# Alan Curtis

> Alan Curtis is a seed investor backing Apps, Web3 and Cryptocurrency. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanjamescurtis

Alan Curtis is a seed investor focused on Apps and Web3. Alan Curtis

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 2 | 40% |
| Web3 | 2 | 40% |
| Cryptocurrency | 2 | 40% |
| Decentralized Finance (DeFi) | 2 | 40% |
| Database | 1 | 20% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 60% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 20% |
| Series A | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 60% |
| France | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rover | Rover is a liquid staking protocol on Botanix that exchanges Bitcoin for rovBTC. | $4.1M | Seed | May 20, 2025 |  |
| Byzantine Finance | Byzantine is the gateway infrastructure for restaking. We enable anyone to build customizable restaking vaults that give them full control over their risks and rewards. The Byzantine protocol is designed to make risk management of restaking strategies permissionless and flexible allowing for a more competitive, risk-optimised yield. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Feb 25, 2025 |  |
| Merit Systems | Merit aims to solve the "attribution problem" in software development. In the world of open source, which powers more than 97% of the apps that customers use daily, both IT titans and freelance programmers contribute to products that are freely available for anybody to access and enhance. | $10M | Seed | Jan 16, 2025 |  |
| OpenLedger | OpenLedger is the sovereign data blockchain for AI. | $8M | Seed | Jul 02, 2024 |  |
| Ceramic Network | Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models. | $30M | Series A | Feb 16, 2022 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Union Square Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/union-square-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [6th Man Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/6th-man-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [a16z crypto](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a16z-crypto) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Borderless Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/algo-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Animoca Brands](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/animoca-brands-corporation) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Animoca Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/animoca-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Alan Curtis invest in?

Alan Curtis invests primarily in Apps, Web3 and Cryptocurrency startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Alan Curtis?

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### When did Alan Curtis last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Alan Curtis closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 5 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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