Managing Partner
Signum CapitalCheck size: No reliable public personal or fund check range is published. Signum manages two active MAS-licensed funds, including the co-managed UOB-Signum Blockchain Fund, and invests through token and equity structures; no standard ticket or YY-specific signing threshold is inferred.
YY backs crypto-native infrastructure and applications capable of becoming a new trust layer for society, then helps founders cross from technical community adoption into mainstream products and Asian markets. His incubation history makes the thesis hands-on: validate the use case, connect founders to partners and investors, build developer mindshare and refine growth strategy rather than supplying capital alone.
His stated mission is to identify and support the right founders building game-changing startups. Official and portfolio evidence points to crypto-native teams with real utility, composable infrastructure, strong technical foundations, the potential to unlock dormant capital or reduce friction and founders who welcome close work on strategy, partnerships and regional growth.
No public personal pass list exists. Inference from his incubator and Signum roles: technology without a validated problem, token projects without useful trust or coordination benefits, isolated protocols that cannot integrate or compose, teams resistant to user feedback and products with no credible route from crypto-native early adopters to broader usage.
Use management@signum.capital or a verified warm introduction. State the trust or coordination problem, show why blockchain is necessary, demonstrate technical progress and early developer or user activity and outline token/equity economics. Be explicit about the Asian market, ecosystem partners and where Signum's incubation, hackathon and network support can accelerate adoption. Verify all links because the firm has warned of impersonators targeting founders.
Identify which trust, ownership or coordination function blockchain uniquely improves and reject projects where a conventional database is enough.
Move from problem validation to prototype, initial users, ecosystem partners, capital formation and repeatable regional growth with evidence at every step.
Assess whether other protocols and applications can build on the product, creating ecosystem value beyond its standalone feature set.
Pair early community and developer adoption with a credible product, distribution and regulatory path for non-crypto users.
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YY is a managing partner at Signum Capital. He previously led the PayPal Fintech Incubator, which invested in and incubated fintech and blockchain startups, and led incubation at NTU Ventures before joining Signum's blockchain investment practice.