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Top 50 Blockchain Angel Investors in Switzerland

A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Blockchain startups based in Switzerland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Blockchain companies from Switzerland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Blockchain Angel Investors in Switzerland

Investor Blockchain Switzerland investments
Tegan Kline 2
Zand Bank 2
Marc P. Bernegger 2
Sam Lim 2
Stani Kulechov 2
Philipp Cottier 1
Illia Polosukhin 1
Calvin Ayre 1
Anthony Pompliano 1
Marco Milone 1
Christopher Jentzsch 1
Phil Rubin 1
Anatoly Yakovenko 1
Christian Edler 1
Sandeep Nailwal 1
Catherine Wood 1
Carsten Thoma 1
Waikit Lau 1
Anatoly Yakovenko 1
Rainer-Marc Frey 1
Deniz Devrim Cengiz 1
Hart Lambur 1
Kento Inami 1
Tristan Frizza 1
Private Accredited Group 1
Greg Kidd 1
Jascha Samadi 1
Zaki Manian 1
Vinny Lingham 1
Vidor Gencel 1
Aaron Choi 1
Myke Naef 1
Péter Ilyés 1
Lars Seier Christensen 1
Markus Rinderer 1
Griff Green 1
JaMes Sowers 1
Derek Yoo 1
Paul Kim 1
Nicolás Arqueros 1
Jordan Ellis 1
Dennis Liu 1
John O'Connor 1
Darian Shirazi 1
Joeri van Geelen 1
Dean Eigenmann 1
Ben Davey 1
Kjell Fischer 1
Daniel Gutenberg 1
Carter Reum 1
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Tegan Kline Angel
Tegan Kline, Co-Founder and Head of Business at Edge & Node (the initial team behind The Graph), helping to ensure a vibrant decentralized future. The Graph is Edge & Node’s first protocol, an indexing and query protocol organizing the world’s open blockchain data and making open data a public good. Tegan helps leaders and innovatorsconnect more deeply with stakeholders across the blockchain ecosystem. Tegan made Forbes 30 under 30’s class of 2022. The Information’s 30 Most Powerful People in Crypto List Tegan Kline is the former International Business Development Manager and Investor Relations Lead for an A16z and Sequoia backed blockchain company that created tools and protocols for users to obtain digital freedom and an open and accessible internet.Tegan began her career on Wall Street in Investment Banking at BAML and, prior to discovering blockchain, worked in Sales and Trading at Barclays.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Singapore, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Swaap — We build the market-neutral AMM protocol.
  • EthSign — EthSign is an e-signing platform that utilizes blockchain technology to offer a decentralized, customizable and transparent version of traditional signature service. EthSign aims to tackle data security issues caused by an over-reliance on centralized providers and build back trust in electronic signature services. With its Web3 technology(decentralized Identity, smart contract platforms and decentralized storage networks), the platform enables users to comment on, edit and access each version of an electronic agreement seamlessly and securely.
  • Risc Zero. — RISC Zero is revolutionizing the internet by creating the infrastructure & tooling for Web3 developers around the globe to build zero-proof software.
Zand Bank Angel
Zand Bank - Co-Founder @ Asia Finance
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Switzerland, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
  • Zand — Zand, the digital bank for a digital economy. Corporate Banking with Zand means ease, control, safety & transparency in your digital business banking.
  • Pier Wallet — Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and Web3 offer great opportunities. To truly access it, you need a wallet. But selecting and investing into digital assets in your own wallet is complex, expensive and often feels unsafe. nobank makes DeFi and Web3 accessible for everyone. We offer the simplest and cheapest way to transact with digital assets by -drastically improving usability - offering financial products that generate yield or diversify your portfolio - building on multiple L2 blockchains - sharing our knowledge
Marc P. Bernegger Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Marc P. Bernegger is a Founding Partner at Maximon - The Longevity Company Builder. Marc previously worked at Crypto Finance Group as a Founding Board Member (acquired by Deutsche Boerse). He attended the University of Zurich.
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Investment focus
  • Events, Young Adults, Financial Services
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Altoida — At Altoida, we strive to radically change the method for assessing brain health through our comprehensive cognitive function tests and brain health app.
  • Sandbox — We are an eclectic community of nomads, entrepreneurs, journalists, academics, politicians, artists, and indomitable misfits from over 100 countries. Together we seek to develop our authentic selves, form meaningful relationships, discover resources to live fulfilling lives, and to lead significant impact on the world around us.
  • Crypto Finance Group — The Crypto Finance Group provides institutional and professional investors a full suite of products and services with a level of quality, reliability, and security that are unique in the digital asset space today. The group includes the holding company Crypto Finance AG and three subsidiaries: the first regulated crypto asset manager for collectiveinvestments authorised by FINMA, the Swiss Financial Market Authority; a FINMA-regulated securities firm providing in 24/7 crypto asset trading; and a subsidiary for crypto asset storage infrastructure and tokenisation solutions.By providing the services for professional investors to invest in blockchain technology, the Crypto Finance Group is building a bridge between the traditional financial world and the emerging digital asset markets. CEO Jan Brzezek and his experienced team founded the Crypto Finance Group with the conviction that all market participants will benefit from professional, secure, and stable access to digital asset markets. Their offices are in Zurich and Singapore, with headquarters in Zug, known as the Crypto Valley and home to possibly the world's largest ecosystem of crypto and blockchain organisations.
