Mathieu Chanson

Mathieu Chanson is the Managing Partner at very early Ventures, a Web3 venture capital fund based in Switzerland. He holds a PhD in Distributed Systems from ETH Zurich and began his professional career as a consultant at McKinsey. Prior to co-founding his current firm in 2023, Chanson served as a product manager at MakerDAO and Celo, where he was instrumental in launching a liquid staking protocol and guiding the network's transition to a layer 2 solution. His academic background includes a 2016 paper on decentralized applications that has garnered over 500 citations, providing technical depth for his investments in startups like AlloyX alongside prominent funds like a16z and Dragonfly. Today, Chanson focuses on pre-seed and seed-stage investments across decentralized infrastructure protocols, applying his expertise in technical due diligence and token design to drive real-world blockchain adoption.