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Top 50 Blockchain Angel Investors in United Kingdom in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Blockchain startups based in United kingdom. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Blockchain companies from United kingdom. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Blockchain Angel Investors in United Kingdom in January 2025

Investor	Blockchain United Kingdom investments
Sam Enrico Williams	24
Anthony Sassano	3
Serge Chiaramonte	3
Den Christian Bocassa	2
Errol Damelin	2
Albert Essien	2
Ryan Sean Adams	2
Chris Adelsbach	2
Charlie Lee	2
Vinny Lingham	2
Wojciech Kostrzewa	2
George Burke	2
Sandeep Nailwal	2
Kain Warwick	2
David Hoffman	2
Philippe Teixeira da Mota	2
Stefan George	2
Jamie Broderick	2
Hasu Fl	1
Vladimir Weisseman	1
Sandy Peng	1
Mo Hajhashem	1
Alex Andreu	1
Javier Rubio	1
Luke Youngblood	1
Martin Gilbert	1
Raj Parekh	1
Pavel Karagjaur	1
slappjakke.eth ..	1
Ibrahim Sagna	1
Emil Urmanshin	1
Rahim Thawer	1
Somayeh Taheri	1
Jordan Momtazi	1
James Park	1
Tarun Chitra	1
Martin Tellechea	1
Ken Li	1
Ewald Hesse	1
Kristof Gazso	1
Nafiseh Vahabi	1
Nigel Waterson	1
Yeming Wang	1
Brian D. Evans	1
Anurag Arjun	1
Sinhae Lee	1
Igor Barinov	1
Peter Gabriel	1
Philip Treleaven	1
Dmitry Tokarev	1

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Sam Enrico Williams is a CEO & Founder at Zloadr. Having built intelligent systems for the past 10 years, that have been implemented into corporate structures and organisations, Sam Enrico Williams brings a deep level and understanding of System Architecture. Sam has strong experience in Cryptocurrency, blockchain technology and economymarkets; needed to drive DocTailor to unprecedented levels.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Web Apps, Fantasy Sports
Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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Anthony Sassano is a Product Marketing Manager at Set Labs. He attended La Trobe University.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Valantis Labs — Valantis is a platform comprising decentralized exchanges (DEXes) and on-chain tools that empower developers to design and implement custom liquidity infrastructure for blockchain ecosystems. Using modular components, Valantis streamlines the process, making it faster, cost-effective, and user-friendly.
Zaros Finance — Zaros is a protocol that provides efficient liquidity, boosts staking rewards from LSTs, and aims to become the preferred liquidity hub for on-chain derivatives.
Creadibly Neutral — Credibly Neutral is a builder-led early stage venture fund investing $50-250k in protocols, infrastructure, and crypto SaaS.

Serge Chiaramonte

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Desia — Desia provides advanced AI applications for productivity, automation, and analytics for financial services.
qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
Tranched — Introducing real-time on-chain securitisation. Fintech Lenders and Professional Investors can now launch an institutional-grade transaction up to 90% faster than before.

Den Christian Bocassa is the CEO and Founder at Ethereum Enterprises.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Social Media, Social Network
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MW PLC UK — Web3 Social Network
Ethereum Enterprises — Ethereum Enterprises is a hedge fund company that focuses on blockchain and cryptocurrency.

Errol Damelin is the Founder, CEO, chairman, or original investor and backer of over 75 digital and tech companies around the world, including in the US, the UK, most of Europe, Israel, Indonesia, Brazil, Turkey, South Africa, and Nigeria. He concentrates his efforts on SaaS, fintech, crypto, marketplaces and data analytics as well as on health andwellness. He is also a technologist and has three granted patents to his name with another four pending.Among the companies co-founded by Damelin are groundbreaking fintech company Wonga, and SME banking startup Tide. His early investments include Wise, Cazoo, Purplebricks, K Health, YuLife, Sure, Demyst, Zoe, Farewill, CityMapper, Modifi, UnBabel, Thimble, HiBob, Modifi, Elliptic, Lendingkart, and VivaReal. Using his own personal equity, Damelin continues to invest early on in the next generation of entrepreneurs so that he can help them succeed. He is not an institutional VC fund and does not maximize the assets under his management. He best describes his approach as Riding Shotgun.Damelin's success as a founder has been recognized by The Guardian, which named him Digital Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011; by Ernst and Young, which named him the UK's Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011 as well; and by TechCrunch, which named him Founder of the Year in 2010.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Zelt — Manage everything from HRIS, payroll, pension, devices, apps and more seamlessly in one central hub, for all processes and applications, third-party included. Improve productivity through enhanced employee experience.
Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
OurRitual — Couple Goals Made Possible. Relationship Support For Busy People, Practical Tools & Expert Feedback

