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

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

BlockTower is an institutional investment firm, applying professional trading, venture investing, credit underwriting, and portfolio management to digital and traditional assets.

BlockTower Capital

Hypersphere is a crypto-native investment platform designed to partner with early-stage and public blockchain networks.

Hypersphere Ventures

MetaCartel Ventures is a decentralized autonomous organization that will invest in the Ethereum ecosystem.

MetaCartel Ventures

Arthur Hayes, Co-Founder of BitMEX & CIO of Maelstromfund.

Arthur Hayes

Bryan Pellegrino is the co-founder and CEO of LayerZero Labs, a blockchain company developing LayerZero, an interoperability protocol that enables seamless communication between different blockchains. This protocol is especially significant in the DeFi space, as it allows data and tokens to move across networks like Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, and Solana.

Bryan Pellegrino

Mike Bucella

Netherlands

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

Maven 11 Capital

Switzerland

Dialectic is a Swiss capital enterprise focused on deployment of human and financial capital into alternative assets.

Dialectic Capital

AngelDAO operates as a decentralized autonomous organization.

AngelDAO

Avi Felman

Marc Bhargava

Heartcore Capital

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

Circle

Superform

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

Union Square Ventures (USV) stands as a leading venture capital firm renowned for its strategic investments in groundbreaking technology companies. Established in 2003 by Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham, the firm has been a consistent player in the ever-evolving landscape of early-stage and growth-stage investments.

Union Square Ventures

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

Jump Crypto

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

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

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

Distributed Global is an investment firm focused on the blockchain and digital asset ecosystem.

Distributed Global

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

Digital Currency Group (DCG)

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

BitScale Capital

China

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

Fenbushi Capital

South Korea

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

Hashed

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

ConsenSys

Reciprocal Ventures is a venture capital firm focused exclusively on FinTech.

Reciprocal Ventures

Canada

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

Dapper Labs

Investing in the crypto-powered Web3 and creator economy ecosystems

6MV (6th Man Ventures)

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

Hong Kong

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

P2P Capital invest in crypto assets through owning coins, tokens, participating in traditional equity fundraising and DeFi.

P2P Capital

Slovakia

Zee Prime Capital is a VC firm based in Bratislava, Slovakia. Investing in programmable assets and early-stage founders globally.

Zee Prime Capital

Venrock is a venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare companies.

Venrock

Amplify is relentlessly focused on helping technical founders succeed -- founders with an unwavering vision for a better future and the courage to make it happen.

Amplify Partners

United Kingdom

Northzone is a technology investment partnership. With two decades of experience, we have been chosen by some of the best entrepreneurs as their long-term partner for growth.

With offices across the Nordics, London and in New York, we work around the clock to connect our companies with customers, business partners and key talent on a truly international scale.

As former entrepreneurs ourselves, we have been sat on both sides of the table, and place the relationships with our Founders at the core of our business.

Northzone

Warburg Serres Investments is a boutique venture capital fund focused on Blockchain Technology, IoT, AI/ML, Additive Manufacturing.

Warburg Serres Investments

Illia Polosukhin is a Co-Founder at NEAR.

Illia Polosukhin

Ryan Selkis is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Messari. He was the Managing Director CoinDesk before that. After discovering bitcoin, Ryan became obsessed with the technology’s social and economic potential. That obsession, along with finance and startup experience, helps him lead DCG's investing efforts.

Ryan Selkis

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

Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate in service of the LGBT+ community and its allies, investing in companies with LGBT+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in more established companies resolved on building more inclusive teams, with a global portfolio of 130+ companies and $70M in deployed investment capital todate. 
The Gaingels network also actively supports its portfolio in identifying and recruiting diverse talent to their C-suite and board leadership teams and fosters a vibrant global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who share a common goal for positive social change through business and successful investments.

Gaingels

Redbeard Ventures builds, invests, and advises startups that help to gain a keen sense of what really matters when building a company.

Red Beard Ventures

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

Roham Gharegozlou

Meltem Demirors

Tegan Kline

Calvin Liu

Stefan George

Not Boring Capital

A venture capital firm that invests globally in teams creating the future of the internet with decentralized protocols

Polymorphic Capital

Underscore VC is a Boston-based venture capital firm. Their investment focus is around cloud intelligence and the technology sector. Underscore VC was founded in 2015.

Underscore VC (Underscore.VC)

Alessio Fanelli

Alex Salnikov is a is a individual investor.

Alex Salnikov

Zach Frankel

Russia

Vadim Koleoshkin

Japan

Suji Yan is the founder and CEO of Dimension/Mask Network.

Suji Yan

Kerman Kohli

Julia Rosenberg is a Co-Founder at Orca Protocol.

Julia Rosenberg

Josepgh Lalloouz is the Head of Coinbase Cloud at Grand St.

Joseph Lallouz

Jeremy Sklaroff is the General Counsel and Ops at Edge & Node.

Jeremy Sklaroff

Ceramic

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.

Boost VC is an active Deep Tech investor. Boost VC invests in emerging and disruptive categories at the edge of the map.

Boost VC

Scalar Capital provides fund management and advisory services.

Scalar Capital

LongHash Ventures is a global blockchain accelerator and VC fund.

LongHash Ventures

Israel

StarkWare Industries develops a full-proof stack in generating and verifying proofs of computational integrity in the blockchain.

StarkWare Industries

A collective of crypto-natives focused on tokenomics & governance.

Fire Eyes DAO

Snapshot

Bahamas

FMFW.io is a fully functional cryptocurrency exchange with the most popular and latest listings and offers.

