United States of America

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

Baillie Gifford

United Kingdom

Kingsway Capital

Switzerland

Lakestar is a venture capital firm investing in technology companies led by exceptional entrepreneurs. Early investments included Skype, Spotify, Facebook, and Airbnb. Since raising the first fund in 2013, Lakestar manages an aggregated volume of over EUR 1bn across three early-stage funds, and more recently a growth fund. The company has expandedand broadened its portfolio and holds investments in the likes of Opendoor, Oscar, GetYourGuide, Glovo, Sender, Eigen, Five, Revolut, and Hometogo to name a few. Lakestar has a presence in Berlin, Zurich, and London.
Lakestar helps companies to identify new markets and expand into them rapidly, with a focus on the US and Europe. The team advises and supports portfolio companies in business development, recruitment, technology, and marketing. The investments range from early-stage companies to those in their growth stage.

Lakestar

Blockchain.com

GV (Google Ventures) provides seed, venture, and growth funding to technology companies in life sciences, enterprise technology, consumer products and services, and advanced technology industries.

GV (Google Ventures)

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

Digital Currency Group (DCG)

Mosaic Ventures is a Silicon Valley-style venture capital firm based in London, focused on Series A.

Mosaic

United Arab Emirates

Vy Capital is an investment firm that focuses on the internet and software industry. It was founded in 2013 by Alexander Tamas and is headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Vy Capital

DST Global

Access Industries is a privately-held industrial group with long-term holdings worldwide.

Access Industries

Fort Ross Ventures brings together Silicon Valley venture expertise with an extensive network of relationships in the U.S., Israel, and Eastern Europe.

Fort Ross Ventures

Richard Branson

Rovida Advisors

Kyle Bass

Moore Strategic Ventures

Eldridge

Virgin Group

Nokota Management

Prudence Holdings invests in technology companies leading the global transformation of the real estate sector.

Prudence Holdings

Future\Perfect Ventures

Wicklow Capital is a venture capital that is based out of Chicago

Wicklow Capital

Rafael Corrales

Amit Jhawar

Nat Brown

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

Accel

BoxGroup is an early-stage investment fund that invests in technology companies.

BoxGroup

Ribbit Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies.

Ribbit Capital

Sweden

Creandum is an early-stage venture capital firm backing the companies of tomorrow.

Creandum

Balderton Capital

Lowercarbon Capital

Fuse

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

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

Initial Capital

Raine Ventures

Square Enix

Hong Kong

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

Lemniscap

Collaborative Fund is an investment fund that provides funding to companies based on creativity and collaborative consumption.

Collaborative Fund

Cadenza actively invests in the technology companies and related crypto assets that are reshaping financial services.

Cadenza Ventures

We believe in Bitcoin as a next generation politically neutral monetary system, the foundation for decentralized finance of the future. While Bitcoin is an efficient settlement layer, it needs a Layer-2 solution for everyday transactions. That is why we support development of the Lightning Network - an essential step towards decentralized finance.As technology entrepreneurs we combine decades of experience creating business from zero and scaling it in emerging and fast-growing industries.
We support outstanding teams in several ways: writing checks of $50-$200k for pre-seed startups; granting rewards for acknowledged contributions to the ecosystem; providing startup advisory and mentoring; investing in later stages.

Along the way we help startups to navigate cryptocurrency legal and regulatory environment according to the evolving industry standards and best practices.

Fulgur Ventures

Collab+Currency is an early stage venture investor focusing on web3

Collab+Currency

I am the co-founder and CEO of eRepublik Labs (now part of the Stillfront group that is quoted on Nasdaq First

Alexis Bonte

New Form Capital

Chris Lee

Blockstream

Tiger Global Management is an investment firm that deploys capital globally in both public and private markets.

Tiger Global Management

France

Aglaé Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Paris, New York and San Francisco backed by Groupe Arnault, the controlling shareholder of LVMH, global leader in luxury goods. Aglaé invests from € 100k up to € 100m in asset light tech businesses at all stages. Groupe Arnault-backed companies include Netflix, Spotify, Backmarket, Betfair, Airbnb,Slack, Algolia, Lyft and others.

