# Dan Romero

> Dan Romero is a seed investor backing Software and Blockchain. See 30 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
- Total investments: 30
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/danielwromero
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/dwr
- Website: http://danromero.org

Dan Romero is a seed investor in San Francisco Bay Area focused on Software and Blockchain. Angel investor. Former VP and early employee at Coinbase.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3.6M–$11M |
| Pre-Seed | $1M–$9M |
| Series A | $20M–$30M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 30% |
| Blockchain | 7 | 23% |
| Apps | 4 | 13% |
| Messaging | 4 | 13% |
| Cryptocurrency | 4 | 13% |

41 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 14 | 47% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 17% |
| Series A | 4 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 10% |
| Angel | 1 | 3% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 19 | 63% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Noise Labs | Noise Labs offers a programmatic liquidity platform for people to trade trends and narratives as assets. | $7.1M | Seed | Jan 14, 2026 | https://www.noise.xyz/ |
| Merit Systems | Merit aims to solve the "attribution problem" in software development. In the world of open source, which powers more than 97% of the apps that customers use daily, both IT titans and freelance programmers contribute to products that are freely available for anybody to access and enhance. | $10M | Seed | Jan 16, 2025 | https://www.merit.systems |
| Dot Product | Dot Product is an AI based firm that offers voice agents that automates operations tasks and deliver reliable customer support. | $6M | Seed | Jan 01, 2025 | https://dotproduct.xyz/ |
| Commonware | Commonware is a startup that supplies developers with a "anti-framework" — effectively all of the building pieces for developing a blockchain — in order to go beyond the era of standardized, general-purpose software kits. | $9M |  | Dec 11, 2024 | https://commonware.xyz |
| Praxis | Praxis is a membership-based platform aiming to build an autonomous city. Cities needed to be built around a source of economic opportunity to attract businesses that would create jobs and entice people to relocate. The platform enables people to live healthier, more purposeful lives. Praxis was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in New York. | $525M |  | Oct 15, 2024 | https://www.praxissociety.com/ |
| Yup | Yup is a crypto-backed social media platform. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 24, 2024 | https://yup.io |
| Agora | Agora operates as a cross-chain governance platform. | $5M | Seed | May 01, 2024 | https://www.agora.xyz/ |
| vibe.market & vibechain.com | Explore Farcaster through far.quest! | $1M | Pre-Seed | Jan 15, 2024 | https://wield.xyz |
| Hyper | Hyper is an avatar-based social network. We're building the metaverse. | $3.6M | Seed | Jun 12, 2023 | https://www.hyper.online |
| Meanwhile | Meanwhile is a licensed and regulated life insurance business. | $19M | Seed | Jun 06, 2023 | https://meanwhile.bm/ |

10 of 30 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Coinbase Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinbase-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [IDEO CoLab Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ideo-colab) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Sound Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sound-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [6th Man Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/6th-man-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [a16z crypto](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a16z-crypto) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Alchemy](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alchemy-insights) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Dan Romero invest in?

Dan Romero invests primarily in Software, Blockchain and Apps startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 30 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 Dan Romero invest in?

Dan Romero typically joins rounds of $3.6M–$11M at Seed, $1M–$9M at Pre-Seed and $20M–$30M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Dan Romero's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Dan Romero took part in.

### How do I contact Dan Romero?

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### When did Dan Romero last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Dan Romero closed in Jan 2026. Shizune tracks 30 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?

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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