Top 50 Web3 Angel Investors in Singapore in January 2025
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Web3 startups based in Singapore. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Web3 companies from Singapore. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Web3 Angel Investors in Singapore in January 2025
Investor | Web3 Singapore investments |
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Balaji Srinivasan | 9 |
Sandeep Nailwal | 9 |
Liang Xinjun | 6 |
Chris McCann | 4 |
Stani Kulechov | 4 |
Jaynti Kanani | 4 |
Josh Hannah | 4 |
Kain Warwick | 4 |
Do Kwon | 4 |
Leo Cheng | 3 |
Richard Ma | 3 |
Loi Luu | 3 |
Ryan Selkis | 3 |
Jack Herrick | 3 |
Prabhakar Reddy | 3 |
Tanmay Bhat | 3 |
Ajit Tripathi | 3 |
Santiago Roel Santos | 3 |
Sanat Rao | 2 |
Paul Taylor | 2 |
Marc Bhargava | 2 |
Mahdi Raza | 2 |
Nitin Gupta | 2 |
Alex Svanevik | 2 |
Kingsley Advani | 2 |
Spencer Noon | 2 |
Aleksander Leonard Larsen | 2 |
Shixing Mao | 2 |
Ana Andrianova | 2 |
Kevin Hu | 2 |
Darryl Wang | 2 |
Raj Gokal | 2 |
Meltem Demirors | 2 |
Owen Van Natta | 2 |
Kelly Choo | 2 |
Alex Zhu | 2 |
Mohandass Kalaichelvan | 2 |
Jose L Sampedro Mazon | 2 |
Ajeet Khurana | 2 |
Rohit Bansal | 2 |
Matthew Tan | 2 |
Kevin Lin | 2 |
DeFi Dad | 2 |
Kunal Bahl | 2 |
Sam Kazemian | 2 |
Robert Leshner | 2 |
Joe Zhou | 1 |
Jez Mohideen | 1 |
Itamar Lesuisse | 1 |
Chun Yang-Hyun | 1 |
Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the co-founder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- The Arena — Arena. social is a cutting-edge SocialFi platform that is revolutionizing how content producers interact, network, and make money from their work.
- Lica World — Hire Lica, AI Video Producer for Product, Sales, And Customer Success Teams
- OpenGradient — OpenGradient is a leading decentralized AI platform for open-source model hosting, secure inference, agentic reasoning, and application deployment. By developing tooling and a feature-rich platform that makes developing AI workflows both secure and seamless, OpenGradient empowers developers with the ability to build in its ecosystem of intelligentand optimized AI-empowered applications. With native model hosting, permissionless composability, and secure inference execution, OpenGradient also aims to accelerate open-source AI by democratizing model ownership, improving verifiability guarantees, and promoting censorship-resistant model access.Our heterogeneous AI compute architecture (HACA) and our proprietary library NeuroML scale secure AI workflows with features like inference, agentic reasoning, statistical analysis, and more. OpenGradient also accelerates open-source innovation with a web portal and SDK for Web2 developers to leverage our AI stack without navigating blockchain complexities, while enjoying the security and composability benefits of decentralized infrastructure.
Sandeep Nailwal is the co-founder and COO of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as the Co-Founder and CEO. He attended the Indian Institute of Management, Mumbai.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Fraction AI — Fraction AI is the best human-generated data for training your AI models.
- Lava Network — Lava Network aims to be a marketplace for blockchain data.
- Talus Network — Talus Network is an L1 blockchain purpose-built for Smart Agents. Built with the MoveVM, Talus allows for seamless development, ownership, and monetization of composable Smart Agents.
Liang Xinjun is the Founder of the Fosun fashion group. He previously worked at Shanghai Guangxin Technology Development Co as a VP; Deputy GM. Liang Xinjun attended
Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Singapore, United States, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- NFTGo — NFTGo is a NFT data aggregator where users can find information about NFT, including NFT Drops, ranking, whale tracking, NFT search engine, market data, transaction data, and many more.
- 0xScope — Discover the comprehensive suite of trading and research products leveraging 0xScope's cutting-edge Web3 Data Layer architecture. Trade with confidence using Scopechat, access advanced analytical tools with Scopescan, and tap into the extensive capabilities of ScopeAPI for traceable entity insights.
- TokenScript — A new standard for bridging web2 and web3
Chris McCann is the Partner at Race Capital and a Seed Investor at Solana, Lightning Labs, Kado, Notifi, Zeet, Hedge Labs, Bundlr Network, and Opaque Systems. He is also the Co-Founder of StartupDigest. Prior to that, Chris was a Community Lead at Greylock Partners.
Mr. McCann attended California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo.
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, Singapore, Malta
Portfolio highlights
- Delta One — Delta One is a yield generation protocol on Solana that offers novel delta-neutral and impermanent loss-free farming markets. Its mission is to create novel, easy-to-use Defi primitives that democratize the best risk-adjusted yield opportunities to achieve mass adoption of crypto investing.
