# Scott Moore

> Scott Moore is a seed investor at Gitcoin (Toronto) backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 23 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Gitcoin](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gitcoin)
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 23
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/notscottmoore
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/notscottmoore

Scott Moore is a seed investor at Gitcoin in Toronto focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Scott Moore is the Founder of Public Works. He previously worked at Ethereum as an Ecosystem Grants. Scott Moore attended the University of Toronto.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.4M–$8M |
| Pre-Seed | $400k–$10M |
| Series A | $10M–$11M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 8 | 35% |
| Cryptocurrency | 7 | 30% |
| Internet | 4 | 17% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 13% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 13% |

31 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 14 | 61% |
| Pre-Seed | 7 | 30% |
| Series A | 2 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 12 | 52% |
| Australia | 2 | 9% |
| Singapore | 1 | 4% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 4% |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| MNX | MNX is a company focused on decentralized futures exchanges in the AI economy. | $6.4M | Pre-Seed | Jun 10, 2026 |  |
| HackQuest | Web3.0 programming for everyone. | $4.1M | Seed | Aug 09, 2025 |  |
| Gaia | GaiaNet is a pioneer in decentralized AI technology, committed to transforming the IT industry through user privacy, transparency, and control. The cutting-edge open network infrastructure empowers users by ensuring privacy and censorship resistance in daily AI operations through a dynamic network of peer-to-peer edge nodes. | $10M | Series A | Jul 22, 2025 |  |
| RISE Chain | RISE is a next-generation Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain designed to redefine blockchain performance by delivering near-instant transaction confirmations at unprecedented scale, all while upholding Ethereum’s foundational principle of decentralization | $3.2M | Seed | May 19, 2025 |  |
| Plastic Labs | User context management & metacognition for large language model applications. | $5.4M | Pre-Seed | Apr 11, 2025 |  |
| RISE Labs | RISE Labs is revolutionizing the Blockchain landscape with unprecedented performance. | $3.2M | Seed | Sep 16, 2024 |  |
| PIN AI | PIN AI democratizes personal on-device intelligence for everyone; transform your digital footprints into your Personal Executive Assistant. | $10M | Pre-Seed | Sep 09, 2024 |  |
| aPriori | aPriori is a monad-native MEV infrastructure and liquid staking mechanism developed for parallel executions. | $8M | Seed | Jul 23, 2024 |  |
| SkyTrade | SkyTrade is a blockchain-based air rights marketplace that allows users to buy, sell, and lease airspace, enabling them to manage and control access to low-altitude airspace. |  | Pre-Seed | Jul 17, 2024 |  |
| OpenLedger | OpenLedger is the sovereign data blockchain for AI. | $8M | Seed | Jul 02, 2024 |  |

10 of 23 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Finality Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/finality-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Dispersion Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dispersion-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [HashKey Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hashkey-capital-9c60) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [MH Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mh-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [1kx](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1kx) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alchemy](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alchemy-insights) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Gitcoin

VC Fund · Boulder, United States

Gitcoin is a platform to enable open source developers to monetize their work when it is used.Gitcoin was borne of the community in Boulder, Colorado's thriving tech scene. One of the most amazing things about the Boulder community is the #givefirst mantra. The founding team has built their careers off of advice, mentorship, andrelationships in the local tech community.Gitcoin is built upon the Ethereum network, and the solidity smart contract programming language. Ethereum provides opportunities to align incentives across actors in the ecosystem. By programming rights of stakeholders directly into smart contracts, actors are incentivized to provide value, and edge cases are handled _without_ having to involve legacy legal enforcement mechanisms.The founder of Gitcoin, Kevin Owocki, has experience as an organizer of Boulder Startup Week, Ignite Boulder, StartupCTO.io, Boulder Blockchain Meetup, and the open-source projects by trader, adblock-to-bitcoin, YouveGotETH, and ColoradoCoin. The stronger the community is, the more successful open source projects are. The stronger open source projects are, the stronger the community is.Gitcoin is a project that combines the #givefirst mantra of the Boulder community with capitalistic incentives to write great software. By enabling Repo Maintainers, developers, and financiers to find one another, Gitcoin pushes open-source software forward.

5 contacts available at Gitcoin.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kevin Owocki | CEO / Chief Roboticist | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kevin-owocki |
| Kyle Weiss | Chief Operating Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kyle-weiss |
| Annika Lewis | Grants Program Lead | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/annika-lewis-0d20 |
| Connor O'Day | Revenue Lead | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/connor-o-day-2be2 |
| Gloria Kimbwala | Customer Success Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gloria-kimbwala |

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## FAQ

### What does Scott Moore invest in?

Scott Moore invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 23 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 Scott Moore's check size?

Scott Moore typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$8M at Seed, $400k–$10M at Pre-Seed and $10M–$11M 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 Scott Moore participates in.

### When did Scott Moore last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Scott Moore closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 23 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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