Eugene Chen

Co-Founder at Phoenix

Details

Eugene Chen is a cofounder at Phoenix, which designs and builds sustainable DeFi protocols from first principles. Prior to co-founding Ellipsis Labs, Eugene worked on DeFi protocol design, MEV, and HFT.

Investments

Project
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
Asgard Finance Asgard Finance
Seed -- $ 2.2 M
Dec 06, 2025
Thru Thru
-- $ 140 M $ 14.4 M
Apr 29, 2025
Embr.fun Embr.fun
-- -- $ 1.8 M
Apr 15, 2025
FastLane FastLane
-- -- $ 6 M
Mar 04, 2025
Sorella Sorella
Seed -- $ 7.5 M
Aug 20, 2024
MetaDAO MetaDAO
-- -- $ 2.2 M
Aug 01, 2024
Kuru Kuru
Seed -- $ 2 M
Jul 25, 2024
Succinct Succinct
Series A -- $ 43 M
Mar 21, 2024

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