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Top 50 Payments Angel Investors in Switzerland

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

Top 50 Payments Angel Investors in Switzerland

Investor Payments Switzerland investments
Danny Hayes 5
Soheila Yalpani 5
Zand Bank 2
Adrian Locher 2
Aly Madhavji 2
Sam Lim 2
Marc P. Bernegger 2
Eric Conner 1
Daniel Gutenberg 1
Kjell Fischer 1
Catherine Wood 1
Matias Woloski 1
Marco Milone 1
Viktor Bunin 1
Alexander Salnikov 1
Ajit Tripathi 1
Calvin Ayre 1
Guillaume Lestrade 1
Patrick Delarive 1
Alan Howard 1
Rainer-Marc Frey 1
Ryan Selkis 1
Christian Edler 1
Markus Rinderer 1
Philipp Cottier 1
Hayden Adams 1
Scott Moore 1
Jascha Samadi 1
Tobias Reichmuth 1
Anna Rose 1
Andreas Buhl 1
Phil Rubin 1
Hart Lambur 1
Matt Mickiewicz 1
Adriant Harrison 1
Darian Shirazi 1
Spencer Yang 1
Alex Svanevik 1
David Chen 1
Vadim Koleoshkin 1
Mara Schmitman 1
Joseph Eagan 1
Greg Kidd 1
Ross Mason 1
Anthony Pompliano 1
Matt Iannelli 1
Mike Demarais 1
Rahul Sethuram 1
Benoit Portoleau-Balloy 1
Tirto Cuaca 1
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Danny Hayes Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Danny is the CEO and Co-Founder of TerraScale, a green technology company reinventing the future of global sustainable development models. Danny is committed to developing sustainable solutions to the world’s most pressing energy and digital infrastructure challenges. He is currently leading various projects at the bleeding edge of technologicalinnovation and sustainable development, including Project Energos, TerraFinance, Global Vision 33, cybersecurity IP, MedTech, and more. In fact, his work as the developer of TerraScale’s flagship initiative, Project Energos, won the 2020 Platinum Outstanding Property Award London, the 2021 ICONIC Innovative Architecture Award, and the 2021 Golden Novum Design Award.Danny’s previous experience includes advising institutions, governments, corporations, and individual HNW clientele on developing smart, resilient infrastructure, master planning of industry development, large unit global sales, business negotiations with Fortune 500 companies, and lobbying political entities. He was also formerly a Metals Trader at Noble House Metal Trading. Danny’s decades of work in and around sustainable infrastructure, finance, and technology led to his 2021 appointment to the role of Global Program Manager of the United Nations ImPPPact Program within the C.R.E.A.M. European PPP Alliance. He also is a member of the World Association of PPP Units & Professionals, a Managing Partner of Hudson Capital Advisors, and is advised by Goldman Sachs.In 2020, Danny was appointed Director Emeritus of the non-governmental organization Green Cross. Green Cross is a consultative member of the United Nations on Climate Change and the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification. The Green Cross was founded in 1993 by Nobel Peace Prize winner Mikhail Gorbachev and boasts honorary board members such as Leonardo DiCaprio and Jane Goodall. Danny serves as an Advisory Board Member of the University of California, Riverside. He serves as a Financial Advisor to Ambri (backed by Bill Gates, Khosla Ventures, KLP Enterprises, and GVB), FlowCell (Founded by Dr. Max Narovlyansky) and Chaired by Dr. Umer Sayeed-Shah (COB of Terrascale)Danny is also a member and the (best) Gold (50,000 USD) Sponsor of Top Tier Impact, a global ecosystem of investors, entrepreneurs, and professionals who are focused on solving the critical issues of our time. Danny is also an (Incoming) Knight of Columbus (Knighted by Dominic Lanaway - Council: 611), a Catholic Fraternal Order founded in 1882, whose ranks have included prominent Americans such as President John F. Kennedy, Senator Ted Kennedy, MLB Hall of Famer Babe Ruth, Governor Jeb Bush, Justice Samuel Alito, NFL Hall of Famer Vince Lombardi, and more. Committed to providing global charity and service, the Knights of Columbus have contributed $1.55 billion and 691 million volunteer hours to charitable projects over the past decade.
