# Tony Gu

> Tony Gu is a seed investor at NGC Ventures backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [NGC Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/neo-global-capital-ngc)
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Tony Gu is a seed investor at NGC Ventures focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Tony Gu

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.2M–$5M |
| Series A | $5.5M–$10M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 7 | 39% |
| Cryptocurrency | 7 | 39% |
| Financial Services | 5 | 28% |
| FinTech | 4 | 22% |
| Software | 4 | 22% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 39% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 11% |
| Series A | 2 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 11% |
| Corporate Round | 1 | 6% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 22% |
| Singapore | 3 | 17% |
| Hong Kong | 2 | 11% |
| Canada | 1 | 6% |
| Mexico | 1 | 6% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gaia | GaiaNet is a pioneer in decentralized AI technology, committed to transforming the IT industry through user privacy, transparency, and control. The cutting-edge open network infrastructure empowers users by ensuring privacy and censorship resistance in daily AI operations through a dynamic network of peer-to-peer edge nodes. | $10M | Series A | Jul 22, 2025 |  |
| Traini | Traini is an AI company that develops the next generation pet care platform based on Vertical Large Action Model (V-LAM). Users can talk and interact with machines using natural language. The world's first PetGPT can not only understand the complex intentions of pets and people, but also understand the complex intentions of pets and people. Itcan also directly help users operate the search process to complete tasks - replacing the current information interaction between users and traditional search, and further revolutionizing the efficiency and experience of human-computer interaction.Chat AI for pet. PetGPT puts experts in your pocket 24/7. Traini is the “human-focused” pet care company, on a mission to improve the pet care experience and deliver care as a provider. We're an automated GPT for dog parents & shops in the pet care industry now that handle a lot of Prompt services (dog training or not). Every online action is a valuable data point that Traini then leverages on behalf of that specific shop.Data helps shops better understand who their best customers are, what promos they need to offer, and automatically markets to their current customers via email, push notifications, SMS, and Robot interaction.Tarini offers digital services for pet parents in 189 countries and embeds AI technology in the product.Our combination of mobile SaaS tool and service enables today's experts class to turn their iPhone profession into a meaningful subscription income ( business in your pocket ). Our services drive pet experts to develop and scale their personal brands. We go way beyond the tech for our partners.For more information about Traini for Business, reach out to trainipet@gmail.com. Visit our careers page contact trainipet@gmail.com to more informition.Connect with us on Facebook at facebook.com/trainipet Get social with us on Instagram at instagram.com/trainipet | $3.2M | Seed | Jul 01, 2024 |  |
| Staging Labs | Staging Labs is a developer of an infrastructure-layer platform designed to protect crypto in a safe and easy-to-use way. It offers an infrastructure to secure the future of crypto and scans transactions. They automatically transfer digital assets from a vulnerable wallet to a backup wallet in the event of a malicious attack, providing users withsecurity for crypto transactions. | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | Mar 15, 2023 |  |
| Tradelize | Tradelize is an ecosystem where investment professionals gain a unique toolset to interact with investors and where investors can learn, unite, compete and achieve investment results equal to those of the best professionals. |  | Seed | Feb 08, 2022 |  |
| Tradelize | Tradelize is an ecosystem where investment professionals gain a unique toolset to interact with investors and where investors can learn, unite, compete and achieve investment results equal to those of the best professionals. |  | Seed | Feb 08, 2022 |  |
| Highstreet | Highstreet is a commerce-centric metaverse accessible on browsers and native PC VR. With veterans from VR, Defi, fine art, and hype markets, the mission of Highstreet is to bridge the gap between reality and the digital world and redefine how financial products should be consumed and sold on the market. Players are able to form parties to explore avast new world on the Highstreet interface, own and expand their virtual reality estates, and buy tokenized products from their favorite brands. | $5M |  | Aug 18, 2021 |  |
| Highstreet | Highstreet is a commerce-centric metaverse accessible on browsers and native PC VR. With veterans from VR, Defi, fine art, and hype markets, the mission of Highstreet is to bridge the gap between reality and the digital world and redefine how financial products should be consumed and sold on the market. Players are able to form parties to explore avast new world on the Highstreet interface, own and expand their virtual reality estates, and buy tokenized products from their favorite brands. | $5M | Seed | Aug 11, 2021 |  |
| RBL Labs | We are a team of 25+ blockchain and gaming professionals working relentlessly to bring cutting-edge Web3 experience. Visit rbllabs.com for more info and check out our first p2e collectible card game on locgame.io, our edutainment platform on cryptorbl.com and the virtual city of Cryptise on cryptise.io | $1.2M | Seed | Apr 02, 2021 |  |
| Linear Finance | Linear Finance is a cross-chain compatible, decentralized delta-one asset protocol to cost-effectively and instantly create, manage, and trade synthetic assets with unlimited liquidity. | $1.8M | Seed | Sep 09, 2020 |  |
| Phemex | Founded in 2019, Phemex is a leading crypto exchange trusted by over 10 million traders worldwide and recognized for its 100% Merkle-Tree Proof of Reserves. The platform provides a comprehensive Web3 ecosystem featuring high-liquidity spot and derivatives trading (USDT-M, USDC-M, Coin-M) with up to 100x leverage. Beyond trading, Phemex empowersusers with advanced strategy trading bots, copy trading, and seamless fiat-to-crypto gateways, serving both institutional and retail clients globally. | $3.5M | Seed | Mar 11, 2020 |  |

10 of 18 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [NGC Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ngc-ventures-a900) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Consensus Lab](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/consensus-lab-9e7d) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [GBV Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/genesis-block-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [NGC Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/neo-global-capital-ngc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [PANONY](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/panony) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [ZBS CAPITAL](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zbs-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About NGC Ventures

VC Fund · Singapore, Singapore

NGC Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in inspiring projects related to blockchain.

5 contacts available at NGC Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Andrea Hsin Tzu Zhang | Investment Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrea-hsin-tzu-zhang |
| Andrea Chang | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrea-chang-23c4 |
| Jack L. | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jack-l-6fee |
| Roger Lin | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/roger-lin |
| Tony Gu | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tony-gu |

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## FAQ

### What does Tony Gu invest in?

Tony Gu invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 18 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 Tony Gu's check size?

Tony Gu typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$5M at Seed and $5.5M–$10M 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 Tony Gu participates in.

### When did Tony Gu last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Tony Gu closed in Jul 2025. Shizune tracks 18 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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