United States of America

CMS Holdings may also invest in early-stage blockchain and cryptocurrency projects through private investments and strategic partnerships. They provide capital and support to innovative startups in the crypto space.

CMS Holdings

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

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

RockTree Capital

Innovating, venturing, and catapulting forward the next generation of teams/companies

Infinity Ventures Crypto (IVC)

Stake 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

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

MH Ventures is a world-class community-backed venture capital investing in top blockchain projects of the future.

MH Ventures

Zephyrus Capital

Meltem Demirors

We are a pre-seed/seed level investor to empower and support gifted entrepreneurs!

Cogitent Ventures

Global Coin Research is a tokenized, decentralized community of learners and investors in Web3.

GCR (Global Coin Research)

Builder Capital

WAGMI Ventures

Bloccelerate VC is a venture fund backing bold entrepreneurs building category defining companies using the power of blockchain.

Bloccelerate

Optic Capital

Kartik Talwar

Relayer Capital

Mike Silagadze

Wise3 Ventures

Veil

Neptune Protocol

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

Kenetic Capital

Germany

Scytale Ventures is a team of investment management experts, blockchain technology experts, and entrepreneurs.

Scytale Ventures

Four Seasons Ventures (4SV)

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

Big Brain Holdings

Flappy Bird

United Arab Emirates

DWF Labs is the new generation Web3 investor and market maker, one of the world's largest high-frequency cryptocurrency trading entities, which trades spot and derivatives markets on over 60 top exchanges.

DWF Labs

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

Momentum 6 architect momentum for crypto and blockchain projects.

Momentum 6

Vietnam

The Vietnamese VC fund Kyros Ventures invests capital into projects at various stages.

Kyros Ventures

Singapore

x21 Digital is a blockchain advisory and investment firm dedicated to helping mainly blockchain startups accelerate their growth and exposure in the industry.

x21 Digital

China

D1 supports the future of the crypto economy through organic market building, global market intelligence and insights, strategic advisory, and the power of memetics.

D1 Ventures

Slovakia

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

Zee Prime Capital

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

Magnus Capital

Gate.io

Caballeros Capital is a private investment firm focused on investing in the blockchain innovation space.

Caballeros Capital

OIG provides one of a kind platform for Crypto Project teams to raise capital, grow supporters, and Crypto Investors to take part in promising projects.

OIG Oracles Investment Group

Focusing on developing early stage projects with an edge of longevity in the infrastructure and ecosystem of blockchain industry.

Basics Capital

iAngels

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

Mask Network

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

Formless Capital

4RC's investment thesis is centered on the belief that decentralized computing and web3 networks will become the digital infrastructure of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. We’re hands-on, stage-agnostic partners focused on long-term product-market fit and sustainable utility. We invest in digital assets and teams building the web3 future bycontributing to early-stage tokenomic design, providing institutional liquidity, engaging in governance, and supporting ongoing operations with marketing and developer resources.

Fourth Revolution Capital

SL2 Capital makes high conviction investments in mission-driven founders innovating in the web 3.0 space.

SL2 Capital

Autonomy Capital

DWeb3 Capital is a digital fund focused exclusively on digital assets related to Decentralized Finance, WEB 3.0 and NFT.

DWeb3 Capital

The company invests in Seed & Private Sale Rounds and are always excited about the projects that aim at adding real value in the Blockchain Ecosystem.

NewTribe Capital

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)

BlockBuilders is a team of experienced blockchain veterans who are willing to use their experience to bring your idea to life.

BlockBuilders

Emoote

Rana Capital is a collaboration between prominent crypto developers and community leaders.

Rana Capital

Pragma Ventures

IBC Ventures

Rivalz Network

Franklin Templeton

FalconX

Flow Traders

Cryptonite Capital

ABCDE Capital

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

Skyland Ventures

Jets Capital is an independent investment VC fund focused on investing in crypto projects

Jets Capital

Bitlayer

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

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

Alliance is the leading crypto accelerator and founder community.

Alliance

Selini is a global trading firm focused on systematic trading, liquidity provision, efficient execution, and venture investing—all within the digital assets space.

Selini Capital

Taiwan

Established in 2018, Kronos Research swiftly ascended to the forefront of the quantitative trading landscape, handling billions of dollars in transactions daily.

Kronos Research

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

OKX Ventures

DCI Capital is a venture capital that invests in startups. DCI aims to promote, educate and inspire crypto enthusiasts.

