# TM Lee

> TM Lee is a seed investor at CoinGecko backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [CoinGecko](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coingecko)
- Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leetm
- Website: https://x.com/tmlee
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tmlee

TM Lee is a seed investor at CoinGecko in Kuala Lumpur focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. TM Lee is based out of Malaysia and is the Co-founder and President of CoinGecko. TM Lee attended the Purdue University. TM Lee has been awarded the RHB FinTechathon 2016.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $750k–$12M |
| Pre-Seed | $750k–$1.8M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 5 | 56% |
| Cryptocurrency | 4 | 44% |
| Web3 | 1 | 11% |
| DevOps | 1 | 11% |
| Gaming | 1 | 11% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 56% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 22% |
| Initial Coin Offering | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 2 | 22% |
| United States | 2 | 22% |
| Singapore | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Surge | Surge is a developer of a composable scaling meta-layer to push the bounds of Bitcoin functionality. The company's infrastructure supports app-specific rollups, GameFi, ordinals, and other DeFi use-cases while inheriting Bitcoin's security and liquidity, allowing developers to unlock Bitcoin innovation and focus on launching their ideas. | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Oct 17, 2024 | https://x.com/SurgeBuild |
| Pudgy Penguins | Pudgy Penguins is a decentralized ethereum blockchain technology. It was created as an ERC-721 standard token, that powers most digital art and collectibles. The combination of a Pudgy penguin's aesthetics was randomly generated from over 150 hand drawn traits. | $9M | Seed | May 09, 2023 | https://pudgypenguins.com |
| Gomu | Gomu helps Web3 builders build the best experiences for their users by simplifying the creation of Web3 applications and services for every possible use case. | $5M | Seed | Oct 12, 2022 | https://gomu.co/ |
| Humalect | Humalect is a low-code platform that helps you automate your DevOps. | $750K | Seed | Aug 09, 2022 | https://humalect.com/ |
| Lysto | Lysto is your all-in-one gaming hub: enabling game studio growth through playtesting, acquisition and retention strategies, while gamers' find opportunities to play for rewards everyday! | $12M | Seed | Aug 09, 2022 | https://lysto.io/ |
| Aurigami | Aurigami Company is a decentralized, non-custodial liquidity protocol. Customers may easily lend, borrow, and earn interest with their digital assets according to this. In exchange for passive income, depositors offer liquidity to the protocol, which allows users to borrow money with excessive collateral. Aurigami, in contrast to similar protocols,places a strong emphasis on gamification. Depositors contribute liquidity to the protocol in order to earn a passive income, whereas borrowers can borrow in an over-collateralized fashion. | $12M | Initial Coin Offering | Jul 28, 2022 | https://www.aurigami.finance |
| Impossible Finance | Impossible Finance uses decentralized financial protocols to give everyone the same access to financial products, which were previously only available to institutions and select individuals. | $7M | Seed | Jun 03, 2021 | https://impossible.finance/ |
| Charged Particles |  | $750K | Pre-Seed | Feb 15, 2021 |  |

8 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Hashed](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hashed-f96b) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [The LAO](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-lao) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Alameda Research](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alameda-research) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [BEENEXT](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bee-next) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [BitScale](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bitscale-4998) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [BR Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blockrock-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About CoinGecko

VC Fund · Singapore, Singapore

CoinGecko is a digital currency price and information data platform. It helps its users quantitatively evaluate and rank their coins. CoinGecko is a Singapore-based company that was founded in 2014 by TM Lee and Bobby Ong.

2 contacts available at CoinGecko.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cedric Chan | Head of Engineering; CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cedric-chan |
| Xingyi Ho | Head of Product | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/xingyi-ho-b590 |

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## FAQ

### What does TM Lee invest in?

TM Lee invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Web3 startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is TM Lee's check size?

TM Lee typically joins rounds of $750k–$12M at Seed and $750k–$1.8M 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 TM Lee participates in.

### How do I contact TM Lee?

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### When did TM Lee last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for TM Lee closed in Oct 2024. Shizune tracks 9 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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