United States of America

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

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

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

Mechanism Capital

Hong Kong

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

Lemniscap

Switzerland

ConsenSys develops enterprise applications, invests in startups, builds developer tools, and offers blockchain education.

ConsenSys

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

Kraken 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

United Kingdom

Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP is an investment manager authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority in the United

Brevan Howard

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)

Fidelity

Franklin Templeton

Puffer Finance

Malta

Binance Labs identifies, invests, and empowers viable blockchain entrepreneurs, startups, and communities, providing financing to industry projects that help grow the wider blockchain ecosystem. Binance Labs is committed to supporting fast-executing, technical teams who positively impact the crypto space and build the decentralised web.

Binance Labs

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

Jump Crypto

Ethereum Foundation

Specialist, global investment manager in the digital asset, or cryptocurrency, sector investing in early-stage/seed round opportunities

Digital Asset Capital Management (DACM)

China

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

SNZ Holding

Sreeram Kannan

Canonical Crypto

Lightspeed Faction back the best entrepreneurs and focus on projects that advance the industry or provide positive societal impact.

Lightspeed Faction

Wagmi33 Foundation is a private equity investment DAO governed by decentralized principles.

Wagmi33 Foundation

TokenPocket is a digital currency wallet.

TokenPocket

DiscusFish

Richard Malone

LBank is a digital asset exchange, investment and financial services provider company.

LBank

Bankless

Calvin Liu

Iotex Pad

Arcanum Capital is a growth-driven investment in decentralized protocols.

Arcanum Capital

Integral1

Elad Gil is a serial entrepreneur, operating executive, and investor or advisor to private companies including AirBnB, Pinterest, Square, and Stripe.

Elad Gil

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

Diogo Monica

Hustle Fund

George Xian Zeng

Mantis VC is a partnership between Alex Pall and Drew Taggart, otherwise known as The Chainsmokers, and experienced Venture Capital professionals and entrepreneurs Milan Koch and Jeffrey Evans that invests opportunistically in early stage technology enabled startups.

Mantis VC

Maple VC

Jill Gunter

Gregory Rocco

Nikhil Gopalani

Mitchell Amador

Sima Gandhi

D’Arcy Coolican

Brandon Kumar

Roham Gharegozlou

Paul Menchov

Raj Gokal

Henri Stern

Will Papper

Bryan Pellegrino

Deni Ersht

Miyuki Matsumoto

Shreyas Hariharan

Mara Schmiedt

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)

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

South Korea

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

Hashed

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

Galaxy

Wintermute is a truly value adding investor dedicated to supporting the innovation in the blockchain ecosystem

Wintermute

Cobie: thoughts on crypto, money, markets, life, whatever

Cobie

Nascent is a global, multi-strategy investment firm focused on crypto and open finance.

Nascent

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

OKX Ventures will focus on the discoveries and investments in various aspects, including blockchain basic infrastructures, Layer2, DeFi, WEB3.0, NFT and Metaverse.

OKX Ventures

Finland

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

Stani Kulechov

Sam Kazemian is an Iranian-American​ software engineer​ and Founder of Frax Finance

Sam Kazemian

DCF GOD

Mirana Ventures

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

Virgin Islands (British)

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

Bybit

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

Amber Group

Anthony Sassano

Mr.Block is a blockchain community that creates a connection between international projects and another country.

Mr. Block

Gemini Funds provides a range of pooled investment solutions in the United States.

Gemini Funds

Castle Island Ventures is a venture capital firm

Castle Island Ventures

Netherlands

Deribit is live since June 2016 after several years of development. John Jansen, the original founder, teamed up with Marius Jansen, Sebastian Smyczýnski and Andrew Yanovsky. Deribit started as a Bitcoin Futures and Options platform. Soon was realized more services could be offered due to the choices made regarding technology and infrastructurethat powers the platform. These choices have resulted in a high availability, high throughput and low latency trading environment. Deribit is is expanding every day as we speak and new cryptocurrency trading products are under development. We have a team of 8 people working on the platform and we run our daily office from Amsterdam (The Netherlands).

Deribit

Nic Carter

Ethena Labs

BlockTower is a crypto and blockchain investment firm that uses trading, investing, and portfolio management to this digital asset class.

BlockTower Capital

The CMT Group has acted as a valued collaborator to numerous exchanges, clearing firms, and trading and investment teams, generating edge by pairing market insight with early adoption and innovation of nascent technologies.

CMT Digital

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)

tangent

Finality Capital Partners

Gemini Frontier Fund is a strategic venture fund focused on growing the crypto ecosystem through investment in early-stage crypto projects.

Gemini Frontier Fund

Julian Koh

No Limit Holdings

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

Y Combinator

Japan

EMURGO drives the adoption of Cardano and adds value to ADA holders by building, investing in, and advising projects or organizations that adopt Cardano’s decentralized blockchain ecosystem. EMURGO leverages its expertise in blockchain R&D as well as its global network of related blockchain and industry partners to support ventures globally.EMURGO is the official commercial and venture arm of the Cardano project, registered in Tokyo, Japan since June 2017 and in Singapore since May 2018. EMURGO is uniquely affiliated and works closely with IOHK to grow Cardano’s ecosystem globally and promote the adoption of the Cardano blockchain.

