Current Firm
Faction
Investments
1+ companies
Focus
Web3, Fintech
About Samuel Harrison
Samuel Harrison is a crypto-native venture capital investor at Faction who discovered Bitcoin in 2011 while working at traditional banks like Morgan Stanley and Royal Bank of Scotland, giving him an unusually long view across multiple crypto cycles and over $500M deployed into flagship blockchain companies like Aave, Arbitrum, and NEAR. He personally tests products before investing and only backs blockchain applications where the technology is genuinely required rather than blockchain in search of a problem, combining his early crypto conviction with hands-on product evaluation and a strict filter for technological necessity.
Focus Areas
Web3FintechAIDevTools
Investment Stage
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
Notable Investments
Banafsheh ("B") Fathieh