# Patrick Dai

> Patrick Dai is a seed investor at Qtum backing Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Web3. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Qtum](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/qtum)
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: May 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-dai-39278a108/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/patrickxdai
- Website: https://x.com/patrickxdai

Patrick Dai is a seed investor at Qtum focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Patrick is graduated from Draper University and dropped out of his doctoral degree from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Previously employed by Alibaba, and committed to the blockchain technology development, with abundant blockchain industry development experience.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $350k–$2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 3 | 60% |
| Cryptocurrency | 2 | 40% |
| Web3 | 1 | 20% |
| Privacy | 1 | 20% |
| Computer | 1 | 20% |

10 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 60% |
| Angel | 1 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Israel | 1 | 20% |
| Poland | 1 | 20% |
| United States | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| RedStone | RedStone is a quickly growing blockchain startup, building two data-focused products aimed to unlock the potential of DeFi & Web3:1. RedStone Oracles: A new generation of blockchain oracles with a novel architecture that optimises the way data is delivered to decentralised Apps (dApps). RedStone provides 1,100+ data feeds delivered at a fewseconds refresh interval to Ethereum, Polygon, Avalanche, Arbitrum and 30+ other top chains. We support price feeds for assets such as popular & long-tail tokens, fiat currencies, commodities, stocks, NFTs floor and RedStone can deliver also other types of data i.e. transactions volume data or results of real-world events like sports games. Available feeds -> https://app.redstone.finance/ ; Sample integration on popular chains -> https://showroom.redstone.finance/2. Warp: A data-processing Smart Contract layer on top of the Arweave data storage chain. Warp is optimised for data-heavy use cases such as sophisticated gaming & social dApps, interactive NFTs, simple on-chain Machine Learning and other blockchain-based solutions that have not been feasible before, due to huge data processing costs on chains like Ethereum or Avalanche. Warp overview -> https://warp.cc/ ; Warp Academy -> https://academy.warp.cc/RedStone Gitcoin grant -> https://gitcoin.co/grants/5477/redstone-new-generation-of-oracles-for-defiWarp Gitcoin grant -> https://gitcoin.co/grants/7733/warp-contracts-on-arweave-revolution-of-on-chain- | $350K | Angel | May 22, 2023 |  |
| RedStone | RedStone is a quickly growing blockchain startup, building two data-focused products aimed to unlock the potential of DeFi & Web3:1. RedStone Oracles: A new generation of blockchain oracles with a novel architecture that optimises the way data is delivered to decentralised Apps (dApps). RedStone provides 1,100+ data feeds delivered at a fewseconds refresh interval to Ethereum, Polygon, Avalanche, Arbitrum and 30+ other top chains. We support price feeds for assets such as popular & long-tail tokens, fiat currencies, commodities, stocks, NFTs floor and RedStone can deliver also other types of data i.e. transactions volume data or results of real-world events like sports games. Available feeds -> https://app.redstone.finance/ ; Sample integration on popular chains -> https://showroom.redstone.finance/2. Warp: A data-processing Smart Contract layer on top of the Arweave data storage chain. Warp is optimised for data-heavy use cases such as sophisticated gaming & social dApps, interactive NFTs, simple on-chain Machine Learning and other blockchain-based solutions that have not been feasible before, due to huge data processing costs on chains like Ethereum or Avalanche. Warp overview -> https://warp.cc/ ; Warp Academy -> https://academy.warp.cc/RedStone Gitcoin grant -> https://gitcoin.co/grants/5477/redstone-new-generation-of-oracles-for-defiWarp Gitcoin grant -> https://gitcoin.co/grants/7733/warp-contracts-on-arweave-revolution-of-on-chain- | $350K | Seed | May 22, 2023 |  |
| BEAM | BEAM is a next-generation confidential cryptocurrency based on an elegant and innovative Mimblewimble protocol. Things that make BEAM special include:• Users have complete control over privacy - a user decides which information will be available and to which parties, having complete control over his personal data in accordance with his will andapplicable laws. • Confidentiality without penalty - in BEAM confidential transactions do not cause bloating of the blockchain, avoiding excessive computational overhead or penalty on performance or scalability while completely concealing the transaction value. • No trusted setup required.• Blocks are mined using Equihash Proof-of-Work algorithm. • Limited emission using periodic halving with a total amount of coins ~250 million. • No addresses are stored in the blockchain - no information whatsoever about either the sender or the receiver of a transaction is stored in the blockchain. • Superior scalability through compact blockchain size - using the “cut-through” feature of Mimblewimble makes the BEAM blockchain orders of magnitude smaller than any other blockchain implementation. • BEAM supports many transaction types such as escrow transactions, time-locked transactions, atomic swaps and more. • No premine. No ICO. Backed by a treasury, emitted from every block during the first five years • Implemented from scratch in C++ by a team of professional developers | $2M |  | May 20, 2021 |  |
| BEAM | BEAM is a next-generation confidential cryptocurrency based on an elegant and innovative Mimblewimble protocol. Things that make BEAM special include:• Users have complete control over privacy - a user decides which information will be available and to which parties, having complete control over his personal data in accordance with his will andapplicable laws. • Confidentiality without penalty - in BEAM confidential transactions do not cause bloating of the blockchain, avoiding excessive computational overhead or penalty on performance or scalability while completely concealing the transaction value. • No trusted setup required.• Blocks are mined using Equihash Proof-of-Work algorithm. • Limited emission using periodic halving with a total amount of coins ~250 million. • No addresses are stored in the blockchain - no information whatsoever about either the sender or the receiver of a transaction is stored in the blockchain. • Superior scalability through compact blockchain size - using the “cut-through” feature of Mimblewimble makes the BEAM blockchain orders of magnitude smaller than any other blockchain implementation. • BEAM supports many transaction types such as escrow transactions, time-locked transactions, atomic swaps and more. • No premine. No ICO. Backed by a treasury, emitted from every block during the first five years • Implemented from scratch in C++ by a team of professional developers | $2M | Seed | May 20, 2021 |  |
| Bodhi | Bodhi is a decentralized prediction market platform focusing on Chinese market.Bodhi prediction market will be built on top of the Qtum blockchain. Qtum combines Bitcoin Core infrastructure with Ethereum Virtual Machine to provide stability, modularity and interoperability for dApps build on its platform. Bodhi aims to be one of the earliest andlargest dApps run on Qtum. | $1.5M | Seed | Aug 14, 2017 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Alternity Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alternity-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Altonomy](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altonomy) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bering Waters Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bering-waters-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Collider](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/collider-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Lionschain Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lionschain-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Taureon](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/taureon) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Qtum

