# Alex Masmej

> Alex Masmej is a seed investor at Showtime (San Francisco Bay Area) backing Blockchain and FinTech. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Showtime](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/showtime-732e)
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: May 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexmasmejean/

Alex Masmej is a seed investor at Showtime in San Francisco Bay Area focused on Blockchain and FinTech. Alex Masmej Co-Founder & CEO at Showtime. Attended Alliance Manchester Business School.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $800k–$4.2M |
| Pre-Seed | $80k–$2.1M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 3 | 43% |
| FinTech | 2 | 29% |
| Cryptocurrency | 2 | 29% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 29% |
| Web3 | 1 | 14% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 57% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 43% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 43% |
| Spain | 1 | 14% |
| France | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Openfort | Openfort is a wallet-as-a-service platform offering embedded (in-app) and global (cross-app) wallets. It bundles authentication, account abstraction, gas sponsorship, and orchestration so you don't juggle multiple vendors. | $3M | Seed | May 22, 2023 |  |
| CassetteAI | CassetteAI is a music creation platform that utilizes generative AI. Users can create original beats, sound effects, and music without needing any technical knowledge or musical experience. Our platform is powered by our in-house seq2seq hierarchical AI model, which has been trained on a dataset of 200,000 audio files totaling 15,000 hours.Creating music is as simple as providing a prompt to describe your idea. Our vision is to make music creation more accessible and democratize the process. | $80K | Pre-Seed | Jan 05, 2023 |  |
| SPICYEST | SPICYEST is a consulting and financial services firm specialized in digital assets. Our experts offer tailored advice and liquidity to help businesses succeed in this industry. With a focus on innovation, we help clients achieve their goals in a rapidly changing market. | $2.1M | Pre-Seed | Feb 20, 2022 |  |
| GCR DAO | a community of Researchers and Investors in Web3. | $1.2M | Seed | Jan 13, 2022 |  |
| Praxis | Praxis is a membership-based platform aiming to build an autonomous city. Cities needed to be built around a source of economic opportunity to attract businesses that would create jobs and entice people to relocate. The platform enables people to live healthier, more purposeful lives. Praxis was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in New York. | $4.2M | Seed | Dec 01, 2021 |  |
| Bolero | At Bolero, we design technology that allows individuals and institutions to invest in music.We aim to shape the world’s leading infrastructure for music investment by transforming music rights into a liquid, transparent, and accessible asset class.For creators, it means access to capital without giving up control. For investors, it’s a newgateway to yield — uncorrelated, recurring, and culturally rooted.We believe that by aligning the interests of creators, investors, and rights holders, we’re creating an ecosystem where culture and capital grow together — fairly, sustainably, and at scale.Bolero has been featured in Billboard, Les Échos, Rolling Stone, Challenges, BFM Business, and many others. | $712K | Pre-Seed | Jul 31, 2021 |  |
| Syndicate | Syndicate is a decentralized asset management platform and social network. | $800K | Seed | Jun 30, 2021 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bedrock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bedrock-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Dragonfly](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dragonfly-capital-partners-eed4) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [1kx](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1kx) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Animal Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/animal-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Arcane Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arcane-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Showtime

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Showtime is a non-fungible token (NFT) social network where people can discover and share NFT art. Showtime aims to provide the crypto community with a social media interface.

2 contacts available at Showtime.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Kilkka | Co-Founder & CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-kilkka-64d0 |
| Alex Masmej | Co-Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-masmej |

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## FAQ

### What does Alex Masmej invest in?

Alex Masmej invests primarily in Blockchain, FinTech and Cryptocurrency startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Alex Masmej's check size?

Alex Masmej typically joins rounds of $800k–$4.2M at Seed and $80k–$2.1M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Alex Masmej participates in.

### When did Alex Masmej last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Alex Masmej closed in May 2023. Shizune tracks 7 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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