United States of America

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

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.

Volt Capital

Alliance is the leading crypto accelerator and founder community.

Alliance

Initialized Capital

DCF GOD

Meltem Demirors

Raj Gokal

The Crypto Dog

Siqi Chen

icebergy

Bharat Krymo

gainzy

0xSisyphus

Smokey The Bera

Stephane Gosselin

Forrest Browning

WSB Mod

Azura

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

Digital Currency Group (DCG)

Kraynos Capital

Class 5 Global

Abstract Ventures

New Form Capital

Quona Capital

Caliza

Garry is a designer, engineer, and founder turned early stage investor, co-founding Initialized Capital in 2012. The firm has invested at the earliest stages of companies like Coinbase, Flexport, Instacart, and Cruise.

Prior to Initialized, Garry spent nearly 5 years as a partner at Y Combinator, advising and funding more than 1,000 companies andfounders. He was co-founder of YC-backed blog platform Posterous (acquired by Twitter in 2012) and previously worked at Palantir as a founding member of the engineering team. He also designed Palantir’s logo.
Garry holds a BS in Computer Systems Engineering from Stanford University.

Garry Tan

Amit Agarwal

Bradley Horowitz

Kindred Ventures

Parcha

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

Archetype

Homebrew

South Park Commons brings together talented people to share ideas, explore directions, and realize the opportunities that’ll get you there.

South Park Commons

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

Y Combinator

OpenSea Ventures

Satsuma

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

Arrington Capital is a thesis-focused digital asset and Web3 investing firm. Since 2017, Arrington Capital has invested in over 200 early-stage companies in the crypto ecosystem. Arrington Capital's crypto-native team of seasoned entrepreneurs, founders, and executives is committed to doubling down on efforts to ensure our partners' success.

Arrington Capital

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

ParaFi Capital

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

Blockchain.com Ventures

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

Alchemy

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

Kraken

United Kingdom

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

Brevan Howard

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

France

Ubisoft is a producer, publisher, and distributor of interactive entertainment products.

Ubisoft

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

BITKRAFT Ventures

P2 Ventures is dedicated to supporting visionary teams across the multichain ecosystem. We invest at the earliest stages across all categories in web3.

P2 Ventures

Translink Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Palo Alto with uncommonly powerful connections to support founders.

Translink Capital

Xsolla

Alexander Larsen is an experienced entrepreneur and co-founder of Sky Mavis and Axie Infinity, one of the largest blockchain gaming ecosystems. Alex has been involved in the NFT space and blockchain games since 2017.

Aleksander Larsen (Psycheout)

China

Sky9 Capital is a leading venture capital fund dedicated to supporting disruptive technologies and outstanding innovators.

Sky9

Perpetual Value

Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. is an American video game holding company based in New York City and founded by Ryan Brant in September 1993

Take-Two Interactive Software

J17 Capital is an international private equity fund seeking companies and opportunities within the North America and Asia markets

J17 Capital

Round 13 Digital Asset Fund

Morgan Creek Capital Management, LLC is an SEC-registered investment adviser

Morgan Creek Digital

Anthony Sassano

Quantstamp

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

Everyrealm is one of the most active investors and developers of the metaverse ecosystem.

Everyrealm

Sequence (Prev. Horizon Blockchain Games)

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

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

Consensus Capital Holdings

Golden Ventures

Consensus Lab

Polygon Labs

Inovia Capital

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)

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

Investing in the crypto-powered Web3 and creator economy ecosystems

6MV (6th Man Ventures)

Hack VC is a web3 venture capital firm. Hack VC partners with online and offline hackers who are building the future of the internet.

Hack VC

Shima Capital is an early stage VC firm investing in disruptive web3 and blockchain technology companies.

Shima Capital

Position Ventures

Brazil

MGU Capital

Liquid2 Ventures provides technology startups with seed-stage investments and is based in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 2015 by Joe Montana, Mike Miller, and Michael Ma.

Liquid 2 Ventures

The Chainsmokers

Nitesh Banta is the Co-Founder & CEO at B12.

Nitesh Banta

M13 provides strategic counsel and operational expertise to help founders grow their companies.

Paris Hilton

Michael Ovitz

Soma Capital

Australia

Alchemy Ventures

Gold House Ventures

Switzerland

Olive Capital

Audacious Ventures

CreatorDAO

PayPal Ventures invests in companies at the forefront of innovation in fintech, payments, commerce enablement, artificial intelligence, blockchain and cryptocurrency, and regulatory and cyber technology.

