James Sowers
Angel Investor
Pensacola, United States
James Sowers is a initial coin offering investor in Pensacola focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Over the past decade, James has backed ventures that have led to 9 IPOs and several major exits. He has invested in pioneering companies, visionary teams, and breakthrough technologies that advance decentralization and individual sovereignty. His investment scope covers vital sectors such as payment infrastructure, renewable energy, artificialintelligence, and asset tokenization.His capital extends beyond financial support; it acts as an agent of transformation. Supporting initiatives that decrease dependence on centralized systems, enhance privacy, and empower people worldwide. Through targeted investments and strategic partnerships, he is contributing to building a more resilient and equitable global society
- Total investments:
- 101
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries James Sowers invests in
Stages James Sowers invests in
Countries James Sowers invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $365k–$8.5M
- Secondary Market
- $1.5M–$700M
- Initial Coin Offering
- $5.8M–$80M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 28 (28%)
- Cryptocurrency 22 (22%)
- Software 16 (16%)
- FinTech 15 (15%)
- Financial Services 9 (9%)
Stage
- Initial Coin Offering 32 (32%)
- Seed 21 (21%)
- Secondary Market 13 (13%)
- Convertible Note 5 (5%)
- Equity Crowdfunding 5 (5%)
Country
- United States 48 (48%)
- Switzerland 7 (7%)
- Singapore 4 (4%)
- Canada 2 (2%)
- Germany 2 (2%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| TON is a global, decentralized blockchain community dedicated to putting cryptocurrency into everyone's pockets. TON's aim is to empower 500 million users to own their digital identity, data, and assets by 2028 by establishing the Web3 ecosystem via Telegram Messenger. | $10M / Secondary Market / Aug 01, 2024 | ||
| Figma is a design platform for teams who build products together. Figma helps the entire product team create, test, and ship better designs, faster. Whether the company tries to consolidate tools, get more eyes on your work, or collaborate across time zones, Figma boosts creative productivity while keeping everyone on the same page. On a mission tomake design accessible to all, Figma is helping companies like Airbnb, Slack, and Microsoft with how they design. | $700M / Secondary Market / Jul 17, 2024 | ||
| Kraken is a digital asset exchange and related services provider that enables users to buy, sell, trade, stake, and store cryptocurrencies. It offers spot trading, futures, margin trading indexes, over-the-counter (OTC) execution, and a multi-chain wallet. Kraken supports a large number of cryptocurrencies and fiat currency pairs, and it provides tools for both retail users and institutional clients. It also offers advanced order types, real-time market data, account management services, and resources for learning about blockchain and digital assets. | Secondary Market / Jan 01, 2024 | ||
| POAP stands for Proof of Attendance Protocol. It is a curated ecosystem for the preservation of memories. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in New York, United States. | $10M / Seed / Jan 18, 2022 | ||
| Yield Guild Games (YGG) is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) for investing in non fungible tokens (NFTs) used in virtual worlds and blockchain-based games. The organization’s mission is to create the biggest virtual world economy, optimizing its community-owned assets for maximum utility, and sharing its profits with its token holders. | $12.5M / Initial Coin Offering / Jul 28, 2021 | ||
| BitPay provides enterprise-grade bitcoin payment solutions for businesses and organizations. It offers RESTful API, a bitcoin paymet gateway API; and native payment protocol support, signed payment request, direct payment communication, and BIP 73 support solutions. BitPay also provides Copay, a bitcoin wallet solution with Intel hardwaresecurity integration that allows users with hardware-level protection, including private key generation, transaction signing, and private keys. It has a strategic processing relationship with Aliant Payment Systems, Inc. Anthony Gallippi and Stephen Pair founded BitPay on May 1, 2011. It has its headquarters in Atlanta in Georgia. | $40M / Secondary Market / May 05, 2021 | ||
| Figure provides consumer financial solutions intended for home improvement, debt consolidation, and retirement planning. Its financial services include home equity release services such as home equity lines of credit, home improvement loans, and home buy-leaseback offerings for retirement leveraging through blockchain, artificial intelligence, and advanced analytics, enabling customers to access capital in as few as five days. | $1.5M / Secondary Market / Apr 01, 2021 | ||
| US Bitcoin Corporation builds and operates the data centers securing the bitcoin network. It is committed to sustainably managing its operations through the use of low- and no-carbon sources of energy. It is a provider of bitcoin mining services offering cost-effective mining, enabling consumers to have access to feasible mining services. | Series A / Mar 17, 2021 | ||
| Aave is an open source non-custodial protocol on Ethereum for decentralized lending and borrowing. | Secondary Market / Jan 30, 2021 | ||
| Uniswap Labs is a software company founded in 2018 by Hayden Adams, the company’s CEO, who invented the Uniswap Protocol, a peer-to-peer system for swapping digital assets that has processed $2.75 trillion in volume since its founding. Uniswap Labs builds some of the most widely adopted DeFi products including a web interface, self-custody mobilewallet, and an API for professional market players. | Secondary Market / Jan 30, 2021 | ||
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FAQ
What does James Sowers invest in?
James Sowers invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Software startups, most often at Initial Coin Offering and Seed stage. Most of the 101 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does James Sowers invest in?
James Sowers typically joins rounds of $365k–$8.5M at Seed, $1.5M–$700M at Secondary Market and $5.8M–$80M at Initial Coin Offering. These are whole funding-round sizes, not James Sowers's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds James Sowers took part in.
How do I contact James Sowers?
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When did James Sowers last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for James Sowers closed in Aug 2024. Shizune tracks 101 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 Nov 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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