Top 50 Blockchain Angel Investors in Singapore in November 2024
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Blockchain startups based in Singapore. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Blockchain companies from Singapore. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Blockchain Angel Investors in Singapore in November 2024
Investor | Blockchain Singapore investments |
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Sandeep Nailwal | 9 |
Balaji Srinivasan | 8 |
Liang Xinjun | 6 |
Richard Ma | 4 |
Chris McCann | 4 |
Jaynti Kanani | 4 |
Stani Kulechov | 4 |
Josh Hannah | 4 |
Leo Cheng | 3 |
Jack Herrick | 3 |
Ajit Tripathi | 3 |
Ryan Selkis | 3 |
Tanmay Bhat | 3 |
Prabhakar Reddy | 3 |
Santiago Roel Santos | 3 |
Kain Warwick | 3 |
Loi Luu | 2 |
Ana Andrianova | 2 |
Marc Bhargava | 2 |
Mohandass Kalaichelvan | 2 |
Do Kwon | 2 |
Kunal Bahl | 2 |
Mahdi Raza | 2 |
Kevin Hu | 2 |
Sam Kazemian | 2 |
Sanat Rao | 2 |
Spencer Noon | 2 |
Alex Svanevik | 2 |
Raj Gokal | 2 |
Shixing Mao | 2 |
Aleksander Leonard Larsen | 2 |
DeFi Dad | 2 |
Kevin Lin | 2 |
Meltem Demirors | 2 |
Ajeet Khurana | 2 |
Paul Taylor | 2 |
Robert Leshner | 2 |
Kingsley Advani | 2 |
Matthew Tan | 2 |
Rohit Bansal | 2 |
Nitin Gupta | 2 |
Sumit Gupta | 1 |
Jon Callaghan | 1 |
Gavin Wood | 1 |
Kazutaka Mori | 1 |
Alan Howard | 1 |
Jun Du | 1 |
Qiao Wang | 1 |
Mike Ouye | 1 |
Jinwoo Park | 1 |
Sandeep Nailwal is the co-founder and COO of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as the Co-Founder and CEO. He attended the Indian Institute of Management, Mumbai.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Fermah — Fermah can generate proofs for any instance in which ZK is used. Fermah is credibly neutral and architected to support all proof systems. This includes zkVMs, zkEVMs, Groth16, and all other proof systems. It is optimized for cheap, fast, and reliable ZK proof generation.
- RISE Labs — The Gigagas Layer 2
- OpenGradient — OpenGradient is a leading decentralized AI platform for open-source model hosting, secure inference, agentic reasoning, and application deployment. By developing tooling and a feature-rich platform that makes developing AI workflows both secure and seamless, OpenGradient empowers developers with the ability to build in its ecosystem of intelligentand optimized AI-empowered applications. With native model hosting, permissionless composability, and secure inference execution, OpenGradient also aims to accelerate open-source AI by democratizing model ownership, improving verifiability guarantees, and promoting censorship-resistant model access.Our heterogeneous AI compute architecture (HACA) and our proprietary library NeuroML scale secure AI workflows with features like inference, agentic reasoning, statistical analysis, and more. OpenGradient also accelerates open-source innovation with a web portal and SDK for Web2 developers to leverage our AI stack without navigating blockchain complexities, while enjoying the security and composability benefits of decentralized infrastructure.
Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the co-founder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- ZAR — Enjoy borderless banking with a USD Visa card powered by stablecoins. Available in 180+ countries. Sign up for your account today!
- The Arena — Arena. social is a cutting-edge SocialFi platform that is revolutionizing how content producers interact, network, and make money from their work.
- OpenGradient — OpenGradient is a leading decentralized AI platform for open-source model hosting, secure inference, agentic reasoning, and application deployment. By developing tooling and a feature-rich platform that makes developing AI workflows both secure and seamless, OpenGradient empowers developers with the ability to build in its ecosystem of intelligentand optimized AI-empowered applications. With native model hosting, permissionless composability, and secure inference execution, OpenGradient also aims to accelerate open-source AI by democratizing model ownership, improving verifiability guarantees, and promoting censorship-resistant model access.Our heterogeneous AI compute architecture (HACA) and our proprietary library NeuroML scale secure AI workflows with features like inference, agentic reasoning, statistical analysis, and more. OpenGradient also accelerates open-source innovation with a web portal and SDK for Web2 developers to leverage our AI stack without navigating blockchain complexities, while enjoying the security and composability benefits of decentralized infrastructure.
Liang Xinjun is the Founder of the Fosun fashion group. He previously worked at Shanghai Guangxin Technology Development Co as a VP; Deputy GM. Liang Xinjun attended
Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Singapore, United States, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- NFTGo — NFTGo is a NFT data aggregator where users can find information about NFT, including NFT Drops, ranking, whale tracking, NFT search engine, market data, transaction data, and many more.
