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)

“Homeostatic Drive as Policy Precision: Understanding Biological Motivation Through Large Language Model Inference Architecture” published in ResearchGate.net. December 2025

“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

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Podcast interview with David Linton, CEO, Canopy Growth Corp

Here is a list of all stock ideas published by Simons Chase that could be considered by the SEC as recommendations