# Brendan Blumer

> Brendan Blumer is a grant investor at Block.one backing Blockchain and Software. See 29 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Block.one](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/block-one)
- Total investments: 29
- Last investment: Nov 2022
- Lead investor: 97%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanblumer
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Brendan Blumer is a grant investor at Block.one focused on Blockchain and Software. Brendan Blumer is the CEO and Founder of Block.one. He previously worked at ii5 as a CEO and Founder. Brendan Blumer attended Linn - Mar High School.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 14 | 48% |
| Software | 6 | 21% |
| SaaS | 3 | 10% |
| FinTech | 3 | 10% |
| Cryptocurrency | 3 | 10% |

65 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Grant | 25 | 86% |
| Series B | 1 | 3% |
| Series D | 1 | 3% |
| Post-IPO Equity | 1 | 3% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 9 | 31% |
| Australia | 4 | 14% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 10% |
| Hong Kong | 2 | 7% |
| China | 1 | 3% |

11 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Silvergate Capital | Silvergate Capital is dedicated to providing the highest level of personal service to its customers. A commitment to customized banking solutions that satisfy both current and long-term needs is redefining the way our bank partners with companies and individuals. It was founded in 1988 and headquartered in La Jolla, California. |  | Post-IPO Equity | Nov 16, 2022 |  |
| The Writer Company | The Writer Company is a media company working to bring blockchain to the masses through blogs, podcasts, print media, NFT's. | $50K | Grant | Jan 10, 2021 |  |
| CoinDCX | CoinDCX is a company that specializes in crypto-enabled financial services. The company focuses on developing borderless financial services that ensure a simpler and uninterrupted flow of capital. Its liquidity, powerful wallet, and impenetrable security make the trading experience fast, reliable, and effortless. CoinDCX has empowered its traderswith a bouquet of industry-first products to trade using liquidity from exchanges. The products are designed for all types of traders keeping their trading experience, risk tolerance, and trading frequency into consideration. The company aims to democratize finance and make investments accessible to everyone.CoinDCX was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. | $13.5M | Series B | Dec 22, 2020 |  |
| Breach Insurance | Breach develops, underwrites, and distributes insurance solutions for the digital asset marketplace.The company insures the loss of crypto assets due to cryptocurrency exchange hacks. It creates an intuitive dashboard that allows users to easily set up their policy, customize policy notifications, and submit a claim.It was founded in 2018 inBoston, Massachusetts. | $50K | Grant | Jun 03, 2020 |  |
| Niftyz | The Digital Oracles intelligent deal flow platform, helps early-stage investors to monitor and reward the progress of prospects and portfolio companies. We offer an easy way to dynamically assess performance, monitor progress, and establish valuable goal setting methodologies in early stage businesses. Through our tokenized value matrix, welink the achievement of specific milestones with a client-defined reward.Data drives success, and with Digital Oracles on board, you will know more and do better. | $50K | Grant | May 28, 2020 |  |
| Custos Media Technologies | Custos uses imperceptible watermarking technology and the blockchain to protect digital media files from online piracy. Our SaaS solution, Screenercopy.com, helps filmmakers and distributors to securely distribute their content. To date, over 120 000 movies have been distributed and protected with the technology, all without a single leak. Custosis already protecting ebooks too and is partnering with key market players to expand into music and sensitive document protection. | $50K | Grant | May 28, 2020 |  |
| The Labz | The Labz is a custom event platform focused on the creative needs of the immersive marketing and advertising industry.  The Labz provides a drag and drop suite of tools that allows users to form curated conversations and experiences around content and products. With a subscription to the Labz software suite, marketers can uniquely present contentby mixing-&-matching media, guest activities, communication channels, games, and interactive VR/360. | $50K | Grant | May 28, 2020 |  |
| CAPSL | CAPSL is redefining competing online. Create and promote tournaments, play and show off your gaming skillz, support your favourite players and streamers. CAPSL is the online place to organize, watch and compete in your favourite and new esports games! | $50K | Grant | Dec 17, 2019 |  |
| Persollo | PERSOLLO is a new generation data-driven tech company that specialises in social selling through single-page checkout and A.I.-driven influencer marketing.PERSOLLO enables brands and influencers to convert social and digital media engagement into sales in less than 15 seconds. Persollo bypasses online shops and cumbersome shopping carts,capitalizing on impulse purchasing behavior at the point of interest, ultimately optimizing conversions. Designed for mobile and social media, the tech allows click through payments straight from social networks \ digital magazine \ video \ blog and through the key influencers.PERSOLLO has already helped 500+ e-boutiques (in 13 countries) by increasing their conversion from social and on mobile by 300%. A few brands we work with: New Balance, Australian Uggs Original, Mamba \ Wamba, Better Homes and Gardens, Marie Claire.PERSOLLO operates on 2 business models:- Pay-as-you-sell model. No set up fees and no technical skills required.- Campaign-based model. We are offering a fully-managed influencer marketing campaigns with a possibility to promote your mobile App, service or include our advanced instant checkout for your productPERSOLLO is:1) winner of Visa™ People's Choice Award , "The Everywhere Initiative"2) muru-D Syd3 Alumni, received investment as part of Telstra™ accelerator program3) INCUBATE Alumni - University of Sydney accelerator program4) among 13 Australian start-ups to watch in 2016, based on Sydney Morning Herald5) among 12 Australian start-ups to watch in 2017, based on 5why |  | Grant | Dec 17, 2019 |  |
| Obsidian Labs | Obsidian Labs is a worldwide group focusing on blockchain technology and making great products. They have already released a multi-chain wallet Secrypto and will deliver EOScript as a compiler for EOS mainnet. | $50K | Grant | Dec 17, 2019 |  |

10 of 29 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [EOS VC Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eos-vc-fund) — VC Fund, 27 deals together
- [Coinbase Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinbase-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Block.one](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/block-one) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Breyer Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/breyer-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Blockchain Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crypto-currency-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [DG VENTURES](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dg-incubation) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Block.one

VC Fund · George Town, Cayman Islands

A pioneer in distributed ledger innovation, Block.one develops the EOSIO open-source software, which is widely regarded as the market leader for blockchain flexibility and scalability. Developers, entrepreneurs and companies around the world use EOSIO to create secure, transparent, and deterministic digital infrastructures. Block.one hasestablished locations in the United States and Asia Pacific, with more than 300 highly specialized engineers and other talented full-time employees from diverse disciplines. Block.one is committed to empowering society through tools and systems built on the fundamental philosophy of externally verifiable data integrity.

5 contacts available at Block.one.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Andrew Bliss | Chief Strategy Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-bliss |
| Eddie Schwartz | Chief Information Security Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eddie-schwartz |
| James Mendes | Chief People Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-mendes |
| Paige Gaston-Thiery | Chief Operating Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paige-gaston-thiery |
| Steve Ellis | Chief Financial Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steve-ellis-f0bd |

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## FAQ

### What does Brendan Blumer invest in?

Brendan Blumer invests primarily in Blockchain, Software and SaaS startups, most often at Grant and Series B stage. Most of the 29 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 Brendan Blumer last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Brendan Blumer closed in Nov 2022. Shizune tracks 29 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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