# YBB Foundation

> YBB Foundation is a VC fund backing Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Software. See 19 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 19
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 5%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/foundationybb?lang=en
- Website: http://ybb.io/

YBB Foundation is a group of tech fans and early investors in crypto.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.4M–$8M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 10 | 53% |
| Cryptocurrency | 8 | 42% |
| Software | 6 | 32% |
| Financial Services | 5 | 26% |
| Bitcoin | 2 | 11% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 12 | 63% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 16% |
| Series A | 1 | 5% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 5% |
| Initial Coin Offering | 1 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Singapore | 3 | 16% |
| United States | 2 | 11% |
| China | 1 | 5% |
| Israel | 1 | 5% |
| Estonia | 1 | 5% |

10 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Zoo Finance | Zoo Finance is a pioneering DeFi protocol focused on unlocking liquidity from locked assets, empowering users to access capital more efficiently while maximizing the utility of their on-chain holdings. | $8M | Seed | Dec 02, 2025 |  |
| UXUY | UXUY is developing the next-generation MPC-based decentralised trading platform with the goal of giving users everywhere a CEX-like user experience. | $7M | Seed | Mar 08, 2024 |  |
| Bison Labs | Bison Labs is a cutting-edge rollup that enhances transaction speeds and enables advanced capabilities on native Bitcoin. |  | Pre-Seed | Mar 07, 2024 |  |
| Cassava Network | Cassava Network is a blockchain infrastructure solution that builds several disruptive DeFi and NFT solutions for Africans to connect with the global mass of crypto enthusiasts and blockchain finance. | $8M | Seed | May 06, 2022 |  |
| Mint Gate | MintGate is a blockchain company that helps NFT creators create tokens or keys specific to their community for their users. |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 13, 2022 |  |
| Web3Auth | Web3Auth makes cryptographic key management easy for users and applications. By abstracting the management of private keys, they allow users to use familiar authentication methods like Google, Facebook, or Passwordless logins on Web3 applications. Their vision is to empower individuals with self-sovereignty by making key management globallyaccessible to everyone. | $13M | Series A | Jan 12, 2022 |  |
| StarSharks | StarSharks is a NFT-GameFi ecosystem based on the BSC chain developed by game players, governance committees, and game developers. | $4.8M | Seed | Dec 24, 2021 |  |
| Algomint | Algomint is a blockchain infrastructure that provides a bridge to mint a variety of digital assets on the Algorand network. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. | $1.5M | Seed | Jul 09, 2021 |  |
| RMRK | RMRK is a set of NFT legos that give NFTs infinite extensibility, hosted on Kusama. RMRK is a set of NFT legos that give NFTs infinite extensibility, hosted on the Kusama blockchain, Polkadot's canary network, without the need for parachains or smart contracts. | $4M | Seed | Jun 08, 2021 |  |
| Rikkei Finance | Rikkei Finance is a Defi platform, with a unique Open Lending System: Cross-chain support, NFTs collateralization, and P2P Insurance. | $5.6M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 28, 2021 |  |

10 of 19 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [LD Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ld-capital) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [NGC Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/neo-global-capital-ngc) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [CMS Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cms-holdings) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Genblock Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/genblock-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Kernel Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kernel-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [NGC Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ngc-ventures-a900) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does YBB Foundation invest in?

YBB Foundation invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 19 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Singapore. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is YBB Foundation's check size?

YBB Foundation typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$8M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds YBB Foundation participates in.

### When did YBB Foundation last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for YBB Foundation closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 19 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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