Mr. Albert Essien was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Ecobank Group in March 2014.Executive director of the Group since 2005, he has held several senior positions including Deputy Group Chief Executive Officer, in addition to serving as Group Executive Director for Corporate Bank & Investment Bank.Prior to that, he was theRegional Head for Anglophone West Africa (excluding Nigeria) and Niger and Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) regions.Mr. Albert Essien started his banking career in 1986 with the National Investment Bank in Accra, Ghana. In 1990 he joined the Corporate Banking Department of Ecobank Ghana before becoming 7 years later Country Risk Manager. He was appointed Deputy Managing Director in 2001 and became Managing Director in December 2002. Albert Essien has a degree in Economics from the University of Ghana (graduated in 1979) and is an alumnus of the Executive Development Program of INSEAD (France/Singapore). He is also an honorary fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers, Ghana.

Investment focus

FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain
Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Seso Global — Seso Global is a platform for secure real estate management and transactions in Africa.Based in Lagos (Nigeria), Accra (Ghana) and Cambridge (UK), Seso Global is a Digital Lands Transactions platform that facilitates secure, trusted, and risk-free Blockchain Land Transactions between, Property Owners, Land Service Agencies and FinancialInstitutions.

Ryan Sean Adams

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Finance
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Spain

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.
Pimlico — Leverage Pimlico to get more users by unlocking the full potential of gas sponsorships.
Soul Wallet — Soul Wallet is a smart contract wallet.

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

WealthOS — WealthOS is an cloud-native, enterprise, core wealth management platform. Launch and run superior digital wealth management value propositions faster and cheaper.
Renew Risk — Renew Risk is a software development firm that offers B2B SaaS solutions based on deep science for optimizing the financial lifetime of major renewable energy assets.
Camion — Empowering real estate to lead the energy transition with data and insights.

Charlie Lee is the Founder at Litecoin Foundation. Charlie Lee is the creator of Litecoin, the most popular alternative currency to Bitcoin. He is an engineer manager at Coinbase. Charlie earned a Bachelors and Masters degree in electrical engineering and computer science from M.I.T.

Investment focus

Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, China

Portfolio highlights

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.
Monochrome — Monochrome Corporation is a multi-investment, financial services group specialising in infrastructure projects within the bitcoin and crypto-asset landscape.
Flare Network — Flare is the blockchain for data: an EVM-based layer 1 that gives developers secure decentralized access to high-integrity data from other chains and the internet.

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.

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 is the Home of Collectors: Cards, Comics, Coins, Stamps and more. Connect with Likeminds, Trade and Showoff your Collection for free

Wojtek Kostrzewa has a successful 28-year history of building large banking and media companies. He worked as the CEO of the media conglomerate ITI Group and banks Polski Bank Rozwoju and BRE Bank (today mBank). He also managed the activities of Commerzbank in Central and Eastern Europe. Currently he serves, among other positions, on the board ofdirectors of the Swiss Stadler Rail and on the supervisory boards of the insurance companies of the ERGO Hestia Group. Wojtek is a graduate of the Economic Faculty at the University of Kiel (Germany) and also studied law at the University of Warsaw.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Blockchain
Series A, Convertible Note
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Billon Group — A high performance and regulatory compliant blockchain for digital cash, data, and identity management

Passionate problem solver specializing in blockchain, cryptocurrency, health & wellness tech, biohacking.Product manager, marketer, & executive with a proven ability to recognize and capitalize on commercial opportunities. Conceived, launched and successfully exited three companies. 13+ years of experience in consumer product development& growth marketing.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Initial Coin Offering, Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

KILT Protocol — KILT Protocol is an open-source blockchain protocol for creating Web 3.0 credentials that are verifiable, revocable, and anonymous.KILT provides Internet Data Sovereignty and puts users in control of their data, allowing them to choose which data to share, when, with whom, and why. It's a blockchain protocol that creates a distributed onlinetrust market to help people manage their online trust connections.It was founded in 2018 and is based in Berlin, Berlin.
Field Complete — Free software for any field service company looking to improve operations and become more profitable! Get access to free home services management software.
Movement Labs — Movement Labs is on a mission to create a global community of Move Builders, working together to improve decentralized network user experience.

