About zVentures
zVentures is a venture capital firm located in Singapore, Singapore. As of Jun 2024, zVentures has invested in 29 companies. It primarily invests in Series A round in Singapore based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from High Tech to Blockchain Technology and FinTech. Most recently it participated in the $***** Seed round of XProtocol Overall, zVentures portfolio has seen 3 unicorns and 5 acquisitions including key companies like Animoca Brands, Lambda AI and MOL AccessPortal. A lot of funds co-invest with zVentures, with names like Razer sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. zVentures has team of 1 people including 1 partners.Key Metrics
Team Members
Portfolio Count
Portfolio Sectors
Portfolio Locations
Rounds of Entry
Seed, Series A & 2 more
Portfolio Acquisitions
Portfolio Unicorns
zVentures' List of Top Investments
zVentures has a portfolio of 29 companies, including 3 unicorns. Their most notable investments are in Animoca Brands and Love Bambooloo.Their portfolio spans across Singapore, United States, Canada and 4 more locations. They have invested in High Tech, Blockchain Technology, FinTech and 12 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series A and 2 more. Here is the list of top investments by zVentures:Web3 technology investment and venture-building company. It builds, invests in, and accelerates businesses and ecosystems focused on digital ownership. Its activities span blockchain, digital assets, gaming, identity, education, stablecoins, real-world assets, and related Web3 infrastructure, with investments and portfolio companies across the global digital economy.
Key facts about Animoca Brands
- Founded Year: 2006
- Location: Hong Kong (China)
- Annual Revenue: $100M - $500M as on Dec 31, 2022
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Series C
- Total Funding till date: $880M
- Employee Count: 306 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: Harmony Partners, Sequoia Capital and 126 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series C, Nov 11, 2024, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
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2. SHIELD
Risk intelligence solution for protection against fraud. It is a saas-based platform that provides end to end fraud protection such as protection against bot fraud, account fraud, transaction fraud, and credit fraud. It helps digital businesses eliminate fake accounts and stop all fraudulent activity.
Key facts about SHIELD
- Founded Year: 2008
- Location: Singapore (Singapore)
- Annual Revenue: $1M - $10M as on Dec 31, 2024
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Series B
- Total Funding till date: $31.7M
- Employee Count: 260 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: Temasek, Future Shape and 12 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Jun 26, 2018, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
3. Lambda AI
Provider of supercomputers, clusters, and instances for artificial intelligence development. The company offers infrastructure for training foundation models and serving inference. It provides supercomputer resources, including high-density power, liquid cooling, and processors. The company delivers single-tenant clusters and instances optimized for artificial intelligence workloads. It focuses on security, compliance, and hardware-level isolation.
Key facts about Lambda AI
- Founded Year: 2012
- Location: San Jose (United States)
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Series E
- Total Funding till date: $2.44B
- Employee Count: 249 as on Aug 31, 2025
- Investors: T. Rowe Price, Savano Capital Partners and 57 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Conventional Debt, Aug 13, 2026, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
MOLPoints is an online micropayment system. It provides tokens with which users can purchase online games, products, and services from local portals and pay for their purchases at physical, online and mobile channels.
Key facts about MOL AccessPortal
5. TripleA
Online payments for cryptocurrencies. Merchants are allowed to accept payments in digital assets for purchasing various goods and services. It provides PoS solutions and APIs to track sales and accept retail payments. Also, offers tools and payment links for generating invoices.