- 0xScope — Discover the comprehensive suite of trading and research products leveraging 0xScope's cutting-edge Web3 Data Layer architecture. Trade with confidence using Scopechat, access advanced analytical tools with Scopescan, and tap into the extensive capabilities of ScopeAPI for traceable entity insights.
- TokenScript — A new standard for bridging web2 and web3
Richard Ma is the Founder and CEO of Quantstamp.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, India
Portfolio highlights
- DuelNow — DuelNow offers bookie-free sports betting. At DuelNow you can create crypto bets, set your odds, and win on your terms.
- RiskLayer — RiskLayer is an economic security middleware for DeFi and providing services and validating Creating positive feedback loops.
- Peach Worlds — The Only No-Code Builder for Extraordinary 3D Websites. Empowering designers to create stand out and premium 3D Sites without any coding.
Chris McCann is the Partner at Race Capital and a Seed Investor at Solana, Lightning Labs, Kado, Notifi, Zeet, Hedge Labs, Bundlr Network, and Opaque Systems. He is also the Co-Founder of StartupDigest. Prior to that, Chris was a Community Lead at Greylock Partners.
Mr. McCann attended California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo.
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, Singapore, Malta
Portfolio highlights
- Delta One — Delta One is a yield generation protocol on Solana that offers novel delta-neutral and impermanent loss-free farming markets. Its mission is to create novel, easy-to-use Defi primitives that democratize the best risk-adjusted yield opportunities to achieve mass adoption of crypto investing.
- Aleph.im — Aleph.im is a distributed cloud platform that provides serverless trusted computing services, file storage, and database hosting to its users.
- Headquarters — Headquarters (HQ.xyz) helps Web3 teams be automate their financial activities and reporting. Aggregated balance overview, Payments and Payouts, book-keeping tailored for Web3/Crypto.
Jaynti Kanani - Co-Founder @ Polygon
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Rep3 — Rep3 is a Web3 community management application. Rep3 uses gamification methods to assist lps encryption projects in managing communities, members, and contributions.
- NovaNet — NovaNet offers local verifiable computing and privacy protection applications, including AI, decentralized Internet of Things (DePIN), and games.
- Electron — Proof Aggregation using #superproofs. Backed by Sandeep Nailwal, Martin Köppelmann, Jaynti Kanani, Anurag Arjun, Aztec CTO, and many others. Etheruem Foundation grant recipient.
Stani Kulechov is the founder and CEO of Aave and ETHLend. He is a seasoned entrepreneur with extensive experience developing technology in the crypto, blockchain, and fintech space. Stani is also a mentor to many founders and advisors of ICOs and blockchain projects and has spoken at numerous FinTech, Blockchain and cryptocurrency events,particularly on topics related to Ethereum Smart Contracts.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Australia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- karpatkey — Market leaders in onchain asset management, karpatkey helps crypto organisations grow their assets responsibly and sustainably. We provide active treasury management, financial services, ecosystem growth and risk management solutions.
- RISE Labs — The Gigagas Layer 2
- Fantom Foundation — Fantom is a next-gen Layer-1 platform for DeFi, dApps and businesses.
Josh Hannah
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Marketplace
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- ClayStack — Multichain liquid staking platform that allows users to stake their assets, mint staking derivatives, and participate in DeFi.
- Ondo Finance — Institutional Grade Finance. On-Chain. For Everyone.
- Meson Network — meson network provides fast,stable,cheap content delivery globally
Leo Cheng is a Co-founder & CEO @ Machi X. He attended
University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Financial Services, Finance
- Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Coinomo — Your Long-Term Partner in Crypto Investment
- SolRazr — SolRazr is the first decentralized developer ecosystem for Solana, offering Launchpad, Accelerator, and Developer Tools.
- Candlestick.io — Explore the most profitable crypto traders' addresses by your metrics. Uncover PnL, Win Rate, ROI, etc of every blockchain address. Implement the strategies of the proven real smart traders.
Jack Herrick is a serial entrepreneur and current CEO and Founder of wikiHow.Jack founded wikiHow, which is like Wikipedia for how-to. Jack started and self financed wikiHow from inception to it's current position as one of the most popular sites on the web receiving over 25 million unique visitors per month. Prior to wikiHow, Jack wasco-CEO of eHow. With Josh Hannah, Jack purchased eHow in 2004. Between 2004 and 2006 eHow grew 30x in traffic and revenue and became the largest pure play how-to site on the web. Demand Media acquired eHow in 2006.In 2002 Jack co-founded Luminescent Technologies with Dan Abrams, Eli Yablonovitch, and Stan Osher. Luminescent is a computational semiconductor lithography company that has raised over $25 MM in venture capital. From 1999-2001 Jack was CEO and co-founder at BigTray, a Sequoia funded e-commerce company. BigTray was sold in 2001 and remains the largest online vendor of restaurant equipment and supplies.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Florida Street — PIXEL GG INC.
