# Cyrus Younessi

> Cyrus Younessi is a seed investor at Scalar Capital backing Blockchain and Financial Services. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Scalar Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scalar-capital)
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Aug 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cyounessi/

Cyrus Younessi is a seed investor at Scalar Capital focused on Blockchain and Financial Services. Cyrus is the Director of Research and Trading at Scalar Capital. Previously he was a digital currencies investment analyst at Cumberland Mining and a trader at DRW. He holds a Master of Financial Engineering from UCLA.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 3 | 75% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 75% |
| FinTech | 1 | 25% |
| Finance | 1 | 25% |
| Internet | 1 | 25% |

9 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 50% |
| Series A | 2 | 50% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 50% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Summer.fi | Summer.fi is a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that enables users to lend, borrow, and optimize crypto yields across protocols like Aave, Maker (Sky), and Morpho. It offers automated strategies through Lazy Summer vaults for passive yield and Summer.fi Pro for advanced leverage and position management. Originally known as Oasis.app, it is anon-custodial DeFi interface built by Oazo Apps Limited that simplifies portfolio automation and yield optimization. | $6M | Series A | Aug 15, 2023 |  |
| Gyroscope | Gyroscope develops an asset-backed stablecoin built on resilient Defi infrastructure. It leverages a diversified reserve and autonomous monetary policy. | $4.5M | Seed | Mar 09, 2023 |  |
| NiftyApes | NiftyApes is a smart contract that offers mortgages, loans, borrowing, and lending of NFTs with permissionless refinancing. | $4.2M | Seed | Nov 01, 2022 |  |
| DELV | Element is an open source protocol for fixed and variable yield markets. | $32M | Series A | Oct 19, 2021 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Placeholder](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/placeholder-55ca) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Robot Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robot-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Archetype](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acrylic-b04d) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Advanced Blockchain](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/advanced-blockchain) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Archetype](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/archetypefund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Scalar Capital

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Scalar Capital is a hedge fund company specializing in cryptoassets. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

4 contacts available at Scalar Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Linda Xie | Co-founder & Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/linda-xie |
| Cyrus Younessi | Director of Research and Trading | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cyrus-younessi |
| Jordan Clifford | Co-founder and Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jordan-clifford |
| Jordan Palmer | Director of Operations | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jordan-palmer-8aef |

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## FAQ

### What does Cyrus Younessi invest in?

Cyrus Younessi invests primarily in Blockchain, Financial Services and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Cyrus Younessi last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Cyrus Younessi closed in Aug 2023. Shizune tracks 4 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?

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