Mapping Out IOSG Ventures' Portfolio

IOSG Ventures is an investment and research firm focused on the blockchain/crypto sector with offices in Singapore and Shenzhen, China. The firm was founded in 2017 by Jocy Lin, and in 2020, the former co-founder of the blockchain protocol Zilliqa joined IOSG Ventures as a partner. Later that year, Deniz Omer, Head of Ecosystem Growth at Kyber Network and co-founder of Alphaday, joined the team as a venture partner.

During the firm's early days, the fund focused on Layer-1 projects. Still, between 2019 and 2020, as the decentralized finance (DeFi) vertical began to blossom, the firm began to focus more heavily on DeFi and middleware solutions that provide infrastructure and support to financial applications. Since then, the NFTs/Gaming category has become popular, and it currently is IOSG Ventures' third-most popular investment sphere.