United States of America

IDEO CoLab Ventures is a venture capital (VC) arm associated with IDEO CoLab, an innovation and design consultancy. IDEO CoLab Ventures focuses on investing in and supporting startups that are developing innovative technologies and solutions in emerging fields such as blockchain, decentralized finance (DeFi), and Web3 technologies.

IDEO CoLab Ventures

Nascent is a global, multi-strategy investment firm focused on crypto and open finance.

Nascent

Angel investor. Former VP and early employee at Coinbase.

Dan Romero

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

Distributed Global

Canada

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

Dapper Labs

Joe Lallouz

David Phelps

Scott Moore

Nader is founder and CEO of Basecoin, a new price-stable cryptocurrency with an algorithmic central bank. The Basecoin project is backed by a16z, Bain, PolyChain, Pantera, DCG, Meta Stable, and 1confirmation. Nader has a background in finance having worked in high-frequency trading at D. E. Shaw, and a background in traditional software engineeringhaving worked on Google Search. Nader studied computer science engineering and applied math at Princeton, where he graduated summa cum laude.

Nader Al-Naji

Ambush Capital is an angel fund in New York that helps entrepreneurs through the early stages of building a company.

Ambush Capital

Danny Zuckerman

Patrick Rivera

China

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

LD Capital

Nick White

Tim Beiko

Bankless

Sandy Peng

Kartik Talwar

Nebra

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

Santiago Roel Santos is the Partner at ParaFi Capital

Santiago Roel Santos

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

OKX Ventures will focus on the discoveries and investments in various aspects, including blockchain basic infrastructures, Layer2, DeFi, WEB3.0, NFT and Metaverse.

OKX Ventures

Casey K. Caruso

Netherlands

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

Maven 11 Capital

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

Illia Polosukhin is a Co-Founder at NEAR.

Illia Polosukhin

Nomad Capital

MyShell

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

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

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

Folius Ventures

INCE Capital

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)

An early stage venture capital firm investing in consumer and enterprise technology companies

a_capital

Hack VC

Figment supports the adoption, growth and long term success of the Web 3 ecosystem.

Figment

Big Brain Holdings Invests in Seed, Pre-Seed and Early Stage Startups

Big Brain Holdings

Initia

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

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

South Korea

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

Hashed

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

Cobie: thoughts on crypto, money, markets, life, whatever

Cobie

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

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

Kraken Ventures

Finland

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

Stani Kulechov

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

Sam Kazemian

DCF GOD

Mirana Ventures

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)

Franklin Templeton

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

Anthony Sassano

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

Mr. Block

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

Brevan Howard

Gemini Funds provides a range of pooled investment solutions in the United States.

Gemini Funds

Castle Island Ventures is a venture capital firm

Castle Island Ventures

Deribit is live since June 2016 after several years of development. John Jansen, the original founder, teamed up with Marius Jansen, Sebastian Smyczýnski and Andrew Yanovsky. Deribit started as a Bitcoin Futures and Options platform. Soon was realized more services could be offered due to the choices made regarding technology and infrastructurethat powers the platform. These choices have resulted in a high availability, high throughput and low latency trading environment. Deribit is is expanding every day as we speak and new cryptocurrency trading products are under development. We have a team of 8 people working on the platform and we run our daily office from Amsterdam (The Netherlands).

Deribit

Nic Carter

Ethena Labs

BlockTower is a crypto and blockchain investment firm that uses trading, investing, and portfolio management to this digital asset class.

BlockTower 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

HTX Venture, the global investment arm of HTX, integrates investment, incubation, and research to identify the best and brightest teams in the world.

HTX Ventures (previously Huobi Ventures)

tangent

Finality Capital Partners

Gemini Frontier Fund is a strategic venture fund focused on growing the crypto ecosystem through investment in early-stage crypto projects.

Gemini Frontier Fund

Julian Koh

Richard Malone

No Limit Holdings

Volt Capital is a venture capital firm that specializes in investing in early-stage startups in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space. Volt Capital is known for its focus on supporting innovative projects and teams within the cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem.

Volt Capital

Archetype

Sphinx

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

Germany

Richard is the co-founder and CEO of Quantstamp. Quantstamp is a leader in smart contract auditing and security - with over 250 clients.

