United States of America

IDEO CoLab Ventures is a venture capital (VC) arm associated with IDEO CoLab, an innovation and design consultancy. IDEO CoLab Ventures focuses on investing in and supporting startups that are developing innovative technologies and solutions in emerging fields such as blockchain, decentralized finance (DeFi), and Web3 technologies.

IDEO CoLab Ventures

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

Nascent

Angel investor. Former VP and early employee at Coinbase.

Dan Romero

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

Distributed Global

Canada

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

Dapper Labs

Joe Lallouz

David Phelps

Scott Moore

Nader is founder and CEO of Basecoin, a new price-stable cryptocurrency with an algorithmic central bank. The Basecoin project is backed by a16z, Bain, PolyChain, Pantera, DCG, Meta Stable, and 1confirmation. Nader has a background in finance having worked in high-frequency trading at D. E. Shaw, and a background in traditional software engineeringhaving worked on Google Search. Nader studied computer science engineering and applied math at Princeton, where he graduated summa cum laude.

Nader Al-Naji

Ambush Capital is an angel fund in New York that helps entrepreneurs through the early stages of building a company.

Ambush Capital

Danny Zuckerman

Patrick Rivera

China

LD Capital is an VC investors in the blockchain field in Asia.

LD Capital

Hypersphere is a crypto-native investment platform designed to partner with early-stage and public blockchain networks.

Hypersphere Ventures

Enso Network

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

Multicoin Capital is a thesis-driven investment firm that invests in cryptocurrencies, tokens, and blockchain companies reshaping trillion-dollar markets. They manage a hedge fund and several venture funds, investing across both public and private markets.

Multicoin 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

Singapore

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

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

Australia

Kain Warwick

P2P Capital invest in crypto assets through owning coins, tokens, participating in traditional equity fundraising and DeFi.

P2P Capital

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

Switzerland

Dfinity Beacon Fund is an investment fund focused on sourcing, evaluating, and supporting world-class applications and services.

Dfinity Beacon Fund

Zola Global is an operationally focused family office that deploys capital to help management teams build lasting and sustainable businesses across industries globally.

Zola Global

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

Dialectic Capital

Hong Kong

HashKey Capital is a blockchain and cryptocurrency-focused venture capital and investment firm based in Hong Kong. They specialize in funding and supporting early-stage blockchain and cryptocurrency projects, startups, and companies.

HashKey Capital

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

Galaxy

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

SevenX Ventures

Early stage venture capital fund focusing on Asia/US cross-border technology investments.

Draper Dragon

Xoogler Ventures

Flybridge

Compa invests in early stage crypto companies that upgrade commerce, content and community.

Compa Capital

Delta Fund

ilemi

Karma3 Labs

Third Prime

Soma Capital

Alchemy Ventures

Orange DAO

Investing in early ventures powering the crypto universe.

Plassa Capital

Nonagon, based in San Francisco, supports teams in the early stages of building web3.

Nonagon

Acctual

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

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.

Blockchain Capital

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)

Fenbushi Capital is the first and most active blockchain-focused venture capital firm in Asia

Fenbushi Capital

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

An early stage venture capital firm investing in consumer and enterprise technology companies

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

General Catalyst

Slovakia

Zee Prime Capital is a VC firm based in Bratislava, Slovakia. Investing in programmable assets and early-stage founders globally.

Zee Prime Capital

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

Kraken Ventures

India

Sandeep Nailwal

Flamingo DAO

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

Stake Capital

Folius Ventures invests, popularizes, and participates in the construction of the Web3 ecosystem.

Folius Ventures

Sebastien Borget is the Co-founder and COO of Pixowl. Passionate for blockchain technology, gaming and education, he is a very active speaker and evangelist who spent the past 8 years focused exclusively on mobile gaming, creating successful games that were downloaded millions of times.

Sebastien Borget

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

Fire Eyes DAO

Tencent

Bonfire Ventures

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

GCR (Global Coin Research)

Palm Tree Crew

dao5

Seed Club Ventures is a Venture DAO backing early-stage founders building at the intersection of web3 and community.

Seed Club Ventures

A global group of crypto natives, founders, builders, and investors.

SpaceshipDAO

DAO Jones

Tioga Capital Partners aims to be the best European long-term partner for outstanding Web3 entrepreneurs.

Tioga Capital Partners

Hayden Adams

Alex Atallah

Denis Nazarov

Pplpleasr

Lens Protocol

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

RockawayX

United Kingdom

Entrepreneur First

Charlie Songhurst

Austria

Speedinvest

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

Alchemy

A small fund by remote founders, operators and early investors investing in the next generation of global work opportunities.

Remote First Capital

Simon Jones

Andreas Klinger

Max Stoeckl

Henry Chen

Felix Wolf

Bryce Ferguson

Blocktorch

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

Polygon aims to transform Ethereum into a multi-chain ecosystem with secured Layer 2 & standalone chains

Polygon

Chapter One Ventures

Builder Capital

Antimetal

Sfermion is a multi-strategy investment firm focused on the immersive internet. Sfermion's mission is to accelerate the emergence of the metaverse by investing in the companies and founders who are shaping our digital future.