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Investment focus
  • Cyber Security, Aerospace, GreenTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • TerraScale Systems — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
  • Climate Transition Corporation — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
  • Climate Transition Development — Climate Transition Development Corporation (CTD) is leading the Green Snow Project – an innovative hybrid renewable energy venture in Northern Japan. The company's mission is to revolutionize Japan’s renewable energy sector by harnessing the abundant low to medium-heat geothermal resources available in the region.Together with ourdevelopment partners, TerraScale Inc. and Global Family, the company is committed to tackling the challenges of the geothermal energy sector and transforming the way Japan generates power. The company's work forms an integral part of the Japan-US collaboration on geothermal energy development and aims to significantly reduce fossil fuel reliance and cut carbon emissions.
Soheila Yalpani Angel · Santa Monica, California, United States
Soheila Yalpani is Co-Founder and COO at TerraScale. She attended The University of British Columbia.
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Investment focus
  • Consulting, Sustainability, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • TerraScale — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
  • TerraScale Systems — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
  • Climate Transition Corporation — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
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
Adrian Locher Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Adrian Locher is the Founder and CEO at Merantix. Additionally, Adrian Locher has had 4 past jobs including Founder & Investor at Altoida. He attended the University of St.Gallen.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A
  • Switzerland, Germany, 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.
  • Crypto Finance (Asset Management) AG — Unser Asset Management Team bietet qualifizierten und institutionellen Anlegern einen sicheren und transparenten Zugang zum Crypto Asset Markt. Kontaktieren Sie uns!
  • 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.
Aly Madhavji Angel
Aly Madhavji is the Blockchain Founders Fund's Managing Partner and a Consultant of United Nations. He is a Senior Blockchain Fellow of INSEAD and LP and Venture Partner at Loyal VC.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Yumi — Start selling to China in minutes. Join thousands of brands just like you and reach Chinese millennial consumers via WeChat social commerce.
  • Dopamine — Dopamine provides decentralized finance for everybody, everywhere and is the first end-to-end user-centered crypto mobile app.
  • web3intelligence — Build wealth and trust in the world of crypto with intelligent financial tools, data and infrastructure.
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.
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.
Eric Conner Angel · New York, New York, United States
Angel Investor
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Investment focus
  • Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Internet
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, Singapore, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Connext — Bridge tokens and data across 11+ chains. Earn and build on the most secure interoperability network.
  • Matter Labs — Matter Labs is scaling Ethereum with zero-knowledge proofs to accelerate public blockchain adoption. The company started out of scientific curiosity, the joy of engineering, and a deep conviction, the most impactful way to improve the world today is to provide an open and free alternative to its existing, deeply flawed financial system.Thecompany was founded in 2018 with its head office in Berlin, Germany.
  • WalletConnect — Integrate web3 wallet connection and messaging into your wallet or dapp with WalletConnect's SDK suite for mobile and web developers.
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.
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.
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.
Matias Woloski Angel · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Matias Woloski is the Co-Founder & serves as Chief Technology Officer of Auth0. Attended University of Buenos Aires.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Information Technology, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Argentina, Spain, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
  • Nuqlea — Nuqlea is a B2B digital platform for construction and habitat that integrates and digitizes its entire value chain and develops useful techonological solutions through its marketplace. With the purpose of transforming the industry, Nuqlea seeks to offer transparency, efficiency and traceability in terms of purchasing processes, costs and shipments.
  • Fidu — Fidu aims to develop a new operating system specifically for LatAm schools enabling institutions to digitally handle everything from finances to school-wide announcements
  • Num Finance — We build stablecoins of emerging countries to facilitate access to loans, yields and financial tools to millions of people and companies.
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.
Viktor Bunin Angel
viktor bunin
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Investment focus
  • Cryptocurrency, Ethereum, Internet
  • Series A
  • Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Thesis — Thesis is a cryptocurrency venture production studio. We build and invest in products that empower individuals.
  • WalletConnect — WalletConnect is the open source web3 standard to connect blockchain wallets to dapps.
Alexander Salnikov Angel
Co-founder and Head of Product at Rarible - The first community-owned NFT Marketplace
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Investment focus
  • Ethereum, Internet, Blockchain
  • Series A
  • Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Upshot — The source for NFT pricing. Upshot uses machine learning to provide deep insight into NFT markets and unlocks a wave of exotic new DeFi possibilities.
  • WalletConnect — Integrate web3 wallet connection and messaging into your wallet or dapp with WalletConnect's SDK suite for mobile and web developers.
Ajit Tripathi Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Ajit Tripathi is a Head of Institutional Business at Aave.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Finance, Ethereum
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Singapore, India, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Flint — Earn 13% p.a. stable returns by leveraging the power of crypto. Withdraw-able anytime without fees.
  • WalletConnect — Integrate web3 wallet connection and messaging into your wallet or dapp with WalletConnect's SDK suite for mobile and web developers.
