# Trevor McFedries

> Trevor McFedries is a seed investor at Friends With Benefits backing Blockchain. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Friends With Benefits](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/friends-with-benefits-abd3)
- Location: Los Angeles, United States
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevor-mcfedries-0a5285a8/

Trevor McFedries is a seed investor at Friends With Benefits in Los Angeles focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Trevor McFedries is the Founder of Friends With Benefits, Founder and CEO of Brud, the CEO - Dapper Collectives at Dapper Labs, and a Board Member at Rhizome and SCI-Arc.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.6M–$9.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.6M–$2.1M |
| Series A | $10M–$14M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 7 | 39% |
| Cryptocurrency | 5 | 28% |
| Software | 4 | 22% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 22% |
| Apps | 3 | 17% |

38 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 13 | 72% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 11% |
| Series A | 2 | 11% |
| Series C | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 56% |
| Norway | 1 | 6% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pixie Chess | Pixie Chess is a blockchain-based chess variant that features daily-released magical pieces with unique characteristics, combining classic chess strategy with trading card game principles. | $5.2M | Seed | Apr 02, 2026 |  |
| Makina | 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 |  |
| Fortunafi | Fortunafi is an on-chain financial institution that delivers solutions for stablecoin issuers, protocol treasuries, and traditional entities. Our offerings include a variety of investment products, such as private and public debt funds. | $9.5M | Seed | May 29, 2024 |  |
| Hyper | Hyper is an avatar-based social network. We're building the metaverse. | $3.6M | Seed | Jun 12, 2023 |  |
| Mad Realities | Mad Realities is reimagining entertainment for the modern world, powered by ownership incentives of the new internet. | $6M | Seed | Apr 25, 2022 |  |
| Context | Context is a Web3 business that allows users to “track” the transactions of any crypto wallet. It offers an app that enables users to track the wallets and transactions of individuals they follow on Twitter. Aside from that, users may track the activities of friends, influencers, decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO), and celebrities usingContext.Context was co-founded in 2021 by Luke Miles and Adam Ludwin. | $19.5M | Seed | Apr 13, 2022 |  |
| The Fabricant | The Fabricant is an AI-powered design platform founded in 2018 that helps fashion brands replace physical sampling with virtual prototyping. Used by leading brands including Hugo Boss, Fynch-Hatton, Bestseller Group, Prenatal, and Napapijri. The platform enables design teams to visualize drape, texture, and fit instantly — moving from concept toe-commerce in minutes, not months. The platform reduces content creation costs by 90%, increases new design explorations by 80%, and cuts concept-to-prototype time by 50-70%. It includes tools for sketch-to-image rendering, AI photo studio, image-to-video animation, virtual sampling, and generative image editing. The Fabricant serves enterprise fashion brands and design teams globally, with particular strength in the European market. Plans are available from free to enterprise level, making AI-powered virtual prototyping accessible to teams of all sizes. | $14M | Series A | Apr 07, 2022 |  |
| Presail | Presail is a Management platform for community-driven funding. Presail makes it easy for companies and investors to manage investments in web 3.0. Create deals, manage cap-tables & distribute assets - all in one app | $1.6M | Seed | Mar 02, 2022 |  |
| Presail | Presail is a Management platform for community-driven funding. Presail makes it easy for companies and investors to manage investments in web 3.0. Create deals, manage cap-tables & distribute assets - all in one app | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Mar 02, 2022 |  |
| DIMO | [DIMO] connects the physical and digital world to produce useful work. | $9M | Seed | Feb 15, 2022 |  |

10 of 18 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Weekend Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/weekend-fund) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Variant](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/variant-9ecc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [CoinFund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinfund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Global Founders Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-founders-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Triton Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kraken-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Paradigm](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paradigm-b23a) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Friends With Benefits

VC Fund

An art and culture DAO

3 contacts available at Friends With Benefits.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gabriel Quintela | Partnerships | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gabriel-quintela |
| Gamkaew Lourakmanee | Chief Lover Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gamkaew-lourakmanee |
| Trevor McFedries | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/trevor-mcfedries |

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## FAQ

### What does Trevor McFedries invest in?

Trevor McFedries invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 18 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 Trevor McFedries's check size?

Trevor McFedries typically joins rounds of $1.6M–$9.5M at Seed, $1.6M–$2.1M at Pre-Seed and $10M–$14M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Trevor McFedries participates in.

### When did Trevor McFedries last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Trevor McFedries closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 18 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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