# Alex Marinier

> Alex Marinier is a seed investor at New Form Capital (New York) backing Blockchain and FinTech. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [New Form Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-form-capital)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 38%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-marinier-003a1954

Alex Marinier is a Founder and General Partner at New Form Capital. He attended Cornell University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 3 | 38% |
| FinTech | 2 | 25% |
| Cryptocurrency | 2 | 25% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 25% |
| Finance | 1 | 13% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 38% |
| Series A | 3 | 38% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 13% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 75% |
| Israel | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Niural | Niural is named after neural networks - fundamental components of modern artificial intelligence. Niural's AI enabled platform overhauls the concept of PEO - with its modern US PEO & benefits platform that drastically changes how employers utilize PEOs to take care of their workforce. Niural is a global PEO - with support for US and 150+countries, with an entirely new and powerful technology for payroll and human resources using AI Agents. By leveraging Niural's AI agents, customers can consolidate US PEO, Global Payroll/EOR, compliance and F/X optimized payments in over 150 countries. Request a demo at niural.com.Niural is a venture backed, well funded company that serves growing startups and is already being leveraged by large enterprises with thousands of employees. | $31M | Series A | Jun 25, 2025 |  |
| Sentora | Sentora offers an institutional-grade basis for DeFi and RWA solutions. | $25M | Series A | May 06, 2025 |  |
| tread.fi | Distributed trading infrastructure for digital assets | $3.5M | Pre-Seed | Jul 10, 2024 |  |
| Tres | Tres is a financial technology company that provides a platform for managing, accounting, and reporting on digital assets and Web3 financial operations. Its core offering aggregates transactional data across blockchains, exchanges, custodians, and financial systems into a unified financial data environment to support automation of reconciliation,audits, tax compliance, and reporting workflows. The platform enables finance teams, asset managers, and institutions to transform raw on-chain activity into structured, audit-ready financial information with real-time insights and integration into traditional accounting systems. Tres’s tools address challenges such as multi-network data fragmentation and complex digital asset transactions by normalizing and enriching data for consistent financial workflows. The company’s solutions support compliance-focused operations and enable organizations to monitor treasury activity, generate regulatory documentation, and automate ledger entries. | $11M | Series A | Dec 20, 2023 |  |
| Chaos Labs | Chaos Labs is a fully automated on-chain economic security system that allows crypto protocols to optimize risk management and capital efficiency while safeguarding user funds. Chaos Labs offers a more secure and safe operating environment for crypto protocols. Chaos Labs uses technology and risk management expertise to help protocols navigate theoften volatile crypto markets and make informed decisions. The platform is currently available for protocols on the Ethereum network, with plans to expand to other blockchains such as Terra, NEAR, and Polygon in the future. | $20M | Seed | Feb 21, 2023 |  |
| Polymarket | fka Union.market | $4M | Seed | Oct 19, 2020 |  |
| Compound | Compound is an open-source interest rate protocol that unlocks new financial applications for developers. Its protocol is a widely used system built on Ethereum, with thousands of users, and dozens of applications integrating Compound. Compound offers a web interface that adjusts money market interest rates based on asset-specific supply anddemand.Compound was founded on 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $8.2M | Seed | May 16, 2018 |  |
| Cellibre | Cellibre is a cellular agriculture company that turns cells into specialized, sustainable factories for the manufacture of globally significant products at scale. |  | Convertible Note |  |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Faction](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/faction-0d34) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Marathon Management Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marathon-management-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Polychain](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/polychain-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [1confirmation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1confirmation) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ambush Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ambush-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About New Form Capital

VC Fund · New York, United States

New Form Capital is an early stage venture capital firm making long term investments in FinTech applications of Blockchain technology.

2 contacts available at New Form Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jeremy Wallis | Junior Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeremy-wallis |
| Alex Marinier | Founder & General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-marinier |

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## FAQ

### What does Alex Marinier invest in?

Alex Marinier invests primarily in Blockchain, FinTech and Cryptocurrency startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Alex Marinier last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Alex Marinier closed in Jun 2025. Shizune tracks 8 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?

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