Patrick Chang
Managing Partner at Dispersion Capital
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founder
2022 - Current
Dispersion Capital is an early-stage venture firm for decentralized infrastructure. Our mission is to pioneer a multi-chain, multi-currency, and multi-platform world. We invest in foundational technologies for decentralized businesses, focusing on the tools for developers to deploy this reality. We focus exclusively on certain layers of web3, including fintech infrastructure, security, data, AI, and platforms challenging legacy industries. The most prominent players in web2 and web3 are behind us, including Samsung, Lightspeed FactionVC, Circle, Ripple, Wemade, Forte, Alchemy, Hashkey, NGC, Cherubic, and more. Dispersion Capital was founded by Patrick Chang, a seasoned VC from Bain Capital Ventures and Foundation Capital. Before founding Dispersion Capital, he launched the blockchain portfolio at Samsung Next Ventures, specializing in blockchain and crypto infrastructure. He’s backed web3’s most pioneering innovators and protocols, including Dapper Labs, Flow, Alchemy, Forte, Theta, and more. Learn more at dispersion.xyz.
Dispersion Capital is an early-stage fund focusing on web3 at the pre-seed and seed stages.
Investor
2023
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2024/03/05/crypto-ai-startup-sahara-raises-6m-to-reward-ai-trainers/ https://dispersion.xyz/learn/429/sahara-ai
Sahara AI is a decentralized AI network that enables freely and securely deploy autonomous AI with high-performance, privacy-first network.
Raised $43,000,000.00 from Laksh Vaaman Sehgal, Elvis Zhang, Foresight Ventures, Binance Labs, Sequoia Capital, Tangent, Polychain, Rohan Taori, dao5 and Vipul Ved Prakash.
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2022
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2022
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2022
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2022
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2021
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2021
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2021
Chaos Labs is a cloud platform that allows teams to build high-fidelity agent and scenario-based simulations on mainnet forks.
Raised $75,000,000.00 from Slow Ventures, Kevin Weil, Haun Ventures, Anton Katz, Michael Shaulov, F-Prime Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Francesco Agosti, Wintermute Ventures and General Catalyst.
Investor
2019
https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/28/alchemy-raises-80m-at-a-505m-valuation-to-be-the-aws-for-blockchain/ https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/28/aws-for-blockchain-alchemy-boost-valuation-to-3-5b-with-250m-raise/ https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/08/alchemy-which-aims-to-be-the-de-facto-platform-for-developers-to-build-on-web3-raises-another-200m-and-is-now-valued-at-10-2b/
Alchemy is a developer platform that helps companies to build reliable decentralized applications.
Raised $563,903,667.00 from Coatue, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Addition, Andreessen Horowitz, Silver Lake, Pantera Capital, DFJ Growth, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz and Addition.