# Jack Platts > Jack Platts is a seed investor at Hypersphere Ventures backing Blockchain and FinTech. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026. - Type: Angel Investor - Fund: [Hypersphere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hypersphere-ventures) - Total investments: 9 - Last investment: Jun 2022 - Lead investor: 67% - Last updated: Aug 2026 - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-platts-b0407360/ Jack Platts is a seed investor at Hypersphere Ventures focused on Blockchain and FinTech. Jack Platts is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Hypersphere Ventures. He attended MIT Sloan School of Management. ## Investment focus ### Industry | Industry | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Blockchain | 4 | 44% | | FinTech | 3 | 33% | | Software | 3 | 33% | | Cryptocurrency | 2 | 22% | | Financial Services | 2 | 22% | 15 industries tracked in total. ### Stage | Stage | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Seed | 7 | 78% | | Series A | 1 | 11% | | Initial Coin Offering | 1 | 11% | ### Country | Country | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | United States | 2 | 22% | | Japan | 1 | 11% | | Israel | 1 | 11% | | Australia | 1 | 11% | | Singapore | 1 | 11% | 7 countries tracked in total. ## Investments | Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Azuro | Azuro is a global decentralized betting protocol, utilizing smart-contracts to bring full transparency to the betting process and to deliver a classic betting experience with plentiful markets & liquidity and funky innovations like collectible bets and gamification via NFTs | $4M | Seed | Jun 27, 2022 | | | StreamFlow | StreamFlow is an IT firm that offers a token distribution platform to help teams manage finances, including payroll. | $3.1M | Seed | Apr 27, 2022 | | | Ava Protocol | OAK Network’s innovation, the event-driven transaction, allows users to create bespoke on-chain automation not possible today. Incumbent “automation” solutions are not consumer-friendly, requiring coding knowledge, AWS servers, and private key delegation. OAK’s more powerful transaction shifts the paradigm of automation from centralized servers tothe blockchain. With OAK, users are empowered to schedule future and recurring payments, engage in trustless auto-trading, and place decentralized limit and stop-loss orders on AMM DEXs all without smart contract middlemen or compromising the security of a user's wallet. | $5.5M | Seed | Feb 09, 2022 | | | Subsquid | Subsquid provides a query node infrastructure with a high level of customization and scalability to make blockchain data usable. Subsquid offers an easy way to build and deploy a custom ETL or GraphQL API for on-chain data. | $3.8M | Seed | Nov 11, 2021 | | | Talisman | Talisman is a community-owned wallet built for Polkadot, Kusama the Parachains. | $2.4M | Seed | Sep 29, 2021 | | | Stake Technologies | Stake Technologies is a technology company that provides blockchain solutions to enterprises. | $10M | Initial Coin Offering | Jun 11, 2021 | | | Deep DAO | Deep DAO is a data analytics site for decentralized autonomous organizations.DeepDAO presents extensive analytics and information gathering. The main dashboard product enumerates and ranks DAOs using several key metrics such as membership and assets under management (AUM). | $3M | Seed | Jun 04, 2021 | | | SubQuery | SubQuery’s mission is to make the world’s decentralised data more accessible. We’re a data-as-a-service provider that aggregates and organises data from Polkadot projects, serving up well-structured data for developers to use for a wide array of projects. Operating between layer-1 blockchains and decentralised apps (dApp), our service allowsdevelopers to focus on their core use case and front-end, without needing to waste time on building a custom backend for data processing.SubQuery allows every Substrate/Polkadot team to process and query their data. The project is inspired by the growth of data protocols serving the application layer and its aim is to help Polkadot/Substrate projects build better dApps by allowing anyone to reliably find and consume data faster. Today, anyone can query and extract Polkadot network data in only minutes and at no cost. | $1.8M | Seed | Mar 12, 2021 | | | Acala Network | Acala Network is a decentralized finance hub and stablecoin platform powering cross-blockchain liquidity and applications. It offers a suite of financial primitives: a multi-collateralized stablecoin backed by cross-chain assets such as Bitcoin, a trustless staking derivative, and a decentralized exchange to unleash liquidity to power morefinancial innovations. | $7.3M | Series A | Aug 27, 2020 | | 9 of 9 investments shown. ## Co-investors - [Digital Finance Group (DFG)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/digital-finance-group) — VC Fund, 4 deals together - [D1 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/d1-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together - [SevenX Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sevenx-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together - [TRGC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/trg-token-research-group) — VC Fund, 3 deals together - [Zee Prime Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zee-prime-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together - [AU21 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/au21-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together ## About Hypersphere Ventures VC Fund · Miami, United States Hypersphere Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in and develops blockchain technology. A Hypersphere is an investment group leveraging on-chain treasuries, decentralized organizations, and governance to increase the utility of the blockchain networks in which we invest. 4 contacts available at Hypersphere Ventures. | Name | Title | Profile | | --- | --- | --- | | Jack Platts | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jack-platts | | Amelia Cai | Investment Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amelia-cai-195d | | JT McGrath | Chief Operating Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jt-mcgrath | | Robert Habermeier | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robert-habermeier | ## Similar investors ### Similar stage - [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund - [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund - [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund ## FAQ ### What does Jack Platts invest in? Jack Platts invests primarily in Blockchain, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 9 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 Jack Platts last invest? The most recent investment recorded for Jack Platts closed in Jun 2022. Shizune tracks 9 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. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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