NORTH COL CAPITAL
Partnering with the ambitious who take the bold, unconventional path.
HONG KONG · 22.3027° N · 114.1772° E
About
Long-term capital, guided by experience.
North Col Capital is a private family office. Its principals have built and scaled businesses as founders and operators, and invest with the patience, discretion and judgement that experience brings.
Team
David Lu
General PartnerDavid is a serial entrepreneur and investor. He has founded four companies and led two to successful exits, most recently at a $2 billion valuation.
Today he invests actively across companies, with a particular focus on startups and venture capital. Having built businesses as an operator himself, David is passionate about backing the next generation of founders, and he invests first and foremost in people.
General PartnerVivien Chan
Vivien is an investor and operator with more than a decade of experience investing across public equities and technology-focused venture capital. She has spent over seven years leading turnaround and growth transformation projects for some of Asia's largest businesses, and most recently driving international expansion at a pre-IPO media and technology company. Vivien brings this hands-on experience to her investments, working alongside portfolio companies to sharpen strategy and unlock their next stage of growth.
Investments
Venture Capital
Backing exceptional founders and businesses with long-term potential.
Funds
Selective exposure to specialist managers and strategies.
Public Markets
Disciplined participation across public markets.
Portfolio
Selected investments across funds, early-stage companies and public markets.
Multicoin Capital
Thesis-driven investment firm focused on cryptocurrencies, tokens, and blockchain companies — held across the firm's flagship venture and liquid vehicles.
Pooled Fund
Colosseum
Accelerator and early-stage fund backing founders graduating from the Solana hackathon series — concentrated, hands-on capital at formation.
Pooled Fund
Monad
High-performance, parallelised EVM-compatible Layer-1. Direct minority position in the operating company alongside its institutional cap table.
Direct Investment
DoubleZero
Permissionless fiber network purpose-built for high-performance blockchains — reducing latency and jitter between validators and end users.
Direct Investment
Squads
Programmable multisig and smart-account infrastructure for teams and institutions operating on Solana — custody, treasury, and operations.
Direct Investment
fun.xyz
Developer platform for embedding programmable wallets and chain-agnostic transactions inside consumer applications.
Direct Investment
Magic Eden
Cross-chain marketplace for digital collectibles and tokenised assets — held as a secondary minority interest in the operating company.
Direct Investment
Forward Industries
Listed equity position. Tracks a public-market vehicle for treasury exposure to digital assets.
Public Markets
Approach
We take the long view, and choose our direction with care.
A small number of considered commitments, held with conviction and supported by people who have done the work themselves.