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Polychain Capital

Founders Fund

Blockchain Capital

General Catalyst

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United States of America

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.

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

Managed by the family office of Arthur Hayes (co-founder, BitMEX), Maelstrom is building a long-term portfolio of infrastructure companies that will serve as the foundation of the next wave of trustless decentralization.

Maelstrom

Uniswap

Paxos Labs

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)

Circle Ventures focuses on proprietary capital investments in the technology sector.

Circle Ventures

Goodwater

RedotPay

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

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

Galaxy is a digital asset and blockchain leader helping institutions, startups, and qualified individuals shape a changing economy.

Galaxy

Accel is an early and growth-stage venture capital firm that helps a global community of entrepreneurs.

Accel

Vertex Ventures is a global network of operator-investors that manages portfolios.

Vertex Ventures

Hong Kong

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

Cayman Islands

cyber•Fund is committed to partnering with founders at every stage, from inception to growth and beyond. cyber•Fund’s mission is to accelerate the transition to an open cyber economy by supporting entrepreneurs innovating at the intersection of blockchain, artificial intelligence, robotics, and related technologies.

cyber Fund

L2 Iterative Ventures (L2IV)

OneBalance

Cobie, a well-known pseudonymous figure, has made a significant impact both on crypto Twitter and within the broader cryptocurrency industry. Beyond his online presence, he's also recognized as the founder of Echo.

Cobie

Protocol Specialist at Bison Trails (acquired by Coinbase). Tweetsman. Actually helpful angel, specializing in protocols: layer 1, 2, interop, bridges, and defi

Viktor Bunin

Hart Lambur

Will Price

Zaki Manian

Konstantin Lomashuk

Sina Habibian

Igor Igamberdiev

Vasiliy Shapovalov

banteg

Charlie

Philipp Zentner

Vaibhav Chellani

Pedro Gomes

Matthew Tan

Lisa Cuesta Bunin

Nick Pai

Harith Kamarul

Kevin Pang

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

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

A cryptocurrency venture capital firm founded in 2017, Waterdrip Capital aims to invest in and build with the most promising blockchain startups.

Waterdrip Capital

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

IDG Capital

SNZ Holding is a crypto fund founded by a group of engineers, blockchain evangelists and entrepreneurs passionate about disruptive blockchain technologies.

SNZ Holding

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

Caladan (Alphalab)

Lingfeng Capital

Comma3 Ventures

Kaia

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

OKX Ventures

United Kingdom

Paper Ventures is a first-in, innovative investment firm, focusing on the ever-changing landscape of emerging technologies.

Paper Ventures

Colombia

Lattice Capital helps portfolio grow by providing structure & experience to the small business development through incubation & investment.

Lattice Capital

Camp Network

HTX Venture, the global investment arm of HTX, integrates investment, incubation, and research to identify the best and brightest teams in the world.

HTX Ventures (previously Huobi Ventures)

Moonrock Capital is a Blockchain Advisory and Investment Partnership based in London and Hamburg.

Moonrock Capital

Eterna Capital is an early stage venture fund backing bold, innovative entrepreneurs who harness blockchain technology.

Eterna Capital

Netherlands

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

Maven 11 Capital

Protagonist is a crypto fund and incubation lab supporting foundational protocols in emerging blockchain ecosystems.

Protagonist

Inception Capital is an early-stage Web3 venture capital firm guiding founders from east and west.

Inception Capital

AppWorks

Bitgo

Tally

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

Lemniscap

Placeholder is a venture capital firm that invests in decentralized protocols and web3 services. Partners Joel Monegro and Chris Burniske manage the firm with Brad Burnham as venture partner. Mario Laul is our head of research. Shelly Gogol and Crystal Kwan manage operations.

Placeholder

MetaCartel Ventures is a decentralized autonomous organization that will invest in the Ethereum ecosystem.

MetaCartel Ventures

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

Notation Capital is a pre-seed venture capital firm that work with technical founding teams.

Notation Capital

Castle Island Ventures is a venture capital firm

Castle Island Ventures

Ryan Sean Adams

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

Fire Eyes DAO

Arbitrum Foundation

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)

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

1confirmation is a forward-thinking venture capital firm at the forefront of innovation in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space. Established in 2017 by Nick Tomaino, a visionary in the industry, the firm is dedicated to identifying and supporting promising early-stage projects that are shaping the future of decentralized technologies.

1confirmation

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

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

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

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

Valor is an investment firm that focuses on cross-border financial and investment opportunities. The firm operates across two investment strategies Growth Equity and Venture Capital. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Valor Capital Group

Ribbit Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies.

Ribbit Capital

Point72 Ventures

Guy Oseary has spent his career at the intersection of entertainment and technology.

Guy Oseary

1789 Capital

Gaurav Ahuja

Polymarket

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.

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

Canada

Vitalik Buterin, a Russian-born Canadian programmer and writer, is best known for co-founding Ethereum, one of the most influential blockchain platforms.