PayPal Ventures

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

Notation Capital

Singapore

Graticule Asset Management Asia provides asset management, investment strategy and advisory services

Graticule Asset Management Asia

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

Castle Island Ventures is a venture capital firm

Castle Island Ventures

Citi

Fidelity

LeadBlock Partners

BNY Mellon is an investment company that provides investment management, investment services, and wealth management services.

BNY Mellon

Stripes is a growth equity firm that invests in software and consumer businesses

Stripes

General Atlantic is a global growth equity firm providing capital and strategic support for growth companies.

General Atlantic

Illuminate Financial

Matrix Capital Management

Fin is an asset management firm investing full lifecycle in FinTech and adjacent verticals in principally B2B enterprise SaaS companies.

Fin Capital

Wells Fargo Strategic Capital

Voyager Digital

Talos

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

Galaxy

Elefund

QCP Capital is a digital asset trading firm that provides digital payment token (DPT) services.

QCP Capital

Sony Innovation Fund

Karatage

Robinhood

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

FalconX

Long Journey Ventures

ThirdWeb

Justin Kan

Gokul Rajaram

Marc Bhargava

Zhuoxun Yin

Lin is the COO of Twitch, the world’s leading social video platform and community for gamers. He was instrumental in the 2011 launch of the platform when he joined Justin.tv in 2008. His role included attracting the site’s largest broadcasters and building out the partnership team among other activities which have helped grow the Twitch brand.Currently more than 100 million gamers gather every month on Twitch to broadcast live video, watch and chat about gaming, making the platform an industry leader.

Kevin Lin

Andrew Steinwold

William Hockey

Paper

Slow Ventures is known for its patient and supportive approach to investments. They often take a long-term view and provide guidance, mentorship, and resources to the startups they back.

Slow Ventures

Defiance Capital is a Decentralized Finance (DeFi) focused cryptoasset fund that combines fundamental research with an activist investment approach.

DeFiance Capital

AscendEX is global operator of digital asset exchanges for diverse groups of clients from retail to institutions

AscendEX

Altonomy is a trading, advisory, and asset management firm specializing in cryptocurrency and digital assets.

Altonomy

AVA is a next-generation blockchain platform with revolutionary scalability, decentralization, security, and flexibility.

Ava Labs

Terraform Labs (Luna)

NEM Trading

Borderless Capital is a Blockchain VC firm and a modern financial institution investing capital and co-building financial products with our portfolio companies that accelerates access, bootstraps adoption, and creates value globally through the Algorand Borderless Economy.

Borderless Capital

Hummingbot

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.

Bain Capital is a global alternative investment firm specializes in private equity, venture capital, and credit products.

Bain Capital Ventures

Israel

Collider Ventures is an early-stage venture capital blockchain & cryptocurrency fund.

			Stage	Investors
Azura	$6.90 M	~$69.00 M	Seed Round	+14	--	DeFi	Oct 22, 2024
Caliza	$8.50 M	~$85.00 M	Funding Round	+4	--	Finance	Jul 15, 2024
Parcha	$5.00 M	~$50.00 M	Seed Round	+2		Artificial Intelligence (AI)	Aug 9, 2023
Satsuma Satsuma	$5.00 M	~$50.00 M	Seed Round	+3		Blockchain Service	Apr 4, 2023
Sequence (Prev. Horizon Blockchain Games)	$40.00 M	~$400.00 M	Series A	+16		Infrastructure	Oct 2022
CREATOR CreatorDAO	$20.00 M	~$200.00 M	Seed Round	+18		DAO	Aug 2022
Talos	$105.00 M	$1.25 B	Series B	+15	--	Finance	May 10, 2022
PAPER Paper	$9.30 M	~$93.00 M	Seed Round	+11		--	May 2022
HBOT Hummingbot	$8.00 M	~$80.00 M	Series A Round	+7		Software	May 2021
AVAX Avalanche	$12.45 M	$360.00 M	Private Sale	+2		Blockchain	Jun 2020
Sequence (Prev. Horizon Blockchain Games)	$5.00 M	~$50.00 M	Funding Round	+7		Infrastructure	Mar 7, 2020
Sequence (Prev. Horizon Blockchain Games)	$3.75 M	~$37.50 M	Seed Round	+3		Infrastructure	Jul 17, 2019
AVAX Avalanche	$5.94 M	$237.60 M	Seed Round	+3		Blockchain	Feb 2019
HOT Hydro Protocol	$30.00 M	~$300.00 M	Presale Round	+11		--	Jan 2018

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