- Aleph.im — Aleph.im is a distributed cloud platform that provides serverless trusted computing services, file storage, and database hosting to its users.
- Headquarters — Headquarters (HQ.xyz) helps Web3 teams be automate their financial activities and reporting. Aggregated balance overview, Payments and Payouts, book-keeping tailored for Web3/Crypto.
Stani Kulechov is the founder and CEO of Aave and ETHLend. He is a seasoned entrepreneur with extensive experience developing technology in the crypto, blockchain, and fintech space. Stani is also a mentor to many founders and advisors of ICOs and blockchain projects and has spoken at numerous FinTech, Blockchain and cryptocurrency events,particularly on topics related to Ethereum Smart Contracts.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Australia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- karpatkey — Market leaders in onchain asset management, karpatkey helps crypto organisations grow their assets responsibly and sustainably. We provide active treasury management, financial services, ecosystem growth and risk management solutions.
- RISE Labs — The Based Gigagas EVM Layer 2
- Fantom Foundation — Fantom is a next-gen Layer-1 platform for DeFi, dApps and businesses.
Jaynti Kanani - Co-Founder @ Polygon
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Rep3 — Rep3 is a Web3 community management application. Rep3 uses gamification methods to assist lps encryption projects in managing communities, members, and contributions.
- NovaNet — NovaNet offers local verifiable computing and privacy protection applications, including AI, decentralized Internet of Things (DePIN), and games.
- Electron — Proof Aggregation using #superproofs. Backed by Sandeep Nailwal, Martin Köppelmann, Jaynti Kanani, Anurag Arjun, Aztec CTO, and many others. Etheruem Foundation grant recipient.
Josh Hannah
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Marketplace
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- ClayStack — Multichain liquid staking platform that allows users to stake their assets, mint staking derivatives, and participate in DeFi.
- Monkey Tilt — Join your new crypto casino at Monkey Tilt. Play with crypto, earn points & win prizes. Tilt Club VIP program includes bonuses, merch drops & more.
- Ondo Finance — Institutional Grade Finance. On-Chain. For Everyone.
Kain Warwick is the Co-Founder and CEO at blueshyft
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Australia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Ammalgam — Ammalgam is a new primitive that integrates lending and trading into a single protocol known as a Decentralized Lending Exchange (DLEX).
- EarthFast — EarthFast provides cryptocurrency front-end hosting solutions. It enables projects to build and deploy decentralized apps, providing a secure alternative to traditional cloud platforms.
- Firewall — Firewall is building a security layer for Web3, including the Safe Sequencer and its modular components that mitigate smart contract hacks before they impact users. Backed by NIV, Breyer Capital and Hack VC.
Do Kwon is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Terraform Labs. Do Kwon is the Founder & CEO at Terraform Labs . Do Kwon attended Stanford University.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- KlayCity — KlayCity is a P2E virtual world where district NFT owners can govern, explore and earn while enjoying the gaming experience.
- Fractal — Fractal is an in-game asset and virtual world marketplace where users may find, purchase, and sell gaming NFTs. Fractal is headquartered in Solana, United States and was founded in 2021.
- Treehouse — Explore Treehouse Protocol, a decentralized application introducing tAssets and Decentralized Offered Rates (DOR). Deposit ETH or LST to receive tETH and unify fragmented on-chain ETH rates.
Leo Cheng is a Co-founder & CEO @ Machi X. He attended
University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Financial Services, Finance
- Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Coinomo — Your Long-Term Partner in Crypto Investment
- SolRazr — SolRazr is the first decentralized developer ecosystem for Solana, offering Launchpad, Accelerator, and Developer Tools.
- Candlestick.io — Permissionless copy trading platform on the blockchain
Richard Ma is the Founder and CEO of Quantstamp.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Financial Services, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, India
Portfolio highlights
- DuelNow — DuelNow offers bookie-free sports betting. At DuelNow you can create crypto bets, set your odds, and win on your terms.
- RiskLayer — RiskLayer is an economic security middleware for DeFi and providing services and validating Creating positive feedback loops.
- Peach Worlds — The Only No-Code Builder for Extraordinary 3D Websites. Empowering designers to create stand out and premium 3D Sites without any coding.
Loi Luu is a researcher working on cryptocurrencies, smart contract security and distributed consensus algorithms. He is also a regular invited speaker at Bitcoin and Ethereum workshops such as DevCon2, EDCON.Loi believes in the force of the Ethereum and Blockchain technology. Much of his work revolves around this community. He developed Oyente,the first open-source security analyzer for Ethereum smart contracts. Loi also cofounded SmartPool, another open source project which embraces decentralization of mining pools in existing cryptocurrency. He continues to champion decentralisation and trustless properties of the Blockchain with KyberNetwork, taking inspiration and developing value for the community.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Trading Platform
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Singapore, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- ARC the Community — Access Asia's most curated community in Web3, enabled by NFTs as proof of membership.
