May Liu

Partner at Spark Digital Capital | Blockchain | Web3 | Metaverse Investor & Advisor

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 17 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2024
VC🌍 United States
17
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2024
Polyhedras vision is to unlock exponential improvements to computational power and cross-platform interoperability through the use of zero-knowledge (ZK). While zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP) are most commonly known for their privacy characteristics, the ability of ZKPs to compress large datasets into small proofs has huge potential to revolutionize computing while driving massive performance improvements in computationally intensive applications like AI and machine learning.
Seed Investor
2024
UXLINK is the largest web3 social platform and infrastructure globally, building Social Growth Layer and Social Ecosystem. UXLINK serves both users and builders, for users to build their own web3 social networks, and for builders to grow in a socialized way. The team members located in Singapore and Tokyo, Japan, with very diversified experiences.
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2024
Aethir is a decentralized, enterprise-grade cloud computing network that provides scalable and globally distributed GPU resources for AI, Gaming, and Web3 Infrastructure. The network has seen exponential growth, surpassing $113 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and expanding its GPU container capacity tenfold in six months to over 428k GPUs. Aethir is leading the way with over 1M on-chain transactions and 720M+ compute hours already delivered. By leveraging a decentralized model, Aethir ensures cost efficiency, reliability, and accessibility for high-performance computing needs across industries. Thanks to a constantly growing network of over 428,000 GPU containers, including thousands of NVIDIA H200s, GB200s, and 66,000+ Aethir Edge devices, Aethir can provide enterprise-grade GPU computing wherever it’s needed, at scale. Backed by leading Web3 investors like Framework Ventures, Merit Circle, Hashkey, Animoca Brands, Sanctor Capital, Infinity Ventures Crypto (IVC), and others, with over $140M in funds raised for the ecosystem, Aethir is paving the way for the future of decentralized computing.
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2024
Building the Largest Modular Data Layer for Gaming and AI.
Investor
2023
With ZetaChain’s Omnichain Smart Contracts, build truly interoperable dApps that span multiple chains from Ethereum to Bitcoin and beyond. Access all of crypto from one chain.
Investor & Partner
2021
Web3Port is a BUIDL tool for Web 3 professionals.Our mission is to promote growth of Web3 communities by breaking the barriers between entrepreneurs, investors and contributors, and forming a fair and open Web3 builder network.
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2021
STEPN GO is a new social lifestyle app by the creators of STEPN. Earn rewards, stay active and invite friends. Ready… STEPN, GO!
Investor
2021
Hashflow is a DEX Aggregator that offers deep liquidity across the leading blockchains. Hashflow offers traders the best prices, access to $8B in liquidity, and the ability to trade every token both interchain and cross chain. Since launching in April 2021, Hashflow has facilitated over $18B in total trade volume. Hashflows team consists of top minds from both web2 and web3 including Airbnb, Amazon, Arbitrum, Citadel, Genesis Trading, and more. Backers include Dragonfly Capital, Electric Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Wintermute Trading, and Balaji Srinivasan. For more information, visit hashflow.com.
Investor & Partner
2021
Volare Finance is a leading provider of option trading, who provides a transparent, trustworthy, and convenient decentralized mechanism without intermediaries on option trading which can imitate the serviceability of centralized exchanges.
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2020
ATMTA, the developer of Star Atlas, is leading the way to the next generation of interactive entertainment. Star Atlas is the highest quality and most immersive metaverse experience in development today, and it features a vibrant, loyal, and global community that is continually developing user-generated content for the ecosystem.
early stageComputer Games
Investor
2019
The Graph is building a protocol for building decentralized applications quickly on Ethereum and IPFS using GraphQL. On The Graph, queries are processed on a decentralized network that ensures that data remains open and that dApps can continue to run no matter what. Users don’t have to trust teams to operate servers and developers can deploy to trustworthy public infrastructure they don’t have to manage.
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2019
The 1inch Network unites decentralized protocols enabling the most lucrative, fastest and protected operations in DeFi.
Investor
2018
Ankr is an all-in-one Web3 development hub that provides a full suite of tools for any organization to build new decentralized apps and power them with high-performance connections to 45+ blockchains. Top clients like Microsoft, Tencent Cloud, Optimism, Polygon, Binance, and Messari trust Ankr’s global node infrastructure to supply the fastest and most reliable connection to every major Web3 network. With 2T blockchain requests served annually, Ankr enables a massive share of all Web3 traffic, paving the way for a more decentralized, open, and user-owned internet.
Investor
2018
CertiK is a pioneer in blockchain security, leveraging best-in-class AI technology to protect and monitor blockchain protocols and smart contracts. Founded in 2018 by professors from Yale University and Columbia University, CertiK’s mission is to secure the web3 world. CertiK applies cutting-edge innovations from academia to enterprise, enabling mission-critical applications to scale with safety and correctness. One of the fastest-growing and most trusted companies in blockchain security, CertiK is a true market leader. To date, CertiK has worked with nearly 4,000 Enterprise clients, secured over $360 billion worth of digital assets, and has detected nearly 70,000 vulnerabilities in blockchain code. Our clients include leading projects such as Aave, Polygon, Binance Smart Chain, Terra, Yearn, and Chiliz. ​​CertiK is backed by Insight, Partners, Sequoia, Tiger Global, Coatue Management, Lightspeed, Advent International, SoftBank, Hillhouse Capital, Goldman Sachs, Coinbase Ventures, Binance, Shunwei Capital, IDG Capital, Wing, Legend Star, Danhua Capital and other investors.
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2024
Investor
2024
Polyhedras vision is to unlock exponential improvements to computational power and cross-platform interoperability through the use of zero-knowledge (ZK). While zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP) are most commonly known for their privacy characteristics, the ability of ZKPs to compress large datasets into small proofs has huge potential to revolutionize computing while driving massive performance improvements in computationally intensive applications like AI and machine learning.
Seed Investor
2024
UXLINK is the largest web3 social platform and infrastructure globally, building Social Growth Layer and Social Ecosystem. UXLINK serves both users and builders, for users to build their own web3 social networks, and for builders to grow in a socialized way. The team members located in Singapore and Tokyo, Japan, with very diversified experiences.
Investor
2024
Aethir is a decentralized, enterprise-grade cloud computing network that provides scalable and globally distributed GPU resources for AI, Gaming, and Web3 Infrastructure. The network has seen exponential growth, surpassing $113 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and expanding its GPU container capacity tenfold in six months to over 428k GPUs. Aethir is leading the way with over 1M on-chain transactions and 720M+ compute hours already delivered. By leveraging a decentralized model, Aethir ensures cost efficiency, reliability, and accessibility for high-performance computing needs across industries. Thanks to a constantly growing network of over 428,000 GPU containers, including thousands of NVIDIA H200s, GB200s, and 66,000+ Aethir Edge devices, Aethir can provide enterprise-grade GPU computing wherever it’s needed, at scale. Backed by leading Web3 investors like Framework Ventures, Merit Circle, Hashkey, Animoca Brands, Sanctor Capital, Infinity Ventures Crypto (IVC), and others, with over $140M in funds raised for the ecosystem, Aethir is paving the way for the future of decentralized computing.
Investor
2024
Building the Largest Modular Data Layer for Gaming and AI.
2023
ZetaChain Inc
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2023
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