Antonio Key

Early-stage Tech Investor

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 22 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2023𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
22
Total investments
8
Early stage
6
Mid stage
4
Late stage
8y
Years active

Portfolio

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Pre-Seed Investor
Jan 2023
Spill is a next generation social platform that puts culture first. At its best, social media can bring you humor, insight and connection to some amazing people. We’re building Spill to make it easier, safer, and more rewarding to get to that experience, as well as introducing new ways to connect through real time conversation. Initially, you will be able to: Create, comment, amplify or share a random thought, called a “Spill,” with the public Host in-app chat events with your friends both virtually and IRL Follow the cultural commentary on things that are happening in the world right now Oh, and you automatically get paid if a Spill of yours goes viral and we monetize against it 🤑 Ultimately, our goal is to make Spill the de facto platform to discover and discuss culture worldwide.
Series A Investor
Apr 2022
Flowcarbon brings carbon offset credits on chain, leveraging blockchain technology to accelerate the innovation and scale of climate change solutions.
Seed Investor
Mar 2022
Yuga Labs is a web3 company exploring big ideas in identity, ownership, utility, and interoperability to push the crypto and NFT space forward. The Yugaverse is made up of: Bored Ape Yacht Club Mutant Ape Yacht Club Bored Ape Kennel Club Otherside Plus dozens of community projects using Ape IP. As The Defiant recently said, "The story of Yuga Labs is one where the improbable has become reality in the blink of an eye." Our flagship collection, Bored Ape Yacht Club, debuted in April 2021. Since then, we’ve created new IP for the ape ecosystem (Mutant Ape Yacht Club, Bored Ape Kennel Club), acquired top collections (CryptoPunks and Meebits), and made both web3 and gaming history with the biggest NFT mint ever followed by a game demo with record-breaking synchronized player participation (Otherside). We also found some time to see old friends and make new ones with headline-making events (ApeFest, VMAs) and partnerships (Rolling Stone, Adidas). Along the way, the Yuga team has grown from 4 to 100+ people, and we’re still on the lookout for brilliant thinkers and doers who can grow alongside us, push us forward, and create work that makes history. If that sounds like you, apply to one of our open roles or reach out.
Pre-Seed Investor
Mar 2022
Interested in what we are building but don't see a role? Email your resume to yakoa@jobs.workablemail.com
Investor
Feb 2022
Genopets is a Free-to-Play, Move-to-Earn NFT game that makes it fun and profitable to live an active lifestyle. A Genopet is a player's digital spirit animal: raised from infancy; utterly unique; and imprinted with a player's psychological profile. It is a pet that players take care of by taking care of themselves. Genopets combines user's step data from their mobile device and wearables with blockchain Play-to-Earn economics so players can earn crypto for taking action in real life as they play. The Genopets team is seeking skilled, passionate individuals to join us in bringing the Genoverse to life. We are a mission-driven group of builders, artists, and operators with decades of collective experience. If any of the above excites you, please review our open job postings and reach out!
Individual Investor
Dec 2021
Career Karma is backed by the world’s top investors like YCombinator, Top Tier Ventures, Initialized Capital, Softbank, Google Ventures and Kapor Capital (to name a few), and just raised $40 million in Series B funding! Career Karma is the easiest way to find a job training program online. We help over 2.5 million workers navigate their careers every month through advice and coaching.
Series A Investor
Dec 2021
Ready Player Me is the world’s leading avatar platform. Leveraging AI, ML, and a suite of developer-first tools, the platform empowers companies to save months of development time and increases user retention with personalized avatars. Unlike traditional avatar systems that lock avatars to a single experience, avatars created with Ready Player Me are interoperable with 10,000+ apps and games already integrated with the platform that are played by 30+ million users monthly.
late stageComputer Games
Series A Investor
Dec 2021
Since launching in 2020, the FloatMe team has been on a mission to help everyday Americans work towards financial prosperity. With the FloatMe mobile app, members can request Floats of up to $50*, understand their spending habits better with easy-to-use tools, and find new ways to earn some extra cash with Side Gigs. All in one simple subscription fee of $1.99. The team at FloatMe is passionate, driven, and focused on building great experiences, products, and services which help us to deliver on our mission and serve our members. If you’re someone who feels the same way, check out our open roles. We’d love to hear from you! *Terms and conditions apply. For more information, visit floatme.com/terms.
Series B Investor
Nov 2021
