Marc Weinstein
Head of Portfolio Development @ Mechanism Capital
Greater Los Angeles Area, United States
Marc Weinstein is a seed investor at Mechanism Capital in Greater Los Angeles Area focused on Blockchain and Gaming. I graduated from Wharton with a BSc in Economics and began my career as an investment banker. In 2012, I left my cushy job at Morgan Stanley to begin an entrepreneurial adventure. My first startup, TINCO, was a financial services business created to protect investors from the purchasing power destruction of then-unprecedented quantitative easing.Although TINCO failed, it led me to purchase my first Bitcoin in 2013.While building TINCO, I started an advisory business called Satya Management to serve start-ups in the consumer, media & entertainment, and wellness industries.Through a client, I fell in love with the live events industry and decided to start my 2nd company, 90sFest. 90sFest was a live events platform catered to millennials that pioneered the convergence of experiential marketing with mass social media distribution. We sold 90sFest to Scopus Media in 2017.It was at this time that I was hired to try to salvage the now infamous Fyre Festival. Many who saw the Emmy-nominated Netflix documentary, Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened, have called me the “voice of reason.”After Fyre, I saw that my bitcoin investment returned 20x my principal and began deep research on the cryptocurrency industry. I later became Principal at a blockchain-focused venture fund called Wave Financial. I left Wave Financial in 2019 to strike out on my own and continue to advise, coach, and invest in leading entrepreneurs.I once again fell in love with an industry – sustainable agriculture – and now lead business development at Steward.
- Total investments:
- 15
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 20%
Last updated:
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Industries Marc Weinstein invests in
Stages Marc Weinstein invests in
Countries Marc Weinstein invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 6 (40%)
- Gaming 5 (33%)
- Information Technology 3 (20%)
- Finance 2 (13%)
- Computer 2 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 8 (53%)
- Pre-Seed 4 (27%)
- Series A 1 (7%)
- Funding Round 1 (7%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (7%)
Country
- United States 5 (33%)
- Brazil 1 (7%)
- Canada 1 (7%)
- Denmark 1 (7%)
- Singapore 1 (7%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Uranium Digital
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Uranium Digital is astartup that uses tokenization to target the uranium market. The business represents uranium ore with blockchain tokens, facilitating smooth transactions in this highly regulated and initially underfunded industry. | $1.7M / Pre-Seed / Dec 13, 2024 | |
Degen War$
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Degen War$ is a player-versus-player NFT card game that takes place entirely on the blockchain. | Seed / May 08, 2024 | |
Inference Labs
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Inference Labs is advancing the use of zero-knowledge cryptography to guarantee the computational integrity of off-chain AI models. This approach enables AI operators to safeguard and conceal the Intellectual Property inherent in their Neural Networks, without disclosing the confidential weights and biases of their proprietary models. InferenceLabs is creating a network that aggregates verified intelligence (zk-VIN), offering a suite of tools for owners, users, and operators to efficiently integrate their artificial intelligence using zero-knowledge cryptography. | $2.3M / Pre-Seed / Apr 15, 2024 | |
Drosera
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Drosera is a decentralized incident response system that uses hidden security intentions to contain and mitigate attacks. | $1.5M / Pre-Seed / Feb 15, 2024 | |
Kodiak Finance
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Kodiak Finance is a DEX project solution provider, combines centralized and automated liquidity management. Their product package is intended to provide traders with the greatest possible trading experience while also simplifying centralized liquidity provisioning for liquidity providers and protocols. They provide a full range of trading andliquidity solutions by integrating the DEX layers: Decentralized Exchange (Kodiak DEX), Automated Liquidity Manager (Kodiak Islands), Comprehensive incentive layer (Sweet Island), Codeless Token Deployment Factory (Panda Factory) | $2M / Seed / Feb 03, 2024 | |
Arcadia Finance
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Arcadia is an open-source financial technology platform that makes it easy to discover, invest, and manage yield bearing assets on blockchains. Arcadia is the core developer of Arcadia Vaults and Arcadia Lending. | $2M / Seed / Oct 19, 2023 | |
Ion Protocol
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Ion Protocol is a lending protocol that accepts pledged and re-pledged assets, allowing users to deposit any validator-backed asset (including LST and re-pledged holdings, among others). | $2M / Pre-Seed / Jul 14, 2023 | |
t2.world
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t2 is a decentralized publisher curated by communities. On t2, time is value and manifests subcultures. Together, we are the future of reading. | $3.4M / Seed / May 01, 2022 | |
Snackclub
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Snackclub is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) that changes how people consume games and the internet today. | $9M / Seed / Apr 26, 2022 | |
The Fabricant
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The Fabricant is an AI-powered design platform founded in 2018 that helps fashion brands replace physical sampling with virtual prototyping. Used by leading brands including Hugo Boss, Fynch-Hatton, Bestseller Group, Prenatal, and Napapijri. The platform enables design teams to visualize drape, texture, and fit instantly — moving from concept toe-commerce in minutes, not months. The platform reduces content creation costs by 90%, increases new design explorations by 80%, and cuts concept-to-prototype time by 50-70%. It includes tools for sketch-to-image rendering, AI photo studio, image-to-video animation, virtual sampling, and generative image editing. The Fabricant serves enterprise fashion brands and design teams globally, with particular strength in the European market. Plans are available from free to enterprise level, making AI-powered virtual prototyping accessible to teams of all sizes. | $14M / Series A / Apr 07, 2022 | |
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Co-Investors
About Mechanism Capital
Mechanism Capital is an investment firm that invests in the cryptocurrency industry with a focus on decentralized finance or DeFi.
Mechanism Capital Contacts
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Brian Fakhoury
Junior Partner
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Steve Cho
Partner - Head of Mech Play
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Andrew Kang
Co-Founder
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Marc Weinstein
Head of Portfolio Development
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Marc Weinstein
Head of Portfolio Development
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What does Marc Weinstein invest in?
Marc Weinstein invests primarily in Blockchain, Gaming and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 15 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 Marc Weinstein last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Marc Weinstein closed in Dec 2024. Shizune tracks 15 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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