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Dan Romero
Total Investments12
Infrastructure6
Web31
DAO infrastructure1
| Name | Round | Category | Description | Lead Investor | Chains | Other Investors | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Merit Systems | 16 Jan 2025 | $10m | Seed | Infrastructure | A new economy for Open Source | a16z crypto, Blockchain Capital | Anatoly Yakovenko, Dan Romero, Packy McCormick | ||
| Commonware | 11 Dec 2024 | $9m | Infrastructure | Commonware is an open, Rust-based blockchain framework designed to provide specialized, high-performance on-chain applications | Haun Ventures, Dragonfly Capital | Mert Mumtaz, Nick White, Smokey The Bera, Viktor Bunin, Andrew Huang, Sreeram Kanan, Dan Romero, Zaki Manian, Jonathan Claudius, Kevin Sekniqi, Scott Sunarto, Nemil Dalal | |||
| Agora | 01 May 2024 | $5m | Seed | DAO infrastructure | cross-chain governance platform | Haun Ventures | Seed Club, Coinbase Ventures, Sina Habibian, Balaji Srinivasan, Credibly Neutral, Packy McCormick, Tim Beiko, Dan Romero, Eva Beylin, Will Price, Liam Horne, Hasu | ||
| Wield | 17 Jan 2024 | $1m | Pre-Seed | Web3 | web3 entertainment platform | Lemniscap | Dan Romero, Colin Armstrong, Rueben Brama, Perry Randall, Henry Shi | ||
| Privy | 21 Nov 2023 | $18m | Series A | Infrastructure | authentication, authorization and data control tooling | Paradigm | Sequoia Capital, BlueYard Capital, Archetype, Justin Waldron, Ben Leventhal, Dan Romero, James Prestwich, Tarun Chitra, Linda Xie, Patricio Worthalter, Cooper Turley | ||
| Huddle01 | 07 Apr 2023 | $4.8m | Seed | Infrastructure | Decentralized infrastructure & network that powers cross-chain audio & video communication between users | Hivemind Capital Partners | Superscrypt , M31 Capital, Protocol Labs, East Ventures, Longhash Ventures, Good News Ventures, Balaji Srinivasan, Stani Kulechov, Dan Romero, Juan Benet | ||
| Conduit | 28 Mar 2023 | $7m | Seed | Infrastructure | Paradigm | Robert Miller, Ludwig Petterson, Dan Romero, Guillaume Poncin, Joshua Ma, Lakshman Sankar | |||
| Salsa | 16 Feb 2023 | $2m | Pre-Seed | Web3 messaging | IDEO CoLab Ventures, Inflection.xyz | Superscrypt , Nader Al-Naji, Liam Horne, Dan Romero, Balaji Srinivasan, Henri Stern, Khan Tasinga, Patricio Worthalter, gmoney | |||
| Spindl | 19 Oct 2022 | $7m | Seed | Web3 attribution | Dragonfly Capital, Chapter One | Polygon Ventures, Solana Ventures, Balaji Srinivasan, Anthony Pompliano, Dan Romero, Ryan Selkis, Multicoin Capital, Arjun Sethi, Furqan Ridhan, South Park Commons, Eric Seufert, Auren Hoffman, Mike Eisenberg, Messari Crypto, Magna Tokens, Bruno Faviero | |||
| Coherent | 05 Aug 2022 | $4.5m | Seed | Developer Toolkit | Kindred Ventures, Foundry Group, Matchstick Ventures | Coinbase Ventures, Awesome People Ventures, Draft Ventures, Moonbase Capital, Chapter One, Istari Ventures, Rob Witoff, Dan Romero, Justin Mart, Brenner Spear, Patrick Chang, Michael Montano, Christian Strat, Alex Treece | |||
| Ceramic | 17 Feb 2022 | $30m | Series A | Infrastructure | decentralized network for composable data | Multicoin Capital, USV | Placeholder, Reciprocal Ventures, CoinFund, Figment, Coinbase Ventures, Hashed, DCG, Variant Fund, The Lao, Dialectic, Zee Prime, Edge & Node, Dapper Labs, StreamingFast, Metacartel Ventures, Protocol Labs, Animoca Brands, Collab+Currency, BlockScience, ConsenSys, Polymorphic Capital, Red Beard Ventures, Gaingels, Distributed Global, DAOsquare, Bitscale Capital, Northzone, Venrock, Fenbushi Capital, Amplify Partners, Page One, The Fintech Fund, Animal Ventures, 6MV, Underscore VC, P2P Capital, Packy McCormick, Meltem Demirors, Roham, Illia, Brian Flynn, Alex Salnikov, Ryan Selkis, Dan Romero, Eleftherios, Stefan George, Suji Yan, Tegan Kline, Chase Chapman, David Phelps, Defi Dad, Vadim Koleoshkin, Yannick Folla, alisha.eth, Oaksprout, Daniel Heyman, sean.eth, Jeremysklaroff, aditi , Alan Curtis, Annika Lewis, 0xbilly, Blake Jennelle, Alessio Fanelli, chamm.eth, NiMA ASSYDD, Derek Yoo, Jad Esber, Joe Lallouz, Julia Lipton, Florian Hagenbuch, julz.eth, Kerman Kohli, Mason Nystrom, cjliu49, Rob Toews, Sari Azout, Zach Frankel, Jump Crypto | ||
| XMTP | 05 May 2021 | $5m | Seed | XMTP is a communication protocol and network that connects communities, creators, protocols, applications, and users. | Alexis Ohanian, Anthony Pompliano, Betaworks Ventures, Dan Romero, Fernando Martinelli, IDEO CoLab Ventures, Josh Fraser, Kain Warwick, Meltem Demirors, Nascent, Offline Ventures, Robert Leshner, Roham Gharegozlou, Ryan Selkis, Scott Belsky, Sound Ventures, Stani Kulechov |