Juan Benet
Founder,CEO,Engineer @ Protocol Labs
Palo Alto, United States
Juan Benet is a seed investor at Protocol Labs in Palo Alto focused on Software and Blockchain. Juan Benet is the Founder, CEO, and Engineer at Protocol Labs. He is a former CTO at Loki Studios. He attended Stanford University.
- Total investments:
- 22
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 9%
Last updated:
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Industries Juan Benet invests in
Stages Juan Benet invests in
Countries Juan Benet invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.5M–$8.3M
- Series A
- $7.7M–$73M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 6 (27%)
- Blockchain 6 (27%)
- Cryptocurrency 6 (27%)
- Financial Services 4 (18%)
- Information Technology 4 (18%)
Stage
- Seed 12 (55%)
- Series A 4 (18%)
- Grant 1 (5%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (5%)
- Series B 1 (5%)
Country
- United States 14 (64%)
- France 1 (5%)
- Greece 1 (5%)
- Switzerland 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| General Proximity is a pioneering future-oriented proximity medicine that envisions the future of medicine. | $16M / Seed / Jan 03, 2025 | ||
| WeatherXM is a community-powered weather network that rewards weather station owners while also providing accurate weather data to Web3 businesses. They provide decentralized and hyper local weather data collection for the emerging Web3 data economy. | $7.7M / Series A / May 22, 2024 | ||
| Prime Intellect is an artificial intelligence infrastructure company that develops an open platform for training, deploying, and continuously improving AI models and agents. It combines AI infrastructure, reinforcement learning (RL) tooling, compute orchestration, and open-source research to make frontier AI training accessible to organizations ofall sizes. Its platform enables enterprises and researchers to build, evaluate, fine-tune, and deploy custom AI models while leveraging globally distributed compute resources.The company's platform provides an integrated stack for compute, RL post-training, evaluation, inference, and agent development. Its offerings include hosted model training on thousands of reinforcement learning environments, evaluation tools with public leaderboards, one-click deployment for fine-tuned models, and infrastructure that continuously feeds production data back into training workflows. Prime Intellect also operates an Environment Hub containing thousands of open-source RL environments and develops prime-rl, an open-source framework for large-scale asynchronous reinforcement learning. | $5.5M / Seed / Apr 22, 2024 | ||
| Zama's mission is to bring end-to-end encryption to AI. Using their homomorphic inference platform, companies can process their customer's data without seeing it, thereby preventing data breaches and surveillance.Zama's solution is based on a breakthrough in homomorphic encryption, which enables evaluating deep neural networks overencrypted data, without changing anything to the network architecture. Zama is open-source by design, as they believe privacy-enabling technologies should benefit the widest possible community of developers and researchers.Zama's cofounders are Dr Pascal Paillier, one of the most renowned cryptography researcher, and Dr Rand Hindi, a serial entrepreneur who formerly founded Snips. | $73.4M / Series A / Mar 07, 2024 | ||
| Gradia is an integrated, concierge care platform designed for clinics to support patients with chronic conditions. | $4.2M / Seed / Jul 12, 2023 | ||
| Artizen helps communities crowdfund new grants for art, science, and public goods. | $2.2M / Seed / May 11, 2023 | ||
| Huddle 01 is a decentralized video conferencing re-imagined for performance, affordability, and security. | $2.8M / Seed / Apr 06, 2023 | ||
| Toku is an all-in-one global solution for token compensation and tax compliance. | $20M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 08, 2023 | ||
| PiKNiK & Company is a San Diego-based, VC-backed firm investigating data storage and computing use-cases atop novel blockchains. Within PiKNiK & Company, PiKNiK Cloud is a cloud service provider that focuses on fellow startups and SMBs. The Infrastructure as a Service offering is a computing and storage alternative with unbeatable pricingand customer support compared to global platforms like AWS or GCP. From a single virtual machine to a fleet of hundreds of GPUs, customers trust PiKNiK Cloud to power their web apps, databases, remote desktops, cloud gaming, AI model inference, HPC simulations, Web3 mining, hybrid and multi-cloud strategies, data backups, and more. | $5M / Pre-Seed / Dec 31, 2022 | ||
| Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company uses and leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler.It combines a powerful search across several entities with fine-grain alerts to stay on top ofchanges, and semi-automatic research assistance for gaps in knowledge that enable people in organizations to stay current, understand and leverage the latest trends in their industry. | $40M / Series B / Oct 03, 2022 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Protocol Labs
Protocol Labs is a research, development, and deployment lab for network protocols. Protocol Labs creates software systems that tackle significant challenges, aiming to solve them with new technology breakthroughs, great user experience design, and an open-source approach to creation.
Protocol Labs Contacts
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Juan Benet
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Karola Kirsanow
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FAQ
What does Juan Benet invest in?
Juan Benet invests primarily in Software, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 22 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 Juan Benet invest in?
Juan Benet typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$8.3M at Seed and $7.7M–$73M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Juan Benet's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Juan Benet took part in.
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When did Juan Benet last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Juan Benet closed in Jan 2025. Shizune tracks 22 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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