# Vessel Capital

> Vessel Capital is a VC fund backing Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and FinTech. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/VesselVC
- Website: https://www.vessel.vc/

Vessel Capital is an investment firm

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 6 | 50% |
| Cryptocurrency | 6 | 50% |
| FinTech | 4 | 33% |
| Decentralized Finance (DeFi) | 3 | 25% |
| Finance | 2 | 17% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 33% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 25% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 25% |
| Series A | 2 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 25% |
| Japan | 1 | 8% |
| Vietnam | 1 | 8% |
| Australia | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Uptopia | Uptopia is the Base Chain ecosystem game startup platform. | $4M | Pre-Seed | Jun 17, 2025 |  |
| Donut | Donut is the first crypto agentic browser that uses the finest crypto in-domain model and a swarm of browsing agents. | $7M | Pre-Seed | May 29, 2025 |  |
| EarnOS | EarnOS is the fully remote company that provides Global Ad & Payments Platform powered by Web3. | $5M | Seed | Jan 16, 2025 |  |
| BTA Protocol | BTA Protocol is a decentralized ecosystem protocol based on BTC that includes applications such as staking, liquidity, range stability, launch pool, and lending protocols. | $1.5M | Series A | Aug 26, 2024 |  |
| XION | XION is the first Generalized Abstraction layer designed specifically for consumer use. | $25M | Series A | Apr 01, 2024 |  |
| Hydro | Hydro is a specialize injective-native LSD+LSDFi protocol for maximizing yield with LSD, Real-Yielding Assets (RYA), and farming. |  | Seed | Feb 12, 2024 |  |
| bbox | bbox offers professional trading on the Decentralized Perpetual Exchange and hybrid markets. | $2.7M | Pre-Seed | Jan 30, 2024 |  |
| Ostium | Ostium enables users to trade off their assets directly on-chain. Ostium Labs is developing a quick trading mechanism for real-world goods on the chain, driven by Arbitrum and Chainlink. | $3.5M | Seed | Oct 06, 2023 |  |
| Rift Finance | Rift Finance is a decentralized protocol that supercharges DAO growth through restructured incentive frameworks. Rift allows DAOs to deploy governance tokens from their treasuries to deepen token liquidity without having to give up ownership. | $18M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 08, 2022 |  |
| Astar Network | Astar Network is a multi-virtual machine scalable smart contract platform on Polkadot supporting cutting-edge layer 2 like Rollups. | $22M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 28, 2022 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [The Spartan Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-spartan-group-4202) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Hashed](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hashed-f96b) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Injective](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/injective-protocol) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Laser Digital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/laser-digital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Mechanism Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mechanism-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Vessel Capital invest in?

Vessel Capital invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Vessel Capital last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Vessel Capital closed in Jun 2025. Shizune tracks 12 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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