What is OKX Ventures Investment Fund? Complete information about OKX Exchange Fund

Introduction to OKX Ventures

OKX Ventures is a Venture Capital fund directly under the world's leading cryptocurrency exchange OKX, established with the goal of promoting the development of the global Web3 ecosystem. Founded in 2021 with an initial scale of 100 million USD. Not just an investment fund, OKX Ventures also plays a strategic role, providing invested projects with added values such as: technical support, liquidation, OKX's user network, and ecosystem development consulting.

With the motto "Empowering the future of Web3", OKX Ventures is gradually becoming one of the most influential funds in the digital asset and decentralized technology field.

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• Jeff is the direct manager of investment activities at OKX Ventures. Before joining OKX, he had many years of experience in Venture Capital, M&A, and strategic management at large technology companies.
• Jeff is the representative face of OKX Ventures at many international blockchain conferences.

Notable Investment Deals of OKX Ventures

Portfolio Overview & Investment Appetite

• To date, OKX Ventures has made 213 investments, demonstrating the fund's active and comprehensive presence in the global Web3 ecosystem.
• The average funding round that OKX Ventures participates in ranges from 3-10 million USD, primarily focused on the US market.

Priority Investment Areas:

• Artificial Intelligence (AI): 20%
• DEX (Decentralized Exchange): 13.33%
• Layer 1: 13.33%
• Layer 2: 13.33%
• Play-to-Earn (P2E): 13.33%

Primary Investment Stages: Incubation (35%) and Seed (25%) – showing the fund's tendency to prioritize early-stage projects needing support for initial platform development. Subsequent stages like Strategic (20%), Series A (10%), and Pre-Seed (5%) are also present, reflecting flexibility in capital allocation strategy.

5 Successful Token-Launched Investment Projects of OKX Ventures

Ethena (ENA)

• Total Funds Raised: 14.5 million USD
• Ethena is a Decentralized Stablecoin protocol with its flagship product USDe, supported by derivative hedging strategies. ENA is the platform's governance token.

Sei (SEI)

• Total Funds Raised: 30 million USD
• Layer 1 Blockchain optimized for trading, targeting high performance and low latency for DeFi and NFT applications.

Celestia (TIA)

• Total Funds Raised: 55 million USD
• A modular blockchain focused on Data Availability solutions, separating consensus and execution layers to optimize scalability.

Movement Labs (MOVE)

• Total Funds Raised: 38 million USD
• Layer 2 project on Ethereum using MoveVM – Move programming language (from Aptos/Sui), expanding security and compatibility for smart contracts.

ether.fi (ETHFI)

• Total Funds Raised: 27 million USD
• ether.fi is a leading Liquid Restaking platform, allowing users to stake ETH and receive representative ETHFI tokens. The project is actively integrating EigenLayer.

5 Potential Projects Without Tokens from OKX Ventures

0G Labs

• Funds Raised: 359.09 million USD
• Modular data availability platform designed to support large-scale AI and blockchain applications, focusing on performance and scalability.

Camp Network

• Funds Raised: 29 million USD
• Web3 Gaming ecosystem providing decentralized game development tools, enabling easy game creation and deployment on blockchain.

Cygnus Finance

• Funds Raised: 20 million USD
• Native lending platform on Arbitrum, focusing on lending markets for Liquid Staking Derivatives and emerging assets.

Lombard

• Funds Raised: 17 million USD
• Project building on-chain financial infrastructure for real-world assets (RWA) and institutional investors.

Prodia

• Funds Raised: 15 million USD
• Decentralized AI inference distribution platform, enabling access to AI models like Stable Diffusion through API, directly competing with traditional AI services.

For an overview of OKX Ventures' investment portfolio, readers can view it here: https://cryptorank.io/funds/okx-ventures/portfolio

Some Achievements and Market Influence

• Invested >50 million USD in L2, DeFi, AI/Web3 in 2023
• Organized "Global Horizon" meetup attracting top founders and VCs
• Collaborated with Meson Network, advancing global AI DePIN infrastructure
• Launched insurance cover pool combining CeFi and DeFi security
• Part of the Ethereum Climate Platform, promoting sustainability in the Ethereum ecosystem

Summary

OKX Ventures – with "backing from OKX exchange" – not only provides capital but also supports startups through its ecosystem, network, and deep expertise. The multi-sector investment model, long-term thinking, and focus on infrastructure reveal ambitions to build a comprehensive and sustainable Web3 platform.