Sam Lim Angel
Sam Lim
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Blockchain, Recruiting
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • IMPRESSO — The place where recruiters search for authentic career profiles. Job seekers mint and save their career NFT. Save your NFT CV on the blockchain. Meet and connect with verified professionals on the Metaverse. Real identities, jobs and networking on IMPRESSO.
Stani Kulechov Angel · Como, Lombardia, Italy · 5 investments in the past 12 months
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, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • ether.fi — Delegated Staking Protocol
  • Orb — built for artists, creators, degens, and you!
  • Llama — Llama is a fullstack platform for onchain access control and governance. Llama enables protocols to securely take action using onchain policies and custom execution strategies.
Philipp Cottier Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Philipp Cottier
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Finance, Blockchain
  • Series A
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Crypto Finance Group — The Crypto Finance Group provides institutional and professional investors a full suite of products and services with a level of quality, reliability, and security that are unique in the digital asset space today. The group includes the holding company Crypto Finance AG and three subsidiaries: the first regulated crypto asset manager for collectiveinvestments authorised by FINMA, the Swiss Financial Market Authority; a FINMA-regulated securities firm providing in 24/7 crypto asset trading; and a subsidiary for crypto asset storage infrastructure and tokenisation solutions.By providing the services for professional investors to invest in blockchain technology, the Crypto Finance Group is building a bridge between the traditional financial world and the emerging digital asset markets. CEO Jan Brzezek and his experienced team founded the Crypto Finance Group with the conviction that all market participants will benefit from professional, secure, and stable access to digital asset markets. Their offices are in Zurich and Singapore, with headquarters in Zug, known as the Crypto Valley and home to possibly the world's largest ecosystem of crypto and blockchain organisations.
Illia Polosukhin Angel · Mountain View, California, United States
Illia Polosukhin is a Co-Founder at NEAR.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Ukraine, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • 3Box — 3Box Labs is a Web3 studio that creates software to advance a more open, safe, and composable Web3. We're hiring!
  • Luda — Lifting people through play
  • Clear Street — Our cloud-native platform gives institutions and active traders better access to capital markets.
Calvin Ayre Angel
Calvin Ayre (born May 25, 1961, in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, Canada) is the founder of the Bodog online gaming and entertainment brand, which he developed and launched in 1994.Ayre received a Bachelor of Sciences (BSc) in General Sciences from the University of Waterloo in 1984. In 1989, Ayre earned an MBA in Management Finance from CityUniversity of Seattle.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Information Technology, Bitcoin
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • Mijem — Mijem is the buy sell marketplace app to tap into your campus community. Save money. Earn cash. Connect with students. Download the free app.
  • Centi — Discover innovative payment processing, digital currency solutions, and streamline your business operations. Visit us for advanced fintech solutions.
  • Transmira — Augmented and Virtual Reality Solutions
Anthony Pompliano Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Anthony Pompliano is a Product Manager at Facebook. Previously, Pompliano successfully founded and sold two software companies in Raleigh, NC.Pompliano's most recent startup, DigaForce, was acquired by Strategic Link Partners in December 2013. Before tech, he played football at Bucknell University and served a tour of duty in support ofOperation Iraqi Freedom.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • Spindl — Make more intelligent business decisions in web3 using Spindl’s attribution tooling.
  • Zion — Join our mission in creating the last platform you will ever build
  • Exponential DeFi — Exponential is an investment platform for crypto holders to earn yield on their crypto through decentralized finance (DeFi) safely and easily.
Marco Milone Angel · Turin, Piemonte, Italy
After a long experience in the cultural industry, aimed at developing independent comics and cinema sector, he decided to leverage the skills gained through his studies in Economics and Commerce, followed by General Management to study and operate in the startup industry. Marco is driven by a wide variety of interests and is a successfulinstitutional investor in various Italian and international startups.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Blockchain, Video Games
  • Pre-Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • The Nemesis — The Nemesis is the Metaverse for the mass market: virtual worlds, adventures, gaming Play & Earn and amazing experiences.
Christopher Jentzsch Angel
Christopher Jentzsch
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Investment focus
  • Mobile Apps, iOS, Apps
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Switzerland, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • seventhings — By digitizing all business assets and connecting all relevant data and processes from existing systems into one platform, we help companies to easily track their long-lived assets and to establish a climate neutral inventory management.
  • ZenOwn — All your products in one place. Collect invoices, track warranties and sell what you no longer need. Declutter your home with ZenOwn.