Key facts about TripleA
- Founded Year: 2018
- Location: Singapore (Singapore)
- Annual Revenue: $1M - $10M as on Dec 31, 2024
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $14M
- Employee Count: 207 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: 8i Ventures, Insignia Ventures Partners and 7 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Oct 25, 2023, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
zVentures' Year-on-Year Investment Trends
zVentures has invested in 29 companies over the last 9 years, with an average of 1 new investment annually in the last 5 years. Its most recent first time investment was in XProtocol and most recent follow-on round was in Morning.Year | No. of Investments | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2022 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
2021 | 9 | 1 | 10 |
2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
zVentures' Investments by Stage
zVentures has made 6 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $1.48M, 4 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $6.25M, 2 investments in Series B stage with an average round size of $388M and 1 investment in Post IPO stage with an average round size of $15M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Seed | 6 |
Series A | 4 |
Series B | 2 |
Post IPO | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
zVentures' Investments by Sector
zVentures has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the High Tech, Blockchain Technology, Blockchain - Industry Applications, FinTech and Gaming. Notably, it has invested in 24 Tech companies, 16 Consumer (B2C) companies, 15 Software companies and at least 10 companies focusing on Enterprise (B2B).Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
High Tech | 7 |
Blockchain Technology | 6 |
Blockchain - Industry Applications | 5 |
FinTech | 5 |
Gaming | 3 |
Others | 14 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
zVentures' Investments by Geography
zVentures has made most investments in Singapore (6), followed by United States where it has made 3 investments.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Singapore | 6 |
United States | 3 |
United Kingdom | 2 |
China | 1 |
Finland | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
zVentures' recent investments
zVentures has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by zVentures:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Jun 28, 2024 | United Kingdom | Seed | 8529 | [+3] | |
Jun 16, 2022 | Singapore | Series A | 3936 | [+2] | |
Jun 16, 2022 | Singapore | Series A | 5323 | - | |
Jun 14, 2022 | Singapore | Series A | 2362 | [+2] | |
Dec 09, 2021 | Finland | Series A | 3700 |
Unicorns in zVentures' Portfolio
zVentures has 3 unicorns in its portfolio - Lambda AI, Animoca Brands and Forte. The most recent unicorn in their portfolio is Lambda AI. It became a unicorn in 2024, 2 years before zVentures first invested in it.Here is a list of unicorns in zVentures' portfolio:
Tracxn Score | Company | Short Description | Founded year | Sector | Location | Company Stage | First Investment/ Acquisition Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
62 | Provider of supercomputers, clusters, and instances for artificial intelligence development | 2012 | San Jose | Series E | fnnhspg | ||
77 | Web3 technology investment and venture-building company | 2006 | Hong Kong | Series C | tjqydgu | ||
58 | Provider of Web3 infrastructure and compliance platform for blockchain projects | 2019 | San Francisco | Series B | p{pqbjr |
Acquired companies in zVentures' Portfolio
5 companies from zVentures' portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition was Loupedeck in Jul 2023 by Logitech for $*****.Here are zVentures' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 18, 2023 | Jul 07, 2021 | Seed | 6868 | |
Aug 04, 2022 | - | - | 9969 | |
Feb 15, 2021 | Mar 14, 2017 | Post IPO | 6276 | |
Apr 23, 2018 | - | - | 7371 | |
Oct 17, 2016 | - | - | 2680 |
Team profile of zVentures
zVentures has a team of 1 member located in United States. zVentures' team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Co-investors of zVentures
Over the past 9 years, 128 investors have co-invested in zVentures's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before zVentures: Kingsway Capital, Liberty City Ventures and 42 others have invested in rounds before zVentures. There is 1 company where Kingsway Capital has invested before zVentures and 1 company where Liberty City Ventures has invested before zVentures.
- Top Co-investors of zVentures: 37 investors entered a company along with zVentures. These include investors like Razer (2 companies).
- Invested after zVentures: A total of 47 investors have invested in zVentures's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include CMCC Global (1 company), GameFi Ventures (1 company) and Gabby Dizon (1 company).
Recent News related to zVentures
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XProtocol Raises USD800K; Total Funds to USD5.2MFinSMEs•Jun 28, 2024•XProtocol, Cogitent, Zephyrus Capital, Saison Capital and 2 others
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Triplea Raises US$4 Million in Funding From Razer’s zVenturesFinTechnews•Jun 16, 2022•TripleA, zVentures
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Singapore Blue-Chip Veteran’s Firm Raises $130 Million Tech FundCaixin Global•Feb 11, 2022•Singapore Airlines, Altara Ventures, Razor Group, zVentures
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Sea Capital co-leads $725m round of blockchain gaming unicornTech in Asia•Nov 15, 2021•Forte, Sea Capital, Sea, Kora and 13 others
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