General Manager / Principal at Signum Capital
Check size: No reliable public personal or fund ticket range is available. Signum says it manages two active MAS-licensed vehicles—the Signum Capital Investment Fund and co-managed UOB-Signum Blockchain Fund—but does not publish a standard check size on the cited official pages.
Ian applies a risk, financial-modeling and operating lens to early crypto companies and protocols. Within Signum's broader thesis, he assesses infrastructure and crypto-native products that can make the internet more open and intelligent, reduce economic friction and enable more flexible coordination, while tracking whether portfolio execution supports those ambitions.
Use Signum's published management@signum.capital address or a verified introduction and independently confirm the domain and calendar link. Never use @IanSignum or ianlee@signum.capital; the firm identifies them as fraudulent. Present the project concept, technical architecture, token/equity structure, risk cases, revenue or protocol economics, developer adoption and a specific plan for how Signum's Asia network could accelerate execution.
Direct official evidence emphasizes well-reasoned project concepts, high-quality infrastructure, crypto-native innovation with mainstream spillover, founders who can turn an idea into a strategic and financial plan and products Signum can help through mindshare, developer activity, hackathons and ecosystem connections.
No personal pass list is published. His official risk and portfolio remit implies skepticism toward concepts without coherent economics, weak financial assumptions, infrastructure without developer or product adoption, teams unable to translate ideas into execution plans and token projects whose downside or operating risks are not clearly understood.
Translate the protocol idea into a strategic roadmap, financial or token model, operating milestones and explicit risks before judging investability.
Test how a crypto-native primitive can improve a product, market or coordination model used beyond the existing crypto community.
Track budget, revenue or fee assumptions, runway, token emissions, treasury exposure and milestone variance rather than relying on narrative progress.
Authenticate the sender, domain, calendar and files through the firm's published channel before opening links or discussing financing.