3 VCs and 26 funds investing in Developer Tooling
Partner
NGC Ventures
Check: No personal or firm ticket is disclosed on NGC's site. Zi's partner title, accelerator mentorship and infrastructure responsibilities show meaningful technical involvement but do not prove a standard range or unilateral decision authority.
Zi focuses on blockchain infrastructure from research through live network operation. He evaluates execution bottlenecks, layer-2 and appchain architecture, EVM compatibility and parallel processing, while StakeX exposes him to validator operations across networks such as NYM, Algorand, SKALE and Avalanche. The result is a practical lens on whether protocol performance claims survive testnets, incentives and production operations.
Venture Partner
NGC Ventures
Check: NGC does not publish a verified personal check range for Kay. The firm describes early-stage Web3 infrastructure investing and research support; founders should confirm the applicable vehicle, initial token/equity structure, ownership and reserves directly.
Kay backs technically ambitious infrastructure founders, with disclosed investments spanning zero-knowledge scaling, modular data availability, decentralized grants and on-chain agreements. His software background and on-chain participation fit NGC's broader long-term thesis: solve a real blockchain bottleneck with a simple, fast, affordable and distinctive design, then work hands-on from technical strategy to adoption.
General Partner
NGC Ventures
Check: No first-party personal or firm check range is published. Third-party directories repeat a $100K–$5M estimate, but it is excluded here because NGC's own site does not substantiate it; founders should confirm stage and ticket directly.
Wayne's record points to foundational network investing informed by public-market research: he supported Solana and Algorand early, before their ecosystems became established, and NGC's current portfolio spans base layers, infrastructure, DeFi, data, compute and interchain systems. His likely edge is connecting protocol economics and technical roadmaps to market adoption across Asian and global ecosystems.
Charleston
AUM: ~$500M
New York
AUM: $150M
San Francisco
AUM: $200M
Chicago
San Francisco
Singapore
AUM: $500M
New York
San Francisco
Road Town
AUM: $50M
Shanghai
AUM: $9.5B
India / Global
San Francisco
Aspen
New York City
AUM: $750M+
Dubai
Road Town
San Francisco
Randolph