# William Mougayar

> William Mougayar is a seed investor at Startup Management backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Startup Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/startup-management)
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: May 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/williammougayar/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/wmougayar
- Website: http://www.influitive.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/wmougayar

William Mougayar is a Toronto-based investor, researcher, blogger, and best-selling author of The Business Blockchain (Wiley, 2016). He is a direct participant in the crypto-technology market, working alongside startups, entrepreneurs, pioneers, leaders, innovators, creators, enterprise executives and practitioners.William is the generalpartner at Virtual Capital Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund, and currently on the Board of Directors of OB1, the OpenBazaar open source protocol that is pioneering decentralized peer-to-peer commerce, a Board Advisor to the Ethereum Foundation, a member of OMERS Ventures Board of Advisors, an Advisory Board member to the Coin Center and Bloq. He blogs regularly about the present and future of blockchains at Startup Management.Previously, he held senior positions at Hewlett-Packard, Cognizant and Aberdeen Group, and he founded 3 startups, CYBERManagement, Eqentia, and Engagio.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$1.5M |
| Series A | $5M–$15M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 4 | 36% |
| Cryptocurrency | 4 | 36% |
| Bitcoin | 3 | 27% |
| Internet | 2 | 18% |
| Software | 2 | 18% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 36% |
| Series A | 4 | 36% |
| Series B | 1 | 9% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 55% |
| Canada | 2 | 18% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Decrypt | Decrypt is a media platform that focused on stories from culture, technology, business, education, politics, art, and the latest news. The platform also delivers essential journalism, education, and analysis for the adoption of blockchain. Decrypt was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York. | $10M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 03, 2022 |  |
| Roll | Roll is a blockchain infrastructure for social money on Ethereum. The Roll network mints branded digital tokens unique to online presence, allowing them to own, control, and coordinate the value created across platforms. Roll was founded in 2017and is based in New York, United States. |  | Seed | Aug 20, 2020 |  |
| Dapper Labs | Dapper Labs, the company behind NBA Top Shot, uses blockchain technology to bring NFTs and new forms of digital engagement to fans around the world. Since it was founded in 2018, Dapper Labs has given consumer enthusiasts a real stake in the game by bringing them closer to the brands they love, building engaged and exciting communities for them tocontribute to, and producing new pathways for them to become creators themselves. | $11.2M | Series B | Sep 12, 2019 |  |
| Dapper Labs | Dapper Labs, the company behind NBA Top Shot, uses blockchain technology to bring NFTs and new forms of digital engagement to fans around the world. Since it was founded in 2018, Dapper Labs has given consumer enthusiasts a real stake in the game by bringing them closer to the brands they love, building engaged and exciting communities for them tocontribute to, and producing new pathways for them to become creators themselves. | $15M | Series A | Oct 19, 2018 |  |
| CryptoKitties | CryptoKitties is a mobile game that enables users to collect and breed virtual cats on the blockchain. The collectible, breedable, and adorable CryptoKitties aim to make blockchain technology accessible to everyday consumers by putting a furry face on the concept of digital collectibles.With each CryptoKitties unique 256-bit genome empower nearly4-billion potential genetic combinations. | $12M | Series A | Mar 21, 2018 |  |
| Dapper Labs | Dapper Labs, the company behind NBA Top Shot, uses blockchain technology to bring NFTs and new forms of digital engagement to fans around the world. Since it was founded in 2018, Dapper Labs has given consumer enthusiasts a real stake in the game by bringing them closer to the brands they love, building engaged and exciting communities for them tocontribute to, and producing new pathways for them to become creators themselves. | $12.9M | Series A | Mar 20, 2018 |  |
| OB1 | OB1 is a developer of a peer-to-peer trading platform used to offer a cryptocurrency marketplace. It makes online trade free for everyone allowing them to buy and sell anything to anyone else for free. OB1 was established in 2015 and is headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia. | $5M | Series A | Mar 13, 2018 |  |
| Mediachain | Mediachain automatically connects media to its creator and information about it, and is a protocol for registering, identifying, and tracking creative works online. It automatically resolves media to who made it, what its about, and where it originated using content indentification technologyMediachain also lets creators, organizations, anddevelopers collaborate on metadata in an open, universal media library and allows participants to retain control over their data while broadening their reach using a decentralized architecture | $1.5M | Seed | Jun 01, 2016 |  |
| OpenBazaar | OpenBazaar is a new way to trade online. By running a program on your computer, you can connect directly to other users in the OpenBazaar network and trade with them. This network isn't controlled by a company, it's a decentralized network that isn't run by any organization at all. This means there are no mandatory fees to pay, andthat your trade is censorship-resistant.OpenBazaar uses Bitcoin, a digital currency that is also cheap to use, decentralized, and censorship-resistant.This project is open source, which means the code is publicly available, can be reviewed, and anyone can join the project and suggest changes. | $1M | Seed | Jun 11, 2015 |  |
| OB1 | OB1 is a developer of a peer-to-peer trading platform used to offer a cryptocurrency marketplace. It makes online trade free for everyone allowing them to buy and sell anything to anyone else for free. OB1 was established in 2015 and is headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia. | $1M | Seed | Apr 24, 2015 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Union Square Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/union-square-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Caffeinated Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caffeinated-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Rising Tide](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rising-tide-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Venrock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/venrock) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Version One Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/version-one-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Startup Management

VC Fund · New York, United States

Startup Management will aspire to be a daily destination where entrepreneurs learn about managing, growing and scaling startups, almost like an virtual open university. It’s where startups become grownups.

1 contacts available at Startup Management.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| William Mougayar | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/william-mougayar |

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## FAQ

### What does William Mougayar invest in?

William Mougayar invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Bitcoin startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 11 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 William Mougayar's check size?

William Mougayar typically joins rounds of $1M–$1.5M at Seed and $5M–$15M 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 William Mougayar participates in.

### When did William Mougayar last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for William Mougayar closed in May 2022. Shizune tracks 11 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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