India

Sandeep Nailwal

DCF GOD

Anatoly is the creator of Solana. He led development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox. He holds 2 patents for high performance Operating Systems protocols, was a core kernel developer for BREW which powered every CDMA flip phone (100m+ devices), and led development of tech that madeProject Tango (VR/AR) possible on Qualcomm phones.

Anatoly Yakovenko

Joe Lallouz

Xinshu Dong

0xRooter

Alan Curtis

Richard Wu

Stanford Liu

WSB Mod

Cindy Leow

Mike Ippolito

Solayer

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)

United States of America

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

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

BitScale Capital

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

Big Brain Holdings Invests in Seed, Pre-Seed and Early Stage Startups

Big Brain Holdings

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

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

Race Capital

Mexico

Lvna Capital is an investment fund specialized in blockchain-based digital assets.

Lvna Capital

Wormhole

Road Capital

Finality Capital Partners

ABCDE Capital

Nomad Capital

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

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

Prime Intellect

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

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

Founders Fund

Menlo Ventures

Andrej Karpathy

Emad Mostaque

Clem Delangue

Dylan Patel

Tri Dao

Brendan McCord

Jake Medwell

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

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

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

Digital Currency Group (DCG)

United Kingdom

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

Wintermute

Signum Capital invests in distributed ledger technologies and crypto assets. Signum Capital support game-changing projects that advance us towards the future of blockchain-enabled socioeconomic transformation.

Signum Capital

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

Sam Kazemian

LongHash Ventures is a global blockchain accelerator and VC fund.

LongHash Ventures

Taureon is an investor in the distributed ledger technology ecosystem

Taureon

North Island Ventures is a crypto-focused VC fund

North Island Ventures

UOB Venture Management

Advanced Blockchain

Karim Atiyeh is the Co-Founder and CTO of Ramp, the fastest growing spend management platform and corporate card. Launched in 2020, Ramp gives Finance leaders an edge with powerful software that helps them save time & control spend before it happens.

Karim Atiyeh

Loong Wang

Ignite makes developing, growing, and launching blockchain projects faster than ever before.

Ignite

Andrew Masanto

Martin Mao

Polymer Labs

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

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.

Placeholder

Netherlands

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

Maven 11 Capital

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

Basis Set Ventures is an early-stage investment firm focused on artificial intelligence and its practical application.

Basis Set Ventures

South Korea

Cosmostation

Informal Systems believe in the flourishing of better relationships between people and protocols.

Informal Systems

Tané is committed to contributing to the crypto/Web3 ecosystem by leveraging experience and knowledge by developing and investing in web businesses and applications.

Tané

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)

Hong Kong

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

IOSG Ventures

Alliance is the leading crypto accelerator and founder community.

Alliance

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

Archetype

Yield Ventures is a venture building investment firm focused on cutting edge web3 protocols.

yield ventures

We are the leading staking service provider for blockchain projects. Delegate to us, stake with us.

Stakefish

Ethereal Ventures a new venture fund established by Joseph Lubin

Ethereal Ventures

Mariano Conti

Stefan George

Blockdaemon is a blockchain deployment facilitator that manages nodes and payment rails for blockchain networks.

Blockdaemon

ID Theory apply a principled and innovative investment strategy within decentralised networks.

ID Theory

Germany

Staking Facilities Venture is a venture capital investment firm based in Munich, Germany. The firm employs an early-stage and seed-stage investment strategy and invests across the blockchain, financial services and information technology sectors.

Staking Facilities Ventures

Acrylic Capital

EverStake

Chorus One is building validation and staking infrastructure for Proof-of-Stake networks.

Chorus One

Stablenode

Obol Labs

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

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

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)

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

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

Nascent

Stakely.vc is a global early stage venture fund, focused on backing pioneer founders of blockchain and cryptocurrency future.

Stakely.vc

a41 Ventures

IEX Group

Swiss Staking

Swift Staking

Gibraltar

Kukis Global

Blockscape

DSRV

InfStones

Canada

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

Dapper Labs

David Phelps

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

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

Angel investor. Former VP and early employee at Coinbase.

Dan Romero

ThirdWeb

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

BlueYard backs founders at the earliest stages building the interconnected elements that can become the fabric of our future.

BlueYard

Regan Bozman is a Director Of Business Operations at CoinList.

Regan Bozman

Dean Eigenmann

Juan Benet is founder, CEO of Protocol Labs.

Juan Benet

Lucas Vogelsang

Taavet Hinrikus is co-founder and CEO of TransferWise. Prior to starting TransferWise, Taavet was Skype’s director of strategy until 2008, starting as its first-ever employee. One of the World Economic Forum's Tech Pioneers, Taavet is an adviser to Prime Minister of Estonia on the digital agenda. He’s also a mentor and angel investor; hisinvestments include Tweetdeck, Mendeley, OMGPOP, Property Partner, Sunrise, Improbable and Mapillary.

Taavet Hinrikus

Inflection are a team of venture investors and entrepreneurs with diverse backgrounds based out of Berlin, Boston and Munich complemented by a global network of innovators.

			Stage	Investors
LAYER Solayer	--	--	Funding Round	+10	Liquid Staking Protocols	Jul 1, 2024
Prime Intellect	$5.50 M	~$55.00 M	Seed Round	+9	Blockchain Service	Apr 23, 2024
Polymer Labs	$3.60 M	~$36.00 M	Seed Round	+15	Blockchain	Mar 3, 2022
OBOL Obol Labs	$4.00 M	$50.00 M	Seed Round	+18	DeFi	Oct 18, 2021
YUP Yup	$3.50 M	~$35.00 M	Seed Round	+7	Social	Sep 2021
Violet	$3.50 M	~$35.00 M	Seed Round	+17	Blockchain Service	Aug 13, 2021

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