Aaron McDonald
CEO & Co-Founder @ Futureverse
Auckland, New Zealand
Aaron McDonald is a pre-seed investor at Futureverse in Auckland focused on Blockchain and Web3. Aaron McDonald is based out of Auckland and is the CEO and Co-Founder of Futureverse. Aaron previously worked at DN3010 as a Director. Aaron McDonald attended Horowhenua College.
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 22%
Last updated:
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Industries Aaron McDonald invests in
Stages Aaron McDonald invests in
Countries Aaron McDonald invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 3 (33%)
- Web3 2 (22%)
- Computer 2 (22%)
- B2C 1 (11%)
- Apps 1 (11%)
Stage
- Pre-Seed 7 (78%)
- Seed 1 (11%)
- Corporate Round 1 (11%)
Country
- Germany 1 (11%)
- Australia 1 (11%)
- Hong Kong 1 (11%)
- New Zealand 1 (11%)
- Switzerland 1 (11%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models. | $5M / Corporate Round / Jun 28, 2024 | ||
| MintPass is a travel companion app for collecting one-of-a-kind digital souvenirs to share experiences, inspire others, and get rewarded. | Pre-Seed / Feb 12, 2024 | ||
| Plurality revolutionizes user interactions by providing a cutting-edge Account Personalization Stack that enables dApps to effortlessly onboard users, including their personas and preferences. | $100K / Pre-Seed / Feb 12, 2024 | ||
| Nucanon exists to democratize game design and make the creative process of building expansive game worlds accessible to more people. | $100K / Pre-Seed / Feb 12, 2024 | ||
| Intraverse has created an interoperable metaverse in which NFTs can be used as in-game avatars via a proprietary blockchain-based platform. | $100K / Pre-Seed / Feb 12, 2024 | ||
| A next-gen social platform for gamers and a differentiated gaming tech for game developers. | $100K / Pre-Seed / Feb 12, 2024 | ||
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$100K / Pre-Seed / Feb 12, 2024 | ||
| Any time you need the motivation and support of a fitness expert but can’t get to the gym, bring the gym vibe to you. | $100K / Pre-Seed / Feb 12, 2024 | ||
| DNABLOCK is leading the way to personalized entertainment, interaction, and inclusion by removing the barriers of 3D content creation. Our platform and REPLIKANT™ animation engine allows creatives, brands, and individuals the ability to generate bespoke, high-quality, digital beings without prohibitive post-production costs or specialized 3Dprogramming knowledge. Our platform supports the exporting of content onto ANY device, making it simple to create fulfilling interactions with an enormous reach.We operate a scalable, high-end, computer graphics pipeline. This pipeline, combined with advanced machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and sentiment analysis, is our recipe for engaging, real-time, interactive, digital beings and the future of digital interface. As a forward-thinking company, we have focused on likeness protection and ownership; adding authentication mechanisms to guarantee control and transparency. | $7M / Seed / Mar 01, 2022 |
Co-Investors
About Futureverse
Futureverse is a technological and cultural foundation for the open metaverse where creators, companies, and communities can create their future. seamless portal in and out of all apps in the metaverse, Futureverse allows users to travel with a passport, friends, communications, finances, and content. It was founded in 2022.
Futureverse Contacts
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Aaron McDonald
CEO & Co-Founder
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Dylan Flinn
VP, Creative
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What does Aaron McDonald invest in?
Aaron McDonald invests primarily in Blockchain, Web3 and Computer startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Aaron McDonald closed in Jun 2024. Shizune tracks 9 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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