  • Gelato — The new way to build blockchains with web2-like UX
Phil Rubin Angel · Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Phil Rubin is a Founder & Principal at Grey Space Matters.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • qiibee — qiibee is a software company that offers a solution for businesses and consumers in its blockchain-based platform. Through qiibee’s plug-and-play solutions, enterprises worldwide are running and operating their loyalty programs on the blockchain in just a few hours. The company is creating a decentralized, Ethereum infrastructure-based loyaltyecosystem by providing a loyalty platform and developer interface on which every loyalty application can be tokenized. qiibee enables companies all around the world to run their loyalty applications on the blockchain. The cutting-edge, easy-to-use solutions set the new global standard for loyalty.
Anatoly Yakovenko Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 13 investments in the past 12 months
Anatoly is the creator of Solana. He led development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox. He holds 2 patents for high performance Operating Systems protocols, was a core kernel developer for BREW which powered every CDMA flip phone (100m+ devices), and led development of tech that madeProject Tango (VR/AR) possible on Qualcomm phones.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Software, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Ellipsis Labs — Ellipsis Labs is building Phoenix, a decentralized limit order book on Solana that is fully on-chain, non-custodial, and crankless.
  • Parallel — Parallel is a Sci-Fi Card Game based on the Ethereum blockchain. Parallel is an application that provides users with the opportunity to purchase, collect, and showcase digital blockchain collectibles.
  • Zeus Network — Zeus Network is a cutting-edge and permissionless communication layer platform that connects connects Solana and Bitcoin.
Christian Edler Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Christian O. Edler is an investor and entrepreneur with a proven track record in sectors ahead of mainstream adoption. He invests opportunity-driven, sector- and business-model agnostic. Christian built a 10-year track record investing in early-stage ventures and securing exclusive deal flow in primary and secondary growth opportunites. He isco-investing with the best investors and VCs in the world – like Andreessen Horowitz, Peter Thiel, Christian Angermayer, Gsquared, Bitkraft, Bessemer Ventures, Coatue, Sony, FirstMark Capital, DN Capital, FJ Labs, Moore Capital, Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), Left Lane, Insight, Tencent, Hive and many others. Due to his track record, he has access to exclusive opportunities in the EU/US. Christian’s >75 angel startup investments returned over 20x including several unicorns. As an entrepreneur, Christian recruited, educated and led over 1,500 sales people with $500M in annual sales. His primary focus is on world-class entrepreneurs with new categories of ideas and a potential for massive scale. If you like to co-invest with him, follow his syndicate on AngelList: https://angel.co/s/edleredler/fCORTChristian is a Scout Partner of Sequoia Capital, Venture Partner of BITKRAFT VC, an alumnus of Harvard Business School, a former semi-pro alpine skier, and based in Berlin & Los Angeles.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Information Technology, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Cloover — Cloover provides a flexible financing solution that allows you to rent renewable technologies and make savings from day 1, completely risk and worry free!
  • Weflow — All-in-one workspace to manage your Salesforce pipeline, notes & to-dos. Designed for sales teams who like to move with speed.
  • Visual Layer — Visual Layer is a Tel Aviv based startup providing visual data management platform that scales to billion images and videos.
Sandeep Nailwal Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 22 investments in the past 12 months
Sandeep Nailwal is the Co-Founder of Polygon. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Scopeweaver. He attended the National Institute of Industrial Engineering.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Succinct — The easiest way to discover, develop, and deploy ZK.
  • Mystiko.Network — Mystiko.Network enables users to trade on private DEX just like on Uniswap while users' financial privacy is protected. Users could transfer assets to a brand new secret and ultra-safe address with full privacy. Any wallet could provide its user's such features by implementing Mystiko Wallet SDK.
  • Ooga Booga — Ooga Booga is a liquidity aggregator designed to support the goal of becoming the most capital efficient blockchain.
Catherine Wood Angel · New York, New York, United States
Cathie registered ARK Investment Management LLC (“ARK”) as an investment adviser with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in January 2014. Prior to ARK, Cathie spent twelve years at AllianceBernstein as Chief Investment Officer of Global Thematic Strategies where she managed $5 billion. Cathie joined Alliance Capital from Tupelo CapitalManagement, a hedge fund she co-founded which, in 2000, managed $800 million in global thematic strategies. Prior to her tenure at Tupelo Capital, she worked for 18 years with Jennison Associates as Chief Economist, Equity Research Analyst, Portfolio Manager and Director. She started her career in Los Angeles, California at The Capital Group as an Assistant Economist. Cathie received her Bachelor of Science, summa cum laude, in Finance and Economics from the University of Southern California in 1981. In 2016, Cathie received the “Women in Finance – Outstanding Contribution Award” from Market Media.
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Investment focus
  • Drones, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Canada, Germany, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • 21Shares — The simplest way to invest in the best performing asset class of the last decade using your existing bank or brokerage.
  • Labelbox — A complete solution for taking control of your training data with fast labeling tools, human workforce, data management, a powerful API and automation features.
