Matthew Cantieri

Founder & Investor

📍 Virgin Islands (British)🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2022
VC🌍 Virgin Islands (British)
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Jan 2022
Stader Labs is on a mission to bring sustainable staking yields from digital assets to 1Bn+ users. Stader aims to be the distribution layer of staking while building protocols and products which enhance the security, decentralization, liquidity, governance of some of the major DPoS blockchain networks like Ethereum, Terra, Polygon and Solana.
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Jan 2022
Edge Protocol is a decentralized money market-as-a-service protocol. We facilitate risk-isolated lending markets creation and lending marketplace to match both protocols and DAOs that want to operate a bank and empower its user to maximally utilize their beloved assets. Our vision is to become a backbone infrastructure when DeFi merges with traditional finance, leading us to provide more users our values to reach our mission of bringing the financial authorities and inclusiveness back to the hands of the people. We’ve launched our beta, the first cross collateral lending market on Terra ecosystem, and reached over $50M in total value supplied within a month. We are backed by many sophisticated investors in the industry. We’ve raised over $1.75M in our seed financing round led by Hashed, following with Alliance, Do Kwon, Jason Choi, Santiago R Santos, Wangarian, Folius ventures, etc.
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Aug 2021
Lend to earn. Borrow with less. Apricot on Solana
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Aug 2021
Liquality’s vision is an open, more equitable world, enabled by web3 decentralization principles. The Liquality SDK enables frictionless in-app web3 experiences without developers or users having to deal with crypto knowledge and painfully complex onboarding. The Liquality legos provide all functionality needed to integrate web3 into applications, while upholding web3’s core principles of self-custody and openness. The SDK is enabled by Liqualitys open extensible platform, which provides network effects for all participants that build and use web3 functionality. Liquality was started inside ConsenSys in 2020 by crypto veterans Simon Lapscher and Thessy Mehrain. Liquality pioneered a multi-chain swap enabled wallet to great success, and is using its innovative multi-chain wallet infrastructure today to power its SDKs.
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2022
Investor
Jan 2022
Stader Labs is on a mission to bring sustainable staking yields from digital assets to 1Bn+ users. Stader aims to be the distribution layer of staking while building protocols and products which enhance the security, decentralization, liquidity, governance of some of the major DPoS blockchain networks like Ethereum, Terra, Polygon and Solana.
Investor
Jan 2022
Edge Protocol is a decentralized money market-as-a-service protocol. We facilitate risk-isolated lending markets creation and lending marketplace to match both protocols and DAOs that want to operate a bank and empower its user to maximally utilize their beloved assets. Our vision is to become a backbone infrastructure when DeFi merges with traditional finance, leading us to provide more users our values to reach our mission of bringing the financial authorities and inclusiveness back to the hands of the people. We’ve launched our beta, the first cross collateral lending market on Terra ecosystem, and reached over $50M in total value supplied within a month. We are backed by many sophisticated investors in the industry. We’ve raised over $1.75M in our seed financing round led by Hashed, following with Alliance, Do Kwon, Jason Choi, Santiago R Santos, Wangarian, Folius ventures, etc.
2021
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Aug 2021
Lend to earn. Borrow with less. Apricot on Solana
Investor
Aug 2021
Liquality’s vision is an open, more equitable world, enabled by web3 decentralization principles. The Liquality SDK enables frictionless in-app web3 experiences without developers or users having to deal with crypto knowledge and painfully complex onboarding. The Liquality legos provide all functionality needed to integrate web3 into applications, while upholding web3’s core principles of self-custody and openness. The SDK is enabled by Liqualitys open extensible platform, which provides network effects for all participants that build and use web3 functionality. Liquality was started inside ConsenSys in 2020 by crypto veterans Simon Lapscher and Thessy Mehrain. Liquality pioneered a multi-chain swap enabled wallet to great success, and is using its innovative multi-chain wallet infrastructure today to power its SDKs.
2016
Partner, M12
May 2016
Every company has a mission. Whats ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesnt diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters. Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately 228,000 passionate employees worldwide.
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