Emurgo

MH Ventures is a world-class community-backed venture capital investing in top blockchain projects of the future.

MH Ventures

Stacker Ventures

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

Cogitent Ventures

Token Metrics is an investment research platform for crypto.

Token Metrics

Asymmetry Capital envisions to become Asia’s leading VC that empowers Web3.0 entrepreneurs.

Asymmetry Capital

Upsparks Capital is a micro-venture capital firm whose purpose is to back entrepreneurs with big ideas and big hearts.

Upsparks

Asymmetry Ventures

SuDo Research

EthosX

BITKRAFT Ventures is an early-stage investment platform for gaming, esports, and interactive media.

BITKRAFT Ventures

Techstars is a global platform that provides investment and innovation. Through the Techstars Worldwide Entrepreneur Network, founders and their teams connect with other entrepreneurs, experts, mentors, alumni, investors, community leaders, and corporate partners who will help their companies grow. Techstars operates four divisions: TechstarsMentorship-Driven Accelerator Program supercharges success and Techstars Startup Programs inspire, educate, and connect entrepreneurs. Techstars Venture Capital Fund invests in innovative and disruptive companies. Techstars Corporate Innovation Partnerships help brands create products and services. Techstars accelerator portfolio includes more than 1,000 companies with a market cap of $8.1 billion.

Techstars

Dorm Room Fund

Harmonic Future

Dark Arts

NYU Venture Innovation Fund

Baton

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.

Polychain Capital

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

IOSG Ventures

Tess Hau is an investor and advisor to high-performing startups, deep tech companies, and extraordinary founders across the world.

Tess Ventures

Mexico

Griffin Gaming Partners is a venture capital firm that focuses on investing across the broad gaming ecosystem.

Griffin Gaming Partners

Shrapnel

RW3 Ventures invests in the infrastructure, protocols, and applications that are driving growth in blockchain technologies, decentralized finance, and the long-term development of web 3.

RW3 Ventures

Singapore

Three Arrows Capital

Sfermion

NGC Ventures is one of the largest institutional investors of blockchain technologies, and has been a key contributor to a number of leading projects.

NGC Ventures (NEO Global Capital)

Gossamer Capital

Traditional VC investor into digital assets. We invest globally into outstanding founders building next generation of financial services.

RockawayX

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

Newman Capital is a full-stack proprietary venture capital firm based in Asia inspired by the renowned racecar driver and entrepreneur.

Newman Capital

DeSpread is a consulting firm specializing in Web3 and blockchain.

DeSpread

2140 Bitcoin Ecosystem Fund

Daxos Capital is an early stage venture fund supporting Web3 founders and their mission to dispurt.

Daxos Capital

v3ntures invests in ambitious founders who build the tools and infrastructure needed for mass adoption.

v3ntures

New Layer Capital is a theses-focused investment firm focused on investing in blockchain companies building a more sustainable blockchain technology stack.

			Stage	Investors
Puffer Finance	$18.00 M	~$180.00 M	Series A Round	+9		Liquid Staking	Apr 16, 2024
Integral Integral1	--	--	Funding Round			Blockchain Service	Feb 28, 2024
ENA Ethena Labs	$14.00 M	$300.00 M	Seed Extension Round	+24		DeFi	Feb 16, 2024
EthosX	$1.80 M	~$18.00 M	Funding Round	+8	--	DeFi	Dec 13, 2023
Baton	$4.20 M	~$42.00 M	Funding Round	+4		Social	Nov 14, 2023
SHRAP Shrapnel	$20.00 M	~$200.00 M	Series A	+3		Gaming	Oct 25, 2023
Xverse	$5.00 M	~$50.00 M	Seed Round	+15		Blockchain Service	Aug 10, 2023
AMKT Alongside Crypto Market Index	$11.00 M	~$110.00 M	Seed Round	+3		Index	Feb 15, 2023
Azra Games	$10.00 M	~$100.00 M	Seed Plus Round	+2		--	Feb 2023
MystenLabs	$300.00 M	~$3.00 B	Series B Round	+9		--	Sep 8, 2022
SUI Sui	$300.00 M	$5.00 B	Series B	+7		Blockchain	Sep 2022
Spectral	$23.00 M	~$230.00 M	Funding Round	+3	--	--	Aug 22, 2022
APT Aptos	$150.00 M	~$1.50 B	Series A	+5		Blockchain	Jul 25, 2022
Quadrata	$7.50 M	~$75.00 M	Seed Round	+8		--	Jul 2022
Amberdata	$30.00 M	~$300.00 M	Series B	+12		--	May 2022
Azra Games	$15.00 M	~$150.00 M	Seed Round	+3		--	May 2022
Teller Finance	$6.85 M	~$68.50 M	Strategic Round	+11		--	Feb 2022
Amberdata	$15.00 M	~$150.00 M	Series A	+1		--	Sep 2021

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