Rising Tide is an international, stage-agnostic venture capital firm focused on blockchain, artificial intelligence, deep technology, enterprise software, and healthcare. Rising Tide's Twitter Score is 0.9 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #431,850 among 486,467 tracked accounts.
Rising Tide operates under Rising Tide Fund Managers, LLC and is led by Partners Tamer Hassanein and Brent MacDonald, with Joseph Kell serving as CFO. The firm describes its investment philosophy as centered on character, commitments, and results, and approaches opportunities without restriction by stage. Its blockchain investment themes span DeFi, custody, staking infrastructure, digital scarcity, on/off-ramps, and applications designed to simplify blockchain interaction.
Rising Tide's crypto-related holdings include Dapper Labs, Trust Machines, Amberdata, Brave, CoinList, Hiro, Messari, Staked (subsequently acquired by Kraken), and The Ocean. Rising Tide's broader fund portfolio includes stacks.btc, Dapper Labs, Messari By Blockworks, CoinList, Amberdata and Tribal. Rising Tide has published 528 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 2 accounts a total of 2 times.
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The accounts that follow Rising Tide include 4 founders, 1 angel investors and 3 VCs, among them Roham, Kyle Ellicott, Precursor Ventures, Tipatat, Mik and Isaac Hasson.