Vitalik Buterin

ParaFi Capital is an alternative investment firm focused on blockchain and decentralized finance markets.

ParaFi Capital

Finland

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

Stani Kulechov

General Catalyst is a venture capital firm that invests in powerful, positive change that endures.

Australia

Kain Warwick

Calvin Liu

Robert Leshner

Josh Hannah

Meltem Demirors

Tarun Chitra

Marc Bhargava

Intercontinental Exchange

Dylan Field

Mark Pincus is our founder and Executive Chairman of the Board. He served as our Chairman from April 2007 to March 2016, and has served as our Executive Chairman since March 2016. He previously served as our Chief Executive Officer from April 2007 to July 2013 and from April 2015 to March 2016, and as our Chief Product Officer from April 2007 to April 2014. In 2014, he founded superlabs, a San Francisco-based product lab focused on developing products that connect and empower people, which was acquired by Zynga in 2015. From 2003 to 2007, Mr. Pincus served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Tribe.net, a company he launched and one of the first social networks in the industry. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Chairman of Support.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPRT), a help desk automation software company he founded, and he served as its Chief Executive Officer and President from December 1997 to July 1999. From 1996 to 1997, he served as Chief Executive Officer of FreeLoader, Inc., a web-based news company he co-founded.

Mark Pincus

Anthony Kiedis

Abstract

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

True Ventures

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

SevenX Ventures

Alumni Ventures

Bluesky

Jack Dorsey is the Co-Founder & CEO of Twitter Ventures

Jack Dorsey

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

Protocol Labs

Jeromy Johnson

Amjad Masad

Bob Young

Neo is a diverse mentorship community, startup accelerator, and VC fund.

Joe Beda

Amir Shevat

Winklevoss Capital is the family office and investment firm established by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who are best known for their early involvement in Bitcoin and their legal dispute with Mark Zuckerberg over the creation of Facebook. The Winklevoss twins, often referred to as the Winklevoss brothers or simply the Winklevii, became notable figures in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space due to their significant investments in Bitcoin and their efforts to promote and regulate the cryptocurrency industry.

Winklevoss Capital

Third Prime

Blockchain Coinvestors

Hutt Capital is a blockchain fund venture capital platform. Hutt Capital partners with leading blockchain venture capital firms to provide diversified access to the most promising blockchain and cryptocurrency startups worldwide through equity, secondary, and direct investment strategies.

Hutt Capital

Yellow Card

Blockchain.com Ventures is a venture fund anchored and supported by Blockchain.com & Lightspeed Venture Partners

			Stage	Investors
Paxos Labs	$12.00 M	~$120.00 M	Funding Round	+1	--	Infrastructure	Apr 14, 2026
RedotPay	$107.00 M	~$1.07 B	Series B	+2		Neobank	Dec 16, 2025
OneBalance	$20.00 M	~$200.00 M	Series A	+1		Infrastructure	Jun 11, 2025
KAIA Kaia	--	--	Funding Round	+9		Blockchain	Apr 30, 2025
CAMP Camp Network	$25.00 M	~$250.00 M	Series A	+2	--	Layer-2	Apr 29, 2025
Tally	$8.00 M	~$80.00 M	Series A			Governance	Apr 22, 2025
Merit Systems	$10.00 M	~$100.00 M	Seed Round	+3		Infrastructure	Jan 16, 2025
Polymarket	$150.00 M	$1.20 B	Funding Round	+10		DeFi	Jan 1, 2025
Bluesky	$15.00 M	~$150.00 M	Series A	+1		Social	Oct 25, 2024
Yellow Card	$33.00 M	~$330.00 M	Series C	+5		Finance	Oct 16, 2024
SOLV Solv Protocol	$11.00 M	$200.00 M	Strategic Round	+2		DeFi	Oct 14, 2024
DRIFT Drift Protocol	$25.00 M	~$250.00 M	Series B	+1		Perpetual	Sep 19, 2024
BSX BSX	$4.00 M	~$40.00 M	Seed Round	+8		Perpetual	Aug 21, 2024
Fabric Cryptography	$33.00 M	~$330.00 M	Series A			Infrastructure	Aug 19, 2024
QED Protocol	$6.00 M	~$60.00 M	Seed Round			Infrastructure	Jul 3, 2024
Mamori	$5.00 M	~$50.00 M	Seed Round	+7		Blockchain Service	Jul 1, 2024
BB BounceBit	$6.00 M	~$60.00 M	Seed Round	+22	--	Blockchain	Feb 28, 2024
ALLO Allora	--	--	Funding Round	+4		Blockchain Service	Feb 3, 2024
Polymer Labs	$23.00 M	~$230.00 M	Series A	+8		Blockchain	Jan 23, 2024
Polymarket	$55.00 M	$350.00 M	Funding Round	+11		DeFi	Jan 1, 2024

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