Sean Dalton
Early-stage partner & investor <> daltonsean.eth
Boston, Massachusetts
Overview
Work Experience
Founder
2019 - Current
First-check & early-stage capital to inspiring entrepreneurs driven to create important and sustainable technology companies. Primarily focused on web3 & enterprise tech, but always willing to hear a founder talk about a great market opportunity.
Seed Investor
2024
Galini is a Y-Combinator backed company, building compliance guardrails that filter harmful inputs and outputs based on company policies and industry regulations.
Investor
2023
EigenLayer is developing an Ethereum protocol that introduces restaking, thereby enabling the reuse of ETH on the consensus layer.
EigenLabs offers access to Ethereum's staked capital and validator set, supporting restaking, unstaking, and AVS management.
Seed Investor
2022
Morpho is a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) layer on top of lending pools like Compound or Aave. Rates are seamlessly improved for both suppliers and borrowers whilst preserving the same liquidity and market risk guarantees.
Investor
2024
Perplexity.ai is an AI-powered research and conversational search engine that provides answers to user queries using natural language predictive text.
Perplexity is an AI-chat-based conversational search engine that delivers answers to questions using language models.
Raised $165,000,000.00 from IVP, Wayra and SoftBank Vision Fund.
Seed Investor
2022
Nibiru aims to be the most developer-friendly and user-friendly smart contract ecosystem. Since emerging from stealth, dozens of projects have begun building on Nibiru across sectors like DeFi, gaming, real-world assets (RWAs), NFTs, developer tools, and bridges.
Investor
2022
Gnosis Safe is the most trusted platform to manage digital assets on Ethereum.
Seed Investor
2024
Truflation offers a new inflation truth-set to provide reliable financial data for better decision-making. It uses 10 million data points and updates indices daily, offering more comprehensive and up-to-date information compared to traditional indexes updating monthly. Truflation's secure blockchain infrastructure provides unbiased, verifiable data for the growth and sustainability of business decisions.
Investor
2024
Circle is building the largest, most widely used stablecoin network so billions around the world can access digital dollars for payments and liquidity.
Move $100k+ of crypto with our principal OTC desk.
Seed Investor
2019
Nobl9’s service level objective (SLO) platform for site reliability engineers (SRE) helps software teams release reliable features faster.
Nobl9 is a service level objective platform that connects reliability metrics to business goals via a modern engineering workflow.
Raised $44,299,985.00 from CRV, Battery Ventures, ServiceNow and Cisco Investments.