# Sophie Liao

> Sophie Liao is a Series A investor at Oyster Ventures backing Internet and Blockchain. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Oyster Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oyster-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Mar 2020
- Lead investor: 6%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophie007/
- Website: http://OYSTER.VC

Sophie Liao is a Series A investor at Oyster Ventures in San Francisco focused on Internet and Blockchain. Sophie Liao is the Founding Partner at Oyster Ventures.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 6 | 38% |
| Blockchain | 6 | 38% |
| Software | 4 | 25% |
| Cryptocurrency | 4 | 25% |
| Developer Platform | 3 | 19% |

34 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 25% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 25% |
| Seed | 3 | 19% |
| Initial Coin Offering | 3 | 19% |
| Corporate Round | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 63% |
| Spain | 1 | 6% |
| Canada | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fantuan | 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 | 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 |  | Oct 04, 2018 |  |
| Witnet | 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 |  | Aug 16, 2018 |  |
| SFOX | 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 |  |
| Hedera Hashgraph | 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 |  |
| Hedera Hashgraph | 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 |  | Aug 01, 2018 |  |
| Oasis Labs | 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 |  |
| Oasis Labs | 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 | Initial Coin Offering | Jul 09, 2018 |  |
| Oasis Labs | 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. |  |  | Jul 09, 2018 |  |
| Basis | 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 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Winklevoss Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/winklevoss-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [MetaStable Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/metastable-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Visary Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/visary-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [BlockTower Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blocktower-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Eterna Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eterna-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [MState - Not Making New Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mstate-growth-lab) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Oyster Ventures

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

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 onblockchain, 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.

4 contacts available at Oyster Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sophie Liao | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sophie-liao |
| Dennis Liu | Principle | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dennis-liu-f12e |
| Kenneth Ballenegger | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kenneth-ballenegger-9ad3 |
| Kenneth Ballenegger | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kenneth-ballenegger |

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## FAQ

### What does Sophie Liao invest in?

Sophie Liao invests primarily in Internet, Blockchain and Software startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round 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.

### 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.

### 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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