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

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

Singapore

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

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

Galaxy

United Kingdom

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

Wintermute

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

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

General Catalyst

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

Bessemer Venture Partners

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

Haun Ventures

Francesco Agosti

Michael Shaulov

Kevin Weil

F-Prime Capital

Chaos Labs

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

Jump Crypto

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

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

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

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

An accelerator helping DeFi startups source liquidity and support from a broad industry network

DeFi Alliance

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

Polygon

Santiago Roel Santos is the Partner at ParaFi Capital

Santiago Roel Santos

Avalanche is the fastest smart contracts platform in the blockchain industry, as measured by time-to-finality

Avalanche Foundation

Primitive Ventures is an international venture investment firm that invests on blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies.

Primitive Ventures

Third Prime

Tioga Capital operates as a private investment firm.

Tioga Capital

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

Folius Ventures

Uniswap

THETA

Castle Island Ventures is a venture capital firm

Castle Island Ventures

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

Blockdaemon

OpenSea Ventures

Quiet Capital

Paul Veradittakit

Lyrik Ventures

Itay Malinger

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

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

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

Blockchain Founders Fund

Faction

Nexus Laboratories

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

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

Mechanism Capital

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

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

Brevan Howard

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 Ventures

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

Binance Labs identifies, invests, and empowers viable blockchain entrepreneurs, startups, and communities, providing financing to industry projects that help grow the wider blockchain ecosystem. Binance Labs is committed to supporting fast-executing, technical teams who positively impact the crypto space and build the decentralised web.

Binance Labs

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

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

Digital Asset Capital Management (DACM)

China

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

Canonical Crypto

Richard Malone

Sreeram Kannan

Bankless

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

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

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

OKX Ventures

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

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

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)

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

IOSG 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

Mirana Ventures

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

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.

Nima Capital

Joe Lau

Mubadala Capital

Noah Jessop is a Principal & Managing Partner. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Noah Jessop

Nikil Viswanathan is the Co-founder and CEO at Alchemy.

Nikil Viswanathan

Proof has been moving mountains since 1999. We transform how people work with Claris FileMaker and web solutions.

Proof Group

Anthony Pompliano

Karak Network

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)

Cobie, a well-known pseudonymous figure, has made a significant impact both on crypto Twitter and within the broader cryptocurrency industry. Beyond his online presence, he's also recognized as the founder of Echo.

Cobie

Finland

Founder and CEO of Aave and ETHLend. He is an experienced businessman with extensive knowledge of blockchain, cryptocurrencies and financial technology.

Stani Kulechov

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

Nascent

DCF GOD

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

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

Sam Kazemian

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

Virgin Islands (British)

Bybit is a global cryptocurrency derivatives exchange designed for all retail traders, professionals and investment institutions alike.

Bybit

Amber Group is a one-stop crypto finance service provider that provides liquidity provision, trading and asset management services 24/7.

Amber Group

Mr.Block is a blockchain community that creates a connection between international projects and another country.

			Stage	Investors
Chaos Labs	$55.00 M	~$550.00 M	Series A	+12	--	Aug 15, 2024
Nexus Laboratories	$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
KARAK 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
Econia	$6.50 M	~$65.00 M	Seed Round	+2	--	Mar 2023
Chaos Labs	$20.00 M	~$200.00 M	Seed Round	+25	--	Feb 2023
Sentio	$6.40 M	~$64.00 M	Seed Round	+2	--	Feb 2023
ZK ZKsync	$200.00 M	$1.25 B	Series C	+4	Layer-2	Nov 16, 2022
Fordefi	$18.00 M	~$180.00 M	Seed Round	+5	Wallet	Nov 2022
Blockchain.com	--	--	Strategic Round	+7	CEX	Oct 14, 2022
MystenLabs	$300.00 M	~$3.00 B	Series B Round	+9	--	Sep 8, 2022
SUI Sui	$300.00 M	$5.00 B	Series B	+7	Blockchain	Sep 2022

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