- Alliance Games — Next level Web3 Gaming Infrastructure, Now Fully Decentralized
- Avara Ventures — Avara creates smart contract-enabled products and public goods (open source protocols) that incorporate decentralized blockchain technologies and token-based economies.
Ryan Selkis is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Messari. He was the Managing Director CoinDesk before that. After discovering bitcoin, Ryan became obsessed with the technology’s social and economic potential. That obsession, along with finance and startup experience, helps him lead DCG's investing efforts.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, India
Portfolio highlights
- 0xPPL — 0xPPL brings together people who have similar interests in cryptocurrencies, providing an ecosystem where users can track crypto assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) traded by those they follow.
- Agora — Agora operates as a cross-chain governance platform.
- StripChain — Stripchain is an intent-based interoperability standard that enables chain abstraction.
Jack Herrick is a serial entrepreneur and current CEO and Founder of wikiHow.Jack founded wikiHow, which is like Wikipedia for how-to. Jack started and self financed wikiHow from inception to it's current position as one of the most popular sites on the web receiving over 25 million unique visitors per month. Prior to wikiHow, Jack wasco-CEO of eHow. With Josh Hannah, Jack purchased eHow in 2004. Between 2004 and 2006 eHow grew 30x in traffic and revenue and became the largest pure play how-to site on the web. Demand Media acquired eHow in 2006.In 2002 Jack co-founded Luminescent Technologies with Dan Abrams, Eli Yablonovitch, and Stan Osher. Luminescent is a computational semiconductor lithography company that has raised over $25 MM in venture capital. From 1999-2001 Jack was CEO and co-founder at BigTray, a Sequoia funded e-commerce company. BigTray was sold in 2001 and remains the largest online vendor of restaurant equipment and supplies.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Florida Street — PIXEL GG INC.
- SX Network — The global liqudity hub for betting
- Teahouse Finance — Powered by cutting-edge smart contracts
Prabhakar Reddy is the Co-Founder at FalconX.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Blockchain, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, India
Portfolio highlights
- Key — Key provides a unique method to making significant professional relationships while also promoting career advancement, financial well-being, and work-life balance
- Coinshift — Coinshift is a crypto treasury management platform that helps businesses and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO's) manage their crypto easily and empowers users to collaborate and approve transactions, execute mass pay-outs, etc.
- Mira — Mira is a decentralized infrastructure platform designed to increase access to advanced AI.
Tanmay Bhat, SuperteamDAO.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Information Technology, Digital Entertainment
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- India, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Unikon.ai — Unikon.ai has solved the issue of access on this open-source platform. Every user has a personal profile that they can modify to include different prices for direct messaging, video calls, and audio calls."Unikon" means "you and I connect."
- Offline — Offline is a private members' community for the top 10% tech founders and CEOs in India. Apply online to become a member.
- infinyte.club — The ultimate wealth product for intelligent investors: track your net worth, manage public and private market investments & grow wealth across traditional & new-age assets.
Ajit Tripathi is a Head of Institutional Business at Aave.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Internet, Ethereum
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Singapore, India, France
Portfolio highlights
- Flint — Earn 13% p.a. stable returns by leveraging the power of crypto. Withdraw-able anytime without fees.
- Spark — Spark is a decentralized network that provides a predicate-based central limit order book.
- WalletConnect — Reown gives developers the tools to build user experiences that make digital ownership effortless, intuitive, and secure. Explore now
Santiago Roel Santos was a Partner at ParaFi Capital.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- MegaETH — MegaETH is the first blockchain in real time and entirely on-chain, immediate, interactive apps are enabling mankind to reach its greatest potential.
- SkyTrade — SkyTrade is a blockchain-based air rights marketplace that allows users to buy, sell, and lease airspace, enabling them to manage and control access to low-altitude airspace.
- Uranium Digital — Uranium Digital is astartup that uses tokenization to target the uranium market. The business represents uranium ore with blockchain tokens, facilitating smooth transactions in this highly regulated and initially underfunded industry.
Sanat Rao is a Partner at BlockTower Capital where he manages the market neutral fund and also focuses on early stage investments. He was previously the managing director and co-founder at Gamma Point Capital, a leading market neutral hedge fund acquired by BlockTower Capital. Prior to Gamma Point Capital, Sanat was a partner at IDG Ventures Indiawhere he led investments in the fintech, SaaS and blockchain sectors. He has previously held roles at Intel Capital and iSPIRT on the investment and corporate development teams.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- India, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Wint Wealth — GrowFix offers high net-worth individuals and retail investors, asset-backed fixed income products that offer higher returns than fixed deposits.
- Flint — Earn 13% p.a. stable returns by leveraging the power of crypto. Withdraw-able anytime without fees.
- Nume Crypto — Nume Crypto is a cryptocurrency payment processor that caters to both individuals and businesses.
