# John Lilic

> John Lilic is a seed investor at Polygon (Zug) backing Blockchain, Web3 and Software. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Polygon](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/polygontechnology)
- Location: Zug, Switzerland
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 24%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jlilic
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/johnlilic

John Lilic is an early Bitcoin and Ethereum adopter and an early ConsenSys employee who spent six years with the company helping it grow to an international leader in the blockchain ecosystem. He is now running his own dedicated family office out of Switzerland while also serving as an investor and product development advisor at Polygon. John isalso a co-founder and treasurer at Code to Inspire, a 501c3 non profit dedicated to teaching Afghan girls how to code.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $375k–$8M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 8 | 47% |
| Web3 | 3 | 18% |
| Software | 3 | 18% |
| Internet | 2 | 12% |
| Asset Management | 2 | 12% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 59% |
| Angel | 2 | 12% |
| Series A | 1 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 6% |
| Post-IPO Equity | 1 | 6% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 2 | 12% |
| France | 2 | 12% |
| United States | 2 | 12% |
| Serbia | 1 | 6% |
| Sweden | 1 | 6% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Robin Markets | Robin Markets is a DeFi platform focused on Polymarket position yields, whose core product allows users to earn yields. | $475K | Angel | Apr 24, 2026 |  |
| Hilbert Group | Hilbert Group AB is an investment firm with sole focus on digital assets, primarily cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies. | $590.3K | Post-IPO Equity | Sep 12, 2025 |  |
| Syntetika | Syntetika is a decentralized platform that enables the issuance and trading of tokenized assets. | $2.5M | Seed | Jul 23, 2025 |  |
| Noble XYZ | Noble XYZ is an asset issuance appchain that seeks to communicate and exchange assets directly with each other by using blockchain communication. | $3.3M | Seed | Oct 24, 2023 |  |
| Superchain Network | Superchain Network solution promotes a mental change away from "Web2" centralized systems and towards "Web3" decentralized design.The objective of Superchain is to realize a truly decentralized data protocol built around users instead than computer constraints. | $4M | Seed | Feb 21, 2023 |  |
| TheGepek | The Gepek is a new platform for package delivery based on a carpooling model. It’s intended exclusively for the carriage of packages, not people!It helps flattening COVID curve by lowering social contacts as one person can manage multiple contactless deliveries. Of course it gives opportunity for extra profit and flexible time management - inperiod of economic crisis new revenue could always help! Also, it’s really convenient for fast cross country package delivery (way cheaper and faster than classic postal services).Platform has security features to ensure safe delivery like driver ratings and identity check through social platform login. All drivers below average rates are excluded from the platform! | $1M | Seed | Dec 12, 2022 |  |
| Morpho Labs | Morpho is an on-chain peer-to-peer layer on top of lending pools. Rates are seamlessly improved for borrowers and lenders while preserving the same guarantees. Morpho combines the efficiency of P2P with the liquidity of lending pools. Users enjoy an improved APY while maintaining the pool’s flexibility | $18M | Seed | Jul 12, 2022 |  |
| Morpho Labs | Morpho is an on-chain peer-to-peer layer on top of lending pools. Rates are seamlessly improved for borrowers and lenders while preserving the same guarantees. Morpho combines the efficiency of P2P with the liquidity of lending pools. Users enjoy an improved APY while maintaining the pool’s flexibility | $18M |  | Jul 12, 2022 |  |
| MetaVision Labs | Laboratory creating the next generation of Play to Earn games using TokenEngineering | $2.2M | Seed | Feb 04, 2022 |  |
| Telos | Telos is a third-generation blockchain platform for the construction of fast and scalable distributed applications with free transactions. The Telos network has been developed to power the economies of the future and provides human-scale solutions to global challenges. Telos is the mass adoption and open finance network led by a pioneer communitythat focuses on use and adoption in the real world. | $8M | Seed | Nov 09, 2021 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Atka Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atka-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Cherry Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cherry-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Collider](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/collider-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Daedalus Angel Syndicate](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daedalus-angel-syndicate) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Galaxy Digital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/galaxy-digital-lp) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Nascent](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nascent-91c1) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Polygon

VC Fund · Bengaluru, India

Polygon is a platform for Ethereum scaling and infrastructure development and web3. Its growing suite of products offers developers easy access to all scaling and infrastructure solutions: L2 solutions (ZK Rollups and Optimistic Rollups), sidechains, hybrid solutions, stand-alone and enterprise chains, data availability solutions, and more.Polygon’s scaling solutions have seen widespread adoption with 7,000+ applications hosted, 1B+ total transactions processed, ~130M+ unique user addresses, and $5B+ in assets secured.

5 contacts available at Polygon.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sandeep Nailwal | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sandeep-nailwal |
| Bobbin Threadbare | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bobbin-threadbare |
| Dalip Tyagi | SVP and Head, Developer Relations | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dalip-tyagi |
| Daniel Lubarov | Co-Founder, Polygon Zero | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-lubarov |
| David Schwartz | Co-Founder and Polygon zkEVM Project Lead, Polygon ID & Polygon Hermez | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-schwartz-a9d5 |

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## FAQ

### What does John Lilic invest in?

John Lilic invests primarily in Blockchain, Web3 and Software startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is John Lilic's check size?

John Lilic typically joins rounds of $375k–$8M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds John Lilic participates in.

### When did John Lilic last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for John Lilic closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 17 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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