Joe McCann
Founder, CEO, and CIO @ Asymmetric
San Francisco, United States
Joe McCann is a seed investor at Asymmetric in San Francisco focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Joe McCann is the Founder, CEO, and CIO of Asymmetric, a contemporary digital assets investment firm. With over 24 years of experience working on Wall Street to Silicon Valley and with skills ranging from systematic and quantitative trading to fundraising and running a venture-backed, open-source enterprise software company, McCann's perspective on technology and finance is rather unique. McCann is a frequent speaker on the global conference circuit, actively promoting emerging technologies and relevant business use cases to bring pragmatism to futurism. Most recently, McCann was a Senior Director at Microsoft in the Cloud and AI organization, focusing on incubations, M&A, and startups. McCann also ran Quantitative and Systematic Trading for Cryptocurrencies at Passport Capital, a San Francisco-based hedge fund. Before that, McCann was the Founder and CEO of NodeSource, The Node.js Company, the most popular and widely adopted open source project of the last decade. McCann is also an advisor to a handful of companies like Dharma (a decentralized finance app on Ethereum, acquired by OpenSea), Voltage (Bitcoin lightning nodes-as-a-service), and Zebec (a money-streaming protocol on Solana) and is frequently mentioned in publications ranging from TechCrunch to Forbes and the Wall Street Journal.
- Total investments:
- 18
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 11%
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Industries Joe McCann invests in
Stages Joe McCann invests in
Countries Joe McCann invests in
Round sizes
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.9M–$14M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 9 (50%)
- Cryptocurrency 7 (39%)
- Gaming 3 (17%)
- Software 3 (17%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (17%)
Stage
- Seed 15 (83%)
- Angel 1 (6%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (6%)
- Series A 1 (6%)
Country
- United States 11 (61%)
- Singapore 2 (11%)
- Canada 1 (6%)
- Israel 1 (6%)
- Switzerland 1 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Rebel Audio is an agentic podcast platform driven by AI that aims to modernize the production, distribution, and monetization of audio. Rebel Audio is a comprehensive system that simplifies production, publication, analytics, and revenue generation for creators, networks, and media organizations. | Series A / Oct 08, 2026 | ||
| Ryder develops the Ryder One hardware wallet to provide an easy and secure way for users to control their cryptocurrency holdings offline. The wallet uses simple tap-to-pay technology for fast setup and transaction authorization, combined with an EAL6+ Secure Element for protection against digital and physical attacks. | $3.2M / Seed / Oct 17, 2025 | ||
| Arcium is a parallelized confidential computing network that provides trustless, verifiable and efficient encrypted computation. Arcium implements Multiparty Computation Execution Environments (MXEs) that combine MPC, homomorphic encryption, zero-knowledge proofs, and more to enable computation on encrypted data. | $2M / Angel / Mar 27, 2025 | ||
| Ranger Finance is perpetual DEX aggregator that offers deep aggregated liquidity, smart order routing, and comprehensive data insight. | $1.9M / Seed / Jan 24, 2025 | ||
| GolfN is a cutting-edge platform that rewards real-world golf play with digital benefits. Players gain points for their on-course achievements and involvement. Additionally, GolfN introduces digital trade cards, which provide a collectible and interactive element. | $1.3M / Pre-Seed / Jun 25, 2024 | ||
| Saturn is a decentralized Bitcoin exchange that enhances peer-to-peer non-custodial orderbooks and provides a secure trading experience. | $800K / Seed / Feb 26, 2024 | ||
| Cube Group is a hybrid CEX-DEX digital asset marketplace that addresses the challenges of traditional centralized exchanges and decentralized finance platforms. The company provides a user-centric design, radical transparency, safety, and liquidity, with features like multi-party compute, on-chain settlement, proof-of-reserves, and multi-chainsupport. Its vaults represent users' balances on their respective layer-one blockchains, offering transparent liquidation standards and criteria for derivatives and margin trading. The platform also standardizes market data and order sessions, allowing seamless onboarding for market participants through web interfaces for trading. | $9M / Seed / Oct 24, 2023 | ||
| Random Games is a development studio spearheading concept in videogames with a community empowerment, blockchain technology. | $7.6M / Seed / Sep 20, 2022 | ||
| Spice AI is creating technology to make artificial intelligence and machine learning more accessible to developers. Building intelligent apps that leverage AI is still way too hard, even for advanced developers. Spice AI's mission is to make this as easy as creating a modern web page. This mission is in service of our vision to makequality-of-life improving AI accessible to all.Founded in June 2021, Spice AI, Inc. is a Seattle, Washington headquartered technology startup building developer-focused AI. Spice AI was founded by ex-Microsoft and GitHub engineers, with over 20 years of combined experience in distributed and cloud computing. | $13.5M / Seed / Sep 07, 2022 | ||
| Clockwork schedules tasks and automates on-chain workflows directly with the Solana validator network. | $4M / Seed / Aug 30, 2022 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Asymmetric
Asymmetric is a technology company with a fund mandate, founded by solo GP and Investment Manager, Joe McCann
Asymmetric Contacts
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FAQ
What does Joe McCann invest in?
Joe McCann invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Gaming startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 18 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 Joe McCann invest in?
Joe McCann typically joins rounds of $1.9M–$14M at Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Joe McCann's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Joe McCann took part in.
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When did Joe McCann last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Joe McCann closed in Oct 2026. Shizune tracks 18 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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