# Richard Malone > Richard Malone is a seed investor at Drosera backing Blockchain. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026. - Type: Angel Investor - Fund: Drosera - Location: Memphis, United States - Total investments: 4 - Last investment: Feb 2025 - Lead investor: 0% - Last updated: Aug 2026 - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardtmalone Richard Malone is a seed investor at Drosera in Memphis focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Richard Malone is based out of Memphis, Tennessee and is the CSO and Founder of Drosera. Richard previously worked at Obol Technologies, Inc as a Head of Business. Richard Malone attended Rollins College. ## Contacts 5 contacts available for Richard Malone: work email, personal email, work phone, personal phone and socials. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-email/richard-malone?utm_source=investor_profile ## Investment focus ### Industry | Industry | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Blockchain | 3 | 75% | | Cryptocurrency | 2 | 50% | | Web3 | 1 | 25% | | Finance | 1 | 25% | | Privacy | 1 | 25% | 9 industries tracked in total. ### Stage | Stage | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Seed | 2 | 50% | | Pre-Seed | 2 | 50% | ### Country | Country | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Canada | 1 | 25% | | France | 1 | 25% | ## 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 | | | Fairblock | Fairblock operates as an unlike zero knowledge(ZK) technology. Fairblock is building the infrastructure that can enable pre-execution privacy and conditional decryption. | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Oct 05, 2023 | | | Puffer | Puffer Finance operates as a blockchain infrastructure company. | $5.5M | Seed | Aug 08, 2023 | | | Quasar Labs | Quasar Labs is a decentralized app-chain bringing ease to investing in the multi-chain universe. | $6.1M | Seed | Jul 28, 2022 | | 4 of 4 investments shown. ## Co-investors - [Lemniscap](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lemniscap) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [Lightshift Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightshift) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [Lightshift Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightshift-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [Anagram](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anagram-43bc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [BH Digital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bh-digital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [Blockwall](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blockwall-management-gmbh) — VC Fund, 1 deal together ## About Drosera VC Fund Drosera is a decentralized incident response system that uses hidden security intentions to contain and mitigate attacks. 3 contacts available at Drosera. | Name | Title | Profile | | --- | --- | --- | | Richard Malone | CSO & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/richard-malone | | FERNANDO REYES JR. | CEO | — | | SAMUEL GLENN | CTO | — | ## Similar investors ### Similar industry - [Coinbase Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinbase-ventures) — VC Fund - [Animoca Brands](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/animoca-brands-corporation) — VC Fund - [Shima Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shima-capital) — VC Fund ### Similar stage - [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund - [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund - [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund ### Similar country - [Bpifrance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bpifrance) — VC Fund - [Kima Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kima-ventures) — VC Fund - [Motier Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/motier-ventures) — VC Fund ## Featured in investor lists - [Web3 Angel Investors in France](https://shizune.co/investors/web3-angel-investors-france) - [Blockchain Angel Investors in France](https://shizune.co/investors/blockchain-angel-investors-france) - [Payments Angel Investors in France](https://shizune.co/investors/payments-angel-investors-france) ## FAQ ### What does Richard Malone invest in? Richard Malone invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Web3 startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio. ### How do I contact Richard Malone? Public channels for Richard Malone include LinkedIn. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox. ### When did Richard Malone last invest? The most recent investment recorded for Richard Malone closed in Feb 2025. Shizune tracks 4 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? 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