |
| Estonia | 1 | 4% |

10 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Arthur Breitman | Co-Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arthur-breitman-17ef |
| Chris Wright | Council Member | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-wright-2 |
| Kathleen Breitman | Co-Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kathleen-breitman |
| Mason Edwards | Chief Of Staff | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mason-edwards |
| Roman Schnider | Head of Operations | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/roman-schnider-edae |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Acurast | Acurast Decentralized Serverless Cloud, leveraging the multipliers of mobile phones for compute. | $11M |  | Nov 13, 2025 |  |
| chainstaff | Chainstaff is a community dedicated to revolutionizing the identification and acquisition of talent, not just a platform for hiring. Our goal is to transform the worldwide employment market by making hiring more intelligent, efficient, and fulfilling. |  | Seed | Nov 04, 2025 |  |
| Distinct Possibility Studios | Distinct Possibility Studios operates as a game development studio. Distinct Possibility Studios is an indie game studio led by MMO and FPS veterans. | $30.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 03, 2025 |  |
| dKloud | dKloud is an enterprise-level cloud platform that helps customers build better software and more efficiently through our products. | $3.2M | Seed | Jun 26, 2025 |  |
| Lyzi | Lyzi is a crypto and stablecoin payment infrastructure enabling merchants, PSPs and financial institutions to accept digital assets seamlessly across in-store and online environments. Through native integrations with leading payment terminal providers — Ingenico, Verifone, Nepting, Sylq, Yavin, Famoco, Sunmi, Landi — Lyzi connects to over 1 millionpoints of sale across Europe without requiring hardware changes or POS system modifications. 300+ cryptocurrencies accepted, 500+ compatible wallets, 10 blockchains supported. Merchants receive settlement in euros or EU-regulated stablecoins (EURC, USDC, EURCV, EURE) directly to their bank account. Full AML/KYC compliance embedded. Automated bank reconciliation. Zero volatility exposure for the merchant. Deployed with Printemps, Porsche, Lamborghini, Fitness Park, Barrière Group, JOA Casinos, SBM Monaco — across luxury retail, hospitality, quick-service and independent commerce. Regulated: ACPR payment agent (REGAFI n°26900) · EU VASP (KNF). | $1.4M | Seed | Apr 08, 2025 |  |
| Fraktion | Fra[k]tion enables everyone to build a real-estate portfolio starting at 10 euros. ​ We use the Blockchain to fraction the ownership of real estate assets and make it tradeable on our marketplace. | $1.1M | Seed | Feb 06, 2025 |  |
| OnChainSupply | Saas, Web Games, Web3 |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 23, 2025 |  |
| idOS | The idOS is an open-source, decentralized identity system empowering users with data security, self-sovereignty, and control in web3 applications. | $4.5M | Seed | Jul 09, 2024 |  |
| Stables | Stables is the first and only fantasy game platform based on real horses from France, combining the excitement of horse racing with the limitless potential of Web3. |  | Seed | Apr 24, 2024 |  |
| YourData | YourData is building a trusted identity infrastructure for the hyper-connected society where AI, humans, robots, and finance intersect.AI is rapidly evolving from a tool into an autonomous actor — initiating transactions, executing workflows, and representing organizations across digital networks. As these systems begin to participate directly ineconomic and legal activities, a fundamental gap emerges: existing digital infrastructure cannot reliably verify which legal entity an AI agent represents, under what authority it acts, or who is accountable for its actions.Without verifiable organizational identity at the moment of execution, autonomous systems introduce systemic risk into financial, contractual, and communication environments. Trusted identity must therefore move from static documentation to enforceable, interoperable infrastructure.By operationalizing verifiable organizational identity, YourData ensures AI agents can act as accountable economic actors across jurisdictions and sectors. |  | Grant | Apr 15, 2024 |  |

10 of 25 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Tezos Foundation invest in?

Tezos Foundation invests primarily in FinTech, Blockchain and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 25 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Tezos Foundation's check size?

Tezos Foundation typically joins rounds of $500k–$5M at Seed and $5M–$28M 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 Tezos Foundation participates in.

### How do I contact Tezos Foundation?

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### Who are the partners at Tezos Foundation?

The team at Tezos Foundation includes Arthur Breitman (Co-Founder), Chris Wright (Council Member) and Kathleen Breitman (Co-Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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