Investing Profile

Li Jin(445)

VCInvestorFounderAngel
General Partner @ Variant
telierventures.co/teamUnited States
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Connected to James Currier (NFX), Aileen Lee (Cowboy Ventures), Charles Hudson (Precursor Ventures), and 49 other investors on Signal.

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Current Investing Position
Variant (variant.fund) General Partner
Investment Range
$200K - $300K
Sweet Spot
$200K
Investments On Record
17
Current Fund Size
$110M

Li Jin is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

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Li Jin's Investments On Record (15)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Series
SeedSep 2023
Series ASep 2023$25M
$25M
Co-investors: Jason Warner (Redpoint Ventures), Natalie Luu (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Charley Ma (Exponent Founders Capital), Packy McCormick (Not Boring Capital), Terrence Rohan (Otherwise Fund), Rob Lowe (Lego Ventures), Annelies Gamble, Sohail Prasad, Ron Pragides, Karim Atiyeh, Mario Gabriele, Jeremy Cai
Lens Protocol
SeedJun 2023$15M
$15M
Co-investors: Sandeep Nailwal (Polygon), Sebastien Borget, Balaji Srinivasan
Sunroom
SeedFeb 2022$4M
Pre SeedJan 2021
$4M
Co-investors: Dan Teran (Gutter Capital), Erik de Stefanis (Interlace Ventures), Michelle Kennedy (StartHer), Sarah Downey (Accomplice), Cyan Banister (Long Journey Ventures), Whitney Wolfe Herd, Trevor McFedries
CommonStock
Series AOct 2021$25M
$35M
Co-investors: Mike Maples (Floodgate), Jill Carlson (Slow Ventures), Frank Rotman (QED Investors), Turner Novak (Banana Capital)
XMTP
Series AAug 2021$20M
$25M
Co-investors: Ali Yahya (Andreessen Horowitz), Sriram Krishnan (Andreessen Horowitz), Jason Warner (Redpoint Ventures), Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), Diogo Monica (Haun Ventures), Paul Veradittakit (Pantera Capital), Joseph Lau (Alchemy Ventures), Cooper Turley (Variant (variant.fund)), Joe Lallouz (Ambush Capital), Martin Green (HawksHead Capital), Fiona Kelly (Broadstone), Maaria Bajwa (Sound Ventures), Linda Xie (Scalar Capital), Ben Huh (Orange Fund (Orange DAO)), Eamon Leonard (Broadstone), Naval Ravikant (The Hit Forge), Packy McCormick (Not Boring Capital), Julia Lipton (Awesome People Ventures), Josh Williams (Form Capital), Guy Oseary (Sound Ventures), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Aaron Batalion (Batalion Capital), Rahul Vohra (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Robert Leshner (Robot Ventures), Joe Gerber (IDEO CoLab Ventures), Fernando Martinelli, Dan Romero, Stani Kulechov, Anthony Pompliano, Scott Belsky, Paul Stamatiou, Chris Kurdziel, Jess Sloss, Michael Dunworth, Ethan Beard, Narendra Rocherolle, Shishir Mehrotra, Balaji Srinivasan, William Boebel, Tegan Kline, Reggie James, Ricky Engelberg, Joe Stump, Bobby Goodlatte, Michael Mignano, Courtney Guertin
Syndicate
SeedJun 2021$800K
$28M
Co-investors: Ali Yahya (Andreessen Horowitz), Avichal Garg (Electric Capital), Curtis Spencer (Electric Capital), Courtney Chow (Battery Ventures), Ken Deeter (Electric Capital), Maria Shen (Electric Capital), Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), Boris Wertz (Version One Ventures), David Eckstein (Sequoia Capital), Matthew Ball (Makers Fund), Cooper Turley (Variant (variant.fund)), Lenny Rachitsky (AirAngels), Baek Kim (Hashed), Joon Ian Wong (Seed Club Ventures), Illia Polosukhin (SID Venture Partners), Raj Gokal (Solana Ventures), Erikan Obotetukudo (Audacity), Gabby Dizon (Infinity Ventures Crypto), Julia Lipton (Awesome People Ventures), George Lambeth (Divergence Ventures), Calvin Liu (Divergence Ventures), Sriram Krishnan (Kearny Jackson), Min Teo (Ethereal Ventures), Todd Goldberg (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Joyce Yang (Seed Club Ventures), Jeff Morris, Jr. (Chapter One Ventures), Rahul Vohra (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Tom Bedecarre (WPP Ventures), Steve Blank (M34 Capital), Jalak Jobanputra (Future Perfect Ventures), Jonathan Hillis (Seed Club Ventures), Ryan Junee (Electric Ant), Packy McCormick (Not Boring Capital), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Ryan Hoover (Weekend Fund), Alexander Pack (Hack VC), Niraj Pant (Hack VC), Ash Egan (Archetype), Evan Feng (CoinFund), Tom Shaughnessy Jr (Seed Club Ventures), Jake Brukhman (CoinFund), Tarun Chitra (Robot Ventures), Monica Desai Weiss (Kleiner Perkins), Dan Elitzer (Nascent), Robert Leshner (Robot Ventures), Andrew Steinwold, Anastasia Andrianova, Regan Bozman, Imran Khan, Tyler Scott Ward, Rene Reinsberg, Sina Habibi, Eric Wu, David Nage, Adam Jackson, Brad Holden, Luis Cuende, Do Kwon, Nathaniel Whittemore, Aliaksandr Hudzilin, Biz Stone, Scott Belsky, Alice Lloyd George, Alex Pack, Tegan Kline, Trevor McFedries, Stani Kulechov, Balaji Srinivasan, Steve Weinstein, Bo Shao, Jess Sloss
Maven
Series AMay 2021$20M
$33M
Co-investors: Andrew Chen (Andreessen Horowitz), Sunil Rajaraman (Sequoia Capital), Caitlin Szikszai (Republic), Naval Ravikant (The Hit Forge), Arlan Hamilton (Backstage Capital), Neeraj Berry (Tet Ventures), Nitesh Banta (Stellar Capital), John Danner (Dunce Capital), Rudra Peram, Sahil Lavingia
Collective
Series AMay 2021$20M
$100M
Co-investors: Niko Bonatsos (General Catalyst), Darian Shirazi (Gradient Ventures), Topher Conway (SV Angel), Frank Rotman (QED Investors), Ophelia Brown (Blossom Capital), Jared Hecht (Magellan (magellan.ventures)), Vítor Lourenco (Expa), Garrett Camp (Expa), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Andrew Dudum (Cherubic Ventures), Phil Bronner (Ardent Venture Partners), Dylan Field, Scott Belsky, Gokul Rajaram, Eddie Hartman, Steve Chen, Aaron Levie, Adrian Aoun, Jenna Hannon, Kevin Lin, Eric Wu, Vivek Patel

most interested in

I'm interested in companies that are enabling individuals to make a living from their unique passions and audiences. If you are working on a big idea that re-imagines how consumers live and work, I'd love to hear from you!

not interested in

She does not invest in hardware, DTC, CPG, or anything requiring enterprise sales.