Blockchain

Shorooq Partners

Check: Shorooq invests across the equity journey from pre-seed through late-stage growth, but neither the firm nor Kunal publishes his personal check range or decision authority. Portfolio round totals are not treated as check-size evidence.

Kunal supports Shorooq's fintech and web3 practice with an operator's perspective across the UK, UAE, and Africa. His remit fits the firm's founder-first strategy: backing regional companies from idea through scale and global frontier companies where technology modernizes financial access, payments, wealth, business operations, or digital ownership. Shorooq's blockchain thesis favors crypto augmenting existing consumer behavior and solving real-world problems rather than replacing useful behavior with complexity.

Pre-SeedSeedSeries A

Lorenz Furrer

Investor Relations

Fund investor relationsCapital formationInstitutional stakeholder engagement

CV VC

Check: Not applicable to the documented investor-relations function. No Lorenz-specific portfolio-company check size or deal authority is public. Founders should contact CV VC's investment team; limited partners should use the firm's official investor-relations path.

Lorenz's CV VC remit is investor relations and executive stakeholder engagement around blockchain venture capital. His public activity emphasizes Switzerland's Crypto Valley, institutional and political understanding of blockchain, and relationship building. That is an LP, communications and ecosystem lens, not a published personal startup-investment thesis.

Jordan Burgess

Program Associate, CV Labs Startup Activation

Startup activationAccelerator programmingFounder onboarding

CV VC

Check: Not applicable to Jordan's startup-activation role. No personal check size or investment authority is public. Funding pitches should go to CV VC's named investment team or an official accelerator application, as appropriate.

Jordan's documented remit is startup activation at CV Labs: helping founders enter and navigate CV VC's blockchain ecosystem and programs. The role may touch sourcing, program delivery and founder readiness, but the official roster does not place Jordan on the investment team and no personal investment thesis is published.

Nicolas Kiep

Investment Associate

CV VC

Check: CV VC publicly invests up to $500,000 in pre-seed and seed companies meeting its MVP and initial-traction criteria. No personal check-size authority is published for Nicolas.

Nicolas evaluates pre-seed and seed companies within CV VC's current frontier-technology mandate: AI-native automation, intelligent B2B systems, and programmable digital finance, with blockchain used where trust and authenticity matter. There is not enough first-person public material to assign him a narrower personal sector thesis; firm portfolio tags should be treated as team exposure, not personal ownership.

Pre-SeedSeed

Jessica Liu

Partner

83%

AppWorks

Check: Firm-level: AppWorks publishes a US$200K to US$15M per-deal range across Seed through Series C, with capacity to lead or follow and reserve capital for follow-ons. This is not Jessica's personal allocation range.

Jessica invests across Southeast Asian consumer internet and blockchain, especially where deep technology improves a familiar consumer behavior or unlocks a regional distribution advantage. Her portfolio and writing emphasize strong user experience, scalable community or network effects, methodical technical execution, and go-to-market models that can start bottom-up before expanding into larger enterprise or regional relationships.

Fund strategy and fundraisingLimited-partner diligenceInstitutional relationship management

Clare He

Managing Director, Capital Formation

82%

1kx

Check: Not applicable to Clare's documented capital-formation remit. No personal startup check size or allocation authority is public. Prospective LPs can approach her about 1kx fund relationships; founders should use 1kx's investment team and official channels.

Clare's mandate is to connect institutional capital with 1kx's blockchain investment strategy. Her official biography combines more than a decade in venture capital, private equity, growth equity, startup operations and investment banking with responsibility for LP relationships and fundraising execution. Her public research work on onchain revenue helps translate network fundamentals and market maturity into an institutional capital narrative; it is not evidence of personal deal ownership.

Karel Tusek

Technology and Portfolio Lead

Springtide Ventures

Check: $1M-$10M typical investments, with follow-on capacity beyond that range.

Karel Tusek is listed in a Technology and Portfolio Lead capacity at Springtide Ventures. No person-specific investment authority is inferred; the firm's mandate is included only as organizational context.

Michal Tomanek

Non-executive Director

Springtide Ventures

Check: $1M-$10M typical investments, with follow-on capacity beyond that range.

Michal Tomanek is listed in a Non-executive Director capacity at Springtide Ventures. No person-specific investment authority is inferred; the firm's mandate is included only as organizational context.

David Marek

Executive Director

Springtide Ventures

Check: $1M-$10M typical investments, with follow-on capacity beyond that range.

David Marek invests or supports investment decisions through Springtide Ventures's published strategy: Invest KKCG capital in globally ambitious SaaS companies across cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, horizontal AI and machine learning, and blockchain.

Jana Vránová

Head of Finance

Springtide Ventures

Check: $1M-$10M typical investments, with follow-on capacity beyond that range.

Jana Vránová is listed in a Head of Finance capacity at Springtide Ventures. No person-specific investment authority is inferred; the firm's mandate is included only as organizational context.

Boris Chovnik

Investment Professional

Springtide Ventures

Check: $1M-$10M typical investments, with follow-on capacity beyond that range.

Boris Chovnik invests or supports investment decisions through Springtide Ventures's published strategy: Invest KKCG capital in globally ambitious SaaS companies across cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, horizontal AI and machine learning, and blockchain.

Cecilie Skjong

Investment Manager

Skyfall Ventures

Check: Skyfall Ventures does not publish a current standard check-size range on its website.

Cecilie Skjong invests or supports investments through Skyfall Ventures's published strategy: Back exceptional Nordic founders at the earliest stages in AI, energy technology, robotics, cybersecurity, blockchain, and other software-enabled frontier categories.

Preben Songe-Møller

Partner & Co-founder

Skyfall Ventures

Check: Skyfall Ventures does not publish a current standard check-size range on its website.

Preben Songe-Møller invests or supports investments through Skyfall Ventures's published strategy: Back exceptional Nordic founders at the earliest stages in AI, energy technology, robotics, cybersecurity, blockchain, and other software-enabled frontier categories.

Jon Kåre Stene

Partner & Co-founder

Skyfall Ventures

Check: Skyfall Ventures does not publish a current standard check-size range on its website.

Jon Kåre Stene invests or supports investments through Skyfall Ventures's published strategy: Back exceptional Nordic founders at the earliest stages in AI, energy technology, robotics, cybersecurity, blockchain, and other software-enabled frontier categories.

Espen Malmo

Managing Partner & Co-founder

Skyfall Ventures

Check: Skyfall Ventures does not publish a current standard check-size range on its website.

Espen Malmo invests or supports investments through Skyfall Ventures's published strategy: Back exceptional Nordic founders at the earliest stages in AI, energy technology, robotics, cybersecurity, blockchain, and other software-enabled frontier categories.

Carlos Buenosvinos

Venture Partner, AI and Telecom