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Top 50 Web3 Angel Investors in Switzerland in January 2025

A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Web3 startups based in Switzerland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Web3 companies from Switzerland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Web3 Angel Investors in Switzerland in January 2025

Investor Web3 Switzerland investments
Danny Hayes 5
Soheila Yalpani 5
Stani Kulechov 2
Olivier Crespin 2
Péter Ilyés 2
Tegan Kline 2
Rahul Sethuram 2
Hayden Adams 2
Adrian Locher 2
Aly Madhavji 2
Sam Lim 2
Ryan Selkis 2
Marc P. Bernegger 2
Deniz Devrim Cengiz 1
Catherine Wood 1
Joeri van Geelen 1
Dean Eigenmann 1
Anatoly Yakovenko 1
Anatoly Yakovenko 1
Anna Rose 1
Matias Woloski 1
Alex Svanevik 1
Zaki Manian 1
Eric Conner 1
Waikit Lau 1
Darian Shirazi 1
Nicolás Arqueros 1
Private Accredited Group 1
George Lambeth 1
Jordan Ellis 1
Alexander Salnikov 1
Adriant Harrison 1
Makoto Inoue 1
Ajit Tripathi 1
Tristan Frizza 1
Matt Iannelli 1
John O'Connor 1
Paul Kim 1
Ben Davey 1
Mara Schmitman 1
David Hoffmann 1
Dennis Liu 1
Derek Yoo 1
Mike Demarais 1
Griff Green 1
Kento Inami 1
Ross Mason 1
Vidor Gencel 1
Vinny Lingham 1
Marco Milone 1
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Danny Hayes Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
As the CEO of Climate Transition Swiss AG, I lead a Swiss company that develops and finances green, resilient infrastructure projects across North America, Europe, and Japan. With over 20 years of international business experience, I have a strong track record of delivering sustainable energy solutions that create positive environmental and socialimpact.In addition to my role as CEO, I am also a Lobbyist for Climate Policy at the U.S. House of Representatives, where I focus on influencing environmental initiatives in Japan and Europe. I am passionate about advocating for climate action and fostering global collaboration on this urgent issue. I am also a member of the Forbes Business Council and a regular contributor to their climate section, where I share my insights and expertise on green business and policy.
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Investment focus
  • Clean Energy, Cyber Security, Finance
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • TerraScale Systems — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
  • Climate Transition Swiss AG — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
  • Climate Transition Development — Climate Transition Development Corporation (CTD) is leading the Green Snow Project – an innovative hybrid renewable energy venture in Northern Japan. The company's mission is to revolutionize Japan’s renewable energy sector by harnessing the abundant low to medium-heat geothermal resources available in the region.Together with ourdevelopment partners, TerraScale Inc. and Global Family, the company is committed to tackling the challenges of the geothermal energy sector and transforming the way Japan generates power. The company's work forms an integral part of the Japan-US collaboration on geothermal energy development and aims to significantly reduce fossil fuel reliance and cut carbon emissions.
Soheila Yalpani Angel · Santa Monica, California, United States
oheila is an entrepreneur with C-team leadership experience on project management and pre-master planning of large-scale smart, resilient green infrastructure projects.
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Investment focus
  • Consulting, Sustainability, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Mountain Gate — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
  • TerraScale Systems — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
  • Climate Transition Swiss AG — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
Stani Kulechov Angel · Como, Lombardia, Italy · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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.
Olivier Crespin Angel
Olivier Crespin - Co-Founder @ Asia Finance
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Switzerland, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
  • Zand — Zand Bank bridges TradFi and DeFi, empowering UAE and global corporate, institution and wealth clients to unlock infinite opportunities in the evolving digital economy
  • Pier Wallet — Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and Web3 offer great opportunities. To truly access it, you need a wallet. But selecting and investing into digital assets in your own wallet is complex, expensive and often feels unsafe. nobank makes DeFi and Web3 accessible for everyone. We offer the simplest and cheapest way to transact with digital assets by -drastically improving usability - offering financial products that generate yield or diversify your portfolio - building on multiple L2 blockchains - sharing our knowledge
Péter Ilyés Angel · Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
Péter Ilyés is a former CEO of E.ON Italia.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Energy, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Hive Power — Hive Power provides a SaaS platform to optimise your existing electrical distribution grid, both from the technical and economic points of view.
