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Santiago Roel Santos
Total Investments36
Infrastructure8
DeFi6
AI4
L23
L12
Smart contract security2
Gaming1
RWA1
MEV1
NFT1
DEX1
News1
Zero Knowledge Industry1
| Name | Round | Category | Description | Lead Investor | Chains | Other Investors | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inference | 14 Oct 2025 | $11.8m | Seed | AI | Inference is a decentralized AI compute platform that aggregates unused GPU resources into a distributed marketplace. It allows developers to train, fine-tune, and run LLMs like Llama 3.2 and Gemma 3 through serverless APIs, offering lower-cost, high-performance infrastructure for AI workloads | Multicoin Capital, a16z crypto | Topology, Founders Inc, Mechanism Capital, Anatoly Yakovenko, Santiago Roel Santos, Chaotic Capital, 0xMert | ||
| Hyperbolic | 30 Jul 2024 | $7m | Seed | AI | Open-Access AI Cloud | Polychain Capital, Lightspeed Faction | Chapter One, Longhash Ventures, Bankless Ventures, Blackdragon Capital, Nomad Capital, CoinSummer Labs, Third Earth Capital, Republic, Balaji Srinivasan, Illia Polosukhin, Casey Caruso, Tekin Salimi, Santiago Roel Santos, Aaron Buchwald, Saturnin Pugnet, Ansem, WSBmod, Alex Lin, Sandeep Nailwal, Shumo Zhu, Yi Tong, Sandy Peng, Haichen Shen, Victor Ji, Kenny Li, Homie Luo | ||
| SkyTrade | 16 Jul 2024 | Pre-Seed | RWA | Portal Ventures, Modular Capital | Solana Foundation, Mercatus Center, Santiago Roel Santos, Jason Yanowitz, Scott Moore, Jeff D Feng, Adam Gries, Helen Chen | ||||
| DILL | 16 Jul 2024 | Pre-Seed | Infrastructure | modular network fully compatible with the Danksharding roadmap | Find Satoshi Ventures | Modular Capital, TN Lee, Santiago Roel Santos, Saku, Victor Ji | |||
| Rome Protocol | 09 Jul 2024 | $9m | Strategic | Infrastructure | Solana as modular enshrined services for L2s | Hack VC | Portal Ventures, P2 Ventures, HashKey Capital, Bankless Ventures, LBank Labs, Anagram, TRGC, Robot Ventures, Perridon Ventures, MH Ventures, Anatoly Yakovenko, Nick White, Santiago Roel Santos, Comfy Capital, Austin Federa, Jason Yanowitz | ||
| MegaETH | 27 Jun 2024 | $20m | Seed | L2 | real-time Ethereum, streaming transactions | Dragonfly Capital | $100m | Figment Capital, Folius Ventures, Robot Ventures, Tangent, Big Brain Holdings, Credibly Neutral, Vitalik Buterin, Joseph Lubin, Sreeram Kannan, Santiago Roel Santos, Cobie, Hasu, Mert Mumtaz, Karthik Talwar | |
| Wasabi | 17 Jun 2024 | $3m | Seed | DeFi | meme coin leverage trading protocol | Electric Capital | AllianceDAO, Luca Netz, Santiago Roel Santos, Zagabond, DCF God, Memeland, Spencer Ventures, Zhouxun Yin, Cygaar, Bob Loukas | ||
| StripChain | 28 May 2024 | $10m | Venture Round | Infrastructure | interoperability protocol enabling chain abstraction at scale | Sora Ventures | Mechanism Capital, Shima Capital, Hyperithm, Hypersphere Ventures, Ascensive Assets, Ryan Selkis, Stephane Gosselin, Santiago Roel Santos, Zee Prime Capital, Daedalus, FounderHeads VC, Wave Capital, 32-bit Ventures, Impossible Finance, Comma3 Ventures, Cherry Street, Not3Lau Capital, Aric Chang, Blake Gao, Jeff Wang, Ivangbi, The Crypto Dog | ||
| Stripchain | 22 May 2024 | $10.1m | Private | Infrastructure | intent-based interoperability protocol | Sora Ventures | Santiago Roel Santos, Stephane Gosselin, Ryan Selkis, Shima Capital, Hypersphere Ventures, Mechanism Capital, Ascensive Assets, Hyperithm | ||
| Arcium | 09 May 2024 | $5.5m | Strategic | Infrastructure | parallelized confidential computing network | Greenfield Capital | Coinbase Ventures, Heartcore web3, Longhash Ventures, L2 Iterative Ventures, Staking Facilities, SMAPE Capital, Everstake, Anatoly Yakovenko, Keone Hon, Mert Mumtaz, Santiago Roel Santos, Kenny Li, Lucas Bruder | ||
| Inference Labs | 08 May 2024 | $2.3m | Pre-Seed | AI | infrastructure and products for AI on web3 | Mechanism Capital, DACM, Delphi Ventures | Skynet Trading, Big Brain Holdings, Bitscale Capital, Stateless Ventures, ID Theory, Edessa Capital, Mozaik Capital, Metropolis VC, Newman Capital, Seed Club Ventures, Momentum 6, Algod Trading, Chris Cable, Dan Mgbor, Defi Dad, George Samman, Greg Osiri, Jason Morton, Lucas Konzinski, Richard Dai, Sandeep Nailwal, Santiago Roel Santos | ||
