# John Fiorelli

> John Fiorelli is a seed investor at Kenetic (New York) backing Blockchain and Gaming. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Kenetic](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kenetic-capital)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: May 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-fiorelli-4aa408/

John Fiorelli is a Head of Advisory at Kenetic Capital. He is Advisor on Bluzelle, Airswap, Simple Token & Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange token sales and also founder, former CEO of CutPaste. John has 15 years experience in Product, UX, and Experiential Design. He has a BSE in Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 3 | 43% |
| Gaming | 2 | 29% |
| FinTech | 1 | 14% |
| Finance | 1 | 14% |
| Lending | 1 | 14% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 71% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 14% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 43% |
| Singapore | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Theoriq | Theoriq is a platform for unbounded AI innovation with a modular AI agent base layer. | $6.2M | Seed | May 13, 2024 |  |
| Kodiak Finance | Kodiak Finance is a DEX project solution provider, combines centralized and automated liquidity management. Their product package is intended to provide traders with the greatest possible trading experience while also simplifying centralized liquidity provisioning for liquidity providers and protocols. They provide a full range of trading andliquidity solutions by integrating the DEX layers: Decentralized Exchange (Kodiak DEX), Automated Liquidity Manager (Kodiak Islands), Comprehensive incentive layer (Sweet Island), Codeless Token Deployment Factory (Panda Factory) | $2M | Seed | Feb 03, 2024 |  |
| Real Player DAO | RPO: THE FIRST TASK PLATFORM OF GAMEFI | $10.2M | Seed | Apr 05, 2022 |  |
| Real Player DAO | RPO: THE FIRST TASK PLATFORM OF GAMEFI | $10.2M |  | Apr 05, 2022 |  |
| Ready Player DAO | Ready Player DAO is a future of gaming is decentralized and permissionless platform. | $10.2M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 05, 2022 |  |
| WeMeta | WeMeta is the go-to platform for all things, from Community Leaderboards to Activity Feeds, to buying, selling, and trading digital land. | $1.1M | Seed | Nov 03, 2021 |  |
| Jet Protocol Holdings | Jet Protocol Holdings offers a borrowing agreement focusing on innovative loan products and cross-chain interest rate arbitrage, allowing users to simplify borrowing and lending transactions. | $4.8M | Seed | Jun 10, 2021 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [1kx](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1kx) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [SAWA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sawa-crypo-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [TCG](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-chernin-group-llc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [ConsenSys Mesh](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/consensys-mesh) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Fourth Revolution Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fourth-revolution-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Hashed](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hashed-f96b) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Kenetic

VC Fund · Central, Hong Kong

Kenetic is a proprietary trading and VC investment firm focused on digital assets and blockchain related companies. They have developed technology to facilitate their quantitative trading strategies and offer various digital asset related structured products to counterparts.

2 contacts available at Kenetic.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jehan Chu | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jehan-chu |
| John Fiorelli | Regional Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-fiorelli |

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## FAQ

### What does John Fiorelli invest in?

John Fiorelli invests primarily in Blockchain, Gaming and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 7 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 John Fiorelli last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for John Fiorelli closed in May 2024. Shizune tracks 7 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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