# Larry Cermak

> Larry Cermak is a seed investor in New York backing Cryptocurrency and Blockchain. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Jul 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/larry-cermak-b2b44b5b/

Larry Cermak is a Director of Research at The Block.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $900k–$7M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.7M–$2.3M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $2.1M–$20M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cryptocurrency | 7 | 50% |
| Blockchain | 6 | 43% |
| FinTech | 4 | 29% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 29% |
| Trading Platform | 2 | 14% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 14% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 14% |
| Angel | 1 | 7% |
| Series A | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 29% |
| Spain | 1 | 7% |
| Singapore | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Agent | Agent can assist users in navigating DeFi's complexities more efficiently and flexibly, by offering easy creation and management of multiple sub-accounts. | $1M | Seed | Jul 29, 2024 |  |
| ZAP | ZAP offers a reputation-based token distribution protocol that supports fair rewards for user contributions within the Blast ecosystem. It enables users to participate in various projects through missions and seamless investment options. Additionally, ZAP is expanding its services to other blockchains and developing tools to simplify access toventure-capital-backed projects. | $2.1M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 01, 2024 |  |
| ZAP | ZAP offers a reputation-based token distribution protocol that supports fair rewards for user contributions within the Blast ecosystem. It enables users to participate in various projects through missions and seamless investment options. Additionally, ZAP is expanding its services to other blockchains and developing tools to simplify access toventure-capital-backed projects. | $900K | Seed | Dec 01, 2023 |  |
| Blast | Blast is an Optimistic Rollup-based Layer 2 network. | $20M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 21, 2023 |  |
| Flip | Flip is a developer of an online platform to provide insights from blockchain data to help investors make better decisions in the Defi and NFT marketplace. The company builds free tools for artists and collectors to make the most of their NFTs across all chains and marketplaces. | $6.5M | Seed | Jan 10, 2022 |  |
| NFTScoring | NFTScoring is a trading platform and marketplace for the NFT market. Unlike all other traditional NFT marketplaces, they provide a proper trading venue for both professional traders and casual investors. The platform is developing a new set of tools required for the NFT market to professionalize, integrate, and thus enter the mainstream. It wasfounded in 2021 and is headquartered in the Czech Republic. | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2022 |  |
| Kresko Labs | Kresko’s mission is to make wealth accessible to anyone, anywhere.Kresko is building an open platform for synthetic stocks, commodities, and crypto. The Kresko platform introduces novel improvements over existing solutions: One-Stop DeFi App: A beautiful platform designed to manage all your assets — mint, swap, pool, and farm — all in oneplace.Risk Management: Finally, a DeFi App that clearly shows your portfolio health and risk.Protocol: The platform is built on top of the protocol that introduces capital efficiency, better user experience, and frictionless listing of assets. | $2.3M | Seed | Aug 06, 2021 |  |
| ClayStack | ClayStack is the next-generation blockchain-agnostic staking protocol that enables users to unlock the power of staked digital assets in the form of liquid staking derivative tokens. | $5.2M | Seed | Jul 13, 2021 |  |
| Everclear | Connext is a crosschain liquidity network that enables fast, fully-noncustodial transfers between EVM-compatible chains and L2 systems. It leverages the Ethereum blockchain along with groundbreaking distributed systems tech to enable instant, near-free transfers anywhere in the world.The company was founded in 2017 by Arjun Bhuptani, Layne Haber,and Rahul Sethuram. | $12M | Series A | Jul 13, 2021 |  |
| Impossible Finance | Impossible Finance uses decentralized financial protocols to give everyone the same access to financial products, which were previously only available to institutions and select individuals. | $7M | Seed | Jun 03, 2021 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [eGirl Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/egirl-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [1kx](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1kx) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Hashed](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hashed-f96b) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [The LAO](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-lao) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [BitScale](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bitscale-4998) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [BR Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blockrock-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Larry Cermak invest in?

Larry Cermak invests primarily in Cryptocurrency, Blockchain and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 14 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 Larry Cermak's check size?

Larry Cermak typically joins rounds of $900k–$7M at Seed, $1.7M–$2.3M at Pre-Seed and $2.1M–$20M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Larry Cermak participates in.

### When did Larry Cermak last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Larry Cermak closed in Jul 2024. Shizune tracks 14 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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