Simons Chase

@slchase

Presently, I am the CIO and owner of independent investment firm SC Capital Management LLC. My side project is Selflet.ai

I have over 20 years of media, finance and early-stage investing experience on the frontiers of emerging trends, starting with oil & gas finance in Russia in the 1990s. I publish niche media sites as a way to test theories and explore themes I feel are important. These include Synthetic.com (emerging synthetic biology industry) CubaJournal.co and High.co (cannabis industry). Previously, I was the CEO of Instra Corp. (New Zealand), a digital marketing company, and CEO of dotRIP Ltd, a digital memorial startup and Instra holding company that was sold to Demand Media. LiquidStaking.com is a research-and-tools site for crypto investors that explains staking and liquid staking (and the fast-moving ETF/regulatory context around it) in a practical, decision-oriented way.

I am perpetually finalizing Earth Tycoon, an autobiographical novel. The novel is set in a variety of countries but focuses on the human side of my experience running a mining company in the Jordanian desert that was financed by the late Forbes-list industrialist, Jerry Zucker. I created a narrative video of one chapter of my novel.

I’m also a rum judge.

I studied developing country economics in graduate school (MA Economics) and I have a BA in English.

Intellectual property

“Bidirectional Neural Interface System and Method for Simultaneous Neural Signal Reading and Therapeutic Stimulation” (U.S. Patent Application Filed — Patent Pending 2025)

“Thirst Is a Prompt: Restating Active-Inference Accounts of Motivation in the Language of LLM Inference” (originally “Homeostatic Drive as Policy Precision”), published on ResearchGate and Academia.edu. December 2025, revised November 2026

“Digital Memorialization” Australian Provisional Patent Application (expired) 2013. Inventors: Simons Chase, Tony Lentino

Selected articles & bylines

The Obesity Epidemic and Biotech Innovation: Unveiling Opportunities in GLP-1 Agonists — Synthetic.com
Screening Synthetic Biology Companies — simonschase.co
Interview With Jo Bhakdi, CEO, Quantgene — Synthetic.com
Evaluating Enterprise Cloud Computing Stocks Through A Thematic Growth Lens — simonschase.co
In St. Barth, Finding The Rhythm Of Caribbean Rum — Caribbean Journal
Facebook’s Conduct Shows Not All Network Effects Are Positive — simonschase.co
A Note On The Music Industry — simonschase.co
The Emerging Process Automation Industry — simonschase.co
Why U.S. Political Risks Should Be A Factor In Portfolio Risk Budgets — simonschase.co
Elon Musk Brings Enormity Back To The Speculative Genre — simonschase.co
Blockchain Caribbean Style? — Caribbean Journal
Cuba Is Headed For A Tech Revolution — Tech.co
Here Is A Publicly-Traded Cannabis Company You Can Get Behind — High.co (subsequently became the world’s largest market cap cannabis company)
Exclusive: A Look Behind The Scenes Of Google’s Virtual Reality Short Film About Cuba — Cuba Journal
Notes From The Finca Vigia — Cuba Journal (never before published Hemingway marginalia)
Two Perspectives On Food Innovation: Sodastream vs. Monster Beverage — simonschase.co (PepsiCo purchased Sodastream in 2018)

Media mentions & interviews

Podcast Interview with James Kunstler (June 2020): KunstlerCast 330 — “Negative Network Effects with financier and author Simons Chase”
Video Interview: The Future Of Security Tokens Security Token Academy (2018)
Article Reference: Two Intertwined Dynamics Are Transforming the Economy: Technology and Financialization — OfTwoMinds.com
Article Reference: Sugar Linked To $1 Trillion In U.S. Healthcare Spending — Forbes
Article Reference: Why Google Should Buy Warby Parker – Before Jawbone — Forbes
Book Reference: Casino Healthcare by Dan Munro

Discussing Pedro Menocal’s new book, Cubanisms. November 17, 2016

Podcast: Play | Download

Podcast interview with David Linton, CEO, Canopy Growth Corp

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