United States of America

Andreessen Horowitz, often referred to as "a16z," is a prominent venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. It was founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, both of whom are well-known figures in the tech industry. Andreessen Horowitz is one of the leading venture capital firms in Silicon Valley and has gained a reputation for its investments in technology companies, particularly in the areas of software, internet, and more recently, blockchain and cryptocurrency.

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)

Polychain Capital is a cryptocurrency-focused investment management firm and hedge fund. It was founded in 2016 by Olaf Carlson-Wee, who was the first employee at Coinbase and is known for being one of the earliest advocates of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. Polychain Capital is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and is considered one of the prominent players in the cryptocurrency investment space.

Polychain Capital

Germany

1kx is a venture capital firm that stands at the forefront of the blockchain and crypto space, focusing on investments in decentralized technologies and blockchain-based projects. Founded by Christopher Heymann and Lasse Clausen, 1kx has established itself as a key player in identifying and supporting early-stage companies that are pushing the boundaries of innovation in the crypto ecosystem.

Singapore

NGC Ventures is one of the largest institutional investors of blockchain technologies, and has been a key contributor to a number of leading projects.

NGC Ventures

dao5

Seismic

Coinbase Ventures is the venture capital arm of Coinbase, one of the largest and most well-known cryptocurrency exchanges in the world. Coinbase Ventures is focused on investing in early-stage companies and projects in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space. It provides funding, resources, and support to startups and entrepreneurs working on innovative blockchain and crypto-related technologies and applications.

Coinbase Ventures

Four Cities Capital

Data Tech Fund

Universal

Legend

Blockchain Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies. It was founded in 2013 by Bart Stephens and Brad Stephens, and it's headquartered in San Francisco, California. Blockchain Capital is one of the earliest and most well-known venture capital firms dedicated exclusively to the blockchain and cryptocurrency space.

Blockchain Capital

Angel investor. Former VP and early employee at Coinbase.

Dan Romero

Packy McCormick is the founder of Not Boring. He attended Duke University.

Packy McCormick

Anatoly is the creator of Solana. He led development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox. He holds 2 patents for high performance Operating Systems protocols, was a core kernel developer for BREW which powered every CDMA flip phone (100m+ devices), and led development of tech that madeProject Tango (VR/AR) possible on Qualcomm phones.

Anatoly Yakovenko

Vance Spencer

Merit Systems

Paradigm is a cryptocurrency-focused investment firm and venture capital company. It was founded by Matt Huang and Fred Ehrsam, both of whom have significant experience in the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry. Paradigm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and is considered a prominent player in the digital asset and blockchain investment space.

Paradigm

Variant is an early-stage fund investing in web3. They believe the next generation of the internet will transform users into owners. They back mission-aligned founders at the earliest possible stage

Variant

Sequoia Capital is a renowned venture capital firm with a strong presence in Silicon Valley and a global reach. Founded in 1972 by Don Valentine, it has played a significant role in the growth and development of numerous technology companies.

Sequoia Capital

Phantom

Jump Capital is a venture capital and growth equity firm that focuses on investing in technology-driven companies across various industries. With offices in Chicago and New York, Jump Capital has established itself as a strategic investor with a broad portfolio, encompassing sectors such as software, fintech, healthcare, and more.

Jump Capital

Alliance is the leading crypto accelerator and founder community.

Alliance

Solana Ventures' mission is to accelerate the growth of the Solana blockchain and adjacent ecosystems by providing capital to the most promising teams building in the crypto ecosystem.

Solana Ventures

Solana Foundation is to build, support, and grow the Solana network and its community while driving mass adoption for blockchain.

Solana Foundation

Garry is a designer, engineer, and founder turned early stage investor, co-founding Initialized Capital in 2012. The firm has invested at the earliest stages of companies like Coinbase, Flexport, Instacart, and Cruise.

Prior to Initialized, Garry spent nearly 5 years as a partner at Y Combinator, advising and funding more than 1,000 companies andfounders. He was co-founder of YC-backed blog platform Posterous (acquired by Twitter in 2012) and previously worked at Palantir as a founding member of the engineering team. He also designed Palantir’s logo.
Garry holds a BS in Computer Systems Engineering from Stanford University.

Garry Tan

Blockwall Management is BaFin-registered blockchain venture Capital fund.

Blockwall Management

Kima Ventures

Austria

Speedinvest

OVNI Capital

Tranched

Mask Network is the Portal to the New, Open Internet.

Mask Network

A venture capital firm that invests globally in teams creating the future of the internet with decentralized protocols

Polymorphic Capital

WAGMI Ventures

Forward Research

Social Graph Ventures

BlockTower is an institutional investment firm, applying professional trading, venture investing, credit underwriting, and portfolio management to digital and traditional assets.

BlockTower Capital

Czechia

Credo Ventures is a venture capital company focused on early stage investments in Central and Eastern Europe.

