Sophie Liao
Founding Partner @ Utopian Ventures
San Francisco, United States
Sophie Liao is a Series A investor at Utopian Ventures in San Francisco focused on Internet and Blockchain. Sophie Liao is the Founding Partner at Oyster Ventures.
- Total investments:
- 16
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 6%
Last updated:
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Industries Sophie Liao invests in
Stages Sophie Liao invests in
Countries Sophie Liao invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Internet 6 (38%)
- Blockchain 6 (38%)
- Cryptocurrency 4 (25%)
- Software 3 (19%)
- Developer Platform 3 (19%)
Stage
- Series A 4 (25%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (25%)
- Seed 3 (19%)
- Initial Coin Offering 3 (19%)
- Funding Round 1 (6%)
Country
- United States 10 (63%)
- Spain 1 (6%)
- Canada 1 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Partnered with over 10,000 merchants while serving over 800,000 users. Fantuan is currently located in over 40 cities across the globe and is the largest Asian food delivery platform in North America | $12.1M / Series A / Mar 06, 2020 | ||
| SKALE Labs is a blockchain scalability platform that provides high-speed consensus and empowers dApps to run smart contracts.SKALE acts as a middle-ware layer which provides high-speed consensus and empowers dApps to run smart contracts at the rate of millions per second on platforms such as Ethereum, EOS, and other Smart Contract Blockchainplatforms. The SKALE Network is a fully decentralized, open-source P2P network that is run using the SKALE utility token which is staked by dApps and supported by SKALE Mining nodes. | $8.9M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 04, 2018 | ||
| Witnet is an open source project originally devised by Stampery, the leaders of blockchain-powered data certification. The protocol is now being developed by Witnet Foundation in collaboration with a community of independent contributors.The mission of Witnet Foundation is ensuring the successful development and deployment of the Witnet protocol,as well as guaranteeing its sustainability and fostering the ecosystem of applications built on top of the protocol.Although Witnet Foundation will play a leading role during the first years, as the project evolves and the Witnet community becomes wider, Witnet Foundation will progressively relinquish its weight in favor of the community. | $3M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 16, 2018 | ||
| SFOX is a cryptocurrency prime dealer that provides professional traders and institutional investors higher returns when trading large volumes, through smart routing and a global integrated order book. | $23M / Series A / Aug 16, 2018 | ||
| The Hedera hashgraph platform will offer a distributed public ledger that enables anyone to easily develop globally decentralized applications. Developers can build secure, fair, blazing-fast decentralized applications on top of the Hedera hashgraph platform. | $100M / Aug 01, 2018 | ||
| The Hedera hashgraph platform will offer a distributed public ledger that enables anyone to easily develop globally decentralized applications. Developers can build secure, fair, blazing-fast decentralized applications on top of the Hedera hashgraph platform. | $100.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 01, 2018 | ||
| Oasis Labs is a privacy-first cloud computing platform on blockchain technology. They are building a new computing platform that enables cloud-scale, real-world applications with decentralized trust and privacy protection; in short, a privacy-first, high-performance cloud computing platform on blockchain. | $45M / Series A / Jul 09, 2018 | ||
| Basis protocol is designed to expand and contract supply similarly to the way central banks buy and sell fiscal debt to stabilize purchasing power. For this reason, we refer to Basis as having an algorithmic central bank. | $133M / Initial Coin Offering / Apr 18, 2018 | ||
| Origin is a protocol for creating sharing economy marketplaces using the Ethereum blockchain and IPFS. It empowers developers and businesses to build decentralized marketplaces on the blockchain. Its protocol makes it easy to create and manage listings for the fractional usage of assets and services.Origin allows buyers and sellers to discovereach other, browse listings, make bookings, leave ratings and reviews, and much more.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $28.5M / Corporate Round / Apr 17, 2018 | ||
| Oasis Labs is a privacy-first cloud computing platform on blockchain technology. They are building a new computing platform that enables cloud-scale, real-world applications with decentralized trust and privacy protection; in short, a privacy-first, high-performance cloud computing platform on blockchain. | Seed / Apr 01, 2018 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Utopian Ventures
Oyster Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in exceptional new-frontier technology companies. They target companies that bring liquidity and efficiency to antiquated industries, companies that enable globalization, with leverage to massively scale. It also specializes in early-stage investments in startups in fintech, with a focus on blockchain, crypto, E-commerce, market place, artificial intelligence, fintech, media tech, and SaaS companies. Oyster Ventures was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
Utopian Ventures Contacts
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Sophie Liao
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Dennis Liu
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Kenneth Ballenegger
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Kenneth Ballenegger
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What does Sophie Liao invest in?
Sophie Liao invests primarily in Internet, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency startups, most often at Series A and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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When did Sophie Liao last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Sophie Liao closed in Mar 2020. Shizune tracks 16 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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