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North Island Ventures is a crypto-focused VC fund

North Island Ventures

Breyer Capital is a premier global venture capital and private equity investor focused on catalyzing high-impact entrepreneurs in the United States and China. Founded by Jim Breyer in 2006, Breyer Capital makes long-term, idea-driven strategic investments in its chosen core areas: social media, entertainment/media, digital health, andfinancial technologies.
Breyer Capital actively partners with a diverse set of companies including early-stage startups building breakthrough technologies, fast growing companies, and established worldwide leading corporations. Its team enjoys helping to frame strategic investments anchored by the passion of founders and owner/operator teams, the insights of its network of world-class investors, and a conviction that artificial intelligence, machine learning, and virtual reality will transform technology and investment opportunities globally.

Breyer Capital

Ambush Capital is an angel fund in New York that helps entrepreneurs through the early stages of building a company.

Ambush Capital

Archetype is an early-stage venture fund focused on accelerating the decentralized future.

Archetype

Finality Capital Partners

Bodhi Ventures is a crypto native fund – built by founders for founders.

Bodhi Ventures

GD1 Crypto

Escape Velocity

Opacity Network

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)

Hong Kong

Animoca Brands is a global digital entertainment company that specializes in the development and publishing of mobile games, blockchain-based games, and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). They are known for creating and publishing a wide range of popular games, including licensed intellectual properties such as Formula 1, Doraemon, and MotoGP. Animoca Brands is also heavily involved in the blockchain gaming space, leveraging the benefits of blockchain technology and NFTs to create unique gaming experiences.

Animoca Brands

Galaxy Interactive is a venture capital firm focused on interactive content and technology companies.

Galaxy Interactive

Amber Group is a one-stop crypto finance service provider that provides liquidity provision, trading and asset management services 24/7.

Amber Group

UpHonest Capital

K5 Global is a new media and financial services advisory and consulting firm. The company works with corporations, government entities, and start-ups, and is involved in a range of industries, including sports, technology, politics, and entertainment. K5 functions as a liaison for high-level startups and deal flow, connects influencers andcelebrities to entrepreneurs and brands, and incubates global business opportunities with A-list talent.

K5 Global

Bing Ventures

United Arab Emirates

DWF Labs is the new generation Web3 investor and market maker, one of the world's largest high-frequency cryptocurrency trading entities, which trades spot and derivatives markets on over 60 top exchanges.

DWF Labs

WAGMI Ventures

Leland Ventures Capital is a hedge fund that invests alongside our partners to provide diversified investment strategies to generate long-term income.

Leland Ventures

IOBC Capital is a global crypto venture capital fund that's on a mission to revolutionize the blockchain landscape. Born in 2021, we’re here to give early-stage crypto projects the kickstart they need to take over the world, while pushing the boundaries of the web3 industry.

IOBC Capital

Gate Labs

MARBLEX

Aptos

MBK Holding is engineered specially to support Startups.

MBK Holding

Taisu Ventures is a VC firm that invests in and empowers early-stage web3 companies across the globe.

Taisu Ventures

Steve Chen

Thomas Vu

Marc Merrill

Balance

Singapore

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

Mask Network

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)

Nonagon, based in San Francisco, supports teams in the early stages of building web3.

Nonagon

Web3Port

MetaBlast Group

Delphi Digital is a dynamic research-driven firm at the intersection of blockchain technology and traditional finance. Founded by a team of seasoned professionals, the firm is committed to providing cutting-edge insights and strategic analysis in the rapidly evolving digital asset space.

Delphi Digital (Delphi Labs)

Alexis Ohanian, born April 24, 1983, is an entrepreneur and investor in Brooklyn, NY, best known as the co-founder and executive chair of reddit, a platform for online communities to share links and have discussions.

Alexis Ohanian

Protocol Labs is a research, development, and deployment lab for network protocols.

Protocol Labs

Atelier Ventures

Weekend Fund is a venture capital and angel investing firm focused on making early-stage investments.

Weekend Fund

True Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups.

True Ventures

Sound Ventures is a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in the technology sector.

Sound Ventures

Ashton Kutcher is an actor, investor, entrepreneur, producer and philanthropist.

Kutcher has been named one of TIME magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World,” as well as being honored by Vanity Fair ‘s “New Establishment List,” which identifies the top 50 of an innovative new breed of buccaneering visionaries, engineering prodigiesand entrepreneurs. Twice, Kutcher was named one of Forbes magazine’s “World’s Most Powerful Celebrities,” as well as one of Fast Company magazine’s “Most Creative People.”
Kutcher has been investing in technology for over a decade, both as an angel investor and a founding partner of A-Grade Investments and Sound Ventures. His fund portfolio includes Airbnb, Uber, Flexport, Brex, Robinhood, Bird, Airtable and Affirm among others.