Credo Ventures

Aayush Gupta

Peter Hoang

Remco Bloemen

Jakub Florkiewicz

Zac Williamson

Vlayer

Digital Currency Group builds and supports bitcoin and blockchain companies by leveraging insights, network, and access to capital.

Digital Currency Group (DCG)

Netherlands

Venture Capital Fund in Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)

Maven 11 Capital

Anthony Sassano

Volt Capital is a venture capital firm that specializes in investing in early-stage startups in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space. Volt Capital is known for its focus on supporting innovative projects and teams within the cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem.

Volt Capital

Finality Capital Partners

Nick White

Anagram Crypto

Bankless

Collin Myers

Amrit Kumar

L2 Iterative Ventures (L2IV)

Alex Watts

Robbie

Andy

Spire Labs

The CMT Group has acted as a valued collaborator to numerous exchanges, clearing firms, and trading and investment teams, generating edge by pairing market insight with early adoption and innovation of nascent technologies.

CMT Digital

China

IDG Capital is an investment firm that funds early- to growth-stage companies in the technology sector.

IDG Capital

Artichoke Capital is a technology venture capital firm supporting the next generation of founders advancing the development of Web3.

Artichoke Capital

Blockchain Builders Fund

Escape Velocity

Trident Digital

Rushi Manche

echo

BlockHunters Group

Comfy capital

Darius Rugys

Axal

Skyfire

Draper Associates is a global venture capital firm that invests in companies driving transformative change across industries.

Draper Associates

Gemini Frontier Fund is a strategic venture fund focused on growing the crypto ecosystem through investment in early-stage crypto projects.

Gemini Frontier Fund

Ripple

Circle is a financial technology firm that utilizes stablecoins for payments and e-commerce.

Circle

Framework Ventures is a cutting-edge venture capital firm deeply immersed in the world of decentralized finance (DeFi) and blockchain technology. Founded by Michael Anderson and Vance Spencer, Framework Ventures stands out as a key player in the rapidly evolving landscape of digital assets and blockchain-based financial innovations.

Framework Ventures

Benchmark

Towns

SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm. SV Angel supports entrepreneurs in building sustainable companies by helping them through key inflection points and using our network to help them grow their businesses.

SV Angel

Illia Polosukhin is a Co-Founder at NEAR.

Illia Polosukhin

Foresight Ventures is an investment institution focusing on blockchain technology and crypto industry established in 2020, whose predecessor was an international private equity venture capital with more than ten years of investment experience.  We take solid research on market and technology as investment orientation when investing in both primary and secondary markets of equity and token, with nearly 80 million dollars asset under management.

Foresight Ventures

United Kingdom

Ajit Tripathi

NEAR Foundation

Canonical Crypto

Symbolic Capital is a crypto-native fund founded by web3 founders.

Symbolic Capital

Anand Iyer

Ryan Watkins

The SALT Fund

Celestia

Pragma Ventures

Paul Taylor

Thanefield Capital

Black Dragon Capital is a technology focused investment firm formed by a team of experienced entrepreneurs and hands-on operators, with a track record of successful investing. Black Dragon invests in disruptive technology that strengthen economic stability within communities with a strong focus on promoting diversity,  impact investing, and a history of delivering attractive returns.

Black Dragon Capital

India

Sandeep Nailwal

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joining a16z, he was the cofounder and CTO of FoundersFund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

Balaji Srinivasan

OpenGradient

Andy Chatham

Raj Gokal

GSR, founded in 2013, is a global leader in digital asset trading and market making.
GSR is a crypto market maker and ecosystem partner

GSR Markets (GSR)

Lattice is an early-stage crypto VC that helps founders build defensible moats.

Lattice

Colosseum

Paul Bohm

MeshMap

AminoChain

Hong Kong

Lemniscap is an investment firm specializing in investments in emerging cryptoassets and blockchain companies

Lemniscap

LongHash Ventures is a global blockchain accelerator and VC fund.

LongHash Ventures

zkValidator (ZKV)

LambdaClass is a venture studio that works on difficult problems related to distributed systems, ML, compilers and cryptography.

LambdaClass

Public Works

Velocity Capital

zeroDAO

Fermah

Magicblock

Hack VC is a web3 venture capital firm. Hack VC partners with online and offline hackers who are building the future of the internet.

Hack VC

Scott Moore

Evan Cheng Co-founder & CEO at Mysten Labs. He attended Syracuse University.

Evan Cheng

Alumni Ventures Group

Lily Liu is the co-founder and CFO at Earn.com. He is a former partner at Multi family office and CFO at Chinaco Healthcare Corporation. Lily holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from Stanford University.

Lily Liu

Dispersion Capital

Nomad Capital

dcbuilder.eth

Ben Fisch

PIN AI

Orange DAO

Outliers Fund

Steakhouse Financial

Ideo Ventures

Unbounded Capital

Cork Protocol

MH Ventures is a world-class community-backed venture capital investing in top blockchain projects of the future.

MH Ventures

Tykhe Block Ventures

Selini is a global trading firm focused on systematic trading, liquidity provision, efficient execution, and venture investing—all within the digital assets space.

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