Tegan Kline Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Tegan Kline, Co-Founder and CEO at Edge & Node, working to make The Graph the Internet’s unbreakable foundation of open data to create a world powered by individual autonomy shared self-sovereignty and limitless collaboration. She was on the initial team that launched The Graph. The Graph is Edge & Node’s first protocol, an indexing andquery protocol organizing the world’s open blockchain data and making open data a public good. Tegan helps leaders and innovators connect more deeply with stakeholders across the blockchain ecosystem. Tegan made Forbes 30 under 30’s class of 2022. The Information’s 30 Most Powerful People in Crypto List. Tegan Kline is the former International Business Development Manager and Investor Relations Lead for an A16z and Sequoia backed blockchain company that created tools and protocols for users to obtain digital freedom and an open and accessible internet. Tegan has launched 3 unicorns in her lifetime. Tegan began her career on Wall Street in Investment Banking at BAML and, prior to discovering blockchain, worked in Sales and Trading at Barclays.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Singapore, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Swaap — We we build & operate onchain trading systems.
  • EthSign — EthSign is an e-signing platform that utilizes blockchain technology to offer a decentralized, customizable and transparent version of traditional signature service. EthSign aims to tackle data security issues caused by an over-reliance on centralized providers and build back trust in electronic signature services. With its Web3 technology(decentralized Identity, smart contract platforms and decentralized storage networks), the platform enables users to comment on, edit and access each version of an electronic agreement seamlessly and securely.
  • RISC Zero. — RISC Zero is revolutionizing the internet by creating the infrastructure & tooling for Web3 developers around the globe to build zero-proof software.
Rahul Sethuram Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Rahul Sethuram - Partner @ Lone Wolf Partners
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Finance, Ethereum
  • Funding Round, Seed
  • Germany, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Stackr Labs — Micro-rollups to scale web3 applications
  • WalletConnect — Reown gives developers the tools to build user experiences that make digital ownership effortless, intuitive, and secure. Explore now
  • LI.FI — Swap and move any crypto asset across any blockchain ecosystem.
Hayden Adams Angel · New York, New York, United States
Hayden Adams is founder of Uniswap, one of the most widely used decentralized applications built on Ethereum. Prior to Uniswap, Hayden was an engineer at Siemens. He graduated from Stony Brook University with a bachelor in engineering in 2016.
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Investment focus
  • Ethereum, Internet, Cryptocurrency
  • Funding Round
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • WalletConnect — Reown gives developers the tools to build user experiences that make digital ownership effortless, intuitive, and secure. Explore now
Adrian Locher Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Adrian Locher is the Founder, CEO and General Partner of Merantix. He Kausa as a Board Member.Adrian Locher attended the University of St.Gallen.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A
  • Switzerland, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Altoida — Nevertheless, gambling reached the height of its popularity during the Gold Rush period, when millions of gold seekers came to Canada to try their luck (just
  • Crypto Finance (Asset Management) AG — Unser Asset Management Team bietet qualifizierten und institutionellen Anlegern einen sicheren und transparenten Zugang zum Crypto Asset Markt. Kontaktieren Sie uns!
  • Crypto Finance Group — The Crypto Finance Group provides institutional and professional investors a full suite of products and services with a level of quality, reliability, and security that are unique in the digital asset space today. The group includes the holding company Crypto Finance AG and three subsidiaries: the first regulated crypto asset manager for collectiveinvestments authorised by FINMA, the Swiss Financial Market Authority; a FINMA-regulated securities firm providing in 24/7 crypto asset trading; and a subsidiary for crypto asset storage infrastructure and tokenisation solutions.By providing the services for professional investors to invest in blockchain technology, the Crypto Finance Group is building a bridge between the traditional financial world and the emerging digital asset markets. CEO Jan Brzezek and his experienced team founded the Crypto Finance Group with the conviction that all market participants will benefit from professional, secure, and stable access to digital asset markets. Their offices are in Zurich and Singapore, with headquarters in Zug, known as the Crypto Valley and home to possibly the world's largest ecosystem of crypto and blockchain organisations.
