# Emre Tekişalp

> Emre Tekişalp is a pre-seed investor at o1Labs backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [o1Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/o-1-labs)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emretekisalp/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/etekis?lang=en

Emre Tekişalp is a pre-seed investor at o1Labs in San Francisco focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Emre Tekişalp is the CEO at O(1) Labs. He attended Columbia Business School.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 1 | 100% |
| Cryptocurrency | 1 | 100% |
| Decentralized Finance (DeFi) | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| RockSolid Network | RockSolid Network is a DeFi protocol offering institutional-grade liquid vaults and white-label vault solutions. | $2.8M | Pre-Seed | Sep 09, 2025 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Blockchain Builders Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blockchain-builders-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Castle Island Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/castle-island-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Finoa](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/finoa) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [GSR](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gsr) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [IDEO CoLab Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ideo-colab) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Kindred Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kindred-ventures-2) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About o1Labs

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Founded in 2017, o1Labs is a blockchain technology company with a core focus on zero knowledge (zk) and other forms of novel cryptography. Their notable achievements include the incubation of the Mina Protocol, the world’s first zk blockchain that is lightweight, scalable, and decentralized, and the creation of o1js, a powerful and intuitiveframework for zk application developers. o1Labs’ vision is to catalyze a new generation of applications powered by zero knowledge cryptography.

5 contacts available at o1Labs.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Nicole Farrar | General Counsel | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nicole-farrar |
| Benjamin Ward | Head of BizOps & Finance; Head of BizOps & Finance | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benjamin-ward-e917 |
| Brad Cohn | Head of Strategy & Operations | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brad-cohn |
| Claire Arthurs Kart | Head of Marketing & Community | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/claire-arthurs-kart |
| Emre Tekişalp | VP of Business Development and Operations; CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emre-teki%C5%9Falp |

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## FAQ

### What does Emre Tekişalp invest in?

Emre Tekişalp invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Decentralized Finance (DeFi) startups, most often at Pre-Seed stage. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Emre Tekişalp last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Emre Tekişalp closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 1 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?

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