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.

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.

Kain Warwick is the Co-Founder and CEO at blueshyft

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.

David Hoffman began his professional career starting in the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry. David has been consulting and advising blockchain startups since 2017, in order to ensure these new teams are building products that are in alignment with the ethos found in the cryptocurrency community. David has consulted for 12 cryptocurrencystartups, from various industries such as insurance, healthcare, supply chain management, and gambling David operates a cryptocurrency focused podcast called POV Crypto, where prominent guests come to discuss their views and predictions about the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry. POV Crypto is praised for it’s balanced arguments between the co-hosts and guests, in its attempt to bring unbiased arguments into the space. Additionally, David frequently writes articles about the Ethereum ecosystem, MakerDAO, and token economics, and is a leading advocate for the adoption of the decentralized finance industry.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Internet, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Pimlico — Leverage Pimlico to get more users by unlocking the full potential of gas sponsorships.
Phi — Build your web3 cities from your wallet activities
Soul Wallet — Soul Wallet is a smart contract wallet.

Co-founder of Shapers. Previously Partner at Hedosophia.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Palm — Cash Management for the Modern Treasury
Kontigo — We help underbanked gig workers in Latam build credit and access group financing where small groups of family or friends lend and save money together. Users can validate their income from multiple sources such as gig apps, catalog sales, and open finance (Uber, Rappi, Didi, Indriver, Avon, and all major banks). After verifying the income wedirectly offer them group savings and group loans, without leaving WhatsApp, their primary messaging app.
Keyring Network — Keyring equips financial service providers with permissioning tools for compliant transactions on-chain, powered by zero-knowledge privacy. The company operates at the intersection of traditional and blockchain-based finance, serving as an institutional-grade gateway to channel assets, capital, and users on-chain.

Stefan George - Co-Founder & CTO @ Gnosis

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Angel
United Kingdom, Norway, Germany

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.
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.
Rarimo Foundation — Rarimo Foundation, which aims to facilitate the development and growth of a new generation of social applications.

Jamie Broderick

Investment focus

FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain
Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

SmartPurse — SmartPurse is a unique money coaching and learning toolbox, inspiring women everywhere to build financial independence. Together with a vibrant community of likeminded individuals and money coaches who understand women's lives, you‘ll take control of your financial future.
Seso Global — Seso Global is a platform for secure real estate management and transactions in Africa.Based in Lagos (Nigeria), Accra (Ghana) and Cambridge (UK), Seso Global is a Digital Lands Transactions platform that facilitates secure, trusted, and risk-free Blockchain Land Transactions between, Property Owners, Land Service Agencies and FinancialInstitutions.

Hasu, Uncommon Core.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Finance, Software
Seed, Series A, Initial Coin Offering
Portugal, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

CoWSwap — CoW Swap finds the lowest prices from all decentralized exchanges and DEX aggregators & saves you more with p2p trading and protection from MEV
Euler — Euler Labs is a software development and risk management company.
Agora — Agora operates as a cross-chain governance platform.

Angel Investor, entrepreneur

Investment focus

SaaS, Web3, FinTech
Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

NVolume — At NVolume (&Volume), we develop advanced AI/ML models that autonomously engage in digital currency trading. We crafted a user-friendly platform that allows even those without extensive expertise to sidestep FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) and seizing opportunities in this dynamic market. By sharing these models with users, we enable them toselect the most suitable risk level, offering a range of options to make cryptocurrency trading more accessible and effective.

Sandy Peng is the Co-Founder of Scroll.

Investment focus

Finance, Ethereum, Blockchain
Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Clave — One-Click Onboarding to Future of Finance

Dr. Mo H. is a Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) at UrbanChain.

Investment focus

Energy, GreenTech, Blockchain
Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

UrbanChain — Consumers, prosumers, and generators are welcome to make their marketplace.

Investment focus

Mobile, Big Data, Shipping
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hanhaa — Real-Time Cargo Tracking and Monitoring Solutions for Supply Chain Solutions Reporting on the condition, location and security of your shipments

Javier Rubio

Investment focus

Mobile, Big Data, Shipping
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hanhaa — Real-Time Cargo Tracking and Monitoring Solutions for Supply Chain Solutions Reporting on the condition, location and security of your shipments

Luke Youngblood

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Euler — Euler Labs is a software development and risk management company.
Mainstream Labs — Modular, end-to-end governance platform.

