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Protocol Labs

Zama Public Auction

United States of America

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

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

Big Brain Holdings

No Limit Holdings

Avalanche VC is an early-stage technology investor in massive trends.

Avalanche VC

Filecoin

Akave

Blockchange Ventures is an investing firm that invest in early-stage blockchain companies, protocols, and applications.

Lightshift Capital

Blockchain Builders Fund

Sfermion is a multi-strategy investment firm focused on the immersive internet. Sfermion's mission is to accelerate the emergence of the metaverse by investing in the companies and founders who are shaping our digital future.

Sfermion

Village Global is a network-native, early-stage VC firm with ~$500M AUM, chaired by Reid Hoffman, and backed by tech’s best.

Village Global

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

Collab+Currency

RRE Ventures is a venture capital firm that offers early-stage funding to software, internet, and communications companies

RRE Ventures

Lit Protocol

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.

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

a_capital

Investing in the crypto-powered Web3 and creator economy ecosystems

6MV (6th Man Ventures)

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

gumi Cryptos Capital is a blockchain and cryptographic asset fund that invests in the crypto native stack from L1 to the application layer, as well as in traditional businesses supporting the ecosystem.

gumi Cryptos Capital

Tribe Capital is a venture capital firm with over $1.6 billion in assets under management that focuses on using product science and data to design N-of-1 companies and investments.

Tribe Capital

Singapore

LongHash Ventures is a global blockchain accelerator and VC fund.

LongHash Ventures

United Kingdom

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

G1 Ventures

Shima Capital is an early stage VC firm investing in disruptive web3 and blockchain technology companies.

Shima Capital

OpenSea Ventures

Kleiner Perkins

Colombia

Lattice Capital helps portfolio grow by providing structure & experience to the small business development through incubation & investment.

Lattice Capital

Since 2017, we've been pioneers in blockchain marketing & strategy. We've worked with some of the largest companies in the world to raise investor funds, increase sales, create buzz, acquire users, and grow their online community.Since 2017, we've been pioneers in blockchain marketing & strategy. We've worked with some of the largest companies in the world to raise investor funds, increase sales, create buzz, acquire users, and grow their online community.

CrowdCreate

Mark Cuban is a prominent American entrepreneur, investor, television personality, and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, an NBA basketball team. He is known for his success in the tech industry, particularly during the dot-com boom. Cuban is known for his outspoken and often controversial opinions on a wide range of topics, including technology, politics, and sports. He is also a vocal advocate for cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.

Mark Cuban

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.

Techstars is a global platform that provides investment and innovation. Through the Techstars Worldwide Entrepreneur Network, founders and their teams connect with other entrepreneurs, experts, mentors, alumni, investors, community leaders, and corporate partners who will help their companies grow. Techstars operates four divisions: TechstarsMentorship-Driven Accelerator Program supercharges success and Techstars Startup Programs inspire, educate, and connect entrepreneurs. Techstars Venture Capital Fund invests in innovative and disruptive companies. Techstars Corporate Innovation Partnerships help brands create products and services. Techstars accelerator portfolio includes more than 1,000 companies with a market cap of $8.1 billion.

Techstars

Alumni Ventures

Asymmetry Ventures

Early stage blockchain venture capital. A JV with Lightspeedvp

Faction

Alpha Edison

Motley Fool Ventures

Tomer London

California Innovation Fund

TransCrypts

Global Millennial Capital

Decentralized VC

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

Switzerland

CV VC is an investment company, where cutting-edge blockchain technology meets traditional venture capital.

CV VC

Thomas France

Nicolas Pinto

Dieter Fishbein

Lincoln Gomes

Reppo

Moonshots Capital

Spexi

Canada

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

Dapper Labs

Alliance is the leading crypto accelerator and founder community.

Alliance

Vinny Lingham

FJ Labs

Adam Jackson

InDro Robotics

CyLon Ventures

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

Finality Capital Partners

Lattice is an early-stage crypto VC that helps founders build defensible moats.

Lattice

RW3 Ventures invests in the infrastructure, protocols, and applications that are driving growth in blockchain technologies, decentralized finance, and the long-term development of web 3.

RW3 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

Blockcast

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

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

OKX Ventures

P2 Ventures is dedicated to supporting visionary teams across the multichain ecosystem. We invest at the earliest stages across all categories in web3.

P2 Ventures

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

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

MH Ventures

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

Ambush Capital

Blockchain Coinvestors

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

Cogitent Ventures

Builder Capital

Symbolic Capital is a crypto-native fund founded by web3 founders.

Symbolic Capital

Oak Grove Ventures is an early-stage investment firm with a primary focus on advanced technology sectors.

Oak Grove Ventures

Optic Capital

Mozaik Capital is an investment company focused on helping businesses grow and expand their market reach internationally.

