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Peter Yuan Pan

Partner @ 1kx, investing in the consumer crypto application layer

Lisbon, Lisbon

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Work Experience

2020

  • Partner

    2020

    1kx is an early stage crypto VC focused on investing in consumer crypto applications and application infrastructure. We're a first check investment firm that supports founders from seed ($2m-$3m) to series A ($5m-$8m) as a lead investor, and also through liquid positions ($5m+) in tokens we believe in long term. 85% of our deals are as leads/co-lead. We invest and specialize in three areas: 1. Consumer crypto applications (games, social, creator, prediction, trading + anything fun...) 2. Middleware (wallet infra, dev tooling, chain abstraction, staking, interoperability, DePIN...) 3. Infrastructure (blockchains, scalability, verifiable compute, ...) Notable deals we've led first/early rounds into: zkSync, WalletConnect, LI.FI, Pudgy Penguins, Abstract Chain, Lagrange, Superstate, Molecule... + you can see the rest at: 1kx.network/portfolio

  • Co-founder & Co-Summoner

    2022

    First dedicated fund of funds for investment DAOs. Incubated by 1kx.

  • Co-founder & Summoner

    2019 - 2023

    Invested in the Ethereum's earliest cohort of end user applications during 2019-2021, with a focus on being the first check. The first live legally wrapped investment DAO to ever have launched.

  • Summoner

    2018 - 2022

    Created Ethereum's first dedicated founder community focused on end user applications.

2018 - 2018

  • Product manager

    2018 - 2018

    Building and working on meta transactions in the Ethereum ecosystem

2017 - 2018

  • UX Design Mentor

    2017 - 2018

    Teaching design and product thinking for the 12 week UX beginners course.

2017 - 2018

  • Lead Designer

    2017 - 2018

    Lead user research, design and product discovery for CancerAid's patient-facing mobile app. Company was backed by TechStars '17 Health tech accelerator.

2016 - 2017

  • Lead Designer

    2016 - 2017

    Design and research around 1Scope’s web app. UX research, UI design, user testing, and product growth.

2017 - 2017

  • Maker

    2017 - 2017

    Tried to build a product that helps product people transcribe, make notes and collect insights. Talked to 30+ designers & PMs and surveyed over 100 potential customers ranging from Dell, StackOverflow, ColumbiaU, Tyro & ING Bank. Discontinued the project after discovering the product: Notion.so

  • Contributing Writer

    2017 - 2017

    Wrote some articles that were published in UXDesign.cc, also participated in Product Coalition and Design Hangout communities.