Don Ho
Senior Venture Partner @ Pioneer Fund
San Francisco, United States
Don Ho is a seed investor at Pioneer Fund in San Francisco focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Don Ho is the Founder and General Partner of Orange DAO. He previously worked at IDG Ventures Vietnam as a Venture Investor. Don Ho attended the University of California, Davis.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Don Ho invests in
Stages Don Ho invests in
Countries Don Ho invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 4 (50%)
- Cryptocurrency 4 (50%)
- Gaming 3 (38%)
- Internet 2 (25%)
- Apps 1 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (63%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (25%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (13%)
Country
- United States 4 (50%)
- Singapore 1 (13%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Hyperspell
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Hyperspell is the data platform that lets you build your AI-enabled apps faster. Let your users connect to dozens of services, and use Hyperspell’s end-to-end data pipeline to get structured data with a single API call. | $1M / Pre-Seed / Mar 01, 2025 | |
Edgen
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Open Social is a firm that focuses on creating a decentralized and sustainable ecosystem for creators, protocol developers, and Dapp developers. | $5M / Seed / May 28, 2024 | |
Inco
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Inco develops a global confidentiality layer for Ethereum and other networks. It enables a wide range of new apps, spanning various verticals such as gaming and gambling, DeFi, including dark pools, private lending, and blind auctions, and enterprise solutions such as confidential stable coins, private RWAs, and private voting. | $4.5M / Seed / Feb 21, 2024 | |
VMind AI
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AI technology company in stealth mode. | $2M / Pre-Seed / Oct 29, 2023 | |
Decrypt
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Decrypt is a media platform that focused on stories from culture, technology, business, education, politics, art, and the latest news. The platform also delivers essential journalism, education, and analysis for the adoption of blockchain. Decrypt was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York. | $10M / Venture - Series Unknown / May 03, 2022 | |
Yomi Games
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Yomi Games is a blockchain gaming studio developing social Play-and-Earn video games targeted at casual audiences. | $2M / Seed / Apr 19, 2022 | |
Puma Browser
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Puma is a mobile browser and wallet for the Web3 ecosystem. Private by design. Today, we enable native IPFS, HNS & ENS support and seamless payments for creators, app & game developers via Coil and ILP. Long Term, our goal is to give 1b people access to the peer-to-peer and ownership based economy. | Seed / Jul 25, 2021 | |
Syndicate
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Syndicate is a decentralized asset management platform and social network. | $1M / Seed / Mar 17, 2021 |
Co-Investors
About Pioneer Fund
Pioneer Fund is a fund of 420+ Y Combinator alumni, investing in the top Y Combinator startups.
Pioneer Fund Contacts
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Philip Gasslander
Venture Partner
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Tim Suzman
General Partner
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Alexander Girau
Senior Venture Partner
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Bryant Chou
Senior Venture Partner
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Daniel Lenton
Venture Partner
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FAQ
What does Don Ho invest in?
Don Ho invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Gaming startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 8 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 Don Ho last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Don Ho closed in Mar 2025. Shizune tracks 8 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 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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