Coral
VC Fund
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Coral is a VC fund in San Juan focused on Blockchain and Software. Coral DeFi is an Investment platform focused on digital assets and onchain financial applications. Founded by Thomas Mclaughlin, Patrick Horsman and David Namdar in 2021, we are thesis-based investors empowering the Web 3 revolution. Onchain financial applications are in the midst of a massive growth stage with exception risk-adjusted returnopportunities. Coral’s investment vehicle offer investors thoughtful exposure for a variety of duration and return profiles.In its’ liquid investment vehicles, Coral structures its exposure and strategies to either: generate yield &/or acquire tokens in emerging protocols. Our understanding of the liquid markets is what differentiates us on the venture side. We have allocated to >20 venture deals since inception and operate a traditional venture-style vehicle.
- Total investments:
- 15
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Coral invests in
Stages Coral invests in
Countries Coral invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1M–$8M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $5.4M–$89M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 9 (60%)
- Software 5 (33%)
- Internet 3 (20%)
- Information Technology 3 (20%)
- Apps 2 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 7 (47%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (27%)
- Secondary Market 2 (13%)
- Funding Round 1 (7%)
- Initial Coin Offering 1 (7%)
Country
- United States 8 (53%)
- Hong Kong 1 (7%)
- Singapore 1 (7%)
- Switzerland 1 (7%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP | Total investments: 46 | Find email | ||
Patrick Horsman, CFA
Founding GP & Managing Partner
|
Founding GP & Managing Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Thomas McLaughlin
Chief Investment Officer
|
Chief Investment Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| IntentX is a decentralized derivatives trading platform that provides intent-based access to decentralized exchanges to traders and investors. | $2.5M / Seed / Nov 21, 2023 | ||
| Flowcarbon's versatile team merges investment banking, project finance, tax credit and other financial markets expertise to streamline access to creative capital solutions for the world’s most innovative companies in the infrastructure, decarbonization, and other niche sectors. Flowcarbon is headquartered in New York, United States and wasfounded in 2021. | Initial Coin Offering / May 24, 2022 | ||
| Decent develops products that are resistant to censorship, fraud, and human error. Using blockchain technology, it collaborates with forward-thinking businesses to create solutions that were not previously possible. It enables new technical standards in crypto by providing useful tools that appeal to both new and experienced developers. | $10M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 20, 2022 | ||
| Tea Inc. is a Puerto Rico-based corporation that is building the open source toolkit that makes development possible and builds the internet: it’s “brew2 for web3.” Developers can work on any platform, CI/CD on any platform, deploy on any platform; Tea abstracts this detail away so developers can get on with the work that matters. | $8M / Seed / Mar 23, 2022 | ||
| NEAR Protocol is a scalable blockchain designed to provide the performance and user experience necessary to bridge the gap to mainstream adoption of decentralized applications. Unlike other next generation blockchains, this network has been built from the ground up to be the easiest in the world for both developers and their end users while stillproviding the scalability necessary to serve those users. | Secondary Market / Feb 20, 2022 | ||
| NEAR is decentralized storage and compute platform that is secure enough to manage high-value assets like money or identity. NEAR is a scalable smart contract platform that supports decentralized applications of almost any kind. Leverage an ecosystem of components backed by cutting edge technology. NEAR was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in California. | Secondary Market / Feb 20, 2022 | ||
| The DeFi infrastructure built to facilitate the most liquid markets, powered by Maverick AMM. | $8M / Seed / Feb 15, 2022 | ||
| Sarcophagus is an autonomous, incentivized dead man's switch dApp built on Ethereum and Arweave. It is a 100% open-source project using the Unlicense. It has been built by a global team of software developers, crypto enthusiasts, and security experts. It has not yet been audited. | $5.4M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 06, 2022 | ||
| Boto is a no-code automation platform where developers and non-developers can create and share their automation. The platform was founded in 2021 and is based in Delaware City, USA. | $3.7M / Seed / Dec 24, 2021 | ||
| CXIP Labs is a developer of NFT infrastructure solutions for the web3 ecosystem. | $1.7M / Seed / Jul 13, 2021 | ||
| See all 15 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Coral invest in?
Coral invests primarily in Blockchain, Software and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Coral invest in?
Coral typically joins rounds of $1M–$8M at Seed and $5.4M–$89M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Coral's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Coral took part in.
How do I contact Coral?
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Who are the partners at Coral?
The team at Coral includes David J. Namdar (GP), Patrick Horsman, CFA (Founding GP & Managing Partner) and Thomas McLaughlin (Chief Investment Officer). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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