Aglaé Ventures

Greycroft

Dreamers VC

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

Inspired Capital Partners

Intuition Capital

Phil de Franco

Public

Advancit Capital

Richard Parsons

Tony Hawk

Worklife Ventures

Maria Sharapova

Casey Neistat

Scott Belsky

Morgan DeBaun

JJ Watt

Sophia Amoruso

Scott Galloway

Bond Capital

Revolut

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)

Coatue is a privately-owned hedge fund sponsor. Coatue invests in public and private equity markets focusing on the technology, media, and telecommunications industries.

Coatue Management

Franklin Templeton

Socii Capital is a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in companies building software-enabled digital infrastructure.

Socii Capital

Germany

Global Founders Capital

Index Ventures is a venture capital firm based in London, San Francisco, and Geneva, helping entrepreneurs turn bold ideas into global businesses.

Since 1996, Index has partnered with exceptional entrepreneurs who are using technology to reshape the world around us. The companies they’ve started include Adyen, Deliveroo, Dropbox, Farfetch, King,Slack, and Supercell.

Index Ventures

TSG Consumer Partners

Japan

SoftBank provides fixed-line, mobile telephony, internet, telecommunications, and digital television products.

SoftBank

Greenoaks Capital

Fidelity

NVIDIA

Dragoneer Investment Group

T. Rowe Price

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

Jack Dorsey is the Co-Founder & CEO of Twitter Ventures

Jack Dorsey

Social Capital’s mission is to build the future. We do this by identifying emerging technology trends, partnering with entrepreneurs that are trying to solve some of the world's hardest problems and help them build substantial commercial and economic outcomes. Our returns have placed us among the top technology investors in the world and act as a signal that we have generally been on the right track.

Social Capital

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

Naval Ravikant is the CEO and a co-founder of AngelList. He previously co-founded Epinions (which went public as part of Shopping.com) and Vast.com. He is an active Angel investor, and have invested in dozens of companies, including Twitter, Uber, Yammer, Stack Overflow and Wanelo.

Naval Ravikant

Canada

Version One Supports mission-driven founders who pioneer new areas.

Version One Ventures

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

Elad Gil

Nima Capital is a single-family office global approach to identifying first mover companies disrupting large industries around the world.

Nima Capital

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

General Catalyst

India

Cognisa Capital is a diversified investment Fund that is focused exclusively on blockchain opportunities.

Cognisa Capital

Curios Endeavors is a personal angel investment entity.

Curious Endeavors

Avichal is Managing Partner at Electric Capital. He is a serial entrepreneur and technology executive. Avichal sold two companies and was most recently Director of Product at Facebook, which acquired his company Spool in 2012. He previously worked at Google on search ranking and ads ranking, is part-time at YCombinator, and an active angelinvestor.
Avichal's firm, Electric Capital, focuses on cryptocurrencies that are rooted in technological utility. Electric performs deep technological diligence, such as compiling code, profiling nodes, and analyzing blockchains with in-house software. The founders of Electric have started and sold five companies, have been investing in cryptocurrencies since 2013, and are investors in Anchor, Bitwise, Chia, Coda, dYdX, Dfinity, Oasis, Thunder and many other crypto projects.

Avichal Garg

Warren Hogarth is a venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital. Warren's current areas of interest include cloud computing, bioinformatics and energy.

Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2008, Warren completed his PhD in Chemical Engineering, where he developed fuel cell technology. During this time, he was a visiting Fulbright Scholar toPrinceton University and a Guest Scientist at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems.
Warren has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Queensland.

Warren Hogarth

R&R Ventures is a new fund run by former Time Warner CEO, Dick Parsons, and media investor, Ron Lauder.

R&R Ventures

Linda Xie is co-founder and Managing Director of Scalar Capital. Previously she was a product manager at Coinbase which she joined in June 2014. At Coinbase, Linda has worked with regulators and law enforcement on compliance for digital assets. Prior to Coinbase, she was a portfolio risk analyst at AIG. Linda holds a B.A. in Economics from theUniversity of California, San Diego.

