Faizan J. Khan

Founder, CIO at VISARY

📍 New York City Metropolitan Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 44 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2022
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
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Dec 2022
US Bitcoin Corp and Hut 8 Mining Corp. completed an all-stock merger of equals on November 30, 2023
Seed Investor
Sep 2022
Helius is an enterprise-grade Solana development platform providing the fastest RPCs, APIs, trading infra, data streaming tools, and Validator-as-a-Service offerings. Helius is Solanas #1 validator, and trusted by cryptos best teams including Coinbase, Bitwise, Phantom, Pump.fun, and more. Founded in 2022 and backed by world-class investors like Haun Ventures, Founders Fund, and Foundation Capital, Helius is on a mission to accelerate internet capital markets on Solana and help scale cryptos most ambitious startups. Visit our website to learn about our products, enterprise offerings, and request free trials.
Investor
Sep 2022
Bringing interoperability to the decentralized social layer
Investor
Jan 2022
Rapidly build custom AI applications and automations — no coding required. Easily mix and match the latest models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, Meta, and more.
Pre-Seed Investor
Oct 2021
Playtesting platform for Unreal Engine. Fastest way to upload and play UE on the web. Publish privately, publicly, or embed UE in a web environment using Oorbit API. Oorbit is a global high performance compute grid (GPU/CPU) powering streaming of software applications through Wi-Fi and 5G to all devices. The flagship platform lets software developers upload and stream software in minutes. AI apps, video games and productivty tools such as editing softwares require high end PCs with GPU and CPUpower. Oorbit removes the need for special hardware and opens up endless opportunities for developers with no limitation on user-end specs.
Seed Investor
Jan 2021
Personal finance powered by bitcoin. Full access to the currency you prefer with the banking features you need. Download Fold at foldapp.com.
Investor
Jan 2021
Kraken helps people own the power of their money. Founded in 2011, were one of the worlds longest-standing crypto platforms, now offering crypto, stocks, futures, staking, payments and more. Trusted by millions of institutions, professional traders, and consumers across 190+ countries. Built on the belief that everyone should own the power of their money, Kraken has been a category leader in crypto since 2011. Weve grown into a global financial platform offering crypto, stocks, futures, staking, payments and institutional infrastructure — all on a single foundation built for the future of finance. Our product lineup: — Kraken: the worlds leading hybrid investment platform, built for the future of finance from the ground up — Kraken Pro: the all-in command center that unleashes your trading potential — Krak: the next-generation money platform that turns every type of asset into usable money Proof of Reserves since 2014. Assets held 1:1. Trusted by 13M+ people, thousands of institutions, and a growing community of developers building on Kraken rails. Our mission: accelerate the global adoption of crypto so everyone can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. Risk Disclosure: https://www.kraken.com/en-ca/social-media-disclosure
Seed Investor
Aug 2020
The operating system for modern command. With Onebrief, leaders can enable a superhuman command: one that makes brilliant decisions, scales output, and is optimally efficient. Currently live on NIPR, SIPR, and JWICS. Learn more at onebrief.com
Investor
Jul 2020
We build Bitcoin-centric tools that empower you to reclaim your freedom, including Passport hardware wallet and Envoy mobile app.
Investor
Jul 2020
Securely take control of your bitcoin with our cold storage vaults. Get access to our suite of integrated financial services, including a trading desk, bitcoin-backed loans, and bitcoin retirement accounts. Not your keys, not your bitcoin.
Investor
Jun 2020
Percent is unlocking private credit and providing unparalleled access through its modern private credit market, empowering investors, borrowers, and underwriters with innovative technology to increase the speed and frequency of transactions at a fraction of the cost. The company’s core infrastructure delivers public market efficiencies to the analog private credit market by powering the sourcing, structuring, syndication, surveillance and servicing of private credit transactions from beginning to end. Founded in 2018, Percent’s platform is becoming the market standard for asset-based and corporate lending, powering over $1 billion in transaction volume in a multi-trillion-dollar private credit industry. For additional information, please visit www.percent.com.
Investor, Advisor
Jan 2020
Liquidity Digital is developing an ecosystem for the creation, distribution, and monetization of digital assets. Our implementation of digital securities brings unprecedented accessibility, transparency, security, efficiency, and liquidity to global capital markets. Our deal distribution marketplace allows our issuers to surface Digital Security Offerings in a secure global network of accredited investors and broker-dealers, as well as facilitating deals conducted using other digital assets or fiat currency. Our blockchain-powered platform allows LD to offer our clients a precisely calibrated mix of transparency and security, while always meeting regulatory requirements for compliance. Our vision is to establish an end-to-end digital investment bank, supporting the issuance and complete life cycle management of programmable digital securities and their underlying smart contracts.