Dutch Crypto Investors (DCI)

CSP DAO offers a unique blockchain system designed to address fair investment rights.

CSP DAO

PAKA

Loi Luu is CEO & Co-Founder of Kyber Network. Loi is a researcher working on cryptocurrencies, smart contract security, and distributed consensus algorithms. He is also a regular invited speaker at Bitcoin and Ethereum workshops such as DevCon2, EDCON.

Loi Luu

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

DuckDAO is a community-backed incubator powered by a network of engaged investors in the digital asset ecosystem.

DuckDAO

Israel

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

StarkWare Industries

Founded in 2018, Mindfulness Capital is an investment firm that specializes in private equity, and mergers & acquisitions. The firm has invested in blockchain, tech products (both hardware and software), finance sectors, etc.

Mindfulness Capital

Asymmetric

Gate Labs

Comma3 Ventures

Dyma Budorin

Digital asset fund investing in the analog to digital transformation of money in the emergent financial system.

UTXO Management

Faculty Group is a collective  of blockchain-native companies who provide a breadth of services to the Web3 innovators shaping the world.

Faculty Group

Samara Asset Group is a deep-tech powered alternative asset manager with a hyperfocus on alpha-generating strategies and Bitcoin.

Samara Asset Group

Web3Port

Global Venture Accelerator firm for the Web 3.0 space.

Pivot

Rising Capital

Tobias Bauer

Trung Nguyen

Viet Anh Ho

Dan Held

Dan McArdle

C6E Capital

Crypto.com is a payment and cryptocurrency platform that empowers users to buy, sell, and pay with crypto.

Crypto.com

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

Fenbushi 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

IDG Capital is an investment firm that funds early- to growth-stage companies in the technology sector.

IDG Capital

Japan

Hyperithm

Blocklabs

Moonhill Capital

L2 Iterative Ventures (L2IV)

G20 Ventures

Whale Ground

Zkex

Yenwen Feng is a co -founder of Perpetual Protocol.

Yenwen Feng

Side Door Ventures

Cypher Capital is a venture capital firm aimed at investing in early-stage blockchain projects.

Cypher Capital Group

Paul Taylor

Metalpha

Outliers Fund

Satoshi Protocol

A cryptocurrency venture capital firm founded in 2017, Waterdrip Capital aims to invest in and build with the most promising blockchain startups.

Waterdrip Capital

SatoshiLab

MoveBit is a security company focused on the Move ecosystem and building the standard for secure Move applications.

MoveBit

Supremacy

BEVM

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

India

Sandeep Nailwal

Cayman Islands

ArkStream Capital is a crypto fund dedicated to growing Web3.0 unicorns.

ArkStream Capital

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

Amber Group

Illia Polosukhin is a Co-Founder at NEAR.

Illia Polosukhin

Protocol Labs is a research, development, and deployment lab for network protocols.

Protocol Labs

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

			Stage	Investors
Neptune Protocol	$3.90 M	~$39.00 M	Seed Round	+19	DeFi	Dec 10, 2024
Flappy Bird	$2.00 M	~$20.00 M	Funding Round	+2	Gaming	Oct 14, 2024
Rivalz Network	$9.00 M	~$90.00 M	Funding Round	+26	Infrastructure	Aug 14, 2024
BTR Bitlayer	$11.00 M	$300.00 M	Series A	+7	Layer-2	Jul 23, 2024
Zkex	$2.50 M	~$25.00 M	Seed Round	+9	DEX	Jul 19, 2024
Satoshi Protocol	$2.00 M	~$20.00 M	Seed Round	+7	DeFi	Jul 9, 2024
Compute Labs	$3.00 M	~$30.00 M	Pre-seed	+17	Blockchain Service	Jul 3, 2024
RUNI BtcTerminal	--	--	Funding Round	+18	Blockchain Service	May 20, 2024
BLS BloodLoop	$4.00 M	~$40.00 M	Seed Round	+5	Gaming	Mar 27, 2024
Dolomite	$900,000.00	~$9.00 M	Strategic Round	+8	DeFi	Mar 19, 2024
Kasu	$3.00 M	~$30.00 M	Seed Round	+7	Blockchain Service	Jan 11, 2024
OORT Oort	--	--	Funding Round	+1	Blockchain Service	Jan 9, 2024
INSP Inspect	--	--	Funding Round	+8	Web 3.0	Nov 28, 2023

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