Aly Madhavji Angel
Aly Madhavji is the Blockchain Founders Fund's Managing Partner and a Consultant of United Nations. He is a Senior Blockchain Fellow of INSEAD and LP and Venture Partner at Loyal VC.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Yumi — Start selling to China in minutes. Join thousands of brands just like you and reach Chinese millennial consumers via WeChat social commerce.
  • Dopamine — Dopamine provides decentralized finance for everybody, everywhere and is the first end-to-end user-centered crypto mobile app.
  • web3intelligence — Build wealth and trust in the world of crypto with intelligent financial tools, data and infrastructure.
Sam Lim Angel
Sam Lim
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Blockchain, Recruiting
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • IMPRESSO — The place where recruiters search for authentic career profiles. Job seekers mint and save their career NFT. Save your NFT CV on the blockchain. Meet and connect with verified professionals on the Metaverse. Real identities, jobs and networking on IMPRESSO.
Ryan Selkis Angel · New York, New York, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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.
Marc P. Bernegger Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Marc P. Bernegger is a Founding Partner at Maximon - The Longevity Company Builder. Marc previously worked at Crypto Finance Group as a Founding Board Member (acquired by Deutsche Boerse). He attended the University of Zurich.
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Investment focus
  • Events, Young Adults, Financial Services
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Altoida — Nevertheless, gambling reached the height of its popularity during the Gold Rush period, when millions of gold seekers came to Canada to try their luck (just
  • Sandbox — We are an eclectic community of nomads, entrepreneurs, journalists, academics, politicians, artists, and indomitable misfits from over 100 countries. Together we seek to develop our authentic selves, form meaningful relationships, discover resources to live fulfilling lives, and to lead significant impact on the world around us.
  • Crypto Finance Group — The Crypto Finance Group provides institutional and professional investors a full suite of products and services with a level of quality, reliability, and security that are unique in the digital asset space today. The group includes the holding company Crypto Finance AG and three subsidiaries: the first regulated crypto asset manager for collectiveinvestments authorised by FINMA, the Swiss Financial Market Authority; a FINMA-regulated securities firm providing in 24/7 crypto asset trading; and a subsidiary for crypto asset storage infrastructure and tokenisation solutions.By providing the services for professional investors to invest in blockchain technology, the Crypto Finance Group is building a bridge between the traditional financial world and the emerging digital asset markets. CEO Jan Brzezek and his experienced team founded the Crypto Finance Group with the conviction that all market participants will benefit from professional, secure, and stable access to digital asset markets. Their offices are in Zurich and Singapore, with headquarters in Zug, known as the Crypto Valley and home to possibly the world's largest ecosystem of crypto and blockchain organisations.
Deniz Devrim Cengiz Angel · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Deniz Devrim Cengiz
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, FinTech, Apps
  • Seed, Series A
  • Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • EasyCep — EasyCep, marketplace for refurbished electronics devices was founded in 2018 by Mehmet Akif Özdemir and İsmail Dinçer. Easycep makes it easier for consumers to sell their used electronic devices online. Also, it makes easier for consumers to find and buy professionally refurbished smartphones, tablets, computers and other some electronic devices aswell as 12 month warranty and at up to 70% of their original prices. With the prolongation of electronic products, EasyCep refurbishes them and offers them with a 12-month warranty.
  • Passion Punch — Passion Punch develops mobile games boosted by notable art and effective story that will touch players' daily lives.
  • Hiwell — Hiwell app is an online psychological counseling app that helps people without leaving their homes.
