StarkWare is an Israeli blockchain technology company developing STARK-based zero-knowledge proof solutions for blockchain scalability and privacy. It launched a $4 million venture fund to invest in pre-seed and seed-stage blockchain startups in Africa.
33% of their portfolio is in Crypto & Web3. They made 1 investment in the last 12 months. Their most common stage is seed (46% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $12.4M (across 22 rounds with reported amounts).
Portfolio
23
Fund Size
$4M
Top Stage
Seed
Last 12 Mo
1
Team
Alessandro Chiesa
Co-Founder
Eli Ben-Sasson
Co-Founder, CEO
Uri Kolodny
Co-founder, Board Member
Harish Devarajan
Independent Board Member
Lior Goldberg
CTO
Matt Huang
Board Member
Paul Veradittakit
Board Observer
Portfolio Breakdown
Stage Distribution
Sector Distribution
Investment Activity
DealsAvg Round Size
Portfolio
24 investments
| Company | Round | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
 Cartridge | Series A | $7.5M | Jun 2026 |
 Arbelos | Seed | $28M | May 2024 |
| UUsual Labs | Unknown | $7M | Apr 2024 |
 Bitlayer | Unknown | $5M | Mar 2024 |
 Arbelos | Seed | $28M | Jan 2024 |
| AArbelos Markets | Unknown | $28M | Jan 2024 |
 Aligned Layer | Seed | $20M | Jan 2024 |
 Fordefi | Seed | $18M | Nov 2022 |
 Argent | Series B | $40M | Apr 2022 |
 Nirvana (Parallel) | Growth | $5M | Apr 2022 |
 zkLend | Seed | $5M | Mar 2022 |
| Argent | Series B | — | Jan 2022 |
 Empiric | Seed | $7M | Jan 2022 |
 Orbiter Finance | Seed | $3.2M | Jan 2022 |
 Snapshot Labs | Unknown | $4M | Nov 2021 |
 DeversiFi | Unknown | $5M | May 2021 |
 X10 | Seed | — | — |
| SSendBlocks | Seed | $8.2M | — |
 Brine Fi | Series A | $16.5M | — |
 Psy Protocol | Seed | $6M | — |
 Nil Foundation | Unknown | $22M | — |
| PPaycrest | Pre-Seed | $404K | — |
 MatchboxDAO | Seed | $7.5M | — |
| KKakarot zkEVM | Pre-Seed | $1M | — |
Top Co-Investors
Framework Ventures4 shared
Fabric Ventures3 shared
Circle Ventures3 shared
Dragonfly3 shared
Selini Capital3 shared
Room40 Ventures3 shared
Paxos3 shared
DeFiance Capital2 shared
Castle Island Ventures2 shared
Pantera Capital2 shared
Illuminate Financial2 shared
Lightspeed Venture Partners2 shared
Coinbase Ventures2 shared
Animoca Brands2 shared
Metaplanet2 shared
Creandum2 shared
Index Ventures2 shared
Paradigm2 shared
Alliance DAO2 shared
BITKRAFT Ventures2 shared
Last updated: 7 October 2026