# Richard Ma

> Richard Ma is a seed investor at Quantstamp (San Francisco) backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 45 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Quantstamp](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/quantstamp-technologies)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 45
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 2%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rtmtd/
- Website: https://quantstamp.com/

Richard Ma is a seed investor at Quantstamp in San Francisco focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Richard Ma is the Founder and CEO of Quantstamp.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$8.3M |
| Pre-Seed | $325k–$5M |
| Series A | $5.1M–$16M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 21 | 47% |
| Cryptocurrency | 11 | 24% |
| Financial Services | 9 | 20% |
| Web3 | 5 | 11% |
| FinTech | 5 | 11% |

38 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 20 | 44% |
| Pre-Seed | 8 | 18% |
| Series A | 5 | 11% |
| Angel | 4 | 9% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 4 | 9% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Singapore | 8 | 18% |
| United States | 6 | 13% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 7% |
| Japan | 2 | 4% |
| India | 1 | 2% |

14 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Noodles Finance | The no-brainer trading platform for Sui. |  | Pre-Seed | Dec 01, 2025 |  |
| YOAKE Entertainment | YOAKE Entertainment is a music studio that specializes in the planning, production, and development of entertainment content. | $1.3M | Initial Coin Offering | Apr 25, 2025 |  |
| Capx | Capx's mission is to accelerate the flow of capital through the private markets, thereby enhancing global capital allocation. With secondary market and enterprise solutions, Capx combines high-quality collections of opportunities with efficient access for institutions and individual investors. | $3.1M | Seed | Mar 26, 2025 |  |
| Optimum | Optimum constitutes a decentralized, high-performance memory infrastructure tailored for use across various blockchains. |  | Angel | Feb 28, 2025 |  |
| LiquidOps | LiquidOps is a lending and borrowing protocol that providers users the ability to earn interest on their Arweave and AO assets. As well as borrowers the ability to use that lent liquidity in various decentralised applications. | $325K | Pre-Seed | Jan 07, 2025 |  |
| DuckChain | DuckChain engages in bridging telegram users into the blockchain space. | $5M | Seed | Dec 20, 2024 |  |
| PeachWeb | Peach Worlds is the Squarespace for 3D immersive websites. It's the first no-code builder powered by AI, enabling designers to effortlessly create 3D websites without any coding. | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | Sep 27, 2024 |  |
| Astro | AstroUSD is a platform that supports cross-chain stablecoin functionality. It enables bridging, trading, and earning with USDA, the native stablecoin of the AO network in the Arweave and AO ecosystem. The platform supports activities such as trading, lending, borrowing, prediction markets, GameFi, and AgentFi, with integrations for assets likeUSDC, USDT, and DAI. | $410K | Pre-Seed | Sep 18, 2024 |  |
| Hypernative | Hypernative is a digital startup that keeps an eye on off-chain data sources and uses all its machine-learning models to accurately identify dangers to the community, economy, and governance. It blocks zero-day cyber threats, governance, and economic concerns, and shields Web3 apps, protocols, and administrators of digital assets from substantiallosses. | $16M | Series A | Sep 03, 2024 |  |
| DuelNow | DuelNow offers bookie-free sports betting. At DuelNow you can create crypto bets, set your odds, and win on your terms. | $11M | Seed | Aug 01, 2024 |  |

10 of 45 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Double Peak Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/double-peak-group) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Animoca Brands](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/animoca-brands-corporation) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Mechanism Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mechanism-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Pantera Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pantera-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Protocol Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/protocol-labs) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [CMS Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cms-holdings) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About Quantstamp

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Quantstamp is a leading blockchain security company specializing in ensuring the reliability and integrity of blockchain ecosystems. The company provides a range of security services, including comprehensive audits, protocol testing, and vulnerability assessments. Additi

5 contacts available at Quantstamp.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Murashkin | Head Of Infrastructure and Senior Software Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-murashkin-367e |
| Don Ho | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/don-ho-9910 |
| Don Ho | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/don-ho-5dd6 |
| Ed Zulkoski | Senior Research Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ed-zulkoski |
| Jan Gorzny | Blockchain Researcher | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jan-gorzny |

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## FAQ

### What does Richard Ma invest in?

Richard Ma invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 45 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Singapore. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Richard Ma's check size?

Richard Ma typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$8.3M at Seed, $325k–$5M at Pre-Seed and $5.1M–$16M 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 Richard Ma participates in.

### When did Richard Ma last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Richard Ma closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 45 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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