Investor
Jan 2020
Accern is the leading NLP company empowering enterprises to develop industry-specific solutions. Offering a comprehensive NLP platform, models, data, and chat tailored for multiple industries, the company accelerates time-to-value for leading organizations across Financial Services, Government, and beyond. With a streamlined no-code workflow complemented by pre-built taxonomies, over 50,000 classification models, and access to billions of rows of public data, Accern is revolutionizing operational efficiency across the global workforce. Accerns remarkable achievements have earned it a notable position in Gartner®s 2023 Hype Cycle™ for Data Science, Machine Learning, and Emerging Technologies in Banking, as well as recognition by Fast Company as one of the Next Big Things in Tech. Trusted by elite data teams from global leaders like Capgemini, UniCredit, Interactive Brokers, Mizuho Bank, and Standard Bank, Accern facilitates the building and deployment of NLP solutions at scale. Headquartered in New York, NY, Accern is honored to be recognized as a Forbes 30 Under 30 company. The company has raised $40M from esteemed institutional investors including Fusion Fund, Tribe Capital, Shasta Ventures, Allianz Strategic Ventures, Mighty Capital, and many others. For more information about Accern, please visit www.accern.com.
Investor
Jan 2020
Alto makes it easier for people to invest in private markets through self-directed retirement accounts. Alto removes the roadblocks from a historically complex process by providing the infrastructure to allow individuals and organizations to participate in private market investing through retirement accounts. By simplifying administration, reducing paperwork, and offering transparent, competitive pricing, Alto helps unlock retirement capital for investments that are less correlated to public markets and have the potential for differentiated returns. Today, Alto serves as the IRA custodian for nearly $2 billion in assets, supporting over 30,000 self-directed IRA investors, more than 2,500 issuers raising capital, and investment platforms throughout the private markets industry. With support for Traditional, Roth, and SEP IRAs, Alto provides a streamlined path to invest in private markets while maintaining the tax advantages of retirement accounts. At its core, Alto’s mission is to expand access to private markets and help shape the future of long-term investing.
Investor
Feb 2019
Turing is one of the world’s fastest-growing AI companies accelerating the advancement and deployment of powerful AI systems. Turing helps customers in two ways: Working with the world’s leading AI labs to advance frontier model capabilities in thinking, reasoning, coding, agentic behavior, multimodality, multilinguality, STEM and frontier knowledge; and leveraging that work to build real-world AI systems that solve mission-critical priorities for companies. Powering this growth is Turing’s talent cloud—an AI-vetted pool of 4M+ software engineers, data scientists, and STEM experts who can train models and build AI applications. All of this is orchestrated by ALAN—our AI-powered platform for matching and managing talent, and generating high-quality human and synthetic data to improve model performance. ALAN also accelerates workflows for model and agent evals, supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, reinforcement learning with human feedback, preference-pair generation, benchmarking, data capture for pre-training, post-training, and building AI applications. Turing—based in San Francisco, California—was named #1 on The Information’s annual list of “Top 50 Most Promising B2B Companies,” and has been profiled by Fast Company, TechCrunch, Reuters, Semafor, VentureBeat, Entrepreneur, CNBC, Forbes, and many others. Turing’s leadership team includes AI technologists from Meta, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, X, Stanford, Caltech, and MIT.
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2022
Investor
Dec 2022
US Bitcoin Corp and Hut 8 Mining Corp. completed an all-stock merger of equals on November 30, 2023
Seed Investor
Sep 2022
Helius is an enterprise-grade Solana development platform providing the fastest RPCs, APIs, trading infra, data streaming tools, and Validator-as-a-Service offerings. Helius is Solanas #1 validator, and trusted by cryptos best teams including Coinbase, Bitwise, Phantom, Pump.fun, and more. Founded in 2022 and backed by world-class investors like Haun Ventures, Founders Fund, and Foundation Capital, Helius is on a mission to accelerate internet capital markets on Solana and help scale cryptos most ambitious startups. Visit our website to learn about our products, enterprise offerings, and request free trials.
Investor
Sep 2022
Bringing interoperability to the decentralized social layer
Investor
Jan 2022
Rapidly build custom AI applications and automations — no coding required. Easily mix and match the latest models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, Meta, and more.
2021
Pre-Seed Investor
Oct 2021
Playtesting platform for Unreal Engine. Fastest way to upload and play UE on the web. Publish privately, publicly, or embed UE in a web environment using Oorbit API. Oorbit is a global high performance compute grid (GPU/CPU) powering streaming of software applications through Wi-Fi and 5G to all devices. The flagship platform lets software developers upload and stream software in minutes. AI apps, video games and productivty tools such as editing softwares require high end PCs with GPU and CPUpower. Oorbit removes the need for special hardware and opens up endless opportunities for developers with no limitation on user-end specs.
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