Joyce Yang

Investor / Storyteller

📍 New York, New York, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 15 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2024
VC🌍 United States
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Sep 2024
Welcome to the Social Internet. Bluesky is social media as it should be. Find your community among millions of users, unleash your creativity, and have some fun again. Were building a new foundation for social networking which gives creators independence from platforms, developers the freedom to build, and users a choice in their experience.
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May 2022
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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Mar 2022
All chains. All assets. All communities. Content not intended for US and UK audiences. We are hiring!
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Mar 2022
Morpho is the most trusted onchain lending network with $10B+ in deposits. Businesses can connect to Morphos open infrastructure to power any lending or borrowing use case at scale, including embedded crypto-backed loans and custom yield solutions.
Investor
May 2021
Full-stack blockchain for business - http:// auroracloud.dev (Business) • http:// aurora.dev (Ecosystem) • http://aurora.plus (Engagement) • http://discord.aurora.dev (Social). Aurora Ecosystem: https://aurora.dev/ ecosystem
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May 2021
Hello, we’re Set. We believe in creating the next generation of finance through crypto-financial primitives. We’re developing tools that enable developers to bundle crypto assets together called Sets, which allow users to create cryptocurrency baskets, baskets of NFTs, baskets of on-chain securities, and more. Product Description: The traditional Set is an ERC20 token that’s composed of other ERC20 tokens, allowing you to hold multiple cryptocurrencies by holding the Set token. With the rebalancing feature, Set holders can adopt a set it and forget it mentality, offloading the cryptocurrency management to someone more experienced.
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Apr 2021
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.
Seed Investor
Nov 2020
The worlds first and biggest web3 gaming guild where you can make friends, discover games, and level up. #togetherweplay
Investor
Sep 2020
0x is developers’ one-stop shop to build financial products on crypto rails. Hundreds of developers use 0x tools to enable faster trading, better prices and superior UX. Our suite of APIs has processed over 52 million transactions and $125B in volume from more than 6 million users trading on apps like Coinbase Wallet, Robinhood Wallet, Matcha, Metamask, Zerion, Zapper, and more. Founded in 2017, the 0x team is also the creator of the decentralized exchange aggregator Matcha and the 0x Protocol. The team has made significant technical contributions to the Ethereum ecosystem, including the NFT token standard (ERC721) and has raised $109M up to Series B from leading investors as Pantera Capital, Greylock, Coinbase and Jump.
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Jul 2020
Audius​ mission is to create a fully decentralized community of artists, developers, and listeners collaborating to share and defend the world’s music. To find out more, please visit: https://audius.org and https://audius.co Artists Deserve More.
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Jul 2020
Nextdoor is where you connect to the neighborhoods that matter to you so you can thrive. Our purpose is to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighborhood they can rely on. Neighbors around the world turn to Nextdoor daily to receive trusted information, give and get help, get things done, and build real-world connections with those nearby — neighbors, businesses, and public services. We believe connecting with others is a universal human need. That truth, and the reality that neighborhoods are among the most important communities in our lives, have been guiding principles for Nextdoor since the beginning. Today, neighbors rely on Nextdoor in more than 340,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries. In the U.S., 1 in 3 households uses the network. Nextdoor is based in San Francisco. For additional information and images: nextdoor.com/newsroom. Nextdoor is free, and its easy to sign up. Get started at https://nextdoor.com. For media inquiries, email us at press@nextdoor.com. For customer support, reach us at http://nextdoor.com/support.
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Jul 2020
Kraken helps people own the power of their money. Founded in 2011, were one of the worlds longest-standing crypto platforms, now offering crypto, stocks, futures, staking, payments and more. Trusted by millions of institutions, professional traders, and consumers across 190+ countries. Built on the belief that everyone should own the power of their money, Kraken has been a category leader in crypto since 2011. Weve grown into a global financial platform offering crypto, stocks, futures, staking, payments and institutional infrastructure — all on a single foundation built for the future of finance. Our product lineup: — Kraken: the worlds leading hybrid investment platform, built for the future of finance from the ground up — Kraken Pro: the all-in command center that unleashes your trading potential — Krak: the next-generation money platform that turns every type of asset into usable money Proof of Reserves since 2014. Assets held 1:1. Trusted by 13M+ people, thousands of institutions, and a growing community of developers building on Kraken rails. Our mission: accelerate the global adoption of crypto so everyone can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. Risk Disclosure: https://www.kraken.com/en-ca/social-media-disclosure
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Jan 2020
Monad is a high-performance, EVM-compatible Layer-1 blockchain designed to power the financial rails of the internet. It delivers up to 10,000 transactions per second, sub-second finality, and low transaction fees. Its architecture enables more efficient payment flows and other transaction-intensive financial use cases by reducing latency and improving throughput while maintaining compatibility with established Ethereum standards. Monad is operated by a decentralized, globally distributed validator network and provides secure, scalable infrastructure for on-chain financial activity at scale.
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2019
Pagoda is a technology services firm dedicated to developing core components for the NEAR Ecosystem. We believe that re-inventing how software is made and distributed is our greatest opportunity to open economic access to those who are not fully integrated into the global economy. Our products empower people to find opportunity, invent new experiences, and collaborate. Lets build an Open Web world. A world where people control their assets, data, and power of governance.
Experience · 21 entries
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2024
Investor
Sep 2024
Welcome to the Social Internet. Bluesky is social media as it should be. Find your community among millions of users, unleash your creativity, and have some fun again. Were building a new foundation for social networking which gives creators independence from platforms, developers the freedom to build, and users a choice in their experience.
2023
Founding Partner
Jan 2023
Pivot Global invests in early-stage founders that drive and accelerate the widespread adoption of decentralized applications and permissionless networks.
2022
Investor
May 2022
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.
Investor
Mar 2022
All chains. All assets. All communities. Content not intended for US and UK audiences. We are hiring!
Investor
Mar 2022
Morpho is the most trusted onchain lending network with $10B+ in deposits. Businesses can connect to Morphos open infrastructure to power any lending or borrowing use case at scale, including embedded crypto-backed loans and custom yield solutions.
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