# Linda Xie

> Linda Xie is a seed investor at Scalar Capital backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Scalar Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scalar-capital)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Dec 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindaxie/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/ljxie
- Website: https://x.com/ljxie

Linda Xie is a seed investor at Scalar Capital in San Francisco focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Linda Xie is co-founder and Managing Director of Scalar Capital. Previously she was a product manager at Coinbase which she joined in June 2014. At Coinbase, Linda has worked with regulators and law enforcement on compliance for digital assets. Prior to Coinbase, she was a portfolio risk analyst at AIG. Linda holds a B.A. in Economics from theUniversity of California, San Diego.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$6M |
| Series A | $10M–$23M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 9 | 56% |
| Cryptocurrency | 7 | 44% |
| Software | 6 | 38% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 25% |
| FinTech | 3 | 19% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 63% |
| Series A | 4 | 25% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 14 | 88% |
| Israel | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Shibuya | Shibuya is a platform for creators and studios of web-3 content. | $6.9M | Seed | Dec 08, 2022 |  |
| Contribution Labs, Inc. | Contribution Labs, Inc. (dba Megaphone) builds a SaaS platform that lets consumer‑facing Web3 brands design, launch, and measure token‑based marketing programs—airdrop claims, quests, and referral incentives—without writing smart‑contract code. The tools combine off‑chain campaign analytics with on‑chain distribution rails so marketers can targethigher‑quality wallets and reward them with branded digital assets. The company today supports a roster of early‑adopter enterprises including Coinbase, Forbes, Optimism, Alchemy, Farcaster, and more. | $2.4M | Seed | Aug 30, 2022 |  |
| reNFT | reNFT is a rental protocol that enables lending and borrowing of NFTs. | $1.5M | Seed | Oct 09, 2021 |  |
| XMTP | 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 |  |
| HumanFirst | HumanFirst accelerates the adoption of patient-centered clinical trials using precision digital measures (e.g., digital biomarkers and eCOA).At HumanFirst, we offer a precision measures platform - the world’s largest AI-powered SaaS platform trusted to improve human outcomes. We provide insights, intelligence, and accuracy with validated evidencedata to precisely guide and accelerate human-centric drug development. Twenty-two of the 25 largest pharmaceutical companies in the world have used the HumanFirst platform to evaluate and enable the deployment of digital health technologies (DHTs). | $12M | Series A | May 31, 2021 |  |
| Iron Fish | Iron Fish is a novel cryptocurrency focused on privacy and accessibility. Iron Fish is a Layer 1 blockchain that provides the strongest privacy guarantees on every single transaction. | $5.3M | Seed | Apr 06, 2021 |  |
| OpenSea | OpenSea is a peer-to-peer marketplace for crypto collectibles and non-fungible tokens. It includes collectibles, gaming items, and other virtual goods backed by a blockchain. On OpenSea, anyone can buy or sell these items through a smart contract. | $23M | Series A | Mar 18, 2021 |  |
| Saddle Finance | Saddle Finance is an automated market maker (AMM) optimized for pegged value crypto assets. | $4.3M | Seed | Jan 19, 2021 |  |
| Pulley | Pulley is a company that provides a platform to help startup founders and employees figure out the equity. It also offers a cap table management product for startups to provide employee and investor equity information and maintain accurate ownership records. The platform is used to issue employee and investor equity and maintain accurate ownershiprecords as the company scales. Pulley manages the cap table and runs the client's business with a clear understanding of the ownership of the business. | $10M | Series A | Oct 21, 2020 |  |
| Opyn | Opyn allows users to earn a premium or take views on assets by trading options on ETH and ERC20s.Opyn v2 offers European, cash-settled options that auto-exercise upon expiry. Opyn options (oTokens) are ERC20s, so they can be trading on any decentralized exchange that follows the ERC20 standard.Opyn v1 laid the foundation for DeFi options as thefirst live ERC20 options protocol. For the first time, anyone could create, buy, and sell options on any ERC20 token. Opyn v1 will remain live on the Ethereum network, providing a venue for American, physically settled options. We will continue to launch ERC20 options on Opyn v1. | $2.2M | Seed | Jun 22, 2020 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [MetaStable Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/metastable-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Coinbase Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinbase-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Dragonfly](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dragonfly-capital-partners-eed4) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Electric Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/electric-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Scalar Capital

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Scalar Capital is a hedge fund company specializing in cryptoassets. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

4 contacts available at Scalar Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Linda Xie | Co-founder & Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/linda-xie |
| Cyrus Younessi | Director of Research and Trading | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cyrus-younessi |
| Jordan Clifford | Co-founder and Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jordan-clifford |
| Jordan Palmer | Director of Operations | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jordan-palmer-8aef |

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## FAQ

### What does Linda Xie invest in?

Linda Xie invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 16 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 Linda Xie's check size?

Linda Xie typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$6M at Seed and $10M–$23M 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 Linda Xie participates in.

### When did Linda Xie last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Linda Xie closed in Dec 2022. Shizune tracks 16 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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