United States of America

Anthony Pompliano

Eric Jackson

Lava

Founders Fund is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, specializing in investments in science and technology companies.

Founders Fund

Khosla Ventures

Lee is an entrepreneur and early stage investor.

Previously, he lead Facebook's emerging initiatives in commerce, including Gifts and the Facebook Card.

Lee founded Karma, a breakthrough mobile commerce platform which allowed smartphone users to instantly send real gifts to others without the burden of physical mailing addresses. Karmawas acquired by Facebook in early 2012.
Prior to Karma, Lee founded Tapjoy and piloted the company to it's position as a leading mobile advertising platform which today touches more than 1 billion devices. He began Tapjoy by co-creating multiple top mobile games for iOS/Android and subsequently unraveling the potential of mobile advertising and app distribution at scale.

Earlier, Lee worked for venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins and helped launch the iFund, a $100M investment vehicle focused on smartphone application platforms. Lee originally began his career working in product development at Microsoft, where he co-created the Windows Home Server division and shipped the first version of that product to market.

Lee holds a MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business and a BA in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan. He grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan and today lives and works in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area.

Lee has been a featured speaker at universities, conferences, and panels worldwide and has received numerous awards for his work including 30 under 30 Best Young Tech Entrepreneur by Bloomberg Businessweek 2012, 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company in 2012, and The Silicon Valley 100 by Business Insider 2013.

Lee Linden

Bijan Tehrani

Saurabh Gupta

Terry Angelos

Zach White

Jacob Brown

Aaron Suplizio

Peter Jurdjevic

Joe Lau

Mubadala Capital

Bain Capital is a global alternative investment firm specializes in private equity, venture capital, and credit products.

Bain Capital Ventures

Naval Ravikant is the CEO and a co-founder of AngelList. He previously co-founded Epinions (which went public as part of Shopping.com) and Vast.com. He is an active Angel investor, and have invested in dozens of companies, including Twitter, Uber, Yammer, Stack Overflow and Wanelo.

Naval Ravikant

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

Noah Jessop

Nikil Viswanathan is the Co-founder and CEO at Alchemy.

Nikil Viswanathan

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

Pantera Capital is a blockchain and cryptocurrency-focused investment firm and hedge fund. It was founded in 2013 by Dan Morehead, who is a former Wall Street executive and chief financial officer (CFO) at Tiger Management. Pantera Capital is known for being one of the earliest institutional investors in the cryptocurrency space and has been actively involved in supporting the growth and development of blockchain technology and digital assets.

Pantera Capital

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

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

Digital Currency Group (DCG)

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a prominent venture capital firm recognized for its strategic investments in innovative and high-growth technology companies. Founded in 2000 by Chris Schaepe, Barry Eggers, Ravi Mhatre, and Peter Nieh, Lightspeed has played a pivotal role in shaping the success stories of numerous startups across various sectors.

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Proof has been moving mountains since 1999. We transform how people work with Claris FileMaker and web solutions.

Proof Group

Nima Capital is a single-family office global approach to identifying first mover companies disrupting large industries around the world.

Nima Capital

Santiago Roel Santos is the Partner at ParaFi Capital

Santiago Roel Santos

Karak Network

Dragonfly Capital Partners, commonly referred to as Dragonfly Capital, is a venture capital firm that focuses on investments in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space. Dragonfly Capital is known for its active involvement in the blockchain and crypto industry and its commitment to supporting innovative projects and companies.

Dragonfly Capital

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

Investing in the crypto-powered Web3 and creator economy ecosystems

6MV (6th Man Ventures)

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

Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that invests in a wide range of startups twice a year.

Y Combinator

Anthony Sassano

Alliance is the leading crypto accelerator and founder community.

Alliance

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

Packy McCormick

Orange DAO

Katie Haun

LiquiFi

Canada

Routemaster Capital is a Canadian company that focuses on Lithium exploration and development.

Defi technologies

Redbeard Ventures builds, invests, and advises startups that help to gain a keen sense of what really matters when building a company.

Red Beard Ventures

Republic Realm is one of the most active investors in and developers of the metaverse real estate ecosystem.
They invest in, manage, and develop assets including NFTs, virtual real estate, metaverse platforms, gaming, and infrastructure.

Republic Realm

Singapore

The Spartan Group primarily focuses on investments in digital assets, cryptocurrencies, and blockchain-related projects. They actively manage a portfolio of various cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin and Ethereum, as well as other tokens and blockchain assets.

