# Daniel Dizon

> Daniel Dizon is a seed investor at Swell backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Swell](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/swell-network)
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Feb 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-dizon
- Website: https://x.com/daniel_swell_

Daniel Dizon is an Australian technology entrepreneur and investor.He is the Founder of Swell, a crypto Ethereum Layer 2 protocol. Swell is the restaking chain, powered by Proof of Restake, with ~$2B USD in total value locked. Swell is backed by the industry's best venture capital firms and angels.Daniel's thought leadership has beenfeatured in numerous publications such as CoinTelegraph, Forbes, TechCrunch, and CoinDesk. Prior to Swell, Daniel was a serial entrepreneur and exited tech founder, operating across multiple sectors. Before that, Daniel was a Board and C-level strategist advising corporate and public sector clients, both domestically and internationally.Additionally, Daniel is also an active angel investor and strategic advisor to protocols and companies.In his spare time, Daniel helps early stage founders providing support to various startup incubators and accelerators. His interest areas include: crypto, AI, and emerging technologies.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3.3M–$6.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 3 | 60% |
| Cryptocurrency | 2 | 40% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 40% |
| Lending | 1 | 20% |
| Ethereum | 1 | 20% |

8 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 60% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 20% |
| Series A | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Portugal | 1 | 20% |
| United States | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Drosera | Drosera is a decentralized incident response system that uses hidden security intentions to contain and mitigate attacks. | $3.3M | Seed | Feb 10, 2025 |  |
| Lyra Finance | Lyra is the most complete decentralized crypto options trading protocol built on Ethereum. Lyra combines the best of traditional options market making (tried and tested pricing and risk management) with crypto’s two biggest strengths scalability and composability. |  | Seed | Sep 13, 2024 |  |
| RedStone | RedStone is a quickly growing blockchain startup, building two data-focused products aimed to unlock the potential of DeFi & Web3:1. RedStone Oracles: A new generation of blockchain oracles with a novel architecture that optimises the way data is delivered to decentralised Apps (dApps). RedStone provides 1,100+ data feeds delivered at a fewseconds refresh interval to Ethereum, Polygon, Avalanche, Arbitrum and 30+ other top chains. We support price feeds for assets such as popular & long-tail tokens, fiat currencies, commodities, stocks, NFTs floor and RedStone can deliver also other types of data i.e. transactions volume data or results of real-world events like sports games. Available feeds -> https://app.redstone.finance/ ; Sample integration on popular chains -> https://showroom.redstone.finance/2. Warp: A data-processing Smart Contract layer on top of the Arweave data storage chain. Warp is optimised for data-heavy use cases such as sophisticated gaming & social dApps, interactive NFTs, simple on-chain Machine Learning and other blockchain-based solutions that have not been feasible before, due to huge data processing costs on chains like Ethereum or Avalanche. Warp overview -> https://warp.cc/ ; Warp Academy -> https://academy.warp.cc/RedStone Gitcoin grant -> https://gitcoin.co/grants/5477/redstone-new-generation-of-oracles-for-defiWarp Gitcoin grant -> https://gitcoin.co/grants/7733/warp-contracts-on-arweave-revolution-of-on-chain- | $15M | Series A | Jul 02, 2024 |  |
| Ethena | Ethena provides a synthetic dollar protocol on the Ethereum blockchain that supports a crypto-native form of digital money. The protocol issues USDe, a synthetic dollar backed by crypto assets and short futures positions, using delta hedging to maintain stability relative to the US dollar. Ethena also introduces sUSDe, a yield-bearing version ofUSDe that allows holders to stake their assets and earn returns from protocol operations. In addition, the platform includes a governance token, ENA, which enables participation in decisions on risk management, integrations, and updates. Ethena integrates with both decentralized and centralized finance platforms, offering transparency and tools that support ecosystem composability. | $6.5M | Seed | Jul 17, 2023 |  |
| Ion Protocol | Ion Protocol is a lending protocol that accepts pledged and re-pledged assets, allowing users to deposit any validator-backed asset (including LST and re-pledged holdings, among others). | $2M | Pre-Seed | Jul 14, 2023 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Arrington Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arrington-capital-9858) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Maelstrom](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maelstrom) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SevenX Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sevenx-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Amber Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amber-ai) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Builder Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/builder-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bybit](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bybit) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Swell

VC Fund · Sydney, Australia

Swell is the restaking chain, powered by Proof of Restake. The protocol is backed by the industry's best venture capital firms and angels.

3 contacts available at Swell.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Daniel Dizon | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-dizon-b068 |
| Kevin Chee | Head of Product | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kevin-chee |
| Lecky Lao | External Advisor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lecky-lao |

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## FAQ

### What does Daniel Dizon invest in?

Daniel Dizon invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Portugal. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Daniel Dizon's check size?

Daniel Dizon typically joins rounds of $3.3M–$6.5M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Daniel Dizon participates in.

### When did Daniel Dizon last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Daniel Dizon closed in Feb 2025. Shizune tracks 5 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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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