# MacLane Wilkison

> MacLane Wilkison is a seed investor at NuCypher (San Francisco) backing Cryptocurrency and Gaming. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [NuCypher](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nucypher)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Sep 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/MacLaneWilkison
- Website: https://x.com/MacLaneWilkison

MacLane Wilkison is a seed investor at NuCypher in San Francisco focused on Cryptocurrency and Gaming. MacLane Wilkison is the Co-Founder and CEO of NuCypher

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3.6M–$4M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cryptocurrency | 2 | 100% |
| Gaming | 1 | 50% |
| Privacy | 1 | 50% |
| Internet | 1 | 50% |
| Software | 1 | 50% |

7 industries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Freatic | Freatic bridges the gap between people who have untapped knowledge and actors who can capitalize on these opportunities. The Freatic strategy, which employs decentralization, game theory, and current cryptography, tries to overcome these constraints and allow untapped information marketplaces to grow. | $3.6M | Seed | Sep 21, 2023 |  |
| NuLink | NuLink provides privacy-preserving technology for decentralized applications via APIs. We enable and make it easy for developers, startups, small businesses and enterprises to build their own applications with all the best security and privacy practices. | $4M | Seed | Nov 29, 2021 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [a16z crypto](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a16z-crypto) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Archetype](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acrylic-b04d) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Anagram](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anagram-43bc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Archetype](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/archetypefund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Arweave](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arweave) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Chainlayer](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chainlayer) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About NuCypher

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

NuCypher is a cryptography company that builds privacy-preserving infrastructure and protocols. It is an Ethereum token that can be staked to run a node on the NuCypher network. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

5 contacts available at NuCypher.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| MacLane Wilkison | Co-Founder and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maclane-wilkison |
| Arjun Hassard | Product Lead and Network Economics Researcher | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arjun-hassard |
| David Nuñez | Cryptographer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-nu%C3%B1ez |
| Derek Pierre | Business Development Lead | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/derek-pierre |
| Kieran Prasch | Software Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kieran-prasch |

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## FAQ

### What does MacLane Wilkison invest in?

MacLane Wilkison invests primarily in Cryptocurrency, Gaming and Privacy startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Sweden. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is MacLane Wilkison's check size?

MacLane Wilkison typically joins rounds of $3.6M–$4M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds MacLane Wilkison participates in.

### When did MacLane Wilkison last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for MacLane Wilkison closed in Sep 2023. Shizune tracks 2 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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