Invests in
Sectors:
Locations:
Min Investment:
$100,000.00Max Investment:
$5,000,000.00Target Investment:
$1,500,000.00
Skills
Education
Lists including Kevin
Investments
Noble XYZ
Total Funding: $3M
Chia Network
Total Funding: $69M
Cohesity
Total Funding: $810M
Tubi
Total Funding: $26M
Deliverr
Total Funding: $490M
Spacemesh
Total Funding: $15M
SFOX
Total Funding: $23M
Viz
Total Funding: $250M
Fantom Foundation
Total Funding: $50M
Ankr
Total Funding: $12M
Work Experience
2017
Seed Investor
2017
Seed round investor before the company breakout. Leader in HR/IT software. We are in the bundling of SaaS movement, and Rippling is the new one stop shop for enterprises to manage everything. Rippling has more than 10 first party SaaS and integrated over 100 ecosystem SaaS. Rippling closed 250m series C at $6.5B valuation in 2021, closed Series D in 2022 at $11B valuation.
2015
Investor
2015
Reinvent the secondary storage industry through hyper convergence infrastructure and hybrid cloud Unicorn big data storage company. 2021 round put company valuation at 3.7B. IPO to watch. Pre revenue investor, from second round onwards doubling down to Series D
2016
LP and early backer
2016
Polychain Capital is one of the world's largest and most impactful crypto fund with $10B AUM. I’m an early backer/investor of Polychain on the GP holding company entity side since when it was just founded in 2016 when they started out raising the 1st 4m vehicle. Also LP-ed as early backer. It's exhilarating to have the opportunity to invest and work with such a wonderful team of crypto native investors since their founding! Polychain portfolios include Eigenlayer, Polyhedra, Arbitrum, Uniswap, Cubist, Dydx, etc.
2021
Seed Investor
2021
Lead the first round. Founded by Stanford Prof. David Tse, Babylon aims to leverage bitcoin network security to enhance PoS chains. Babylon has created a staking and restaking primitive for Bitcoin. Bitcoin can now be staked trustlessly with self-custody to secure proof-of-stake ecosystems. This is the first safe and scalable yield opportunity for Bitcoin holders that does not involve bridging or third party custody or moving BTC off-chain. This also extends Bitcoin's superior security and decentralization properties to all of web3 and creates a $1T staking asset.
2013
General Partner
2013
Built one of the earliest institutional crypto VC funds since 2014(DHVC) since day 1, with several hundred millions USD raised. Invest across early to growth stage, both equity and crypto deals, with offices in Silicon valley and Beijing. Trained as a math Olympiad medalist, I believe in leveraging breakthrough technology to achieve “in math we trust”. AI in web2 and zero knowledge cryptography in web3 are the most beautiful constructs that reveal the law of nature. In first principles, I invest in mathematically inspired systems such as data center technologies and multichain computing paradigms to achieve the goal of performance and security, and to extend the digital computing horizon. Thrilled to have led, co-led, sourced and/or be closely involved with investments in Cohesity, Viz AI, Deliverr, Optimizely, Rippling, Compound Finance, Branch Metrics, HashGraph, Cosmos, Chia, BabylonChain, Polychain Capital, Fantom, Tubi TV(acquired by Fox), Grubmarket etc. Working to find and partner with exceptional entrepreneurs to build category defining companies More than 40 portfolios have reached billion dollar valuation with more than 50 going public events(AI, crypto, bio-informatics).
2018
Seed Investor
2018
One of the first institutional investors in Fantom's seed round in 2018. It's great to see Andre Cronje defining the DeFi category as one of the most prolific founder in crypto.
2018
Seed Investor
2018
First round institutional investor
2018
Investor
2018
First round investor of Compound Finance, the leading DeFi money market protocol https://compound.finance/
2017
Investor
2017
1st investor in Deliverr Deliverr is the uber of Fulfillment, powering FBA-like experience for e-commerce players Deliverr grew 8x in revenue run rate in 2020 COVID period, became market leader and raised Series D at 885M Val. Series E in 2021 value the company at 2B Val. *In 2022, Shopify acquired Deliverr is a deal valued at $2.1B, $1.7B in cash and $0.4B in stock.
2017
Early Stage Investor
2017
*Acquired by Fox Group for 500M in 2020. The world leader in AVOD(ad-supported video on demand) industry. Reached top 100 grossing app in over 30 countries. Co-lead the first round investment in Tubi in 2017 right after the company pivoted