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Calvin Liu

Investor at Divergence Ventures

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Calvin Liu was the Chief Strategy Officer at EigenLayer, where he is building infrastructure to extend Ethereum's trust network to any distributed system. He is also an investor at Divergence Ventures, focusing on pre-seed crypto investments. Previously, he served as Strategy Lead at Compound Labs, where he helped build and deploy the Compound interest rate protocol. Calvin has also worked as a data analytics professional at Gusto and was the co-founder of Outpour, an iOS app that enabled users to write appreciative messages about their friends anonymously. He holds a degree in Economics from Harvard University.

Education Experience

Investments

Tag
Ecosystem
Token Issuance
Region
Operating Status
Name
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
Fluent Fluent
-- -- $ 8 M
2月 19
Valhalla Valhalla
Pre-Seed -- $ 1.5 M
12月 20, 2024
Phylax Phylax
Seed -- $ 4.5 M
11月 01, 2024
CAP CAP
Pre-Seed -- $ 1.9 M
10月 28, 2024
Predicate Predicate
-- -- $ 7 M
10月 15, 2024
Sorella Sorella
Seed -- $ 7.5 M
8月 20, 2024
Pi Squared Pi Squared
Seed -- $ 12.5 M
7月 02, 2024
Conduit Conduit
Series A -- $ 37 M
6月 25, 2024
Dora Factory Dora Factory
-- -- $ 10 M
5月 23, 2024
Plume Plume
Seed -- $ 10 M
5月 23, 2024
Clique Clique
Series A -- $ 8 M
3月 14, 2024
BounceBit BounceBit
Seed -- $ 6 M
2月 28, 2024
Ethena Ethena
Seed Plus $ 300 M $ 14 M
2月 16, 2024
ZkCloud ZkCloud
Seed -- $ 6 M
1月 29, 2024
Axiom Axiom
Series A -- $ 20 M
1月 25, 2024
Rhinestone Rhinestone
Pre-Seed -- --
12月 08, 2023
Movement Movement
Pre-Seed -- $ 3.4 M
9月 13, 2023
Puffer Finance Puffer Finance
Seed -- $ 5.5 M
8月 08, 2023
Ethena Ethena
Seed $ 50 M $ 6.5 M
7月 17, 2023
Alluvial Alluvial
Series A -- $ 12 M
7月 11, 2023

Investment Overview

Rounds in the past year

2

Total rounds

38

Portfolio Numbers

37

Lead Investment

0

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