Paul Menchov

Raj Gokal

Henri Stern

Will Papper

Bryan Pellegrino

Deni Ersht

Miyuki Matsumoto

Shreyas Hariharan

Mara Schmiedt

Integral1

United States of America

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

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

Elad Gil is a serial entrepreneur, operating executive, and investor or advisor to private companies including AirBnB, Pinterest, Square, and Stripe.

Elad Gil

Franklin Templeton

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

Diogo Monica

Hustle Fund

George Xian Zeng

Mantis VC is a partnership between Alex Pall and Drew Taggart, otherwise known as The Chainsmokers, and experienced Venture Capital professionals and entrepreneurs Milan Koch and Jeffrey Evans that invests opportunistically in early stage technology enabled startups.

Mantis VC

Maple VC

Jill Gunter

Gregory Rocco

Nikhil Gopalani

Mitchell Amador

Sima Gandhi

D’Arcy Coolican

Brandon Kumar

Roham Gharegozlou

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

Bixin Ventures invests in early-stage infrastructure projects that cultivate and facilitate mass adoption of open finance through permissionless and decentralized networks.

Bixin Ventures

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

Folius Ventures

Ethereal Ventures a new venture fund established by Joseph Lubin

Ethereal 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

Drift Protocol

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 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

Hong Kong

Alameda Research is a quantitative cryptocurrency trading firm that provides liquidity in cryptocurrency and digital assets markets.

Alameda Research

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

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

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

Collab+Currency

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

Big Brain Holdings

Anagram Crypto

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

Alliance DAO

Tensor

Bahamas

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

FTX Ventures

Solana Foundation is to build, support, and grow the Solana network and its community while driving mass adoption for blockchain.

Solana Foundation

Layer N

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

Kraken Ventures

BlackPine is a private investment firm whose mission is to advance humanity by partnering with visionaries in transformative fields.

BlackPine

Founders Fund

Spencer Noon is a General Partner/ Investor at Variant. He attended Amherst College.

Spencer Noon

dao5

Disruptive crypto-native fund focused on early-stage protocols and fueled by OGs, founders, and key investors.

Dewhales

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.

a16z (Andreessen Horowitz)

DCVC backs entrepreneurs using Deep Tech to solve problems and multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its cost.

DCVC

FalconX

Angel investor. Former VP and early employee at Coinbase.

Dan Romero

Xoogler Ventures

Golden

SV Angel

Calm was co-founded by Alex Tew (Million Dollar Homepage)

Alex Tew

Aston Motes is an engineer working at Dropbox.

https://golden.com/wiki/Aston_Motes-GEE4RRM

Aston Motes

Socii Capital is a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in companies building software-enabled digital infrastructure.

Socii Capital

Howie Liu is CEO of Airtable, the platform democratizing software creation that he co-founded in 2016. Netflix, TIME, Conde Nast, jetBlue, Shopify, Glossier, The City of Los Angeles, and half the Fortune 1000, currently use Airtable to power their most ambitious operations. The company has been named among the Davos World Economic Forum’sTechnology Pioneers, Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, Forbes' Cloud 100, CNBC’s Disruptor 50, and Fortune’s 100 Greatest Designs of All Time.
Prior to Airtable, Liu was a product leader at Salesforce after its acquisition of his first company, the intelligent CRM Etacts. Originally from Texas, he taught himself how to code C++ at the age of 13, after finding an unread training book in his dad’s office, and has been interested in software as a medium for creative expression and economic value creation ever since.

Howie Liu

Brianne is the founder of Work Life, an early stage venture firm in Silicon Valley, investing in tools and services for the modern workplace.

She’s an investor in Webflow, Voiceflow, Tandem, Command E and 20+ startups.

Prior to investing, Brianne led Product & GTM strategy at Zendesk including self-serve revenue, technology integrations andbuilt Zendesk for Startups.

Brianne Kimmel

Work Life Ventures is a VC firm that invests in tools and services for people.

Work Life Ventures is backed by Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon, Matt Mazzeo, Alexis Ohanian, Garry Tan and other investors in Silicon Valley. With support from Zoom CEO Eric Yuan, InVision CEO Clark Valberg and executives from Dropbox, Drift, Slack, Webflow and more.Work Life Ventures has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider.

Work Life Ventures

Augusto “Aghi” Marietti is an inventor, technology entrepreneur and angel investor. As the CEO and co-founder of Kong, the API company on a mission to intelligently broker information across all services, he drives the company’s vision, strategy and long-term growth. Prior to Kong, he was the CEO and co-founder of Mashape, the largest APImarketplace, which was acquired by RapidAPI in 2017. Before that, he founded MemboxX, the first European cloud service for storing documents and sensitive personal data. Augusto holds a B.S. in Economics from the Catholic University of Milan. He is the lead inventor on five U.S. patents and an angel investor in more than 10 startups.

Augusto Marietti

Jonathan Swanson is Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Thumbtack. Before Thumbtack, Jonathan was a White House staffer working in the West Wing on financial market policy. He studied Ethics, Politics, and Economics at Yale University.

Jonathan Swanson

Co-founded NerdWallet. Without any outside funding, helped it grow from 2 guys into a world-class, mission-driven team, working to build the future of personal finance. I stepped down in early 2014 and am now using that experience to help other entrepreneurs and small businesses in any way I can.

