Charlie Morris

Charlie Morris is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of CMCC Global, a blockchain-focused investment firm founded in Hong Kong in 2016 with Martin Baumann. CMCC Global describes itself as one of Asia’s first venture capital companies focused solely on blockchain investments and now operates across Asia and North America, with additional European presence referenced in firm materials.

Before CMCC Global, Morris was CIO at a blockchain venture capital firm, worked as a management consultant in London, and was a software engineer in Hong Kong. CMCC Global also identifies him as an expert blockchain adviser for CLSA and an Ethereum ICO investor in 2014. He holds a PPE degree from the University of Oxford; his LinkedIn profile lists Oxford from 2005 to 2008.

At CMCC Global, Morris helps oversee a set of fund strategies spanning digital assets, traditional equity venture capital, ecosystem funds, and crypto hedge-fund-of-funds products. The firm’s roadmap includes early investments in Ethereum, Cosmos, and Solana, a Toronto office opening in 2018, the 2023 launch of Titan Fund, and later fund launches including Everest Fund and Resonance.

• CMCC Global’s core thesis is that blockchain is enabling “the next era of the Internet,” focused on the movement of value rather than only data and information.
• The firm looks for teams with a clear path to adoption and says it uses global relationships to help portfolio companies bridge the East-West divide.
• Through Titan Fund, CMCC Global invests in blockchain-company equity, focusing on seed to Series A/B opportunities across infrastructure, fintech, and consumer applications.
• Morris has emphasized Asia as a major Web3 opportunity, saying that high internet penetration and a large unbanked population prime the region for consumer adoption of Web3 applications.
• CMCC Global’s Digital Asset Fund focuses on smart-contract platforms, technical infrastructure, social infrastructure, DeFi, and decentralized applications.
• The firm’s recent ecosystem funds show a willingness to form concentrated theses around specific blockchain networks, including Avalanche through Everest Fund and Sonic through Resonance.
• Reported individual investor profile data for Morris lists Web3/blockchain and Web3/crypto at seed and Series A, with a $100K–$5.0M investment range.