# Lasse Clausen

> Lasse Clausen is a seed investor at 1kx (Berlin) backing Blockchain and FinTech. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [1kx](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1kx)
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 91%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/lasseclausen
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/lalleclausen
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lasse.clausen

Lasse Clausen is a founding partner at 1kx. He attended European Business School Madrid.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 7 | 64% |
| FinTech | 3 | 27% |
| Internet | 3 | 27% |
| Cryptocurrency | 3 | 27% |
| Ethereum | 2 | 18% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 55% |
| Series A | 2 | 18% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 9% |
| Series B | 1 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 36% |
| Germany | 1 | 9% |
| Singapore | 1 | 9% |
| Philippines | 1 | 9% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reown | WalletConnect is an open source standard for connecting desktop Dapps to mobile Wallets using end-to-end encryption by scanning a QR code. It is a simple infrastructure that can be setup by any developer. Using a Bridge server to relay the messages without having access to any of its contents. The contents are encrypted using the session datashared by the QR code between the desktop and mobile. | $13M | Series B | Jan 14, 2025 |  |
| Lagrange Labs | Seamlessly interact between chains with cryptographically secured state proofs, not opaque intermediaries. | $13.2M | Seed | May 08, 2024 |  |
| FuzzLand | FuzzLand is a leveraging AI tool that allows builders, auditors, and traders to automatically and immediately assess smart contracts. | $3M | Seed | Feb 08, 2024 |  |
| Lagrange Labs | Seamlessly interact between chains with cryptographically secured state proofs, not opaque intermediaries. | $4M | Pre-Seed | May 18, 2023 |  |
| LI.FI | Li.Finance provides the cross-chain swap across all liquidity pools and bridges. Li.Finance is a mesh of aggregated cross-chain liquidity networks and protocols that makes liquidity available when needed to fuel next-generation DeFi initiatives with superior UX. It is founded in 2021 and is based in Berlin, Germany. | $5.5M |  | Jul 11, 2022 |  |
| Storygrounds | Strider is a Web 3 platform based on the transparent and secure digital ledger of blockchain that lets creators use DAOs, the DAO spreads membership and ownership of the project across both creators and the users. | $3M | Seed | Feb 10, 2022 |  |
| AcadArena | AcadArena is building student gaming communities across Southeast Asia. | $3.5M | Seed | Dec 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 |  |
| Set Labs | Set Labs is creating the next generation of finance through crypto-financial primitives. The company is developing tools that enable developers to bundle crypto assets together called Sets, which allow users to create cryptocurrency baskets, baskets of non-fungibles, baskets of on-chain securities, and more. | $14M | Series A | May 28, 2021 |  |
| Rarible | Rarible is an operator of a community-owned NFT marketplace that allows users to buy and auction off digital art. It is used to create, sell, or collect digital items secured with blockchain. Its marketplace offers users to trade liquid intellectual properties and any digital content with licensing via NFT tokens that enable ethereum users tocreate and sell digital collectibles. | $1.8M | Seed | Feb 03, 2021 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [CoinFund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinfund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Hashed](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hashed-f96b) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Scalar Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scalar-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [CMT Digital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cmt-digital-ventures-llc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Coinbase Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinbase-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Daedalus Angel Syndicate](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daedalus-angel-syndicate) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About 1kx

VC Fund · Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1kx is a crypto investment firm that specializes in ecosystem growth.

5 contacts available at 1kx.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Nichanan Kesonpat | Investment Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nichanan-kesonpat |
| Peter Pan | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peter-pan-f406 |
| Christopher Heymann | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christopher-heymann |
| Diana Biggs | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/diana-biggs |
| Lasse Clausen | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lasse-clausen |

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## FAQ

### What does Lasse Clausen invest in?

Lasse Clausen invests primarily in Blockchain, FinTech and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 11 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 Lasse Clausen last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Lasse Clausen closed in Jan 2025. Shizune tracks 11 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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