Paul Taylor is an angel investor and an advisor in multiple web3 companies. He previously worked at Fancy Studios as a Chief Strategy Officer. Prior to that, he worked at BlackRock on the Private Equity Partners team. Paul attended Emory University where he received his BBA degree.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, China
Portfolio highlights
- Fragmetric — Fragmetric is a native liquid restaking mechanism for Solana that improve the Solana ecosystem's security and economic potential.
- Avalon Finance — The liquidity hub for BTC LSDFi and CeDeFi Lending.Borrow stablecoins at Fixed rates starting as low as 8%.
- Hermetica — Hermetica is a crypto-native team with extensive financial technology experience, having worked with big organizations such as Kraken and State Street. Hermetica is dedicated to developing innovative financial products that capitalize on Bitcoin's security and transparency.
Marc Bhargava is the Managing Director at General Catalyst. He attended Harvard Business School.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, France
Portfolio highlights
- Olympix — Olympix is a pioneering DevSecOps tool that puts security in the hands of the developer by proactively securing code from day one.
- Meanwhile — Licensed and regulated life insurance in Bitcoin. Leverage the value of crypto today and pass it to the next generation without passing on a huge tax burden.
- Superform Labs — THE UNIVERSAL INTERFACE FOR YIELD IS FORMING
Mahdi Raza is a Lead at Robinhood. Attended NYU Stern School of Business.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Blockchain
- Seed, Series A
- United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Ascend — Ascend is an online payments platform that automates insurance payments end-to-end: from online customer payments and financing to the distribution of commissions and carrier payables.
- Starlight — Starlight offers everything your company needs to operate in the crypto economy from setting up wallets, to buying crypto, to tracking expenses.
- Contribution Labs — DeForm is token-gated forms and surveys for sign ups, allowlists, DAO governance, and other web3 marketing activities. Trusted by ENS, Alchemy, Optimism, CityDAO, Mintplex, and other blockchain projects.
Nitin Gupta is a Founder and CEO at Uni.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Nected — Automate your backend flows, logics & experiments quickly within minutes using Nected's Rule Engine, Workflow automation & Experimentation Engine. Accelerate your innovation & growth. Highly Scalable, performing and customizable to adapt to any business needs and scale.
- HealthCred — HealthCred offers financial solutions tailored to the needs of India's healthcare ecosystem. The company specializes in providing working capital to healthcare stakeholders such as hospitals, medical device manufacturers, drug manufacturers, distributors, and importers. HealthCred's services are designed to stabilize cash flows withoutrequiring equity dilution, ensuring that healthcare providers can continue their operations smoothly. With a process that promises capital availability within 72 hours, HealthCred addresses the urgent financial needs of its clients efficiently.
- Finarkein Analytics — Finarkein Analytics offers no-code workflow orchestration and data analytics platform for digital platforms.
Alex Svanevik is a Co-Founder & CEO of Nansen.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Internet, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, Singapore, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
- Blockscout — Blockscout is optimized for next-level blockchain exploration. Multi-chain, highly configurable, and open-source, the explorer portal opens up access to all chain data and functionality.
- Legion — Legion makes on-chain fundraising accessible to ordinary investors by ensuring regulatory compliance and investor accountability.
- Uranium Digital — Uranium Digital is astartup that uses tokenization to target the uranium market. The business represents uranium ore with blockchain tokens, facilitating smooth transactions in this highly regulated and initially underfunded industry.
Kingsley Advani is a British investor. He started investing in 2013, funding 50 companies, 4 funds and donating to non-profits including: SENS Foundation, Methuselah Foundation, Stanford University, National University of Singapore. He is particularly interested in regenerative medicine for age-related disease. Investments: Oisin, Turn Bio,Oncosenx, Monzo, Robinhood, Abra, Coinbase, Momentus, Demonpores, 64-x, Nectome. Investment areas: biotechnology, neurotechnology, longevity, space, fintech.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Biotechnology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Checkstep — AI Content Moderation Services: learn how AI can help you scale your content moderation and keep your users and moderators safe.
- Allocations — 10,000+ investors and fund managers build, onboard and close funds on Allocations - the fastest and most advanced fund platform in the world
- Ashvattha Therapeutics — Ashvattha Therapeutics creates products that selectively target and treat human diseases. Ashvattha enables precision targeting for therapeutics eliminating off-target toxicity, systemic side effects, and immunogenicity seen in other platforms. Ashvattha has a pipeline of nine therapeutics in neurology, oncology, and ophthalmology.
Spencer Noon is a General Partner/ Investor at Variant. He attended Amherst College.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, France, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Ammalgam — Ammalgam is a new primitive that integrates lending and trading into a single protocol known as a Decentralized Lending Exchange (DLEX).
- Lens Protocol — Lens Protocol is a composable and decentralized social graph, ready for you to build on so you can focus on creating a great experience, not scaling your users.