  • 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.
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
Guillaume Lestrade Angel
Guillaume Lestrade is the co-founder of Meero and Leeto.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Software, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • France, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Cryptr — Convert more B2B customers with our authentication SSO solution. A few lines of code to be SSO-ready, and you can start working with enterprise customers
  • Abyssale — Abyssale is a banner creation platform enabling you to generate stunning social media & online advertising for your brand.
  • Klub — Klub operates as a private wealth and private services platform.
Patrick Delarive Angel · Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
Patrick is a businessman active in real estate, wealth management, show business, hospitality, education and private equity, benefiting from a strong network. At Biowatch since November 2015.
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Investment focus
  • Security, Wireless, Wearables
  • Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Biowatch — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
Alan Howard Angel
Alan Howard is a British billionaire hedge fund manager and co-founder of Brevan Howard Asset Management.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • NVG8 — The Community Platform Powering the Next Generation Data Ecosystem
  • Atmos Labs — When is a game more than a game? Welcome to Planet Atmos: a universe of next-generation gaming experiences blending action, customization, storytelling, community, and digital ownership.
  • ScienceMagic.Studios — A digital assets venture studio
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.
Ryan Selkis Angel · New York, New York, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Ryan Selkis is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Messari. He was the Managing Director CoinDesk before that. After discovering bitcoin, Ryan became obsessed with the technology’s social and economic potential. That obsession, along with finance and startup experience, helps him lead DCG's investing efforts.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, India, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Acctual — Acctual offers modern finance teams an innovative solution to today's payment complexities. By automating AP/AR processes within a unified subledger, we seamlessly bridge the gap between crypto and fiat transactions. This not only ensures accuracy and real-time financial insights but also translates into significant time and cost savingsfor businesses. Dive into the future of finance with Acctual, where efficiency and adaptability go hand-in-hand.
  • 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.
  • Bitlayer — Bitlayer is the first Bitcoin second-layer network, based on BitVM, offering ultra-scalability and L1 security, aiming to be Bitcoin's computing layer.
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.
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.
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.
Hayden Adams Angel · New York, New York, United States
Hayden Adams is founder of Uniswap, one of the most widely used decentralized applications built on Ethereum. Prior to Uniswap, Hayden was an engineer at Siemens. He graduated from Stony Brook University with a bachelor in engineering in 2016.
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Investment focus
  • Ethereum, Internet, Cryptocurrency
  • Funding Round
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • WalletConnect — Integrate web3 wallet connection and messaging into your wallet or dapp with WalletConnect's SDK suite for mobile and web developers.
Scott Moore Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Scott Moore is the Co-Founder at Gitcoin. He attended the University of Toronto from 2015 to 2016.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Singapore, Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • HackQuest — Web3.0 programming for everyone.
  • 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.
  • Tensorplex Labs — Tensorplex Labs is a Web3 and artificial intelligence (AI) firm developing finance and intelligence infrastructure for decentralized AI networks.
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.
Tobias Reichmuth Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Tobias Reichmuth - Founding Partner at Maximon - The Longevity Company Builder @ Maximon
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Travel, Internet
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Firstcar — Firstcar provides car driving learning assistant services. They offer services that include hand-picked driving schools, student cars with double pedals for rent before and for the driving test, entry-level vehicles that are inexpensive to buy and maintain, support and advice on vehicle purchase, and selected insurances with special rates.
  • MyFeld.ch — MyFeld.ch is the holder of a fresh farm food platform that aims to create a digital link between consumers and our local agriculture. The company's platform provides products directly from the farm, allowing people to improve their comprehension of seasonality and regionality while also raising awareness of the sustainable use of food byallowing them to purchase fresh produce from the farm.
  • Testmate Health — Testmate Health is a medtech startup and award-winning spin-off of University of Geneva (Switzerland). We have developed a smartphone compatible platform test kit that diagnoses any disease with an identifiable DNA or RNA sequence - without the need for a lab, providing results directly at home in minutes. Based on this platform, our firstsolution is the first rapid urine self-test for the four most common sexually transmitted diseases (STD). One million new STDs are diagnosed a day, and yet the best improvements to date still need a lab, with results taking up to 7 days to be ready. Our easy to use all-in-one-kit provides results in minutes, anywhere, at any time, and the result is scannable by a smartphone to enable people to immediately gain access to treatment – if needed. Further test-kits with other diseases are in the pipeline to empower users to skip the waiting room, and take charge of their health from home.