- SX Network — The global liqudity hub for betting
- Teahouse Finance — Powered by cutting-edge smart contracts
Ajit Tripathi is a Head of Institutional Business at Aave.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Internet, Ethereum
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Singapore, India, France
Portfolio highlights
- Flint — Earn 13% p.a. stable returns by leveraging the power of crypto. Withdraw-able anytime without fees.
- Spark — Spark is a decentralized network that provides a predicate-based central limit order book.
- WalletConnect — Reown gives developers the tools to build user experiences that make digital ownership effortless, intuitive, and secure. Explore now
Ryan Selkis is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Messari. He was the Managing Director CoinDesk before that. After discovering bitcoin, Ryan became obsessed with the technology’s social and economic potential. That obsession, along with finance and startup experience, helps him lead DCG's investing efforts.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, India
Portfolio highlights
- 0xPPL — 0xPPL brings together people who have similar interests in cryptocurrencies, providing an ecosystem where users can track crypto assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) traded by those they follow.
- Agora — Agora operates as a cross-chain governance platform.
- StripChain — Stripchain is an intent-based interoperability standard that enables chain abstraction.
Tanmay Bhat, SuperteamDAO.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Information Technology, Digital Entertainment
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- India, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Unikon.ai — Unikon.ai has solved the issue of access on this open-source platform. Every user has a personal profile that they can modify to include different prices for direct messaging, video calls, and audio calls."Unikon" means "you and I connect."
- Offline — Offline is a private members' community for the top 10% tech founders and CEOs in India. Apply online to become a member.
- infinyte.club — The ultimate wealth product for intelligent investors: track your net worth, manage public and private market investments & grow wealth across traditional & new-age assets.
Prabhakar Reddy is the Co-Founder at FalconX.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Blockchain, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, India
Portfolio highlights
- Key — Key provides a unique method to making significant professional relationships while also promoting career advancement, financial well-being, and work-life balance
- Coinshift — Coinshift is a crypto treasury management platform that helps businesses and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO's) manage their crypto easily and empowers users to collaborate and approve transactions, execute mass pay-outs, etc.
- Mira — Mira is a decentralized infrastructure platform designed to increase access to advanced AI.
Santiago Roel Santos was a Partner at ParaFi Capital.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- MegaETH — MegaETH is the first blockchain in real time and entirely on-chain, immediate, interactive apps are enabling mankind to reach its greatest potential.
- SkyTrade — SkyTrade is a blockchain-based air rights marketplace that allows users to buy, sell, and lease airspace, enabling them to manage and control access to low-altitude airspace.
- StripChain — Stripchain is an intent-based interoperability standard that enables chain abstraction.
Kain Warwick is the Co-Founder and CEO at blueshyft
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Australia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Ammalgam — Ammalgam is a new primitive that integrates lending and trading into a single protocol known as a Decentralized Lending Exchange (DLEX).
- EarthFast — EarthFast provides cryptocurrency front-end hosting solutions. It enables projects to build and deploy decentralized apps, providing a secure alternative to traditional cloud platforms.
- Firewall — Firewall is building a security layer for Web3, including the Safe Sequencer and its modular components that mitigate smart contract hacks before they impact users. Backed by NIV, Breyer Capital and Hack VC.
Loi Luu is a researcher working on cryptocurrencies, smart contract security and distributed consensus algorithms. He is also a regular invited speaker at Bitcoin and Ethereum workshops such as DevCon2, EDCON.Loi believes in the force of the Ethereum and Blockchain technology. Much of his work revolves around this community. He developed Oyente,the first open-source security analyzer for Ethereum smart contracts. Loi also cofounded SmartPool, another open source project which embraces decentralization of mining pools in existing cryptocurrency. He continues to champion decentralisation and trustless properties of the Blockchain with KyberNetwork, taking inspiration and developing value for the community.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Trading Platform
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Singapore, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- BlonkFi — BlonkFi enables users to borrow stablecoins with volatile mid-market money, such as Meme tokens, as collateral.
- ARC the Community — Access Asia's most curated community in Web3, enabled by NFTs as proof of membership.
- Alliance Games — Next level Web3 Gaming Infrastructure, Now Fully Decentralized
Ana Andrianova
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Investment focus
- Analytics, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A
- Kenya, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Mara — Mara is a company operating in the sub-Saharan Africa region. Mara offers a suite of crypto products including a cryptocurrency exchange, token collateralized lending, and an NFT marketplace.
- Nansen — The Nansen analytics platform analyzes millions of data points on Ethereum wallets, transactions, and smart contracts.
Marc Bhargava is the Managing Director at General Catalyst. He attended Harvard Business School.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, France
Portfolio highlights
- Olympix — Olympix is a pioneering DevSecOps tool that puts security in the hands of the developer by proactively securing code from day one.
- Meanwhile — Licensed and regulated life insurance in Bitcoin. Leverage the value of crypto today and pass it to the next generation without passing on a huge tax burden.