Linda Xie

Kilowatt Capital LLC A privately held company in San Francisco

Kilowatt Capital LLC

Julia is an advisor to start ups and an active technology angel investor, with angel investments in Gusto, Lever, Baobab Studios, Brit Media, BetterUp, SafeGraph, CodeFights, AltSchool, MissionU, Owlet, Philz Coffee, Tynker, Happiest Baby, Kite, MileIQ (acq by MSFT), Locu (acq by GoDaddy), Beme (acq by CNN), Alt12 (acq by Honest Co), Worklife (acqby Cisco) & Wheelz (acq by Turo), and later stage investments in Uber, Alibaba (IPO’d), FlipKart, Postmates, DocuSign, Survey Monkey, Blue Bottle Coffee, Stripe and Spotify.
Julia began her career as a corporate attorney at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich Rosati. In 2006, Julia joined Facebook as the second attorney in the legal department and led the commercial transactions team from June 2006 until April 2011. She negotiated numerous deals strategic to Facebook's growth and development, including with Microsoft, Spotify, ABC/Disney, CNN and YouTube. Julia led a team of 9 attorneys, oversaw Facebook's legal work related to its international expansion and operations, and worked on matters related to product and IP law. In her five years at Facebook, Julia was instrumental in scaling the legal team from two people to 40, setting up departmental procedures and infrastructure and hiring and managing outside counsel.

Julia received her JD from Harvard Law School in 1997, graduating cum laude, and her BA from UC Berkeley, graduating magna cum laude and phi beta kappa with a degree in Political Science. She is a member of the State Bar of California.

In her free time, Julia volunteers at her kids' schools and with other community organizations. She has chaired the annual auctions at Bing Nursery School and Nueva School and is on the National Council of World Wildlife Fund. Previously, she sat on the boards of the Oshman Family JCC, Hebrew Free Loan Association and Hands on Bay Area. She biked from SF to LA with the California AIDS Ride and ran the Honolulu Marathon with Team in Training.

Julia Popowitz

Arianna Simpson has 3 current jobs including General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, Founder & Managing Director at Autonomous Partners, and Venture Partner at Crystal Towers.

Arianna Simpson

Vijay learned how to build large software systems at Google from 2002-2008 and at CMU. He worked on cluster management, mobile apps before smartphones and AdWords.

He was also the first engineer at Jumo (started by Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes), and worked with Acumen Fund (a socially responsible investment firm). He grew up in Montreal andis still a die-hard Canadiens fan.

Vijay Pandurangan

Tanguy Chau

Reid joined Greylock Partners in 2009. He focuses on building products that can reach hundreds of millions of participants and businesses that have network effects. An accomplished entrepreneur and executive, Reid has played an integral role in building many of today’s leading consumer technology businesses, including LinkedIn and PayPal. Hepossesses a unique understanding of consumer behavior and the dynamics of viral businesses, as well as deep experience in driving companies from the earliest stages through periods of explosive, “blitzscale” growth. Ranging from Linkedin to PayPal, from Airbnb to Convoy to Facebook, Reid invests in businesses with network effects and collaborates on building their product ecosystems. Reid co-founded LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional networking service, in 2003. LinkedIn is thriving with more than 500 million members around the world and a diversified revenue model that includes subscriptions, advertising, and software licensing. He led LinkedIn through its first four years and to profitability as Chief Executive Officer. Prior to LinkedIn, Reid served as executive vice president at PayPal, where he was also a founding board member. Reid is an accomplished investor. He currently serves on the boards of Airbnb, Aurora, Coda, Convoy, Entrepreneur First, Gixo, Microsoft, Nauto, Xapo and a few early stage companies still in stealth. In addition, he serves on a number of not-for-profit boards, including Kiva, Endeavor, CZI Biohub and Do Something. Prior to joining Greylock, he angel invested in many influential Internet companies, including Facebook, Flickr, Last.fm, and Zynga. Reid is the co-author of two New York Times best-selling books: The Start-up of You and The Alliance. His next book is focused on “blitzscaling”, based on his Stanford course of the same name. Reid is the host of the podcast, Masters of Scale. Reid earned a master’s degree in philosophy from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a bachelor’s degree with distinction in symbolic systems from Stanford University. In 2010 he was the recipient of an SD Forum Visionary Award and named a Henry Crown Fellow by The Aspen Institute. In 2012, he was honored by the Martin Luther King center’s Salute to Greatness Award. Also in 2012, he received the David Packard Medal of Achievement from TechAmerica and an honorary doctor of law from Babson University. In 2017, Reid was appointed as a CBE by her majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Reid Hoffman

