United States of America

Jane Street is a global trading firm and liquidity provider with a unique focus on technology and collaborative problem solving.

Jane Street Capital

Singapore

AscendEX is global operator of digital asset exchanges for diverse groups of clients from retail to institutions

AscendEX

Big Brain Holdings Invests in Seed, Pre-Seed and Early Stage Startups

Big Brain Holdings

QCP Capital is a digital asset trading firm that provides digital payment token (DPT) services.

QCP Capital

Innovating, venturing, and catapulting forward the next generation of teams/companies

Infinity Ventures Crypto (IVC)

We are a pre-seed/seed level investor to empower and support gifted entrepreneurs!

Cogitent Ventures

Pear VC

Builder Capital

Moonshot Research

Robert Chen

Fugazi Labs

Vest Exchange

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

Amber Group

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

Selini Capital

United Kingdom

Danish Chaudhry

Mozaik Capital is an investment company focused on helping businesses grow and expand their market reach internationally.

Mozaik Capital

DefiSquared

Jon Wu

Awawat

nakamotocat

Vincent Liu

Reid Cuming

Amol Shah

Joshua Deuk

SalsaTekila

DCVC backs entrepreneurs using Deep Tech to solve problems and multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its cost.

DCVC

Caballeros Capital is a private investment firm focused on investing in the blockchain innovation space.

Caballeros Capital

Netherlands

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

Maven 11 Capital

Switzerland

Dialectic is a Swiss capital enterprise focused on deployment of human and financial capital into alternative assets.

Dialectic Capital

Australia

Apollo Capital Management operates as a crypto asset investment firm.

Apollo Capital

Multi-Strategy Venture investing open finance initiatives

Nothing Research

Tykhe Block Ventures

Perridon Holdings

Flow Ventures

NFTPerp

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.

Mechanism Capital is an investment firm that invests in the cryptocurrency industry with a focus on decentralized finance or DeFi.

Mechanism Capital

Gmoney, NFT Thought Leader, NFT collector and trader.

gmoney

Arbitrum Foundation

Nick Emmons

David Choi

Spencer Gordon-Sand

Jonathan Gabler

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

China

Hongshan, formerly known as Sequoia Capital China, is a venture capital firm specializing in investments across various stages, from seed and mid-stage to late-stage and growth, with a particular focus on the fintech sector.

HongShan (ex-Sequoia China)

Jump Crypto, a division of the Jump Trading Group, is a global leader in Web3 infrastructure development and investment.

Jump Crypto

Crypto.com is a payment and cryptocurrency platform that empowers users to buy, sell, and pay with crypto.

Crypto.com

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

Hong Kong

IOSG Venture is an early-stage fund for decentralized protocols and companies. Early-stage algorithm-based ventures.

IOSG Ventures

Puzzle Ventures is dedicated to helping early-stage blockchain startups grow and reshaping the future of crypto.

Puzzle Ventures

Taiwan

Established in 2018, Kronos Research swiftly ascended to the forefront of the quantitative trading landscape, handling billions of dollars in transactions daily.

Kronos Research

LedgerPrime is a quantitative and systematic digital asset investment firm.

LedgerPrime

D1 supports the future of the crypto economy through organic market building, global market intelligence and insights, strategic advisory, and the power of memetics.

D1 Ventures

SevenX Ventures provides insights and operational expertise to help blockchain startups in growing.

SevenX Ventures

Mirana Ventures is a leading global investment fund that provides long-term capital and strategic partnerships to visionary founders and fund managers in the Web3 space.

Mirana Ventures

Three Arrows Capital

Alameda Research is a quantitative cryptocurrency trading firm that provides liquidity in cryptocurrency and digital assets markets.

Alameda Research

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

Seychelles

Founded in 2018, MEXC Global is a centralized exchange that employs a high-performance mega-transaction matching technology. The CEX platform is run by a team of professionals with extensive financial industries and blockchain technology experience.

MEXC Global (Privcode Capital)

BitMart

Hotbit

C2 Ventures: Investment and Advice from the Trenches

C2 Ventures

Light-speed swaps. Next-level liquidity. Friction-less yield.

Raydium

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)

Gate Ventures

WOO Network

Orderly

OKX Ventures is a fund focused on exploring high-quality and promising projects, with an initial capital of $100 million.

OKX Ventures

Manifold Trading is a early-stage web3 fund that takes a data-driven, systematic approach to making high-conviction investments.

Manifold Trading

Origin Protocol

Nomad Capital

Presto Labs

LTP | LiquidityTech

Shima Capital is an early stage VC firm investing in disruptive web3 and blockchain technology companies.

Shima Capital

Entrepreneur, Founder, Investor.

My background includes broad and diverse experience across various areas of corporate finance, investments, banking and strategy roles.

I have developed a strong global finance experience through international assignments in the US, Brazil, Panama, Afghanistan, Southeast Asia, Czech Republic and through the awardof my Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) certification.
Lately I've been more involved more of an entrepreneurial capacity, helping create, scale and lead fintech startups ITF & TDAX.

Ben Lakoff

Auryn Macmillan is a Product Manager at Gnosis.

