Arthur Cheong
Founding Partner @ DeFiance Capital
Singapore, Singapore
Arthur Cheong is a seed investor at DeFiance Capital in Singapore focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Arthur Cheong is the Founding Partner at DeFiance Capital
- Total investments:
- 22
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 41%
Last updated:
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Industries Arthur Cheong invests in
Stages Arthur Cheong invests in
Countries Arthur Cheong invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $1.9M–$6M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 7 (32%)
- Cryptocurrency 6 (27%)
- Gaming 5 (23%)
- Financial Services 4 (18%)
- Information Technology 4 (18%)
Stage
- Seed 14 (64%)
- Angel 2 (9%)
- Funding Round 2 (9%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (9%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (5%)
Country
- United States 5 (23%)
- Singapore 3 (14%)
- France 2 (9%)
- China 1 (5%)
- Denmark 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Optimum
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Optimum constitutes a decentralized, high-performance memory infrastructure tailored for use across various blockchains. | Angel / Feb 28, 2025 | |
Ranger Finance
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Ranger Finance is perpetual DEX aggregator that offers deep aggregated liquidity, smart order routing, and comprehensive data insight. | $1.9M / Seed / Jan 24, 2025 | |
Haedal Protocol
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Haedal Protocol is a ecosystem liquidity pledge protocol provider, aiming to provide services to maximize DeFi returns in the ecosystem. | Seed / Jan 06, 2025 | |
ARC the Community
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ARC is an app-based NFT membership private platform designed as a social space on which to connect and collaborate. ARC aims to bring together people into a high-trust environment to create collaborations and fun, engaging experiences together. | $4.5M / Seed / Aug 20, 2024 | |
ARPA Network
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ARPA Network is a decentralized computing network designed to improve the fairness, security, and privacy of blockchain technology. | $6M / Venture - Series Unknown / May 30, 2024 | |
ARPA
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ARPA is a network that provides secure computation, which enables data to be shared and used without disclosing the raw data to anyone during data-at-use. The correctness of computation is verifiable even under majority malicious condition using Information-theoretic MAC and Zero- Knowledge Proof. By using state-of-the-art Multi-party Computationalong with innovative node communication scheme, our privacy-preserving computation protocol enables a new way of data monetization called Data Renting. | $6M / May 30, 2024 | |
Usual
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Usual Labs operates as a decentralized finance(DeFi) protocol. | $2.5M / Angel / May 15, 2024 | |
Tensorplex Labs
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Tensorplex Labs is a Web3 and artificial intelligence (AI) firm developing finance and intelligence infrastructure for decentralized AI networks. | $3M / Seed / Mar 21, 2024 | |
Asterix
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Asterix offers digital ownership and unlocks new possibilities. | Seed / Mar 12, 2024 | |
Crypto Raiders
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Crypto Raiders is a highly-interactive dungeon crawler game built on the blockchain. Players have the ability to buy characters and mobs, go on missions, build teams in a virtual universe all while discovering NFTs they then own. Crypto Raiders is built on the Polygon blockchain, and all NFT loot is randomized, ensuring that the value of alldiscovered loot is random as well. | $6M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 30, 2022 | |
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Co-Investors
About DeFiance Capital
Defiance Capital is a Decentralized Finance (DeFi) focused cryptoasset fund that combines fundamental research with an activist investment approach.
DeFiance Capital Contacts
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Arthur Cheong
Founding Partner
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Aylwin C.
Executive
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Jacob Goh
Head of Operations & Investor Relations
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FAQ
What does Arthur Cheong invest in?
Arthur Cheong invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Gaming startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 22 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 Arthur Cheong's check size?
Arthur Cheong typically joins rounds of $1.9M–$6M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Arthur Cheong participates in.
When did Arthur Cheong last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Arthur Cheong closed in Feb 2025. Shizune tracks 22 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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