# Owen Simonin

> Owen Simonin is a seed investor at Meria (Metz) backing Web3, Bitcoin and FinTech. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Meria](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/just-mining)
- Location: Metz, France
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Feb 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/owensimonin/?originalSubdomain=fr
- Website: https://x.com/PowerHasheur

Owen Simonin is a French entrepreneur, investor, and influencer specializing in blockchain and cryptocurrencies. He is the founder and CEO of Meria (formerly Just Mining), a leading company in blockchain infrastructure and staking services. Through his YouTube channel "Hasheur," he has played a key role in educating the French-speakingcommunity about crypto and decentralized finance.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$3.2M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.1M–$3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Web3 | 2 | 33% |
| Bitcoin | 2 | 33% |
| FinTech | 2 | 33% |
| Analytics | 2 | 33% |
| Blockchain | 2 | 33% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 33% |
| Angel | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Byzantine Finance | Byzantine is the gateway infrastructure for restaking. We enable anyone to build customizable restaking vaults that give them full control over their risks and rewards. The Byzantine protocol is designed to make risk management of restaking strategies permissionless and flexible allowing for a more competitive, risk-optimised yield. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Feb 25, 2025 |  |
| InterCellar | InterCellar offers you a unique buying and reselling experience. In line with the innovative spirit of the web3. | $1.1M | Angel | Dec 19, 2023 |  |
| Waltio | Waltio is a French cryptocurrency tax assistant. We are on a mission to drive crypto adoption through an easy to use.With automated synchronization to exchanges and wallets, our tax bot computes net asset value / Gain and loss, provide advanced analytics dashboards, tax reporting. Waltio tracks trading and Defi products and variouscrypto-incomes. | $1.8M | Seed | Nov 26, 2023 |  |
| Bubblemaps | Bubblemaps is the most powerful tool for on-chain investigation!Featuring a playful and engaging visual interface, Bubblemaps simplifies access to on-chain data and lowers the entry barrier for users. We have partnered with several blockchains that share our vision for easy on-chain data, such as Arbitrum, Polygon, Avalanche, BNB Chain, some ofthem even participating in our fundraising round. Additionally, our visuals are directly accessible on leading DeFi platforms like OpenSea | $3.2M | Seed | Sep 18, 2023 |  |
| Bitstack | It all started with an idea in 2021. Initially built to democratize Bitcoin in France, Bitstack has gone from a simple product that rounds up your everyday purchases and invests the spare change in bitcoin, to a dynamic app bringing a better way to manage all things money, with better money. Our mission is to empower people to better financetheir future by participating in a more open and inclusive financial system. We are rebuilding finance from the group up by building the first crypto-native bank that leverages Bitcoin and stablecoins to revolutionize consumer banking. | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | May 11, 2022 |  |
| Hoora | Hoora is a mobile gaming platform that offers an instant, scrollable feed of over 200 casual and arcade mini-games playable without downloads or waiting. | $1.3M | Seed |  |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Avalanche](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avalanche-f0c4) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Blockwall](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blockwall-management-gmbh) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Crédit Agricole Private Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/credit-agricole-aa65) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cronos Accelerator Program](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cronos-accelerator-program) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cronos.Crypto](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cronos-crypto) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Daxos Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daxos-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Meria

VC Fund · Metz, France

Meria is an online platform for cryptocurrency mining. It specializes in crypto staking, lending, master nodes, minors, and cloud mining that help users generate cryptocurrency while validating transactions from a blockchain network. The company's main objective is to make these technologies accessible to as many people as possible through anintuitive investment platform.

2 contacts available at Meria.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Julien Henrot-Dias | Associé | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julien-henrot-dias |
| Owen Simonin | Founder and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/owen-simonin-1fbb |

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## FAQ

### What does Owen Simonin invest in?

Owen Simonin invests primarily in Web3, Bitcoin and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Owen Simonin's check size?

Owen Simonin typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$3.2M at Seed and $1.1M–$3M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Owen Simonin participates in.

### When did Owen Simonin last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Owen Simonin closed in Feb 2025. Shizune tracks 6 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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