# YY Lai

> YY Lai is a seed investor at Signum Capital backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Signum Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/signum-capital)
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Aug 2025
- Lead investor: 30%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yokeyong

YY Lai is a Managing Partner at Signum Capital. He was Lead of Startup incubation at PayPal.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 3 | 30% |
| Cryptocurrency | 3 | 30% |
| Web3 | 2 | 20% |
| Gaming | 2 | 20% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 20% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 50% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 20% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 10% |
| Series A | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 20% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 10% |
| Singapore | 1 | 10% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 10% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| HackQuest | Web3.0 programming for everyone. | $4.1M | Seed | Aug 09, 2025 |  |
| Zypher Network | Zypher Network is a decentralized Trust infrastructure provider designed to support autonomous AI agents by enabling secure, verifiable, and trustless interactions across distributed systems. | $7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 04, 2025 |  |
| HackQuest | Web3.0 programming for everyone. | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | Feb 24, 2024 |  |
| Transak | Transak is a global web3 payment and onboarding infrastructure provider, facilitating seamless transitions between traditional finance and crypto assets. Its product suite includes robust fiat-to-crypto services (On/Off-Ramps), a fiat-to-smart-contract solution (Transak One), and a fiat-to-NFT checkout solution. As a regulated, non-custodialpayments layer, Transak supports onboarding to 160+ crypto assets across 75+ blockchains. Trusted by over 350+ applications, including MetaMask and Coinbase Wallet, Transak is making web3 applications more accessible. | $20M | Series A | May 30, 2023 |  |
| Moonshot Commons | Moonshot Commons creates a vibrant community of engineers. They support technical founders from day 0 because they believe the next SpaceX and Apple will belong to Gen-Z and be engineering-driven by default. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 23, 2023 |  |
| PIF Nation | Play It Forward is a one-of-a-kind hybrid of a guild management platform and a large-scale scholar guild. | $6M | Seed | Jan 02, 2022 |  |
| PIF Nation | Play It Forward is a one-of-a-kind hybrid of a guild management platform and a large-scale scholar guild. | $6M | Seed | Jan 02, 2022 |  |
| Solscan | Solscan is a full-suite block explorer and data analytics platform focusing on the Solana ecosystem. Solscan provides a vast range of data services for users, developers, and projects. | $4M | Seed | Dec 21, 2021 |  |
| Pendle Finance | Pendle Finance is a decentralized finance protocol that allows users to tokenize and sell future yields. | $3.7M | Seed | May 04, 2021 |  |
| RBL Labs | We are a team of 25+ blockchain and gaming professionals working relentlessly to bring cutting-edge Web3 experience. Visit rbllabs.com for more info and check out our first p2e collectible card game on locgame.io, our edutainment platform on cryptorbl.com and the virtual city of Cryptise on cryptise.io | $1.2M | Seed | Apr 02, 2021 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [UOB Venture](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/uob-venture) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [ByteTrade Lab](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bytetrade) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [GBV Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/genesis-block-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [LD Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ld-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [AU21 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/au21-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Double Peak Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/double-peak-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Signum Capital

VC Fund · Singapore, Singapore

They are a Singapore-based firm that exclusively consults in Blockchain-enabled companies. Their mission is to realize the future of Blockchain economy by consulting in game changing projects and companies. They participate in Pre-sale stages of Token Generation Events and Equity investments.

3 contacts available at Signum Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| John Ng Pangilinan | Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-ng-pangilinan |
| YY Lai | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yy-lai |
| Ian Lee | Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ian-lee-ae1a |

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## FAQ

### What does YY Lai invest in?

YY Lai invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Web3 startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 10 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 YY Lai last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for YY Lai closed in Aug 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.

### 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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