Martin Gilbert is the Chairman at AssetCo.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Gaming, FinTech
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

BTP — BTP is a digital provenance company with a mission to make assets trustworthy.
Skedadle — Earn free money playing Skedadle mobile games! The Skedadle app lets you earn money playing games on your phone whilst travelling sustainably across the UK.
Tema Global — Tema Global builds an ETF platform focused on ETF infrastructure and differentiated ETF strategies managed by experienced investment professionals.

Raj Parekh is the Co-founder and CEO of Portal Labs.

Investment focus

Finance, Ethereum, Blockchain
Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Clave — One-Click Onboarding to Future of Finance

Pavel is the VP of Growth at Bolt. His is responsible for the global marketing, campaigns and communications/PR teams to name a few.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Due — Discover our global payment platform. Powered by open, decentralised and interoperable networks.

slappjakke.eth ..

Investment focus

Blockchain, Stock Exchanges, Financial Services
Seed
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Dolomite.io — Dolomite.io is a simple & secure decentralized crypto exchange.
Smilee Finance — Smilee Finance is a capital-efficient DeFi option and structured product platform that assist customers in realizing large-scale volatility trades.

Ibrahim Sagna - Director, Advisory & Capital Markets @ African Export-Import Bank

Investment focus

FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain
Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

NERGii — NERGii is a sports technology business that makes cutting-edge insoles for shoes that improve performance.
Seso Global — Seso Global is a platform for secure real estate management and transactions in Africa.Based in Lagos (Nigeria), Accra (Ghana) and Cambridge (UK), Seso Global is a Digital Lands Transactions platform that facilitates secure, trusted, and risk-free Blockchain Land Transactions between, Property Owners, Land Service Agencies and FinancialInstitutions.
African Warriors Fighting Championship — The African Warriors Fighting Championship promotes indigenous African combat sports. Its aim is to provide chances for African athletes and promote Africa's combat traditions around the world.

Emil Urmanshin is a Director of Crypto at Revolut.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Due — Discover our global payment platform. Powered by open, decentralised and interoperable networks.

Rahim Thawer is the Founder and Hedge Fund Manager Of EGX Securities Ltd. Rahim is a Hedge Fund Manager who has invested in companies from different industries. He is passionate about creating intricate financial simulation models and strategies for enterprises at any stage of business, whether growth or distressed.Advising Central Banks, PensionFunds & Sovereign Wealth Funds in terms of Liquidity, Capital Raising, Structuring, Generating Returns, etc.Specialties: Hedge Fund. Capital Raising ($100M+), Restricted Transactions, Illiquid Assets, Secondary Transactions, Investment Security, Fund Structuring & Creation, Derivatives Outlay, Collateralized Debt & Equity Structures, Securitization, Guaranteed Investment Contracts, Monoline Bond & Debt Insurance.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Banking, Energy
Post-IPO Equity, Secondary Market, Grant
Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Virgin Galactic — Virgin Galactic is launching a new space age, where all are invited along for the ride.
Nigerian Stock Exchange — The Nigerian Stock Exchange operates as a stock exchange in Nigeria.
Greyhorse Clearinghouse Ltd — Greyhorse Clearinghouse Ltd is a Cross-Border Multi-Currency Blockchain based Decentralized Clearinghouse that provides non-custodial settlement services. Through our 100% Insured and Proprietary Digital Financial Infrastructure which allows Retail and Institutional Clients immediate Multi-Currency Liquidity Pool through Global Darkpool Outfit.Registered Clients can also Lend, Borrow, Swap and Invest in Domestic and International Securities Market through our Registered Affiliates as well as Securitize all of their Assets into Dollarization to Hedge against Currency Devaluation and/or Inflation.

Somayeh Taheri is a CEO and Co-Founder at UrbanChain.

Investment focus

Energy, GreenTech, Blockchain
Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

UrbanChain — Consumers, prosumers, and generators are welcome to make their marketplace.

Jordan Momtazi is the Co-Founder at Block Earner.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Trading Platform
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

AltLayer — AltLayer is a system of highly scalable application-dedicated execution layers that derive security from an underlying L1/L2.
Encode Club — Learn crypto with our web3 education community. Get learning. Get building. Get hired. Get funding.
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.

