# Benjamin Tsai

> Benjamin Tsai is a pre-seed investor at Wave Digital Assets backing Payments and Wellness. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Wave Digital Assets](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wave-digital-assets)
- Location: Los Angeles, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Jan 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-tsai-6b324914

Benjamin Tsai is a pre-seed investor at Wave Digital Assets in Los Angeles focused on Payments and Wellness. Ben’s 20 years of trading & structured finance experience led him to senior leadership roles at Merrill Lynch and AllianceBernstein where he led business strategy and managed profitable distribution teams in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Seoul, and Taipei. Ben looks after product development and trading for Wave Digital Assets, also holdingnumerous security licenses.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Payments | 1 | 33% |
| Wellness | 1 | 33% |
| E-Commerce | 1 | 33% |
| Health Care | 1 | 33% |
| Fraud Detection | 1 | 33% |

8 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Series E | 1 | 33% |
| Secondary Market | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bolt | Bolt is on a mission to democratize commerce. Bolt strengthens retailers’ relationships with their customers by unlocking secure, logged-in, lightning-fast checkouts. The company’s rapidly growing network of one-click-checkout-ready shoppers visits Bolt merchants as if they are return customers. Hundreds of retailers including, REVOLVE, Casper,Badgley Mischka, and LVMH brand Benefit Cosmetics leverage Bolt to offer their shoppers the seamless checkout experiences they’ve come to expect across the internet.Bolt was established in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $355M | Series E | Jan 14, 2022 |  |
| Bolt | Bolt is on a mission to democratize commerce. Bolt strengthens retailers’ relationships with their customers by unlocking secure, logged-in, lightning-fast checkouts. The company’s rapidly growing network of one-click-checkout-ready shoppers visits Bolt merchants as if they are return customers. Hundreds of retailers including, REVOLVE, Casper,Badgley Mischka, and LVMH brand Benefit Cosmetics leverage Bolt to offer their shoppers the seamless checkout experiences they’ve come to expect across the internet.Bolt was established in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $355M | Secondary Market | Jan 14, 2022 |  |
| OurHealthMate | Enterprise Healthcare Management platform which focuses on increasing engagement and providing ease in healthcare reimbursements and benefits to the corporates in India. The company was founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It has offices in Singapore and Bangalore (India) | $600K | Pre-Seed | Jan 27, 2014 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [BlackRock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blackrock) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [H.I.G. Growth Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/h-i-g-growth-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Moore Strategic Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/moore-strategic-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Activant Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/activant-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Centripetal](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/centripetal-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CreditEase](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/creditease) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Wave Digital Assets

VC Fund · Los Angeles, United States

Wave Digital Assets is a digital asset management company that combines venture capital, funds, and wealth management.

5 contacts available at Wave Digital Assets.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Benjamin Tsai | President & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-tsai |
| David Siemer | CEO & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-siemer |
| James Robnett | Chief of Government Operations | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-robnett-aec9 |
| Jennifer Wilde Anderson | COO and Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jennifer-wilde-anderson |
| Les Borsai | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/les-borsai |

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## FAQ

### What does Benjamin Tsai invest in?

Benjamin Tsai invests primarily in Payments, Wellness and E-Commerce startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Series E stage. Most of the 3 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 Benjamin Tsai last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Benjamin Tsai closed in Jan 2022. Shizune tracks 3 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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