# Top 50 Blockchain Startup Investors in Australia in May 2026

## Solana Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Solana, Misamis Oriental, Philippines
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency

Solana Ventures' mission is to accelerate the growth of the Solana blockchain and adjacent ecosystems by providing capital to the most promising teams building in the crypto ecosystem.

## Sora Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming

Sora Ventures is Asia's leading investment firm dedicated to blockchain technology and digital asset. The firm has several businesses including early-stage investments, incubation, advisory, secondary trading, OTC, blockchain development, and blockchain conferences.

## Commonwealth Bank of Australia
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Debt Financing, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce

CommBank offers personal banking, business solutions, institutional banking, company information, and more

## Leland Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Denver, Colorado, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency

Leland Ventures is a token-based hedge fund that founded by a professional invest team.

## Aura Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Information Technology, E-Commerce

Aura Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm backing the creators of category defining technology companies

## Nirvana Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Initial Coin Offering, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Financial Services, Video Games

Nirvana Capital is a San Francisco/Beijing based blockchain fund that focused on primary market investment. Its founding partners are also early supporters of Ethereum. To bring together ecosystems that revolutionize the social productions and labor relations with the communities underneath, Nirvana Capital provides end-to-end strong supportto its portfolio projects, including advisory on strategies/operations and resources matching. Our investment themes mainly include public chains and protocols.

## Brisbane Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Formed in late 2006, the Brisbane Angels Pty Ltd is a large group of private investors who actively invest in early stage technology companies, usually in South East Queensland, Australia. The members are typically active or semi-retired former senior business executives, who apart from financial input can provide much needed value adding toinvestee companies through hands-on management experience and high level business networks.

## Algorand Foundation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency

Fulfilling the global promise of blockchain technology by leveraging the Algorand protocol and open source software for an inclusive ecosystem.

## Main Sequence Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

We work with inventors who are building something hard from their unique expertise in science. These inventors are building the industries that will thrive for the decades to come. We have a unique working model to accelerate a company's pathway to scale.

## Coinbase Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Coinbase Ventures is an investment arm of Coinbase that aims to invest in seed-stage cryptocurrency and blockchain startups. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

## ANZ
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Blockchain, Financial Services

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## Apex Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Apps

Apex Capital is an investment firm which provides venture capital to exceptional founders who are revolutionising the financial services landscape. They have a strong track record of successfully establishing, investing in and growing businesses that have sought to provide innovative products and services to the financial services sector. Theirentrepreneurial backgrounds give us a unique perspective on what it takes to start and scale a business in financial services.Apex Capital was established over a decade ago and is wholly owned by its principals, each of whom have a wealth of experience from having worked across multiple continents with leading global firms in financial services, as well as having developed and operated their own start-up businesses.

## OKX Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Victoria, Beau Vallon, Seychelles
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech

OKX Ventures focus on the discoveries and investments in various aspects, including blockchain basic infrastructures, Layer2, DeFi, WEB3.0, NFT and Metaverse.

## Aura Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: iOS, Blockchain, Information Technology

Aura Group is a financial services company operating out of Australia and Singapore that provides tailored wealth and funds management solutions across the Asia Pacific region. Our vision is to build trust that lasts generations.

## Blackbird Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Blackbird is a venture capital fund based in Australia and New Zealand. We invest in every type of technology from software to space, unified by the biggest of ambitions.

## dao5
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2

An experimental cryptocurrency investment fund that will convert into a decentralized autonomous organization.

## Blufolio
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vaud, Geneve, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech

blufolio AG is a Swiss-based blockchain venture capital firm, bridging the traditional institutional community and the new blockchain frontier. Via a Luxembourg-registered AIF fund structure, we offer a diversified portfolio of the most promising blockchain-related startups to qualified investors globally. Our partners are of the highest blue-chipquality and include Swisscom Blockchain, Zurich Insurance and KPMG.

## Santiago Roel Santos
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Financial Services, Gaming

Santiago Roel Santos - Partner @ ParaFi Capital

## GoldenTree Asset Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

GoldenTree is an employee-owned, global asset management firm that specializes in opportunities across the credit universe in sectors such as high yield bonds, leveraged loans, private credit, distressed debt, structured products, emerging markets, private equity and credit-themed equities. GoldenTree was founded in 2000 and is one of the largestindependent asset managers focused on credit. GoldenTree manages over $48 billion for institutional investors including leading public and corporate pensions, endowments, foundations, insurance companies and sovereign wealth funds. GoldenTree is headquartered in New York and has offices in West Palm Beach, FL, Charlotte, NC, London, Dublin, Sidney, Singapore, Tokyo, and Dubai.

