Rainier
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Rainier is a private investment firm
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Rainier invests in
Stages Rainier invests in
Countries Rainier invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
AJ Edwards
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 6 (67%)
- Blockchain 4 (44%)
- Information Technology 4 (44%)
- Cryptocurrency 2 (22%)
- Cyber Security 2 (22%)
Stage
- Funding Round 5 (56%)
- Series A 2 (22%)
- Seed 1 (11%)
- Angel 1 (11%)
Country
- United States 6 (67%)
- China 1 (11%)
- Spain 1 (11%)
- Cayman Islands 1 (11%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Chance Du
Founding Partner
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Founding Partner | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
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AJ Edwards
Venture Partner
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Venture Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Spacemesh
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Spacemesh is a fair blockmesh operating system designed to run general-purpose smart contracts at web-scale. It is powered by a novel consensus protocol that is secure, proof of work free and highly incentive-compatible. Spacemesh is designed to create a highly-decentralized p2p blockchain computer formed by individuals from around the globerunning Spacemesh on their desktop PCs at home. Spacemesh is as a free open source software that aims to become a core Internet protocol for blockchain computation. | $15M / Series A / Sep 05, 2018 | |
MyCrypto
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MyCrypto is an open-source, client-side tool for generating ether wallets, handling ERC-20 tokens, and interacting with the blockchain more easily. The company is founded on 2017 and is based in Redondo Beach, California. | $4M / Series A / Aug 30, 2018 | |
ARPA
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ARPA is a network that provides secure computation, which enables data to be shared and used without disclosing the raw data to anyone during data-at-use. The correctness of computation is verifiable even under majority malicious condition using Information-theoretic MAC and Zero- Knowledge Proof. By using state-of-the-art Multi-party Computationalong with innovative node communication scheme, our privacy-preserving computation protocol enables a new way of data monetization called Data Renting. | Angel / Aug 20, 2018 | |
Tlon
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Tlon is the corporate vehicle of the open-source Urbit software stack (urbit.org). Urbit is a clean-slate reimplementation of the whole system software stack. On the bottom it's a replacement of the lambda calculus, in the middle it's a new functional programming language, on top it's a purely functional network operating system inwhich address space is property.Tlon owns approximately half of the entire address-space on the Urbit network.The goal is to create a new layer over the Internet the way the Internet layered over the PSTN. This layer can also earn adoption by providing Internet services. On the Internet, your Urbit ship is a general-purpose personal cloud computer which replaces the 47 special-purpose cloud silos you're currently using.Tlon's mission is to contribute to the development of Urbit, to provide hosting services for Urbit ships, and to develop other possible business applications on top of the Urbit stack. | $1.3M / Jun 04, 2018 | |
Numerai
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Numerai is a new kind of hedge fund built by a network of data scientists. It uses its cryptocurrency to incentivize tens of thousands of anonymous data scientists around the world to collaborate to create predictive models in history. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. | Jun 01, 2018 | |
NuCypher
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NuCypher is a cryptography company that builds privacy-preserving infrastructure and protocols. It is an Ethereum token that can be staked to run a node on the NuCypher network. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $10.7M / Apr 15, 2018 | |
Keep
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Keep helps contracts harness the full power of the public blockchain by enabling deep interactivity with private data. It is an off-chain container for private data. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in George Town, Midland. | Apr 01, 2018 | |
Tari Labs
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Tari Labs mission is to steward the most useful decentralized platform that empowers anyone to create digitally scarce things people love. | Seed / Feb 20, 2018 | |
OpenZeppelin
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OpenZeppelin builds developer tools and performs security audits for distributed systems that power multimillion-dollar economies. At OpenZeppelin, we have built the world’s leading Open Source library for smart contract development. OpenZeppelin Contracts powers over 3,000 public projects, with over 7,000 stars on Github and maintained by acommunity of 180+ contributors. We also conduct security audits for the Ethereum Foundation, Coinbase, and other leading organizations in the space.With the success of our product, our security audits work, and our educational efforts, we have set industry standards for building secure systems in a fast-growing industry. We are now excited to offer a development platform that will help the growing number of developers working on top of decentralized protocols build the applications that will reach mass adoption. | Dec 01, 2017 |
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FAQ
What does Rainier invest in?
Rainier invests primarily in Software, Blockchain and Information Technology startups, most often at Funding Round and Series A 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.
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Who are the partners at Rainier?
The team at Rainier includes Chance Du (Founding Partner) and AJ Edwards (Venture Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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