Ryan Watkins
Angel Investor
New York, United States
Ryan Watkins is a seed investor in New York focused on Blockchain and Web3. Ryan Watkins is the Co-Founder of Syncracy Capital.
- Total investments:
- 5
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Ryan Watkins invests in
Stages Ryan Watkins invests in
Countries Ryan Watkins invests in
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Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $2M–$9.5M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 4 (80%)
- Web3 3 (60%)
- Lending 1 (20%)
- Software 1 (20%)
- Machine Learning 1 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (80%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (20%)
Country
- United States 2 (40%)
- United Kingdom 1 (20%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenGradient is a leading decentralized AI platform for open-source model hosting, secure inference, agentic reasoning, and application deployment. By developing tooling and a feature-rich platform that makes developing AI workflows both secure and seamless, OpenGradient empowers developers with the ability to build in its ecosystem of intelligentand optimized AI-empowered applications. With native model hosting, permissionless composability, and secure inference execution, OpenGradient also aims to accelerate open-source AI by democratizing model ownership, improving verifiability guarantees, and promoting censorship-resistant model access.Our heterogeneous AI compute architecture (HACA) and our proprietary library NeuroML scale secure AI workflows with features like inference, agentic reasoning, statistical analysis, and more. OpenGradient also accelerates open-source innovation with a web portal and SDK for Web2 developers to leverage our AI stack without navigating blockchain complexities, while enjoying the security and composability benefits of decentralized infrastructure. | $9.5M / Seed / Oct 09, 2024 | ||
| Legion is a merit-based crypto fundraising platform that bridges traditional finance and blockchain technology. Focused on regulatory compliance, investor accountability, and transparency, Legion enables startups to raise capital through MiCA-compliant token offerings, while providing retail investors better access to onchain fundraising and redefining public token sales for the digital age. Projects using Legion can customize allocation, whitelist, discounts, and more using onchain and off-chain criteria about each user to handpick an organic community of die-hard supporters. | $2M / Seed / Aug 27, 2024 | ||
| Irys is the only provenance layer. It enables users to scale permanent data and precisely attribute its origin. | $3.5M / Seed / Jun 12, 2024 | ||
| Ion Protocol is a lending protocol that accepts pledged and re-pledged assets, allowing users to deposit any validator-backed asset (including LST and re-pledged holdings, among others). | $2M / Seed / Jul 14, 2023 | ||
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FAQ
What does Ryan Watkins invest in?
Ryan Watkins invests primarily in Blockchain, Web3 and Lending startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Ryan Watkins invest in?
Ryan Watkins typically joins rounds of $2M–$9.5M at Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Ryan Watkins's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Ryan Watkins took part in.
How do I contact Ryan Watkins?
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When did Ryan Watkins last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Ryan Watkins closed in Oct 2024. 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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