# Sam MacPherson

> Sam MacPherson is a seed investor at Phoenix Labs (Toronto) backing Bitcoin and Blockchain. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Phoenix Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/phoenix-labs-9f83)
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-macpherson-2b1a74267/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/hexonaut
- Website: https://x.com/hexonaut

Sam MacPherson is a seed investor at Phoenix Labs in Toronto focused on Bitcoin and Blockchain. Sam MacPherson is the Sam is the Co-founder and CEO of Phoenix Labs.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $6.7M–$12M |
| Pre-Seed | $750k–$1.9M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bitcoin | 2 | 40% |
| Blockchain | 2 | 40% |
| Web3 | 1 | 20% |
| Cryptocurrency | 1 | 20% |
| Risk Management | 1 | 20% |

8 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 60% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 40% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 1 | 20% |
| Cayman Islands | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 3F |  | $750K | Pre-Seed | Jul 01, 2025 |  |
| Chronicle Labs | Evolving from the Oracle Core Unit at MakerDAO, Chronicle Protocol was created by the unit’s development team. Although the Oracles that underpinned Chronicle Protocol had been securing MakerDAO’s $10B+ collateral since 2016, the technology and its unique innovations weren’t available outside of Maker’s portfolio.In 2021, the team receivedsupport from MakerDAO to spin out the proprietary technology and form a new entity and brand. Chronicle Protocol was born.Chronicle continues to service MakerDAO and now, for the first time, is rolling out its on-chain Oracle services to support the wider Web3 world.Chronicle Protocol has been developed to solve many of the current pain points of on-chain Oracles and DeFi. On-chain Oracles, particularly on computationally expensive blockchains such as Ethereum, are bottlenecking the development of DeFi with an exorbitant cost of service and a lack of feasible scalability. Through developing a proprietary solution called Scribe, the team at Chronicle has built a blockchain-agnostic, ubiquitously accessible, scalable, end-to-end verifiable, and decentralized Oracle. The protocol’s unique architecture enables an ecosystem that delivers 100% decentralization and transparency. Every byte of data can be traced back to each Feed’s original data source queries, and new Oracles can be deployed (and updated) with the click of a button on the Chronicle Dashboard.Inspired by Ancient Greece’s Herodotus (the Father of History), Chronicle Protocol aims to be the world’s first open and verifiable data chronicler. Transparency, democracy, and accessibility are the columns on which Chronicle has built its temple, and industry-leading scalability, integration, and security are the features that power the protocol.Verifiable data, accessible to all - delivered securely and affordably. | $12M | Seed | Mar 25, 2025 |  |
| CAP Labs | CAP Labs is a stablecoin developer platform that produces various denominations of redeemable stablecoins. | $1.9M | Pre-Seed | Oct 28, 2024 |  |
| kpk | kpk operates in the financial services sector, focusing on decentralized organizations. The company offers state-of-the-art risk management and trust-minimized DeFi treasury execution services. Their goal is to help these organizations preserve capital. They also engage in professional DAO treasury development and manage funds to fuel developmentregardless of overall economic conditions. Karpatkey is also involved in enhancing liquidity incentive strategies and has a non-custodial AUM. | $7M | Seed | Oct 22, 2024 |  |
| Corn | Corn is a new Ethereum Layer 2 network that aims to be the best platform for utilizing Bitcoin. | $6.7M | Seed | Aug 20, 2024 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [ABCDE](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abcde) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Robot Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robot-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Steakhouse Financial](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steakhouse-financial) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Borderless Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/algo-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Anagram](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anagram-43bc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AppWorks](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/appworks-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Phoenix Labs

VC Fund

Phoenix Labs focuses on smart contract development for DeFi protocols. Phoenix Labs was founded in 2023.

1 contacts available at Phoenix Labs.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sam MacPherson | Co-founder and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sam-macpherson-70c1 |

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## FAQ

### What does Sam MacPherson invest in?

Sam MacPherson invests primarily in Bitcoin, Blockchain and Web3 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 is Sam MacPherson's check size?

Sam MacPherson typically joins rounds of $6.7M–$12M at Seed and $750k–$1.9M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Sam MacPherson participates in.

### When did Sam MacPherson last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sam MacPherson closed in Jul 2025. 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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