Catherine Wood Angel · New York, New York, United States
Cathie registered ARK Investment Management LLC (“ARK”) as an investment adviser with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in January 2014. Prior to ARK, Cathie spent twelve years at AllianceBernstein as Chief Investment Officer of Global Thematic Strategies where she managed $5 billion. Cathie joined Alliance Capital from Tupelo CapitalManagement, a hedge fund she co-founded which, in 2000, managed $800 million in global thematic strategies. Prior to her tenure at Tupelo Capital, she worked for 18 years with Jennison Associates as Chief Economist, Equity Research Analyst, Portfolio Manager and Director. She started her career in Los Angeles, California at The Capital Group as an Assistant Economist. Cathie received her Bachelor of Science, summa cum laude, in Finance and Economics from the University of Southern California in 1981. In 2016, Cathie received the “Women in Finance – Outstanding Contribution Award” from Market Media.
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Investment focus
  • Drones, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Canada, Germany, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • 21Shares — The simplest way to invest in the best performing asset class of the last decade using your existing bank or brokerage.
  • Labelbox — A complete solution for taking control of your training data with fast labeling tools, human workforce, data management, a powerful API and automation features.
  • mimik — mimik provides a hybrid edge cloud computing application development platform and business enablers for digital transformation. Developers and enterprises can achieve their business objectives without compromising time to market, cost, scalability, interoperability, data privacy and security, and being locked in proprietary technology stacks.mimik enables hybrid edge native application development that works across ecosystems of devices (iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, Linux, QNX, Raspbian, OpenWRT and smart IoT freeRTOS sensors), networks, and any private and/or public cloud. The mimik platform is the fastest and most direct way of connecting siloed and fragmented applications from the edge with minimal reliance on middlemen. We can help enterprises save millions of dollars in legacy backend integration while reducing their ongoing operational costs through an edge-in approach. mimik enables systematic digital transformation for a sustainable digital economy to help enterprises secure business leadership in the hyper-connected world.
Joeri van Geelen Angel
Joeri van Geelen is the managing director of Prysm Group. It is an economic consulting firm led by Harvard PhD economists specialized in distributed ledger and blockchain technology. Taking a first-principles approach, Prysm Group uses the tools of contract theory, game theory, market design, social choice theory, and monetary economics to designcustomized solutions for distributed ledger technology and blockchain-based projects.Prysm Group’s areas of expertise include consortium governance, consensus governance, token economics, incentive design, and market structure. Prysm Group counts among its Senior Advisors former Chief Economist at Microsoft and Nobel Prize-winning Harvard economist; the firm’s research has been presented at DARPA, Federal Reserve, IBM, Microsoft, Pantera Capital, Polychain Capital, Harvard, MIT, NBER, and Stanford.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
  • Switzerland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Portal — The only custody-less interoperability protocol for Bitcoin. Swap native BTC, Ordinals, Runes with L2s and L1s
  • IPOR Labs — Enter the Credit Hub of DeFi. Lend and borrow at the best defi rates and earn a competitive yield on your crypto, fixed with on-chain interest rate derivatives.
  • Zest — Zest helps create and manage Investment DAOs, backed by a real-world LLC. We're a full-suite concierge, offering DAO tooling alongside back-office and compliance support. We remove the inherent complexities surrounding Investment DAOs so ​members can form a global community that compliantly coordinates capital to maximize investmentopportunities together.
Dean Eigenmann Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Dean Eigenmann
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Financial Services, Apps
  • Seed, Series A
  • United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Squid — Squid is a routing protocol that connects users and developers with cross-chain liquidity. It allows any token to be swapped between blockchains and unlocks access to apps across chains with a single click.
  • FortyTwo — FortyTo is developing UX frontend technology for decentralized finance, enhancing user experience, promoting diversified token baskets, better yields, and affordable swap rates in the interchain ecosystem.
