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

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

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

Galaxy

FirstMark

Bessemer Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that funds consumer, enterprise, and healthcare startups.

Bessemer Venture Partners

Sapphire Ventures

ICONIQ Growth

Norwest

Endeavor Catalyst

Rain

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

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

Alliance is the leading crypto accelerator and founder community.

Alliance

Samsung NEXT is the innovation arm of the Samsung Group, a global conglomerate. Samsung NEXT is known for its role in identifying, investing in, and developing cutting-edge technologies and startups. The primary focus of Samsung NEXT is to explore and invest in emerging technology trends that align with Samsung's broader business strategies.

Samsung NEXT

Hard Yaka makes early round investments in exchange space startups. Candidates are either verticals in particular categories of exchange markets or horizontals providing services across exchange sectors.

Hard Yaka

Canonical Crypto

BDMI

Latitude is a venture capital firm focused on being the first call and partner to founders scaling from 0 to 1.

Latitude

CompoSecure

Khosla Ventures

Uniswap

Mischief

Paul Veradittakit

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

Circle

Terraform Capital

Paradigm is a cryptocurrency-focused investment firm and venture capital company. It was founded by Matt Huang and Fred Ehrsam, both of whom have significant experience in the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry. Paradigm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and is considered a prominent player in the digital asset and blockchain investment space.

Paradigm

Standard Economics

Finland

Investing in Nordic-Baltic companies creating the world we want to live in.

NordicNinja

Estonia

Metaplanet Holdings is an early-stage investment firm that invests in diversified sectors. They support novel and evidence-based innovations that could produce an outsized return for the benefit of humankind. The firm specializes in the fields of business development, venture capital, and financial services.

Metaplanet Holdings

Skaala is an investment company focused on creating meaningful and long-term value. Skaala's portfolio includes private equity, real assets and impact-oriented projects. Skaala aims to develop sustainable and stable solutions that drive financial growth and positive social outcomes.

Skaala

Lightyear

Mechanism Capital is an investment firm that invests in the cryptocurrency industry with a focus on decentralized finance or DeFi.

Mechanism Capital

Delphi Ventures was founded over 25 years ago as one of the first venture capital firms to focus on investing in life sciences companies.

Delphi Ventures

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

Netherlands

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

Maven 11 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

Mert Mumtaz

Tristan Yver

chainyoda.eth

Matt Sorg

Equilibrium Ventures

Pivot Global invests in early-stage founders that drive and accelerate the widespread adoption of decentralized applications and permissionless networks.

Pivot Global

Theo Gonella

Magicblock

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)

Wing is an early-stage investor and long-term company builder—equipping founders with resources and unwavering partnership.

Wing VC

B Capital Group

Menlo Ventures

Anthropic

Work-Bench

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

South Park Commons

Goodfire

China

Hongshan, formerly known as Sequoia Capital China, is a venture capital firm specializing in investments across various stages, from seed and mid-stage to late-stage and growth, with a particular focus on the fintech sector.

HongShan (ex-Sequoia China)

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

Accel

Vertex Ventures is a global network of operator-investors that manages portfolios.

Vertex Ventures

RedotPay

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

Circle Ventures focuses on proprietary capital investments in the technology sector.

Circle Ventures

Goodwater

Early stage blockchain venture capital. A JV with Lightspeedvp

Faction

Singapore

Blockchain Founders Fund (BFF) is a Singapore based early-stage Venture Capital Fund which invests in top-tier Blockchain startups globally.

Blockchain Founders Fund

Nexus

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

United Kingdom

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

Brevan Howard

Hong Kong

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

Lemniscap

Switzerland

ConsenSys develops enterprise applications, invests in startups, builds developer tools, and offers blockchain education.

ConsenSys

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

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

Kraken

Franklin Templeton

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)

Fidelity

Puffer

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)

Jump Crypto, a division of the Jump Trading Group, is a global leader in Web3 infrastructure development and investment.

Jump Crypto

The Ethereum Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting Ethereum and its related technologies. As part of a broad network of organizations, individuals, and companies, the EF plays a key role in advancing the Ethereum ecosystem.

Ethereum Foundation

Bankless

DACM provides focused, transparent, and professionally managed investment into the world’s fastest growing asset class.

Digital Asset Capital Management (DACM)

SNZ Holding is a crypto fund founded by a group of engineers, blockchain evangelists and entrepreneurs passionate about disruptive blockchain technologies.

SNZ Holding

LBank is a digital asset exchange, investment and financial services provider company.

LBank Ventures

Iotex Pad

Arcanum Capital is a growth-driven investment in decentralized protocols.

