Dermot O'Riordan
Partner @ Eden Block
London, United Kingdom
Dermot O'Riordan is a seed investor at Eden Block in London focused on Blockchain and Software. Investor and adviser to early stage Web3 teams, with a primary focus on teams building infrastructure (data, defi and community) as well as those advancing the mission of DAOs, and pushing forward better governance for digital communities.
- Total investments:
- 14
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 29%
Last updated:
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Industries Dermot O'Riordan invests in
Stages Dermot O'Riordan invests in
Countries Dermot O'Riordan invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $130k–$6.2M
- Series A
- $11M–$43M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 9 (64%)
- Software 5 (36%)
- Cryptocurrency 5 (36%)
- Information Technology 4 (29%)
- Ethereum 2 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 11 (79%)
- Series A 2 (14%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (7%)
Country
- United Kingdom 4 (29%)
- United States 3 (21%)
- Singapore 2 (14%)
- Germany 1 (7%)
- Gibraltar 1 (7%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Gensyn is a machine learning computing protocol for the world's deep learning models. It connects all of the machine learning-competent compute hardware in the world, including GPUs and CPUs and makes it available to engineers, researchers, and academics. | $43M / Series A / Jun 11, 2023 | ||
| Rated offers data on validators and node operators, which makes it easier for users to compare and contrast their performance. | $2.5M / Seed / Sep 08, 2022 | ||
| Launched in 2021, Omni is a comprehensive Web3 wallet supporting assets across 25+ blockchain networks, enabling seamless token management, DeFi activity, NFTs, and multi-chain staking with a single mnemonic. It aggregates bridging and DEX services for efficient swaps, abstracts staking complexity, integrates Ledger for security, and offersWalletConnect, fiat on-ramp, and broad NFT support. For more information, visit www.omni.app. | $11M / Series A / Sep 07, 2022 | ||
| Tenderize enables users to unlock liquidity, collateralize loans and trade tokens, by maintaining a staked position using ERC20 token. | $3M / Seed / Jul 07, 2022 | ||
| Altitude is a Decentralized Finance (DeFi) protocol offering a first-of-its-kind actively managed collateralized loan, which uses the volatility of the value of the collateral to repay itself over time. | $2.1M / Seed / Jul 01, 2022 | ||
| Samudai organizes information and provides tools to enable seamless coordination through an all-in-one platform. Samudai was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Central Region, Singapore. | $2.5M / Pre-Seed / Jun 08, 2022 | ||
| Origami is building the world’s most valuable DAOs. We help the most ambitious communities launch and grow their DAOs. | $6.2M / Seed / Apr 26, 2022 | ||
| Gensyn is a machine learning computing protocol for the world's deep learning models. It connects all of the machine learning-competent compute hardware in the world, including GPUs and CPUs and makes it available to engineers, researchers, and academics. | $6.5M / Seed / Mar 18, 2022 | ||
| HAL provides blockchain monitoring services intended to create centralized lighthouses. It enables connection to any smart contract with centralized applications such as APIs, applications, CRMs, ERPs, emails, e-commerce, social networks, and messaging systems, enabling companies to connect Ethereum with the centralized applications. | $3M / Seed / Jan 26, 2022 | ||
| Colony is a social collaboration platform that makes it easy for people all over the world to build companies together online.Many people would like to start or work in a startup, and even though it’s easier than ever, there are still significant barriers to doing so. The problem is that although talent is highly distributed, opportunity ishighly centralised.In Colony, users can contribute their skills to projects they find exciting, and earn equity in those projects in proportion to the value of their contribution.The traditional company model where hierarchical management ensures productivity wouldn’t work online, so Colony provides a structure which enables the workforce to self organise. It incentivises users to suggest things which need doing, and aggregates the wisdom of the crowd to make decisions, assign tasks to the best candidates, and pay them.Colony’s mission is to make it faster and easier than ever for people to build companies. | Seed / Sep 30, 2021 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Eden Block
Eden Block seeks to enable the full potential of blockchain and crypto by investing in a small number of high conviction early-stage opportunities each year.
Eden Block Contacts
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Lior Messika
Founder & Managing Partner
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Nelson Ryan
Investment Partner
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Luca Daniel
Technical Lead
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Rami Beracha
General Partner
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Sergey Vartanov Khachaturyan
Associate
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FAQ
What does Dermot O'Riordan invest in?
Dermot O'Riordan invests primarily in Blockchain, Software and Cryptocurrency startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Dermot O'Riordan invest in?
Dermot O'Riordan typically joins rounds of $130k–$6.2M at Seed and $11M–$43M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Dermot O'Riordan's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Dermot O'Riordan took part in.
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When did Dermot O'Riordan last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Dermot O'Riordan closed in Jun 2023. Shizune tracks 14 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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