Crypto Companies and IPOs

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Why Crypto Projects Go Public

Examples of Completed and Upcoming IPOs

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Opinions from Major Market Players

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How IPOs Will Affect the Crypto Industry

Synergy Between Stocks and Cryptocurrencies

How Can a US Resident Participate in an IPO?

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How Can a Non-US Resident Participate in a US IPO?

Conclusion

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3D illustration of an IPO gateway between crypto and fiat finance symbols

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Crypto companies are eyeing IPOs to boost funding, gain trust, and scale globally. With Circle’s $1.1B debut and others like Gemini and Kraken lining up, public listings mark a new phase of crypto's push into traditional finance.

Circle Ventures

Ripple

Tron

Coinbase Ventures

Gemini Frontier Fund

Bullish

Blockchain.com Ventures

Crypto’s IPO Rush: Why Startups Are Heading to Wall Street

United States of America

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

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)

Belgium

Keyrock

Auros is an algorithmic trading and market making firm that delivers best-in-class liquidity for exchanges and token projects.

Auros Global

BitVault

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

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

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

Archetype

Sina Habibian

Druid Ventures is a ~$13M early-stage fund focused on digital asset infrastructure and interoperability.

Druid Ventures

Circle is a financial technology firm that utilizes stablecoins for payments and e-commerce.

Circle

Legion Capital

Duke Capital Partners

Octane

Draper Associates is a global venture capital firm that invests in companies driving transformative change across industries.

Draper Associates

Skyfire

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)

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.

Variant is an early-stage fund investing in web3. They believe the next generation of the internet will transform users into owners. They back mission-aligned founders at the earliest possible stage

Variant

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

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

Galaxy

Early stage blockchain venture capital. A JV with Lightspeedvp

Faction

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

Alchemy provides a set of web3 development tools for easily building and scaling a decentralized application.

Alchemy

Figment Capital launched its first fund in 2021 to invest in high-conviction, early-stage blockchain infrastructure projects. As an early-stage investor, they work closely with founders as they scale from idea to adoption and beyond.

Figment Capital

Asymmetric

Anagram Crypto

TrueBridge Capital

Turnkey

United Kingdom

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

Wintermute

Bain Capital Crypto backs renegades and pioneers building the next generation of open internet infrastructure

Bain Capital Crypto

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)

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

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

BlockTower is an institutional investment firm, applying professional trading, venture investing, credit underwriting, and portfolio management to digital and traditional assets.

Strobe (Prev. BlockTower Capital)

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

OKX Ventures

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

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

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)

Nascent is a team of builders who back early-stage crypto founders creating products and primitives for an open financial world.

Nascent

Virgin Islands (British)

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

Bybit

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

tangent

Finality Capital Partners

Julian Koh

Anthony Sassano

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

Richard Malone

No Limit Holdings

Ethena

Malta

YZi Labs is an investment firm formerly known as Binance Labs that invests in all stages of development in the fields of Web3, artificial intelligence (AI), and biotechnology.

YZi Labs (prev Binance Labs)

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

Brevan Howard

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

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

South Korea

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

Hashed

Finland

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

Stani Kulechov

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

Amber Group

DCF GOD

Franklin Templeton

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

Kraken Ventures

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

Sam Kazemian

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)

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

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

Nic Carter

F-Prime Capital

Kingsway Capital

HodlCo

The Sandbox develops a decentralized gaming platform that leverages non-fungible tokens and blockchain technology.

The Sandbox

LandVault (ex Admix)

Sure Valley Ventures

Elefund

Kuvi Capital

Japan

Colopl Next

Austria

Speedinvest

Force Over Mass Capital

Founders Factory

Nigel Morris

Marcus Segal

DIP Capital

Side Door Ventures

Rocket Capital

Notion Capital

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

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

Accel

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

Sparkle Ventures

White Star Capital is an international venture and early growth-stage investment platform in technology.

White Star Capital

Singapore

Alex Svanevik is a Co-Founder & CEO of Nansen.

Alex Svanevik

Tiny VC

Lighthouse

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

Germany

Richard is the co-founder and CEO of Quantstamp. Quantstamp is a leader in smart contract auditing and security - with over 250 clients.

Richard Ma (Quantstamp)

Canada

Dapper Labs is a consumer-focused flow blockchain product made for fun and games and supports digital collectables.

Dapper Labs

Tetranode

Volt Capital is a venture capital firm that specializes in investing in early-stage startups in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space. Volt Capital is known for its focus on supporting innovative projects and teams within the cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem.

			Stage	Investors
BitVault	$2.00 M	~$20.00 M	Pre-seed	+1		DeFi	Jun 18, 2025
Octane	$6.75 M	~$67.50 M	Seed Round	+6		Blockchain Service	Apr 8, 2025
Skyfire	$8.50 M	~$85.00 M	Seed Round	+1		Infrastructure	Aug 21, 2024
Turnkey	$15.00 M	~$150.00 M	Series A	+9		Blockchain Service	Apr 23, 2024
ENA Ethena	$6.50 M	~$65.00 M	Seed Round	+18		DeFi	Jul 19, 2023
LandVault (ex Admix)	$3.00 M	~$30.00 M	Extended Series B	+1		--	Mar 2023
Lighthouse	$7.00 M	~$70.00 M	Seed Round	+6	--	--	May 2022
ZRO LayerZero	$135.00 M	$1.00 B	Series A	+25		Blockchain Service	Mar 30, 2022
Espresso Systems	$32.00 M	~$320.00 M	Seed Round	+10		Infrastructure	Mar 7, 2022
TAKI Unite (Taki Games)	$3.45 M	$90.00 M	Seed Round	+8		Social	Mar 2022
Conduit	$17.00 M	~$170.00 M	Seed Round	+13		Blockchain Service	Jan 13, 2022
REVV Animoca Brands	$358.89 M	~$3.59 B	Funding Round 4	+14		--	Jan 2022
1INCH 1INCH	$175.00 M	$2.25 B	Series B Round	+5		DEX	Dec 1, 2021
Notabene	$10.20 M	~$102.00 M	Series A	+9		Blockchain Service	Nov 8, 2021
Meow	$5.00 M	~$50.00 M	Seed Round	+6		--	Nov 8, 2021
Messari	$21.00 M	~$210.00 M	Series A	+9		Elrond Ecosystem	Aug 5, 2021
UFARM UniFarm	$1.80 M	$20.00 M	Private Round	+9		Polygon Ecosystem	Mar 2021
REVV Animoca Brands	$4.10 M	~$41.00 M	Strategic Round	+29		--	Jul 2020
Messari	$1.00 M	~$10.00 M	Seed Round	+17		Elrond Ecosystem	Mar 7, 2018

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