  • mimik — mimik provides a hybrid edge cloud computing application development platform and business enablers for digital transformation. Developers and enterprises can achieve their business objectives without compromising time to market, cost, scalability, interoperability, data privacy and security, and being locked in proprietary technology stacks.mimik enables hybrid edge native application development that works across ecosystems of devices (iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, Linux, QNX, Raspbian, OpenWRT and smart IoT freeRTOS sensors), networks, and any private and/or public cloud. The mimik platform is the fastest and most direct way of connecting siloed and fragmented applications from the edge with minimal reliance on middlemen. We can help enterprises save millions of dollars in legacy backend integration while reducing their ongoing operational costs through an edge-in approach. mimik enables systematic digital transformation for a sustainable digital economy to help enterprises secure business leadership in the hyper-connected world.
Carsten Thoma Angel
Carsten co-founded hybris in 1997. He is responsible for global operations, marketing and corporate planning of the company. After successfully driving the hybris North America market entry Carsten led the team that managed the acquisition of iCongo in August 2011. His relentless pursuit for talent has resulted in a highly motivated and passionateworkforce and unique corporate culture as that is at the center of the company’s success. He began his career at Hewlett Packard, where his ideas for a standardized and flexible e-commerce software were the starting point for what would become hybris. Carsten studied law and also holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Germany, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • Quaisr — Quaisr develops simulations for the full digital-twin lifecycle.
  • Kombo — One unified API for HRIS, Payroll & ATS
  • Ninetailed — Ninetailed is a composable API-first personalization, experimentation, and testing tool for dynamic websites, headless CMSs, composable content, and MACH.
Waikit Lau Angel · Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Waikit Lau is the Founder of RemoteHQ. He Founded and grew 2 startups to successful exits, one acquired for $86M. Helped take the company public. 17+ years of experience in Technology and Finance, across product, marketing, and sales functions. Advisor and/or investor in BladeLogic (NASD: BLOG, acquired by BMC for $800M), Endeca (acquired byOracle for more than $1B), WaveSmith (acquired by Ciena for $178M), Netli (acquired by Akamai for $170M), Berkeley Design Automation (acquired by Mentor Graphics).
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Business Intelligence, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Canada, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Noble XYZ — Noble is changing how stablecoins and other real world assets are issued on blockchains by combining minimalistic, high security architecture with the cross-chain efficiencies of the IBC protocol.
  • Squid — Squid is a routing protocol that connects users and developers with cross-chain liquidity. It allows any token to be swapped between blockchains and unlocks access to apps across chains with a single click.
  • Patented.ai — The most powerful AI engine for intellectual property.
Anatoly Yakovenko Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 15 investments in the past 12 months
Anatoly is the creator of Solana. He led development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox. He holds 2 patents for high performance Operating Systems protocols, was a core kernel developer for BREW which powered every CDMA flip phone (100m+ devices), and led development of tech that madeProject Tango (VR/AR) possible on Qualcomm phones.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Software, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Ellipsis Labs — Ellipsis Labs is building Phoenix, a decentralized limit order book on Solana that is fully on-chain, non-custodial, and crankless.
  • Parallel — Parallel is a Sci-Fi Card Game based on the Ethereum blockchain. Parallel is an application that provides users with the opportunity to purchase, collect, and showcase digital blockchain collectibles.
  • Zeus Network — Zeus Network is a cutting-edge and permissionless communication layer platform that connects connects Solana and Bitcoin.
Rainer-Marc Frey Angel
Rainer-Marc Frey
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Finance, Blockchain
  • Series A, Series B
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Crypto Finance Group — The Crypto Finance Group provides institutional and professional investors a full suite of products and services with a level of quality, reliability, and security that are unique in the digital asset space today. The group includes the holding company Crypto Finance AG and three subsidiaries: the first regulated crypto asset manager for collectiveinvestments authorised by FINMA, the Swiss Financial Market Authority; a FINMA-regulated securities firm providing in 24/7 crypto asset trading; and a subsidiary for crypto asset storage infrastructure and tokenisation solutions.By providing the services for professional investors to invest in blockchain technology, the Crypto Finance Group is building a bridge between the traditional financial world and the emerging digital asset markets. CEO Jan Brzezek and his experienced team founded the Crypto Finance Group with the conviction that all market participants will benefit from professional, secure, and stable access to digital asset markets. Their offices are in Zurich and Singapore, with headquarters in Zug, known as the Crypto Valley and home to possibly the world's largest ecosystem of crypto and blockchain organisations.
Deniz Devrim Cengiz Angel · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Deniz Devrim Cengiz
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, FinTech, Apps
  • Seed, Series A
  • Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • EasyCep — EasyCep, marketplace for refurbished electronics devices was founded in 2018 by Mehmet Akif Özdemir and İsmail Dinçer. Easycep makes it easier for consumers to sell their used electronic devices online. Also, it makes easier for consumers to find and buy professionally refurbished smartphones, tablets, computers and other some electronic devices aswell as 12 month warranty and at up to 70% of their original prices. With the prolongation of electronic products, EasyCep refurbishes them and offers them with a 12-month warranty.
  • Passion Punch — Passion Punch develops mobile games boosted by notable art and effective story that will touch players' daily lives.
  • Hiwell — Hiwell app is an online psychological counseling app that helps people without leaving their homes.