Kutcher is also the co-founder of Thorn: Digital Defenders of Children (www.thorn.org). Thorn drives technology innovation to fight the sexual exploitation of children.

Kutcher currently stars in the Netflix original series, The Ranch. He also serves as Executive Producer. Until 2015, Kutcher starred in the CBS comedy series Two and a Half Men. The show ranked as the second most-watched comedy on all of network television. Kutcher first gained recognition as Michael Kelso on the Fox series That 70’s Show, and went on to star in a variety of box office hits on the big screen – including What Happens In Vegas with Cameron Diaz, The Guardian with Kevin Costner, No Strings Attached with Natalie Portman and the cult hit Dude, Where’s My Car.

Kutcher served as co-creator and producer of MTV's hit series, “Punk'd,” and The CW's reality series “Beauty and the Geek” and “True Beauty.” He has also produced films such as No Strings Attached, Killers and The Butterfly Effect. Additionally, Kutcher co-founded APlus, a digital media company devoted to spreading the message of positive journalism, a kind of storytelling that focuses on our shared humanity. In 2016, APlus was purchased by Chicken Soup for the Soul.

Ashton Kutcher

Electric Capital is a venture capital firm that focuses on investments in blockchain and cryptocurrency-related projects and companies. Founded by Avichal Garg and Curtis Spencer, Electric Capital is known for its active involvement in the cryptocurrency space and its support for innovative blockchain technologies.

Electric Capital

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

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

Bill Ackman

CoinFund is a blockchain-focused investment firm and cryptocurrency research company that specializes in supporting and investing in early-stage blockchain and crypto projects. Founded by Jake Brukhman and Alex Felix in 2015, CoinFund has been active in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space for several years

CoinFund

IDEO CoLab Ventures is a venture capital (VC) arm associated with IDEO CoLab, an innovation and design consultancy. IDEO CoLab Ventures focuses on investing in and supporting startups that are developing innovative technologies and solutions in emerging fields such as blockchain, decentralized finance (DeFi), and Web3 technologies.

IDEO CoLab Ventures

Ryan Hoover

Scott Belsky

Scalar Capital provides fund management and advisory services.

Scalar Capital

Thirty Five Ventures connect established and emerging businesses for meaningful value creation so they can thrive and scale.

Thirty Five Ventures

Switzerland

Aave Ventures

Makena Management Group is a Real estate company located in 29 Boston Post Rd, Madison, Connecticut, United States.

Makena Capital Management

Biz is a co-founder of Twitter, Medium, and Jelly. A progenitor of social media, and early Google employee, Biz has been developing large scale systems that serve the global conversation for twenty years. As an investor, Biz has backed Square, Pinterest, Slack when it was called Speck, Nest, Intercom and Beyond Meat (where he remains on the boardas Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee), among others. In 2016, Stone's Jelly, a "human in the loop" AI search service, was acquired by Pinterest. After the sale, Twitter requested Biz return full time to lead the company's strategic vision, brand, and internal culture objectives alongside co-founder Jack Dorsey. Biz has been recognized as INC Magazine Entrepreneur of the Decade and one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in the World. He is also an author, filmmaker and Fellow at both Oxford University and Berkeley.

Biz Stone

Canada

Matthew Ball

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

Packy McCormick

Alice Lloyd George focuses on early stage investments around the blockchain and cryptographic technologies, robotics and AI, and consumer internet.

Prior to joining RRE Alice spent time at Signia Venture Partners and Bridgewater Associates. Previously she lived in Beijing and conducted investigative research as a Brookings Institute fellow. Shebegan her career at The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong, where she covered business and politics in Malaysia, India, Australia, Burma and China.
Alice graduated from Princeton with a BA from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy and a minor in East Asian Studies. She sits on the board of LGAF, a charitable foundation supporting child-focused projects in Asia. Alice originally hails from London and is an enthusiast on all things related to art, creative education, and futurology. She enjoys backpacking, particularly in far-flung places.

Alice Lloyd George

Syndicate

Finland

Founder and CEO of Aave and ETHLend. He is an experienced businessman with extensive knowledge of blockchain, cryptocurrencies and financial technology.

Stani Kulechov

Alliance is the leading crypto accelerator and founder community.

Alliance

Robot Ventures primarily invests in projects and companies related to decentralized finance (DeFi), blockchain technology, cryptocurrencies, and the broader Web 3.0 ecosystem. They seek to identify promising early-stage projects that are building innovative solutions in these areas.

Robot Ventures

Nascent is a team of builders who back early-stage crypto founders creating products and primitives for an open financial world.