FMFW

Ascensive Assets is an early stage venture fund that invests in ambitious founders building the next generation of blockchain-enabled technology.

Ascensive Assets

Spark Digital Capital is a research-focused crypto fund that invests in the future of blockchain and technology.

Spark Digital Capital

Momentum 6 architect momentum for crypto and blockchain projects.

Momentum 6

United Arab Emirates

Maven Capital provides funding, supporting and advising ambitious cryptocurrency startups from seed to beyond.

Maven Capital

Bulgaria

LAUNCHub Ventures

Danish Chaudhry

Autonomy Capital

Ambire Wallet

A195 Capital is an investment firm committed to providing capital to early-stage digital asset projects.

A195 Capital

Philippines

Yield Guild Games (YGG) is a web3 gaming guild where players can enrich themselves as they find their community, discover games and level up together.

Yield Guild Games (YGG)

AU21 Capital was founded by Chandler Guo and Kenzi Wang in 2017 with the mission of backing the most promising blockchain entrepreneurs, and providing founders with resources and connections to succeed.

AU21 Capital

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

Shima Capital

Master Ventures is a blockchain-focused Venture Studio.

Master Ventures

Kenetic is a proprietary trading and VC investment firm focused on digital assets and blockchain related companies.

Kenetic Capital

Magnus Capital funds, supports, incubates and advises blockchain startups and web3 projects from inception onwards.

Magnus Capital

NGC Ventures is one of the largest institutional investors of blockchain technologies, and has been a key contributor to a number of leading projects.

NGC Ventures

Efficient Frontier is a leading cryptocurrency algorithmic trading company and liquidity provider trading over $1 billion a week

Efficient Frontier

Our expertise lies in supporting start-ups early with capital, connections, research, and strategy.

Valhalla Capital

Cipholio is a team of professional investors and analysts focusing on blockchain, token & crypto projects, and listing referrals.

Cipholio Ventures

GBIC is a crypto/blockchain investor and accelerator.

Global Blockchain Innovative Capital (GBIC)

Cultur3 Capital are a novel incentive and coordination mechanism radically transforming digital, community-driven economies.

Cultur3 Capital

Belgium

Kairon Labs, incorporated and based in Belgium performs liquidity provisioning and algorithmic trading services as a designated market maker for utility tokens and cryptocurrencies. They offer algorithms and trading strategies on more than 100 centralized and decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges.

Kairon Labs

LD Capital is an VC investors in the blockchain field in Asia.

LD Capital

Linkpad.VC specializes as a research investment firm having a high level of due diligence on projects and platforms.

Linkpad.VC

Synesis One

SkyVision Capital was founded to accelerate the development of new, open source, decentralized technologies. SkyVision Capital is a private investment family office that incubates and invests in the founders of tomorrow today.

SkyVision Capital

Play Ventures is a venture funding that invests globally in games and game services startups.

Play Ventures

Colombia

Lattice Capital helps portfolio grow by providing structure & experience to the small business development through incubation & investment.

Lattice Capital

Entrepreneur, Founder, Investor.

My background includes broad and diverse experience across various areas of corporate finance, investments, banking and strategy roles.

I have developed a strong global finance experience through international assignments in the US, Brazil, Panama, Afghanistan, Southeast Asia, Czech Republic and through the awardof my Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) certification.
Lately I've been more involved more of an entrepreneurial capacity, helping create, scale and lead fintech startups ITF & TDAX.

Ben Lakoff

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.

			Stage	Investors
Superform	$6.50 M	~$65.00 M	Seed Round	+12		DeFi	Feb 8, 2024
Ceramic	$30.00 M	~$300.00 M	Series A Round	+46		--	Jan 2022
Snapshot	$4.00 M	~$40.00 M	Seed Round	+6		--	Nov 19, 2021
WALLET Ambire Wallet	$2.50 M	~$25.00 M	Seed Round	+7		Wallet	Nov 2021
SNS Synesis One	--	--	Seed Round	+14		DAO	Oct 2021
reNFT	$1.50 M	~$15.00 M	Seed Round	+7	--	--	Oct 2021
FF Forefront	$2.10 M	~$21.00 M	Venture Round	+6		DAO	Sep 16, 2021
UDT Unlock Protocol	$4.00 M	~$40.00 M	Seed Round	+2		xDAI Ecosystem	Sep 2021
FLIP Chainflip	$5.80 M	$45.00 M	Strategic Round	+18		AMM	Aug 19, 2021
Tally	$6.00 M	~$60.00 M	Seed Round	+3	--	Governance	Aug 2021
NEXT Everclear	$12.00 M	~$120.00 M	Series A	+9		DeFi	Jul 13, 2021
SAIL SAIL Token	$17.00 M	~$170.00 M	Seed Round	+13		Governance	Jul 2021
SAIL SAIL Token	$4.00 M	~$40.00 M	Equity Round	+6		Governance	Jun 15, 2021
CLUB Seed Club	$2.00 M	~$20.00 M	Venture Round	+4		DAO	Jun 2021
Opolis	$4.75 M	~$47.50 M	Funding Round	+12		Social	May 12, 2021
POOL PoolTogether	$5.95 M	$144.60 M	Treasury Diversification	+6		DeFi	May 2021
GTC Gitcoin	$11.30 M	~$113.00 M	Funding Round	+5		Infrastructure	Mar 2021
RARI RARI	$1.75 M	~$17.50 M	Seed Round	+6		NFT	Jan 2021
PUSH Push Protocol	$750,000.00	$5.00 M	Seed Round	+18		Infrastructure	Dec 1, 2020
Zapper	$1.50 M	~$15.00 M	Seed Round	+14		--	Aug 27, 2020

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