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Lawrence Diao

General Partner, Dragonfly Capital Partners

About

Lawrence Diao is a General Partner at Dragonfly Capital Partners who co-founded Basis, an algorithmic stablecoin protocol, giving him rare firsthand experience as both a crypto founder who raised venture capital and an investor. His background combines quantitative trading experience at firms like Radix Trading and DE Shaw with software engineering at Google, plus a computer science degree from Princeton, creating an unusually technical foundation for evaluating crypto protocols and market structure. Lawrence Diao is a General Partner at Dragonfly Capital Partners who co-founded Basis, an algorithmic stablecoin protocol, giving him rare firsthand experience as both a crypto founder who raised venture capital and an investor. His background combines quantitative trading experience at firms like Radix Trading and DE Shaw with software engineering at Google, plus a computer science degree from Princeton, creating an unusually technical foundation for evaluating crypto protocols and market structure.

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Investment focus

Stages
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Sectors
Web3
Crypto
FinTech
Devtools

Investment details

Avg check size$100K - $10M
Can lead rounds
No
Geographies
USA