# Chris Larsen

> Chris Larsen is a seed investor at Ripple (San Francisco) backing Blockchain and FinTech. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Ripple](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ripple-labs)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-larsen-02b868181/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/chrislarsensf
- Website: https://x.com/chrislarsensf

Chris Larsen is a seed investor at Ripple in San Francisco focused on Blockchain and FinTech. Chris Larsen is the Executive Chairman and co-founder of Ripple. Previously, Larsen served the company as its CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors. Prior to Ripple, Chris co-founded and served as CEO of Prosper, a peer-to-peer lending marketplace, and E-LOAN, a publicly traded online lender. During his tenure at E-LOAN, he pioneered the openaccess to credit scores movement by making E-LOAN the first company to show consumers their FICO scores. Chris serves at the Board and Advisory levels at numerous companies and organizations including: Betable, CreditKarma, and Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC).

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.5M–$10M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 3 | 33% |
| FinTech | 2 | 22% |
| Internet | 2 | 22% |
| Payments | 2 | 22% |
| Software | 2 | 22% |

31 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 67% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 22% |
| Series A | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 8 | 89% |
| Croatia | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bluecore Energy | Bluecore Energy is a maritime nuclear energy startup that builds compact, zero-emission small modular reactors (SMRs) on floating barges to democratize access to clean energy. The company develops portable, water-cooled power systems designed to scale and meet the energy demands of heavy maritime operations, coastal communities, and major ports. | $10M | Pre-Seed | Jul 21, 2026 |  |
| Yellow | Yellow is a financial services provider of software, analytics, and investments in blockchain startups. | $10M | Seed | Sep 17, 2024 |  |
| Remynt | Launched at the Founder Institute, Remynt empowers consumers to rebuild credit while resolving debt, enabling creditors to gain revenue from non-performing delinquencies. Remynt buys portfolios of charged-off consumer credit card debt and offers the opportunity to earn new credit, financial management tools, community, rewards, and a savingsaccount while repaying debt to rebuild credit. The debt secures a credit charge card, which allows monthly payment reporting on an active credit account, helping consumers rebuild their credit scores more quickly. Leveraging AI, community, automated workflows, a customer-centric model, and a captive audience, Remynt empowers subprime consumers to grow their financial literacy and rehabilitate their credit. Employing best-in-class digital techniques to reach consumers, eschewing dreaded debt collection calls, and providing a tangible benefit to repayment, Remynt drives people online to resolve their debt. |  | Pre-Seed | Sep 02, 2024 |  |
| Puma Browser | Puma is a mobile browser and wallet for the Web3 ecosystem. Private by design. Today, we enable native IPFS, HNS & ENS support and seamless payments for creators, app & game developers via Coil and ILP. Long Term, our goal is to give 1b people access to the peer-to-peer and ownership based economy. |  | Seed | Jul 25, 2021 |  |
| Cinnamon | We'll build the software. You build the business!Whatever we work on we make it beautiful, we make it easy to use and we make it robust. And in doing so we don't break the bank.High-performing software products should not cost you a fortune!Our team of 14 UX/UI designers creates web and mobile apps people enjoy to use.Ourteam of 20 focused developers makes sure these apps are stable and robust.Our management team makes sure you always know what's going on and the deadlines are met."Go-to guys when it comes to building apps that work great, at a good price."- Calle Sjoenell, Head of Facebook Creative Shop Nordics | $2.5M | Seed | Jun 04, 2020 |  |
| Cinnamon | Backed by a strong business plan, Cinnamon strives to change the way we view content and the way that content is monetized. To replace the prevailing corporate-based financial model with one in which the creative content partners are compensated immediately and fairly. Ours will be a home and online community for innovative ideas, imagery, videos,short films, serialized content with a whole new way of doing business. | $2.5M | Seed | Jun 04, 2020 |  |
| Proper | Proper is an automated accounting startup that offers property accounting tools that help property managers to grow their portfolios.The company utilizes machine learning and Fortune-500 level financial specialists to help property managers and owners grow their businesses without fear of operational limitations, as well as decrease the timetheir accountants spend performing routine tasks.Mark Rojas founded it in San Francisco, California in 2017. | $4.8M | Seed | May 15, 2020 |  |
| mixx labs | Elixxir is a fullstack blockchain platform led by David Chaum, a pioneer in blockchain and digital payments. Chuam leads the Elixxir team to unite his early work on the first digital currency (DigiCash), mix networks, & cryptographic precomputation into one blockchain protocol. Elixxir is built to deliver the high transaction rates, shortprocessing times, with private transactions and secure transactions to bring blockchain technology to mainstream adoption. | $8.5M | Seed |  |  |
| AirCapture | AirCapture produces beverage grade liquid CO2 with low oxygen content at volumes and production. They provide clean CO2 to replace the emissions-heavy raw material required to manufacture synthetic fuels such as aircraft fuel, gasoline, and diesel. | $50M | Series A |  |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Coil](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coil-technologies) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Precursor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/precursor-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Slauson & Co.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/slauson-co) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bling Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bling-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [TruStage Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cmfg-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cobo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cobo) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Ripple

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Ripple provides one frictionless experience to send money globally using the power of blockchain. It offers a global real-time payment system that enables banks and financial institutions around the world to directly transact with each other without the need for a central correspondent. The company also offers FX Market Making, a solution enablingenterprises to gain access to cross-currency liquidity through a distributed network that allows foreign exchange to be externally sourced from a competitive FX marketplace or an internal FX trading desk. This minimizes FX exposure thereby lowering the volatility and counter-party risk of trades. Ripple Insights features industry updates, insider perspectives, and in-depth market analysis.

5 contacts available at Ripple.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chris Larsen | Co- founder & Executive Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-larsen |
| Kiersten Hollars | SVP, Corporate Marketing & Communications | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kiersten-hollars |
| Aaron Sears | SVP, Global Sales & Customer \| Partner Success | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aaron-sears |
| Arthur Britto | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arthur-britto |
| David Schwartz | CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-schwartz-19 |

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## FAQ

### What does Chris Larsen invest in?

Chris Larsen invests primarily in Blockchain, FinTech and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 9 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 Chris Larsen's check size?

Chris Larsen typically joins rounds of $2.5M–$10M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Chris Larsen participates in.

### When did Chris Larsen last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Chris Larsen closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 9 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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