# Wintermute

> Wintermute is a VC fund in London backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 91 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 91
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 4%
- Fund size: $20M
- Last fund: Nov 2021
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wintermute-trading
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/wintermute_t
- Website: https://www.wintermute-trading.com/

Wintermute is a leading global algorithmic trading firm and one of the largest players in digital asset markets. With an average daily trading volume of over $5bn, Wintermute facilitates OTC trading of 350+ tokens and provides liquidity across 80+ centralized and decentralized exchanges. Wintermute is an active player in the ecosystem, and investsin early stage DeFi projects, provides liquidity provisioning services for high profile blockchain projects, and overall supports builders of decentralized finance.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3M–$18M |
| Series A | $5M–$50M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $5M–$20M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 52 | 57% |
| Cryptocurrency | 41 | 45% |
| Financial Services | 23 | 25% |
| FinTech | 19 | 21% |
| Information Technology | 12 | 13% |

49 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 40 | 44% |
| Series A | 21 | 23% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 9 | 10% |
| Series B | 8 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 7 | 8% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 26 | 29% |
| Singapore | 7 | 8% |
| Cayman Islands | 6 | 7% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 5% |
| Canada | 2 | 2% |

23 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Evgeny Gaevoy | Co-founder and CEO | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/evgeny-gaevoy |
| Yoann Turpin | Co-Founder & Head Of Business Development | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yoann-turpin |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nova Markets | Nova Markets is an on-chain capital and prediction market infrastructure project. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 04, 2026 |  |
| Pave Bank | The world's first multi-asset and programmable bank | $39M | Series A | Oct 23, 2025 |  |
| BULK Trade | One Exchange Infinite Markets | $8M | Seed | Sep 24, 2025 |  |
| Silicon Data | Silicon Data is a data product that brings essential intelligence and efficiency to markets. | $4.7M | Seed | Mar 20, 2025 |  |
| Codex | Codex is a peer-to-peer version of electronic cash allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution. | $15.8M | Seed | Feb 23, 2025 |  |
| GTE | GTE is a decentralized trading platform that offers end-to-end trading services. | $10M | Seed | Jan 16, 2025 |  |
| Usual | Usual Labs operates as a decentralized finance(DeFi) protocol. | $10M | Series A | Dec 23, 2024 |  |
| Notabene | Notabene was founded to build SWIFT for Crypto. Notabene Transact, their core offering is now processing $5B of transactions a day between thousands of regulated institutions for purposes. They just launched Notabene Flow, the only B2B focused VisaNet like pull payment layer for stablecoins to their network. Notabene Flow allows their networkmembers to offer better high margin B2B high margin services, such as recurring and agentic cross border B2B payments that no one has been able to solve at scale using stablecoins. | $14.5M | Series B | Nov 12, 2024 |  |
| M0 | M^0 is money middleware for the digital age. It is a decentralized, on-chain protocol, as well as a corresponding set of off-chain standards and APIs, that allows holders of high-quality eligible collateral to participate in the issuance of a fungible cryptodollar. With M^0, any number of institutions around the world can tap on turnkey middlewareto become their own cryptodollar issuer, upgrading their money tech stack to the digital age. | $35M | Series A | Jun 05, 2024 |  |
| Raven | Raven is a next generation algorithmic high-frequency trading firm that is focused on long-lasting partnerships and building the future of digital finance. | $2.7M | Seed | May 15, 2024 |  |

10 of 91 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Wintermute Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wintermute-ventures) — VC Fund, 67 deals together
- [GSR](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gsr) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
- [Alameda Research](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alameda-research) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Coinbase Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinbase-ventures) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [LedgerPrime](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ledgerprime) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Tribe Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tribe-capital) — VC Fund, 9 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Wintermute invest in?

Wintermute invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 91 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 Wintermute's check size?

Wintermute typically joins rounds of $3M–$18M at Seed, $5M–$50M at Series A and $5M–$20M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Wintermute participates in.

### How do I contact Wintermute?

Public channels for Wintermute include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and 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 Wintermute?

The team at Wintermute includes Evgeny Gaevoy (Co-founder and CEO) and Yoann Turpin (Co-Founder & Head Of Business Development). 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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