Ryan Zurrer is the Founder and Director of Dialectic, a crypto native investment vehicle that produces extraordinary returns for its members. He has been venture investor and entrepreneur for 16 years. Ryan launched Polychain Capital’s private investment activities and is considered the creator of the SAFT. Ryan led Polychain Capital’s investment team and was instrumental in delivering Polychain’s 2017 returns (in excess of 28X net of fees to LPs). He is known for being at the centre of the 3 major cycles in crypto over the last decade. He was a very early or seed-stage investor in (chronological) – Ethereum, MakerDAO, Polychain Capital, Polkadot, Cosmos, Filecoin, Dfnity, Avalanche, Solana, Near, Synthetix, Sky Mavis/Axie, Yield Guild, and dozens more.
Ryan has built a reputation for being a hands-on, value-add venture investor with a uniquely global purview and deep crypto native experience. Previously he was CEO of a large Brazilian renewables firm and is responsible for more than 1GW of wind and solar power development globally along with a range of innovations in contracting, financial instruments and execution of utility-scale renewable energy projects.
Ryan brings his unique global purview and direct support of artists into his collecting activities. He is building an important digital art portfolio and works very directly with leading digital artists such as Beeple and Refik Anadol. Both artists have a number of museum collaborations that were orchestrated by Ryan’s collection, 1OF1.
