Charles J Read

Investor and operator in consumer technology. Founded Rarestone Capital and i42. Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe, Finance (2023). Dubai · Lisbon · London.

Investing since 2016, angel investing since 2018, backing technical founders full-time since 2020. Full-cycle fund experience through Rarestone; now deploying personal capital, building v1 products through i42, and building an independent media house at MVXX Group.

MVXX Group

2026— · Co-Founder

Independent media house building new age media, starting with a daily and weekly newsletter: Frontier, a market-intelligence brief tracking the frontier technologies moving markets. Frontier is backed by a proprietary narrative engine that surfaces the second- and third-order effects of the news before they're consensus.

i42

2025— · Founder

Product studio building world-class v1 products, production-ready in under a month. Founder-led design, engineering, and product. Recent builds: Nunchi.trade, Portl.

Rarestone Capital

2020—2024 · Founding Partner

Pre-seed and seed fund. 80+ investments across consumer technology and crypto infrastructure. Now in portfolio-management phase.

Selected investments

Bitcoin Since 2016 L1 Solana Private round L1 Monad Angel L1 Jito Labs Seed Infra The Grid Seed Consumer Parlour Digital Seed Consumer Beezie Seed Consumer FOAD Seed Consumer Caffpack Seed Consumer

Full portfolio available on request.

Contact

him@charlesjread.xyz