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Jiani Chen

Partner at Protagonist

United States

Overview 

Jiani Chen is a Partner at Protagonist with expertise in Mergers & Acquisitions and Fund Of Funds. With a background in private equity and hedge funds, she has successfully led cross-border M&A deals and excelled in investor relations. Highlights of Jiani's career include her role as a Partner at Protagonist, where she leverages her skills in financial advisory and investment banking to drive successful outcomes in mergers and acquisitions, as well as her experience investing in a variety of companies across different sectors and stages.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2022 - Current

    www.protagonist.co

  • Investor

    2024

  • Investor

    2024

  • Investor

    2024

Glacis Labs is a middleware protocol. It enables developers to control cross-chain risk.

Raised $2,100,000.00 from Luke Youngblood.eth, Steven Kokinos, Protagonist, Collion Myers, Arrington Capital, Edessa Capital, BitScale Capital, Marin Tvrdic and Paper Ventures.

  • Investor

    2024

Movement Labs is a modular framework platform that builds and deploys move-based blockchains and applications in distributed settings.

Raised $41,400,000.00 from Robot Ventures, 280 Capital, OKX Ventures, Binance Labs, Placeholder, dao5, Polychain, Hack VC, Archetype and Figment Capital.

  • Investor

    2024

Modular Full-Stack Renewable Energy Solutions

Raised $20,000,000.00 from Felicis, Andreessen Horowitz, Atomic, Sam Altman and a16z crypto.

  • Investor

    2023

Renzo is a Liquid Restaking Token (LRT) and Strategy Manager for EigenLayer.

Raised $20,200,000.00 from CryptoDiscover, Antalpha, Karatage, BH Digital, Protagonist, Galaxy Digital, Maven 11 Capital, ConsenSys, Figment Capital and Bankless Ventures.

  • Investor

    2023

  • Investor

    2023

Io.net Cloud provides a decentralized computing network enabling machine learning engineers to access distributed clusters.

Raised $30,025,000.00 from ArkStream Capital, Continue Capital, Hack VC, Delphi Ventures, 2Shares, Solana Ventures, Multicoin Capital, Aptos, Animoca Brands and 6th Man Ventures.

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