# Tom Howard

> Tom Howard is a Series A investor at Taureon backing FinTech and Cryptocurrency. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Taureon](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/taureon)
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Mar 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thowar2/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/_TomHoward
- Website: https://x.com/_TomHoward

Tom Howard is a Series A investor at Taureon focused on FinTech and Cryptocurrency. Entrepreneur, Investor

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 2 | 40% |
| Cryptocurrency | 2 | 40% |
| Web3 | 1 | 20% |
| Banking | 1 | 20% |
| Computer | 1 | 20% |

14 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 2 | 40% |
| Seed | 1 | 20% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 20% |
| Initial Coin Offering | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 60% |
| Australia | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Blackwing | Blackwing runs a range of modular apps while retaining decentralization, and it is distinguished by leverage trading. | $4.5M | Seed | Mar 07, 2024 |  |
| Evertas | Evertas is a cryptoasset insurance company. Evertas focuses on covering institutional holders of cryptoassets including exchanges, custodians, traditional financial institutions, funds, family offices, and ultra-high net worth individuals. | $14M | Series A | Dec 12, 2022 |  |
| Airstack | Airstack is the developer of an artificial intelligence-powered platform that allows for on-chain data across several projects and blockchains. The company organizes decentralized application transactions into virtual stacks of data, allowing developers to access and incorporate any web3 on-chain data and related off-chain data into their apps. | $3.8M | Pre-Seed | Oct 20, 2022 |  |
| Everclear | Connext is a crosschain liquidity network that enables fast, fully-noncustodial transfers between EVM-compatible chains and L2 systems. It leverages the Ethereum blockchain along with groundbreaking distributed systems tech to enable instant, near-free transfers anywhere in the world.The company was founded in 2017 by Arjun Bhuptani, Layne Haber,and Rahul Sethuram. | $12M | Series A | Jul 13, 2021 |  |
| Synthetix | A cryptoasset-backed network that enables the creation of on-chain synthetic assets. | $30M | Initial Coin Offering | Mar 01, 2018 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Hashed](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hashed-f96b) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Saison Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/saison-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [1kx](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1kx) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alchemy](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alchemy-insights) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AngelList Venture](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angellist-venture) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bloccelerate VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bloccelerate) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Taureon

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Taureon is a digital asset investment group.

3 contacts available at Taureon.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bryan Myint | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bryan-myint-86b9 |
| David Choi | Dipping in mempools | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-choi-aed6 |
| Tom Howard | Founder and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tom-howard-065c |

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## FAQ

### What does Tom Howard invest in?

Tom Howard invests primarily in FinTech, Cryptocurrency and Web3 startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 5 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 Tom Howard last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Tom Howard closed in Mar 2024. Shizune tracks 5 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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