# Coil

> Coil is a VC fund in San Francisco backing FinTech and Internet. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Jan 2023
- Lead investor: 46%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/coilhq
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/coil
- Website: https://coil.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lacunacoil/

Coil is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on FinTech and Internet. Coil specializes in providing web content monetization solutions. Its monetization model offers an alternative to the status quo of paid advertisements and selling the public’s attention to the highest bidders. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Coil. Shizune tracks 2 team members at Coil. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/coil-technologies?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 4 | 31% |
| Internet | 4 | 31% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 31% |
| Blockchain | 3 | 23% |
| Cryptocurrency | 3 | 23% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 54% |
| Angel | 1 | 8% |
| Grant | 1 | 8% |
| Series B | 1 | 8% |
| Series C | 1 | 8% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 9 | 69% |
| Canada | 1 | 8% |
| South Africa | 1 | 8% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Thomas McLeod | Chief Content Officer | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thomas-d-mcleod |
| Uchi Uchibeke | Director of Developer Relations | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/uchi-uchibeke |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| TigerBeetle | TigerBeetle operates as a distributed financial accounting database for mission-critical safety and performance. | $6.4M | Seed | Jan 30, 2023 |  |
| TigerBeetle | TigerBeetle operates as a distributed financial accounting database for mission-critical safety and performance. | $6.4M | Seed | Jan 30, 2023 |  |
| Arkive | Arkive is building the people’s museum: a collection of art and culture curated by a global community of members and displayed around the world. | $9.7M | Seed | Jul 13, 2022 |  |
| Chimoney | Chimoney is building infrastructure and an API to make value move between currencies, ledgers, and protocols. They help ambitious businesses and developers unleash the utility of their amazing projects. They handle the payment chain and financial activities. |  | Angel | May 31, 2022 |  |
| Medallion | Medallion is a company in the media and entertainment industry. Medallion is the future of fans. It was launched in 2020 and is based in New York City, United States. | $9M | Seed | May 17, 2022 |  |
| Fynbos Money | The simple way to grow your money |  |  | Aug 01, 2021 |  |
| 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 |  |
| XRP Ledger Foundation | XRP Ledger Foundation an independent non-profit, focusing on the growth, innovation, and development of the XRPL and XRP community. | $6.5M | Grant | Sep 25, 2020 |  |
| HackerNoon | Hacker Noon is a technology publishing platform serving 4M readers per month. Hacker Noon designed to help creators monetize content and provide a premium experience to consumers. | $1.5M | Seed | Jun 10, 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 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Hard Yaka](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hard-yaka) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Amplify Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amplify-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Shima Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shima-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [TCG](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-chernin-group-llc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Xpring](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/xpring) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [2020 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/2020-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Coil invest in?

Coil invests primarily in FinTech, Internet and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Coil?

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### Who are the partners at Coil?

The team at Coil includes Thomas McLeod (Chief Content Officer) and Uchi Uchibeke (Director of Developer Relations). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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