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Jing Sun

Founder of MachineFi Lab

United States

Overview 

Jing Sun is a co-founder of IoTeX and MachineFi Lab, with a strong background in building and investing in the decentralized economy. Currently, he serves as the Head of Investment and Ecosystem at IoTeX, where he has made significant contributions to the growth and development of the decentralized network for the Internet of Things. Sun's career highlights include co-founding MachineFi Lab and making strategic investments in various companies within the IoT, Web3/Crypto, and blockchain sectors.

Work Experience 

  • Co-Founder

    2021 - Current

    Building Tomorrow's Internet Today And Powering the Machine-to-People Reward Economy

  • Founding Member, Head of investment and ecosystem

    2017

    Real World ⇔ Web3. IoTeX is a decentralized platform that connects smart devices and real world insights to blockchain Dapps.

IoTeX is a modular Web3 infrastructure platform connecting smart devices and real-world data to blockchains.

Raised $50,000,000.00 from Foresight Ventures, FutureMoney, Metric Ventures, Borderless Capital, Escape Velocity, Amber Group, Waterdrip Capital, SNZ Holding and Hashkey Exchange.

  • Managing Partner

    2014

    Investing in early-stage technology startups and visionary entrepreneurs.

Sparkland Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in frontier technologies.

  • Angel Investor

    2022

  • LP Investor

    2017

Polychain Capital invests in cryptocurrency and blockchain assets.

Raised $10,000,000.00 from Alexander Pack, DCM Ventures, Pantera Capital, DHVC, Union Square Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and Abstract.

  • Angel Investor

    2016

Rippling is the workforce management platform that unifies HR, IT, finance, and more.

Raised $1,987,000,000.00 from Dragoneer Investment Group, Coatue, Greenoaks, Founders Fund and Bossa Invest.

  • Angel Investor

    2017

  • Seed Investor

    2016

    The next-generation eSports entertainment platform in 360 and VR.

Theta EdgeCloud is the leading decentralized cloud for AI, media and entertainment.

Raised $56,000,000.00 from Blockchain.com Ventures, DHVC, Zhiping Capital, The Venture Reality Fund/VRF, Heuristic Capital, Sierra Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, Samsung NEXT, DCM Ventures and Sierra Ventures.

  • Investor

    2017

Radar Relay is a peer-to-peer trading platform for Ethereum-based tokens built on the 0x protocol.

Raised $10,000,000.00 from v1.vc, Blockchain Capital, Chapter One Ventures, Collaborative Fund, SV Angel, Tusk Venture Partners, Distributed Global, Elefund, Kindred Ventures and Village Global.

  • Investor

    2017

8th Wall is a cross-platform development solution for building AR experiences that run on the mobile web and iOS/Android applications.

Raised $10,400,000.00 from Sparkland Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, Shasta Ventures and The Venture Reality Fund/VRF.

  • Investor

    2017

    The Crowdsourced Pen Testing platform for new generation SaaS businesses

Cobalt is a PtaaS platform for security and development teams as well as infuses manual security testing with transparency.

Raised $36,970,000.00 from Gary Swart, Elizabeth Tse, Scott Belsky, Highland Europe, Soren Abildgaard, Chris Eng, eLab Ventures, Greg Nicastro, Gerhard Eschelbeck and byFounders.

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