Mike Chan | Deep Ventures 🤘
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Love @missmayachan1 and @vchan725 with all my ❤️ Investing @DeepVenturesVC Elite power napper and parallel parker
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Joined January 2009
Happy Friday! Here are the 5 most interesting crypto fundraises for the week ending 12/19/25: 1) Fuse Decentralized renewable energy network @fuseenergy raised a $70M Series B round from Lowercarbon Capital, Balderton Capital, Accel, and Ribbit. Fuse is turning energy grid
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gm frens it's Friiiiiiidaaaay!!! Make it a great one!
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Happy Holidays. Thankful for 2025. Merry Christmas and Happy New year 2026
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Outside of being a father, nothing has shaped my adult worldview more than being a startup founder. I have a massive appreciation of how difficult it is for founders to build a product from scratch that people need and use everyday. As users, we take for granted the amount of
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Who owns the upside - equity owners or token holders? I've written a 2000-word blog post digging into this. The TLDR: - The Circle acquisition of Interop Labs left $AXL holders out in the cold - There is a tension between labs and foundation entities, and token holders and
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The long-running debate of token vs. equity and labs vs. foundations
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I just published a blog post about this, let me know what you think! https://t.co/x5dPjkKjfc
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The long-running debate of token vs. equity and labs vs. foundations
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It's funny to me when people call early-stage VC "finance". Of course, there's money involved. There are financial calculations that we need to do, but it's all basic arithmetic. At the earliest stages of venture, there is little financial modeling of a startup's potential
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JPMorgan just announced MONY (My OnChain Net Yield Fund), its first Ethereum-tokenized money market fund, seeded with $100M and open to accredited investors. Onchain yields, real-time settlement, and greater access. You are not bullish enough.
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Visa, the largest global card payment network in the world, just launched a stablecoin consulting practice They are fully embracing crypto despite the fact that stablecoins can eat into their profits Innovator's Dilemma be damned You are not bullish enough on crypto adoption
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There's a lot of discourse recently about tokens vs. equity and foundations vs labs entities. Circle just acquired Interop Labs (the entity that works on Axelar) with no consideration or remuneration for $AXL holders. The Aave Labs and Foundation entities are battling it out
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During the week of Dec 7-13, 24 crypto startups raised $191.3M in funding. This was driven by LiFi's $29M Series A. Higher
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I have many friends who check all of the boxes that define successful people, but have not "made it" yet. These people are super smart, work really hard, and do all the right things. They've grinded, climbed career ladders, and built large networks, but still haven't knocked
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Happy Friday! Here are the 5 most interesting crypto fundraises for the week ending 12/12/25: 1) Aztec Network Privacy-focused Eth L2 @aztecnetwork raised ~$61M in a public sale via Continuous Clearing Auction with Uniswap. The CCA mechanism started at a floor price of $350M
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The weak force is part of the design of our universe at the most foundational level.
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gm fam it's Friiiiiiidaaaay!!! Have a great weekend!!!
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*runs to my crypto wallets to check balances* This is scary af
Last night around 5pm I sat down to do some work. I opened my Rabby wallet to try out Espresso's new cross-chain mint product, Presto, that Rarible had just put live on mainnet. When I opened my wallet, I immediately saw that $30k was missing...
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Tokenize all the things!
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 SEC approves DTCC plan to tokenize stocks, bonds and treasuries.
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This post is why so many people hate VCs. Do founders have to work hard? Of course. Often times on the weekends? Yes. But just because you don't take a VC call on Sunday doesn't mean that you're "not a founder".
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Such a weird market. The Fed cuts rates and prices still drop. It just goes to show that public market investors hate uncertainty, and we live in a max-uncertainty world.
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I've always admired people who do things and think differently. There's nothing wrong with taking the standard route. There are plenty of benefits - comfort, safety, and security - that traditional paths provide. But it takes guts to do things differently. Whether it's taking
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Do you believe in concentration or diversification? When you invest your money, do you place a few big bets, or do you diversify within and across asset classes? When you invest your time at work, do you try to be really good at one or two things, or do you broaden your
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