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Ryan Selkis

Founder at Messari

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Ryan Selkis is the Founder & ex-CEO of Messari, and was previously an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at ConsenSys and a founding team member at the industry's most active investor, Digital Currency Group, and the largest media brand, CoinDesk. He is also working on new ventures and angel investing.

Investments

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Ecosystem
Token Issuance
Region
Operating Status
Name
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
StripChain StripChain
-- -- $ 10 M
May 21, 2024
fantasy.top fantasy.top
Pre-Seed -- --
Apr 16, 2024
Bitlayer Bitlayer
Seed -- $ 5 M
Mar 26, 2024
Acctual Acctual
Seed $ 15 M $ 3.85 M
Nov 28, 2023
lon Protocol lon Protocol
Pre-Seed -- $ 2 M
Jul 13, 2023
Alluvial Alluvial
Series A -- $ 12 M
Jul 10, 2023
Leo Wallet Leo Wallet
Pre-Seed -- $ 4.5 M
Jun 01, 2023
Gateway Gateway
Seed -- $ 4.2 M
Jan 18, 2023
Sepana Sepana
-- -- $ 10 M
Nov 07, 2022
WalletConnect WalletConnect
-- -- $ 12.5 M
Nov 02, 2022
Spindl Spindl
Seed -- $ 7 M
Oct 19, 2022
Nxyz Nxyz
Series A -- $ 40 M
Oct 12, 2022
Lit Protocol Lit Protocol
Series A -- $ 13 M
Sep 22, 2022
Magna Magna
Seed $ 70 M $ 15 M
Sep 14, 2022
Synquote Synquote
Seed -- $ 2.8 M
Sep 13, 2022
Quadrata Quadrata
Seed -- $ 7.5 M
Jul 11, 2022
AltLayer AltLayer
Seed -- $ 7.2 M
Jun 30, 2022
Lighthouse Lighthouse
Seed -- $ 7 M
May 11, 2022
Bastion Bastion
Series A $ 40 M $ 9 M
Apr 22, 2022
Dfns Dfns
Seed -- $ 13.5 M
Apr 13, 2022

Investment Overview

Rounds in the past year

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Total rounds

41

Portfolio Numbers

41

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