Hart Lambur Angel · New York, New York, United States
Hart Lambur is the Co-Founder, CEO & Board Member of umaproject.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed, Series A
  • United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Gyroscope — Gyroscope: an asset-backed stablecoin built on resilient DeFi infrastructure leveraging a diversified reserve, autonomous monetary policy, and innovative AMMs
  • DELV (Formerly Element Finance) — Element is an open source protocol for fixed and variable yield markets
  • Domination Finance — Domination Finance is a developer of a non-custodial financial instrument for traders. Its platform is an ethereum app built on the UMA protocol that allows users to long or short Bitcoin Dominance and enables trading in the cryptocurrency market.
Kento Inami Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Kento Inami is the CEO/Founder at UXD Protocol.He attended University of California, Berkeley.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain
  • Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Elusiv — Elusiv offers compliance in mind with next-generation privacy solutions for a better Web3.
Tristan Frizza Angel
Tristan Frizza
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain
  • Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Elusiv — Elusiv offers compliance in mind with next-generation privacy solutions for a better Web3.
Private Accredited Group Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Private Accredited Group
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Investment focus
  • Solar, Energy, Blockchain
  • Seed, Convertible Note
  • Canada, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Authena — Authena is an IoT and Blockchain platform used for traceability and authenticity protection of brands. With its platform, the company revolutionizes how brands of high-value goods protect their products and reputation against counterfeiting and reach unprecedented levels of end-user engagement. It protects product identity against counterfeit,product diversion, and fraud by gaining access to detailed customer insights and analytics and improving finances by limiting distribution costs and boosting direct-to-consumer sales.
  • Pure Energies Group — PNG Info Org is committed to providing practical information pertinent to the finance industry. Click the link to gain insights and ideas.
Greg Kidd Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Believer that ones identity credentials should be truly portable and owned by individuals themselves rather than corporations or governments. The trade-off between security and privacy can meet the needs of both traditional institutions worried about compliance and risk, but also consumer protection advocates who care about the underserved andunderbanked.Adviser/Investor via hardyaka.com for numerous startups in the exchange space including Shift, Ripple and 3taps, and previously Square and Twitter. Previously a director at Promontory Financial and a senior analyst for payments at The Board of Governor of the Federal Reserve. Senior Associate at Booz Allen. Founded and took Dispatch Management Services Corp public on the NASDAQ. Have worked as an instructor/leader for Outward Bound and the National Outdoor Leadership School.Specialties: Portable identity, digital currencies and exchange markets for goods, services, and information with functional emphasis on messaging, payments, and reputation/trust/risk. Well versed in visualizations for risk reporting and controls.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Software, Mobile
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, Spain, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Zolve — Best neo bank in India offering international banking & financial services online. Apply for a US bank account, credit card & student education loan with Zolve!
  • Cashmere — Secure multisig solana wallet, built for teams. Send, receive, and grow your digital assets directly from your Cashmere Vault.
  • Tribe — Tribe is a global blockchain ecosystem builder that connects startups and tech talents with leading opportunities. By working closely with organizations including blockchain protocols, corporates, governments, startups, and developer communities, it strives to power the next wave of talents and companies' leap from Web2 to Web3. Some ofTribe's official partners include Enterprise Singapore, Pfizer, HSBC, Infineon Technologies, IMDA, BMW Group Asia, ConsenSys, IBM, Intel, Nielsen, PwC, R3, and Temasek amongst others. For more information, please visit https://tribex.co/
Jascha Samadi Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Jascha Samadi is Co-Founder and Partner at Greenfield One (www.greenfield.one), a Berlin-based early-stage venture fund dedicated to blockchain and crypto. Greenfield One makes long-term bets on early developer teams building towards an open, decentralized and more robust architecture of tomorrow’s web. Prior to Greenfield One, Jascha wasCo-Founder and CEO of apprupt, a mobile platform for app developers and brands which was acquired by browser maker Opera Software (NASDAQ: OPRA) in 2014, where he also got involved with blockchain and crypto. Over the past years he has been an active investor in the space and also Co-Founder of Flux (www.flux.market), a scalable open market protocol.
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Investment focus
  • Marketing, 3D Technology, Blockchain
  • Seed, Series A
  • United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Stoyo — Financial Times Fastest Growing Advertising Company in Europe
  • Aiden.ai — Aiden provides an AI analytics platform intended to assist marketers how to spend their budget efficiently. Its platform uses machine learning reading to analyze large sets of paid advertising data, enabling clients to proactively make changes to improve ROI of their manage multichannel paid acquisition campaigns easily.
  • SEDA — Flux is a cross-chain oracle that provides smart contracts with access to economically secure data feeds on anything.
Zaki Manian Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Zaki Manian is the co-founder of Sommelier Protocol.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Apps
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Canada, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Berachain — Berachain claims that its technology will enable staked assets to be utilised in DeFi protocols, increasing on-chain liquidity and capital efficiency. Staked assets, such as staked ether (ETH), are now locked while being utilised to safeguard the underlying blockchain's network. Berachain claims that its "proof of liquidity"consensus will allow users to stake assets on Berachain while also trading, borrowing, or lending on-chain.
