Dan Patterson
General Partner @ Sfermion
Dan Patterson is a General Partner at Sfermion and a Managing Partner at Polynexus Capital, a Chicago-based digital asset fund. The firm invests in early-stage, liquid products that are laying the groundwork for the future decentralized economy. Prior to joining the cryptoasset space full-time, he spent four years working at a private equity firmin Hong Kong, responsible for sourcing, analyzing, and executing transaction opportunities for the firm. Dan’s primary experience focuses on small-cap, growth-stage investments in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.Dan’s cryptoasset journey began in 2013, while studying engineering and finance at Duke University. Ethereum’s growing reputation, as a platform for decentralized applications, convinced him that a new type of capital market was forming. Since that time, he has dedicated himself to understanding and investing in this novel asset class.
- Total investments:
- 6
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 67%
Last updated:
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Industries Dan Patterson invests in
Stages Dan Patterson invests in
Countries Dan Patterson invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Cryptocurrency 3 (50%)
- Music 2 (33%)
- FinTech 2 (33%)
- Blockchain 2 (33%)
- Gaming 1 (17%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (83%)
- Series A 1 (17%)
Country
- United States 2 (33%)
- Singapore 1 (17%)
- South Korea 1 (17%)
Investments
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Anichess
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Anichess develops a decentralized chess game. | $1.8M / Seed / Apr 25, 2024 | |
| Today is a Web3 social simulation game, offering interactions with GenAI backed NPCs, and no-code tools for virtual world development. | $5M / Seed / Apr 05, 2024 | ||
| BeatConnect is a Montreal software company that focuses on the development, and commercialization of remote collaboration software for music producers and musicians. | $1.7M / Seed / Mar 07, 2024 | ||
| Modhaus is an open architecture K-Pop agency dedicated to leading the global music industry. The firm is committed to establishing a fan-centered entertainment system. It strives to work diligently to ensure that our fans are involved in significant stages of production through encouragement and proactive communication. The company focuses oncontent and entertainment that encourages fan participation. | $7.9M / Series A / Nov 13, 2023 | ||
| a social investing economy enabled by web3 | $4M / Seed / Oct 07, 2022 | ||
| Solv Protocol is the decentralized platform for creating, managing, and trading Financial NFTs. As its first Financial NFT product, Vesting Vouchers are fractionalized NFTs representing lock-up vesting tokens, thus releasing their liquidity and enabling financial scenarios such as fundraising, community building, and token liquidity management forcrypto projects. | $4M / Seed / Aug 30, 2021 |
Co-Investors
About Sfermion
Sfermion is a metaverse-native firm investing in esoteric digital assets.
Sfermion Contacts
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Andrew Steinwold
Managing Partner
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Dan Patterson
General Partner
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Grant Gryska
Head Of Research
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What does Dan Patterson invest in?
Dan Patterson invests primarily in Cryptocurrency, Music and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 6 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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The most recent investment recorded for Dan Patterson closed in Apr 2024. Shizune tracks 6 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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