Arcanum Capital

Calvin Liu

Richard Malone

Sreeram Kannan

Wagmi33 Foundation is a private equity investment DAO governed by decentralized principles.

Wagmi33 Foundation

TokenPocket is a digital currency wallet.

TokenPocket

DiscusFish

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

Fenbushi Capital

Bitmain is a China-based technology company that specializes in the design and manufacture of hardware for cryptocurrency mining, particularly for Bitcoin. Founded in 2013 by Micree Zhan and Jihan Wu, Bitmain quickly became one of the most prominent and influential companies in the cryptocurrency industry.

Bitmain

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

OKX Ventures

DHVC is a First Principle Investor behind iconic technology companies in the AI, bio, crypto and consumer sectors. The DHVC team brings experience in entrepreneurship, operations, investing and research to help our portfolio companies grow and succeed.

DHVC

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

Draper Dragon

Matrix is an early-stage venture capital firm, investing from idea through Series A. As a close-knit team of former founders and company builders, we've partnered with companies from Apple and FedEx to Oculus and Canva.

Matrix Partners

Seychelles

KuCoin Ventures was founded in 2017 and is from Seychelles. KuCoin Ventures has made 31 investments so far, the most recent investment project is Port3 Network, and the investment announcement time is October 23, 2023

According to the CoinCarp fundraising database, KuCoin Ventures has invested in 8 Web3 projects, 5 DeFi projects, 3 NFTs projects, 2 Infrastructure projects and 1 Others projects. Among all, 42.11% of KuCoin Ventures's investments are Web3 projects.

KuCoin Ventures

Shentu

South Korea

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

Hashed

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

Wintermute

Token Bay Capital

Flow Traders

WWVentures

Activist investor focused on machine economies, accelerated by open-source intelligence, and settled on trustless value networks.

GenerativeVentures

Presto Labs

Taiko

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

IOSG Ventures

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

GGV Capital

Yunqi Partners

Bertelsmann Asia Investments (BAI) is a strategic VC fund focused on early-growth stage investments in China's TMT, education and BPO sectors.

BAI Capital

Skyland Ventures is a venture capital fund that mainly invests in seed startups.

Skyland Ventures

Patricio Worthalter

Tim Beiko

KuCoin

Anthony Sassano

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

Bain Capital Ventures

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

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

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

Digital Currency Group (DCG)

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

			Stage	Investors
Rain	$250.00 M	$1.95 B	Series C	+6		Finance	Jan 9, 2026
Standard Economics	$9.00 M	~$90.00 M	Seed Round		--	Blockchain Service	Oct 28, 2025
Lightyear	$23.00 M	~$230.00 M	Series B	+1		Finance	Jul 24, 2025
Magicblock	$7.50 M	~$75.00 M	Seed Round	+10		Infrastructure	Apr 25, 2025
Goodfire	$50.00 M	~$500.00 M	Series A	+4		Artificial Intelligence (AI)	Apr 17, 2025
Rain	$24.50 M	~$245.00 M	Series A	+6		Finance	Mar 24, 2025
RedotPay	$40.00 M	~$400.00 M	Series A	+2		Neobank	Mar 14, 2025
Nexus	$25.00 M	~$250.00 M	Series A	+2		Infrastructure	Jun 10, 2024
PUFFER Puffer	$18.00 M	~$180.00 M	Series A Round	+9		Liquid Staking Protocols	Apr 16, 2024
CTK Shentu	--	--	Funding Round	+7		Blockchain Service	Mar 12, 2024
TAIKO Taiko	$15.00 M	~$150.00 M	Series A	+7		Layer-2	Mar 2, 2024
KAR Karak Network	$48.00 M	$1.00 B	Series A	+12	--	Layer-2	Feb 28, 2024
ENA Ethena	$14.00 M	$300.00 M	Seed Extension Round	+24	--	DeFi	Feb 16, 2024
LSD Pontem Liquidswap	$6.00 M	~$60.00 M	Funding Round	+8		Aptos Ecosystem	Jan 11, 2024
CharacterX	$2.80 M	~$28.00 M	Seed Round	+5	--	Social	Jan 7, 2024
Medallion	$13.70 M	~$137.00 M	Series A	+7		Blockchain Service	Dec 21, 2023
Blockchain.com	$110.00 M	$7.00 B	Series E	+2		CEX	Nov 14, 2023
ENA Ethena	$6.50 M	~$65.00 M	Seed Round	+18	--	DeFi	Jul 19, 2023
ST Sentio Token	$6.40 M	~$64.00 M	Seed Round	+2	--	Infrastructure	Feb 2023
ZK ZKsync	$200.00 M	$1.25 B	Series C	+4		Layer-2	Nov 16, 2022

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