Zak Cole
Angel Investor
Nashville, United States
Zak Cole is a seed investor in Nashville focused on FinTech and Cryptocurrency. Zak Cole is based out of Nashville, Tennessee and is the Co-Founder of 0xbow. Zak previously worked at Code4rena as a Co-Founder. Zak Cole attended Otis College of Art and Design.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 13%
Last updated:
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Industries Zak Cole invests in
Stages Zak Cole invests in
Countries Zak Cole invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $1M–$8M
- Series A
- $12M–$32M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 4 (50%)
- Cryptocurrency 3 (38%)
- Internet 2 (25%)
- Blockchain 2 (25%)
- Financial Services 2 (25%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (50%)
- Series A 2 (25%)
- Funding Round 1 (13%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (13%)
Country
- United States 5 (63%)
- Switzerland 1 (13%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Astaria
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Astaria is the solution to the hardest problem in Defi: instant highly liquid NFT lending. Astaria allows users to get instant liquidity for their NFTs. | $8M / Seed / Jun 20, 2022 | |
| TokenSoft is the leading technology platform for companies seeking to issue and manage digital securities on the blockchain, at scale, and within compliance. It supports the highest standards for regulation and compliance, regardless of jurisdiction. TokenSoft's platform offers a bespoke suite of technology services to meet the needs of theentire lifecycle of a digital asset. | $4M / Seed / May 20, 2022 | ||
| PWN is a hub for peer-to-peer loans backed by digital assets. | $1M / Seed / Feb 01, 2022 | ||
| Hyy.pe is an NFT display and gallery-based social network where NFT communities will find a home to connect, share stories, and collaboratively build their history. | $2M / Seed / Oct 26, 2021 | ||
| Element is an open source protocol for fixed and variable yield markets. | $32M / Series A / Oct 19, 2021 | ||
| Connext is a crosschain liquidity network that enables fast, fully-noncustodial transfers between EVM-compatible chains and L2 systems. It leverages the Ethereum blockchain along with groundbreaking distributed systems tech to enable instant, near-free transfers anywhere in the world.The company was founded in 2017 by Arjun Bhuptani, Layne Haber,and Rahul Sethuram. | $12M / Series A / Jul 13, 2021 | ||
| Gitcoin is a platform to enable open source developers to monetize their work when it is used.Gitcoin was borne of the community in Boulder, Colorado's thriving tech scene. One of the most amazing things about the Boulder community is the #givefirst mantra. The founding team has built their careers off of advice, mentorship, andrelationships in the local tech community.Gitcoin is built upon the Ethereum network, and the solidity smart contract programming language. Ethereum provides opportunities to align incentives across actors in the ecosystem. By programming rights of stakeholders directly into smart contracts, actors are incentivized to provide value, and edge cases are handled _without_ having to involve legacy legal enforcement mechanisms.The founder of Gitcoin, Kevin Owocki, has experience as an organizer of Boulder Startup Week, Ignite Boulder, StartupCTO.io, Boulder Blockchain Meetup, and the open-source projects by trader, adblock-to-bitcoin, YouveGotETH, and ColoradoCoin. The stronger the community is, the more successful open source projects are. The stronger open source projects are, the stronger the community is.Gitcoin is a project that combines the #givefirst mantra of the Boulder community with capitalistic incentives to write great software. By enabling Repo Maintainers, developers, and financiers to find one another, Gitcoin pushes open-source software forward. | $11.3M / Apr 14, 2021 | ||
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FAQ
What does Zak Cole invest in?
Zak Cole invests primarily in FinTech, Cryptocurrency and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Zak Cole invest in?
Zak Cole typically joins rounds of $1M–$8M at Seed and $12M–$32M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Zak Cole's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Zak Cole took part in.
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When did Zak Cole last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Zak Cole closed in Jun 2022. Shizune tracks 8 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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