| Thruster | 18 Apr 2024 | $7.5m | Seed | DEX | Pantera Capital | $70m | OKX Ventures, Mirana Ventures, ParaFi Capital, Dewhales Capital, Manifold, Santiago Roel Santos, dingaling, MrBlock, ParallelAiRev, Hype.eth, Mooncat, GCBlur, Hunter & Dylan Orrell | ||
| Inference Labs | 15 Apr 2024 | $2.3m | Pre-Seed | AI | Trustless Execution Layer of AI | Mechanism Capital, DACM, Delphi Ventures | Skynet Trading, Big Brain Holdings, Bitscale Capital, Stateless Ventures, Mozaik Capital, Metropolis VC, Newman Capital, Seed Club Ventures, Edessa Capital, Momentum 6, Algod Trading, Chris Cable, Dan Mgbor, Ana Andrianova, Greg Osuri, Jason Morton, Spectre, Lucas Konzinski, Omar Shakeeb, Richard Dai, Sandeep Nailwal, Santiago Roel Santos | ||
| Clique | 14 Mar 2024 | $14m | Series A | Infrastructure | Compute Coordination Network - enabling customizable heterogenous compute | Polychain Capital | Bankless Ventures, Robot Ventures, Santiago Roel Santos, Balaji Srinivasan, Sandeep Nailwal, Cyber Fund , Offchain Labs, zkValidator, Calvin Liu, Scott Moore, Keone Hon, Eunice Giarta, Yi Sun, Uma Roy, Smokey The Bera, Sandy Peng, YQ, Cygaar, Niraj Pant, Gabby Dizon, Kenneth Ng, dcbuilder.eth, Defi Dave, Dabing.eth, David Ma, Yuki Yuminaga, George Lambeth | ||
| Eclipse Labs | 11 Mar 2024 | $50m | Series A | L2 | Ethereum layer-2 using the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) | Placeholder, Hack VC | Polychain Capital, Maven 11, DBA, Delphi Digital, Fenbushi Capital, Bankless Ventures, Flow Traders, OKX Ventures, Barnabe Monnot, John Adler, Mert Mumtaz, Austin Federa, DCInvestor, Hasu, Cozomo de’ Medici, Meltem Demirors, ZachXBT, Anthony Sassano, Santiago Roel Santos, Jill Gunter, DeeZe, Eric Wall | ||
| Drosera | 15 Feb 2024 | $1.5m | Pre-Seed | Smart contract security | Decentralized Security Model for Web3 | Anagram | Arrington Capital, UDHC, Comfy Capital, Bodhi Ventures, Metamatic, BaseDAO, Asymmetric, Zeal Capital, Everstake, 01Node, Marin Ventures, Infinite Capital, NxGen, Santiago Roel Santos, Andrew Van der Werff, Eli Krunzke, Mike Silagadze, Rok Kopp, Valeyo, Karel Kubat, Marc Weinstein, Adam Patel, Chris Battenfield, Jack Sun, Tanthai Pongstein, Josh Han, Dylan CZ, Sebastien Davies, Flywheel | ||
| Rome Protocol | 15 Jan 2024 | Pre-Seed | MEV | Shared Sequencer leveraging Solana | Portal Ventures | Anatoly Yakovenko , Nick White, Neel Somani, Rahim Noorani, Santiago Roel Santos, Tarun Chitra, Jason Yanowitz | |||
| Blast | 21 Nov 2023 | $20m | Private | L2 | The L2 with native yield | Paradigm, Standard Crypto, Jez, Andrew Kang, Hasu, foobar, Santiago Roel Santos, Larry Cermak, Hsaka, CL207, degenspartan, Loomdart, ByWassies, Evanss6, Manifold Trading, Gainzy, Keyboard Monkey, JandX, Brentsketit, icebergy, naniXBT, Cole | |||
| Demox Labs | 01 Jun 2023 | $5m | Pre-Seed | Infrastructure | Building privacy preserving ZK infrastructure on Aleo | Hack VC | DCVC, Amplify Partners, Coinbase Ventures, CRV, C2 Ventures, Dialectic, Santiago Roel Santos, Kearny Jackson, Ryan Selkis, OpenSea Ventures | ||
| Blockworks | 09 May 2023 | $12m | Strategic | News | Crypto News | 10T Holdings | $135m | Framework Ventures, Santiago Roel Santos | |
| Berachain | 20 Apr 2023 | $42m | Series A | L1 | DeFi focused EVM-compatible L1 built on the Cosmos SDK, powered by Proof of Liquidity Consensu | Polychain Capital | $420m | Hack VC, Dao5, Tribe Capital, CitizenX, Shima Capital, Robot Ventures, Mustafa Al-Bassam, Zaki Manian, Santiago Roel Santos, Joey Santoro, Spadaboom, Georgios Vlachos, DCF God, Brian Tubergen, Kevin Hu, Lawrence Diao, Ashwin Ramachandran | |
| Scroll | 06 Mar 2023 | $50m | Zero Knowledge Industry | zkEVM-based zkRollup on Ethereum that enables native compatibility for existing Ethereum applications and tools | Polychain Capital, Bain Capital Crypto | Robot Ventures , Santiago Roel Santos, Anthony Sassano, Ying Tong, Carlos Aria, Gate Ventures | |||
| Ammalgam | 23 Feb 2023 | $750,000 | Pre-Seed | DeFi | Lending & trading protocol | Kain Warwick, 1inch, Robot Ventures , Santiago Roel Santos, Bodhi Ventures, BootNode, Marin Ventures, Factor Capital, Zeal Capital |