# Mike Dudas

> Mike Dudas is a seed investor at 6th Man Ventures backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 32 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [6th Man Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/6th-man-ventures)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 32
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 16%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mdudas
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/mdudas
- Website: http://mikedudas.com/

Mike Dudas is a seed investor at 6th Man Ventures in New York focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Mike Dudas is the founder and former CEO of The Block: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/the-block-crypto. Previously, he was the CRO and co-founder of from Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management. Mike Dudas was born on June 1, 1979.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3M–$11M |
| Pre-Seed | $2.6M–$4.2M |
| Series A | $7M–$47M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 14 | 44% |
| Cryptocurrency | 13 | 41% |
| Software | 6 | 19% |
| Web3 | 5 | 16% |
| FinTech | 4 | 13% |

35 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 21 | 66% |
| Series A | 5 | 16% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 6% |
| Series B | 1 | 3% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 3% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 16 | 50% |
| Armenia | 2 | 6% |
| Austria | 2 | 6% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |
| Malaysia | 1 | 3% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Inversion | Inversion is a technology-first investment company that acquires and transforms legacy businesses with blockchain technology. | $26.5M | Seed | Sep 08, 2025 |  |
| Legion | Legion makes on-chain fundraising accessible to ordinary investors by ensuring regulatory compliance and investor accountability. | $2M | Seed | Aug 27, 2024 |  |
| Kintsu | Kintsu provides superior liquid staking solutions that boost your staking benefits and flexibility in DeFi ecosystems. | $4M | Seed | Jul 25, 2024 |  |
| Pixelverse | Pixelverse is a blockchain-based, pixelated P2E game. | $7.5M | Seed | Jun 12, 2024 |  |
| Edgen | Open Social is a firm that focuses on creating a decentralized and sustainable ecosystem for creators, protocol developers, and Dapp developers. | $5M | Seed | May 28, 2024 |  |
| Mayan | Mayan builds cross-chain swap auction protocol. | $3M | Seed | Apr 11, 2024 |  |
| Cube Exchange | Cube Group is a hybrid CEX-DEX digital asset marketplace that addresses the challenges of traditional centralized exchanges and decentralized finance platforms. The company provides a user-centric design, radical transparency, safety, and liquidity, with features like multi-party compute, on-chain settlement, proof-of-reserves, and multi-chainsupport. Its vaults represent users' balances on their respective layer-one blockchains, offering transparent liquidation standards and criteria for derivatives and margin trading. The platform also standardizes market data and order sessions, allowing seamless onboarding for market participants through web interfaces for trading. | $12M | Series A | Jan 29, 2024 |  |
| Atlas | Atlas builds cutting-edge generative 3D AI technology to enable the creation of assets & virtual worlds. | $6M | Seed | Nov 14, 2023 |  |
| Atlas | Atlas specializes in generative 3D AI technology, facilitating the rapid creation of digital assets and virtual environments. The company focuses on designing and deploying information solutions that cater to demanding requirements, such as floating platforms with global reach. Their technology aims to streamline processes and reduce the timetraditionally required for asset creation. | $6M | Seed | Nov 14, 2023 |  |
| Nucleo | Nucleo will promote the adoption of blockchain technologies that protect user privacy with its non-custodial, programmable, and auditability solutions. It uses powerful multi-signature and zero-knowledge cryptography to give any organisation with the privacy infrastructure necessary to benefit from better capital formation, allocation, anddistributed ownership. | $4M | Seed | Nov 22, 2022 |  |

10 of 32 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [ParaFi Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/parafi-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Greylock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greylock) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Seven Seven Six](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seven-seven-six) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [WAGMI Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wagmi-ventures-3757) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [6th Man Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/6th-man-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Animoca Brands](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/animoca-brands-corporation) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About 6th Man Ventures

VC Fund · New York, United States

6th Man Ventures is an early stage crypto VC firm investing in web3 applications & infrastructure6MV was born from a love of web3 in practice and principle, founded and run by a group who both see the potential and actively work to bring projects to life every day. That makes us incredible partners to have on your journey.6th Man Ventureswas established in March 2021 in New York, United States.

5 contacts available at 6th Man Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aaron Kern | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aaron-kern-0dbc |
| Carl Vogel | Partner and Head of Research | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carl-vogel-c188 |
| Mike Dudas | Founder & General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mike-dudas |
| Mustafa Qazi | Researcher | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mustafa-qazi |
| Serge Kassardjian | Founder and General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/serge-kassardjian |

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## FAQ

### What does Mike Dudas invest in?

Mike Dudas invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 32 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 Mike Dudas's check size?

Mike Dudas typically joins rounds of $3M–$11M at Seed, $2.6M–$4.2M at Pre-Seed and $7M–$47M 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 Mike Dudas participates in.

### When did Mike Dudas last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Mike Dudas closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 32 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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