- Avara Ventures — Avara creates smart contract-enabled products and public goods (open source protocols) that incorporate decentralized blockchain technologies and token-based economies.
Aleksander Leonard Larsen is the Co-Founder and COO at Sky Mavis.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Digital Entertainment, Blockchain
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Norway, Singapore, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Mocaverse — Mocaverse is the Animoca Brands membership NFT collection of 8,888 unique beings: The Mocas. Join the Mocas in the realms to Learn, Play, Do Good, and Build together as we champion our Web3 values!
- Pixels — Pixels is a play-to-earn MMO game built around the NFT assets you already own. Build your NFT a home in the metaverse and get farming.
- Horizon Blockchain Games — We make web3 easy, fun, and accessible for users and builders.
Discus Fish is the CEO and co-founder of Cobo, a leading global developer building the infrastructure that makes cryptocurrencies and decentralized apps easily accessible to anyone. Cobo’s flagship product, launched in February 2018, is Cobo Wallet, the first mobile wallet that offers proof-of-stake pooling services for users, a groundbreakinginnovation that assimilates to interests and dividends. Considered to be China’s cryptocurrency pioneer, for first introducing cryptocurrency to China in 2011 with his widely viewed mining tutorials, Discus Fish was a moderator of the first Chinese Bitcoin forum, BTCMAN, and the first Litecoin forum, LTCBBS. He later contributed to the marketing of Avalon, the first cryptocurrency ASIC miner from Canaan, which filed for an IPO in May 2018, and became co-founder and COO of Yibite, the first Bitcoin portal in China. In 2013, Discus Fish was most well known for co-founding F2Pool, the first mining pool in China, where he shifted the reliance on oversea mining pools to China and also pioneered the 24 hour settlement protocol, which is now considered a global standard today. Now the largest multi-currency mining pool in the world, F2Pool is globally the #1 Ethereum and Litecoin miner, and the 5th largest Bitcoin miner.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Finance, Software
- Seed, Funding Round
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Meson Network — meson network provides fast,stable,cheap content delivery globally
- Puffer Finance — Puffer Finance operates as a blockchain infrastructure company.
Ana Andrianova
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Investment focus
- Analytics, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A
- Kenya, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Mara — Mara is a company operating in the sub-Saharan Africa region. Mara offers a suite of crypto products including a cryptocurrency exchange, token collateralized lending, and an NFT marketplace.
- Nansen — The Nansen analytics platform analyzes millions of data points on Ethereum wallets, transactions, and smart contracts.
Kevin Hu is a General Partner - Head of Liquid Strategies at Dragonfly Capital. He was an Alternative Investments at BlackRock. He attended the University of Toronto.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Internet, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Singapore, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- BounceBit — BounceBit is a chain solution that aims to provide a smart contract execution environment centered on the BTC Token.
- Veera — Veera is an internet browser that gives you rewards every time you browse.
- Manta Network — Manta Network is pioneering modular blockchain technology for ZK applications. Featuring Manta Pacific, the first EVM-equivalent ZK-application platform powered by Celestia DA and Polygon zkEVM.
Darryl Wang
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Chain Debrief — Chain Debrief aims to inform, educate, and connect the global investment community through our crypto guides, news, analyses, and opinion pieces.
- SkyArk — First Triple AAA Fantasy Anime Blockchain RPG from Veteran Studio
Raj leads operations, product, and finance. He has spent 10 years in product management and finance.He was a venture investor at General Catalyst, started the consumer medical device company Sano which attracted over $20m in investment, and led product management at Omada Health as it grew tenfold.
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Investment focus
- Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- 0xPPL — 0xPPL brings together people who have similar interests in cryptocurrencies, providing an ecosystem where users can track crypto assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) traded by those they follow.
- MeshMap — MeshMap is a decentralized 3D map developer focused on creating a decentralized 3D globe map and augmented reality (AR) content network.
- Azura — Azura is a new all-in-one crypto application aggregation layer launched with the assistance of some of the most well-known cryptocurrency pioneers. The company's application and interfacing layer provides reliable access to DeFi assets, real-time market data, and full trade lifecycle support.
Meltem Demirors is Chief Strategy Officer of CoinShares, an investment firm that manages $750M in assets, and is a trusted partner to investors and entrepreneurs navigating the digital asset ecosystem. Meltem oversees the firm’s managed strategies group and its New York office, and leads corporate development as a board director. Previously, shewas part of the founding team of Digital Currency Group. She teaches at MIT and Oxford, and serves on the WEF Blockchain Council. Meltem leads CoinShares' venture strategy and is an active angel investor, having invested in over 150 companies in the digital currency ecosystem since 2015.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Nillion — The Secure Processing Layer of Web3
- Magma — Magma is a decentralized liquid staking protocol built on the Monad Network, an Ethereum-compatible Layer 1 blockchain.
- Neptune Protocol — Neptune Protocol is a decentralized lending platform. It enhances capital efficiency by enabling customers to obtain liquidity in a secure manner.
