Tess Hau

Venture Capitalist | Founder | LP | Investor | Frontier Tech | Robotics |Web3 | Artificial Intelligence | Gaming| | DeFi | Advisor | Mentor Capitalist | Global Speaker

📍 Palo Alto, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 98 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2024
VC🌍 United States50+ investments
98
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Jan 2024
XPLA is the next generation of Web3 mainnet, developed with gamers at the core of its design. Based on the idea of “Explore and Play,” XPLA creates the ecosystem for game developers, content providers, and users in the Web3 gaming space. This new infrastructure serves as the bridge between Web2 and Web3 services, and will feature games, art, music and DApps based on community-driven feedback from users. XPLA places heavy emphasis on User Experience and accessibility to craft the standard in game centric Web3 services, opening up limitless possibilities for blockchain gaming & entertainment.
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Jan 2024
At Backpack, we ship relentlessly to bring you products that make using crypto easy, rewarding, and enjoyable. We offer a globally regulated exchange with a strong focus on compliance and a self-custodial wallet and browser extension. With over 1 million users, we’re just getting started. Were hiring! --> jobs.backpack.app
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Jan 2024
Welcome to Pentagon Games - Pioneering the Future of Gaming Development and Distribution. In the fast-evolving gaming landscape, Pentagon Games stands at the forefront, marrying the digital with the physical through groundbreaking AI and Web3 technologies. Were crafting a future where game developers unleash their full creative potential, unhindered by the constraints of yesterdays tech. Why Join Us? Empowerment Through Ownership: Join our network and gain more than just collaboration opportunities. Selective Funding, Unmatched Support: We invest in visions, not just games. Our strategic funding approach ensures that projects with potential receive not just financial backing, but a full suite of support services, from tailored project management to marketing and beyond. AI-Driven Innovation: Enter the next era of game development with our AI tools designed to enhance player personalization, optimize game mechanics, and offer insights that push your games to the forefront of the industry. Seamless Integration of Worlds: Were bridging the gap between traditional gaming and Web3, opening new revenue streams and content distribution channels that elevate your game to global prominence. Hexagon City - An XR Metaverse: Expand your games reach within Hexagon City, our immersive platform that offers unique AR and VR experiences, connecting your creations with a broader audience. Pentagon Games is more than a publisher; its a community. A collective of developers, creators, and gamers driven by a shared belief in the transformative power of technology. Partner with us, and lets navigate this new era of gaming together. Your vision has the power to reshape the gaming world. Lets make it happen. Pentagon Games - Where Vision Meets the Vanguard of Gaming. https://twitter.com/PentagonGames88
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Dec 2023
Category Labs (formerly known as Monad Labs) is a team of systems engineers and researchers on a mission to design and build at the frontier of decentralized technology. We strive to design and build step-function improvements over existing blockchain solutions. Such greenfield systems include from-scratch databases, Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus mechanisms, JIT compilers for EVM bytecode, and much more. We recently raised $225M in series A funding, and are backed by Paradigm, Electric Capital, Dragonfly Capital, and others. Category Labs is building the next generation of blockchain infrastructure with Monad, an EVM-compatible layer 1 that dramatically improves performance. Deep optimization is needed across all levels of the stack - from the database layer, to the virtual machine layer, to the consensus and networking layer - in order to streamline EVM transaction processing. We are introducing these low-level optimizations, allowing consumer-grade hardware to deliver exceptional performance while maintaining a high degree of decentralization.
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Aug 2023
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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Jun 2023
MiniMe ai makes it easy for experts to create their own AI digital twin. Built for mentors, coaches and creators to scale & help more clients 🚀 You can easily clone yourself and create a MiniMe that talks and looks like you. Your MiniMe can answer questions, chat and mentor your community on your behalf. Making it easy for experts to scale their businesses and save time. Were VC-backed AI Research Lab. Based in San Francisco (our HQ) and London. Were hiring! Make sure to check out our job posts 😉
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Feb 2023
Our team is remote-friendly, with a strong presence in Seattle and NYC. Founder Sreeram Kannan was a professor at the University of Washington, and the Head of the UW Blockchain Lab. The first team members came out of that lab. Our culture is characterized by intellectual curiosity, collaborative debate, ownership mentality, integrity, and respect. Our mission is to build coordination engines that empower open innovation. This mission has a beginning but no end. We consider ourselves players in an infinite sum game.
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Dec 2022
MetaOne simplifies onboarding and NFT processes, enabling massive gamers community with extensive gaming data analytics from games to gamers level, and provides high assurance NFT assets management platform to the gaming metaverse.
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Dec 2022
The SHRAPNEL team is seeking bright minds from every culture, discipline, and background to join us on a new creative endeavor. We’re a mission-focused team with industry roots in world-class game development, studio building, and platform creation. Our goal is empowering the world to share in playful collaboration at the intersection of gaming, creation, and true ownership.
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Sep 2022
People of Crypto Lab (POC) is a creative & innovation lab dedicated to increasing diversity, participation, and representation in web 3.0 with the mission to build the metaversal blueprint for inclusion across Web3. POC firmly believes that web3 can only scale if diversity and inclusion is rooted in the foundation of what is being built. POC will develop, invest, and promote brands with diverse stories, teams, and projects that represent women, black, brown, people of color, and LGBTQIA+ creators, developers, and brands. POC will create empowering new opportunities for underserved creators and users. Our lab will develop IP, brands, games, multi-media content, and NFT projects built for the next generation audience and future-forward communities with all marginalized groups at top of mind.