- Superform Labs — THE UNIVERSAL INTERFACE FOR YIELD IS FORMING
Mohandass Kalaichelvan is the CEO & Founder at Spenmo . Mohandass Kalaichelvan attended Dartmouth College.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Payments, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Singapore, India, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- Evo — Social Commerce Software
- Evo — Evo provides health and wellness direct-to-consumer services.
- Headquarters — Headquarters (HQ.xyz) helps Web3 teams be automate their financial activities and reporting. Aggregated balance overview, Payments and Payouts, book-keeping tailored for Web3/Crypto.
Do Kwon is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Terraform Labs. Do Kwon is the Founder & CEO at Terraform Labs . Do Kwon attended Stanford University.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- KlayCity — KlayCity is a P2E virtual world where district NFT owners can govern, explore and earn while enjoying the gaming experience.
- Fractal — Fractal is an in-game asset and virtual world marketplace where users may find, purchase, and sell gaming NFTs. Fractal is headquartered in Solana, United States and was founded in 2021.
- Treehouse — Explore Treehouse Protocol, a decentralized application introducing tAssets and Decentralized Offered Rates (DOR). Deposit ETH or LST to receive tETH and unify fragmented on-chain ETH rates.
Kunal is a technology entrepreneur and investor.
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Investment focus
- Internet, E-Commerce, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- India, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Bluelearn — Find co-founders & teammates, apply to gigs, learn new skills, and meet passionate people.
- Legistify — Discover unparalleled legal management with our AI-powered platform, all-in-one solution for enterprise-level matter management, IPR, notices, and contracts
- Stable Money — Steady returns, untapped opportunities, and excellent long-term performance to aid your journey of wealth creation!
Mahdi Raza is a Lead at Robinhood. Attended NYU Stern School of Business.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Blockchain
- Seed, Series A
- United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Ascend — Ascend is an online payments platform that automates insurance payments end-to-end: from online customer payments and financing to the distribution of commissions and carrier payables.
- Starlight — Starlight offers everything your company needs to operate in the crypto economy from setting up wallets, to buying crypto, to tracking expenses.
- Contribution Labs — DeForm is token-gated forms and surveys for sign ups, allowlists, DAO governance, and other web3 marketing activities. Trusted by ENS, Alchemy, Optimism, CityDAO, Mintplex, and other blockchain projects.
Kevin Hu is a General Partner - Head of Liquid Strategies at Dragonfly Capital. He was an Alternative Investments at BlackRock. He attended the University of Toronto.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Internet, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Singapore, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- BounceBit — BounceBit is a chain solution that aims to provide a smart contract execution environment centered on the BTC Token.
- Veera — Veera is an internet browser that gives you rewards every time you browse.
- Manta Network — Manta Network delivers plug-and-play privacy for the entire DeFi stack.
Sam Kazemian is the Founder of Frax Finance.
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Investment focus
- Finance, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Eigenpie — Eigenpie is a restaking SubDAO that gives holders of Liquid Staking Tokens the chance to enhance their earning potential by restaking assets.
- RISE Labs — The Gigagas Layer 2
- t1 protocol — t1 protocol cross-chain applications and scalability are facilitated by real-time proofs and immediate settlement.
Sanat Rao is a Partner at BlockTower Capital where he manages the market neutral fund and also focuses on early stage investments. He was previously the managing director and co-founder at Gamma Point Capital, a leading market neutral hedge fund acquired by BlockTower Capital. Prior to Gamma Point Capital, Sanat was a partner at IDG Ventures Indiawhere he led investments in the fintech, SaaS and blockchain sectors. He has previously held roles at Intel Capital and iSPIRT on the investment and corporate development teams.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- India, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Wint Wealth — GrowFix offers high net-worth individuals and retail investors, asset-backed fixed income products that offer higher returns than fixed deposits.
- Flint — Earn 13% p.a. stable returns by leveraging the power of crypto. Withdraw-able anytime without fees.
- Nume Crypto — Nume Crypto is a cryptocurrency payment processor that caters to both individuals and businesses.
Spencer Noon is a General Partner/ Investor at Variant. He attended Amherst College.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Ethereum
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, France, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Ammalgam — Ammalgam is a new primitive that integrates lending and trading into a single protocol known as a Decentralized Lending Exchange (DLEX).
- NEBRA Labs — NEBRA Labs is a blockchain services company.
- aPriori — aPriori is a monad-native MEV infrastructure and liquid staking mechanism developed for parallel executions.
Alex Svanevik is a Co-Founder & CEO of Nansen.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Internet, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, Singapore, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
- Mira — Mira is a decentralized infrastructure platform designed to increase access to advanced AI.
- Blockscout — Blockscout is optimized for next-level blockchain exploration. Multi-chain, highly configurable, and open-source, the explorer portal opens up access to all chain data and functionality.
- Legion — Legion makes on-chain fundraising accessible to ordinary investors by ensuring regulatory compliance and investor accountability.