## Alireza TayebNama
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: AgTech, FinTech, Blockchain

Entrepreneur with unique background across tech and ag/food. Worked as BDM lead for large corporations building complex tech solutions across multiple industries and also worked in the ag/food sectors from on-farms to developing industry transformation roadmaps.

## Lemniscap
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Lemniscap is an early stage investment firm specializing in investments in emerging crypto assets.

## Gains Associates
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, Gaming

GAINS Associates is the #1 cutting-edge launchpad platform accessible for the masses. We are on a mission to make crypto currency more accessible to anyone and more transparent. We want to bring you along on our journey, by sharing news, insights and opinions with a likeminded community which seek to develop aptitude and knowledge in the decentralized realm.

## IBM
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Armonk, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Grant, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software

IBM is a global technology and innovation company. It is the largest technology and consulting employer in the world, with more than 400,000 employees serving clients in 170 countries. IBM offers a wide range of technology and consulting services; a broad portfolio of middleware for collaboration, predictive analytics, software development, andsystems management; and the world's most advanced servers and supercomputers. Utilizing its business consulting, technology, and R&D expertise, IBM helps clients become "smarter" as the planet becomes more digitally interconnected.

## Algorand
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Grant
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech

Algorand is positioned to address the blockchain’s scaling challenges through rapid and efficient user consensus, enabling even the smallest transactions, regardless of transaction volume or number of users.

## Valhalla Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Potomac, Maryland, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering, Series B
- Focus: Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech

Valhalla Capital makes strategic investments and provides long-term support to some of the most promising start-ups in the space. Whether that’s helping with team formation, capital introductions, tokenomics design and review, or go-to-market strategy, we’ll be here, rolling up our sleeves to take our teams to the next level.

## Three Arrows Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Three Arrows Capital is a hedge fund manager that provides risk-adjusted returns. The firm was established in 2012 by Su Zhu and Kyle Davies and is headquartered in Singapore, Central Region, Singapore.

## Chain Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology

Chain Capital was established in April 2015. The teams covered in Silicon Valley, Toronto, Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul, Moscow, London and Shanghai. The core members are the industry experts from Franklin Templeton Sealand Fund Mangament, Facebook, Qudian, Ogilvy, ShopEx and others. Chain Capital specializes in investing blockchain projects, discoverand help the outstanding teams to better use blockchain technology in order to make the world better.

## Galaxy Interactive
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Gaming, Blockchain, Video Games

Play the Future. Galaxy Interactive is a leading sector-focused VC investing in interactive entertainment, at the intersection of content, social, finance and technology.

## Jordan Elpern-Waxman
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Online Games, Artificial Intelligence

Jordan Elpern­-Waxman is the founder of Olive Branch Ventures, where he invests in and advises early stage technology startups, typically before they have raised any institutional financing, including ClassPass, ConvertMedia (acquired by Taboola), Fitocracy (acquired, stealth), OneSpot, WiredScore, and CTY. Jordan is an advisor for WiredScore,the owner and operator of the international Wired Certification standard for rating the internet connectivity of commercial office buildings, as well as a mentor for MetaProp NYC, the first real estate technology accelerator, and URBAN­X, a joint venture between BMW/Mini and HAX to accelerate startups focused on making cities better. He previously helped WiredScore launch the WiredConcierge business to help bring broadband to SMBs in the city. Prior to WiredScore, Jordan was the Founder and CEO of Beer Dreamer, a startup that elevated drinkers' craft beer experience through curated commerce and content. Prior to Beer Dreamer Jordan was a Senior Associate at Genacast Ventures, where he represented the firm in New York City and was responsible for sourcing and evaluating investment opportunities across a wide range of information technology sectors. His prior experience in tech companies includes software engineering, business development and partnerships, corporate development. Jordan holds a BA in Computer Science and International Relations from Brown University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was on the Dean’s List. He is the co­founder and co­organizer of alumni groups in the tech and digital media industries for both of his alma maters, Digital Brown and Penn Digital, respectively.