Owen Van Natta is currently Founder and Managing Partner of Prefix Capital, an early stage investment fund founded in 2019. Owen is also a Founder and Managing Partner at 415 Investments. Previously, Owen was the Executive Vice President of Business at Zynga. He was responsible for the company's revenue strategy, corporate development,international expansion, and brand. Owen was also a member of Zynga's Board of Directors.Before Zynga, Owen served as Chief Executive Officer of MySpace, where he was responsible for all aspects of the company's strategic vision and the execution of its global business initiatives. Owen joined the MySpace team after serving as the Chief Executive Officer of Project Playlist, a music sharing website allowing users to search for music, create custom playlists, and share the content with friends.Prior to Project Playlist, Van Natta was the Chief Operating Officer at Facebook, where he focused on revenue operations, business development, and strategic partnerships.Earlier in his career, Owen was Vice President of Worldwide Business and Corporate Development at Amazon.com, where he managed global marketing programs and strategic partnerships. He was part of the founding team of A9.com, the Amazon.com search company, and was responsible for site operations and sponsored-link advertising.Owen holds a bachelor's degree from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Software, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Singapore, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Jiko — Jiko is a financial technology company that offers a new way to store and move money, designed to create a fluid and rewarding banking experience for all. In September of 2020, Jiko became the first Fintech to acquire a national bank, in addition to being a licensed broker dealer. Prior to that accomplishment, Jiko spent 4 years developing afull-stack technology infrastructure that merges payment rails with real-time, 24/7 principal trading capabilities. This innovative combination is the backbone for Jiko’s transparent and rewarding model, which doesn’t use deposited funds for it's own investment purposes. Instead, customer’s funds are transparently invested in U.S. government-backed Treasury Bills (T-Bills), enabling cutting edge features such as virtual cards, tokenized bank account numbers, automated investments in T-Bills, and cashback on debit purchases. This model is made available to individuals through a mobile banking app, and to business partners through it's API platform. Jiko is a creative and hard-working team with cross-functional expertise in technology, trading, payment, and creative fields. The team is headquartered in Berkeley, California, with offices in New York City and Reykjavik, Iceland. Since its inception in 2016, Jiko has raised over $50M from trusted investors such as Upfront Ventures, Wafra Inc., Radicle Impact, NYCA Partners, and Anthem Ventures among others.
- Bags — Grow your business with access to fair and flexible funding options designed to help you do your thing. Bags is the best place for business owners to get dollars for working capital, inventory, marketing, expansion, or anything else you need to grow.
- Wheels Up — Wheels Up is a membership-based private aviation company that focuses on reducing the upfront cost to fly privately, providing flexibility, service, and safety. Its mobile app enables members to book flights, manage their accounts, and participate in ride-share opportunities. Its members also have given access to the Wheels Down program.
Kelly Choo is the CEO and Co-founder of ReferReach. He previously worked at Isentia Brandtology as a Group Account Director. Kelly Choo attended the University of Pennsylvania.
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- Blockchain, Apps, Gaming
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Singapore, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Enjinstarter — Web 3.0 Entertainment, Sports, Fashion, Metaverse, Social, Gamefi & Gamified Utility
- Chain Debrief — Chain Debrief aims to inform, educate, and connect the global investment community through our crypto guides, news, analyses, and opinion pieces.
- Animoca Brands — Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.
Alex Zhu
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- Marketing, Blockchain, Advertising
- Series A, Funding Round
- Singapore, United States
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- Fishbowl — Restaurant loyalty that works within an integrated marketing strategy to drive revenue and create lasting relationships with your guests.
- CyberHash — CyberHash is a Singapore based startup, focusing on distributed storage solutions. The core team is from AWS Singapore, CyberHash intends to use the funds raised in the round to expand its cloud storage facility, which helps to provide a stable、secure and efficient solution to its distributed storage services. The funds will also be used toincrease its operations in Asia, hire 50 employees and grow mainstream adoption of distributed storage solution.
- Earos Inc — Earos is a groundbreaking decentralized platform that seamlessly integrates AI and blockchain technologies, providing a secure and collaborative environment for building next-generation digital solutions. By empowering creators, developers, and users, Earos aims to shape a sustainable, intelligent, and community-driven digital ecosystem.
Mohandass Kalaichelvan is the CEO & Founder at Spenmo . Mohandass Kalaichelvan attended Dartmouth College.
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- FinTech, Payments, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Singapore, India, Indonesia
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- Evo — Social Commerce Software
- Evo — Evo provides health and wellness direct-to-consumer services.
- Headquarters — Headquarters (HQ.xyz) helps Web3 teams be automate their financial activities and reporting. Aggregated balance overview, Payments and Payouts, book-keeping tailored for Web3/Crypto.
