Monad’s MON token is launching through Coinbase’s revamped ICO platform, offering retail access at $0.025 before mainnet. Here’s a fast breakdown of the mechanics, tokenomics, pricing, and risks.

Dragonfly Capital

Paradigm

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United States of America

Paradigm is a cryptocurrency-focused investment firm and venture capital company. It was founded by Matt Huang and Fred Ehrsam, both of whom have significant experience in the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry. Paradigm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and is considered a prominent player in the digital asset and blockchain investment space.

Trevor McFedries is the Founder and CEO of Brud.

Trevor McFedries

Seed Club

Jordi Hays

Ruby Thelot

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Dylan Abruscato

Chev

Pixie Chess

Coatue is a privately-owned hedge fund sponsor. Coatue invests in public and private equity markets focusing on the technology, media, and telecommunications industries.

Coatue Management

Andreessen Horowitz, often referred to as "a16z," is a prominent venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. It was founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, both of whom are well-known figures in the tech industry. Andreessen Horowitz is one of the leading venture capital firms in Silicon Valley and has gained a reputation for its investments in technology companies, particularly in the areas of software, internet, and more recently, blockchain and cryptocurrency.

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)

Sequoia Capital is a renowned venture capital firm with a strong presence in Silicon Valley and a global reach. Founded in 1972 by Don Valentine, it has played a significant role in the growth and development of numerous technology companies.

Sequoia Capital

Institutional Venture Partners is a later-stage venture capital firm that focuses on technology and media companies.

Institutional Venture Partners

Morgan Stanley

ARK Invest pays close attention to thematic investments and invests exclusively in breakthrough innovations.

ARK Invest

Kalshi

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

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

SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm. SV Angel supports entrepreneurs in building sustainable companies by helping them through key inflection points and using our network to help them grow their businesses.

SV Angel

Bond is a venture capital firm that supports visionary founders throughout their life cycle of innovation and growth.

Bond

Neo is a diverse mentorship community, startup accelerator, and VC fund.

Peng Zhao

CapitalG is the growth capital fund financed by Alphabet that invests for profit in growth stage technology companies

CapitalG

Kevin Durant

Spark

Anthos Capital

Charles Schwab

Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that invests in a wide range of startups twice a year.

Y Combinator

Henry Kravis

Winklevoss Capital is the family office and investment firm established by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who are best known for their early involvement in Bitcoin and their legal dispute with Mark Zuckerberg over the creation of Facebook. The Winklevoss twins, often referred to as the Winklevoss brothers or simply the Winklevii, became notable figures in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space due to their significant investments in Bitcoin and their efforts to promote and regulate the cryptocurrency industry.

Winklevoss 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

Chapter One Ventures

Canada

We believe in the long term value of privacy. Our investments are centered on the thesis that cryptocurrencies and technologies with strong privacy will have strong market demand.

Cypherpunk Holdings Inc

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

David Friedberg

Haseeb Qureshi

James Nicholas

Zodl

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.

Liberty City Ventures invest in startups that are innovating at the cross-sections of technology, media and commerce.

Liberty City Ventures

Japan

SBI Investment (Group)

Moderne Ventures is a strategic venture capital and growth equity firm investing in disruptive technology companies like Enterprise SaaS, AI, Robotics, Deep tech, Sustainability, Data and Digital Transaction Management.

Moderne Ventures

Mesh

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

Galaxy

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

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

Switzerland

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

ConsenSys

Hong Kong

Mirana Ventures is a leading global investment fund that provides long-term capital and strategic partnerships to visionary founders and fund managers in the Web3 space.

Mirana Ventures

QuantumLight

Altair Capital is an international venture investment comp.

AltaIR Capital

Florida Funders

Streamlined Ventures is a lead seed stage investment firm that focuses on companies with applied artificial intelligence

Streamlined Ventures

Hike Ventures is an early-stage investor in applied AI, helping startups that solve well-defined problems with AI in ways that traditional software has not yet been able to solve.

Hike Ventures

Money Forward

WndrCo is a holding company that invests in, acquires, develops, and operates consumer technology businesses for the long term.

WndrCo

CapitalX

Stonks

Investing in the people and companies that shape the future of enterprise technology.

Rembrandt Venture Partners

B3 Capital is an evergreen venture vehicle looking to back ground-breaking businesses that define the new economy.

B3 Capital

SNR.VC

The Heitner Group is the family-owned investment office of entrepreneur and business leader, Bernard Heitner.

Heitner Group

Valon Capital

Network VC

Yolo Investments is a venture capital focused on seed- and A-stage investment opportunities across gaming and fintech.

Yolo Investments

Opportuna

Evolution VC

United Kingdom

Kingsway Capital

Uphold

Overlook Ventures

CE-Ventures is the corporate venture capital platform of Crescent Enterprises, investing in early- to late-stage high-growth companies and venture funds globally.

CE-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

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)

Anagram Crypto

JPEG Trading

Yu Hu

Kaito

Noise

Crown

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

Valor is an investment firm that focuses on cross-border financial and investment opportunities. The firm operates across two investment strategies Growth Equity and Venture Capital. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Valor Capital Group

Norte Ventures

Paxos

Edward Wible

Rift

Harmonic

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

General Catalyst

Eric Wu is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Opendoor. Before Opendoor, Eric founded Movity.com, a location data analytics company that was acquired by Trulia.com in 2011. He graduated from the University of Arizona with a bachelor of science in Economics.

Eric Wu

Ashwin Ramachandran

Alpen Capital (Prev. Comfy Capital)

smartestmoney

Vladimir Novakovski

Liquid

Anti Fund is a quickly growing venture capital fund founded by Geoffrey Woo and Jake Paul.

Anti Fund

K5 Global is a new media and financial services advisory and consulting firm. The company works with corporations, government entities, and start-ups, and is involved in a range of industries, including sports, technology, politics, and entertainment. K5 functions as a liaison for high-level startups and deal flow, connects influencers andcelebrities to entrepreneurs and brands, and incubates global business opportunities with A-list talent.

K5 Global

Haun Ventures

Left Lane Capital

Sunflower Capital

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

Standard Economics

MetaDAO

Variant is an early-stage fund investing in web3. They believe the next generation of the internet will transform users into owners. They back mission-aligned founders at the earliest possible stage

Variant

Investing in the crypto-powered Web3 and creator economy ecosystems

6MV (6th Man Ventures)

Divine

Netherlands

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

Maven 11 Capital

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

Neoclassic Capital

Plural

Compound is a thesis-driven, research-centric investment firm leading seed rounds.

Compound

Necessary Ventures

Stripe is a developer-oriented commerce company helping small and large companies accept web and mobile payments.

Stripe

Tempo

Ribbit Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies.

Ribbit Capital

Greenoaks Capital

Thrive Capital

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

Etherealize

Vitalik Buterin, a Russian-born Canadian programmer and writer, is best known for co-founding Ethereum, one of the most influential blockchain platforms.

Vitalik Buterin

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

AUSD

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

Credibly Neutral

Alex Watts

Joe Takayama

3nes

Jordan Hagan

Auri

Will Price

Tristan Yver

Shreyas Hariharan

ZAGABOND

Kuru

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

Brevan Howard

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

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

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