Sfermion

BitScale Capital invests in teams and solutions that bring transparency and efficiency to our world through cutting-edge technology.

BitScale Capital

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.

Yield Guild Games (YGG)

Sanctor Capital is a safe haven where bright minds can find the support they need to make the biggest impact on the industry. Sanctor Capital has a long and successful track record of guiding early stage projects to success in the Web3 market.

Sanctor Capital

Eden Ventures

Emfarsis

Gabby Dizon is the Chairman and co-founder of Alto.io, a Singapore-based game platform that connects games to the blockchain. He helped pioneer the Philippine game industry as part of the team that released the first Filipino-made game in 2003. Gabby is also CEO of game developer Altitude Games and former President of the Game DevelopersAssociation of the Philippines. Gabby helps champion the game development industry in Southeast Asia and is an active member of the Philippine startup community.

Gabby Dizon

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

Caballeros Capital

Play Ventures is a venture funding that invests globally in games and game services startups.

Play Ventures

BlockchainSpace is a guild hub for play-to-earn communities.

BlockchainSpace

BreederDAO

Spain

Crypto Plaza

Unlockd

ACME Capital invests in breakthrough technologies that fuel platform shifts and disruptive business models that capitalize on new platforms.

ACME Capital

LongHash Ventures is a global blockchain accelerator and VC fund.

LongHash Ventures

K5 Global is a new media and financial services advisory and consulting firm. The company works with corporations, government entities, and start-ups, and is involved in a range of industries, including sports, technology, politics, and entertainment. K5 functions as a liaison for high-level startups and deal flow, connects influencers andcelebrities to entrepreneurs and brands, and incubates global business opportunities with A-list talent.

K5 Global

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

CitizenX Crypto Ventures Fund, L.P.

OpenSea Ventures

Socket

Mark Cuban is a prominent American entrepreneur, investor, television personality, and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, an NBA basketball team. He is known for his success in the tech industry, particularly during the dot-com boom. Cuban is known for his outspoken and often controversial opinions on a wide range of topics, including technology, politics, and sports. He is also a vocal advocate for cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.

Mark Cuban

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

eGirl Capital is a venture capital investment company that was established in 2019. The company wants to invest in the decentralised and blockchain industries.

eGirl Capital

Arbitrum Foundation

Netherlands

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

Maven 11 Capital

Geometry Venture Development

Union Square Ventures (USV) stands as a leading venture capital firm renowned for its strategic investments in groundbreaking technology companies. Established in 2003 by Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham, the firm has been a consistent player in the ever-evolving landscape of early-stage and growth-stage investments.

Union Square Ventures

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.

			Stage	Investors
YUP Yup	--	--	Funding Round		Social	Jul 24, 2024
ENSO Enso Network	$4.20 M	~$42.00 M	Funding Round		Blockchain Service	Jun 25, 2024
Karma3 Labs	$4.50 M	~$45.00 M	Seed Round	+8	Blockchain Service	Mar 1, 2024
Acctual	$3.85 M	$15.00 M	Funding Round	+5	Web 3.0	Nov 29, 2023
Lens Lens Protocol	$15.00 M	~$150.00 M	Funding Round	+27	Blockchain Service	Jun 8, 2023
Blocktorch	$4.20 M	~$42.00 M	Seed Round	+10	Blockchain Service	May 9, 2023
Antimetal	$4.30 M	~$43.00 M	Seed Round	+3	Blockchain Service	May 8, 2023
UNLK Unlockd	$4.40 M	~$44.00 M	Seed Round	+12	--	Aug 2022
Socket	$2.00 M	~$20.00 M	Pre-seed	+3	Infrastructure	Jul 21, 2022
CLUB Seed Club	--	--	Private Sale	+11	DAO	May 18, 2022
MUST Must	$10.00 M	~$100.00 M	Seed Round	+10	NFT	May 5, 2022
ARCH Archway	$21.00 M	$144.80 M	Private Sale	+9	Cosmos Ecosystem	Mar 24, 2022
NEON Neon EVM	$40.00 M	$248.00 M	Early Purchasers	+7	Layer-2	Nov 2021
RUNE THORChain	$3.75 M	~$37.50 M	Equity Funding	+3	DeFi	Oct 2021
THOR THORSwap	$3.75 M	$37.50 M	Private Round	+15	DEX	Oct 2021
FORT Forta	$23.00 M	~$230.00 M	Venture Round	+11	Blockchain Service	Sep 30, 2021
GEL Gelato	$11.00 M	~$110.00 M	Series A	+2	Blockchain Service	Sep 2021
WNCG Wrapped NCG	$2.60 M	$50.00 M	Strategic Round	+12	Wrapped Token	Aug 17, 2021
ALI Artificial Liquid Intelligence	$16.00 M	$100.00 M	Private Round	+23	NFT	Aug 2021
4K	$3.00 M	~$30.00 M	Seed Round	+2	--	Jul 2021

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