# Ed Roman

> Ed Roman is a seed investor at Hack VC (San Francisco) backing Software and SaaS. See 70 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Hack VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hack-vc)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 70
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 17%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-roman-19686/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/ed_roman
- Website: http://www.hack-vc.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/edward.w.roman

Ed Roman is a Managing Director at Hack VC and was a CEO at HackHands. He attended Cornell University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 17 | 24% |
| SaaS | 11 | 16% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 10 | 14% |
| Information Technology | 9 | 13% |
| Blockchain | 8 | 11% |

108 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 33 | 47% |
| Series A | 16 | 23% |
| Pre-Seed | 7 | 10% |
| Series B | 5 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 47 | 67% |
| Italy | 1 | 1% |
| Israel | 1 | 1% |
| Mexico | 1 | 1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| TAC | TAC is a TON network extension that allows the EVM community to access Telegram users, and it enables Ton wallet holders to easily interact with EVM dApps deployed on TAC. | $5M | Seed | Jun 18, 2025 |  |
| 1Money Network Technologies | 1Money Network Technologies is a payment network dedicated to stablecoins. | $20M | Seed | Jan 15, 2025 |  |
| Exabits AI | Exabits AI operates a compute-based platform that transforms high-performance GPU clusters into tokenized infrastructure investment assets, serving both Web2 enterprises and decentralized Web3 protocols. It integrates 4,000 NVIDIA H200 GPUs equipped with Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) technology, delivering secure, verifiable AI computationacross U.S. and European nodes connected via 3.2T InfiniBand architecture. Exabits AI facilitates enterprise-scale AI workloads, including model pre-training in healthcare, finance, and autonomous systems, and contributes compute capacity to scientific and DeSci (decentralized science) initiatives. It has also entered strategic partnerships, including joining the AI Agent Alliance and collaborating with NEAR Foundation and Phala Network, to support decentralized AI ecosystems. | $15M | Seed | Dec 10, 2024 |  |
| 0G | 0G Labs is a technology business that specializes in blockchain technology, emphasizing decentralization for a range of industries and societal issues. | $40M | Seed | Nov 13, 2024 |  |
| Gelato | Gelato Network is a protocol that automates smart contract executions on Ethereum and beyond. We are building the underlying infrastructure enabling reliable automation on top of Ethereum and with it a key part of the Web3 middleware stack, enabling trustless, automated flows of value between all smart contracts and upcoming Layer 2 networks. | $11M | Series A | Oct 28, 2024 |  |
| Grass | Grass is an online community that offers reward for people who provide unused internet for AI developers and enthusiasts. |  | Series A | Sep 13, 2024 |  |
| 0G | 0G Labs is a technology business that specializes in blockchain technology, emphasizing decentralization for a range of industries and societal issues. | $35M | Pre-Seed | Mar 26, 2024 |  |
| io.net | Io.net Cloud provides a decentralized computing network enabling machine learning engineers to access distributed clusters at a small fraction of the cost of comparable centralized services. The company's mission is to put together one million GPUs in a DePIN - decentralized physical infrastructure network. | $30M | Series A | Mar 05, 2024 |  |
| BabylonChain | Babylon is a VC-backed blockchain project founded by Claude. E. Shannon Award recipient, Professor David Tse from Stanford University. The project’s mission is to bring Bitcoin’s unparalleled security to all PoS blockchains in the world. To this end, we are building, as the bridge between Bitcoin and the PoS world, a new public Cosmos-based PoSblockchain called Babylon with a native token. | $18M | Series A | Dec 07, 2023 |  |
| Nocturne Labs | Nocturne is a system that allows for on-chain private accounts. | $6M | Seed | Oct 25, 2023 |  |

10 of 70 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Crosslink Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crosslink-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Liquid 2 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liquid2-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Eniac Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eniac-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Uncork Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/softtech-vc) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Kleiner Perkins](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kleiner-perkins-caufield-byers) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

## About Hack VC

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Hack VC is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in the cryptocurrency, fintech, and marketplaces sectors. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

4 contacts available at Hack VC.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alexander Pack | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-pack |
| Ed Roman | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ed-roman |
| Kevin Rowney | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kevin-rowney |
| Tom Chi | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tom-chi |

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## FAQ

### What does Ed Roman invest in?

Ed Roman invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 70 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 Ed Roman last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ed Roman closed in Jun 2025. Shizune tracks 70 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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