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Ikuma Mutobe

Entrepreneur | Venture Capitalist | Crypto | Japan & UAE

📍 United Arab Emirates🔄 Updated September 2026💼 16 investments📅 4 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2023
VC🌍 United Arab Emirates
16
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Sep 2023
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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Sep 2023
At fxhash, we build tools that allow artists and collectors to live out their passion for generative art. Our platform facilitates an easy and safe space for artists, collectors, and curators to create generative art projects, buy, sell, and collect art — and share their collections with the world.
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Jul 2023
We use ecosystem-friendly MEV relays to safeguard users and deliver superior results for high frequency traders.
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Jul 2023
Kinto is an L2 focused on providing safe and insured access to financial services. It's built on top of the Ethereum network using the OP Stack, and it's non-custodial, transparent, permissionless, and governed by the community.
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Jun 2023
Shardeum is the worlds first EVM-based L1 blockchain which uses dynamic state sharding to increase TPS with the addition of every new node.
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Apr 2023
Defined is working toward indexing every transaction on every blockchain and creating tools to explore this data. We are a close-knit team of builders and crypto enthusiasts who are building the homepage of Decentralized Finance. With our tools, traders will be able to find the latest gems, explore every trade, and manage their portfolio across every network. Data junkies will be able to build reports and dashboards to visualize what is happening across blockchains, as well as analyze individual wallets or find the most profitable traders across configurable time ranges. NFT collectors will be able to find the hottest new collection, track floor prices, and browse sales across multiple marketplaces. Our long-term goals go beyond creating a suite of tools for traders; we want everyone engaging with DeFi to start their journey with Defined.
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Mar 2023
Polymer is advancing the state of web3 interoperability by building a universal modular IBC router chain and expanding the IBC network. Come join us and build an open and permissionless web3 future!
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Mar 2023
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Mar 2023
deBridge is a secure cross-chain infrastructure for high performance interoperability. By removing the bottlenecks and risks of liquidity pools, deBridge enables DeFi applications to scale faster with ultra capital-efficient and deep liquidity transfers across chains.
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Jan 2023
Bright Moments is an on-chain Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) that specializes in in-person NFT minting experiences. We are on a mission to create environments where artists and collectors co-create and co-consume generative art. We do this through building IRL minting experiences where artists and collectors witness the birth of generative art together. Being physically present during the creation of art is the most powerful way to connect artists and communities. We collaborate with artists to bring their concepts to life through unforgettable events and unique minting experiences. We have launched galleries and experiences in Venice, CA, New York City, Berlin, London, Mexico City, and Tokyo - with a roadmap of 3 additional cities through early 2024. These cities will be selected by members of our CryptoCitizens community through on-chain voting.
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Jan 2023
INTMAX is the most secure hyper scaling solution in Ethereum. With our Liveness/Safety Separation, we maintain the exact same security assumption as the Layer 1. At the same time, our innovative algorithm enables us to dramatically speed up the verification process, delivering increased speed and massively reduced costs with none of the security trade-offs. Our protocol is capable of scaling to 1 billion users in a single day - providing the highest performance among scalable Layer2 technologies. On INTMAX, transactions are processed by parallelized nodes, which allows for incredible scalability - and over 10,000 TPS. This gives INTMAX exponentially greater efficiencies compared with other ZKP projects, enabling token transfers with near-zero gas costs. We support the Ethereum Foundations vision of making Ethereum an affordable payment system for everyone, worldwide, so that billions of people can participate in the new economy. Our mission is to dramatically increase access to cryptographic property rights, by helping to serve markets where high cost and high complexity rollups are a nonstarter. INTMAX is expected to be the first zkRollup in the world to combine privacy and scalability.
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Jan 2023
Noxx is an AI-driven ATS for hiring the best remote engineers within your budget and timezone. US-based startups often rely on ATS platforms to hire remote engineers, but they still face key challenges: evaluating hundreds of applicants without local knowledge and negotiating inflated salaries. Turning to offshore recruiters incurs steep fees, typically 30% of salaries. They often turn to offshore recruiters for help, but face steep fees -typically 30% of salaries. Noxx solves these problems by automating candidate screening and evaluations based on your criteria, shortlisting the best remote engineers within your budget and timezone. We optimize salary offers to match local rates and eliminate middlemen, enabling you to hire the best remote engineers with the best ROI.
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Dec 2022
Hydra is the world’s first fund of funds investment DAO, an investment organization focused on investing in other investment DAOs. We not only want to deploy capital but also help incubate and equip communities with their own investment capabilities. Through the experience of operating MCV, we bring our network, operating experience, and reputation to help communities with domain knowledge, expertise, and deal flow to become self-sustainable capital allocators. Hydra aims to: ● Invest in other investment DAOs ● Help communities launch their first investment DAOs from scratch ○ Set up contributor incentives models and coordination frameworks ○ Guidance on how to work with legal, tax, and accounting service providers ○ Coaching first-time investors on how to invest/build up a venture portfolio ● Coach DAO communities on how to operate an investment DAO: ○ We’ve built up a community of investment DAO operators who are able to coach and advise early-stage DAOs and have built up an operational manual on how to run an investment DAO aka. MCV’s ‘Book of Rituals’ We will invest in investment DAOs and communities that are both legally wrapped and cryptonative investment organizations, that span the following areas: ● Domain-specific focuses such as P2E, DeFi, cross-chain, web3, music, metaverse, virtual beings, DeSci, and social - ideally in emerging markets to become the first community investment organization in those ecosystems. ● Emerging social networks that have unique deal flow and talent access such as company/school/org alumni networks, novel social graphs, or other affinity communities. ● Operational expertise such as service DAOs: legal, auditing, engineering, design, recruiting and talent, or other professional expertise. ● Technology ecosystems such as L1s and L2 Ethereum scaling protocols.
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Dec 2022
Zypsy is an award-winning design team for startups. Zypsy integrates, invests, and grows with startups across the seed-to-growth trajectory, with multidisciplinary expertise in design and branding. Hailing from IDEO, Fantasy, Meta, and Saatchi & Saatch, the Zypsy team reflects real-world expertise from the world’s design leaders. We work as an integrated team, providing startups with mainstay access to the design support essential to early-stage success.
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Dec 2022
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Sep 2023
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
Investor
Sep 2023
At fxhash, we build tools that allow artists and collectors to live out their passion for generative art. Our platform facilitates an easy and safe space for artists, collectors, and curators to create generative art projects, buy, sell, and collect art — and share their collections with the world.
Investor
Jul 2023
We use ecosystem-friendly MEV relays to safeguard users and deliver superior results for high frequency traders.
Investor
Jul 2023
Kinto is an L2 focused on providing safe and insured access to financial services. It's built on top of the Ethereum network using the OP Stack, and it's non-custodial, transparent, permissionless, and governed by the community.
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Jun 2023
Shardeum is the worlds first EVM-based L1 blockchain which uses dynamic state sharding to increase TPS with the addition of every new node.
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