  • Fairblock — Building blockchain infra for applications with "programmable privacy" using applied cryptography in all ecosystems
  • Cosmology — Cosmology is building a unified developer experience for interchain dApps
Vinny Lingham Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Vinny Lingham is Co-Founder & CEO at Civic. He was the founder and CEO of Gyft, a mobile gift card app that allows customers to buy, store, send and redeem gift cards conveniently from their mobile device. He is also the founder of Yola.com, a web development and hosting company that enables users without prior programming knowledge to developwebsites. Vinny is the recipient of numerous awards, including Top Young ICT Entrepreneur in Africa (2006) and was also a finalist for Men’s Health Best Man (2009) and ICT Personality of the Year in South Africa (2008). He also previously founded Clicks2Customers, which also won the Top Technology Company award in South Africa in 2006. He has previously served on marketing advisory boards for Nasdaq listed Valueclick and Yahoo, was also selected as an Endeavor “High Impact Entrepreneur” in 2006. Vinny studied a B.Com (Information Systems) at the University of Cape Town.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Internet, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • United States, South Africa, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Glif — Interoperable tools for the Filecoin network
  • Afterparty — Afterparty is a technology company behind the new Web3 platform enabling creators to directly monetize and manage NFT collector relationships
  • Collectibles.com — Collectibles.com is a Web3 community and marketplace for collectors and the worldwide collectibles sector.
Vidor Gencel Angel
Vidor Gencel is a Founder/CEO at Solrise Finance. He attended University of Belgrade School of Electrical Engineering.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain
  • Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Elusiv — Elusiv offers compliance in mind with next-generation privacy solutions for a better Web3.
Aaron Choi Angel
Aaron Choi
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Investment focus
  • Computer, Software, Blockchain
  • Funding Round
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • IPOR Labs — Enter the Credit Hub of DeFi. Lend and borrow at the best defi rates and earn a competitive yield on your crypto, fixed with on-chain interest rate derivatives.
Myke Naef Angel
Myke Naef
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, SaaS, Sports
  • Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Switzerland, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Ledgy — Digitize your cap table, automate equity plans and simplify compliance. Find out how leading companies use Ledgy to empower their employees and engage investors.
  • Birdsy — Birdsy is the first AI based video platform for birdwatchers and wildlife enthusiasts. Connecting the mainstream with birds & wildlife.
  • G2 Esports — Welcome to G2 Esports, one of the leading global esports and entertainment brands. Home to legendary players, creators, and entertainers.
Péter Ilyés Angel · Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
Péter Ilyés is a former CEO of E.ON Italia.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Energy, Software
  • Funding Round
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Hive Power — Hive Power provides a SaaS platform to optimise your existing electrical distribution grid, both from the technical and economic points of view.
Lars Seier Christensen Angel · Jonschwil, Ausser-Rhoden, Switzerland
Lars seier Christensen is the chief executive officer of Saxo Bank, an online trading and investment specialist that enables clients to trade forex, CFDs, stocks, futures, options, and other derivatives.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, Communities
  • Funding Round, Seed, Angel
  • Denmark, Japan, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Paperflow — Paperflow is a company that developed a cloud-based system that, using artificial intelligence, scans and handles vouchers such as receipts or invoices so that the manual posting is done automatically.
  • Concordium — Layer-1 Proof of Stake Blockchain, sustainable and science-proven with an ID layer to ease regulatory compliance. Fast and real finality with stable and low fees. Built for Defi, NFTs, and the metaverse.
  • Wikifactory — Wikifactory's product development platform unifies teams in real-time, streamlines workflows, and accelerates time-to-market. Try it today.
Markus Rinderer Angel · Munich, Bayern, Germany
Markus Rinderer
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, SaaS
  • Seed, Series B
  • Germany, Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • SMART VALOR — SMART VALOR is a secure investment platform offering easy buy and sell of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dash and more. Trade and store digital assets.
  • AngeLink — AngeLink is the world’s first crowdfunding platform powered by women. Built for all. We drive social impact through life-changing technology with a safer, more trusted crowdfunding community. We're on a mission to close the gap on gender-based economic disparity. And, it's about time.
  • Quantumrock — Quantumrock focuses purely on investment performance. Our proprietary ML & AI technologies create better risk-adjusted returns. AI technology asset management.
Griff Green Angel · Seattle, Washington, United States
Griff Green - Co-Founder @ The Commons Stack
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Finance, Communities
  • Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • DoinGud — DoinGud is an NFT ecosystem focused on inspiring creativity & positive social impact. We empower individuals, communities, and brands to create, curate, collaborate, and connect with one another while generating positive impact for the world.
  • PrimeDAO — PrimeDAO is an open finance system based on programmable money that is being realized on Ethereum. The company develops tools that transform Defi into a collaborative ecosystem.
