# Tim Beiko

> Tim Beiko is a seed investor at Ethereum Foundation backing Blockchain and Information Technology. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Ethereum Foundation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ethereum)
- Location: Vancouver, Canada
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: May 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timbeiko/?originalSubdomain=ca
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/TimBeiko?s=20
- Website: https://x.com/TimBeiko?s=20

Tim Beiko is a seed investor at Ethereum Foundation in Vancouver focused on Blockchain and Information Technology. Tim Beiko is the Ethereum at Ethereum. He attended Concordia University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$10M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 3 | 25% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 25% |
| Web3 | 2 | 17% |
| Ethereum | 2 | 17% |
| Software | 2 | 17% |

12 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 67% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 33% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Agora | Agora operates as a cross-chain governance platform. | $5M | Seed | May 01, 2024 |  |
| NEBRA Labs | NEBRA Labs is a blockchain services company. | $4.5M | Seed | Apr 17, 2024 |  |
| Witness | Witness is an on-chain R&D firm that accepts digital ownership and allows for quicker Web3 ownership, verification, and exchange of digital material. | $3.5M | Seed | Feb 15, 2024 |  |
| Taiko Labs | Taiko Labs is a cryptocurrency firm that develops an Ethereum Virtual Machine (zkEVM) scaling solutions platform for Ethereum Blockchain. The platform supports all EVM opcodes in a decentralized, permissionless, and secure layer-2 architecture to allow Ethereum developers to run blockchain projects. | $12M | Seed | Jun 08, 2023 |  |
| Soul Wallet | Soul Wallet is a smart contract wallet. | $3M | Seed | Mar 16, 2023 |  |
| Sovereign Labs | Sovereign Labs is an ecosystem of interconnected rollups that provides a framework for secure and interoperable zero-knowledge rollups that can run on any blockchain. | $7.4M | Seed | Jan 30, 2023 |  |
| Taiko Labs | Taiko Labs is a cryptocurrency firm that develops an Ethereum Virtual Machine (zkEVM) scaling solutions platform for Ethereum Blockchain. The platform supports all EVM opcodes in a decentralized, permissionless, and secure layer-2 architecture to allow Ethereum developers to run blockchain projects. | $10M | Seed | Sep 01, 2022 |  |
| Astaria | Astaria is the solution to the hardest problem in Defi: instant highly liquid NFT lending. Astaria allows users to get instant liquidity for their NFTs. | $8M | Seed | Jun 20, 2022 |  |
| Astaria | Astaria is the solution to the hardest problem in Defi: instant highly liquid NFT lending. Astaria allows users to get instant liquidity for their NFTs. | $8M | Seed | Jun 20, 2022 |  |
| nftychat | NFTY Chat is a hassle-free way to chat, discuss, and connect with Web3 friends without a username or password. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Mar 29, 2022 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Coinbase Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinbase-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Dialectic](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dialectic) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Haun Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/haun-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [BAI capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bertelsmann-asia-investments) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [OKX Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/block-dream-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Double Peak Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/double-peak-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Ethereum Foundation

VC Fund · Bern, Switzerland

Ethereum is a platform and a programming language that makes it possible for any developer to build and publish next-generation distributed applications.Ethereum can be used to codify, decentralize, secure and trade just about anything: voting, domain names, financial exchanges, crowdfunding, company governance, contracts and agreements of mostkind, intellectual property, and even smart property thanks to hardware integration.Ethereum borrows the concept of decentralized consensus that makes bitcoin so resilient, yet makes it trivial to build on its foundation.

5 contacts available at Ethereum Foundation.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aditya Asgaonkar | Blockchain Reseacher | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aditya-asgaonkar |
| Antonio Sanso | Researcher | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antonio-sanso |
| Aya Miyaguchi | Executive Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ayako-miyaguchi |
| Tim Beiko | Non-Executive Employee | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tim-beiko-a7c7 |
| Virgil Griffith | Research Scientist | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/virgil-griffith |

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## FAQ

### What does Tim Beiko invest in?

Tim Beiko invests primarily in Blockchain, Information Technology and Web3 startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 12 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 Tim Beiko's check size?

Tim Beiko typically joins rounds of $1M–$10M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Tim Beiko participates in.

### When did Tim Beiko last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Tim Beiko closed in May 2024. Shizune tracks 12 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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