Vitalik Buterin Overview

  • Investor Type
  • Angel

  • Investments
  • 12

  • Portfolio
  • 12

Vitalik Buterin General Information

Description

Mr. Vitalik Buterin is a Co-Founder and serves as Board Member at Ethereum. He serves as Advisor at Maicoin and Fenbushi Capital. He is also the Co-Founder of CSP DAO. He is also an angel investor. He is a Co-Founder of Coin Publishing. He also served as a partner at Fenbushi Capital. He has been involved in the Bitcoin community since 2011 and has contributed to Bitcoin both as a writer and the developer of a fork of bitcoinjs-lib, pybitcointools, and multisig.info, as well as one of the developers behind Egora. Now, his primary job is as the main developer of Ethereum, a project which intends to create a next-generation smart contract and decentralized application platform that allows people to create any kind of decentralized application on top of a blockchain that can be imagined.

Business Details

Primary Investor Type
Angel (individual)
Corporate Office
  • Zeughausgasse 7a
  • 6300 Zug
  • Switzerland

Vitalik Buterin Investments (12)

Company Name Deal Date Deal Type Deal Size Industry Company Stage Lead Partner
RISE (Singapore) 16-Sep-2024 Seed Round Financial Software Startup
MegaETH (Business/Productivity Software) 27-Jun-2024 Business/Productivity Software Startup
Polymarket 14-May-2024 Information Services (B2C) Generating Revenue
0xbow 01-Jan-2024 Other Financial Services Startup
Nocturne Labs 25-Oct-2023 Financial Software Startup
Orchid (Other Healthcare Technology Systems) 01-Aug-2023 Other Healthcare Technology Systems Generating Revenue
Kakarot 02-Jun-2023 Software Development Applications Generating Revenue
Aztec Labs 06-Oct-2021 Financial Software Generating Revenue
HackMD 04-Sep-2021 Angel (individual) Business/Productivity Software Generating Revenue
Swift Solar 30-Nov-2020 Seed Round Alternative Energy Equipment Generating Revenue

Vitalik Buterin Investments by Industry, Year, and Region

Investments by Industry

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Vitalik Buterin Team (1)

Name Title Deals Funds Boards Office
Vitalik Buterin Angel Investor Zug, Switzerland

Vitalik Buterin Co-Investors (79)

Name With Exits Lead Partner Series Industry
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Vitalik Buterin FAQs

  • Who is Vitalik Buterin?

    Vitalik Buterin is an angel Investor who has made 12 investments.

  • What kind of investor is Vitalik Buterin?

    Vitalik Buterin is an angel investor.

  • What does Vitalik Buterin do?

    As an angel investor, Vitalik Buterin invests personal money into promising companies, typically in exchange for equity.

  • What has Vitalik Buterin invested in?

    Vitalik Buterin has made numerous investments in companies like RISE (Singapore), MegaETH (Business/Productivity Software), and Polymarket within the Financial Software, Business/Productivity Software, and Information Services (B2C) industries.

  • What has Vitalik Buterin invested in recently?

    Vitalik Buterin's latest investment was on 16-Sep-2024 in RISE (Singapore), a company within the Financial Software industry.

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