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Adam Jin

Co-founder and managing partner at Initial Ventures

Details

Adam Jin is the co-founder and managing partner at Initial Ventures. Adam is an advisor at Solana Foundation, built the APAC team to grow the developer community and ecosystem. He spent 3 years as a partner at FTX Ventures, 2 years Head of APAC at FTX Trading Ltd.

Investments

Name
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
Titan Titan
Seed -- $ 7 M
Sep 18
Vanish Vanish
Seed -- $ 1 M
Aug 22
Blueprint Finance Blueprint Finance
-- -- $ 9.5 M
Jun 23
Glow Finance Glow Finance
Strategic -- $ 9.5 M
Jun 23
Concrete Concrete
Strategic -- $ 9.5 M
Jun 23
Fragmetric Fragmetric
Angel -- --
Nov 04, 2024
CUDIS CUDIS
-- -- $ 5 M
Sep 18, 2024
aPriori aPriori
Seed $ 100 M $ 8 M
Jul 25, 2024
Solayer Solayer
Pre-Seed -- --
Jul 02, 2024
Lombard Lombard
Seed -- $ 16 M
Jul 02, 2024
Edgen Edgen
Seed -- $ 5 M
May 28, 2024

Investment Overview

Rounds in the past year

5

Total rounds

11

Portfolio Numbers

15

Lead Investment

0

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