Founder56Current founder
70th percentile
Investor96Current investor
94th percentile
Combined
YC-network GP and co-founder building Chainproof, the first regulated digital asset insurer
Credibility
this founder typical investor (50th pct)
Portfolio Scale · 95th percentile
- Previously a Venture Investor at IDG Ventures Vietnam, which had $100M under management and investments in over 40 companies.
- Publicly identified as an angel investor and active investor across blockchain, DeFi, and tech startups.
- Active GP and fund manager at Orange Fund (Orange DAO), a pooled investment fund backing YC startups.
- Confirmed as a named related person (fund manager/GP) on three SEC Form D pooled investment fund filings: First Frame I, First Frame II, and YC ALUMS FUND 2021 LLC.
- Venture Partner at Pioneer Fund, a recognized VC firm pooling capital from 180+ YC alumni with a portfolio of over 300 companies.
- Portfolio company Decrypt was acquired (undisclosed value), representing a portfolio acquisition exit.
- Has made at least 2 known active investments including OpenSocial and Decrypt.
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Confirmed as a named related person (fund manager/GP) on SEC Form D filings for YC ALUMS FUND 2021 LLC and First Frame LLC series, confirming current operator/founder role.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Current Co-Founder and CEO of Chainproof, the world's first regulated insurer covering digital asset risks.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Past founder of Orange DAO LLC, a YC alumni investment fund.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Chainproof has co-founders, as Don Ho is listed as Co-Founder alongside other team members.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Currently shipping public code with a most recent push 40 days ago to the repo 'conductor-playground'.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Identified GitHub account @donhojr linked to Don Ho.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)GitHub account @donhojr has been active for approximately 8 years (created 2018).
- 55%Probability of being accurate (55%)Identified Stack Overflow account for Don Ho with 1,299 reputation.
- 35%Probability of being accurate (35%)Identified researcher in OpenAlex with h-index 10 and 1,761 citations across 16 works.
Investor score
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Confirmed as a named related person (fund manager/GP) on three SEC Form D pooled investment fund filings: First Frame I, First Frame II, and YC ALUMS FUND 2021 LLC.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Active GP and fund manager at Orange Fund (Orange DAO), a pooled investment fund backing YC startups.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Venture Partner at Pioneer Fund, a recognized VC firm pooling capital from 180+ YC alumni with a portfolio of over 300 companies.
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)Publicly identified as an angel investor and active investor across blockchain, DeFi, and tech startups.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Approximately 13 years of investing experience, beginning with IDG Ventures Vietnam in 2013 through current roles.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Previously a Venture Investor at IDG Ventures Vietnam, which had $100M under management and investments in over 40 companies.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Has made at least 2 known active investments including OpenSocial and Decrypt.
- 65%Probability of being accurate (65%)Portfolio company Decrypt was acquired (undisclosed value), representing a portfolio acquisition exit.
What you likely need
You're operating at a rare intersection of TradFi credibility and DeFi innovation, which means the highest-leverage Festival events for you are rooms where that combination turns heads — whether with crypto-native VCs who need your Munich Re anchor story, or enterprise DeFi buyers who need your Quantstamp-plus-insurance bundle. You'll also benefit from tight YC alumni co-investor dinners where visible deal flow compounds your Orange Fund GP brand. Prioritize events that put Chainproof's regulated product in front of the right institutional ears while quietly accelerating your investor profile.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- fundraisingA seed-to-Series-A fundraising dinner for Chainproof with crypto-native VCs (Multicoin, Paradigm, a16z crypto) and traditional insurance-adjacent investors, anchored by your Munich Re and Sompo backing as the room's conversation starter
- introsA YC fintech and DeFi founder roundtable — sourced through your Pioneer Fund Venture Partner network — to surface the first wave of enterprise Chainproof smart contract insurance buyers from within the YC portfolio
- introsAn Orange DAO GP co-investment dinner with other YC alumni fund managers to align on deal-sharing, increase your visible portfolio count on Crunchbase, and strengthen your investor brand alongside your Chainproof operator role
- tacticalA closed-door tactical working session with Quantstamp's audit client pipeline and Chainproof's underwriting team to design and pressure-test a bundled smart contract audit-plus-insurance offering for DeFi projects
- positioningA positioning dinner with crypto policy journalists, DeFi protocol founders, and TradFi risk executives to workshop the regulatory and underwriting narrative that only you — sitting between Munich Re and on-chain DeFi — can credibly own in print
- hiringA recruiting dinner targeting senior actuaries and Heads of Underwriting from Lloyd's, Swiss Re, and AIG alumni networks who are curious about DeFi — the exact profile Chainproof needs to scale beyond staking rewards insurance
- positioningAn institutional DeFi happy hour showcasing Chainproof's staking rewards insurance case study to liquid fund managers, protocol treasuries, and crypto-native family offices who are natural early adopters of a regulated on-chain insurance product