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Darren Lau

Founder at The Daily Ape

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Darren Lau was former Senior Analyst at The Spartan Group. Prior to Spartan, Darren was with CoinGecko, the world's largest independent cryptocurrency data aggregator for two years. He started there as an intern and helped to revamp their ICO section, contributing to their quarterly reports and keeping up to date with the latest market trends. Most recently, he co-authored their How to DeFi ebook, which is CoinGecko's first ebook. He has since supported several CoinGecko DeFi initiatives and was one of the masterminds behind their new DeFi section. For his work with CoinGecko and in yield farming, he was recognised by Flipside Cryto as an "Unsung Hero".Darren graduated from Sunway University with a BSc(Hons) in Financial Analysis in 2020.

Investments

Tag
Ecosystem
Token Issuance
Region
Operating Status
Name
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
Mellow Protocol Mellow Protocol
Seed -- $ 2.75 M
8月 25, 2022
LI.FI LI.FI
Strategic -- $ 5.5 M
7月 11, 2022
Bastion Bastion
Seed -- --
3月 23, 2022
Katana Katana
Seed $ 30 M $ 5 M
3月 11, 2022
CyBall CyBall
Seed -- $ 1.8 M
12月 16, 2021
Tulip Protocol Tulip Protocol
Strategic -- $ 5 M
11月 27, 2021
BlockchainSpace BlockchainSpace
Seed -- $ 3.75 M
11月 18, 2021
pSTAKE Finance pSTAKE Finance
Seed -- $ 10 M
11月 16, 2021
MixMob MixMob
Seed -- --
11月 11, 2021
Nyan Heroes Nyan Heroes
Seed -- $ 2.5 M
11月 03, 2021
WeMeta WeMeta
Seed -- $ 1.1 M
11月 03, 2021
Apricot Finance Apricot Finance
-- -- $ 4 M
8月 25, 2021
ZenLedger ZenLedger
Series A -- $ 6 M
8月 03, 2021
Nansen Nansen
Series A -- $ 12 M
6月 29, 2021
RabbitX RabbitX
Seed $ 25 M $ 2.5 M
6月 24, 2021
Meteora Meteora
Seed -- --
5月 13, 2021
Babylon Finance Babylon Finance
Seed $ 10 M $ 1.9 M
3月 05, 2021

Investment Overview

Rounds in the past year

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Total rounds

17

Portfolio Numbers

18

Lead Investment

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