VC Fund · Singapore, Singapore

Qtum is an open sourced public blockchain platform, leveraging the security of UTXO while enabling multiple virtual machines including EVM and the revolutionary x86 VM. Qtum is PoS based and boasts a Decentralized Governance Protocol (DGP) allowing specific blockchain settings to be modified by making use of smart contracts. For instance, the blocksize of Qtum can be increased without the need of a hard fork.Qtum is a global project that aims to be the bridge between the Bitcoin and Ethereum communities, the real world and blockchain world. Therefore it only makes sense that the Qtum team comes from both the Bitcoin and Ethereum communities as well traditional companies like Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, NASDAQ and more. The Qtum project is proud to be backed by some of the most notable blockchain players, traditional Venture Capitalists, and executives from some of China’s largest technology companies.

5 contacts available at Qtum.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Patrick Dai | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/patrick-dai |
| Stella Kung | Chief Marketing Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stella-kung |
| Howard Yeh | Lead Platform Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/howard-yeh-91ba |
| Jordan Earls | Co-founder and Lead Developer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jordan-earls |
| Miguel Palencia | Chief Information Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/miguel-palencia |

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## FAQ

### What does Patrick Dai invest in?

Patrick Dai invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Web3 startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Patrick Dai's check size?

Patrick Dai typically joins rounds of $350k–$2M 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 Patrick Dai participates in.

### When did Patrick Dai last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Patrick Dai closed in May 2023. Shizune tracks 5 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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