Nascent

Ryan Selkis is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Messari. He was the Managing Director CoinDesk before that. After discovering bitcoin, Ryan became obsessed with the technology’s social and economic potential. That obsession, along with finance and startup experience, helps him lead DCG's investing efforts.

Ryan Selkis

Robert Leshner

Kleiner Perkins

Avichal is Managing Partner at Electric Capital. He is a serial entrepreneur and technology executive. Avichal sold two companies and was most recently Director of Product at Facebook, which acquired his company Spool in 2012. He previously worked at Google on search ranking and ads ranking, is part-time at YCombinator, and an active angelinvestor.
Avichal's firm, Electric Capital, focuses on cryptocurrencies that are rooted in technological utility. Electric performs deep technological diligence, such as compiling code, profiling nodes, and analyzing blockchains with in-house software. The founders of Electric have started and sold five companies, have been investing in cryptocurrencies since 2013, and are investors in Anchor, Bitwise, Chia, Coda, dYdX, Dfinity, Oasis, Thunder and many other crypto projects.

Avichal Garg

DeFi Dad

Tegan Kline

Ryan Sean Adams

Tarun Chitra

Jake Brukhman

Alicia Lau currently works as the Talent for Kleiner Perkins. She previously worked at Accenture in Management Consulting.

Alicia Lau

Anil Lulla is the Co-Founder & COO at Delphi Digital . Anil Lulla attended Rutgers Business School.

Anil Lulla

Ash Egan is founder at Archetype and Venture Partner at Accomplice focusing on early stage blockchain and crypto investments.

At Accomplice, Ash has led investments in Bison Trails, Coda, Near, amongst other crypto-networks and crypto-enabled companies. Previously, he was a founding Principal on the venture team at ConsenSys, the largestblockchain company in the world, where he led investments in BlockFi, Vault, RocketPool, and Quantstamp. Ash began his career in venture at Converge VC, where he focused primarily on blockchain/crypto and machine learning applications, and led the firm's investments in Chainalysis, Enigma, and Wade & Wendy.
Ash received his AB in American Politics from Princeton University where he captained the Men's Varsity Squash team and played on the National Champion Team in 2012. He is a World Economic Forum Global Shaper and serves as an advisor at ConsenSys' Tachyon Accelerator, and mentors university students at Harvard Ventures. Ash received Forbes 30 Under 30 for Venture Capital in 2020 and has been published in Techcrunch, Coindesk, VentureBeat, and the Boston Globe.

Ash Egan

Brad Holden is the Investments working at Protocol Labs. He attended Middlebury CollegeMiddlebury College.

Brad Holden

Brandon Cook

Curtis Spencer is the Partner & Co-Founder at Electric Capital. Attended Stanford University.

Curtis Spencer

Dan is an Investor at IDEO CoLab Ventures, which funds early-stage companies building on distributed web technology (blockchains, cryptocurrencies, etc). Since 2015, he has led the distributed web portfolio at IDEO CoLab, conducting research and prototype development in partnership with both startups and Fortune 500 companies, including Citi,Nasdaq, Fidelity, Exelon, BlueCross BlueShield, and Ford.
Dan received his MBA from MIT Sloan, where he co-founded the MIT Bitcoin Club, MIT FinTech Club, and MIT Bitcoin Project (which distributed $100 in bitcoin to each MIT undergraduate in 2014), and organized the inaugural MIT Bitcoin Expo. Prior to falling down the crypto rabbit hole, Dan worked in social entrepreneurship and microfinance, first as a social enterprise consultant with Community Wealth Partners, then leading international accounting and operations for Grameen Foundation. Dan also holds a BA in Psychology from Pomona College.

Dan Elitzer

David Nage

Don Ho

Eric Wu is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Opendoor. Before Opendoor, Eric founded Movity.com, a location data analytics company that was acquired by Trulia.com in 2011. He graduated from the University of Arizona with a bachelor of science in Economics.

Eric Wu

Gavin McDermott is the Engineering and Research at IDEO.He attended Creighton University.

Gavin McDermott

Imran Khan

Joe Gerber Managing Director at IDEO CoLab Ventures.

Joe Gerber

Italy

Jose Macedo

Justin Mart Corp Dev + Ventures at Coinbase

Justin Mart

Ken Deeter

Luke Saunders

Maria Xinhe Shen is a member of the founding team at Electric Capital.

Maria Xinhe Shen

Medio Demarco

Qiao Wang is a believer in decentralized technologies such as cryptocurrencies that shift the balance of power from the elite to the commoner.

Qiao Wang

Reuben Bramanathan

Scott Lewis Co-Founder of Concourse Open Community.

