Before starting Socean, the core team worked as software engineers and data scientists, with degrees in economics, finance, law, mathematics, and computer science from Oxford, Cambridge, the LSE, and the University of Washington.
We understand and care about Solana deeply. We were given several grants after launch by the Solana Foundation. The Socean team has personally contributed to the Solana stake pool program (25% of the Solana stake pool reference implementation was written by us).
Socean Finance is fortunate to have great investors who take a long-term view of our protocol.
We recently raised a $5.75M seed round led by Dragonfly Capital. In alphabetical order, the round also included CMS Holdings, Defiance Capital, Foundation Capital, Genblock Capital, Infinite Capital, Jump Capital, Marin Digital Ventures, MGNR, Ratio, ROK Capital, Sequoia India, Solana Ventures and Valhalla Capital.
Other founders and angel investors have invested in Socean, including Julian Koh (Ribbon Finance), Francesco Agosti (Phantom), James Moreau (Jet Protocol), Cindy Leow (Drift Protocol), James Simpson (mStable), SOLBig Brain and Cozomo de’ Medici.
We were careful to work only with investors that share common values and vision with Socean. The Socean team is extremely thankful and fortunate to have long-term investors and angel investors that share our values.
We’re fortunate to have worked with top teams in the Solana Space, including Orca, Saber, Grape, Port, UXD, and so on.
See Protocol Partners for a full list.