Jiani Chen

Capital at Solana Foundation

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 30 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2024
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
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Jul 2024
Solayer is building the restaking network on Solana - a decentralized cloud platform that provisions network security and performance for applications, on demand.
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Jul 2024
RedStone creates cross-chain data oracle providing pricing data for Smart Contracts & DeFi protocols 💾 Our mission is to unlock Web3 potential with affordable and reliable data feeds delivered to multiple chains including i.e. Ethereum, Avalanche or Polygon. We leverage Arweave blockchain to create affordable storage with a permanent audit trail of crypto and real world data feeds.
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Jun 2024
Our Mission: We’re bringing humanity to artificial intelligence. Born from AI veterans from Scale, Amazon, Meta, MIT, and beyond, Perle is passionate about empowering teams to bring human wisdom to the heart of their AI. Perle takes on the heavy lifting of training complex AI models. From expert-in-the-loop data labelling to adversarial attack protection, we offer modular solutions for building the most innovative AI platforms in the world. To learn more visit perle.ai
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May 2024
kluster.ai is the distributed AI platform to efficiently work with large models, free from computational constraints.
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May 2024
Fhenix extends Ethereum’s capabilities with Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) Coprocessors. Leveraging computation over encrypted data, Fhenix gives blockchain developers the power to build end-to-end encrypted applications for the first time
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Apr 2024
Glacis is a middle-ware protocol for developers to manage cross chain messages/bridging with fine grained controls. It was built to help standardize messaging, avoid vendor lock in and single bridge failures, adding redundancy and fail over in case of outages or issues, retry attempts and access controls.
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Mar 2024
World-class security and unparalleled performance powered by #Move
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Mar 2024
Exowatt is a next generation renewable energy company offering commercial and industrial customers a modular full-stack energy solution that can provide dispatchable power and heat for up to 24 hours per day, specifically designed to meet the needs of energy-intensive applications such as data centers. Our mission is clear, to make sustainable renewable energy always available and almost free.
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Jan 2024
Restaking made ezpz on Jito, EigenLayer & Symbiotic
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Jan 2024
OAS allows web3 publishers to focus on building great games without worrying about blockchain technology restrictions.
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Jan 2024
io.net is the intelligent stack for powering AI. It offers on-demand access to GPUs, inference, and agent workflows through a unified platform that eliminates complexity and reduces cost. io.cloud delivers on demand, high-performance GPUs. Developers and enterprises can train, fine-tune, and deploy models on fast, reliable clusters spun up in minutes. io.intelligence is the simple and comprehensive AI toolkit. It provides a single API to run open-source models, deploy custom agents, and evaluate performance without changing your integration. Teams use io.net to move fast, cut infrastructure costs, and scale AI systems with full control.
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Dec 2023
Camp Network is a modular identity layer bringing verifiable first party data from Web2 platforms onchain. Built as a Layer-2 on OP’s Superchain, Camp allows users to own and monetize on their digital identity while enabling protocols to build better, more engaging user experiences. Today, Camp has a strong ecosystem of 125+ partners, 25+ of which are exclusive, as well as strategic collaborations with top-tier media conglomerates worldwide. We are backed by funds including Maven 11, OKX Ventures, Protagonist, Inception Capital, Paper Ventures, Merit Circle, Hypersphere, Eterna Capital, IVC, HTX Ventures, AVID3 and others, along with founders and execs from Eigen Layer, Celestia, Sei Network, Selini Capital, Ethena and more. The founding team is composed of Berkeley alumni, and its broader team is made up of former employees from Goldman Sachs, The Raine Group, Figma, CoinList and Chainlink. Website: www.campnetwork.xyz Twitter: https://twitter.com/Camp_L2
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Nov 2023
Ritual is an open, sovereign execution layer for AI. Seamlessly integrate AI into your app or protocol on any chain, enabling you to fine-tune, monetize, and perform inference on models with cryptographic schemes.
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Nov 2023
Make more of your money with an AI for your finances. Taxes, spending, saving, investments. All in one.
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Sep 2023
Verify the world, maximize trust. Trait enables people, businesses, and organizations to share, connect, and transact where they otherwise wouldn’t. Our founders have held product and engineering leadership roles at top Silicon Valley companies, and have built & managed distributed teams in the US, Europe & Asia.
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2025
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Mar 2025
The high performance network powering internet capital markets, payments, and crypto applications.
2024
Investor
Jul 2024
Solayer is building the restaking network on Solana - a decentralized cloud platform that provisions network security and performance for applications, on demand.
Investor
Jul 2024
RedStone creates cross-chain data oracle providing pricing data for Smart Contracts & DeFi protocols 💾 Our mission is to unlock Web3 potential with affordable and reliable data feeds delivered to multiple chains including i.e. Ethereum, Avalanche or Polygon. We leverage Arweave blockchain to create affordable storage with a permanent audit trail of crypto and real world data feeds.
Investor
Jun 2024
Our Mission: We’re bringing humanity to artificial intelligence. Born from AI veterans from Scale, Amazon, Meta, MIT, and beyond, Perle is passionate about empowering teams to bring human wisdom to the heart of their AI. Perle takes on the heavy lifting of training complex AI models. From expert-in-the-loop data labelling to adversarial attack protection, we offer modular solutions for building the most innovative AI platforms in the world. To learn more visit perle.ai
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May 2024
kluster.ai is the distributed AI platform to efficiently work with large models, free from computational constraints.
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