Stephen Duplessie

Investing & Advising

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2019
VC🌍 United States
8
Total investments
5
Early stage
2
Mid stage
1
Late stage
7y
Years active

Portfolio

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Investor
Dec 2019
Proof is your Impact Intelligence Platform, the all-in-one sustainability solution for SMB CEOs. Proof offers a simple, effective, and intelligent ESG & Impact Measurement solution. The platform has built-in functionality to manage the entire sustainability stack, including setting metrics, collecting data, analyzing results, and publishing beautiful, impact & ESG reports to investors and stakeholders. Proof is designed for busy CEOs and Portfolio Managers who want to maximize their financial, social, and environmental impact, enabling them to refocus on raising capital, reducing risks, and entering new markets. With a simple SaaS subscription – you get access to all the advanced tools you need to run your entire sustainability operating system as well as a dedicated impact expert to give you peace of mind with their expert strategy, provide industry insights, and help you get the most out of our easy-to-use digital platform.
Investor
Nov 2019
In a world where bits are easily copied, and ownership and authenticity are in constant flux, we have become accustomed to value bits differently than tangible goods. vAtomic Systems Inc. (VSI) dissolves the boundaries between bits and atoms, enabling a new digital asset class. Smart objects called virtual atoms--or “vAtoms”--leverage exponential advances in cloud computing, mobile devices and consensus ledger technology (blockchains) to provide a level of end-user experience, authenticity and trust never before possible.
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Oct 2019
We are an experience-led global hospitality group – a home for a global, social movement in the places we live, work and travel to. We build and activate hotels in inspiring destinations with community at our core, acting as social architects to create extraordinary experiences. Our mission is to change peoples’ lives in a positive way by creating deeper human connections. We've designed and developed hotels in Mexico, Namibia, Saudi Arabia, Morocco and the United States with upcoming openings in Todos Santos, Santa Teresa and Los Cabos.
late stageHospitality
Investor
Aug 2019
Chronicled is a technology company based in San Francisco, CA. We enable automation, trust, and automatic settlement for transactions between companies in the Life Sciences industry. Every year, $500 billion in pharmaceutical medication is dispensed to patients in the US. Behind that industry revenue, intra-company transactions like chargebacks, rebates, and other administrative fees drive distribution and incentives between companies. Chronicled offers solutions powered by the blockchain-based MediLedger Network to automatically settle these transactions, thereby eliminating manual processing, revenue leakage, and cash flow delays experienced across the industry. Chronicled's first industry revenue management solution, Contracts & Chargebacks, automatically settles chargeback claims between pharmaceutical manufacturers, distributors, and group purchasing organizations to ensuring drug pricing accuracy for healthcare providers, pharmacies, and other dispensers.
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Aug 2019
NAKA, the Ultimate Solution for Financial Inclusion. From a revolutionary EMV (Europay, MasterCard and VISA) compliant blockchain payment Network to a dedicated self-custodial payment Card and a comprehensive payment solution, NAKA offers a complete ecosystem for businesses. Built on the foundation of GoCrypto’s success, NAKAs vision is to create financial tools that provide people with financial freedom, focusing on an open and decentralized payment network.
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Jul 2019
Axie Infinity is a Pokémon-inspired universe where anyone can earn tokens through skilled gameplay and contributions to the ecosystem. Players can battle, collect, raise, and build a land-based kingdom for their pets. All art assets and Axie genetic data can be easily accessed by 3rd parties, allowing community developers to build their own tools and experiences in the Axie Infinity universe. Although Axie is still in early access, Axie is ranked the #1 Ethereum game by daily, weekly, and monthly active users. It has generated over 6,400 ETH in revenue (2M+ USD) so far. While Axie is a fun game, its also taken on characteristics of a social network and jobs platform due to the strong community and play to earn opportunities that have come from its early success.
early stageComputer Games
Investor
Jul 2019
"The First Music Rights Marketplace"​ Vezt is the first mobile app where music fans can acquire rights in their favorite songs and recordings. We exist to improve the music industry by providing artists, songwriters and producers with funding sourced directly from their fans on a global basis. In exchange, fans get the right to receive royalties earned by their favorite songs and recordings. Vezt collects these royalties on behalf of fans from performing rights organizations, publishers and record labels and tracks such royalties through proprietary blockchain technology.
early stageMusic
Investor
Feb 2019
DeFi with a purpose.
Experience · 13 entries
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2025
2019
Investor
Dec 2019
Proof is your Impact Intelligence Platform, the all-in-one sustainability solution for SMB CEOs. Proof offers a simple, effective, and intelligent ESG & Impact Measurement solution. The platform has built-in functionality to manage the entire sustainability stack, including setting metrics, collecting data, analyzing results, and publishing beautiful, impact & ESG reports to investors and stakeholders. Proof is designed for busy CEOs and Portfolio Managers who want to maximize their financial, social, and environmental impact, enabling them to refocus on raising capital, reducing risks, and entering new markets. With a simple SaaS subscription – you get access to all the advanced tools you need to run your entire sustainability operating system as well as a dedicated impact expert to give you peace of mind with their expert strategy, provide industry insights, and help you get the most out of our easy-to-use digital platform.
Investor
Nov 2019
In a world where bits are easily copied, and ownership and authenticity are in constant flux, we have become accustomed to value bits differently than tangible goods. vAtomic Systems Inc. (VSI) dissolves the boundaries between bits and atoms, enabling a new digital asset class. Smart objects called virtual atoms--or “vAtoms”--leverage exponential advances in cloud computing, mobile devices and consensus ledger technology (blockchains) to provide a level of end-user experience, authenticity and trust never before possible.
Investor
Oct 2019
We are an experience-led global hospitality group – a home for a global, social movement in the places we live, work and travel to. We build and activate hotels in inspiring destinations with community at our core, acting as social architects to create extraordinary experiences. Our mission is to change peoples’ lives in a positive way by creating deeper human connections. We've designed and developed hotels in Mexico, Namibia, Saudi Arabia, Morocco and the United States with upcoming openings in Todos Santos, Santa Teresa and Los Cabos.
late stageHospitality
Investor
Aug 2019
Chronicled is a technology company based in San Francisco, CA. We enable automation, trust, and automatic settlement for transactions between companies in the Life Sciences industry. Every year, $500 billion in pharmaceutical medication is dispensed to patients in the US. Behind that industry revenue, intra-company transactions like chargebacks, rebates, and other administrative fees drive distribution and incentives between companies. Chronicled offers solutions powered by the blockchain-based MediLedger Network to automatically settle these transactions, thereby eliminating manual processing, revenue leakage, and cash flow delays experienced across the industry. Chronicled's first industry revenue management solution, Contracts & Chargebacks, automatically settles chargeback claims between pharmaceutical manufacturers, distributors, and group purchasing organizations to ensuring drug pricing accuracy for healthcare providers, pharmacies, and other dispensers.
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