Asymmetric
VC Fund
Asymmetric is a technology company with a fund mandate, founded by solo GP and Investment Manager, Joe McCann
- Total investments:
- 18
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 11%
Last updated:
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Industries Asymmetric invests in
Stages Asymmetric invests in
Countries Asymmetric invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $4M–$10M
- Pre-Seed
- $2M–$4.4M
- Series A
- $12M–$30M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 9 (50%)
- Cryptocurrency 6 (33%)
- Bitcoin 4 (22%)
- FinTech 2 (11%)
- Software 2 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 12 (67%)
- Series A 3 (17%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (11%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (6%)
Country
- United States 11 (61%)
- Portugal 1 (6%)
- Singapore 1 (6%)
- Cayman Islands 1 (6%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Dan Held
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 10 | Find email | |
Joe McCann
Founder, CEO, and CIO
|
Founder, CEO, and CIO | Total investments: 11 | Find email | |
Joe McCann
Founder, CEO, and CIO
|
Founder, CEO, and CIO | Total investments: 17 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Build on Bitcoin is a hybrid Layer-2 network Bitcoin blockchain | $9.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 07, 2025 | ||
| Blitzy is a Generative AI software platform that aims to automate custom software development. Blitzy's flagship model, BlitzCode, and multi-agent operating system, Blitzy OS, automatically create production-ready code repositories for software development teams. | $4.4M / Seed / Sep 03, 2024 | ||
| Satflow aims to improve Bitcoin DEXs, enhance decentralization, and address issues like lack of advanced order types, high-speed data, and liquidity pools. | $7.6M / Seed / Aug 15, 2024 | ||
| Elmnts is a blockchain-based tokenized commodity ecosystem for oil & gas royalties, it offers fewer intermediaries, lower fees, and higher liquidity. | $2M / Pre-Seed / Aug 05, 2024 | ||
| Liquidium is a peer-to-peer lending solution that leverages the power of Discreet Log Contracts (DLCs) and Partially Signed Bitcoin Transactions (PSBTs) to enable users to borrow and lend native Bitcoin against native Ordinals as collateral. Ordinal Inscriptions are a new form of digital assets created by inscribing data on Satoshis, the smallestunit of Bitcoin. Liquidium allows Ordinal owners to lock inscriptions as collateral to borrow Bitcoin, while retaining ownership and exposure to their Ordinal. The platform operates solely on the Bitcoin blockchain in a trust-minimal and custodian-free solution. The lending process is facilitated through PSBTs, and the loan outcomes are validated by DeepLake oracles. Liquidium is the biggest Bitcoin NFT lending protocol by volume on the Stacks blockchain for users to borrow against their Bitcoin NFTs. | $2.8M / Seed / Jul 18, 2024 | ||
| FirstBatch provides personalized, accessible and safer web3 for DApps and blockchain users. | $6.5M / Seed / May 30, 2024 | ||
| Turnkey is an encryption service provider that offers secure APIs to manage private keys. | $15M / Series A / Apr 23, 2024 | ||
| Bitlayer is the first Bitcoin second-layer network, based on BitVM, offering ultra-scalability and L1 security, aiming to be Bitcoin's computing layer. | $5M / Seed / Mar 27, 2024 | ||
| Build on Bitcoin is a hybrid Layer-2 network Bitcoin blockchain | $10M / Seed / Mar 27, 2024 | ||
| Cube Group is a hybrid CEX-DEX digital asset marketplace that addresses the challenges of traditional centralized exchanges and decentralized finance platforms. The company provides a user-centric design, radical transparency, safety, and liquidity, with features like multi-party compute, on-chain settlement, proof-of-reserves, and multi-chainsupport. Its vaults represent users' balances on their respective layer-one blockchains, offering transparent liquidation standards and criteria for derivatives and margin trading. The platform also standardizes market data and order sessions, allowing seamless onboarding for market participants through web interfaces for trading. | $12M / Series A / Jan 29, 2024 | ||
| See all 18 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Asymmetric invest in?
Asymmetric invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Bitcoin startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 18 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 Asymmetric's check size?
Asymmetric typically joins rounds of $4M–$10M at Seed, $2M–$4.4M at Pre-Seed and $12M–$30M 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 Asymmetric participates in.
How do I contact Asymmetric?
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Who are the partners at Asymmetric?
The team at Asymmetric includes Dan Held (General Partner), Joe McCann (Founder, CEO, and CIO) and Joe McCann (Founder, CEO, and CIO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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