# Charlie Lee at Litecoin Foundation

> Charlie Lee, Founder and Managing Director at Litecoin Foundation. 2 investments on record.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/person/charlie-lee (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

Mountain View, US · Angel

# Charlie Lee

Founder and Managing Director at [Coinbase](https://millionrounds.com/fund/coinbase-ventures)

Latest rounds

- **Purse.IO** Seed · $300k Nov 2014
- **BTCC** Series A · $5M Nov 2013

Backs *Financial Services*

Profile summary

- **Rounds named:** 2 last Nov 2014
- **Filings:** 1 with regulators
- **Podcasts:** 1 episodes

What this record rests on

- ✓ **Named in rounds** 2 rounds name them
- ✓ **On filings** 1 filing with a regulator
- ✓ **Linked to a firm** At Coinbase
- **Claimed** Not claimed yet

Titles come from filings their firm signed.

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## The firm

[**Coinbase** Corporate VC · US **9** cheques in 12 months **21** all time **0** led deploying](https://millionrounds.com/fund/coinbase-ventures)

## Rounds they were named in

- **Rounds:** 2
- **Led:** 0
- **Disclosed:** $5.3M
- **Active:** 2013–14

2014

- [Purse.IO](https://millionrounds.com/company/purse-io) *Seed* **$300k** *US* Nov 2014 Joined · +7 investors · historical

2013

- [BTCC](https://millionrounds.com/company/btcc) *Series A* **$5M** *CN* Nov 2013 Joined · +4 investors · historical

By stage

- Seed **1**
- Series A **1**

What they backed

Financial Services **1**

Alongside

- [Blockchain Capital *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/blockchain-capital)
- Bobby Lee *1*
- Bobby Lee Lackey *1*
- [FundersClub *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/fundersclub)
- [Lightspeed China Partners *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/lightspeed-china-partners)
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/lightspeed-venture-partners)
- [Roger Ver *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/bitangels-2)
- [Strong Ventures *1*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/strong-ventures)

Rounds where a report named this person rather than a firm, matched on name: read it as a strong hint, not proof, since people share names.

## Companies they are listed as backing

Portfolio

- [MaiCoin](https://millionrounds.com/startup/maicoin-ltd)
- Bitcoin Magazine

## Where they are named on record

Filings

- SEC Form D · Company raising **Valkyrie Investments Inc.** Director since 2022

Each row is a document a firm filed with a regulator: somebody signed it, and it carries a date.

## Also at Coinbase

- [**Balaji Srinivasan** President *8 rounds*](https://millionrounds.com/person/balaji-srinivasan)
- [**Fred Ehrsam** Co-Founder, General Partner *5 rounds*](https://millionrounds.com/person/fred-ehrsam)
- [**Brian Armstrong** Co-Founder *3 rounds*](https://millionrounds.com/person/brian-armstrong)
- [**Ravi Narasimhan** Senior Director, Product Management *2 rounds*](https://millionrounds.com/person/ravi-narasimhan)
- [**Emilie Choi** President and Chief Operating Officer *1 round*](https://millionrounds.com/person/emilie-choi)
- [**Ryan Freitas** Managing Director & Head of Design *1 round*](https://millionrounds.com/person/ryan-freitas)
- [**Aaron Henshaw** Head of Engineering for Coinbase Cloud *0 rounds*](https://millionrounds.com/person/aaron-henshaw)
- [**Aklil Ibssa** Head of Corporate Development *0 rounds*](https://millionrounds.com/person/aklil-ibssa)

## Hear them before you pitch them

- [The Twenty Minute VC](https://millionrounds.com/podcasts/20vc) · 15 Sept 2017 · 23 min 20VC: Litecoin Founder, Charlie Lee on Why ICO's Are The Biggest Threat To Crypto, Why Ethereum Will Run Into Huge Scalability Problems & How To Assess The Trade Off Between Decentralisation & Scale With [Charlie Lee](https://millionrounds.com/person/charlie-lee) Mentions [Google](https://millionrounds.com/fund/google-assistant-investments) About this episode Charlie Lee is the creator of Litecoin, the most popular alternative currency to Bitcoin, which Charlie created as a side project in 2011 while working at Google. Today Litecoin has a market cap of $3.29Bn. As well as creating Litecoin, Charlie is also the Director of Engineering @ Coinbase,… More on the show's page Listen on Apple PodcastsThe show's page

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