# Jehan Chu

> Jehan Chu is a seed investor at Social Alpha Foundation backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 32 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Social Alpha Foundation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/social-alpha-foundation)
- Total investments: 32
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 53%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jehan-chu-637101/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/collectionist
- Website: https://x.com/collectionist

Jehan Chu is a seed investor at Social Alpha Foundation focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Jehan Chu is co-Founder and Managing Partner of Kenetic, a Hong Kong based early-stage Blockchain investment and trading firm. He has been a Blockchain evangelist since 2013, is the founder of the Ethereum HK meetup, Hyperledger HK meetup, and a founding member of the Bitcoin Association of Hong Kong, and co-Chairman of the Blockchain Committee,Fintech Association of Hong Kong. Jehan is also co-Founder of Social Alpha Foundation, a crypto charity, Global Patron of SF Museum of Modern Art, ex-Google EYE Program Mentor, Vice Chairman of Para Site Art Space, and Director's Circle of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoma)

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $750k–$13M |
| Pre-Seed | $2.5M–$4.2M |
| Series A | $6.5M–$30M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 13 | 41% |
| Cryptocurrency | 9 | 28% |
| Financial Services | 6 | 19% |
| Gaming | 5 | 16% |
| FinTech | 5 | 16% |

41 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 20 | 63% |
| Series A | 3 | 9% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 6% |
| Series C | 2 | 6% |
| Series B | 1 | 3% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 19% |
| Singapore | 4 | 13% |
| Hong Kong | 3 | 9% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 9% |
| Spain | 1 | 3% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Tradoor | Tradoor protects traders, LPs, and the protocol against unforeseen market fluctuations by using clever math and safety measures to enable traders to trade with confidence. | $1.7M | Seed | May 15, 2025 |  |
| Flappy Bird | Flappy Bird Foundation is to uphold the Flappy Bird intellectual property and further the Flappy Bird heritage. The Foundation accurately restores our vintage and nostalgic gameplay while adding new features to give back to the worldwide fan base that started the craze. | $2M | Seed | Oct 14, 2024 |  |
| Fanton | Fanton Fantasy Football is an engaging online game that uses NFTs and the prospect of earning cryptocurrencies brings an exciting new dimension to the game. It allows users to form and manage football teams by picking player cards. | $1M | Seed | Aug 21, 2024 |  |
| Runes DEX | Runes DEX is the automated market maker for runes on the Bitcoin blockchain. Its platform allows users to create and trade meme-based tokens while also providing novel liquidity solutions and farming rewards. | $2M | Seed | Apr 18, 2024 |  |
| Degame | Degame is an NFT gaming platform that provides token analytics, tracking, research, gaming strategy, and IGO. | $6.5M | Series A | May 30, 2023 |  |
| Redeem | Redeem uses Web3 technology to enable users to send and redeem non-fungible tokens (NFT) by using their phone numbers. | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Mar 01, 2023 |  |
| Redeem | Redeem uses Web3 technology to enable users to send and redeem non-fungible tokens (NFT) by using their phone numbers. | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Mar 01, 2023 |  |
| Auki Labs | We're building advanced peer-to-peer positioning protocols and AR cloud infrastructure to enable a new era of spatial computing: 1) Instant Calibration - Get absolute positioning consensus between multiple devices instantly without physical markers or point cloud comparisons.2) Share Across Apps - Any app connected to the Aukiverse cansee its inhabitants and creations. This interoperability layer is the future of AR.3) Asset Cloud - Allow interoperability across apps, and smaller executables, by storing and retrieving assets in the Aukiverse.4) A Firm Hand - Real-time 3D reconstruction of your hands allow you to interact intuitively with a virtual world.5) Foundational - The Aukiverse protocol is the foundation of the future AR metaverse and spatial computing. | $13M | Seed | Mar 24, 2022 |  |
| LAGO | LAGO helps to bridge the traditional and digital art world with interactive, gesture control, curation, voice control and providence. | $4.2M | Pre-Seed | Mar 17, 2022 |  |
| Nested | Nested is a social trading platform that enables users to create and invest in “financial NFTs". | $7.5M | Series A | Mar 02, 2022 |  |

10 of 32 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [NGC Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/neo-global-capital-ngc) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [CMT Digital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cmt-digital-ventures-llc) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Animoca Brands](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/animoca-brands-corporation) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [AU21 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/au21-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [FBG Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fbg-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About Social Alpha Foundation

VC Fund · Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Social Alpha is a non-profit grant-making organization that provides funding to people and projects using Blockchain for social welfare.

2 contacts available at Social Alpha Foundation.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jehan Chu | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jehan-chu |
| Nydia Zhang | Co-Founder and Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nydia-zhang |

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## FAQ

### What does Jehan Chu invest in?

Jehan Chu invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 32 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Jehan Chu's check size?

Jehan Chu typically joins rounds of $750k–$13M at Seed, $2.5M–$4.2M at Pre-Seed and $6.5M–$30M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Jehan Chu participates in.

### When did Jehan Chu last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jehan Chu closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 32 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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