Raj leads operations, product, and finance. He has spent 10 years in product management and finance.He was a venture investor at General Catalyst, started the consumer medical device company Sano which attracted over $20m in investment, and led product management at Omada Health as it grew tenfold.
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- 0xPPL — 0xPPL brings together people who have similar interests in cryptocurrencies, providing an ecosystem where users can track crypto assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) traded by those they follow.
- MeshMap — MeshMap is a decentralized 3D map developer focused on creating a decentralized 3D globe map and augmented reality (AR) content network.
- Azura — Azura is a new all-in-one crypto application aggregation layer launched with the assistance of some of the most well-known cryptocurrency pioneers. The company's application and interfacing layer provides reliable access to DeFi assets, real-time market data, and full trade lifecycle support.
Discus Fish is the CEO and co-founder of Cobo, a leading global developer building the infrastructure that makes cryptocurrencies and decentralized apps easily accessible to anyone. Cobo’s flagship product, launched in February 2018, is Cobo Wallet, the first mobile wallet that offers proof-of-stake pooling services for users, a groundbreakinginnovation that assimilates to interests and dividends. Considered to be China’s cryptocurrency pioneer, for first introducing cryptocurrency to China in 2011 with his widely viewed mining tutorials, Discus Fish was a moderator of the first Chinese Bitcoin forum, BTCMAN, and the first Litecoin forum, LTCBBS. He later contributed to the marketing of Avalon, the first cryptocurrency ASIC miner from Canaan, which filed for an IPO in May 2018, and became co-founder and COO of Yibite, the first Bitcoin portal in China. In 2013, Discus Fish was most well known for co-founding F2Pool, the first mining pool in China, where he shifted the reliance on oversea mining pools to China and also pioneered the 24 hour settlement protocol, which is now considered a global standard today. Now the largest multi-currency mining pool in the world, F2Pool is globally the #1 Ethereum and Litecoin miner, and the 5th largest Bitcoin miner.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Finance, Software
- Seed, Funding Round
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Meson Network — meson network provides fast,stable,cheap content delivery globally
- Puffer Finance — Puffer Finance operates as a blockchain infrastructure company.
Aleksander Leonard Larsen is the Co-Founder and COO at Sky Mavis.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Digital Entertainment, Blockchain
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Norway, Singapore, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Mocaverse — Mocaverse is the Animoca Brands membership NFT collection of 8,888 unique beings: The Mocas. Join the Mocas in the realms to Learn, Play, Do Good, and Build together as we champion our Web3 values!
- Pixels — Pixels is a play-to-earn MMO game built around the NFT assets you already own. Build your NFT a home in the metaverse and get farming.
- Horizon Blockchain Games — We make web3 easy, fun, and accessible for users and builders.
DeFi Dad is one of the earliest super-users, educators, and investors in DeFi. He has worked in the Ethereum community since 2018, including his time as the 3rd employee at Zapper.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Financial Services, Privacy
- Seed, Series A
- Singapore, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- 3Box — 3Box Labs is a Web3 studio that creates software to advance a more open, safe, and composable Web3. We're hiring!
- TiTi Protocol — TiTi Protocol always monitors changes in the total value of reserve to calculate the average price of TiUSD in circulation and adjusts the market-making peg price of TiUSD in the primary market through the ReOrders mechanism.
- Aztec — Aztec is a privacy-first L2 on Ethereum, bringing privacy to the decentralized internet of the future.
Kevin Lin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metatheory. He previously worked at Everyday Ventures as an Owner and Manager. Kevin Lin attended Yale University.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Nest Wallet — A Wallet Engineered for Traders
- Cosmology — Cosmology is building a unified developer experience for interchain dApps
- Cosmology — Cosmology is building a unified developer experience for interchain dApps
Meltem Demirors is Chief Strategy Officer of CoinShares, an investment firm that manages $750M in assets, and is a trusted partner to investors and entrepreneurs navigating the digital asset ecosystem. Meltem oversees the firm’s managed strategies group and its New York office, and leads corporate development as a board director. Previously, shewas part of the founding team of Digital Currency Group. She teaches at MIT and Oxford, and serves on the WEF Blockchain Council. Meltem leads CoinShares' venture strategy and is an active angel investor, having invested in over 150 companies in the digital currency ecosystem since 2015.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, France
Portfolio highlights
- Nillion — The Secure Processing Layer of Web3
- Magma — Magma is a decentralized liquid staking protocol built on the Monad Network, an Ethereum-compatible Layer 1 blockchain.
- Fluid Protocol — Fluid Protocol is a decentralized, over-collateralized lending mechanism designed especially for Fuel Network. In order to maximize capital efficiency, Fluid offers users a safe and effective method of releasing liquidity from their collateral without having to liquidate their underlying assets.
