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Mert Mumtaz

Cofounder, CEO at Helius

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Mert Mumtaz is the co-founder and CEO of Helius and a former software engineer at Coinbase. He holds a master's degree in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Investments

Tag
Ecosystem
Token Issuance
Region
Operating Status
Name
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
Fin Fin
Series A -- $ 17 M
Dec 04
Inference Inference
Seed -- $ 11.8 M
Oct 15
boop boop
Angel -- --
May 01
Thru Thru
-- $ 140 M $ 14.4 M
Apr 29
Magicblock Magicblock
Seed -- $ 7.5 M
Apr 24
Warlock Warlock
-- -- $ 8 M
Mar 27
DoubleZero DoubleZero
-- $ 400 M $ 28 M
Mar 05
commonware commonware
-- -- $ 9 M
Dec 11, 2024
Suilend Suilend
-- -- $ 4 M
Dec 06, 2024
Citrea Citrea
Series A -- $ 14 M
Oct 31, 2024
Moonwalk Fitness Moonwalk Fitness
Seed -- $ 3.4 M
Oct 24, 2024
Praxis Praxis
-- -- --
Oct 16, 2024
delta delta
-- -- $ 11 M
Oct 09, 2024
Infinex Infinex
-- -- $ 65.3 M
Sep 25, 2024
Ore Ore
-- -- $ 3 M
Sep 14, 2024
time.fun time.fun
Seed -- $ 3 M
Aug 29, 2024
elmnts elmnts
Pre-Seed -- $ 2 M
Aug 06, 2024
MetaDAO MetaDAO
-- -- $ 2.2 M
Aug 01, 2024
MegaETH MegaETH
Seed -- $ 20 M
Jun 27, 2024
Squads Squads
Series A -- $ 10 M
Jun 10, 2024

Investment Overview

Rounds in the past year

8

Total rounds

29

Portfolio Numbers

27

Lead Investment

0

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