## Partners for Growth
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, E-Commerce

We partner with companies at an inflection point in their business, who are seeking flexible and customized financing, matched to their trajectory and needs.

## Sequoia Capital China
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence

We help founders build enduring companies.

## Meld ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hamilton, Queensland, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech

Meld Ventures is an Australian-based firm dedicated to backing the next wave of blockchain entrepreneurs.

## Evan Cheng
- Type: Angel
- Location: Burlingame, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology

Evan Cheng Co-founder & CEO at Mysten Labs. He attended Syracuse University.

## Bessemer Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Redwood City, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

For the entrepreneurs who want to create revolutions of their own.

## Naspers
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Private Equity
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Retail

Naspers is a global internet group that empowers people and enrich communities. Naspers companies operate and invest in countries and markets across the world with long-term growth potential. The company believes in the power of local backed by global scale and they look for opportunities to address big societal needs in markets where they see thegreatest growth potential. The company was founded on May 12, 1915, and is based in Cape Town, South Africa.

## Zhen Cao
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Apps, Gaming

Zhen Cao is a Partner at JLAB, the cryptocurrency venture arm of JD Capital. JD Capital is the only publicly traded PE firm in China with $9B AUM. Since 2007, JD Capital has over 150 publicly traded portfolios and as a conglomerate, it has the insurance, security exchange and banking divisions. JLAB has participated over 50 blockchain investmentsin infrastructures, applications, exchanges, media verticals globally.Previously, Zhen is a frontier tech VC, she led 15 equity investments in VR AI and CV. She was working with HTC Vive content department integrated StarWar, StarTrek, Ready Player One, WestWorld into virtual reality. In blockchain, she is the early investor of Metadium, Aergo, MobileCoin, Thunder Token, Ontology, Aelf, Ankr, MyToken, KCash, Oasis, Cocos, China.com.cn, CoinVoice. Zhen is passionate about human computer interface paradigm shift of the technology and humanity.

## DWF Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology

DWF Labs Global digital asset market maker and multi-stage web3 investment firm

## M13
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Software

M13 is an early-stage consumer tech venture capital firm. Our founding teams execute better by accessing our full-time operating partners, resources, and network.

## Almora
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 1

We are a digital company that uses web technologies to develop applications on blockchain, VR and ORM

## Jason Lenga
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Blockchain

Jason has overall stewardship of SEEK’s international investments and international corporate strategy including new investment opportunities. Jason also leads the Strategy and Business Development team for SEEK's Australian and New Zealand online employment businesses.Jason has been with SEEK since 1999 in a variety of senior roles andhas been instrumental in developing SEEK's strategic direction as well as establishing and driving key parts of the business, including the development of the Group’s significant international assets.

## BitScale
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

BitScale invest in teams and solutions that bring transparency and efficiency to our world with cutting-edge technologies.

## Google Cloud
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Grant, Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software

Meet your business challenges head on with cloud computing services from Google, including data management, hybrid & multi-cloud, and AI & ML.

## Cardinia Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Lending, Software, Education

Cardinia Ventures supports and invests in software and hardware companies throughout a wide range of sectors from Pre-seed to Series A across Australia and the US.
The firm was founded in 2016 and is based in Sydney, Australia.

## Cypher Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming

Cypher Capital is a web3 and blockchain venture capital investment firm.

## Susquehanna International Group (SIG)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency

Discover Susquehanna, a global quantitative trading firm built on a rigorous, analytical foundation in financial markets.

## Spark Digital Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Established in 2017, Spark Digital Capital is an NY based family office that invests in Blockchain-enabled companies. They firmly believe in a future where blockchain not only plays a significant role in the world but also creates unlimited efficiencies and opportunities to the society and people’s lives. With their teams' strong finance andtechnology background they aim to bring blockchain into prosperity.

## Hangar X
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Online Games, Artificial Intelligence

Hangar Xis a venture capital investment firm.

## Prosus Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Information Technology

Prosus Ventures (formerly Naspers Ventures) is the venture investing arm of Prosus - a global consumer internet group and large global technology investor.

## SkyVision Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency

SkyVision Capital (SVC) promotes new, open decentralized technology and its development. We are a Crypto Fund that is dedicated to incubating and investing in founders of tomorrow, today.

## TFS Academy
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ho Chi Minh City, NA - Vietnam, Vietnam
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Internet, Blockchain, Social Network

TFS Academy - Training about Crypto Course

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