United States of America

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

Netherlands

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

Maven 11 Capital

Launch Lab

NFTfi

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.

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

The LAO is a global group of enthusiasts and experts supporting the work of ethereum builders.

The Lao

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

Scalar Capital

Collab+Currency is an early stage venture investor focusing on web3

Collab+Currency

Kleiner Perkins

Sound Ventures is a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in the technology sector.

Sound 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

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)

China

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

Fenbushi Capital

Hack VC

DBA is a New York-based crypto investment firm.

Eclipse

Tribe Capital

Accel is an early and growth-stage venture capital firm that helps a global community of entrepreneurs.

Accel

Polygon aims to transform Ethereum into a multi-chain ecosystem with secured Layer 2 & standalone chains

Polygon

The House Fund is a pre-seed and early stage venture capital fund focused on the boldest Berkeley startups.

The House Fund

Galileo is an early-stage crypto venture firm.

Galileo

CoinList

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

Infinity Ventures Crypto (IVC)

Struck Capital Crypto

Soma Capital

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

United Kingdom

Wintermute is a truly value adding investor dedicated to supporting the innovation in the blockchain ecosystem

Wintermute

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

Amber Group

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

Backpack

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

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

Jump Crypto

Bahamas

FTX Exchange is a cryptocurrency exchange company that develops a mobile trading platform.

FTX Ventures

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

Anagram Crypto

Blockchain Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies. It was founded in 2013 by Bart Stephens and Brad Stephens, and it's headquartered in San Francisco, California. Blockchain Capital is one of the earliest and most well-known venture capital firms dedicated exclusively to the blockchain and cryptocurrency space.

Blockchain Capital

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)

North Island Ventures is a crypto-focused VC fund

North Island Ventures

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

Figment

Basis Set Ventures is an early-stage investment firm focused on artificial intelligence and its practical application.

Basis Set Ventures

South Korea

Cosmostation

Informal Systems believe in the flourishing of better relationships between people and protocols.

Informal Systems

Tané is committed to contributing to the crypto/Web3 ecosystem by leveraging experience and knowledge by developing and investing in web businesses and applications.

Tané

Polymer Labs

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

Singapore

LongHash Ventures is a global blockchain accelerator and VC fund.

LongHash Ventures

Signum Capital invests in the distributed ledger technologies and crypto assets.

Signum Capital

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

Sam Kazemian

Taureon is an investor in the distributed ledger technology ecosystem

Taureon

UOB Venture Management

Joe Lallouz

Advanced Blockchain

Karim Atiyeh is the Co-Founder and CTO of Ramp, the fastest growing spend management platform and corporate card. Launched in 2020, Ramp gives Finance leaders an edge with powerful software that helps them save time & control spend before it happens.

Karim Atiyeh

Loong Wang

Ignite makes developing, growing, and launching blockchain projects faster than ever before.

Ignite

Andrew Masanto

Martin Mao

Avon Ventures

Druid Ventures is a ~$13M early-stage fund focused on digital asset infrastructure and interoperability.

Druid Ventures

Grove

Com2uS is a developer and publisher of mobile games that covers content development and server operation.

Com2uS

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

Tykhe Block Ventures

Dispersion Capital

Saga

Hypersphere Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in and develops blockchain technology.

Hypersphere Ventures

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

Merit Circle

As part of Tendermint’s mission to build an internet of blockchains, Tendermint Ventures supports the Cosmos Ecosystem through strategic investments in promising projects working towards that vision.

Tendermint Ventures

Tess Hau is an investor and advisor to high-performing startups, deep tech companies, and extraordinary founders across the world.

Tess Ventures

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

Chorus One

Facilitating a hotbed of digital culture.

Polygon Studios

We work with early-stage startups solving meaningful problems—and help founders turn great ideas into market disruption at scale.

Unanimous 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)

Hustle Fund

Akash Network

Alex Shin

Zaki Manian

Nick Tomaino

Solana Ventures' mission is to accelerate the growth of the Solana blockchain and adjacent ecosystems by providing capital to the most promising teams building in the crypto ecosystem.

Solana Ventures

Mert Mumtaz

Anatoly is the creator of Solana. He led development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox. He holds 2 patents for high performance Operating Systems protocols, was a core kernel developer for BREW which powered every CDMA flip phone (100m+ devices), and led development of tech that madeProject Tango (VR/AR) possible on Qualcomm phones.