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

Nitesh Banta

Celo

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

Greenfield One is an early-stage crypto and blockchain venture capital firm.

Greenfield One

Valor is an investment firm that focuses on cross-border financial and investment opportunities. The firm operates across two investment strategies Growth Equity and Venture Capital. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Valor Capital Group

DTCP is an investment management firm focused on growth equity and digital infrastructure. Founded in 2015, the firm has raised more than $1 billion in funds from corporate and institutional investors and invested in over 60 companies. DTCP Growth invests in enterprise application and infrastructure software companies. DTCP Infra invests in mobileaccess, fiber, and data center infrastructure.
DTCP is headquartered in Hamburg with offices in Menlo Park, Tel Aviv, and Seoul.

DTCP

9Yards Capital provides entrepreneurs with long-term, strategic capital and have a deep understanding of how governments and regulators operate. They take a focused approach to the industries they invest in and have a proven track record in financial services and logistics investing.

9Yards 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

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

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

FundersClub

Earlybird Venture Capital

ShapeShift FOX

Taiwan

Bitfinex is the world's leading digital asset trading platform.

Bitfinex

Roger is currently involved in numerous Bitcoin related projects. He is an early investor in bitcoin-related startups. He has been a prominent supporter of bitcoin adoption and saw bitcoin as a means to promote economic freedom. He now promotes Bitcoin Cash, a hard fork of the cryptocurrency created with the intent to fix issues such as high feesand long transaction confirmation times.

Roger Ver

Bruce Fenton

Puerto Rico

Michael Terpin

Access Ventures invest across asset classes, with focus on SaaS, operating orgs, and real estate.

Access Ventures

Trevor Koverko is the Co-founder at Polymath Network. Trevor was an early adopter of cryptocurrencies and he fully immersed himself in the blockchain space. He has since become focused on the burgeoning industry by founding several cryptocurrency startups.

			Stage	Investors
Blockchain.com	$110.00 M	$7.00 B	Series E	+2		CEX	Nov 14, 2023
Blockchain.com	--	--	Strategic Round	+7		CEX	Oct 14, 2022
Fuse	$78.00 M	~$780.00 M	Seed Round	+4	--	Blockchain Service	Sep 7, 2022
ZBD	$35.00 M	~$350.00 M	Series B	+2	--	Blockchain Service	Jul 19, 2022
ZBD	$11.50 M	~$115.00 M	Series A	+5	--	Blockchain Service	Sep 7, 2021
Blockchain.com	$120.00 M	~$1.20 B	Strategic Round	+5		CEX	Feb 17, 2021
Public	$220.00 M	$1.20 B	Series D	+7		CEX	Feb 17, 2021
Public	$65.00 M	~$650.00 M	Series C	+5		CEX	Dec 15, 2020
Revolut	$500.00 M	$5.50 B	Series D	+2		Finance	Jul 24, 2020
CELO Celo	$6.50 M	$180.00 M	Pre-launch sale 1	+22		Layer-2	Jun 21, 2018
Revolut	$250.00 M	$1.75 B	Series C	+3		Finance	Apr 26, 2018
Blockchain.com	$40.00 M	~$400.00 M	Series B	+5		CEX	Jun 22, 2017
FOX ShapeShift FOX	$10.40 M	~$104.00 M	Series A	+4	--	DeFi	Mar 29, 2017

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