Dae Y.

i work on internet plumbing, aka internet infrastructure. money is just another technology.

📍 Seattle, Washington, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2024
Angel investor🌍 United States
7
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3
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3
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0
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12y
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Portfolio

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May 2024
UpRock is the first people-powered AI data network (aka DePIN). Install UpRock to earn passive income on your unused bandwidth. Gain early access to your very own AI Adventure Hacker, a next-gen search engine for deals & crypto rewards. Download the UpRock AI Earnings App now at https://uprock.com
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Nov 2019
Give InKind is a modern social platform for coordinating support when life is disrupted. From the birth of a baby, to loss of a family member, to medical crisis, and disasters, friends and families need ways to give and receive help, from anywhere. Give InKind facilitates comprehensive support with its Care Calendar, Wishlist, and Donations on one easy-to-use page, empowering communities to support one another through life events that need more than just money.
mid stageFundraising
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Apr 2019
STOW IT helps fill vacant spaces with vehicle storage. We provide access to a new market and a long term customer. Hosts set their own prices and create their property profiles with pictures and detailed features. Renters find storage for short term or long term with the location, price, and features that fit their needs.
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Oct 2018
Tenta is a next generation browser that is designed from the ground up for unparalleled privacy and security with built-in encryption. We are currently in beta and are inviting beta-testers to help us build the best private and encrypted browser. Our mission is simple. We believe privacy is non-negotiable and everyone should have safe access to the world's information without censorship or judgement.
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Jan 2018
tZERO Group, Inc. and its broker-dealer subsidiaries (tZERO) provide an innovative liquidity platform for private companies and assets. We offer institutional-grade solutions for issuers looking to digitize their capital table through blockchain technology, and trade on a regulated alternative trading system. tZERO democratizes access to private assets by providing a simple, automated, and efficient trading venue to broker-dealers, institutions, and investors.
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Dec 2016
StormX is a scrappy team that’s been in the blockchain space since 2015 that’s raised over $30m with an app with 100s of thousands of users that’s growing exponentially month after month on a global scale. Storms vision is to empower the lives of billions worldwide by allowing anyone to earn anywhere, anytime, from any device. Were all about changing the way that people all around the world earn with one central idea: earn from anywhere, at any time, from any device. Our shopping app StormX, creates an engaging user experience that encourages active participation with the STMX token community.   For the first time, payments can now be made globally accessible and efficient. Blockchain enables micro-transactions to be carried out in an efficient manner. The automation of enforcing the terms of the engagement and payment to participants with little to no human intervention provides an efficient system for reducing fees and accelerating turnaround times.
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Jul 2014
Share the cost of any gift! The easiest way to give together to family, friends, and co-workers! Give amazing gifts you're proud to give, and they're delighted to get. From a group or from yourself, we'll help make it happen. GiftStarter brings people together to give a gift they've always wanted. SHOP. SHARE. SHIP. GiftStarter’s patent-pending technology divides the perfect gift into virtual pieces giving friends and family the ability to purchase as much or as little as they wish. Any product available online can be gifted through GiftStarter. Simply search from the millions of products available in our catalog or contact our Gift Concierge with your request. Once your gift is funded, we’ll mail a handmade card featuring a personal message from each contributor and ensure the gift is shipped. It’s that easy. www.giftstarter.com twitter: @giftstarter
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2024
Investor
May 2024
UpRock is the first people-powered AI data network (aka DePIN). Install UpRock to earn passive income on your unused bandwidth. Gain early access to your very own AI Adventure Hacker, a next-gen search engine for deals & crypto rewards. Download the UpRock AI Earnings App now at https://uprock.com
2019
Investor
Nov 2019
Give InKind is a modern social platform for coordinating support when life is disrupted. From the birth of a baby, to loss of a family member, to medical crisis, and disasters, friends and families need ways to give and receive help, from anywhere. Give InKind facilitates comprehensive support with its Care Calendar, Wishlist, and Donations on one easy-to-use page, empowering communities to support one another through life events that need more than just money.
mid stageFundraising
Limited Partner
Sep 2019
Ikigai Asset Management is a long/short multistrat hedge fund investing in crypto assets. We seek to generate superior risk-adjusted returns through the execution of venture stage pre-ICO investments and both systematic and fundamental liquid hedge fund strategies. As a crypto asset management firm, we are investing at the intersection of what we are good at, what we like to do, and what the world needs for the purpose of ethically delivering superior risk-adjusted returns.
Investor
Apr 2019
STOW IT helps fill vacant spaces with vehicle storage. We provide access to a new market and a long term customer. Hosts set their own prices and create their property profiles with pictures and detailed features. Renters find storage for short term or long term with the location, price, and features that fit their needs.
2018
Investor
Oct 2018
Tenta is a next generation browser that is designed from the ground up for unparalleled privacy and security with built-in encryption. We are currently in beta and are inviting beta-testers to help us build the best private and encrypted browser. Our mission is simple. We believe privacy is non-negotiable and everyone should have safe access to the world's information without censorship or judgement.
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