Scott Moore is a Canadian angel investor and Web3 builder best known as a co-founder of Gitcoin, the Ethereum-native platform for funding open-source software development through grants and quadratic funding rounds. Before and alongside his work at Gitcoin, Moore began backing early-stage crypto and Web3 projects as an individual angel, accumulating a portfolio of roughly 17 known investments concentrated in the Ethereum ecosystem and public goods infrastructure.
Moore's investing thesis centers on one core belief: the internet needs better mechanisms to fund the things it depends on. He has written and spoken extensively about public goods as an underinvested category, arguing that protocols and tooling with positive externalities rarely attract enough private capital. His angel checks tend to go to teams building coordination primitives, developer tooling, identity infrastructure, and decentralized governance systems – areas where Gitcoin's own grant rounds surfaced early demand signals.
No formal fund vehicle or disclosed AUM is associated with Moore's angel activity. He operates as an individual, often co-investing alongside other Ethereum-adjacent angels and early-stage funds. His geographic base is Canada, though his network and deal flow are global, with a strong pull toward projects connected to the Ethereum Foundation and broader Ethereum research community.
Notable investments
- Gitcoin – Co-founded in 2017; the platform has distributed over $60 million to open-source contributors through quadratic funding grants as of 2024.
- Public goods and coordination tooling – Moore has publicly supported projects building on top of or adjacent to Gitcoin Grants Stack, Allo Protocol, and similar infrastructure.
- Ethereum ecosystem tooling – Specific portfolio company names beyond Gitcoin are not consistently disclosed in public sources. Public information about individual deal names and check sizes is limited.
Team
Scott Moore operates as a solo angel rather than through a partnership structure. His public profile includes his role at Gitcoin, where he served as co-founder alongside Kevin Owocki. Moore has been active as a writer and speaker on topics including retroactive public goods funding, Ethereum governance, and coordination theory. He has contributed to governance discussions at the Ethereum Foundation level and in DAOs such as GitcoinDAO. No additional managing partners or investment team members are publicly associated with his angel activity.
Recent activity
In 2023 and 2024, Moore stepped back from day-to-day operations at Gitcoin as the project transitioned more fully to a DAO governance model. This shift freed bandwidth for his angel investing and writing work. He has been vocal on social platforms about the direction of public goods funding post-Gitcoin Grants rounds, including commentary on the growing interest in retroactive public goods funding (RetroPGF) models pioneered by Optimism. Whether this has translated into new portfolio companies during 2025–2026 is not confirmed in publicly available sources.
Moore represents a category of crypto angel that is more thesis-driven than return-driven in public framing. His track record is tied closely to Gitcoin's trajectory – a meaningful outcome given the platform's cultural weight in Ethereum, though not a liquidity event in the traditional venture sense. For teams building coordination infrastructure or public goods tooling within the Ethereum ecosystem, Moore is a credible early backer with genuine network access. Investors or founders seeking more detail on his current portfolio activity can follow his public writing at @notscottmoore or check his Crunchbase profile.