  • DELV — Element is an open source protocol for fixed and variable yield markets
Anatoly Yakovenko Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 23 investments in the past 12 months
Anatoly is the creator of Solana. He led development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox. He holds 2 patents for high performance Operating Systems protocols, was a core kernel developer for BREW which powered every CDMA flip phone (100m+ devices), and led development of tech that madeProject Tango (VR/AR) possible on Qualcomm phones.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, France
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.
  • Blockcast — Blockcast is a next-generation content delivery network that utilizes one-to-many distribution to save costs. It is an open content delivery network (CDN) with a distinct caching architecture that offers large, flexible capacity.
  • Fragmetric — Fragmetric is a native liquid restaking mechanism for Solana that improve the Solana ecosystem's security and economic potential.
Anatoly Yakovenko Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 19 investments in the past 12 months
Anatoly is the creator of Solana. He led development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox. He holds 2 patents for high performance Operating Systems protocols, was a core kernel developer for BREW which powered every CDMA flip phone (100m+ devices), and led development of tech that madeProject Tango (VR/AR) possible on Qualcomm phones.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, France
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.
  • Time.fun — Time.fun enables creators to tokenize and sell their time and allows creators to monetize direct interactions such as messages or calls.
  • SOON — SOON is building the highest throughput stack that allows for any SVM L2 to be deployed on any L1.
Anna Rose Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Anna Rose is the Co-Founder at zkValidator. She also the Strategic Advisor at Videopath.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Ethereum, Internet
  • Series A, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
  • Switzerland, Saint Kitts and Nevis
Portfolio highlights
  • DeversiFi — DeversiFi gives traders the edge in fast-moving decentralized finance (Defi) markets by allowing them to trade at lightning speed and with deep aggregated liquidity, directly from their privately owned cryptocurrency wallet.Traders can take advantage of more trading opportunities while always preserving control of their assets when they need tomove fast. DeversiFi’s order-books are off-chain, but settlement occurs on the Ethereum blockchain. This means that traders benefit from fast-moving order books and instant execution, without having to trust the exchange and whilst always maintaining control of their assets at all times.
  • WalletConnect — Reown gives developers the tools to build user experiences that make digital ownership effortless, intuitive, and secure. Explore now
Matias Woloski Angel
Matias Woloski is the Co-Founder & serves as Chief Technology Officer of Auth0. Attended University of Buenos Aires.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Financial Services, Software
  • Seed, Series A
  • Spain, Brazil, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
  • Fidu — Fidu aims to develop a new operating system specifically for LatAm schools enabling institutions to digitally handle everything from finances to school-wide announcements
  • Num Finance — Num Network offers businesses a fast way to scale operations in emerging markets with yield, loans and stablecoins.
Alex Svanevik Angel · 8 investments in the past 12 months
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.
Zaki Manian Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Zaki Manian is the co-founder of Sommelier Protocol.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Apps
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Canada, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Drop — Drop provides liquid staking protocol for Interchain assets. It is an inaugural member of the Lido Alliance. It removes the specified protocol from a database.
  • Commonware — Commonware is a startup that supplies developers with a "anti-framework" — effectively all of the building pieces for developing a blockchain — in order to go beyond the era of standardized, general-purpose software kits.
  • OneBalance — OneBalance is a new framework for credible accounts - combining chain abstraction, gas abstraction and permission management to solve the fragmented Web3 user experience.
Eric Conner Angel · New York, New York, United States
Angel Investor
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Investment focus
  • Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Internet
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, Singapore, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Connext — Bridge tokens and data across 11+ chains. Earn and build on the most secure interoperability network.
  • Matter Labs — Matter Labs is scaling Ethereum with zero-knowledge proofs to accelerate public blockchain adoption. The company started out of scientific curiosity, the joy of engineering, and a deep conviction, the most impactful way to improve the world today is to provide an open and free alternative to its existing, deeply flawed financial system.Thecompany was founded in 2018 with its head office in Berlin, Germany.
  • WalletConnect — WalletConnect gives developers the tools to build user experiences that make digital ownership effortless, intuitive, and secure. Explore now.