The Spartan Group

Metapurse is a crypto-exclusive fund that specializes in identifying early-stage projects.

Metapurse

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

Maelstrom Interactive develops educational software for mobile devices.

Maelstrom Interactive

Ms. Kala joined Bain Capital Private Equity in 2013. She is a Vice President in the Consumer, Retail and Dining Vertical and is a member of the North American Private Equity team.

Ms. Kala has also worked extensively in Bain Capital Private Equity’s Industrial Vertical. Ms. Kala received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business whereshe was an Arjay Miller Scholar. She graduated cum laude with an AB in Economics from Harvard University.

Magdalena Kala

United Kingdom

The World’s Leading Regulated Financial Institution for Digital Assets

Nexo

Baron Davis is the Founder at Baron Davis Enterprise.

Baron Davis

Everyrealm is one of the most active investors and developers of the metaverse ecosystem.

Everyrealm

Metaversal is an investment firm and venture studio focused on non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

Metaversal

Rovida Advisors

Steve Pagliuca is the Managing Partner & Co-Founder of NBA & he Attended Harvard Business School in 1982.

Stephen Pagliuca

Wilder World

Signum Capital invests in distributed ledger technologies and crypto assets. Signum Capital support game-changing projects that advance us towards the future of blockchain-enabled socioeconomic transformation.

Signum Capital

Cayman Islands

GBV Capital focuses exclusively on investment related to blockchain technology, digital currency, and cryptocurrency

GBV Capital

A forward-thinking problem solver, consummate optimist and serial entrepreneur, Shane Neman is the prototypical businessman of our modern era. His experience and expertise in business span numerous industries, from technology andtelecommunications to real estate and hospitality. After leaving NYU Medical School early, he started three industry-shifting tech startups (two of them – EZ Texting and JoonBug – acquired) with hundreds of employees and tens of thousands of customers. As an insightful startup backer, Shane’s portfolio includes companies such as Convoy, Prose, Impossible Foods, Universal Standard, Apostrophe, MeetMindful, MapAnything, VinePair and Smylen. Shane is also a prolific real estate developer and investor. From commercial shopping and industrial centers to residential buildings, he owns more than two dozen large-scale properties across the U.S. He holds a degree in Computer Science from New York University, where he received the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater scholarship and was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society.

Shane Neman

Republic is an investment platform providing access to startups, real estate, crypto, and video game investments.

Republic

Jake Paul is the Co-Founder of Anti Fund.

Jake Paul

Nyjah Huston is a professional skateboarder, 12-time X-Games gold medalist, and reigning world champion.

Nyjah Huston

Michael Carter Williams

South Korea

Empowering mass adoption of the decentralized future 
through network building of the protocol economy.

Hashed

DAO Maker

Icetea.io is a blockchain decentralized application platform.

Icetea Labs (Icetea.io)

Faculty Capital is a value-driven venture capital firm.

Faculty Capital

Boxmining the leading provider of insights and resources on digital assets, decentralised finance and blockchain technology.

Boxmining

CinchBlock helps blockchain projects unlock growth through full funnel growth hacking and influencer marketing.

CinchBlock

Magnus Capital funds, supports, incubates and advises blockchain startups and web3 projects from inception onwards.

Magnus Capital

Mr Beast

CoinUnited.io

Banter Capital

MetaGods

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)

Distributed Global is an investment firm focused on the blockchain and digital asset ecosystem.

Distributed Global

Scalar Capital provides fund management and advisory services.

Scalar Capital

Semantic Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in new directions for data and the digital economy.

Semantic Ventures

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

Sound Ventures

New Form Capital

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

Warburg Serres Investments is a boutique venture capital fund focused on Blockchain Technology, IoT, AI/ML, Additive Manufacturing.

Warburg Serres Investments

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

Atelier Ventures

Betaworks is a startup studio that builds and invests in next generation internet companies.

Betaworks

Ryan Sean Adams

DAOs, Social Tokens and the future of work.

Jess Sloss

Finland

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

Stani Kulechov

Australia

Kain Warwick

Portugal

Fernando Martinelli

Itamar is the co-founder and CEO of Argent.

Itamar Lesuisse

Seb Audet is the CEO & Co-Founder at Zapper.

