# Vijay Pravin Maharajan

> Vijay Pravin Maharajan is a pre-seed investor in Munich backing Blockchain and Web3. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Munich, Germany
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: May 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vijaypravin
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/VijayPravinM
- Website: https://vijaypravin.io/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VijayPravin.Maharajan

Vijay Pravin Maharajan is a pre-seed investor in Munich focused on Blockchain and Web3. Vijay Pravin Maharajan is the Chief Builder of bitsCrunch. He attended Anna University and Technical University of Munich.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.8M–$18M |
| Pre-Seed | $120k–$2.1M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 7 | 41% |
| Web3 | 3 | 18% |
| Software | 3 | 18% |
| Internet of Things | 3 | 18% |
| FinTech | 2 | 12% |

31 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 8 | 47% |
| Seed | 7 | 41% |
| Series A | 1 | 6% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 6 | 35% |
| United States | 3 | 18% |
| Panama | 1 | 6% |
| Germany | 1 | 6% |
| Nigeria | 1 | 6% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gamic | Gamic is a community communication/collaboration app for gamers, creators, and web3 enthusiasts.The platform combines the advantages of blockchain technology with the conventional web2 community setup, creating a seamless environment where users can interact and enjoy the benefits of web3 advancements. This simplifies the process for web2communities to access and leverage the latest blockchain technology innovations, eliminating the need to navigate across various platforms.Today, the user experience is poor for online communities trying to engage with Web3 products and services because users are required to jump across different platforms. Sharing, trading, or managing Web3 assets on most traditional communication and social apps is hard. Addressing this is crucial because Web3 access means financial freedom and opportunity for many all around the world, especially in Africa. Gamic’s central mission is to encourage blockchain adoption as a means to improve the socio-economic opportunities available to global communities. We enable users to communicate and operate in the same place, with increased security and better monetisation opportunities. | $1.8M | Seed | May 14, 2024 |  |
| 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. | $38M | Series A | Apr 25, 2024 |  |
| NATIX Network | NATIX Network is building an open geospatial Intelligence network using their proprietary AI and smartphone cameras. The existing geospatial data collection solutions suffer from limited data types, low update frequency, high costs to gather data, and even higher prices charged to business customers. NATIX uses driver assistant apps (e.g. dashcamand navigation), token incentives, Computer Vision AI, and smartphone cameras to crowdsource real-time data and create a digital twin of our world. The network enables a new era of real-time applications ranging from autonomous driving to smart city services. With over 100k registered drivers and over 33M km covered in only 12 months, NATIX is one of the fastest-growing geospatial networks globally. | $4.6M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 25, 2024 |  |
| ZeroLend | ZeroLend is the largest lending protocol on zkSync and the third largest lending protocol on Manta, with a focus on DeFi, lending on RWAs, privacy and account abstraction. | $3M | Seed | Feb 20, 2024 |  |
| Moove Protocol | Moove Protocol is a Web3 community effort protocol designed to support a community of innovators, builders, and creators. |  | Seed | Dec 19, 2023 |  |
| Solus | Simplified, Low Risk & Engaging Derivatives for All | $350K | Pre-Seed | Sep 10, 2023 |  |
| Ticket9 | Ticket 9 is an all-in-one tech platform for event organizers, promoters, and managers to easily create, promote, connect, and manage events of any type and size.Ticket 9 is built on the idea that anyone anywhere in the world desiring to create an event, sell tickets or engage attendees and empower technology in events should have a powerful toolto do it easily. Everything is fully integrated, seamless, and intuitive. Ticket 9 perfectly empowers any professional event from beginning to end. It is a complete & flexible solution that empowers users to create successful events without having to struggle with a whole bunch of systems. | $120K | Pre-Seed | May 24, 2023 |  |
| Shield USDT | Shield is a user security automation for web 3 platforms. Their bot acts as a firewall to allow telegram and Discord communities to expand securely. They offer both standard and unique platforms. They sell a variety of goods, including community security systems. | $2.1M | Pre-Seed | Jan 13, 2023 |  |
| Dapps | Dapps make it simple for web3 applications to integrate and communicate with one another on the blockchain, enabling you to easily attain the highest level of discoverability within and outside of the community. |  | Pre-Seed | Dec 23, 2022 |  |
| Blod.in | Blod.in is a health-tech startup company that caters to the haematology department by connecting hospitals and blood banks and aims to manage healthcare data better. |  | Pre-Seed | Dec 14, 2022 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Mapleblock Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mapleblock-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [MH Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mh-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Big Brain Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/big-brain-holdings) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [YZi Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/binance-labs-b05e) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Cogitent Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cogitent-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Cypher Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cypher-capital-e62f) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Vijay Pravin Maharajan invest in?

Vijay Pravin Maharajan invests primarily in Blockchain, Web3 and Software startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Vijay Pravin Maharajan's check size?

Vijay Pravin Maharajan typically joins rounds of $1.8M–$18M at Seed and $120k–$2.1M 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 Vijay Pravin Maharajan participates in.

### When did Vijay Pravin Maharajan last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Vijay Pravin Maharajan closed in May 2024. Shizune tracks 17 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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