Anna Rose Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Anna Rose is the Co-Founder at zkValidator. She also the Strategic Advisor at Videopath.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Ethereum, Internet
  • Series A, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
  • Switzerland, Saint Kitts and Nevis
Portfolio highlights
  • DeversiFi — DeversiFi gives traders the edge in fast-moving decentralized finance (Defi) markets by allowing them to trade at lightning speed and with deep aggregated liquidity, directly from their privately owned cryptocurrency wallet.Traders can take advantage of more trading opportunities while always preserving control of their assets when they need tomove fast. DeversiFi’s order-books are off-chain, but settlement occurs on the Ethereum blockchain. This means that traders benefit from fast-moving order books and instant execution, without having to trust the exchange and whilst always maintaining control of their assets at all times.
  • WalletConnect — Integrate web3 wallet connection and messaging into your wallet or dapp with WalletConnect's SDK suite for mobile and web developers.
Andreas Buhl Angel
Andreas Buhl
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Investment focus
  • Rental, Retail, Social
  • Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Annanow — Annanow is quick commerce enabler to the retail industry. Our technology and services connect online shops, couriers, instore picking, payment and insurance services to end customers. Our services help our retail partners deliver a cost effective market-leading service to their customers.
  • Sharely — Sharely is the rental and rental platform for everyday objects.
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.
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
  • SX Network — Scaling Polygon for betting, DeFi and NFTs
  • DELV (Formerly Element Finance) — Element is an open source protocol for fixed and variable yield markets
Matt Mickiewicz Angel
Matt Mickiewicz is an internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of SitePoint. Mickiewicz also co-founded the web companies Flippa, 99designs, and Hired.Born in Kraków, Poland, living in Hameln -Germany, and currently residing in Vancouver, Canada, Mickiewicz created his first website at the age of 14 called Webmaster-Resources.com, whichlater became SitePoint. At 16, Mickiewicz traveled to Melbourne with his mother and met his soon-to-be business partner and co-founder, Mark Harbottle. At 16, Mickiewicz found himself closing $10,000 advertising deals between classes at high school. Mickiewicz barely finished high school and did not attend college.In 2008, Mickiewicz spun off 99designs from SitePoint, which went on to raise $35 million in capital from Accel Ventures, Michael Dearing / Harrison Metal, Dave Goldberg (SurveyMonkey), Anthony Casalena, and Stewart Butterfield (Flickr). In June 2009 Mickiewicz and Harbottle launched Flippa.com, the largest marketplace for buying and selling websites in the world. In the fall of 2012, Mickiewicz co-founded DeveloperAuction.com which raised $2.7 million was later renamed Hired. The company later raised a $15 million Series-A round in March 2014. By December 2014, Hired was reportedly valued at $200m and had raised an additional $15m in the capital in its Series B round.Mickiewicz was named a 30 Under 30 Entrepreneur by Forbes and INC in 2011, a Smart Company 30 under 30 in 2012, and frequently speaks at conferences and seminars worldwide.
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Investment focus
  • Human Resources, Internet, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Australia, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Flippa — Buy & Sell Online Businesses on the Flippa marketplace.
  • Wyvern — Wyvern was created to unlock the secrets of the elec-tromagnetic spectrum by providing groundbreak-ing access to high-resolution and quality imagery.This will enable a sustainable future for humanity.
  • Continuum Technology — Connecting world-class executive talent to the best venture-backed companies for consulting, advising and full-time roles.
Adriant Harrison Angel · Santa Monica, California, United States
Adriant Harrison - Sr. Executive Vice President, Office of CEO @ TerraScale
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Investment focus
  • Aerospace, Consulting, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • TerraScale — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
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
  • Medmo — Patients frequently have to wait longer, travel farther, and pay more for medical imaging than is necessary. That's something we're here to change.
  • 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.
Spencer Yang Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
Spencer Yang is a Co-Founder at Gomu. He attended AngelPad in 2016.
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Investment focus
  • Cryptocurrency, Ethereum, Internet
  • Seed, Series A
  • Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Nametag — Nametag is your universal username, secure on the blockchain.
  • WalletConnect — Integrate web3 wallet connection and messaging into your wallet or dapp with WalletConnect's SDK suite for mobile and web developers.
Alex Svanevik Angel
Alex Svanevik is a Co-Founder & CEO of Nansen.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Internet, Finance
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Vietnam, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Loop Crypto — Learn how to accept crypto payments. Loop Crypto makes it easy to turn on crypto autopay so that any subscription or SaaS business can accept crypto.
  • Pixels — Pixels is a play-to-earn MMO game built around the NFT assets you already own. Build your NFT a home in the metaverse and get farming.