The Sandbox is an immersive metaverse platform in which users play, create, and monetize unique experiences alongside their favorite brands, IPs, and celebrities across gaming, entertainment, music, art, and more. The Sandbox leverages web3 technologies to fully enable end-user creation and creator economies, disrupting existing platforms by providing both players and creators with true ownership of their assets, creations, and rewards as non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Over 400 partners have joined The Sandbox, including Warner Music Group, Gucci, Ubisoft, Paris Hilton, The Walking Dead, Snoop Dogg, Attack on Titan, Lacoste, Steve Aoki, The Smurfs, and many more
Seed Investor
Aug 2021
We are empowering the next generation of Americans to start building wealth.
Pre-Seed Investor
Jul 2021
Agape is a relationship wellness platform.
Series A Investor
Jul 2021
ZaiNar is the foundation layer of Physical AI. The company’s patented technology achieves sub-nanosecond time synchronization and distribution across wireless networks, transforming existing 5G and WiFi infrastructure into a comprehensive spatial sensing system. ZaiNar delivers central spatial awareness so connected systems know their location, understand surrounding assets, and share that context with AI that coordinates the physical world. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Belmont, CA, the company has had over $100 million in investment, is backed by tier-1 investors, including sharing a board member with SpaceX, and is valued at more than $1 billion.
Series A Investor
Jun 2021
Prime Trust provides financial infrastructure APIs that allow fintech and digital asset companies to innovate quickly, securely, and reliably.
Seed Investor
Jun 2021
Yummy (YCS21) develops and manages the leading delivery and transportation app in Venezuela. Users can order rides, order delivery of anything, and purchase tickets for events.
Series A Investor
May 2021
Upsie is confronting the $48-billion extended warranty industry by challenging marketplace conventions and empowering consumers with information, access and convenience. The industry’s checkered reputation has included high prices (markups as much as 500 percent), a “hard sell” from cashiers & sales personnel, along with murky terms and conditions. Upsies website and mobile app provide users with dependable, transparent coverage and pricing options that can be easily navigated through our user friendly interface. New warranties can be purchased directly through the web and/or mobile interface, while coverage information and receipts are stored for easier management and tracking on existing warranties.
late stageInsurance
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Experience · 29 entries
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Investments (22)
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2025
Managing Director
Feb 2025
Blueprint For The Cultures (Blueprint FTC) mission is to fuel prosperity and joy through the activation of capital, resources, and culture to support founders, ventures, and entrepreneurs. We understand there is not ‘one’ blueprint for success, there are many. We’re equipping our founders with the tools to reimagine markets and systems, to collectively build better companies, communities — and most importantly in how to effectively lead and impact the world.
2023
Pre-Seed Investor
Jan 2023
Spill is a next generation social platform that puts culture first. At its best, social media can bring you humor, insight and connection to some amazing people. We’re building Spill to make it easier, safer, and more rewarding to get to that experience, as well as introducing new ways to connect through real time conversation. Initially, you will be able to: Create, comment, amplify or share a random thought, called a “Spill,” with the public Host in-app chat events with your friends both virtually and IRL Follow the cultural commentary on things that are happening in the world right now Oh, and you automatically get paid if a Spill of yours goes viral and we monetize against it 🤑 Ultimately, our goal is to make Spill the de facto platform to discover and discuss culture worldwide.
2022
Managing Partner
Sep 2022
Sunset Ventures is a Los Angeles and San Francisco-based venture firm that invests in early-stage companies redefining how consumers live, work and play.
Series A Investor
Apr 2022
Flowcarbon brings carbon offset credits on chain, leveraging blockchain technology to accelerate the innovation and scale of climate change solutions.
Seed Investor
Mar 2022
Yuga Labs is a web3 company exploring big ideas in identity, ownership, utility, and interoperability to push the crypto and NFT space forward. The Yugaverse is made up of: Bored Ape Yacht Club Mutant Ape Yacht Club Bored Ape Kennel Club Otherside Plus dozens of community projects using Ape IP. As The Defiant recently said, "The story of Yuga Labs is one where the improbable has become reality in the blink of an eye." Our flagship collection, Bored Ape Yacht Club, debuted in April 2021. Since then, we’ve created new IP for the ape ecosystem (Mutant Ape Yacht Club, Bored Ape Kennel Club), acquired top collections (CryptoPunks and Meebits), and made both web3 and gaming history with the biggest NFT mint ever followed by a game demo with record-breaking synchronized player participation (Otherside). We also found some time to see old friends and make new ones with headline-making events (ApeFest, VMAs) and partnerships (Rolling Stone, Adidas). Along the way, the Yuga team has grown from 4 to 100+ people, and we’re still on the lookout for brilliant thinkers and doers who can grow alongside us, push us forward, and create work that makes history. If that sounds like you, apply to one of our open roles or reach out.
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