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Erik Voorhees

Founder at Shapeshift

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Erik Voorhees is the founder and CEO of Venice and the founder and former CEO of ShapeShift. Voorhees has been involved in crypto since 2011 and has been behind several unique Bitcoin ventures, such as SatoshiDICE, Coinapult, Bitinstant, and FeedZeBirds. Some of his projects have resulted in a series of fines and legal troubles with the SEC.

Investments

Name
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
Citrea Citrea
Series A -- $ 14 M
Oct 31, 2024
Prime Intellect Prime Intellect
Seed -- $ 5.5 M
Apr 23, 2024
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Seed -- $ 1.2 M
Mar 25, 2021
Shapeshift Shapeshift
Series A -- $ 10.4 M
Mar 28, 2017
Safello Safello
-- -- $ 0.6 M
Feb 17, 2014

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