  • Lighthouse Labs — Lighthouse is the open metaverse navigation engine. Discover places, friends, experiences and events across the spatial web.
David Chen Angel · Taipei, T'ai-pei, Taiwan
David Chen - PM @ Telexpress corporation
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Investment focus
  • Payments, Fraud Detection, Machine Learning
  • Angel
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • KapeIQ — KapeIQ is a blockchain-based intelligent fraud detection platform.
Vadim Koleoshkin Angel · Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
Co-Founder at Zerion.
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Investment focus
  • Ethereum, Internet, Messaging
  • Series A
  • Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • 3Box — 3Box Labs is a Web3 studio that creates software to advance a more open, safe, and composable Web3. We're hiring!
  • WalletConnect — Integrate web3 wallet connection and messaging into your wallet or dapp with WalletConnect's SDK suite for mobile and web developers.
Mara Schmitman Angel · Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina
Mara Schmitman - Manager @ Schmitman SAS
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Investment focus
  • Ethereum, Internet, Cryptocurrency
  • Series A, Funding Round
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • WalletConnect — Integrate web3 wallet connection and messaging into your wallet or dapp with WalletConnect's SDK suite for mobile and web developers.
  • Creadibly Neutral — Credibly Neutral is a builder-led early stage venture fund investing $50-250k in protocols, infrastructure, and crypto SaaS.
Joseph Eagan Angel · New York, New York, United States
Joe holds a BA in political science from Georgetown University, Washington DC.
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Investment focus
  • Cryptocurrency, Apps, Finance
  • Seed, Series A
  • Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Nested — The best decentralized portfolio management & copy trading experiences
  • Spruce — Your Keys, Your Data - Spruce lets users control their data across the web. We believe that the world is evolving toward one based on cryptography, networks, and digital economies that are user-controlled. Today, the dominant use case for user keys is the signing of blockchain transactions, but we think this barely scratches the surface of what is possible.
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/
Ross Mason Angel · Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Created the Mule Project, Founded MuleSoft, gone public (MULE:NYSE). Work on their product direction, vision and strategy. Active investor and advisor.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • M3O — Serverless Micro Services . Contribute to m3o/m3o development by creating an account on GitHub.
  • Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal standard and registry.
  • DLT (short for data load tool) — the data loading library for python
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.
Matt Iannelli Angel · Santa Monica, California, United States
Former Chief Executive Officer and Managing Member for Netorian; primary driver for Netorian’s foray into the Cyber Security product market – leading the R&D efforts for four distinct, yet complimentary, software products. 26+ years of leadership, engineering and project management experience from his former roles as TechnicalManager/Systems Engineer for TCPNS, Sr. Systems Engineer for Lockheed Martin. Matt attended both Carnegie Mellon University (EE 1988-92) and University of Pittsburgh (Behavioral Neuroscience, 1992-95).
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Investment focus
  • Finance, Sustainability, Project Management
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • TerraScale — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
  • Climate Transition Corporation — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
Mike Demarais Angel
Mike Demarais
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Investment focus
  • Ethereum, Internet, Cryptocurrency
  • Series A
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • WalletConnect — Integrate web3 wallet connection and messaging into your wallet or dapp with WalletConnect's SDK suite for mobile and web developers.
Rahul Sethuram Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Rahul Sethuram - Partner @ Lone Wolf Partners
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Finance, Ethereum
  • Funding Round, Seed
  • Germany, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Stackr Labs — Micro-rollups to scale web3 applications
  • WalletConnect — Integrate web3 wallet connection and messaging into your wallet or dapp with WalletConnect's SDK suite for mobile and web developers.
  • LI.FI — Swap and move any crypto asset across any blockchain ecosystem.
Benoit Portoleau-Balloy Angel · Manila, Manila, Philippines
François Portoleau Balloy is a Cofounder and CRO at Leeto.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Construction, Software Engineering
  • Seed
  • France, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Leeto — Clan empowers companies to take care of their employees. We are building the future of employees benefits by providing companies with an innovative banking & SaaS platform to manage their employee benefits.
  • Hiboo — Hiboo is data infrastructure platform that helps you collect, control, and visualise your equipment data.
  • Taurus — Taurus is a digital asset platform to issue and manage cryptocurrencies, tokenized assets and digital currencies. HSM & MPC technology. It is the European leader in the banking-segment.
Tirto Cuaca Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Tirto Cuaca
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Investment focus
  • Payments, Fraud Detection, Machine Learning
  • Angel
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • KapeIQ — KapeIQ is a blockchain-based intelligent fraud detection platform.
  • TryShifu
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