JaMes Sowers Angel · Pensacola, Florida, United States
James Sowers is a Korean-American businessman and philanthropist. He is a former singer/songwriter who was abandoned at birth who had his music career tragically ended by a reckless driver in a car accident. He is currently a Director @ the GreaterGoodSociety . James is An experienced ICO and blockchain advisor.He has angel invested in over 40startups and initial coin offerings. He is also a contributor to Known Blockchain publications and has been featured in other well known financial publications.James has already made a very positive impact on the project, his vision and professionalism along with his great personality traits complement the SafeCrypt.io team in a very positive way.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Initial Coin Offering, Seed, Secondary Market
  • United States, Switzerland, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • BitPay — BitPay provides enterprise-grade bitcoin payment solutions for businesses and organizations. It offers RESTful API, a bitcoin paymet gateway API; and native payment protocol support, signed payment request, direct payment communication, and BIP 73 support solutions. BitPay also provides Copay, a bitcoin wallet solution with Intel hardwaresecurity integration that allows users with hardware-level protection, including private key generation, transaction signing, and private keys. It has a strategic processing relationship with Aliant Payment Systems, Inc. Anthony Gallippi and Stephen Pair founded BitPay on May 1, 2011. It has its headquarters in Atlanta in Georgia.
  • Aave — Aave is an Open Source Protocol to create Non-Custodial Liquidity Markets to earn interest on supplying and borrowing assets with a variable or stable interest rate. The protocol is designed for easy integration into your products and services.
  • Yield Guild Games — Explore the best crypto games, meet people who love the same games you do. Play for free, go on adventures, and win rewards with your crew!
Derek Yoo Angel
Derek Yoo
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • DAM — DAM is a protocol for creating purchasing power from cross-chain token portfolios through dPRIME, a Dotsama-based stablecoin.
  • Squid — Squid is a routing protocol that connects users and developers with cross-chain liquidity. It allows any token to be swapped between blockchains and unlocks access to apps across chains with a single click.
Paul Kim Angel · Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States
VP Product Strategy & Founder at Apvera
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Lending
  • Seed
  • Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Elusiv — Elusiv offers compliance in mind with next-generation privacy solutions for a better Web3.
  • Ion Protocol — Ion is an Open Source Protocol built to support Ethereum stakers and restakers, to unlock a world of new applications for their assets.
Nicolás Arqueros Angel · Brooklyn, New York, United States
Nicolás Arqueros is the Co-Founder and CEO of DcSpark. He previously worked as a Chief Executive Officer at BRANDMARK. He attended Federico Santa Maria Technical University.
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Investment focus
  • Computer, Software, Blockchain
  • Funding Round
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • IPOR Labs — Enter the Credit Hub of DeFi. Lend and borrow at the best defi rates and earn a competitive yield on your crypto, fixed with on-chain interest rate derivatives.
Jordan Ellis Angel
Jordan Ellis
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Communities, Marketplace
  • Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • DoinGud — DoinGud is an NFT ecosystem focused on inspiring creativity & positive social impact. We empower individuals, communities, and brands to create, curate, collaborate, and connect with one another while generating positive impact for the world.
Dennis Liu Angel
Dennis Liu
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Blockchain, Communities
  • Pre-Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • SwissBorg — Join thousands of smart users and start investing with the SwissBorg app at the best available price anywhere at any time.
John O'Connor Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Director of African Operations at IOHK, the blockchain development company behind Cardano. He previously worked as Head of Strategy and Communications at the Cardano Foundation. Cardano is a leading blockchain platform and cryptocurrency. John graduated from Oxford University with a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics.
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Investment focus
  • Computer, Software, Blockchain
  • Funding Round
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • IPOR Labs — Enter the Credit Hub of DeFi. Lend and borrow at the best defi rates and earn a competitive yield on your crypto, fixed with on-chain interest rate derivatives.
Darian Shirazi Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 18 investments in the past 12 months
Darian Shirazi is the General Partner of Gradient Ventures.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Germany, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Resend — Build, test, and send transactional emails at scale.
  • Infisical — Infisical is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted tool that supports developers in managing their teams, devices, and infrastructure's secrets and environment variables. Using an end-to-end encrypted method, it avoids the leakage of confidential information to version control and over insecure channels like email.
  • Alongside — Alongside builds indexes for cryptocurrencies.
Joeri van Geelen Angel
Joeri van Geelen is the managing director of Prysm Group. It is an economic consulting firm led by Harvard PhD economists specialized in distributed ledger and blockchain technology. Taking a first-principles approach, Prysm Group uses the tools of contract theory, game theory, market design, social choice theory, and monetary economics to designcustomized solutions for distributed ledger technology and blockchain-based projects.Prysm Group’s areas of expertise include consortium governance, consensus governance, token economics, incentive design, and market structure. Prysm Group counts among its Senior Advisors former Chief Economist at Microsoft and Nobel Prize-winning Harvard economist; the firm’s research has been presented at DARPA, Federal Reserve, IBM, Microsoft, Pantera Capital, Polychain Capital, Harvard, MIT, NBER, and Stanford.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
  • Switzerland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Portal — Portal is a financial services company that trades crypto anywhere without putting coins at risk, all from within a controllable wallet. Founded in 2018, Portal is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
  • IPOR Labs — Enter the Credit Hub of DeFi. Lend and borrow at the best defi rates and earn a competitive yield on your crypto, fixed with on-chain interest rate derivatives.