Scott Lewis

Master in Design Studies (Technology) Candidate at Harvard Graduate School of Design

Tara Tan

Tom Shaughnessy

Trevor McFedries is the Founder and CEO of Brud.

Trevor McFedries

Yan Liberman, Co-Founder at Delphi Digital.

Yan Liberman

Meltem Demirors

Tyler Scott Ward

Raj Gokal

Rahul Vohra is the Founder and CEO at Superhuman. He is also the Technical Advisor at BOLDstart Ventures and Investor & Advisor at Partender and Investor of sendwithus and EasyPost.

Rahul Vohra is a former CEO and Co-Founder of Rapportive and Game Designer at Jagex. Rahul received a bachelor of arts in Computer Science at the University ofCambrigdge.

Rahul Vohra

Regan Bozman is a Director Of Business Operations at CoinList.

Regan Bozman

Spain

Luis is a hacker and free culture lover who founded various startups since he got involved in free software development at age 12.

He was awarded as the best hacker of Europe under 18 at age 15.

He was also an Advisor to the Vice-president of the European Commission, Neelie Kroes, who is in charge of the EU's Digital Agenda.

He hasalready released his first book, that reached the #1 in Amazon's Business category. Although he is 19 he is not attending college and believes a huge change in the educational system has to be made.
Luis defines himself as a crypto-anarchist, and because of that he's a Bitcoin lover.

His latest startup, called Stampery, wants to provide a digital certification method by using Bitcoin's technology to get rid of notaries.

Luis Cuende

Noah Jessop is a Principal & Managing Partner. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Noah Jessop

Alana Podrx Founder | Investor | ex-McKinsey

Alana Podrx

Xochitl Cazador

Tom is Chairman of AKQA, the leading and most-awarded digital agency. AKQA works with global brands including: Audi, Delta, Google, Nike, Target, Verizon Wireless, Visa and Xbox to ensure they win in the digital age. AKQA has eight global offices in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Tom is also President of WPP Ventures, a new Silicon Valley-basedcompany, which explores new digital investment opportunities for WPP, the leading communications services group.
Tom Bedecarré is one of the most influential leaders in advertising today. Recently named “Silicon Valley’s Favorite Adman” by Fortune Magazine, he was cited for being a “rare hybrid” that “has cred with techies and Mad Men alike.”

He has been an innovator and pioneer in the advertising and communications business for more than three decades. In 2012, Tom was recognized as an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of The Year for his leadership in the marketing services industry. Before AKQA, Tom was founder and CEO of Citron Haligman Bedecarré, San Francisco’s largest independent advertising agency.

Tom holds a BA degree from Stanford University and an MBA degree from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Tom Bedecarre

Todd Goldberg is an Entrepreneur and angel investor. He attended Y Combinator.

Todd Goldberg

Thibauld Favre is a co-founder and CEO at Fairmint.

Thibauld Favre

Steven D. Weinstein is a Managing Director in Cambridge, MA, USA.

Steve focuses on both medical device and bio/pharma investments for the fund. He brings significant operating and venture capital experience to Novartis' investing efforts. Steve joined the Novartis Venture Fund in 2006 as a Managing Director. He has led the investmentsand serves on the board of Ablation Frontiers (acquired by Medtronic), Autonomic Technologies, Portaero, Sonitus Medical, and Visiogen (acquired by Abbott).
Prior to Novartis, Steve was at Prism Venture Partners, where he focused on medical devices and served on the boards of iScience Interventional, ROX Medical, and Sensitech (acquired by Carrier/UTX). Prior to Prism, Steve was a Principal and Kauffman Fellow with the Mid-Atlantic Venture Funds. He started his career as an entrepreneur and CEO, raising angel funds to buy the assets of a defunct distribution business out of bankruptcy, and then rebuilt the business over the next several years.

Steve holds an MBA with distinction from the University of Michigan Business School and a BS in mechanical engineering from Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science. He serves on the University of Michigan Wolverine Venture Fund Advisory Board and on the board of the Family to Family project.

Steve Weinstein

Steve Blank is an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University.

Steve Blank

Sriram Krishnan

United Kingdom

Sina Habibi is the CEO at Cognetivity Neurosciences. He attended Cambridge University, Institute for Manufacturing.

Sina Habibi

Sebastian Delgado Cofounder at Fei Protocol

Sebastian Delgado

Robbie Bent co-founded startups in North America and Israel which delivered complex hardware products in the energy harvesting and telecommunications spaces. He has deep experience in building technical teams. Robbie is obsessed with building products that improve the scalability of smart contract platforms as well as growing a scalable, opensource community.

Robert Bent

Rene Reinsberg is the Co-Founder and President of Celo.

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