James is our Co-founder and has served as our Chairman since May 2015, as a member of our board of directors since March 2007, and as our President and CEO since September 2007. Previously, James served as a Director of Product Development at CNET Networks, as the President and a Co-founder of Wind-Up Labs, Inc. (an online photo-sharing companyacquired by CNET Networks in April 2005). He was also CTO and Co-Founder of Epesi Technologies, Inc., a software company. James attended Harvard College where he studied Computer Science. He was selected to serve as a member of our board of directors due to the perspective and experience he brings as our Co-Founder, President, and CEO.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
HoyTrabajas — We are a C.Vs information exchange platform for candidates, employers, and recruiters, that get people access to low-skilled jobs in the Latin-American markets, enables recruiters to share job-seekers and job openings in real-time, and supports SMEs in the recruiting of their low-skilled jobs.
Positive Food Co. — Delicious, fresh food

Tarun Chitra is Co-Founder and CEO of Gauntlet, a simulation platform for crypto networks to help developers understand how decisions about security, governance, and consensus mechanisms are likely to affect network activity and asset value. His research in DeFi includes the first peer-reviewed papers proving the economic security properties ofUniswap and Compound. He previously worked in high frequency trading for Vatic Labs and was a scientific programmer at D. E. Shaw Research.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Inco — Inco is the final layer of the blockchain stack, empowering smart contracts with confidentiality to unlock use cases and enable widespread web3 adoption.
Zama — Secure data privacy of your application with the Zama Concrete framework and its fully homomorphic encryption library
Fantom Foundation — Fantom is a next-gen Layer-1 platform for DeFi, dApps and businesses.

Martin Tellechea

Investment focus

Internet, Blockchain
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Sablier — Free-to-use infrastructure for token distribution. DAOs and businesses use Sablier for vesting, payroll, airdrops, and more.

Ken Li is a partner at Factor.

Investment focus

Web3, Blockchain, Machine Learning
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

FLock.io — FLock enables decentralised and privacy-preserving machine learning, coordinated by smart contractsWe work to make user data collection obsolete, and widespread governance participation guaranteed by codewe propose to use distributed ledger technology (DLT) to achieve FLock, a secure and reliable decentralized {F}ederated {L}earning systembuilt on B{lock}chain.Or, in plain words, we build TensorFlow Federated (TFF) for Web 3.0
Kinetex — Cross-chain DeFi aggregator and highly efficient trading protocol. Instant transfer of liquidity between networks based on zero-knowledge proofs.

Ewald Hesse

Investment focus

Information Technology, Blockchain, Music
Seed, Funding Round
Austria, United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Odyssey — An open-source 3D content platform that is designed to redefine the virtual space as well as our physical world.
Music Protocol | Web3 Music Association — Marketplace of Nfts managed by Public Pressure
Kivu Technologies GmbH — Established in Austria in 2016, Kivu is a talented multidisciplinary team of engineers, developers, data scientists, analysts and security professionals. Founded by a passion to drive change through innovation, we believe we can make the world a better, safer place. We believe our world is increasingly connected, an exponentially expanding network.Existing technologies are inadequate to handle massive networks. Understanding networks and the connected relationships within these networks is vital to tackle the most challenging problems of our time. At Kivu, we design and build technology to help save lives and enhance human security.

Kristof Gazso

Investment focus

Finance, Ethereum, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Clave — One click onboarding to future of finance
Soul Wallet — Soul Wallet is a smart contract wallet.

Nafiseh Vahabi

Investment focus

Finance, Blockchain, Retirement
Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Signai OpenPensions & Signai OpenIncome — Income Security For Life - providing income security throughout the working and retirement years of adults, children and vulnerable.

Nigel Waterson

Investment focus

Finance, Blockchain, Retirement
Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Signai OpenPensions & Signai OpenIncome — Income Security For Life - providing income security throughout the working and retirement years of adults, children and vulnerable.

General Manager of Alibaba Cloud EMEA

Investment focus

FinTech, Blockchain, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

FANA — We’re building the future of philanthropy ($450 billion market), enabling e-commerce ($4 trillion) checkout linked giving from merchants into a digital wallet. Consumers then become allocators and will be offered a wide selection of impact causes in app. Giving cycle will be gamified socially with digital assets (collectibles, rewards) released forgenerating positive impact.

