# Varys Capital

> Varys Capital is a VC fund in New York backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 22%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.varys.capital/

Varys Capital is a total return fund providing secure access to the digital asset class through its dual approach to investment returns in venture capital.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $735k–$5.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.1M–$3.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 10 | 56% |
| Cryptocurrency | 6 | 33% |
| FinTech | 4 | 22% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 22% |
| Web3 | 3 | 17% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 44% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 28% |
| Series A | 1 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 6% |
| Initial Coin Offering | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 39% |
| Panama | 2 | 11% |
| Spain | 1 | 6% |
| Canada | 1 | 6% |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 6% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Darius Askaripour | Managing Principal | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/darius-askaripour |
| Thomas Dunleavy | Head of Venture | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thomas-dunleavy-449d |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Polysights | Polysights is an AI-powered prediction market analytics and automation platform that delivers market intelligence and trade execution tools. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Jun 05, 2026 |  |
| Turtle Club | Turtle Club is a protocol for an on-chain liquidity allocation platform that focuses on connecting LPs, protocols, and partners through sustainable and transparent incentives. | $5.5M | Seed | Oct 20, 2025 |  |
| MSafe | MSafe develops a multi-signature, non-custodial digital assets management solution built on Move. They focus on true decentralization, enhanced security, and full interoperability. | $5M | Seed | Apr 03, 2025 |  |
| Momentum | Momentum is a move central liquidity engine with multi-sig treasury management, token vesting, and liquidity provisioning. | $10M |  | Mar 01, 2025 |  |
| tread.fi | Distributed trading infrastructure for digital assets | $3.5M | Pre-Seed | Jul 10, 2024 |  |
| Blueberry Protocol | Blueberry is an interface for interacting with the rest of DeFi with the ability to leverage and hedge by borrowing from an internal lending market. | $2.5M | Series A | Jun 04, 2024 |  |
| Ledger Works | Blockchain consumers face significant and increasing cyber-crime. And Web3 security efforts focus on DeFi providers, not retail users. A crypto account holder should be able to receive the same fraud alerts and protection they have come to expect from their bank or credit card accounts. Our service provides account notification and cyber-crimeprotection to Crypto account holders. | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | May 19, 2024 |  |
| Nirvana Labs | Our mission is to make blockchain infrastructure economical and accurate, ultimately lowering the barriers to entry for Web3 engineers. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Nov 15, 2023 |  |
| Movement Labs | Movement Labs is a modular framework platform that builds and deploys move-based blockchains and applications in distributed settings. Its platform offers a composable and horizontally scalable network that provides unparalleled smart contract security and asset portability to help users solve the cold start problem with unprecedentedinteroperability. | $3.4M | Pre-Seed | Sep 13, 2023 |  |
| FWX | FWX is a decentralized derivatives platform where users trade against the protocol, while the protocol fully hedges the risk of all positions using liquidity in its pools. FWX has two primary services: lending and borrowing pools and derivatives trading. Unlike the traditional order-book-based double auction matching mechanism, FWX acts as acounterparty to all futures traders and applies a unique hedging algorithm to eliminate the risk using the liquidity in its single-token lending pools. Every futures trade submitted to the platform creates organic borrowing demand in the pools. This solves the problem currently faced by lending platforms in which there are many lenders but significantly fewer borrowers. The higher the trading volume, the higher the yield. With the daily trading volume of 500kUSD, FWX can generate organic yield of at least 20% for a 5mUSD pool. | $5M | Seed | Sep 12, 2022 |  |

10 of 18 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [GBV Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/genesis-block-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Varys Capital invest in?

Varys Capital invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and FinTech 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 Varys Capital's check size?

Varys Capital typically joins rounds of $735k–$5.5M at Seed and $1.1M–$3.5M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Varys Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Varys Capital?

Public channels for Varys Capital include 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 Varys Capital?

The team at Varys Capital includes Darius Askaripour (Managing Principal) and Thomas Dunleavy (Head of Venture). 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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