# The LAO

> The LAO is a VC fund backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 146 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 146
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 2%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/TheLAOOfficial
- Website: https://www.thelao.io/

The LAO is a global group of Ethereum enthusiasts and experts supporting the work of Ethereum builders.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for The LAO. Shizune tracks 1 team members at The LAO. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/the-lao?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.2M–$8.5M |
| Series A | $6M–$30M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $100k–$24M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 61 | 42% |
| Cryptocurrency | 41 | 28% |
| Software | 27 | 18% |
| Financial Services | 26 | 18% |
| FinTech | 20 | 14% |

92 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 88 | 60% |
| Series A | 21 | 14% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 12 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 7 | 5% |
| Series B | 6 | 4% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 59 | 40% |
| Singapore | 7 | 5% |
| Switzerland | 7 | 5% |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 4% |
| Germany | 4 | 3% |

21 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Katya Kovalenko | Member | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/katya-kovalenko |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bio.xyz | Bio.xyz is a Community and Marketplace e-commerce Company Founded on 2025 in New York, United States. |  |  | Sep 01, 2025 |  |
| Blackbird | Blackbird Labs is a web3 hospitality technology platform that should directly connect restaurants and customers. Founded by Ben Leventhal in 2022, Blackbird Labs is based in New York, United States. | $50M | Series B | Apr 08, 2025 |  |
| Recall Labs | Textile is building new digital experiences by focusing on user privacy, transparency, and decentralization. | $30M | Series A | Mar 29, 2025 |  |
| Relay | Relay is a multichain payments network that allows users to spend any digital asset to transact on any blockchain | $14M | Series A | Feb 06, 2025 |  |
| Reservoir | Reservoir makes it possible to introduce next-generation NFT solutions to the market. | $14M | Series A | Feb 05, 2025 |  |
| Heights Labs | The only compliance and investigations platform for following the money at scale to eliminate global financial crime. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 01, 2025 |  |
| Dorm DAO | Dorm DAO is an online platform that provides decentralized investment opportunities for blockchain education and professional growth. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2025 |  |
| Last Network | Last is an active system that earns its own revenue from cash flow generated throughout the network. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2025 |  |
| Solv Protocol | Solv Protocol is the decentralized platform for creating, managing, and trading Financial NFTs. As its first Financial NFT product, Vesting Vouchers are fractionalized NFTs representing lock-up vesting tokens, thus releasing their liquidity and enabling financial scenarios such as fundraising, community building, and token liquidity management forcrypto projects. | $11M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 03, 2024 |  |
| NFTfi | NFTfi is an NFT collateralized lending marketplace that can use NFT assets as collateral for a loan or lend to other users. It enables NFT holders to borrow cryptocurrency from lenders by using their NFTs as collateral. When they accept a loan offer, the NFT goes into a secure escrow smart contract and receives the wETH, DAI, or USDC from thelender directly to their wallet. To determine whether an NFT is worth a loan, users employ a common practice in the traditional art world in which banks, large galleries, or auction houses offer loans to artists. | $6M | Series A | Mar 11, 2024 |  |

10 of 146 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [1kx](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1kx) — VC Fund, 14 deals together
- [Flamingo DAO](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flamingo-dao) — VC Fund, 14 deals together
- [Coinbase Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinbase-ventures) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
- [The Spartan Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-spartan-group-4202) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
- [Collab+Currency](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/collab-currency) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [MetaCartel Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/metacartel-ventures) — VC Fund, 12 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does The LAO invest in?

The LAO invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 146 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is The LAO's check size?

The LAO typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$8.5M at Seed, $6M–$30M at Series A and $100k–$24M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds The LAO participates in.

### How do I contact The LAO?

Public channels for The LAO include X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at The LAO?

The team at The LAO includes Katya Kovalenko (Member). 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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