# Zaki Manian

> Zaki Manian is a seed investor at Sommelier (San Francisco) backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Sommelier](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sommelier)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: Feb 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zmanian/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/zmanian

Zaki Manian is a seed investor at Sommelier in San Francisco focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Zaki Manian is the co-founder of Sommelier Protocol.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.5M–$6.5M |
| Series A | $14M–$42M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 11 | 61% |
| Cryptocurrency | 5 | 28% |
| Apps | 2 | 11% |
| Web3 | 2 | 11% |
| Internet | 2 | 11% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 11 | 61% |
| Angel | 2 | 11% |
| Series A | 2 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 11% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 8 | 44% |
| India | 1 | 6% |
| Canada | 1 | 6% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 6% |
| Cayman Islands | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Optimum | Optimum constitutes a decentralized, high-performance memory infrastructure tailored for use across various blockchains. |  | Angel | Feb 28, 2025 |  |
| Keplr | Keplr is a non-custodial blockchain wallet designed for websites that let visitors engage with blockchain applications. | $5M | Seed | Jan 22, 2025 |  |
| Commonware | Commonware is a startup that supplies developers with a "anti-framework" — effectively all of the building pieces for developing a blockchain — in order to go beyond the era of standardized, general-purpose software kits. | $9M |  | Dec 11, 2024 |  |
| Spicenet | Spicenet is a hyper-fast Layer 2 (L2) trading solution, engineered as a custom application rollup to deliver ultra-fast, reliable, and efficient transaction processing for seamless trading experiences. | $3.4M | Seed | Dec 11, 2024 |  |
| Drop | Drop provides liquid staking protocol for Interchain assets. It is an inaugural member of the Lido Alliance. It removes the specified protocol from a database. | $4M | Seed | Oct 17, 2024 |  |
| OneBalance | OneBalance is a new framework for credible accounts - combining chain abstraction, gas abstraction and permission management to solve the fragmented Web3 user experience. | $5M | Angel | Aug 26, 2024 |  |
| Khalani | Khalani has developed the world's first decentralized solver platform, which seeks to improve the web3 user experience through a multi-chain collaborative solution network. The platform significantly decreases the cost of creating and operating solvers. | $2.5M | Seed | Aug 07, 2024 |  |
| Cosmology | Cosmology is building a unified developer experience for interchain dApps | $5M | Seed | Mar 07, 2024 |  |
| Cosmology | Cosmology is building a unified developer experience for interchain dApps | $5M | Seed | Mar 07, 2024 |  |
| Fairblock | Fairblock operates as an unlike zero knowledge(ZK) technology. Fairblock is building the infrastructure that can enable pre-execution privacy and conditional decryption. | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Oct 05, 2023 |  |

10 of 18 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Chorus One](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chorus-one) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Reverie](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/reverie-41ce) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Informal Systems](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/informal-systems) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Lemniscap](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lemniscap) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Robot Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robot-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Anagram](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anagram-43bc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Sommelier

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Sommelier consists of the Cosmos Stargate SDK, its Tendermint-based consensus layer and a decentralized, bi-directional Ethereum bridge, managed by a global network of validators. Liquidity Providers (LPs) will be able to use Sommelier to author and execute complex, automated financial transactions, such as portfolio rebalancing, limit orders, aswell as a host of other features that token holders have come to expect from centralized finance (CeFi), but that are not currently available in DeFi.

2 contacts available at Sommelier.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kristi Poldsam | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kristi-poldsam |
| Zaki Manian | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zaki-manian |

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## FAQ

### What does Zaki Manian invest in?

Zaki Manian invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Apps startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 18 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 Zaki Manian's check size?

Zaki Manian typically joins rounds of $2.5M–$6.5M at Seed and $14M–$42M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Zaki Manian participates in.

### When did Zaki Manian last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Zaki Manian closed in Feb 2025. Shizune tracks 18 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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