Seb Audet

Robert Leshner

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

Michael Dunworth

Kayvon Beykpour

Roham Gharegozlou

Scott Belsky

Meltem Demirors

Tegan Kline

Diogo Monica

Leyden Ventures

Not Boring Capital

Our belief is that the best ideas happen offline. Far away from the everyday. Away from the complexity of modern society and it’s mores. We exist to help founders find the space to create. To think big, original, and different. Then, to ensure founders and their teams stay healthy on the journey to take that thinking and transform the world. Withthe hope that along the way, beautiful companies are born that are driven by both profit and purpose while taking great care of the world around them. In the end, we believe the foundational technology breakthroughs that most benefit humanity are forged at the intersection of science, engineering, design, and art.

Offline Ventures

Redpoint Ventures

An early stage venture capital firm run by Paul Kedrosky and Eric Norlin.

SK Ventures

Israel

StarkWare Industries develops a full-proof stack in generating and verifying proofs of computational integrity in the blockchain.

StarkWare Industries

Bryan Flynn is the COO & Cofounder of Sun & Swell Foods. He attended Loyola Marymount University, College of Business Administration in 2009.

Bryan Flynn

Bryan Irace

Chris has masterminded three of the world’s most popular websites. As Co-Founder and Creative Director of TheSpark.com, Chris oversaw development of both TheSpark.com and SparkNotes.com. TheSpark earned acclaim as Maxim magazine “Site of the Year,” Yahoo’s “Best of the Web” and countless press mentions including USA Today, Jane, Time, and Newsweek.SparkNotes.com remains the world’s most popular educational website and has been written up in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and U.S. News.
As Co-Founder of OkCupid, Chris is once again trying to bring people happiness — this time by playing matchmaker. Chris graduated from Harvard College with a BA in Mathematics.

Chris Coyne

Chris is a Director of Product at Vimeo, where he oversees the OTT product suite. He is deeply passionate about building great products, teams, and companies. Prior to their acquisition by Vimeo, Chris worked with the VHX team to launch several video products. Before that, he managed new product development for Samsung’s NYC R&D lab, andhelped build Shelby.tv, which was acquired by Samsung in 2014 to help build the future of TV. When he’s not working with startups or building products, you can find Chris teaching at Cornell Tech, playing a game of DOTA2, or writing riffs on his guitar. Chris lives in New York with his wife and son.

Chris Kurdziel

Cooper Turley

Derek Colla

Ireland

Eamon is a veteran of 20 years developing and building products, leading teams, and creating communities.

Over the years he has: built and sold a company, built and failed to sell a company, made angel investments, hosted numerous conferences, organised hundreds of meetups, and brought thousands of people together to collaborate and do goodthings.
As of June 2019, he's working on Boundless: making it easy for businesses to employ people in other countries and be compliant with tax and employment law.

Eamon Leonard

Jamie Dubs

Jesse is a graduate of Union College where he majored in Computer Science and Economics. Going completely off the fixed path, Jesse worked at SFX Entertainment specializing in RFID payment technologies and live-event management. In 2012, Jesse found a love for bitcoin and decentralized technologies, he realized their importance and continuedlearning when writing his thesis on Cryptocurrency. He continues his passion for music and technology at Consensys and looks forward to reshaping the future.

Jesse Grushack

Martin Green is the managing partner and Co-CIO at Cambrian Asset Management LLC. He earned his degree at Queen's University.

Martin Green

Maxwell Krohn

Michael Mignano is a technology executive and entrepreneur, who currently serves as Head of Talk for Spotify, responsible for leading the podcast, live, and video strategies for the world’s leading audio streaming platform. Prior to this, Michael co-founded Anchor in 2015, which was acquired by Spotify in 2019, and is now the world’s largestpodcasting platform.
In addition to his work at Spotify, Michael actively advises and invests in early stage, technology-enabled companies, including AdQuick, Cameo, Coda, Dumpling, The Infatuation, Infinite Objects, Katch, Light Phone, Living Carbon, Magic, MicroAcquire, Nexhealth, Parade, Pawp, Pipe, Playbyte, Polywork, Sandbox VR, Stir, Ten Little, Universe, XMTP, Zola, and several others that have yet to launch.

Michael’s work focuses on empowering people to express themselves creatively across a variety of mediums, including podcasts, photos, music, and software. In 2019, Michael was recognized by Fortune Magazine as one of the most influential young people in business in their annual 40 Under 40 List.

Prior to founding Anchor, Michael served as VP of Product for Aviary, growing the photo editing platform’s audience to over 100 million creators before being acquired by Adobe in 2014. He previously led Digital Product Development for Atlantic Records after starting his career as a consultant.

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