# Tyler Scott Ward > Tyler Scott Ward is a seed investor at Sanctum AI backing Financial Services and Blockchain. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026. - Type: Angel Investor - Fund: [Sanctum AI](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sanctum-ai) - Location: Chapel Hill, United States - Total investments: 12 - Last investment: Jul 2022 - Lead investor: 0% - Last updated: Aug 2026 - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-scott-ward-42638627/ - Website: https://x.com/LordTylerWard Tyler Scott Ward is a Co-Founder and CEO at BarnBridge. ## Round sizes | Stage | Round size | | --- | --- | | Seed | $800k–$5.2M | | Pre-Seed | $250k–$2.3M | ## Investment focus ### Industry | Industry | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Financial Services | 5 | 42% | | Blockchain | 4 | 33% | | Cryptocurrency | 4 | 33% | | FinTech | 2 | 17% | | Trading Platform | 2 | 17% | 14 industries tracked in total. ### Stage | Stage | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Seed | 7 | 58% | | Pre-Seed | 4 | 33% | | Private Equity | 1 | 8% | ### Country | Country | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Gibraltar | 1 | 8% | | Singapore | 1 | 8% | | United States | 1 | 8% | ## Investments | Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Altitude | Altitude is a Decentralized Finance (DeFi) protocol offering a first-of-its-kind actively managed collateralized loan, which uses the volatility of the value of the collateral to repay itself over time. | $2.1M | Seed | Jul 01, 2022 | | | prePO | prePO is a decentralized trading platform allowing anyone anywhere to speculate on the value of any pre‑IPO company or pre‑token project. | $2.1M | Private Equity | Mar 23, 2022 | | | prePO | prePO is a decentralized trading platform allowing anyone anywhere to speculate on the value of any pre‑IPO company or pre‑token project. | $2.1M | Seed | Mar 23, 2022 | | | Fancy Birds | Fancy Birds is a blockchain-based play-to-earn game. Fancy Birds is a single-player mobile game with 8,888 randomly generated NFT characters minted initially with custom features, that fight through levels to earn their spot as “the fanciest bird in the nest”. | $2.3M | Pre-Seed | Oct 22, 2021 | | | Fancy Studios | Fancy Studios is a web3 gaming studio developing fun mobile games. They are player-centric, focusing on making their games intuitive, fun, and a shareable experience with friends.Fancy Studios' strategic partners and investors include Framework Ventures, Merit Circle, YGG, Polemos, Illuvium, Polygon, BreedFi, PathDAO, YGG SEA, Loot Squad,The Juice Team, IndiGG, SNACKCLUB, Orium Guild, GameFi Squad, AMG DAO, BAYZ, Kieran Warwick (Illuvium co-founder), 0xMaki (Sushi co-founder), Santiago Santos (ex-ParaFi partner), Anton Bukov (1inch co-founder), Ryan Fang (Ankr co-founder), Stani Kulechov (Aave founder), Richard Ma (Quantstamp CEO), and others. | $250K | Pre-Seed | Oct 21, 2021 | | | Lyra Finance | Lyra is the most complete decentralized crypto options trading protocol built on Ethereum. Lyra combines the best of traditional options market making (tried and tested pricing and risk management) with crypto’s two biggest strengths scalability and composability. | $3.3M | Seed | Jul 26, 2021 | | | Thales | Thales is a synthetix ecosystem project building support for trading binary options. | $2.5M | Seed | Jul 14, 2021 | | | ClayStack | ClayStack is the next-generation blockchain-agnostic staking protocol that enables users to unlock the power of staked digital assets in the form of liquid staking derivative tokens. | $5.2M | Seed | Jul 13, 2021 | | | Syndicate | Syndicate is a decentralized asset management platform and social network. | $800K | Seed | Jun 30, 2021 | | | Streams | Streams is an easy to use mobile app, secured by Ethereum, that protects traditional investors from inflation while they earn passive income from their digital assets. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Jun 02, 2021 | | 10 of 12 investments shown. ## Co-investors - [D64 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/d64-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together - [IOSG Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/iosg-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together - [Honey DAO](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/honey-dao) — VC Fund, 3 deals together - [ParaFi Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/parafi-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together - [Republic capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/republic-labs) — VC Fund, 3 deals together - [Shima Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shima-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together ## About Sanctum AI VC Fund 1 contacts available at Sanctum AI. | Name | Title | Profile | | --- | --- | --- | | Tyler Scott Ward | Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tyler-scott-ward | ## Similar investors ### Similar industry - [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund - [Global Founders Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-founders-capital) — VC Fund - [Coinbase Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinbase-ventures) — VC Fund ### Similar stage - [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund - [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund - [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund ### Similar country - [Eden Block](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eden-block) — VC Fund - [Wave Digital Assets](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wave-digital-assets) — VC Fund - [Greenfield](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greenfield-one) — VC Fund ## Featured in investor lists - [Cryptocurrency Angel Investors](https://shizune.co/investors/cryptocurrency-angel-investors) - [Financial Services Angel Investors in Gibraltar](https://shizune.co/investors/financial-services-angel-investors-gibraltar) - [Blockchain Angel Investors in Gibraltar](https://shizune.co/investors/blockchain-angel-investors-gibraltar) - [FinTech Investors in Gibraltar](https://shizune.co/investors/fintech-investors-gibraltar) - [FinTech Angel Investors in Gibraltar](https://shizune.co/investors/fintech-angel-investors-gibraltar) - [All Investors in Gibraltar](https://shizune.co/investors/investors-gibraltar) ## FAQ ### What does Tyler Scott Ward invest in? Tyler Scott Ward invests primarily in Financial Services, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Gibraltar. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio. ### What is Tyler Scott Ward's check size? Tyler Scott Ward typically joins rounds of $800k–$5.2M at Seed and $250k–$2.3M 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 Tyler Scott Ward participates in. ### When did Tyler Scott Ward last invest? The most recent investment recorded for Tyler Scott Ward closed in Jul 2022. 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? 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