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.

Strobe (Prev. 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

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

Mike Bucella

Superform

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

Amber Group

We offer investors intelligently designed investment strategies that take advantage of targeted market opportunities.

VanEck

Node VC

Up Top

Schlag

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)

Merit Circle is an ever-evolving digital ecosystem built by a global community to power the future of gaming. With a strong foundation in the web3 space, Merit Circle aims to integrate the endless possibilities of blockchain technology with cutting-edge games to create the next generation of immersive gaming experiences by investing capital in promising games.

Merit Circle

Singapore

SevenX Ventures provides insights and operational expertise to help blockchain startups in growing.

SevenX Ventures

OP Crypto is a venture capital firm that supports early-stage startups in the new digital assets economy.

OP Crypto

Mask Network is the Portal to the New, Open Internet.

Mask Network

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

Polymorphic Capital

Cayman Islands

BR Capital is a crypto economy and blockchain-focused fund

BR Capital

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

NxGen works with founders, VC investors and DAOs to build the third generation of the internet. NxGen support founders along each lifecycle stage with Human, Financial and Social Capital as well as In-house CMO services.

NxGen

Gibraltar

Gnosis

Quiet Capital

Criterion

Citizen X is a thesis-driven venture fund investing in Web 3.0 and decentralized technologies.

CitizenX Crypto Ventures Fund, L.P.

Malaysia

PathDAO is a developer of gaming platform to create value in the growing blockchain metaverse.

PathDAO

Azuro Protocol

Arrington Capital is a thesis-focused digital asset and Web3 investing firm. Since 2017, Arrington Capital has invested in over 200 early-stage companies in the crypto ecosystem. Arrington Capital's crypto-native team of seasoned entrepreneurs, founders, and executives is committed to doubling down on efforts to ensure our partners' success.

Arrington Capital

China

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

Fenbushi Capital

Alliance is the leading crypto accelerator and founder community.

Alliance

United Kingdom

G1 Ventures is an active early-stage venture investor with core focus on blockchain.

G1 Ventures

Ethereal Ventures a new venture fund established by Joseph Lubin

Ethereal Ventures

Formless Capital is a cross-border investment fund that invests in the future of blockchain and technologies.

Formless Capital

Disruptive crypto-native fund focused on early-stage protocols and fueled by OGs, founders, and key investors.

Dewhales

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

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)

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

BitScale 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

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

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

Distributed Global

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

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

Reciprocal Ventures

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

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

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

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

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

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 (The)

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.

			Stage	Investors
Superform	$6.50 M	~$65.00 M	Seed Round	+12		DeFi	Feb 8, 2024
AZUR Azuro Protocol	$3.50 M	~$35.00 M	Seed Round	+13		Gaming	Jan 19, 2022
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
Superfluid	$9.00 M	~$90.00 M	Seed Round	+15		DeFi	Jul 13, 2021
CLEAR 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
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
OVL Overlay Protocol	$2.22 M	~$22.15 M	Funding Round	+3		Perpetual	Mar 17, 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

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