Mozaik Capital

Paul Taylor

Austin Federa

Compute Labs

China

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

Fenbushi Capital

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

Waterdrip Capital

Foresight Ventures is an investment institution focusing on blockchain technology and crypto industry established in 2020, whose predecessor was an international private equity venture capital with more than ten years of investment experience.  We take solid research on market and technology as investment orientation when investing in both primary and secondary markets of equity and token, with nearly 80 million dollars asset under management.

Foresight Ventures

AGE Fund

Bitrise Capital

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

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

Modular Capital

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

Faculty Group

Escape Velocity

D11 Labs

Parasail

Borderless Capital is a Blockchain VC firm and a modern financial institution investing capital and co-building financial products with our portfolio companies that accelerates access, bootstraps adoption, and creates value globally through the Algorand Borderless Economy.

Borderless 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

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

Metaplanet

GS Futures

dlab is a startup accelerator and venture studio exploring new topics in decentralization and blockchain technology. dlab is an SOSV program. SOSV is a global venture capital firm that operates startup accelerator investment programs. At the close of 2020, SOSV had more than 1,000 portfolio companies and $855 million in assets under management.

dlab

Juan Benet is founder, CEO of Protocol Labs.

Juan Benet

ConsenSys Mesh

Arca

Eleftherios Diakomichalis

WeatherXM

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

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

Distributed Global

Erik Voorhees is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ShapeShift Ag. Erik Voorhees served as the Head of Marketing and Communications at BitInstant LLC. Erik Voorhees is an American and Panamanian startup Founder. Erik Voorhees was co-founder of the bitcoin company Coinapult. Erik Voorhees was the Founder and Partial Owner of SatoshiDICE. Hejoined BitInstant in February 2012. He has been a Member of Cryptocurrency Advisory Board at MGT Capital Investments, Inc. since June 14, 2016.

Erik Voorhees

Scott Moore

Joe Lallouz

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

dcbuilder.eth

Compound Labs is a technology company building the infrastructure for the future of finance. Compound Labs brings paradigm-shifting technologies to market with a focus on security, capital efficiency, and radical transparency.

Compound Labs

Riva Tez

Benjamin Fielding

Prime Intellect

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

Founders Fund is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, specializing in investments in science and technology companies.


TIA Celestia	$0.3614	−1.89%	$329.29 M	$361.40 M	$0.30	1.21x	--	--
TIA Celestia	$0.3614	−1.89%	$329.29 M	$361.40 M	$0.30	1.21x	--	--
ENS Ethereum Name Service	$6.01	−2.27%	$231.45 M	$601.00 M	--	--	--	--
ENS Ethereum Name Service	$6.01	−2.27%	$231.45 M	$601.00 M	--	--	--	--
AI Gensyn	$0.04532	32.35%	$59.34 M	$454.80 M	--	--	$0.0473	0.96x
AI Gensyn	$0.04532	32.35%	$59.34 M	$454.80 M	--	--	$0.0473	0.96x
ZAMA Zama	$0.02678	−0.92%	$58.89 M	$294.47 M	--	--	$0.05	0.54x
ZAMA Zama	$0.02678	−0.92%	$58.89 M	$294.47 M	--	--	$0.05	0.54x
MASK Mask Network	$0.501	−4.79%	$50.05 M	$50.05 M	$0.242	3.06x	$9.95	0.30x
CYBER Cyber	$0.52	−2.73%	$34.34 M	$52.06 M	$3.00	0.17x	$1.80	0.29x
CYBER Cyber	$0.52	−2.73%	$34.34 M	$52.06 M	$3.00	0.17x	$1.80	0.29x
SYND Syndicate	$0.01898	−13.91%	$9.09 M	$18.98 M	--	--	--	--
SYND Syndicate	$0.01898	−13.91%	$9.09 M	$18.98 M	--	--	--	--
REPPO Reppo	$0.02054	−12.78%	$7.30 M	$20.54 M	--	--	--	--
REPPO Reppo	$0.02054	−12.78%	$7.30 M	$20.54 M	--	--	--	--
NUM Numbers Protocol	$0.00413	0.22%	$3.68 M	$3.72 M	$0.03	0.14x	$0.04	0.10x
NUM Numbers Protocol	$0.00413	0.22%	$3.68 M	$3.72 M	$0.03	0.14x	$0.04	0.10x
LITKEY Lit Protocol	$0.006271	−0.33%	$1.38 M	$6.27 M	--	--	--	--
LITKEY Lit Protocol	$0.006271	−0.33%	$1.38 M	$6.27 M	--	--	--	--
LITKEY Lit Protocol	$0.006271	−0.33%	$1.38 M	$6.27 M	--	--	--	--

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