  • Zest — Zest helps create and manage Investment DAOs, backed by a real-world LLC. We're a full-suite concierge, offering DAO tooling alongside back-office and compliance support. We remove the inherent complexities surrounding Investment DAOs so ​members can form a global community that compliantly coordinates capital to maximize investmentopportunities together.
Dean Eigenmann Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Dean Eigenmann
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Apps, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A
  • United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Squid — Squid is a routing protocol that connects users and developers with cross-chain liquidity. It allows any token to be swapped between blockchains and unlocks access to apps across chains with a single click.
  • FortyTwo — FortyTo is developing UX frontend technology for decentralized finance, enhancing user experience, promoting diversified token baskets, better yields, and affordable swap rates in the interchain ecosystem.
  • DELV (Formerly Element Finance) — Element is an open source protocol for fixed and variable yield markets
Ben Davey Angel
Ben Davey
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Investment focus
  • Software, Blockchain, Travel
  • Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, India, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • qiibee — qiibee is a software company that offers a solution for businesses and consumers in its blockchain-based platform. Through qiibee’s plug-and-play solutions, enterprises worldwide are running and operating their loyalty programs on the blockchain in just a few hours. The company is creating a decentralized, Ethereum infrastructure-based loyaltyecosystem by providing a loyalty platform and developer interface on which every loyalty application can be tokenized. qiibee enables companies all around the world to run their loyalty applications on the blockchain. The cutting-edge, easy-to-use solutions set the new global standard for loyalty.
  • LawAdvisor — because status quo no longer works
  • Flexmoney — Flexmoney is to re-invent consumer credit as an instant digital service at the point of sale for lenders and merchants.
Kjell Fischer Angel
Kjell Fischer is CEO & Founder at Buying Labs and Apprupt GmbH.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Computer, Software
  • Seed
  • Switzerland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Aiden.ai — Aiden provides an AI analytics platform intended to assist marketers how to spend their budget efficiently. Its platform uses machine learning reading to analyze large sets of paid advertising data, enabling clients to proactively make changes to improve ROI of their manage multichannel paid acquisition campaigns easily.
  • SEDA — Flux is a cross-chain oracle that provides smart contracts with access to economically secure data feeds on anything.
Daniel Gutenberg Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Daniel joined VI Partners in July 2003 as a Venture Partner focusing on IT. He started his career as Chairman and CEO of Gutenberg Communication Systems AG, a company he founded in 1991. Subsequent to selling Gutenberg Communication Systems AG to the Telindus Group in 2000, he became Country Manager of Telindus for Switzerland, Austria andHungary during the next two years, and he was also a member of the Executive Board. Since 2002 he has been taking consulting and advisory board assignments for various companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Switzerland, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Noat — NOAT is a new dawn for nicotine users. The future has no place for chemicals that hurt your mouth and gums. Experience a nicotine product unlike any other.
  • BOND — Get closer to the people and products behind your screen than ever before. Step inside creator wardrobes. Shop their edits. Swipe their curations. Be inspired. We're bringing you a new way to discover.
  • Unique — Try Unique Finance GPT to increase productivity by automating manual workload through AI and ChatGPT solutions.
Carter Reum Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Carter Reum is the co-founder of M13, which he and his brother Courtney Reum founded after selling their spirits company VEEV. He co-founded VEEV around the idea of creating a better way to drink, all the while becoming one of Inc. Magazine’s 250 fastest growing companies. Carter serves on the board of Daily Harvest and the Los Angeles CountyMuseum of Art has been recognized as one of Goldman Sachs’ Builders + Innovators Top 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs and was selected as an Executive in Residence by the City of Los Angeles in 2017 to support the city’s branding initiatives. Carter co-authored Shortcut Your Startup with brother Courtney. He began his career as an investment banker in Goldman Sachs’ Industrials division and attended Columbia University for his Bachelor’s.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Mobile Apps, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Spain, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Beckley Waves — Beckley Waves funds, supports, and mentors the emerging leaders, entrepreneurs, and partnerships working to create the operational infrastructure of a global psychedelic ecosystem.
  • Checkmate — Never miss a deal.
  • The Cumulus Coffee Company — Cumulus’ compact machine uses newly invented technology and proprietary recyclable aluminum capsules to deliver a 10-ounce cold brew, nitro cold brew, and a first-of-its-kind cold-pressed espresso in under 45 seconds at the push of a button. This proprietary brewing process means crisp, cold beverages are prepared without any ice, and the nitrocold brew is made without the need for a bulky nitrogen gas tank. The coffee is also never exposed to heat, which allows it to retain its smooth and subtle taste. Cumulus sources and roasts its own coffee and will offer a variety of carefully curated flavor profiles, introducing all the nuances of extraction that were previously only available in hot to the cold coffee lover.
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