# DeFi Dad

> DeFi Dad is a seed investor in Land O Lakes backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Land O Lakes, United States
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/DeFi_Dad
- Website: https://x.com/DeFi_Dad

DeFi Dad is a seed investor in Land O Lakes focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. DeFi Dad is one of the earliest super-users, educators, and investors in DeFi. He has worked in the Ethereum community since 2018, including his time as the 3rd employee at Zapper.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$5.2M |
| Series A | $15M–$30M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $5.5M–$11M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 11 | 65% |
| Cryptocurrency | 6 | 35% |
| Decentralized Finance (DeFi) | 4 | 24% |
| Web3 | 3 | 18% |
| Software | 3 | 18% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 35% |
| Series A | 5 | 29% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 18% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 12% |
| Angel | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Singapore | 4 | 24% |
| United States | 3 | 18% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 12% |
| Canada | 1 | 6% |
| Poland | 1 | 6% |

## 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 |  |
| Veda | Veda operates as a vault infrastructure platform
in DeFi. | $18M | Series A | Jun 22, 2025 |  |
| 3Jane Protocol | 3Jane Protocol is a credit-based money market that permits unsecured credit lines underwritten against verifiable evidence. | $5.2M | Seed | Jun 04, 2025 |  |
| Neutral Trade | Neutral Trade, an on-chain multi-strategy hedge fund platform, offers innovative delta-neutral trading and liquidity provisioning strategies to deliver consistent, risk-adjusted returns. | $2M | Seed | May 31, 2025 |  |
| InfiniFi | InfiniFi enhances decentralized finance with efficient, automated fractional reserve banking for higher yields. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Feb 11, 2025 |  |
| Term Labs | Term Labs is a blockchain research and development business, is to provide scalable, transparent fixed-rate lending on blockchains. It helps to provide institutional-scale borrowers and lenders transparent, affordable, and crypto-native options. | $5.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 09, 2024 |  |
| Solv Protocol | 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. | $11M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 03, 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 |  |
| MoreMarkets | Nuffle Labs develops NEAR Data Availability (DA) and the NEAR Fast Finality Layer (NFFL). | $6M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 13, 2024 |  |
| Inference Labs | Inference Labs is advancing the use of zero-knowledge cryptography to guarantee the computational integrity of off-chain AI models. This approach enables AI operators to safeguard and conceal the Intellectual Property inherent in their Neural Networks, without disclosing the confidential weights and biases of their proprietary models. InferenceLabs is creating a network that aggregates verified intelligence (zk-VIN), offering a suite of tools for owners, users, and operators to efficiently integrate their artificial intelligence using zero-knowledge cryptography. | $2.3M | Pre-Seed | Apr 15, 2024 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [CoinFund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinfund) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Coinbase Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinbase-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Electric Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/electric-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Hashed](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hashed-f96b) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [The LAO](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-lao) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Animoca Brands](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/animoca-brands-corporation) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does DeFi Dad invest in?

DeFi Dad invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Decentralized Finance (DeFi) startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Singapore. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is DeFi Dad's check size?

DeFi Dad typically joins rounds of $1M–$5.2M at Seed, $15M–$30M at Series A and $5.5M–$11M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds DeFi Dad participates in.

### When did DeFi Dad last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for DeFi Dad closed in Jan 2026. Shizune tracks 17 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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