# Aaron McDonald

> Aaron McDonald is a pre-seed investor at Futureverse (Auckland) backing Blockchain and Web3. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Futureverse](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/futureverse)
- Location: Auckland, New Zealand
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Jun 2024
- Lead investor: 22%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-mcdonald-7b860ba
- Website: https://x.com/aaronmcdnz
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aaronmcdnz

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.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 3 | 33% |
| Web3 | 2 | 22% |
| Computer | 2 | 22% |
| B2C | 1 | 11% |
| Apps | 1 | 11% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 7 | 78% |
| Seed | 1 | 11% |
| Corporate Round | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 1 | 11% |
| Australia | 1 | 11% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 11% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 11% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 11% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Animoca Brands | 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 | 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 Network | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| Rekt Interactive | A next-gen social platform for gamers and a differentiated gaming tech for game developers. | $100K | Pre-Seed | Feb 12, 2024 |  |
| Spark |  | $100K | Pre-Seed | Feb 12, 2024 |  |
| GymVibe | 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 | 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 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Outlier Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/outlier-ventures-ltd-llp) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Born Ready Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/born-ready-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Sfermion](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sfermion) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Solana Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/solana-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Animoca Brands](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/animoca-brands-corporation) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Futureverse

VC Fund

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.

2 contacts available at Futureverse.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aaron McDonald | CEO & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aaron-mcdonald-2 |
| Dylan Flinn | VP, Creative | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dylan-flinn |

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## FAQ

### 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.

### When did Aaron McDonald last invest?

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.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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