# David Choi

> David Choi is a seed investor at Permian Labs backing Blockchain, Web3 and Financial Services. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Permian Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/metastreet-0dbd)
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-choi-a190975b/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/0xZergs
- Website: https://x.com/0xZergs
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iohcdivad

David Choi is a seed investor at Permian Labs focused on Blockchain and Web3. David Choi is the Founder of MetaStreet. He previously worked at Deutsche Bank as an Investment Banking Analyst. David Choi attended the University of Southern California.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 4 | 31% |
| Web3 | 3 | 23% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 23% |
| Software | 2 | 15% |
| Cryptocurrency | 2 | 15% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 54% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 23% |
| Angel | 1 | 8% |
| Series A | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 46% |
| Canada | 1 | 8% |
| Germany | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Saturn | Saturn is a decentralized Bitcoin exchange that enhances peer-to-peer non-custodial orderbooks and provides a secure trading experience. | $800K | Angel | Jan 15, 2026 |  |
| Moku | Moku is a web3 gaming platform that enables players connect to gaming guilds, NFT casting pages, game strategy communities, and more. | $5.4M | Seed | Sep 09, 2024 |  |
| Agent | Agent can assist users in navigating DeFi's complexities more efficiently and flexibly, by offering easy creation and management of multiple sub-accounts. | $1M | Seed | Jul 29, 2024 |  |
| MyPrize | MyPrize is supported by premier developers and top venture businesses. This is the first online casino powered by cryptocurrency with deep social interaction. | $8M | Seed | Mar 26, 2024 |  |
| Metaverse HQ | Metaverse HQ is a Web3 technology company incubating founders, advising leaders, and developing engaging products. | $1.1M | Seed | Mar 19, 2024 |  |
| INIT Capital | INIT Capital offers Lending, Borrowing, and Access Yield Strategies with Liquidity Hook. | $3.1M | Seed | Feb 21, 2024 |  |
| nftperp | NFTs have become a huge part of web3. Whether you’re in it for the tech, the art, or just to be part of the amazing communities, NFTs are here to stay.However, with nftperp, you can now speculate on the floor prices of NFT projects including Bored Ape Yacht Club, CryptoPunks and more.nftperp was established in January, 2022 in Washington,District of Columbia. | $3M | Series A | Dec 14, 2023 |  |
| Airstack | Airstack is the developer of an artificial intelligence-powered platform that allows for on-chain data across several projects and blockchains. The company organizes decentralized application transactions into virtual stacks of data, allowing developers to access and incorporate any web3 on-chain data and related off-chain data into their apps. | $3.7M | Pre-Seed | May 17, 2023 |  |
| Airstack | Airstack is the developer of an artificial intelligence-powered platform that allows for on-chain data across several projects and blockchains. The company organizes decentralized application transactions into virtual stacks of data, allowing developers to access and incorporate any web3 on-chain data and related off-chain data into their apps. | $3.8M | Pre-Seed | Oct 20, 2022 |  |
| Lasso Labs | Lasso makes it easy to discover and create utility for digital assets like NFTs. | $4.2M | Seed | Oct 05, 2022 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Electric Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/electric-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Polygon](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matic-network) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Polygon](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/polygontechnology) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [CoinSwitch](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinswitch) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Delta Blockchain Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/delta-blockchain-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Ethereal Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ethereal-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Permian Labs

VC Fund · Boston, United States

MetaStreet is a liquidity routing & scaling protocol for NFT collateralization platforms.MetaStreet strive to increase the GDP of emerging NFT economies through abstracted capital participation on NFT collateralization platforms.

1 contacts available at Permian Labs.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| David Choi | Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, President & Board Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-choi-aed6 |

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## FAQ

### What does David Choi invest in?

David Choi invests primarily in Blockchain, Web3 and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 13 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 David Choi last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for David Choi closed in Jan 2026. Shizune tracks 13 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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