Joseph Lau
Cofounder & CTO @ Alchemy
San Francisco, United States
Joseph Lau is a seed investor at Alchemy in San Francisco focused on Cryptocurrency and FinTech. Joseph Lau is the Co-founder of Alchemy and Down To Lunch. He previously worked as a Software Engineer at Pinterest. He attended Stanford University.
- Total investments:
- 6
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Joseph Lau invests in
Stages Joseph Lau invests in
Countries Joseph Lau invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $3.5M–$13M
- Series A
- $8.2M–$20M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Cryptocurrency 4 (67%)
- FinTech 3 (50%)
- Software 3 (50%)
- Blockchain 3 (50%)
- Web3 2 (33%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (50%)
- Series A 3 (50%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Lagrange Labs
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Seamlessly interact between chains with cryptographically secured state proofs, not opaque intermediaries. | $13.2M / Seed / May 08, 2024 | |
Dynamic Labs
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Dynamic is multi-chain wallet-based authentication and authorization platform. | $13.5M / Series A / Dec 13, 2023 | |
Mural
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Mural is an instant global payments platform, empowering companies to manage payments and invoices for contractors and vendors worldwide. Our software leverages blockchain technology to facilitate fast, scalable, and compliant transactions to empower our customers to move beyond slow international wires, costly transaction fees, and lack oftransaction visibility.Mural has raised $5.6M and is backed by Firstminute Capital, Galaxy Digital, Digital Currency Group, AlleyCorp, 186 Ventures, and leaders at companies including Ledger, Alchemy, Digits, Argent, Esusu, Apple and many more. More on us at https://www.muralpay.com. | $5.6M / Seed / Aug 23, 2022 | |
XMTP
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XMTP is an open, crypto-native communication protocol that connects communities, applications, and users. It was founded in 2021 and is based in Austin, Texas. | $20M / Series A / Aug 31, 2021 | |
Zerion
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Zerion is an investing app that enables anyone, anywhere in the world, to access a suite of new financial products and services built on the backbone of decentralized finance (DeFi). Simple, user-centered design is combined with a powerful tech stack that aggregates across every major decentralized exchange, offering users a single point of entryfor managing their digital assets with ease. Zerion is non-custodial, which means users never delegate their funds to the platform. This agile approach mitigates centralization risk and has allowed Zerion to operate globally since inception. | $8.2M / Series A / Jul 07, 2021 | |
Andalusia Labs
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Risk Harbor is a risk management marketplace for decentralized finance (DeFi) that utilizes a completely automated, transparent, and impartial claims process to protect liquidity providers and stakers against smart contract hacks and attacks.Our mission is to secure the world’s transition to decentralized financial services by removing the needfor trusted intermediaries, thereby creating a truly permissionless and open financial system accessible to everyone. | $3.5M / Seed / Apr 28, 2021 |
Co-Investors
About Alchemy
Alchemy is a web3 developer platform that helps companies to build reliable decentralized applications. Its mission is to provide developers with the fundamental building blocks they need to create the future of technology without the hassle of managing blockchain infrastructure in-house.
Alchemy Contacts
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Guillaume Poncin
Head of Engineering
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Joseph Lau
Cofounder & CTO
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Ajay Sharma
Investor
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Andy Cao
Investor
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Arjun Patel
Product Growth
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FAQ
What does Joseph Lau invest in?
Joseph Lau invests primarily in Cryptocurrency, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 6 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 Joseph Lau's check size?
Joseph Lau typically joins rounds of $3.5M–$13M at Seed and $8.2M–$20M 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 Joseph Lau participates in.
When did Joseph Lau last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Joseph Lau closed in May 2024. Shizune tracks 6 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 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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