Anatoly Yakovenko

Lucas Bruder

Squads

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

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

Reciprocal Ventures

Jump Capital is a venture capital and growth equity firm that focuses on investing in technology-driven companies across various industries. With offices in Chicago and New York, Jump Capital has established itself as a strategic investor with a broad portfolio, encompassing sectors such as software, fintech, healthcare, and more.

Jump Capital

Ryon Nixon

Investing in the crypto-powered Web3 and creator economy ecosystems

6th Man 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

Republic is an investment platform providing access to startups, real estate, crypto, and video game investments.

Republic

Chaotic Capital

8186 Capital is a Shanghai-based private fund backing early stage blockchain ventures.

8186 Capital

Manna Research

Julia Lipton

Chris Hermida

Reverie

Seed Club Ventures is a Venture DAO backing early-stage founders building at the intersection of web3 and community.

Seed Club Ventures

DavinciDAO

1confirmation is a forward-thinking venture capital firm at the forefront of innovation in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space. Established in 2017 by Nick Tomaino, a visionary in the industry, the firm is dedicated to identifying and supporting promising early-stage projects that are shaping the future of decentralized technologies.

1confirmation

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

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

Semantic Ventures

Factor revolutionizes on-chain asset management by providing the middleware infrastructure to aggregate core DeFi products and liquidity.

Factor

Cherry Ventures

Archetype

Rated

Decentral Park Capital delivers multi-faceted expertise, network, and capital to blockchain technology projects

Decentral Park 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

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

Big Brain Holdings

Raj Gokal

Early stage crypto VC firm investing in web3 applications and infrastructure.

Chris Burniske

B+J Studios is a 0 to 1 builder studio developing world class blockchain-based solutions for mainstream consumer and institutional-grade use.

B+J Studios

Interlace Ventures invests in founders reimagining commerce.

Interlace Ventures

Drip

M13 provides strategic counsel and operational expertise to help founders grow their companies.

Toyota Ventures

Cargill helps the world’s food system work for you.

Cargill

Nori

AgLaunch is a non-profit organization utilizing a farm-centric innovation platform to efficiently bring new ideas into agriculture.

			Stage	Investors
NFTfi	$6.00 M	~$60.00 M	Series A		NFT	Mar 11, 2024
Eclipse	$50.00 M	~$500.00 M	Series A	+4	--	Mar 11, 2024
Backpack	$17.00 M	$120.00 M	Series A	+2	Blockchain Service	Feb 28, 2024
Polymer Labs	$23.00 M	~$230.00 M	Series A	+8	Blockchain	Jan 23, 2024
Grove	$7.90 M	~$79.00 M	Funding Round		Infrastructure	Nov 30, 2023
SAGA Saga	$5.00 M	~$50.00 M	Extended Seed Round	+3	Protocol	Nov 20, 2023
Squads	$5.70 M	~$57.00 M	Strategic Round	+4	Blockchain Service	Oct 16, 2023
Rated	$12.89 M	~$128.90 M	Series A	+6	Blockchain Service	Sep 27, 2023
Drip	$3.00 M	~$30.00 M	Seed Round	+8	NFT	Aug 19, 2023
Nori	$6.25 M	~$62.50 M	Funding Round	+1	Social	Jun 6, 2023
TNSR Tensor	$3.00 M	~$30.00 M	Seed Round	+3	NFT	Mar 2023
VAULT VAULT	$4.00 M	~$40.00 M	Series A Round	+2	--	Feb 2023
Monad	$19.00 M	~$190.00 M	Seed Round	+4	Blockchain	Feb 2023
Obol Labs	$12.50 M	~$125.00 M	Series A Round	+14	Infrastructure	Jan 17, 2023
TIA Celestia	$55.00 M	$300.00 M	Series A&B Round	+10	Modular Blockchain	Oct 19, 2022
Zerion	$12.30 M	~$123.00 M	Series B	+2	--	Oct 12, 2022
Rated	$2.50 M	~$25.00 M	Seed Round	+2	Blockchain Service	Sep 8, 2022
GEAR Gearbox Protocol	$4.15 M	$150.00 M	DAO Round Part 1	+3	Leverage	Aug 2022
MONA Monaco Planet	$14.60 M	~$146.00 M	Series A Round	+13	Social	Jun 2022
CLUB Seed Club	--	--	Private Sale	+11	DAO	May 18, 2022

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