# Anthony Sassano

> Anthony Sassano is a seed investor at Set Labs backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 34 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Set Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/set-protocol)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 34
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/asassano/?originalSubdomain=au
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/sassal0x
- Website: https://ethhub.io

Anthony Sassano is a Product Marketing Manager at Set Labs. He attended La Trobe University. and a Founder of The Daily Gwei

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.4M–$8M |
| Series A | $8M–$50M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 20 | 59% |
| Cryptocurrency | 11 | 32% |
| Software | 6 | 18% |
| Financial Services | 6 | 18% |
| FinTech | 5 | 15% |

31 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 19 | 56% |
| Series A | 7 | 21% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 12% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 9% |
| Initial Coin Offering | 1 | 3% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 13 | 38% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 9% |
| Canada | 2 | 6% |
| Norway | 1 | 3% |
| Germany | 1 | 3% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Spire Labs | Spire a zk appchain system with atomic adaptability. | $7M | Seed | Oct 31, 2024 |  |
| RISE Labs | RISE Labs is revolutionizing the Blockchain landscape with unprecedented performance. | $3.2M | Seed | Sep 16, 2024 |  |
| Valantis Labs | Valantis is a platform comprising decentralized exchanges (DEXes) and on-chain tools that empower developers to design and implement custom liquidity infrastructure for blockchain ecosystems. Using modular components, Valantis streamlines the process, making it faster, cost-effective, and user-friendly. | $4M | Seed | Sep 01, 2024 |  |
| Chainbound | Chainbound is a research and development organization building optimized infrastructure and networking tools for blockchains. | $4.6M | Seed | Aug 26, 2024 |  |
| Zaros Finance | Zaros is a protocol that provides efficient liquidity, boosts staking rewards from LSTs, and aims to become the preferred liquidity hub for on-chain derivatives. | $1.8M | Seed | May 22, 2024 |  |
| Othentic | Othentic builds modular networks in the shared security environment. It features self-deployed frameworks to create modular networks with underlying shared security, abstracting the integration with re-staking protocols. | $4M | Seed | Apr 22, 2024 |  |
| NEBRA Labs | NEBRA Labs is a blockchain services company. | $4.5M | Seed | Apr 17, 2024 |  |
| Eclipse | Eclipse customizable blockchain platform powered by Solana enables developers to build apps for Web2. | $50M | Series A | Mar 11, 2024 |  |
| Ion Protocol | Ion Protocol is a lending protocol that accepts pledged and re-pledged assets, allowing users to deposit any validator-backed asset (including LST and re-pledged holdings, among others). | $2M | Pre-Seed | Jul 14, 2023 |  |
| Taiko Labs | Taiko Labs is a cryptocurrency firm that develops an Ethereum Virtual Machine (zkEVM) scaling solutions platform for Ethereum Blockchain. The platform supports all EVM opcodes in a decentralized, permissionless, and secure layer-2 architecture to allow Ethereum developers to run blockchain projects. | $12M | Seed | Jun 08, 2023 |  |

10 of 34 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Coinbase Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinbase-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Ethereal Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ethereal-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Robot Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robot-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Scalar Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scalar-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [The LAO](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-lao) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Bankless Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bankless-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About Set Labs

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Set Labs is creating the next generation of finance through crypto-financial primitives. The company is developing tools that enable developers to bundle crypto assets together called Sets, which allow users to create cryptocurrency baskets, baskets of non-fungibles, baskets of on-chain securities, and more.

5 contacts available at Set Labs.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Anthony Sassano | Product Marketing Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthony-sassano |
| Alex Soong | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-soong |
| Brian Weickmann | Technical Operations | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-weickmann |
| Felix Feng | Co-Founder and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/felix-feng |
| Inje Yeo | Co-founder & CPO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/inje-yeo |

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## FAQ

### What does Anthony Sassano invest in?

Anthony Sassano invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 34 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 Anthony Sassano's check size?

Anthony Sassano typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$8M at Seed and $8M–$50M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Anthony Sassano participates in.

### When did Anthony Sassano last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Anthony Sassano closed in Oct 2024. Shizune tracks 34 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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