# Wemade

> Wemade is a VC fund in Gyeongju backing Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Fitness. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gyeongju, South Korea
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Oct 2022
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.wemade.com/

Wemade is a VC fund in Gyeongju focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Wemade invests in a full range of blockchain projects.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 3 | 75% |
| Cryptocurrency | 3 | 75% |
| Fitness | 2 | 50% |
| Apps | 1 | 25% |
| Web3 | 1 | 25% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 50% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 25% |
| Corporate Round | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| South Korea | 2 | 50% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 25% |
| United States | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Shardeum | Shardeum is an EVM-based, linearly scalable smart contract platform that provides low gas fees while maintaining true decentralization and solid security through dynamic state sharding. Shardeum uses sharding to increase TPS with the addition of every new node. Shardeum will scale linearly thanks to dynamic state sharding. Every node that joins theShardeum network automatically raises the number of transactions per second (TPS), ensuring cheap transaction costs even as use grows. | $18.2M | Seed | Oct 18, 2022 |  |
| Super Walk | Super Walk is a Web3 fitness reward app provider, a blockchain-based reward app that earns tokens just by walking. |  |  | Aug 09, 2022 |  |
| SNKRZ | SNKRZ is a Web3 move-and-earn social fitness app that enables users to exercise with their NFTs and own Land in the metaverse. Users of SNKRZ can earn rewards simply by walking, jogging, running, biking, and hiking. |  | Corporate Round | Aug 03, 2022 |  |
| IoTeX | IoTeX is the leading decentralized network powering the future of web3 and machine economy (MachineFi). The platform is built for developers to connect billions of machines with web3 infrastructure, to create innovative products including DeFi, NFT, DAO, Metaverse, and MachineFi applications. Founded in 2017 with a team of alumni from Google,Facebook, Uber, Bosch, and Intel, IoTeX has launched a high-performance public blockchain with off-chain computing for devices and machines, cross-chain bridges, wallet, and the MachineFi marketplace. The IoTeX network has grown rapidly with >$2B in assets on-chain, >300K on-chain users, and >10k devices connected across hundreds of dapps. | $10M | Seed | Jun 07, 2022 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Wemade](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wemade-entertainment-co-ltd) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [AlphaGrep](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alphagrep) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Big Brain Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/big-brain-holdings) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cogitent Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cogitent-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CoinGecko](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coingecko) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [DHVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/danhua-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Wemade invest in?

Wemade invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Fitness startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in South Korea. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Wemade last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Wemade closed in Oct 2022. Shizune tracks 4 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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