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Polychain Capital

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United States of America

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

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

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

Y Combinator

Brazil

Kaszek Ventures

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

Ribbit Capital

Haun Ventures

Robinhood

Lighter

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

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

Digital Currency Group (DCG)

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

Galaxy

Kraken Ventures invests in businesses and projects at the nexus of both the FinTech and Blockchain / Crypto revolution.

Kraken

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

Republic

FalconX

Diametric Capital

MOZAYYX

BitMine

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

We offer investors intelligently designed investment strategies that take advantage of targeted market opportunities.

VanEck

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

Monerium

Paxos

LayerZero is an omnichain interoperability protocol that unites decentralized applications across disparate blockchains.

LayerZero Network

Boku

Payoneer

Ubyx

Barclays

AB Xelerate

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

Symbolic Capital

Flowdesk

SALT

Avantis

Modular Capital is a fundamental and thesis-driven crypto investment firm.

Modular Capital

Base is a secure, low-cost, builder-friendly Ethereum L2 built to bring the next billion users onchain.

Base Ecosystem Fund

Plasma

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

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

Italy

Paolo Ardoino is the CEO of Tether & CTO of Bitfinex

Paolo Ardoino

Investing in the crypto-powered Web3 and creator economy ecosystems

6MV (6th Man Ventures)

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

Manifold Trading

Virgin Islands (British)

Bybit is a global cryptocurrency derivatives exchange designed for all retail traders, professionals and investment institutions alike.

Bybit

Taiwan

Bitfinex is the world's leading digital asset trading platform.

Bitfinex

Zaheer

DRW Venture Capital, an arm of principal trading firm DRW, invests primarily in financial and enterprise technology. Many of our portfolio companies benefit from our engagement beyond capital: as a client, as a liquidity provider, through our review of new products, and through our deep industry expertise.

As a firm with no outside investors, wehave a flexible mandate to deploy capital and often tap into our core business to help companies grow. We’re powered by the people, technology and ideas of DRW, and those we invest in may leverage it all. DRW has diversified business expertise and deep networks in trading and technology, real estate investment, cryptocurrencies and product development — a unique advantage.

DRW Venture Capital

Flow Traders

IMC Financial Markets

Laser Digital is a crypto business redefining the frontier of digital finance for institutional investors.

Laser Digital

Guy Young

Peter Thiel

Anthos Capital

Karatage

Christian Angermayer

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

Menlo Ventures

Andrej Karpathy

Emad Mostaque

Clem Delangue

Dylan Patel

Tri Dao

Brendan McCord

Jake Medwell

Prime Intellect

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

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

Distributed Global

Switzerland

Erik Voorhees is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ShapeShift Ag. Erik Voorhees served as the Head of Marketing and Communications at BitInstant LLC. Erik Voorhees is an American and Panamanian startup Founder. Erik Voorhees was co-founder of the bitcoin company Coinapult. Erik Voorhees was the Founder and Partial Owner of SatoshiDICE. Hejoined BitInstant in February 2012. He has been a Member of Cryptocurrency Advisory Board at MGT Capital Investments, Inc. since June 14, 2016.

Erik Voorhees

Collab+Currency is an early stage venture investor focusing on web3

Collab+Currency

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

Protocol Labs

Scott Moore

Joe Lallouz

Andrew Kang is a cryptocurrency entrepreneur and investor. He is the Co-Founder of Mechanism Capital which invests in cryptocurrency through prop trading, mining, ventures, and secondary markets. Kang previously worked in portfolio management and venture capital at Digital Capital Management.

Andrew Kang

dcbuilder.eth

Compound Labs is a technology company building the infrastructure for the future of finance. Compound Labs brings paradigm-shifting technologies to market with a focus on security, capital efficiency, and radical transparency.

Compound Labs

Riva Tez

Benjamin Fielding

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

Amber Group

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

Archetype

No Limit Holdings

Reforge VC

Altius

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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Khosla Ventures

Lava

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.

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