Waikit Lau Angel · Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Waikit Lau is the Founder and CEO of RemoteHQ. He Founded and grew 2 startups to successful exits, one acquired for $86M. Helped take the company public. 17+ years of experience in Technology and Finance, across product, marketing, and sales functions. Advisor and/or investor in BladeLogic (NASD: BLOG, acquired by BMC for $800M), Endeca(acquired by Oracle for more than $1B), WaveSmith (acquired by Ciena for $178M), Netli (acquired by Akamai for $170M), Berkeley Design Automation (acquired by Mentor Graphics).
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Business Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Noble XYZ — Noble is changing how stablecoins and other real world assets are issued on blockchains by combining minimalistic, high security architecture with the cross-chain efficiencies of the IBC protocol.
  • Rhinestone — Infrastructure for modular account abstraction
  • BabylonChain — Babylon is a VC-backed blockchain project founded by Claude. E. Shannon Award recipient, Professor David Tse from Stanford University. The project’s mission is to bring Bitcoin’s unparalleled security to all PoS blockchains in the world. To this end, we are building, as the bridge between Bitcoin and the PoS world, a new public Cosmos-based PoSblockchain called Babylon with a native token.
Darian Shirazi Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 11 investments in the past 12 months
Darian Shirazi is the Managaing Partner of Gradient.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Germany, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Valdera — Valdera is the sourcing and procurement platform that makes it easy to buy or sell chemicals, ingredients, and raw materials. We partner with segment leaders, ranging from the world's largest CPG manufacturers to household names in the beauty industry.
  • Leya — By streamlining and simplifying legal workflows, we empower elite law firms and legal professionals to work more efficiently and effectively. Enabling them to focus on higher-value tasks and deliver exceptional results for their clients.
  • rift — The sales platform built to help your focus.
Nicolás Arqueros Angel · Brooklyn, New York, United States
Nicolás Arqueros is the Co-Founder and CEO of DcSpark. He previously worked as a Chief Executive Officer at BRANDMARK. He attended Federico Santa Maria Technical University.
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Investment focus
  • Computer, Software, Blockchain
  • Funding Round
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • IPOR Labs — Enter the Credit Hub of DeFi. Lend and borrow at the best defi rates and earn a competitive yield on your crypto, fixed with on-chain interest rate derivatives.
Private Accredited Group Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Private Accredited Group
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Investment focus
  • Solar, Energy, Blockchain
  • Seed, Convertible Note
  • Canada, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Authena — Authena is an IoT and Blockchain platform used for traceability and authenticity protection of brands. With its platform, the company revolutionizes how brands of high-value goods protect their products and reputation against counterfeiting and reach unprecedented levels of end-user engagement. It protects product identity against counterfeit,product diversion, and fraud by gaining access to detailed customer insights and analytics and improving finances by limiting distribution costs and boosting direct-to-consumer sales.
  • Pure Energies Group — PNG Info Org is committed to providing practical information pertinent to the finance industry. Click the link to gain insights and ideas.
George Lambeth Angel · San Juan, NA - Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico · 2 investments in the past 12 months
George Lambeth Divergence Ventures
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Investment focus
  • Lending, Finance, Ethereum
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • China, Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Fairblock — Building blockchain infra for applications with "pre-execution privacy" using applied cryptography in all ecosystems
  • Noble XYZ — Noble is a purpose-built generic asset issuance chain for the Cosmos & Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) ecosystem.
  • Syndicate — Syndicate is a decentralized asset management platform and social network.
Jordan Ellis Angel
Jordan Ellis
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Communities, Marketplace
  • Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • DoinGud — DoinGud is an NFT ecosystem focused on inspiring creativity & positive social impact. We empower individuals, communities, and brands to create, curate, collaborate, and connect with one another while generating positive impact for the world.
Alexander Salnikov Angel
Co-founder and Head of Product at Rarible - The first community-owned NFT Marketplace
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Investment focus
  • Ethereum, Internet, Messaging
  • Series A
  • United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • 3Box — 3Box Labs is a Web3 studio that creates software to advance a more open, safe, and composable Web3. We're hiring!