Jose is a VC-backed founder, investor and advisor to both emerging tech start-ups and funds. As a Principal at Silicon Valley’s Mach49 Venture Investing practice, he specializes in advising Fortune 1000 organizations on how to design and manage world-class corporate venture capital funds, from developing the optimal investment thesis to unlockingaccess to top startup founders and investors globally, leveraging his network spanning from Silicon Valley to Asia.Notably, Jose is also an Advisor to pebblebed, a frontier tech venture fund started by founding engineers at Facebook AI Research and OpenAI; and a Seed Investor and Advisor at Web3 company poko.fund (YC W22), among several others. Prior to joining M49’s Venture Investing team, Jose also worked as a Venture Builder at Mach49, making him a trusted advisor to corporates seeking strategic advice across the ‘build, invest, partner, buy’ spectrum. Jose also has an extensive background advising Fortune 1000 companies in various other capacities, including as a New York qualified corporate finance lawyer at Linklaters, Project Leader at Boston Consulting Group, and Cloud Insight Director at Oracle. He has helped companies reach critical corporate milestones — from the design and execution of multimillion-dollar go-to-market strategies and digital transformations that tackled emerging markets across Southeast Asia — to helping banks restructure and navigate new regulatory requirements in order to withstand the European debt crisis of the 2010s. Jose holds an MBA from INSEAD, a Juris Doctor degree from Columbia University, and a bachelor’s degree from King’s College London. He also obtained a diploma in venture capital fund formation from 500 Global, and holds certifications as a Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer, Professional Scrum Master, and member of the New York State Bar.
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- Cryptocurrency, Gaming, FinTech
- Pre-Seed
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Poko — Enable local payments and successful onramping for wallets, NFT marketplaces, web3 games, and dApps globally.
- Poko Technologies — Building something new in web3
Ajeet Khurana is a leading name in the cryptocurrency industry. He is the former head of the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Committee, which as part of IAMAI is India's foremost industry body for cryptocurrency.Presently, as an advisor to several crypto projects, he is seen as a specialist in:
* Tokenomics: pools, structure, architecture,flow, utility, value
* Market Mechanisms: market making, liquidity, listing, volume
In addition he helps with increasing adoption, communication, evangelizing, ambassador programs, and digital outreach. Some crypto founders regard Ajeet as their personal friend, philosopher, and guide.Earlier, in his role as CEO of Zebpay (India’s largest cryptocurrency exchange at that time), he took it from being a one-country exchange to a global exchange. As CEO of the business incubator at IIT Bombay (India’s premier engineering school), he helped commercialise several ideas from concept stage. As an advisor to Venture Capital firms in India, China, US, and Canada, he has an eye for promising founders.Still earlier, Ajeet has authored several books with McGrawHill Education, been an entrepreneur twice, and taught at the University of Texas at Austin.Here is how he characterizes himself:WHAT I HAVE ACHIEVED REPEATEDLY IN MY CAREER
Customer focus. Speed. Attracting and empowering the right people. Making hard decisions. Managing chaos and conflict. Smoothly navigating regulations & compliances. High governance standards. Cultivating relationships. Converting markets to communities. Negotiating deals. Continuous process and product improvement.WHAT I AM LOOKING FOR
A mandate that requires rapid growth and evolution. A role that requires backbone and heart. A non-bureaucratic system that expects a strong bias for action. An opportunity to learn, and create strong cultural underpinning.HOW I BUILD AND MANAGE TEAMS
Single minded focus on the customer. Choose people based on cultural fit and alignment of passion. Impart purpose. Select for potential, but advance for performance. Empower people to work. No busy work. No unending meetings. Don’t be hierarchy-minded. Encourage learning.
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- Blockchain, Internet, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- India, Singapore, Panama
Portfolio highlights
- Dapps — Join Dapps to discover and engage with digital communities that match your passions. Buy shares, and connect with like-minded individuals in a secure, decentralized platform that puts you in control.
- TaxNodes — TaxNodes is a platform for crypto tax computation and ITR filing with expert assistance.
- TableSprint — TableSprint is the world's first free app builder with zero fees and onboarding in a day using an intuitive, Excel-like interface.
Rohit Bansal - Co-Founder @ Snapdeal
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- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- India, United States, Singapore
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- Bluelearn — Find co-founders & teammates, apply to gigs, learn new skills, and meet passionate people.
- Stable Money — Steady returns, untapped opportunities, and excellent long-term performance to aid your journey of wealth creation!
- Equal Identity — Equal Identity operates as an ID-sharing platform.
Matthew Tan is the creator of Blockchain 2.0 Explorer, API & Analytics Platforms Etherscan.io (Ethereum Smart Contracts Platform), Blockscan.com (Counterparty Tech) and also a Co-Founder of a 20 person internet and web software related services development company. More than 15 years in the IT industry with experience in managing, operating anddeveloping technical solutions for clients from various industries.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, IaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Singapore, United States
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- Metagood — Metagood is a for-profit company that empowers communities to be catalysts for positive collective action.Founded by crypto veterans Danny Yang who created the largest crypto currency exchange in Taiwan, Amanda Terry who was an Twitter and NBC executive, and Bill Tai who was the first investor in Zoom, Canva, and 20 other publicly tradedcompanies, Metagood launched OnChainMonkey, the historic PFP collection all on chain in a single transaction on Sept 11, 2021. OnChainMonkey has been consistently ranked as one of the most profitable NFTs collections globally. Metagood was awarded Fast Company's 2022 20 Best World Changing Ideas for Impact Investing.
