# KAIO funding: rounds and investors

> KAIO has raised $19M across 2 rounds since 2025. Investors include Karatage, Shorooq Partners and Tether. Every round with its source.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/company/kaio (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

United Kingdom · [Seed startup](https://millionrounds.com/companies)

# Who invested in *KAIO*

2 rounds we have observed, with the 3 investors named in them. Every figure came from a named source, and where the company reported a raise to the SEC itself, that is shown beside it.

Web3 & Crypto

Raised 7 months ago

Funding summary Updated 26 Oct 2026

**$19M** raised across 2 rounds since 2025, from 2 sources

**$11M** Seed **$8.0M** Seed

- **Latest round:** Seed, $8.0M Apr 2026
- **Biggest round:** $11M Seed · Jul 2025
- **Investors:** 3

See who backed them

## The funding story

Each circle is a round, placed by date and sized by amount. The line above is the running total.

2026

**$11M** Seed

**$8.0M** Seed

- **First round:** Seed, $11M
- **Biggest round:** $11M
- **Between rounds:** 9 months

## The rounds

- **Apr 2026** Seed **$8.0M** *2 new* *1 returning* [Shorooq Partners](https://millionrounds.com/fund/shorooq-partners) [Tether](https://millionrounds.com/fund/tether) [Karatage](https://millionrounds.com/fund/karatage) Source recorded
- **Jul 2025** Seed **$11M** *1 new* [Karatage](https://millionrounds.com/fund/karatage) Source recorded

## Founders and team

From KAIO's own website: 13 on the team.

- **Shrey Rastogi** Chief Executive Officer
- **Katya Shavrina** Chief Of Staff
- **Olivier Dang** Chief Operating Officer
- **Kaveh Gharachorlou** Head Of People & Culture
- **Suba Naganathan** VP of Marketing
- **Victor Goncalves** Head of Product
- **Amritpal Singh** Senior Full Stack Developer
- **Andrea Perinu** Senior Developer
- **Davi Mello** Platform Engineer
- **Enrico Schintu** Senior Full Stack Developer
- **Hannah Dolbear** Operations Associate
- **Pepe Clemente** Senior QA Engineer
- **Ramzi Bougammoura** Senior Back End Engineer

## Who was in which round

The busiest backers across the latest rounds. A filled square is a round they joined; a dark one, a round they led.

**Seed** 2025 **Seed** 2026 [Karatage](https://millionrounds.com/fund/karatage) [Shorooq Partners](https://millionrounds.com/fund/shorooq-partners) [Tether](https://millionrounds.com/fund/tether)

## Everyone who backed them

[Karatage](https://millionrounds.com/fund/karatage) VC firm **2** rounds

[Shorooq Partners](https://millionrounds.com/fund/shorooq-partners) VC firm **1** round

[Tether](https://millionrounds.com/fund/tether) Investment firm **1** round

Missing a round, or an investor who was in one? [Tell us](https://millionrounds.com/corrections?slug=kaio).

## Also claim to have backed them

This firm lists KAIO as a portfolio company on their own website, but no report of a round names it. They are the firms' own claims, kept apart from the rounds above.

[Further Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/further-ventures) Asset manager Per its own site

## Quick answers about KAIO

### Who invested in KAIO?

KAIO's investors include Karatage, Shorooq Partners and Tether.

### How much has KAIO raised?

KAIO has raised $19M across 2 rounds since 2025.

### When did KAIO last raise?

KAIO's most recent round was a Seed of $8.0M in Apr 2026.

### What was KAIO's biggest round?

KAIO's largest round on record is $11M (Seed), in Jul 2025.

### Who backed KAIO first?

KAIO's first round on record, in Jul 2025, was backed by Karatage.

### What stage is KAIO at?

KAIO's latest named round is a Seed, in Apr 2026.

### Where is KAIO based?

KAIO is based in the United Kingdom.

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