# Nicole Zhang

> Nicole Zhang is a seed investor at LIF backing Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Web3. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [LIF](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lif-0d01)
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 64%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolejianqiaozhang

Nicole Zhang is a Partner at Lingfeng Innovation Fund. She is a former Executive Director at Binance Labs.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$13M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 8 | 57% |
| Cryptocurrency | 4 | 29% |
| Web3 | 3 | 21% |
| Gaming | 3 | 21% |
| Decentralized Finance (DeFi) | 2 | 14% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 64% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 21% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 36% |
| Singapore | 3 | 21% |
| Vietnam | 1 | 7% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Oshi | Oshi is an open animation platform that unites creators and fans to forge global anime hits within a blockchain-powered ecosystem. | $12.5M | Seed | Jan 18, 2025 |  |
| Pivotal | We're transforming 5 million developers into 500 million creators through ChatAndBuild.com—our AI-powered platform that removes technical barriers between imagination and implementation.What makes our approach revolutionary is connecting creative intent directly to economic value through our Bitcoin Productivity Stack. When someone buildswith ChatAndBuild, their productive activity generates yield for Bitcoin stakers, creating a flywheel where productivity fuels more productivity. Complemented by EarnTV, our Bloomberg collaboration, we're building the infrastructure for the intention economy—where value flows to creators and users, not platforms. | $2.5M | Seed | Nov 15, 2024 |  |
| Filament Finance | Filament Finance develops a decentralized perpetual exchange specialized in liquidity efficiency and asset accessibility. It is an oracle-based Perpetual DEX, designed to help traders and liquidity providers extract the most out of perpetual trading. | $1.1M | Seed | Sep 18, 2024 |  |
| ARC the Community | ARC is an app-based NFT membership private platform designed as a social space on which to connect and collaborate. ARC aims to bring together people into a high-trust environment to create collaborations and fun, engaging experiences together. | $4.5M | Seed | Aug 20, 2024 |  |
| Crestal | Crestal offers a decentralized platform that meets the objectives of Web3 applications through modular service architecture. The Crestal blockchain monitors and scores services using a Proof of Performance (PoP) consensus process. | $2M | Pre-Seed | May 03, 2024 |  |
| yoloyolo | In order to match the top NFT IPS with leading brands and uncover growth opportunities and revenue models for both these brands and the NFT IP holders, Yoloyolo is developing new infrastructure. | $3.5M | Seed | Oct 17, 2022 |  |
| Sender Wallet | Sender Wallet is a NEAR ecological encrypted wallet. |  | Seed | Apr 11, 2022 |  |
| Ultiverse | Ultiverse is working on connecting web3 with a VR-compatible virtual world that will be home to the first AAA blockchain game. | $5M | Seed | Mar 25, 2022 |  |
| Ultiverse | Ultiverse is working on connecting web3 with a VR-compatible virtual world that will be home to the first AAA blockchain game. | $4.5M | Seed | Mar 18, 2022 |  |
| Manta Network | Manta Network is building a secure and interoperable future with Zero-Knowledge. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 17, 2022 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Alameda Research](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alameda-research) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [DeFiance Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/defiance-capital-96c1) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Genblock Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/genblock-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Arcane Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arcane-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Artemis Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/artemis-capital-02e4) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Avail](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avail-9fef) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About LIF

VC Fund · Hong Kong, Hong Kong

LIF focuses on early-stage Web3.0 investment, and incubates exciting blockchain projects with leading engineers.

1 contacts available at LIF.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Nicole Zhang | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nicole-zhang-e591 |

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## FAQ

### What does Nicole Zhang invest in?

Nicole Zhang invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Web3 startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 14 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 Nicole Zhang's check size?

Nicole Zhang typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$13M 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 Nicole Zhang participates in.

### When did Nicole Zhang last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Nicole Zhang closed in Jan 2025. Shizune tracks 14 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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