# Mariano Conti

> Mariano Conti is a seed investor backing Blockchain, Financial Services and FinTech. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Aug 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marianoconti/?originalSubdomain=ar

Mariano Conti is a Head of Smart Contracts at Maker Foundation.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.4M–$8M |
| Pre-Seed | $400k–$4.2M |
| Series A | $6M–$32M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 8 | 47% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 24% |
| FinTech | 3 | 18% |
| Cryptocurrency | 3 | 18% |
| Finance | 2 | 12% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 47% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 24% |
| Series A | 3 | 18% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 29% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 18% |
| Singapore | 2 | 12% |
| Canada | 1 | 6% |
| Australia | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Summer.fi | Summer.fi is a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that enables users to lend, borrow, and optimize crypto yields across protocols like Aave, Maker (Sky), and Morpho. It offers automated strategies through Lazy Summer vaults for passive yield and Summer.fi Pro for advanced leverage and position management. Originally known as Oasis.app, it is anon-custodial DeFi interface built by Oazo Apps Limited that simplifies portfolio automation and yield optimization. | $6M | Series A | Aug 15, 2023 |  |
| GitPOAP | GitPOAP is a decentralized reputation platform that displays POAPs for contributions and achievements made off-chain. | $4.3M | Seed | Aug 18, 2022 |  |
| Astaria | Astaria is the solution to the hardest problem in Defi: instant highly liquid NFT lending. Astaria allows users to get instant liquidity for their NFTs. | $8M | Seed | Jun 20, 2022 |  |
| Astaria | Astaria is the solution to the hardest problem in Defi: instant highly liquid NFT lending. Astaria allows users to get instant liquidity for their NFTs. | $8M | Seed | Jun 20, 2022 |  |
| LAGO | LAGO helps to bridge the traditional and digital art world with interactive, gesture control, curation, voice control and providence. | $4.2M | Pre-Seed | Mar 17, 2022 |  |
| Aztec | Aztec develops an ethereum trading protocol that enables private transactions across the public blockchain. Its renowned research team is the force behind PLONK, the lightning-fast standard in zero-knowledge technologies. The team has brought multiple R&D breakthroughs to Layer 2 on Ethereum and has deep experience in deploying complexcryptosystems to Web3. | $17M | Series A | Dec 16, 2021 |  |
| DELV | Element is an open source protocol for fixed and variable yield markets. | $32M | Series A | Oct 19, 2021 |  |
| Liquality | Liquality is the web3 SDK for web2 people, enabling easy integration of wallets and web3 functionality into apps, boosting user engagement and monetization. The Liquality SDK provides users with a seamless experience requiring no crypto knowledge, avoiding pop-up wallets and seed phrase complexity. Developers don’t need specialized web3knowledge, only a few lines of code are required. The Liquality SDK is chain-agnostic and built as open infrastructure, offering the network effects of a platform propelled by its users. | $7M | Seed | Aug 21, 2021 |  |
| Tracer DAO | Trace Digital and Real World Markets. Build and trade with Tracer Perpetuals and gain leveraged exposure to any market in the world. | $4.5M |  | Jun 26, 2021 |  |
| Mycelium | Mycelium is a market-leading technology company leveraging blockchain technology to make financial markets more efficient. We build financial market infrastructure on public blockchains that is open, transparent, and accessible. We specialise in data provision and financial smart contracts. Mycelium has two core products leveraging financial smartcontracts: Perpetual Swaps and Perpetual Pools.We believe that the growing use of blockchains in financial technology will benefit everyone, and are committed to realising this vision. | $4.5M | Seed | Jun 26, 2021 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [The LAO](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-lao) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Libertus Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/libertus-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Scalar Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scalar-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [A.Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capital-partners-l-p) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Double Peak Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/double-peak-group) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Ethereal Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ethereal-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Mariano Conti invest in?

Mariano Conti invests primarily in Blockchain, Financial Services and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 17 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 Mariano Conti's check size?

Mariano Conti typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$8M at Seed, $400k–$4.2M at Pre-Seed and $6M–$32M 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 Mariano Conti participates in.

### When did Mariano Conti last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Mariano Conti closed in Aug 2023. Shizune tracks 17 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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