Marc van der Chijs
Founder and Chief Strategy Officer @ Climate 8
Vancouver, Canada
Marc van der Chijs is a seed investor at Climate 8 in Vancouver focused on Financial Services and Bitcoin. Marc van der Chijs is the Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of First Block Capital. He Previously worked at Care Protocol as a Co-Founder and Director. Marc van der Chijs attended Maastricht University.
- Total investments:
- 16
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 19%
Last updated:
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Industries Marc van der Chijs invests in
Stages Marc van der Chijs invests in
Countries Marc van der Chijs invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $57k–$35M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 5 (31%)
- Bitcoin 4 (25%)
- FinTech 4 (25%)
- Software 3 (19%)
- Mobile 2 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 13 (81%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (6%)
- Series A 1 (6%)
Country
- Canada 5 (31%)
- China 3 (19%)
- United States 3 (19%)
- Singapore 1 (6%)
- Costa Rica 1 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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DuelNow
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DuelNow offers bookie-free sports betting. At DuelNow you can create crypto bets, set your odds, and win on your terms. | $11M / Seed / Aug 01, 2024 | |
Blade
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The last-mile solution to enable broad merchant acceptance of virtual currencies, built by payments experts. | $850K / Seed / Feb 01, 2015 | |
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Blade
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The last-mile solution to enable broad merchant acceptance of virtual currencies, built by payments experts. | $850K / Seed / Feb 01, 2015 | |
Melotic
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Melotic, Inc. is a cryptocurrency technology company founded in 2014 based in Hong Kong. Our team includes experienced technologists and professionals, and all of us love bitcoin and its potential. We believe that bitcoin and cryptocurrencies have the potential to make big changes to our world, and we are excited to be a part of it. | $1.2M / Seed / Oct 10, 2014 | |
LedgerX
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LedgerX develops an institutional derivatives exchange platform for digital currencies. It has applied for registration with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to operate a swap execution facility and derivatives clearing organization. It was formerly known as NYBX INC. It was founded in 2014 and is based in New York, New York. | $1.5M / Seed / Feb 15, 2014 | |
Dianrong
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Dianrong is an online marketplace lending company that uses technology to transform the way China is financed to help enrich people’s lives.Dianrong offers individuals and small and medium-sized enterprises a comprehensive, one-stop financial platform supported by industry-leading technology, compliance and transparency. The company’ssophisticated and flexible infrastructure enables it to design and customize lending and borrowing products and services, based on industry-specific data and insights, all supported by online risk-management and operation tools. | $12M / Series A / Dec 31, 2013 | |
RunSocial
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RunSocial’s mission is to help make fitness more fun. There has been some great innovation in digital fitness in recent years but primarily focused on data and tracking.They believe technology should also change the fitness experience while doing it. This is our focus - to make the fitness experience itself more fun and motivating. To succeedhere will profoundly impact people’s lives.The technology underlying what they do is “mixed reality” – they use computer vision and a propriatary system to enable the convergence of video, 3D environments, live interaction and efficient online delivery to target milions of users worldwide.Their team is made up of hardcore techies, content production people and business evangelists that can’t stop talking about partnerships and a digital fitness revolution! They love making amazing ideas come to life. If this appeals to you and you think you could be a good fit, do reach out to us. They are also interested to hear from potential partners and investors. Their contact details are below. | Seed / Dec 01, 2012 | |
PeerReach
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Peerreach is an Amsterdam-based social media startup that provides an influence metric that measures your influence within different areas of expertise. The Peerreach algorithm is similar to the pagerank algorithm that Google uses to identify influential websites. | $310K / Seed / Nov 23, 2012 | |
Kwestr
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Kwestr enables people and companies to accomplish goals, solve problems and get stuff done by breaking large problems into a gamified and manageable step by step tasks that can be shared with friends and contacts via social networks and media in a fun and engaging way.Kwestr can also help companies and brands to unify their online and offlinemarketing campaigns, engage their customer communities, push customers down the CRM funnel of conversion hurdles and receive metrics and analysis of the activities of their users and prospects.Kwestr acts as a digital sandbox for constructing social experiences for groups and individuals both online and offline. | $57K / Seed / Jun 29, 2011 | |
HelpHub
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HelpHub connects tutors and students anytime, anywhere. | Seed | |
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Co-Investors
About Climate 8
Climate 8 company produce carbon credits from nature-based solutions.
Climate 8 Contacts
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Marc van der Chijs
Founder and Chief Strategy Officer
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Sean C Clark
Co-Founder
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FAQ
What does Marc van der Chijs invest in?
Marc van der Chijs invests primarily in Financial Services, Bitcoin and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Marc van der Chijs's check size?
Marc van der Chijs typically joins rounds of $57k–$35M 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 Marc van der Chijs participates in.
When did Marc van der Chijs last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Marc van der Chijs closed in Aug 2024. 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.
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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 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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