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Sep 2022
MetaZones mission is to harness the application layer of the metaverse to onboard a billion citizens. MetaZone is the first content distribution platform designed to facilitate the open digital economy. At its core, creators are enabled to submit Metaverse Enabled Tokenized Applications (METAs) that anyone can own, experience, and deploy in any virtual world. To learn more, visit metazone.io and join the community on Twitter @MetaZoneio
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Jul 2022
Aptos Labs is a premier Web3 studio of engineers, researchers, strategists, designers, and dreamers building on Aptos, the Layer 1 blockchain built with safety and user experience in mind, enabling developers to build scalable, future-proof applications. We are committed to developing products and applications on the Aptos blockchain that redefine the Web3 user experience. Our team of accomplished technical experts is dedicated to creating better network tooling and seamless usability to bring the benefits of decentralization to the masses. Learn more at http://www.aptoslabs.com.
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Jun 2022
Cube Network (Cube) is a high-performance, scalable layer1 public chain with modular architecture that supports both multi-chain and cross-chain capabilities. Cube is fully compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and Cosmos (ATOM) ecosystem, supporting a seamless migration of applications within the blockchain networks. Cube values innovation and community-building, and hopes to build a future with Web 3.0 through these key values. Cube unites communities of various projects from various ecosystems and aims to deliver the best Web 3.0 experience to all users.
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May 2022
Building things like: - dev tooling for Filecoin - DeFi products for the Filecoin ecosystem including FigSwap, the swap for FVM - and, mainly, the best onboarding pipeline for Filecoin that you've ever seen (coming EXTREMELY soon)
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May 2022
Clique is building identity oracles that connect web2 user behavior data with web3 applications. We leverage advanced cryptographic tech like ZKP, TEE, and MPC to develop modular solutions with customizable privacy assumptions. Our main products are designed to help protocols, creators, and brands identify high-value users/fans, perform Sybil-resistant checks and distribute incentives accordingly. We already have 100+ partners across major L1/L2s, exchanges, marketplaces, NFT/GameFi/SocialFi projects, etc. We were previously incubated by Alliance DAO and Stanford Blockchain Accelerator and raised millions in funding from renowned VCs like GGV, Qiming, Infinity Ventures Crypto, Sky9, SevenX, Smrti Lab, etc. Our team has a strong technical background and comes from prestigious institutions like Duke, Cambridge, NUS, Tsinghua, Citi bank, Brevan Howard, etc. Our advisors include top cryptography researchers, past founders of established media companies, as well as famous Hollywood directors and writers. Our Twitter is at https://twitter.com/Clique2046
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Jan 2024
XPLA is the next generation of Web3 mainnet, developed with gamers at the core of its design. Based on the idea of “Explore and Play,” XPLA creates the ecosystem for game developers, content providers, and users in the Web3 gaming space. This new infrastructure serves as the bridge between Web2 and Web3 services, and will feature games, art, music and DApps based on community-driven feedback from users. XPLA places heavy emphasis on User Experience and accessibility to craft the standard in game centric Web3 services, opening up limitless possibilities for blockchain gaming & entertainment.
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Jan 2024
At Backpack, we ship relentlessly to bring you products that make using crypto easy, rewarding, and enjoyable. We offer a globally regulated exchange with a strong focus on compliance and a self-custodial wallet and browser extension. With over 1 million users, we’re just getting started. Were hiring! --> jobs.backpack.app
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Jan 2024
Welcome to Pentagon Games - Pioneering the Future of Gaming Development and Distribution. In the fast-evolving gaming landscape, Pentagon Games stands at the forefront, marrying the digital with the physical through groundbreaking AI and Web3 technologies. Were crafting a future where game developers unleash their full creative potential, unhindered by the constraints of yesterdays tech. Why Join Us? Empowerment Through Ownership: Join our network and gain more than just collaboration opportunities. Selective Funding, Unmatched Support: We invest in visions, not just games. Our strategic funding approach ensures that projects with potential receive not just financial backing, but a full suite of support services, from tailored project management to marketing and beyond. AI-Driven Innovation: Enter the next era of game development with our AI tools designed to enhance player personalization, optimize game mechanics, and offer insights that push your games to the forefront of the industry. Seamless Integration of Worlds: Were bridging the gap between traditional gaming and Web3, opening new revenue streams and content distribution channels that elevate your game to global prominence. Hexagon City - An XR Metaverse: Expand your games reach within Hexagon City, our immersive platform that offers unique AR and VR experiences, connecting your creations with a broader audience. Pentagon Games is more than a publisher; its a community. A collective of developers, creators, and gamers driven by a shared belief in the transformative power of technology. Partner with us, and lets navigate this new era of gaming together. Your vision has the power to reshape the gaming world. Lets make it happen. Pentagon Games - Where Vision Meets the Vanguard of Gaming. https://twitter.com/PentagonGames88
2023
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Dec 2023
Category Labs (formerly known as Monad Labs) is a team of systems engineers and researchers on a mission to design and build at the frontier of decentralized technology. We strive to design and build step-function improvements over existing blockchain solutions. Such greenfield systems include from-scratch databases, Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus mechanisms, JIT compilers for EVM bytecode, and much more. We recently raised $225M in series A funding, and are backed by Paradigm, Electric Capital, Dragonfly Capital, and others. Category Labs is building the next generation of blockchain infrastructure with Monad, an EVM-compatible layer 1 that dramatically improves performance. Deep optimization is needed across all levels of the stack - from the database layer, to the virtual machine layer, to the consensus and networking layer - in order to streamline EVM transaction processing. We are introducing these low-level optimizations, allowing consumer-grade hardware to deliver exceptional performance while maintaining a high degree of decentralization.
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