Ajeet Khurana is a leading name in the cryptocurrency industry. He is the former head of the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Committee, which as part of IAMAI is India's foremost industry body for cryptocurrency.Presently, as an advisor to several crypto projects, he is seen as a specialist in:
* Tokenomics: pools, structure, architecture,flow, utility, value
* Market Mechanisms: market making, liquidity, listing, volume
In addition he helps with increasing adoption, communication, evangelizing, ambassador programs, and digital outreach. Some crypto founders regard Ajeet as their personal friend, philosopher, and guide.Earlier, in his role as CEO of Zebpay (India’s largest cryptocurrency exchange at that time), he took it from being a one-country exchange to a global exchange. As CEO of the business incubator at IIT Bombay (India’s premier engineering school), he helped commercialise several ideas from concept stage. As an advisor to Venture Capital firms in India, China, US, and Canada, he has an eye for promising founders.Still earlier, Ajeet has authored several books with McGrawHill Education, been an entrepreneur twice, and taught at the University of Texas at Austin.Here is how he characterizes himself:WHAT I HAVE ACHIEVED REPEATEDLY IN MY CAREER
Customer focus. Speed. Attracting and empowering the right people. Making hard decisions. Managing chaos and conflict. Smoothly navigating regulations & compliances. High governance standards. Cultivating relationships. Converting markets to communities. Negotiating deals. Continuous process and product improvement.WHAT I AM LOOKING FOR
A mandate that requires rapid growth and evolution. A role that requires backbone and heart. A non-bureaucratic system that expects a strong bias for action. An opportunity to learn, and create strong cultural underpinning.HOW I BUILD AND MANAGE TEAMS
Single minded focus on the customer. Choose people based on cultural fit and alignment of passion. Impart purpose. Select for potential, but advance for performance. Empower people to work. No busy work. No unending meetings. Don’t be hierarchy-minded. Encourage learning.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Internet, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- India, Singapore, Panama
Portfolio highlights
- Dapps — Join Dapps to discover and engage with digital communities that match your passions. Buy shares, and connect with like-minded individuals in a secure, decentralized platform that puts you in control.
- TaxNodes — TaxNodes is a platform for crypto tax computation and ITR filing with expert assistance.
- TableSprint — TableSprint is the world's first free app builder with zero fees and onboarding in a day using an intuitive, Excel-like interface.
Web3 Advisor & Angel Investor
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, China
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- Layer — Ethereum is the settlement layer, build full stack decentralized apps on top with Web Assembly and the EVM.
- OpenGradient — OpenGradient is a leading decentralized AI platform for open-source model hosting, secure inference, agentic reasoning, and application deployment. By developing tooling and a feature-rich platform that makes developing AI workflows both secure and seamless, OpenGradient empowers developers with the ability to build in its ecosystem of intelligentand optimized AI-empowered applications. With native model hosting, permissionless composability, and secure inference execution, OpenGradient also aims to accelerate open-source AI by democratizing model ownership, improving verifiability guarantees, and promoting censorship-resistant model access.Our heterogeneous AI compute architecture (HACA) and our proprietary library NeuroML scale secure AI workflows with features like inference, agentic reasoning, statistical analysis, and more. OpenGradient also accelerates open-source innovation with a web portal and SDK for Web2 developers to leverage our AI stack without navigating blockchain complexities, while enjoying the security and composability benefits of decentralized infrastructure.
- Hermetica — Hermetica is a crypto-native team with extensive financial technology experience, having worked with big organizations such as Kraken and State Street. Hermetica is dedicated to developing innovative financial products that capitalize on Bitcoin's security and transparency.
Robert Leshner is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Superstate. He previously worked at Compound Labs as a Founder. Robert Leshner attended CFA Institute.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
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- Degen War$ — Degen War$ is a player-versus-player NFT card game that takes place entirely on the blockchain.
- Bonsai — An experimental, mixed ERC-20 / ERC-721 implementation with native liquidity, fractionalization and unique art. 100000 $BONSAI Token is linked to 1 BONSAI NFT!
- Fantom Foundation — Fantom is a next-gen Layer-1 platform for DeFi, dApps and businesses.
Kingsley Advani is a British investor. He started investing in 2013, funding 50 companies, 4 funds and donating to non-profits including: SENS Foundation, Methuselah Foundation, Stanford University, National University of Singapore. He is particularly interested in regenerative medicine for age-related disease. Investments: Oisin, Turn Bio,Oncosenx, Monzo, Robinhood, Abra, Coinbase, Momentus, Demonpores, 64-x, Nectome. Investment areas: biotechnology, neurotechnology, longevity, space, fintech.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Biotechnology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
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- Checkstep — AI Content Moderation Services: learn how AI can help you scale your content moderation and keep your users and moderators safe.
- Allocations — 10,000+ investors and fund managers build, onboard and close funds on Allocations - the fastest and most advanced fund platform in the world
- Ashvattha Therapeutics — Ashvattha Therapeutics creates products that selectively target and treat human diseases. Ashvattha enables precision targeting for therapeutics eliminating off-target toxicity, systemic side effects, and immunogenicity seen in other platforms. Ashvattha has a pipeline of nine therapeutics in neurology, oncology, and ophthalmology.