Auryn Macmillan

Berggruen Holdings is an investment firm takes a long-term, value-oriented, often contrarian view. It prefers to build organically and through acquisitions, partnering with management, as opposed to quick, opportunistic exits. Depending on the opportunity and asset class, Berggruen Holdings is prepared to make relatively small investments as wellas equity commitments of up to $100 million in any one transaction.

Berggruen Holdings

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

Republic

NxGen works with founders, VC investors and DAOs to build the third generation of the internet. NxGen support founders along each lifecycle stage with Human, Financial and Social Capital as well as In-house CMO services.

NxGen

GTS Ventures is a venture capital that invests in crypto startups.

GTS Ventures

Stefan George

Tyler Scott Ward

Charlie Songhurst

HoneyDAO is a collective of DeFi influencers, seasoned investors, crypto developers, and founders simultaneously working towards improving DeFi, one project at a time.

Honey DAO

NeptuneDAO

Global Coin Research is a tokenized, decentralized community of learners and investors in Web3.

GCR (Global Coin Research)

Re7 Capital

Anton Bukov

Derek Yoo

Nodar Janashia

Possible Ventures

Kyle Lu

Gorazd Ocvirk

Ryan Chow

prePO

LAO is a member-led venture fund built on the spirit of Ethereum’s original DAO. As a global collective of Ethereum enthusiasts and experts, LAO invests in early-stage projects that push the boundaries of DeFi, NFTs, privacy, and Web3 social applications.

The Lao

Republic Capital works with high net-worth individuals and family offices to syndicate investment opportunities.

Republic Capital

Ryon Nixon

Matt Symons

Marc Woodward

Darren Smorgon

Ryan Zurrer

A collective of crypto-natives focused on tokenomics & governance.

Fire Eyes DAO

Meld Ventures

Koji.capital

Kieran Warwick

United Arab Emirates

Morningstar Ventures is an investment firm focused on digital assets and blockchain technology.

Morningstar Ventures

Rarestone invest in, build, scale and market bleeding-edge technology for the Web3 stack.

Rarestone Capital

Spark Digital Capital is a research-focused crypto fund that invests in the future of blockchain and technology.

Spark Digital Capital

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

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

Genblock Capital invests exclusively in blockchain and cryptocurrency, with a focus on decentralized finance.

Genblock Capital

Canada

3Commas provides a platform for cryptocurrency investors to trade with minimal risks, limit losses, and increase profits.

3Commas

Jsquare is a crypto investment and advisory company, aiming to be the top tier investment institution in the blockchain industry.

Jsquare

Diversified Financial Group (DFG)

Stacker Ventures

Lian Group

Citizen X is a thesis-driven venture fund investing in Web 3.0 and decentralized technologies.

CitizenX Crypto Ventures Fund, L.P.

Nova Finance

SkyVision Capital was founded to accelerate the development of new, open source, decentralized technologies. SkyVision Capital is a private investment family office that incubates and invests in the founders of tomorrow today.

SkyVision Capital

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

Kindred Ventures

Utopia Labs

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

Philippines

Yield Guild Games (YGG) is a web3 gaming guild where players can enrich themselves as they find their community, discover games and level up together.

			Stage	Investors
Vest Exchange	--	--	Seed Round	+8		DEX	Jan 29, 2023
NFTPerp	$1.70 M	$17.00 M	Seed Round	+8		--	Nov 25, 2022
ORDER Orderly	$20.00 M	~$200.00 M	Strategic Round	+22		Perpetual	Jun 2022
PPO prePO	$2.10 M	~$21.00 M	Strategic Round	+23		--	Mar 2022
NOVA Nova Finance	$200,000.00	$20.00 M	IDO on Solanium	+11		Solana Ecosystem	Dec 9, 2021
Utopia Labs	$1.50 M	~$15.00 M	Seed Round			--	Nov 15, 2021
NOVA Nova Finance	$3.00 M	~$30.00 M	Seed Round	+12		Solana Ecosystem	Oct 2021
WELD WELD	$500,000.00	$15.00 M	Pre-Sale Round	+6		Application	Aug 2021
JET JET	$6.80 M	$68.00 M	Follow-on Round	+6		Lending Platform	Aug 2021
WELD WELD	$2.00 M	$10.00 M	Private Round	+6		Application	Jul 2021
PPO prePO	$1.10 M	~$11.00 M	Seed Round	+34		--	Jul 2021
WELD WELD	$500,000.00	$6.25 M	Seed Round	+6		Application	Jun 2021
HBOT Hummingbot	$8.00 M	~$80.00 M	Series A Round	+7		Software	May 2021
STF Structure Finance	$495,000.00	$5.94 M	Seed Round	+9		--	May 2021
ZIG ZIGChain	$3.00 M	$24.00 M	Private Round	+9		Artificial Intelligence (AI)	Mar 31, 2021
MARSH Unmarshal	$2.60 M	~$26.00 M	Private Round	+9	--	Oracle	Feb 2021
MARSH Unmarshal	--	--	Seed Round	+9	--	Oracle	Jan 2021
SOV Sovryn	$2.10 M	~$21.00 M	Seed Round	+3		DeFi	Dec 15, 2020
STAKE STAKE	$500,000.00	$3.03 M	Seed	+2		Elrond Ecosystem	Aug 2019

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