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Raises
Sam Kazemian
Total Investments13
DeFi5
Infrastructure4
L21
Liquid Restaking Protocol1
| Name | Round | Category | Description | Lead Investor | Chains | Other Investors | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Concrete Protocol | Jun 23, 2025 | $9.5m | DeFi | Concrete is an appchain designed to enhance on-chain debt and credit, offering higher yields, liquidation protection, and advanced predictions within the DeFi space | Polychain Capital | YZi Labs, VanEck, Decima, Portal Ventures, Halo Capital , Leadblock Fund, Auros Global, Selini Capital, Gate Ventures, Presto Labs, Curved Ventures, Pivot Global, Nonce Classic, Renzo, Crypto Discover, Baboon VC, FounderHeads VC, BitGo, MrBlock, DCF God, Sam Kazemian | |||
| Templar Protocol | Mar 13, 2025 | $4m | Pre-Seed | DeFi | Templar is the first cypher lending protocol, enabling users to borrow U.S. dollars (via stablecoins) against their Bitcoin or other assets without relying on centralized institutions | Robot Ventures, Digital Asset Capital Management, Proximity Labs, NEAR Foundation, Black Dragon, Sam Kazemian | |||
| InfiniFi | Feb 11, 2025 | $3m | Pre-Seed | DeFi | On-Chain Fractional Reserve System | Electric Capital | New Form Capital, Axiom, Kraynos Capital, Defi Dad, Sam Kazemian, Overkoalified, Amplice, Alan Keegan, Justin Reyes, Billy Welch | ||
| Analog | Jan 27, 2025 | $5m | Infrastructure | Analog is a blockchain built on Delegated Proof-of-Stake (DPoS) consensus algorithm, with the Timechain as its immutable ledger that enables dApp communication and data exchange in a decentralized manner | $300m | Foresight Ventures, Gate Ventures, BackerDAO, Black Label Media, Sam Kazemian | |||
| RISE Chain | Sep 16, 2024 | $3.2m | Seed | L2 | The Gigagas Layer 2 - Ethereum’s Broadband Moment | Finality Capital Partners | Orange DAO, Digital Asset Capital Management, Ether.fi, P2 Ventures, MH Ventures, Public Works, Vitalik Buterin, Stani Kulechov, Sassal.eth, Sandeep Nailwal, Scott Moore, DCF God, Sam Kazemian, Alex Svanevik | ||
| Eigenpie | Sep 12, 2024 | Seed and Strategic | DeFi | Isolated Liquid Restaking | Arbitrum Foundation, Robot Ventures, PancakeSwap, Relayer Capital, Gracy Chen, Sam Kazemian, Coinflip Canada, Angel Xu, Alex Esin, Matthew Howells-Barby, Matt Dobel, James Parillo, Akshat Vaidya | ||||
| t1 protocol | Sep 9, 2024 | $2.5m | Pre-Seed | Infrastructure | Building real-time proving to unify Ethereum | a16z | Benedikt Bünz, Sam Kazemian, Amir Bandeali , Jed Breed, Eric Chen, Danning Sui, Meltem Demirors, Erdal Tekisalp, Chua Zheng Leong, Kartik Talwar, Murat Akdeniz, Kubi Mensah, TokkaLabs, Andrea Canidio, Connor Howe, Ladislaus von Daniels, Oliver Hörr, Pnyx Ventures | ||
| Nuffle Labs | Jun 13, 2024 | $13m | Infrastructure | NEAR DA and Fast Finality Layer AVS | Electric Capital | NEAR Foundation, Lyrik Ventures, Fabric Ventures, Robot Ventures, Caladan, Canonical Crypto, BlackDragon, Bowen Wang, Defi Dad, Dovery Wan, Erica KAng, Jordi Alexander, Sam Kazemian, Mert Mumtaz, Sandeep Nailwal, Sreeram Kannan | |||
| Kelp DAO | May 22, 2024 | $9m | Private | Liquid Restaking Protocol | Liquid Restaking Protocol | SCB Limited, Laser Digital | Bankless Ventures, Hypersphere Ventures, Draper Dragon, DACM, Cypher Capital, ArkStream Capital, Cluster Capital, GSR, Longhash Ventures, Side Door Ventures, NOIA Capital, HTX Ventures, Avid3, ViaBTC Capital, DWF Ventures, Coinseeker.co, Tulipa Capital , Scott Moore, Alex Karl Svanevik, Sam Kazemian, Marc Zeller, Amrit Kumar, Anthony Lesoismein, Winslow Strong | ||
| Polymer Labs | Jan 23, 2024 | $3.6m | Seed | Infrastructure | DistributedG, North Island Ventures | Ignite, DCG, Coinbase Ventures, Wintermute Ventures, The Lao, BlockchainAG, Taureon, Longhash Ventures, Signum Capital, UOB Ventures , Joe Lallouz, Karim Atiyeh, Martin Mao, Sam Kazemian, Andrew Masanto, Loong Wang | |||
| Sei | Aug 31, 2022 | $5m | Seed | Multicoin Capital | Coinbase Ventures, Delphi Digital , Hudson River Trading, GSR, Hypershere, Flow Traders, Kronos Research, 0xMaki, Sam Kazemian, Gabby Dizon, Jason Choi, Darryl Wang, Mable Jiang, Tascha Punyaneramitdee, State | ||||
| Porter Finance | Apr 8, 2022 | $5m | Seed | DAO Credit Marketplace | Kain Warwick, ParaFi Capital, Nascent, Robert Leshner, Buckley Ventures, Dragonfly Capital, Sam Kazemian | ||||
| Vesta Finance | Jan 4, 2022 | Angel Round | DeFi | CDP | Tetranode, DCFGod, Fiskantes, Not3Lau Capital, Sam Kazemian, 0xmons, Wangarian, OmniscientAsian, PopcornKirby, Nick Chong, Calvin Chu, Jae Chung, Anthony Sassano, Eric Conner, Mariano Conti, Shuyao Kong, Feir |