# Chase Lochmiller

> Chase Lochmiller is a Series A investor at Crusoe (Denver) backing B2B and Retail. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Crusoe](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crusoe-energy-systems)
- Location: Denver, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Nov 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Chase Lochmiller is a Series A investor at Crusoe in Denver focused on B2B and Retail. Chase is an avid tech enthusiast that is passionate about enabling new technologies like AI and blockchain to positively impact people’s lives. Prior to founding Crusoe, Chase was a General Partner at Polychain Capital, a $1Bn fund investing in blockchain technologies, digital assets and energy-intensive computing applications. Chase was previouslya quantitative researcher and trader at Jump Trading and GETCO, where he developed and managed a portfolio of algorithmic trading strategies. Chase holds undergraduate degrees in math and physics from MIT and a masters degree in computer science from Stanford, where he specialized in artificial intelligence. As a personal interest, Chase has climbed five of the “seven summits” including Mt. Everest.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $17M–$25M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| B2B | 1 | 33% |
| Retail | 1 | 33% |
| Internet | 1 | 33% |
| Blockchain | 1 | 33% |
| E-Commerce | 1 | 33% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 2 | 67% |
| Seed | 1 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pakistan | 1 | 33% |
| United States | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ritual | Ritual is a reaction to the aforementioned issues. Fundamentally, it is envisioned as an open, modular, and autonomous AI execution layer. Ritual connects a distributed network of nodes with access to compute and model developers. | $25M | Series A | Nov 08, 2023 |  |
| Together AI | Together AI provides a cloud platform for developing, training, fine-tuning, and deploying generative artificial intelligence models using open-source technologies. Its services include serverless and dedicated model inference, GPU compute infrastructure, managed storage, code sandboxes, and model customization tools that support AI applicationdevelopment and production workloads. The platform also offers APIs and deployment options that enable developers and organizations to build, run, and manage language, image, audio, vision, and code models without maintaining underlying infrastructure. | $20M | Seed | May 15, 2023 |  |
| Tajir | Tajir offers full transparency on the prices of various products, addressing a challenge that store owners confront offline each day, and sells and delivers inventories to the stores, said the Khan brothers, whose father ran an FMCG retail distribution business for three decades. | $17M | Series A | Jun 02, 2021 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Robot Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robot-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Accomplice](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accomplice-atlas-venture) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ambush Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ambush-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Archetype](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/archetypefund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [A.Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capital-partners-l-p) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Crusoe

VC Fund · Denver, United States

Crusoe is on a mission to help the oil industry reduce routine flaring of natural gas. They are passionate about creating solutions that benefit the environment, local communities, and energy producers.Crusoe Energy Systems provides oil and gas companies with a fast, low cost and simple solution to natural gas flaring. As the energy industrystruggles with pipeline constraints and increasing regulations around flaring and combusting, Crusoe is here to help. Their service lets operators preserve or regain regulatory compliance, maintain existing production and facilitate future development.

5 contacts available at Crusoe.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cagri Aksay | VP of Software Engineering | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cagri-aksay |
| Chase Lochmiller | CEO & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chase-lochmiller |
| Cully Cavness | President & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cully-cavness |
| Matthew DeNezza | CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matthew-denezza |
| Nety Krishna | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nety-krishna |

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## FAQ

### What does Chase Lochmiller invest in?

Chase Lochmiller invests primarily in B2B, Retail and Internet startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Pakistan. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Chase Lochmiller's check size?

Chase Lochmiller typically joins rounds of $17M–$25M 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 Chase Lochmiller participates in.

### When did Chase Lochmiller last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Chase Lochmiller closed in Nov 2023. 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?

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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