  • Allora Labs — The source for NFT pricing. Upshot uses machine learning to provide deep insight into NFT markets and unlocks a wave of exotic new DeFi possibilities.
  • WalletConnect — Reown gives developers the tools to build user experiences that make digital ownership effortless, intuitive, and secure. Explore now
Adriant Harrison Angel · Santa Monica, California, United States
Adriant Harrison - Sr. Executive Vice President, Office of CEO @ TerraScale
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Investment focus
  • Aerospace, Consulting, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Mountain Gate — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
Makoto Inoue Angel
Makoto Inoue
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Investment focus
  • Ethereum, Internet, Cryptocurrency
  • Series A
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • WalletConnect — Reown gives developers the tools to build user experiences that make digital ownership effortless, intuitive, and secure. Explore now
Ajit Tripathi Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
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
Tristan Frizza Angel
Tristan Frizza
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain
  • Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Arcium — The first parallelized confidential computing network.
  • Elusiv — Elusiv offers compliance in mind with next-generation privacy solutions for a better Web3.
Matt Iannelli Angel · Santa Monica, California, United States
Matt Iannelli previously served Netorian as CEO and Sr. systems engineer for over 11 years.
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Investment focus
  • Finance, Sustainability, Project Management
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Mountain Gate — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
  • Climate Transition Swiss AG — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
John O'Connor Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Director of African Operations at IOHK, the blockchain development company behind Cardano. He previously worked as Head of Strategy and Communications at the Cardano Foundation. Cardano is a leading blockchain platform and cryptocurrency. John graduated from Oxford University with a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics.
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Investment focus
  • Computer, Software, Blockchain
  • Funding Round
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • IPOR Labs — Enter the Credit Hub of DeFi. Lend and borrow at the best defi rates and earn a competitive yield on your crypto, fixed with on-chain interest rate derivatives.
Paul Kim Angel · Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
VP Product Strategy & Founder at Apvera
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Lending
  • Seed
  • Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Bima Labs — Bima Labs provides Bitcoin-backed stable coins.
  • aPriori — aPriori is a monad-native MEV infrastructure and liquid staking mechanism developed for parallel executions.
  • Ion Protocol — Ion is an Open Source Protocol built to support Ethereum stakers and restakers, to unlock a world of new applications for their assets.
Ben Davey Angel
Ben Davey
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Investment focus
  • Software, Blockchain, Travel
  • Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, India, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • qiibee — Access world-class brands your customers love. Enhance customer loyalty by offering world-class brands and rewards from our marketplace that your customers love.
  • LawAdvisor — because status quo no longer works
  • Flexmoney — Flexmoney is to re-invent consumer credit as an instant digital service at the point of sale for lenders and merchants.
Mara Schmitman Angel · Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina
Mara Schmitman - Manager @ Schmitman SAS
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Investment focus
  • Ethereum, Internet, Cryptocurrency
  • Series A, Funding Round
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • WalletConnect — Reown gives developers the tools to build user experiences that make digital ownership effortless, intuitive, and secure. Explore now
  • Creadibly Neutral — Credibly Neutral is a builder-led early stage venture fund investing $50-250k in protocols, infrastructure, and crypto SaaS.
David Hoffmann Angel
David Hoffmann
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Investment focus
  • Lending, Ethereum, Organic Food
  • Seed, Series A
  • Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Hooray Foods — Hooray makes delicious plant-based meats that are designed to look, cook, and taste just like the real thing. Plants that remind us of our favorite meats while being made of ingredients we can feel good about? Now that's something to celebrate and say Hooray!
  • Liquity — Liquity is a decentralized borrowing protocol that allows you to draw 0% interest loans against Ether used as collateral.
Dennis Liu Angel
Dennis Liu
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Blockchain, Communities
  • Pre-Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • SwissBorg — SwissBorg is revolutionizing wealth management services with a community-centric approach powered by blockchain technology. We are a wealthtech DAO offering Swiss-made crypto investment solutions to the world.