Brian D. Evans is the Founding Partner at ReBlock Ventures. Brian D. Evans attended Swiss School of Business and Management.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Eesee — Company based in British Virgin Islands.
Kaskade Finance — Kaskade has pioneered the use of volume bootstrapping to control and direct liquidity incentives across decentralized exchanges and dApps on various networks.
Hedgehog Protocol — Hedgehog Protocol operates as a cryptocurrency trading fee hedging protocol.

Anurag Arjun is the Founder of Avail. Anurag Arjun attended Nirma Institute Of Technology. He previously worked at Polygon Technology as a Co-Founder. Anurag Arjun attended Nirma Institute Of Technology.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Bitcoin
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Singapore, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Citrea — First ZK Rollup on Bitcoin
Clave — One click onboarding to future of finance
Router Protocol — Router Protocol is a Cross Chain Bridge. Currently live on Ethereum, Polygon, and more. Building an interoperable cross chain future of the blockchain ecosystem.

Sinhae Lee is a Partner at GBIC, leading blockchain investments and accelerating robust projects. Prior to joining GBIC, she has been deeply involved in the FinTech/blockchain industry in Silicon Valley. She led business development and operations at a payment start-up, Coin, which was acquired by FitBit in 2016 and later worked at NerdWallet,a FinTech start-up in San Francisco. She started her career as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. She brings her Silicon Valley and consulting experience to the blockchain/crypto industry. Sinhae holds an MBA from Stanford University and a B.A. in Business from Korea University.

Investment focus

Apps, Web3, Gaming
Seed
Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Ethlas — The Metaverse that rewards Gamers, Ethlas is a free-to-play, play-and-earn decentralized app built on blockchain technology.
FLock.io — FLock enables decentralised and privacy-preserving machine learning, coordinated by smart contractsWe work to make user data collection obsolete, and widespread governance participation guaranteed by codewe propose to use distributed ledger technology (DLT) to achieve FLock, a secure and reliable decentralized {F}ederated {L}earning systembuilt on B{lock}chain.Or, in plain words, we build TensorFlow Federated (TFF) for Web 3.0

Igor Barinov co-founder of Oracles Network, the first Ethereum-based public network with Proof of Authority consensus, reached by independent validators.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Bitcoin, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Citrea — Citrea is the first rollup that enhances the capabilities of Bitcoin blockspace with zero-knowledge technology, making it possible to build everything on Bitcoin.
Sablier — Free-to-use infrastructure for token distribution. DAOs and businesses use Sablier for vesting, payroll, airdrops, and more.
Hedgehog Protocol — Hedgehog Protocol operates as a cryptocurrency trading fee hedging protocol.

Peter is clearly way more than a global music legend. He divides his time and energy between his music, humanitarian projects, business investments and his family.He became an investor and advisor to The Filter in 2006 and brings with him a clear vision of a need for smart filters to help us make sense of a world with too many choices. Workingwith Peter is inspiring – his passion and creativity help drive and motivate the team.

Investment focus

Music, TV, Supply Chain Management
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Belgium, United States

Portfolio highlights

Tumelo — Tumelo is an impact-focused financial technology firm. Our mission is to enable retail investors and pension members to create and benefit from a more sustainable investment system. We do this by partnering with investment and pension providers, enabling them to provide their customers with transparency over the companies they own and ashareholder voice on issues they care about, such as gender equality or climate change. Our solution is white-label software delivered via APIs and/or a user dashboard. Our software integrates with existing investment platforms improving customer engagement, acquisition and retention for providers.
Provenance — Provenance is a software solution for sustainability communications and supply chain transparency.
Openwater — OPENWATER - THE FUTURE OF NEURAL DIAGNOSTICS IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND.

Philip Treleaven

Investment focus

Finance, Blockchain, Retirement
Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Signai OpenPensions & Signai OpenIncome — Income Security For Life - providing income security throughout the working and retirement years of adults, children and vulnerable.

Dmitry T. is a CEO at Copper. He attended Imperial College Londo.

Investment focus

Trading Platform, Cryptocurrency, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Lapse — The new social camera for friends, not followers
3Commas — 3Commas develops a crypto-asset management tool for tracking investments and exchanges in a unified platform. It provides access to a unified dashboard as the central hub for trading and portfolio management execution.
Rho Protocol — Rho Protocol is a next-generation decentralized exchange for interest rate swaps, offering institutions a secure and transparent solution to harness the potential of interest rates in Web3

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