Darren Lau
Angel Investor
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Darren Lau is a seed investor in Kuala Lumpur focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Darren Lau is the Founder at The Daily Ape.
- Total investments:
- 19
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Darren Lau invests in
Stages Darren Lau invests in
Countries Darren Lau invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $835k–$10M
- Series A
- $6M–$32M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 13 (68%)
- Cryptocurrency 5 (26%)
- FinTech 4 (21%)
- Financial Services 4 (21%)
- Finance 3 (16%)
Stage
- Seed 10 (53%)
- Funding Round 4 (21%)
- Series A 3 (16%)
- Initial Coin Offering 2 (11%)
Country
- United States 5 (26%)
- Singapore 3 (16%)
- Spain 1 (5%)
- Germany 1 (5%)
- Philippines 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| SpaceComputer uses satellites to create a secure blockchain system that resists cyberattacks and physical tampering. | $10M / Seed / Nov 26, 2025 | ||
| Cabal is an innovative protocol that effectively generates revenue while operating on the robust initial layer 1 network. | $3M / Feb 12, 2025 | ||
| Li.Finance provides the cross-chain swap across all liquidity pools and bridges. Li.Finance is a mesh of aggregated cross-chain liquidity networks and protocols that makes liquidity available when needed to fuel next-generation DeFi initiatives with superior UX. It is founded in 2021 and is based in Berlin, Germany. | $5.5M / Seed / Jul 11, 2022 | ||
| BlockchainSpace builds tools to empower play-to-earn communities, and also runs several educational academies that identify economic opportunities in play-to-earn games and shares learnings for new guilds to enter the space. | $3.8M / Seed / Nov 18, 2021 | ||
| Pstake is a platform that stakes your assets safely to receive staking rewards and pegged staked representative tokens that can be utilized in DeFi. | $10M / Seed / Nov 16, 2021 | ||
| Ariadne is a cross-chain DeFi marketplace that is lowering the fees to enter/exit farms on multiple blockchains and saves swaps and bridges costs for both EVM and non-EVM chains. Ariadne enables users of any supported chain to enter/exit yield farms on a multitude of blockchains, with virtually no lower limit of investment, and withouthaving to deal with bridges, swaps and slippage, transaction costs on receiving blockchains etc. | $835K / Seed / Nov 05, 2021 | ||
| WeMeta is the go-to platform for all things, from Community Leaderboards to Activity Feeds, to buying, selling, and trading digital land. | $1.1M / Seed / Nov 03, 2021 | ||
| Nyan Heroes is an immersive NFT based shooter of futuristic revolutions, cats in robots, evil corporations. | $2.5M / Seed / Oct 30, 2021 | ||
| Tulip Protocol decentralized application designed to allow the vault strategies to compound frequently. They provide an investment with risk rewards for any DeFi user. Their protocol offers three types of yield products, vaults, lending, and leveraged farming. | $5M / Initial Coin Offering / Oct 27, 2021 | ||
| Element is an open source protocol for fixed and variable yield markets. | $32M / Series A / Oct 19, 2021 | ||
| See all 19 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Darren Lau invest in?
Darren Lau invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 19 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 Darren Lau invest in?
Darren Lau typically joins rounds of $835k–$10M at Seed and $6M–$32M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Darren Lau's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Darren Lau took part in.
How do I contact Darren Lau?
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When did Darren Lau last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Darren Lau closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 19 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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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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