# Charlie Lee

> Charlie Lee is a seed investor at Litecoin Foundation (San Francisco) backing Bitcoin and FinTech. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Litecoin Foundation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/litecoin-foundation)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Aug 2024
- Lead investor: 18%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/chocobo
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/SatoshiLite
- Website: https://x.com/SatoshiLite
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064283672658

Charlie Lee is a seed investor at Litecoin Foundation in San Francisco focused on Bitcoin and FinTech. Charlie Lee is based out of San Diego, California and is the Founder and Director of Litecoin Foundation and the Non-Executive Director of Lite Strategy. Charlie previously worked at Coinbase as a Director of Engineering.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $19k–$11M |
| Pre-Seed | $750k–$5M |
| Series A | $1.8M–$10M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bitcoin | 8 | 47% |
| FinTech | 5 | 29% |
| Cryptocurrency | 5 | 29% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 24% |
| Finance | 3 | 18% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 47% |
| Series A | 3 | 18% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 12% |
| Angel | 1 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 6% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 41% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 12% |
| China | 1 | 6% |
| Spain | 1 | 6% |
| Sweden | 1 | 6% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| DuelNow | DuelNow offers bookie-free sports betting. At DuelNow you can create crypto bets, set your odds, and win on your terms. | $11M | Seed | Aug 01, 2024 |  |
| Metagood | Metagood is a for-profit company that empowers communities to be catalysts for positive collective action.Founded by crypto veterans Danny Yang who created the largest crypto currency exchange in Taiwan, Amanda Terry who was an Twitter and NBC executive, and Bill Tai who was the first investor in Zoom, Canva, and 20 other publicly tradedcompanies, Metagood launched OnChainMonkey, the historic PFP collection all on chain in a single transaction on Sept 11, 2021. OnChainMonkey has been consistently ranked as one of the most profitable NFTs collections globally. Metagood was awarded Fast Company's 2022 20 Best World Changing Ideas for Impact Investing. | $5M | Pre-Seed | Dec 08, 2022 |  |
| Monochrome | Monochrome offers digital asset exposure for wholesale clients via a secure, regulated, and familiar investment vehicle. | $1.8M | Series A | Sep 09, 2021 |  |
| Flare Network | Flare Networks is a new blockchain network based on the Flare Consensus Protocol – the first Turing Complete Federated Byzantine Agreement protocol. | $11.3M |  | Jun 08, 2021 |  |
| Flare Network | Flare Networks is a new blockchain network based on the Flare Consensus Protocol – the first Turing Complete Federated Byzantine Agreement protocol. | $11.3M | Seed | Jun 08, 2021 |  |
| Valkyrie Investments | Valkyrie Investments is a specialized alternative asset management firm at the intersection of traditional finance and the emerging cryptocurrency sector. The firm aims to create and manage portfolios and products, including managing exposure to digital assets and other frontier investments.Valkyrie Investments is led by financial industryveterans with decades of experience across firms including Guggenheim Partners, UBS, Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and The World Bank. | $10M | Series A | May 20, 2021 |  |
| Infinite Fleet | Infinite Fleet is an epic sci-fi massively multiplayer online (MMO) strategy game developed by Pixelmatic, and published by Exordium Limited. | $3.1M | Initial Coin Offering | Aug 06, 2020 |  |
| Pixelmatic | Pixelmatic creates amazing games that encourage new social connections to be made. Pixelmatic assembled an experienced team from Ubisoft, Activision Blizzard, Relic, BioWare, and Disney, with a track record of making successful products – top 25 ranking Facebook games like “The Smurfs & Co” and acclaimed AAA titles like “Company of Heroes” and"Homeworld."Pixelmatic is currently working on a revolutionary MMORTS game called Infinite Fleet, which allows players to take command of highly customizable fleets of spaceships and defend humanity against aliens in a procedurally generated universe of millions of stars. The game's directed narrative allows players to write the story with their decisions and actions, meaning that everything they do will impact the future of the universe. Pixelmatic is also adding a cryptocurrency feature to the game's in-game currency INF. INF will be issued on Bitcoin's sidechain, the Liquid Network. | $3.1M | Private Equity | Aug 03, 2020 |  |
| Satoshis Games SL | After building the first Lightning-based gaming Platform in 2018, Satoshi’s Games is now pioneering the micro-reward gaming industry by creating games and gaming Platforms enabling a new level of interaction between gamers and with developers. Bitcoin micro-payments and tokenized items plus improved security levels will bring higher freedom tousers to manage their owned assets, and empower developers/publishers to offer higher value to their end users. | $750K | Pre-Seed | Mar 31, 2020 |  |
| Lastbit | Lastbit is building a global payment network - using the bitcoin lightning network - to enable anyone, anywhere to pay or get paid instantly and for low fees. Our MVP in Europe features debit cards and IBANs in mobile applications that interface directly with Bitcoin and Euros. | $1.5M | Seed | Jul 01, 2019 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Fulgur Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fulgur-venture) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Amasia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amasia) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Ceyuan Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ceyuan-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [cFund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cfund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Genesis Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/genesis-capital-268f) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [LD Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ld-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Litecoin Foundation

VC Fund · Singapore, Singapore

Litecoin (LTC) is a transaction-friendly cryptocurrency that is commonly thought of as the “silver” to Bitcoin’s gold. Litecoin has some key technical differences to Bitcoin that make it the premier cryptocurrency for payments, namely its faster transaction speeds and cheaper fees.

1 contacts available at Litecoin Foundation.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Charlie Lee | Founder and Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charlie-lee |

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## FAQ

### What does Charlie Lee invest in?

Charlie Lee invests primarily in Bitcoin, FinTech and Cryptocurrency startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 17 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 Charlie Lee's check size?

Charlie Lee typically joins rounds of $19k–$11M at Seed, $750k–$5M at Pre-Seed and $1.8M–$10M 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 Charlie Lee participates in.

### When did Charlie Lee last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Charlie Lee closed in Aug 2024. Shizune tracks 17 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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