Matthew Tan is the creator of Blockchain 2.0 Explorer, API & Analytics Platforms Etherscan.io (Ethereum Smart Contracts Platform), Blockscan.com (Counterparty Tech) and also a Co-Founder of a 20 person internet and web software related services development company. More than 15 years in the IT industry with experience in managing, operating anddeveloping technical solutions for clients from various industries.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, IaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Singapore, United States
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- Metagood — Metagood is a for-profit company that empowers communities to be catalysts for positive collective action.Founded by crypto veterans Danny Yang who created the largest crypto currency exchange in Taiwan, Amanda Terry who was an Twitter and NBC executive, and Bill Tai who was the first investor in Zoom, Canva, and 20 other publicly tradedcompanies, Metagood launched OnChainMonkey, the historic PFP collection all on chain in a single transaction on Sept 11, 2021. OnChainMonkey has been consistently ranked as one of the most profitable NFTs collections globally. Metagood was awarded Fast Company's 2022 20 Best World Changing Ideas for Impact Investing.
- Nirvana Labs — Our mission is to make blockchain infrastructure economical and accurate, ultimately lowering the barriers to entry for Web3 engineers.
- Candlestick.io — Explore the most profitable crypto traders' addresses by your metrics. Uncover PnL, Win Rate, ROI, etc of every blockchain address. Implement the strategies of the proven real smart traders.
Rohit Bansal - Co-Founder @ Snapdeal
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- Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- India, United States, Singapore
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- TyrePlex — Buy car and bike tyres. Best tyre price, features, reviews. Find right tyre size and tyre dealer details
- Bluelearn — Find co-founders & teammates, apply to gigs, learn new skills, and meet passionate people.
- Stable Money — Steady returns, untapped opportunities, and excellent long-term performance to aid your journey of wealth creation!
Nitin Gupta is a Founder and CEO at Uni.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, Singapore
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- Nected — Automate your backend flows, logics & experiments quickly within minutes using Nected's Rule Engine, Workflow automation & Experimentation Engine. Accelerate your innovation & growth. Highly Scalable, performing and customizable to adapt to any business needs and scale.
- HealthCred — HealthCred offers financial solutions tailored to the needs of India's healthcare ecosystem. The company specializes in providing working capital to healthcare stakeholders such as hospitals, medical device manufacturers, drug manufacturers, distributors, and importers. HealthCred's services are designed to stabilize cash flows withoutrequiring equity dilution, ensuring that healthcare providers can continue their operations smoothly. With a process that promises capital availability within 72 hours, HealthCred addresses the urgent financial needs of its clients efficiently.
- Finarkein Analytics — Finarkein Analytics offers no-code workflow orchestration and data analytics platform for digital platforms.
Sumit Gupta is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at CoinDCX.
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- Blockchain, Apps, Gaming
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- India, Singapore
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- Kandle — Kandle offers ways to make money in Crypto & Stocks through fantasy trading games. Trusted globally by 180,000+ users and growing.
- Investorey — Start investing with as low as INR 50k with Annual Returns upto 22% across categories
- Slick App — Go Slick, and declare your true feelings like nobody's watching!
Jon is an early stage venture capitalist and co-founder of True Ventures. He has been in the venture capital business since 1991 and built three companies of his own. His first was Mountain Bike Outfitters, Inc., which he created at age 18. Jon started his venture career as an associate at Summit Partners and then joined Greenhouse, AOL’s venturecapital investment group and incubator. He entered the internet market early by joining CMGI’s @Ventures group in 1996. Before founding True, Jon was a managing director at Globespan Capital Partners.First as a founder and now as an investor in early-stage technology companies, Jon’s direct startup experience has allowed him to see the world through an entrepreneur’s eyes. Jon’s career has been driven by a deep belief in the power of human creativity to improve our world.Jon received a bachelor’s degree in government from Dartmouth College and an MBA, with distinction, from Harvard Business School. He was recently the Chairman of the National Venture Capital Association. When he is not empowering the entrepreneurs of tomorrow, you can find him talking about airplanes or hanging out with his wife and four boys.
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Finland, Singapore
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- ClayStack — Multichain liquid staking platform that allows users to stake their assets, mint staking derivatives, and participate in DeFi.
- 1000 Markets — 1000 Markets is an online marketplace with specialized shops for small businesses selling artisan work and crafts.
- Keep Holdings — Keep Holdings offers products focusing on advertising, commercial email, and e-commerce to enhance the link between consumers and brands. The company's products empower consumers and brands to better connect and engage. Keep Holdings' suite of services focuses on commercial email and e-commerce with an emphasis on how the social web canbring brands and consumers together in new productive ways.