- Nirvana Labs — Our mission is to make blockchain infrastructure economical and accurate, ultimately lowering the barriers to entry for Web3 engineers.
- Candlestick.io — Permissionless copy trading platform on the blockchain
Kevin Lin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metatheory. He previously worked at Everyday Ventures as an Owner and Manager. Kevin Lin attended Yale University.
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- Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
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- Nest Wallet — A Wallet Built for Traders
- Cosmology — Cosmology is building a unified developer experience for interchain dApps
- Cosmology — Cosmology is building a unified developer experience for interchain dApps
DeFi Dad is one of the earliest super-users, educators, and investors in DeFi. He has worked in the Ethereum community since 2018, including his time as the 3rd employee at Zapper.
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- Blockchain, Financial Services, Privacy
- Seed, Series A
- Singapore, United States, United Kingdom
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- 3Box — 3Box Labs is a Web3 studio that creates software to advance a more open, safe, and composable Web3. We're hiring!
- TiTi Protocol — TiTi Protocol always monitors changes in the total value of reserve to calculate the average price of TiUSD in circulation and adjusts the market-making peg price of TiUSD in the primary market through the ReOrders mechanism.
- Aztec — Aztec is a privacy-first L2 on Ethereum, bringing privacy to the decentralized internet of the future.
Kunal is a technology entrepreneur and investor.
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- Internet, E-Commerce, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- India, United States, Singapore
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- Bluelearn — Find co-founders & teammates, apply to gigs, learn new skills, and meet passionate people.
- Legistify — Discover unparalleled legal management with our AI-powered platform, all-in-one solution for enterprise-level matter management, IPR, notices, and contracts
- Stable Money — Steady returns, untapped opportunities, and excellent long-term performance to aid your journey of wealth creation!
Sam Kazemian is the Founder of Frax Finance.
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- Finance, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Singapore, United Kingdom
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- Eigenpie — Eigenpie is a restaking SubDAO that gives holders of Liquid Staking Tokens the chance to enhance their earning potential by restaking assets.
- RISE Labs — The Based Gigagas EVM Layer 2
- t1 (aka t1 protocol) — t1 protocol cross-chain applications and scalability are facilitated by real-time proofs and immediate settlement.
Robert Leshner is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Superstate. He previously worked at Compound Labs as a Founder. Robert Leshner attended CFA Institute.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
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- Degen War$ — Degen War$ is a player-versus-player NFT card game that takes place entirely on the blockchain.
- Bonsai — An experimental, mixed ERC-20 / ERC-721 implementation with native liquidity, fractionalization and unique art. 100000 $BONSAI Token is linked to 1 BONSAI NFT!
- Fantom Foundation — Fantom is a next-gen Layer-1 platform for DeFi, dApps and businesses.
Joe Zhou is the Founder and CEO at Mana and FirstBlood.
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- Software, Gaming, Mobile
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
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- Aggero — Uncover what creators & consumers say about your brand and products with our AI social media video listening tool. Understand your influencer video marketing success.
- Fragcolor — Empowering the next generation of game creators.
- Unmute — Unmute helps marginalized communities unmute about their mental health and match to the right therapist. Sign up today to find the right therapist for you.
Jez Mohideen
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- Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Funding Round
- Singapore, Cayman Islands
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- NVG8 — Navigate is a data ecosystem where people around the world contribute data that is used to build new applications like Navigate Maps.
- Bullish Global — Bullish Global is a new blockchain-based cryptocurrency exchange designed to combine the performance, user privacy, and compliance offered by central order book technology with the vertically integrated user benefits of decentralized finance (DeFi) market architecture.
Itamar is the co-founder and CEO of Argent. Prior to Argent, Itamar founded and led Peak, the top ranked mobile cognitive training service with over 50,000,000 users and 500,000 subscribers. Itamar led Peak to a profitable 8 digit per year business. He successfully sold it to Lagardere SCA in 2016.Before Peak, Itamar worked at Boston ConsultingGroup, Amazon and VISA. He holds a Masters in Computer Science and Electronics Engineering.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States, United Kingdom
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Chun Yang-Hyun
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- Finance, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Corporate Round
- Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Haru Invest — Haru is a trusted digital asset management platform. We provide up to 16% earn rates for deposits of BTC, ETH, and USDT. What we offer aims to shift a paradigm of investment — investing in crypto can be stable and comfortable, too. Crypto in, more crypto out. It’s that simple.
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