Richard Ma (Quantstamp)

Arthur Hayes

Naveen Jain

Kalos

Neon DAO

Inflection are a team of venture investors and entrepreneurs with diverse backgrounds based out of Berlin, Boston and Munich complemented by a global network of innovators.

Inflection

Cozy

Sam Williams

bitcoinPalmer

Particle

0xJose

ZAGABOND

dingaling

Spirit DAO

Christian2022.eth

ROGER

Semantic Ventures invests in new rails for data and the digital economy.

Semantic Ventures

Chorus One is building validation and staking infrastructure for Proof-of-Stake networks.

Chorus One

Lightshift Capital

Tioga Capital Partners aims to be the best European long-term partner for outstanding Web3 entrepreneurs.

Tioga Capital Partners

Galileo is an early-stage crypto venture firm.

Galileo

Union

Arrington XRP (Arrington Capital)

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

Breyer Capital is a premier global venture capital and private equity investor focused on catalyzing high-impact entrepreneurs in the United States and China. Founded by Jim Breyer in 2006, Breyer Capital makes long-term, idea-driven strategic investments in its chosen core areas: social media, entertainment/media, digital health, andfinancial technologies.
Breyer Capital actively partners with a diverse set of companies including early-stage startups building breakthrough technologies, fast growing companies, and established worldwide leading corporations. Its team enjoys helping to frame strategic investments anchored by the passion of founders and owner/operator teams, the insights of its network of world-class investors, and a conviction that artificial intelligence, machine learning, and virtual reality will transform technology and investment opportunities globally.

Breyer Capital

Road Capital

Modular Capital is a fundamental and thesis-driven crypto investment firm.

Modular Capital

Superstate

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.

ParaFi Capital is an alternative investment firm focused on blockchain and decentralized finance markets.

ParaFi Capital

Cumberland provides financial institutions and high-net-worth individuals with the access they need to capitalize on the crypto asset space.

Cumberland

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

Definitive

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

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

Breed VC is an early stage crypto venture fund dedicated to helping the top founders build the decentralized future

Breed

Spearbit

Cantina

CMCC Global is one of Asia’s first venture capital funds focused solely on blockchain investments, with offices in North America and Asia.

CMCC Global

Informal System

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

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

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.

			Stage	Investors
YUP Yup	--	--	Funding Round		Social	Jul 24, 2024
Nebra	$4.50 M	~$45.00 M	Seed Round	+3	Infrastructure	Apr 17, 2024
MyShell	$11.00 M	~$110.00 M	pre-Series A	+8	Blockchain Service	Mar 27, 2024
Initia	$7.50 M	~$75.00 M	Seed Round	+3	Blockchain	Feb 27, 2024
ENA Ethena Labs	$14.00 M	$300.00 M	Seed Extension Round	+24	DeFi	Feb 16, 2024
Sphinx	$2.00 M	~$20.00 M	Funding Round		Blockchain Service	Feb 15, 2024
PTC Particle	--	--	Seed Round	+9	DeFi	Jan 12, 2024
Union	$4.00 M	~$40.00 M	Seed Round	+3	Infrastructure	Nov 16, 2023
Superstate	$14.00 M	~$140.00 M	Series A	+8	DeFi	Nov 15, 2023
Definitive	$4.10 M	~$41.00 M	Seed Round	+1	DeFi	Nov 8, 2023
Spearbit	$7.00 M	~$70.00 M	Funding Round	+3	Social	Aug 10, 2023
Cantina	$7.00 M	~$70.00 M	Funding Round	+3	Web 3.0	Aug 10, 2023
ENA Ethena Labs	$6.50 M	~$65.00 M	Seed Round	+18	DeFi	Jul 19, 2023
Informal System	$5.30 M	~$53.00 M	Funding Round		Infrastructure	Jun 7, 2023
Obol Labs	$12.50 M	~$125.00 M	Series A Round	+14	Infrastructure	Jan 17, 2023
MatchboxDAO	$7.50 M	~$75.00 M	Seed Round	+17	--	Aug 2022
Primitive	$9.00 M	~$90.00 M	Series A Round	+1	--	Aug 2022
MORPHO Morpho	$18.00 M	~$180.00 M	Funding Round	+8	Lending Platform	Jul 2022
Hologram	$6.50 M	~$65.00 M	Seed Round	+10	--	Jul 2022
CLUB Seed Club	--	--	Private Sale	+11	DAO	May 18, 2022

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