Gavin Wood was the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of the Ethereum Project. He is the co-designer of the Ethereum Protocol, author of its formal specification, and is the creator and author of the first functional Ethereum implementation. Gavin Wood designed and stewarded the Solidity language, was the project chief of the IDE, anddesigned and implemented the Whisper protocol. He has pushed “state-of-the-art” in analysis tools and programming languages, as well as co-founded several technology startups.Gavin Wood has presented to numerous audiences around the world, from keynotes at regional technology conferences, to musings on the future of legal systems at Harvard. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of York. His new initiative is the Polkadot protocol, which will connect public and private blockchains so that they can inter-operate. This ambitious project could make it frictionless for corporations that wish to work in private blockchains to connect with public blockchains.Gavin is founder and current director of Parity Technologies Ltd. He has pushed the state-of-the-art in analysis tools and programming languages, as well as co-founded several technology startups, including Grid Singularity and Ethereum. He is the co-designer of the Ethereum Protocol and author of its formal specification, he created and wrote the first functional Ethereum implementation, designed and stewarded the Solidity language, was the project chief of the IDE, and designed and implemented the Whisper protocol.
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- Blockchain, Internet, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round
- Japan, Singapore, United States
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- AltLayer — AltLayer is a system of highly scalable application-dedicated execution layers that derive security from an underlying L1/L2.
- Satori — Satori is an on-chain derivatives exchange built for both retail and institutional investors in the Polkadot ecosystem.
- Public Pressure — Marketplace of Nfts managed by Public Pressure
Kazutaka Mori
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- Web Apps, Blockchain, Web Development
- Seed
- Singapore
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- Bunzz — Comprehensive dev tool for Smart Contracts, AI based audit, and analysis.
Alan Howard is a British billionaire hedge fund manager and co-founder of Brevan Howard Asset Management.
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- Financial Services, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
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- NVG8 — Navigate is a data ecosystem where people around the world contribute data that is used to build new applications like Navigate Maps.
- Atmos Labs — When is a game more than a game? Welcome to Planet Atmos: a universe of next-generation gaming experiences blending action, customization, storytelling, community, and digital ownership.
- ScienceMagic.Studios — A digital assets venture studio
Jun Du is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Feichang Danao.
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- Cryptocurrency, Information Services, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Corporate Round
- Singapore, Germany
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- 0xScope — Discover the comprehensive suite of trading and research products leveraging 0xScope's cutting-edge Web3 Data Layer architecture. Trade with confidence using Scopechat, access advanced analytical tools with Scopescan, and tap into the extensive capabilities of ScopeAPI for traceable entity insights.
- BiKi.com — BiKi.com is a global digital currency trading service provider that is committed to creating a safe, stable, and efficient digital currency trading platform for users around the world. Currently, BiKi.com has supported many languages such as Chinese and English, and serves nearly 100 countries and regions, with over 1 million users worldwide.Itwas founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Singapore.
- MXC Foundation — MXC is building a global data network that allows the devices of tomorrow to connect, commit and communicate more efficiently than ever before. Cities, companies and individuals benefit by building the network, or using it to transmit and manage their data.
Qiao Wang is a believer in decentralized technologies such as cryptocurrencies that shift the balance of power from the elite to the commoner.
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- Blockchain, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, China
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- AltLayer — AltLayer is a system of highly scalable application-dedicated execution layers that derive security from an underlying L1/L2.
- NEBRA Labs — NEBRA Labs is a blockchain services company.
- TiTi Protocol — TiTi Protocol always monitors changes in the total value of reserve to calculate the average price of TiUSD in circulation and adjusts the market-making peg price of TiUSD in the primary market through the ReOrders mechanism.
Mike Ouye is currently leading Growth at FunPlus. FunPlus is a mobile social gaming company publishes and develops games worldwide. Founded in 2010, FunPlus has 400+ people and is headquartered in Beijing, China, with offices in San Francisco, CA, and Vancouver, Canada. In 2016, FunPlus was sold to Century / Huatong for >$1BN.Prior toFunPlus, Mike worked with Signia Ventures as a Entrepreneur in Residence, while he was co-founder and CEO of mobile gaming company Red Robot Labs. Red Robot Labs is a location-based gaming studio, publisher, and platform backed by Benchmark Capital, Rick Thompson (Signia Ventures), and Shasta Ventures. Mike also ran monetization for social gaming start-up's Playdom and Crowdstar. Before entering into the gaming space, he ran monetization and was a product manager at performance-based ad network Adteractive.Current Interests: AR, Blockchain technology, Crypto currency trading, and Sports analytics
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- Gaming, Blockchain
- Seed
- Singapore
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- Yomi Games — Yomi Games is a blockchain gaming studio developing social Play-and-Earn video games targeted at casual audiences.
Jinwoo Park - Founder & CEO @ MYTY
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- Software, Blockchain, Online Games
- Angel
- Singapore
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- Deverse World — We are building Metaverse solutions, using Unreal Engine & Web3, to host immersive gaming & social experiences.
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