# Paul Taylor

> Paul Taylor is a seed investor in New York backing Blockchain, Web3 and Cryptocurrency. See 57 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 57
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/officialpaultaylor/
- Website: https://x.com/PaulTaylorVC

Paul Taylor is an angel investor and advisor to 100+ companies in the web3 industry. He was the most active angel investor based in the US for crypto in 2024 (Crunchbase). He previously worked at Fancy Studios as a Core Contributor. Prior to that, he worked at BlackRock on the Private Equity Partners team. Paul attended Emory University where hereceived his BBA degree. He is also a 4-time national chess champion, international best-selling author, and mined Bitcoin back in 2011.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.3M–$10M |
| Pre-Seed | $1M–$8M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $3M–$525M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 25 | 44% |
| Web3 | 16 | 28% |
| Cryptocurrency | 16 | 28% |
| Bitcoin | 12 | 21% |
| Decentralized Finance (DeFi) | 7 | 12% |

52 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 29 | 51% |
| Pre-Seed | 20 | 35% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 4 | 7% |
| Series A | 2 | 4% |
| Angel | 1 | 2% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 22 | 39% |
| United Arab Emirates | 3 | 5% |
| Singapore | 2 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 4% |
| France | 1 | 2% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| VeryAI | VeryAI develops a privacy-preserving identity verification platform using palm-scan biometrics on the Solana blockchain. | $10M | Seed | Mar 12, 2026 |  |
| OP_NET | OPNET is a Bitcoin Layer 1 metaprotocol that enables smart contracts to function directly on the Bitcoin blockchain, without the use of sidechains or Layer 2 solutions. | $5M | Seed | Mar 11, 2026 |  |
| Utexo | Utexo develops payment infrastructure that enables stablecoin transactions to settle directly on the Bitcoin network. The platform provides an API and related tools that allow payment operators, exchanges, wallets, and financial platforms to process USDT transfers through Bitcoin-based rails. Its system integrates technologies such as the LightningNetwork and the RGB protocol to support instant settlement, encrypted transaction execution, and predictable transaction costs. Utexo also offers cloud infrastructure and developer tools that manage routing, liquidity, and node operations required for stablecoin payments on Bitcoin. These services allow organizations to integrate Bitcoin-based stablecoin settlement into existing applications without operating or maintaining underlying blockchain infrastructure. | $7.5M | Seed | Mar 06, 2026 |  |
| Pye Labs | Pye Finance is a Web3 startup that builds a staking-market infrastructure on the Solana blockchain. | $5M | Seed | Dec 08, 2025 |  |
| Xynapse | Xynapse is an advanced blockchain intelligence and on-chain analytics platform that helps investors, researchers, and institutions understand crypto markets, wallet behavior, and capital flows across multiple blockchains.The platform combines real-time crypto market data, ETF tracking, multi-chain blockchain exploration, wallet network graphs,and AI-enhanced on-chain intelligence into a unified dashboard, enabling high-precision monitoring, analysis, and visualization of blockchain activity.Xynapse provides live insights into token prices, market capitalization trends, sector movements, and ETF inflows/outflows, all contextualized with on-chain signals beyond traditional price charts.Users can explore and analyze transactions, token transfers, fees, and wallet activity across major blockchains including Ethereum, Bitcoin, BNB Chain (BSC), Solana, and more, enhanced with address nametags and behavioral analytics.Through wallet network graphs, transaction flow visualizations, and address clustering, Xynapse reveals hidden relationships and capital movement patterns. AI-driven analysis transforms raw blockchain data into actionable intelligence for smarter trading, research, and risk assessment. | $8.5M | Seed | Nov 20, 2025 |  |
| BitcoinOS | BitcoinOS is a Decentralized Finance company that builds and develops Bitcoin ecosystem. | $10M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 21, 2025 |  |
| HackQuest | Web3.0 programming for everyone. | $4.1M | Seed | Aug 09, 2025 |  |
| Bloom | Bloom is creating the social layer for modern finance, transforming your performance into social content that others can discover, replicate, and learn from. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Jul 24, 2025 |  |
| Silhouette Exchange | Silhouette is a privacy-focused decentralized trading protocol integrated with the Hyperliquid ecosystem. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Jun 06, 2025 |  |
| Asigna | Asigna project started in late 2022, was established with full decentralization in mind, akin to Bitcoin's original vision. There has always been a pressing need in the Bitcoin community for a personal multi-sig that would offer peace of mind to all its holders. Moreover, Asigna is introducing itself to the rising player in the ecosystem: theStacks ecosystem, which operates as a layer 2 on top of Bitcoin.Asigna employs a native multisig solution. This makes it the safest multi-sig available since user privacy remains unaffected.Asigna digital vault offers a robust channel for storing, transmitting, and collecting various currencies such as BTC, Stacks, BRC20, and Ordinals. Additionally, it supports batch transactions. Soon to be added to the roadmap are Unisat, sBTC integration. Notably, Asigna integration with other Stacks dApps are flawless, allowing users to stake STX or directly acquire ordinals. | $3M | Seed | May 27, 2025 |  |

10 of 57 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [WAGMI Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wagmi-ventures-3757) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [UTXO Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/utxo-management) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [MH Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mh-ventures) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [CMS Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cms-holdings) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Cogitent Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cogitent-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Sats Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sats-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Paul Taylor invest in?

Paul Taylor invests primarily in Blockchain, Web3 and Cryptocurrency startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 57 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 Paul Taylor's check size?

Paul Taylor typically joins rounds of $2.3M–$10M at Seed, $1M–$8M at Pre-Seed and $3M–$525M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Paul Taylor participates in.

### When did Paul Taylor last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Paul Taylor closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 57 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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