RZ

Rui Zhang

VC & Investor

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 14 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2023𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
Operator-angel🌍 United States
14
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11
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Board Member
Aug 2023
We equip financial service providers with permissioning tools for compliant transactions on-chain, powered by zero-knowledge privacy.
Board Observer
May 2023
Chain-agnostic CosmWasm framework for modular development of decentralized applications. Achieve sustainable income as an open-source developer. Scale innovation through modularity. Sustainable open-source income. https://github.com/AbstractSDK
Board Member
May 2023
Arkis offers multichain, undercollateralized leverage powered by portfolio margin. Accelerating the maturity of #DeFi.
Board Member
Apr 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.
Board Member
Apr 2023
Kazm enables next-level community engagement & brand loyalty. Easily launch white-label memberships to reward activations across EVERY touchpoint - with no-code, and no limits.
Board Observer
Dec 2022
Frictionless crypto accounts for web3 gaming
Board Member
Oct 2022
Panoptic is a novel Ethereum blockchain-based options trading protocol that is perpetual, oracle-free and offers instant-settlement. Panoptic aims to develop a trustless, permissionless, and composable options product, i.e., to do for decentralized options markets what x*y=k automated market maker protocols did for spot trading. This is made possible by allowing options trading to occur on top of any asset pool in the Uniswap v3 ecosystem without requiring special permissions. Panoptic revolutionizes DeFi options. Join our community: - https://twitter.com/Panoptic_xyz - https://discord.gg/7fE8SN9pRT
Board Member
Aug 2022
Pay your team in cash & crypto! We've got your back (office).
Board Member
Oct 2020
Sentora provides the institutional-grade foundation for powering the next generation of DeFi and RWA solutions.
Board Observer
Aug 2020
XanPool is an open finance infrastructure company that makes sending all forms of money across the world faster, cheaper, and lower risk. We do this by building our own custom software APIs that allow individuals and businesses more functionality in their financial infrastructures (such as Bank accounts, E-wallets, and cryptocurrency wallets). XanPool Software users can trustlessly connect their financial infrastructure with other Software users across the world, creating a highly liquid and efficient C2C network, capable of routing and settling payments outside of expensive and slow legacy financial infrastructure
Board Member
Feb 2020
Qredo is a team of passionate, seasoned innovators in the crypto space. Weve raised a war chest from some of the biggest names in crypto to build novel fintech infrastructure for crypto assets. Qredo is part of the new wave of innovations revolutionizing finance world. Our global telecoms infrastructure, Qredo Network, is a cross-chain protocol for asset managers and traders active in the digital asset markets. Using our institution-grade, layer 2 infrastructure, investors can hold all their crypto assets securely in one place, with unlocked access to a wide range of liquidity venues and DeFi yield opportunities. MainNet Version 1 is live today and servicing billions in AUM. Learn more or join the network for free at Qredo.com
Board Observer
Oct 2019
Tassat Group, Inc. is a N.Y.-based technology company that is the leading provider of private blockchain-based, real-time solutions for commercial banks including TassatPay, which enables banks to provide their corporate clients with instantaneous, secure, real-time payments 24/7/365. TassatPay has become the most trusted blockchain-based platform for the banking industry and its B2B clients with more than $1.4 trillion in secure, real-time transactions to date. Tassat has added Smart Contracts and Fedwire functionality to make TassatPay a one-stop shop for B2B Payments. Tassat was honored with a 2021 Google Cloud Customer Award for innovation in financial services. For more information, visit us at www.tassat.com, on Twitter or on LinkedIn.
Board Member
Jan 2019
A global trading platform for alternative investments.
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2023
Board Member
Aug 2023
We equip financial service providers with permissioning tools for compliant transactions on-chain, powered by zero-knowledge privacy.
Board Observer
May 2023
Chain-agnostic CosmWasm framework for modular development of decentralized applications. Achieve sustainable income as an open-source developer. Scale innovation through modularity. Sustainable open-source income. https://github.com/AbstractSDK
Board Member
May 2023
Arkis offers multichain, undercollateralized leverage powered by portfolio margin. Accelerating the maturity of #DeFi.
Board Member
Apr 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.
Board Member
Apr 2023
Kazm enables next-level community engagement & brand loyalty. Easily launch white-label memberships to reward activations across EVERY touchpoint - with no-code, and no limits.
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