Trent McConaghy
Angel Investor
Trent McConaghy is a seed investor focused on Blockchain and Software. Trent McConaghy is the founder of Ocean Protocol, which is unbounding AI via blockchain technology. Past: - co-founded Analog Design Automation in 1999. AI for generative analog circuit design. It was acquired by Synopsys in 2004. - co-founded Solido Design Automation in 2004. AI for custom circuit verification. It was acquired by Siemens in2017. - co-founded ascribe GmbH in 2014. NFTs. It pivoted to BigchainDB in 2016. Decentralized database. - from BigchainDB, co-founded Ocean Protocol in 2017. Its token $OCEAN went public in 2018.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 10%
Last updated:
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Industries Trent McConaghy invests in
Stages Trent McConaghy invests in
Countries Trent McConaghy invests in
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Round size
- Seed
- $3M–$5M
- Pre-Seed
- $285k–$285k
- Initial Coin Offering
- $1.3M–$9.5M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 7 (70%)
- Software 3 (30%)
- Cryptocurrency 3 (30%)
- E-Commerce 2 (20%)
- E-Commerce Platforms 2 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (40%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (20%)
- Initial Coin Offering 2 (20%)
- Series A 1 (10%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (10%)
Country
- Singapore 3 (30%)
- Germany 1 (10%)
- United Kingdom 1 (10%)
- The Netherlands 1 (10%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Makina is a finance firm that provides a non-custodial option for users to gain exposure to advanced on-chain strategies. | $3M / Seed / Jun 26, 2025 | ||
| Rocket is a Financial Institution regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore. The vision is to create the world's first decentralized and distributed hedge fund (RocketDAO) driven by a Collective Artificial Intelligence generated through a Blockchain-based (on Polygon) machine learning competition to solve the financial market. | $735K / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 08, 2025 | ||
| An operating system for the new Internet | $13.4M / Series A / Aug 23, 2023 | ||
| H2O is a data-backed stable asset with a managed float regime that serves as a medium of exchange and unit of account in decentralized data marketplaces. | $1.3M / Initial Coin Offering / Apr 20, 2022 | ||
| Synesis One provides a play-to-earn model on the Solana blockchain that develops games on the frontend to incentivize users and on the backend creates datasets that train AI. This fully functional system has already been integrated with its beneficiary, Mind AI, which relies on natural language reasoning to produce conversational AI systems. Withcustomers already lined up, Synesis One's key appeal is its ability to attract other projects that will pay to use their AI solutions within the blockchain space and across different industries. | $9.5M / Initial Coin Offering / Dec 23, 2021 | ||
| Odyssey is the maker of metaverse stack for collaboration based in The Netherlands. | $4.6M / Seed / Nov 04, 2021 | ||
| Boson Protocol is the decentralized network on which future commerce will run. And it starts with metaverse commerce. Boson Protocol enables anyone to sell physical products in the metaverse as NFTs within our Decentraland space – Boson Portal. With Boson Protocol you can build commerce applications that anyone can trust and everyone can use.Current e-commerce platforms extract excessive value from their users. Merchants, buyers and sellers don’t have a viable alternative. Boson Protocol’s vision is to enable a decentralized commerce ecosystem by funding and enabling the development of a stack of specialized applications starting in the metaverse to disrupt, demonopolize and democratize commerce.Boson Protocol makes it possible to sell physical products in the metaverse as NFTs. Our NFT-based solution for digital-physical redemption is interoperable with the NFT ecosystem, easy to implement and rewards you for using it. Unlike centralized intermediaries, Boson has minimal fees, and is owned by the participants in the system, so that we all share in the value that we create. | $5M / Seed / Mar 11, 2021 | ||
| DataUnion is a data union as a service platform. They offer opportunities to mobilize and reward groups to produce artificial intelligence algorithm ready data sets. Their global contributors upload, annotate, and verify images across various bounty missions. | Seed / Jan 01, 2021 | ||
| Boson Protocol is a foundational primitive which solves the digital to physical redemption problem to enable decentralized autonomous commerce. Boson disrupts closed e-commerce platforms with an open, tokenized economy of things, powered by DeFi and Web3 data.Boson Protocol was founded in 2019 Gregor Boroša and Justin Banon and is based inLondon. | $285K / Pre-Seed / Oct 01, 2020 | ||
| Boson Protocol is the decentralized network on which future commerce will run. And it starts with metaverse commerce. Boson Protocol enables anyone to sell physical products in the metaverse as NFTs within our Decentraland space – Boson Portal. With Boson Protocol you can build commerce applications that anyone can trust and everyone can use.Current e-commerce platforms extract excessive value from their users. Merchants, buyers and sellers don’t have a viable alternative. Boson Protocol’s vision is to enable a decentralized commerce ecosystem by funding and enabling the development of a stack of specialized applications starting in the metaverse to disrupt, demonopolize and democratize commerce.Boson Protocol makes it possible to sell physical products in the metaverse as NFTs. Our NFT-based solution for digital-physical redemption is interoperable with the NFT ecosystem, easy to implement and rewards you for using it. Unlike centralized intermediaries, Boson has minimal fees, and is owned by the participants in the system, so that we all share in the value that we create. | $285K / Pre-Seed / Oct 01, 2020 |
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FAQ
What does Trent McConaghy invest in?
Trent McConaghy invests primarily in Blockchain, Software and Cryptocurrency startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Singapore. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Trent McConaghy invest in?
Trent McConaghy typically joins rounds of $3M–$5M at Seed, $285k–$285k at Pre-Seed and $1.3M–$9.5M at Initial Coin Offering. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Trent McConaghy's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Trent McConaghy took part in.
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When did Trent McConaghy last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Trent McConaghy closed in Jun 2025. Shizune tracks 10 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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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 Nov 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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