Derek Yoo Angel
Derek Yoo
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • DAM — DAM is a protocol for creating purchasing power from cross-chain token portfolios through dPRIME, a Dotsama-based stablecoin.
  • Squid — Squid is a routing protocol that connects users and developers with cross-chain liquidity. It allows any token to be swapped between blockchains and unlocks access to apps across chains with a single click.
Mike Demarais Angel
Mike Demarais
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Investment focus
  • Ethereum, Internet, Cryptocurrency
  • Series A
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • WalletConnect — WalletConnect is the open source web3 standard to connect blockchain wallets to dapps.
Griff Green Angel · Seattle, Washington, United States
Griff Green - Co-Founder @ The Commons Stack
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Finance, Communities
  • Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • DoinGud — DoinGud is an NFT ecosystem focused on inspiring creativity & positive social impact. We empower individuals, communities, and brands to create, curate, collaborate, and connect with one another while generating positive impact for the world.
  • PrimeDAO — PrimeDAO is an open finance system based on programmable money that is being realized on Ethereum. The company develops tools that transform Defi into a collaborative ecosystem.
Kento Inami Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Kento Inami is the CEO/Founder at UXD Protocol.He attended University of California, Berkeley.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain
  • Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Elusiv — Elusiv offers compliance in mind with next-generation privacy solutions for a better Web3.
Ross Mason Angel · Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland
Created the Mule Project, Founded MuleSoft, gone public (MULE:NYSE). Work on their product direction, vision and strategy. Active investor and advisor.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • M3O — Next Generation Cloud Platform
  • Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal standard and registry.
  • DLT (short for data load tool) — Write any custom data source, achieve data democracy, modernise legacy systems and reduce cloud costs.
Vidor Gencel Angel
Vidor Gencel is a Founder/CEO at Solrise Finance. He attended University of Belgrade School of Electrical Engineering.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain
  • Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Arcium — The first parallelized confidential computing network.
  • Elusiv — Elusiv offers compliance in mind with next-generation privacy solutions for a better Web3.
Vinny Lingham Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Vinny Lingham is Co-Founder & CEO at Civic. He was the founder and CEO of Gyft, a mobile gift card app that allows customers to buy, store, send and redeem gift cards conveniently from their mobile device. He is also the founder of Yola.com, a web development and hosting company that enables users without prior programming knowledge to developwebsites. Vinny is the recipient of numerous awards, including Top Young ICT Entrepreneur in Africa (2006) and was also a finalist for Men’s Health Best Man (2009) and ICT Personality of the Year in South Africa (2008). He also previously founded Clicks2Customers, which also won the Top Technology Company award in South Africa in 2006. He has previously served on marketing advisory boards for Nasdaq listed Valueclick and Yahoo, was also selected as an Endeavor “High Impact Entrepreneur” in 2006. Vinny studied a B.Com (Information Systems) at the University of Cape Town.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Internet, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • United States, South Africa, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • TipLink — TipLink helps send crypto with a link. Someone with crypto can create a account and send that link to anyone over any platform. It’s like buying a gift card, connect the client's crypto wallet of choice and create a account by depositing how much they want to send.
  • Afterparty — Your favorite creators are here! Get 1 on 1 unfiltered experiences with creators through Afterparty livestreams or chat 24/7 through AI powered conversations
  • Collectibles.com — Collectibles.com is a Web3 community and marketplace for collectors and the worldwide collectibles sector.
Marco Milone Angel · Turin, Piemonte, Italy
After a long experience in the cultural industry, aimed at developing independent comics and cinema sector, he decided to leverage the skills gained through his studies in Economics and Commerce, followed by General Management to study and operate in the startup industry. Marco is driven by a wide variety of interests and is a successfulinstitutional investor in various Italian and international startups.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Blockchain, Video Games
  • Pre-Seed
  • Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • The Nemesis — The Nemesis is the playground for play-to-earn games and adventures in virtual worlds. Accessible on both mobile and desktop.
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