Investor Profile: Taisu Ventures — Thesis, Cheque Size & How to Apply

For Web3 founders building technically complex products, Taisu Ventures funding is a specialist worth knowing. This guide explains how to get funding from Taisu Ventures, a global early-stage Web3 venture firm rooted in the Cardano ecosystem, which backs founders across infrastructure, decentralised finance and AI-linked decentralised systems. Its pitch is chain-agnostic expertise: it will back the best project whatever chain it runs on.

Investment thesis

Taisu Ventures invests in and empowers early-stage Web3 companies across the globe, with roots in EMURGO, the official commercial and founding entity of the Cardano blockchain. The firm says it proudly transcends the boundaries of specific chains, championing projects that drive the development, deployment and widespread adoption of blockchain technology. Its own recent description stresses technically complex and regulated blockchain systems, and support beyond capital into ecosystem building and academic-industry collaboration.

Sectors, stages and cheque size

Taisu Ventures is an early-stage investor, principally at seed and Series A, backing companies from the idea stage and minimum-viable-product phase through go-to-market. Its stated focus areas are infrastructure, decentralised finance, AI and decentralised physical infrastructure, intellectual property and entertainment, and user platforms. Fund size and cheque size are not publicly disclosed in the sources reviewed for this profile. The firm describes over 120 early-stage investments across those areas, a scale that marks it as an active, high-volume early-stage Web3 investor rather than a occasional participant.

Notable portfolio

Portfolio names highlighted by investment databases include Oort, a decentralised computing infrastructure company, and Pencils Protocol, with a recent seed investment in Spout Finance also recorded. The firm's broader portfolio spans the United States, Singapore, China and other markets, reflecting a deliberately global footprint. Founders should note the pattern: infrastructure and protocol-level work, not single-market consumer apps with a token attached.

Partners and team

Taisu Ventures was founded in 2023 and is led by Takashi Hayashida, Founder and Managing Partner. The firm has a team of about 11 people and a presence spanning Asia, the Americas, Europe, Africa and the Middle East, which it presents as an advantage for Web3 projects that must scale globally from the outset. That global spread is also the firm's answer to a real founder problem in Web3: regulation, users and liquidity rarely sit in one jurisdiction.

Programmes run

Taisu Ventures supports builders beyond its investment activity, most recently through Keio ChainHack 2026, co-hosted with the Keio FinTEK Center and focused on Web3 innovation. The firm describes the hackathon as part of a broader strategy of fostering early experimentation, talent development and collaboration between academia and industry. It is an ecosystem programme, not a priced accelerator with a published cheque, so founders should treat it as a route to visibility and relationships with the firm rather than as a funding round in itself.

How to apply for funding from Taisu Ventures

The published route is a project submission form linked in the firm's announcements, through which founders and builders can submit project details for investment consideration. The firm's releases also name Raphael Ng at [email protected] as a contact. Founders should submit through the form first, with a clear account of the technical architecture, token design where relevant, regulatory approach and global go-to-market plan, and use the named contact only for a concise, well-targeted follow-up.