Jacob Gibson

Charles Delingpole is Founder and CEO of ComplyAdvantage, a technology company focused on wiping out financial crime using Machine Learning. As CEO, Charles leads the product development and growth of the company. His passion for the issue came from his time as the MLRO of a previous startup he founded when he realized how inefficient processesaround money laundering are.
Over 99% of money laundering is successful, ComplyAdvantage is working to stop it completely. Founded in 2014 with offices in London, New York, Singapore, and Cluj, ComplyAdvantage work with over 350 firms across 45 countries. Charles set up his first company, The Student Room Group, now the world’s largest student discussion forum when he was 16. After completing his MA in Politics at Trinity College Cambridge, and then an MSc in Management, Strategy, and Finance from the LSE, he became an associate at J.P. Morgan Cazenove.

Charlie Delingpole

Daniel Ha is an American entrepreneur best known for being a co-founder and the CEO of Disqus. Daniel Has was born in Miliptas, California. As of 2020, he resides in San Francisco where he works on writing and speaking about startups and being an amateur race car driver.

https://golden.com/wiki/Daniel_Ha-AJB6AM#

Daniel Ha

Tikhon Bernstam is an American entrepreneur who cofounded the companies Scribd and Parse.

Tikhon Bernstam is an American businessman, founder, and angel investor, living in the San Francisco Bay area. He attended Dartmouth College, and participated in Y Combinator's accelerator program twice, once in 2006 and again in 2011.

Tikhon Bernstam

Neal Dempsey is the Managing Partner of Bay Partners.

Neal Dempsey

Bay Partners is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. Founded by John Freidenrich in 1976, it has funded over 200 information technology and healthcare businesses.

Bay Partners

Ryan Pawell (Founder, Director & Chief Executive Officer) is a Y Combinator alumni, published author and subject matter expert in the areas of fluid dynamics, advanced manufacturing, and biomicrofluidics. Ryan has been invited to present his work by the Australian National Fabrication Facility, White House Cancer Moonshot Taskforce, Air Force,National Institutes of Health, and National Cancer Institute among others.

Ryan Pawell

Lee is an entrepreneur and early stage investor.

Previously, he lead Facebook's emerging initiatives in commerce, including Gifts and the Facebook Card.

Lee founded Karma, a breakthrough mobile commerce platform which allowed smartphone users to instantly send real gifts to others without the burden of physical mailing addresses. Karmawas acquired by Facebook in early 2012.
Prior to Karma, Lee founded Tapjoy and piloted the company to it's position as a leading mobile advertising platform which today touches more than 1 billion devices. He began Tapjoy by co-creating multiple top mobile games for iOS/Android and subsequently unraveling the potential of mobile advertising and app distribution at scale.

Earlier, Lee worked for venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins and helped launch the iFund, a $100M investment vehicle focused on smartphone application platforms. Lee originally began his career working in product development at Microsoft, where he co-created the Windows Home Server division and shipped the first version of that product to market.

Lee holds a MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business and a BA in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan. He grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan and today lives and works in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area.

Lee has been a featured speaker at universities, conferences, and panels worldwide and has received numerous awards for his work including 30 under 30 Best Young Tech Entrepreneur by Bloomberg Businessweek 2012, 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company in 2012, and The Silicon Valley 100 by Business Insider 2013.

Lee Linden

Sumon Sadhu is the founder of Imperial Entrepreneurs at Imperial College London. He has been on the advisory board of Seedcamp and was selected as one of the top 10 rising stars in business in the UK by Courvosier Future 500. While he has a degree in Biochemistry from Oxford University, he is a PhD dropout of Imperial College London.

Sumon Sadhu

Trip Adler is the child of Stanford neurosurgeon John R. Adler Jr.. He grew up in Palo Alto, California and attended Gunn High School. Anne Wojcicki, who would later co-found genetic testing startup 23andMe, was Adler's babysitter, when he was a child.

Adler attended Harvard University, where he initially embarked on a pre-medical school track of study. Adler later switched his major to biophysics. He graduated in 2006.

https://golden.com/wiki/Trip_Adler-KB8A9M

John R. Adler

Immad Akhund is the CEO and Founder of Mercury.

https://golden.com/wiki/Immad_Akhund-WXZ

Immad Akhund

Jake Zeller is a Venture Hacker at AngelList and investor in early-stage technology companies.

Jake Zeller

James Smith is a British entrepreneur and engineer based in San Francisco.

James is the co-founder of Bugsnag, a popular real-time crash detection service for mobile and web applications.

From 2009 to 2012, James led up the product team as CTO of Heyzap, helping scale the company to over 8 million users.

James was born in London, UK andattended the University of Bath. He graduated with a degree in Mathematics and Computer Science.
After university James Smith co-founded and built Sponsor-Me, the first social donation application for the Facebook platform and later created WeGot.tv, a media discovery website which was acquired in 2009.

https://golden.com/wiki/James_Smith-V4P

James Smith

Gigafund is a venture capital firm backing the world's most ambitious and transformative entrepreneurs. They make long-term concentrated investments in Founder/CEO’s who are capable of growing with their companies and maximizing impact over a period of decades.

Gigafund

Harpoon is an early-stage venture capital that specializes in finance and investment management. It was formed in 2018 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Harpoon

Chris Lyons is a Managing Partner and the Head of the Cultural Leadership Fund at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).

https://golden.com/wiki/Chris_Lyons-994YDW4

Chris Lyons

a16z Cultural Leadership Fund connects the great cultural leaders to the best new technology companies.
Sub-Organization of Andreessen Horowitz. 

https://golden.com/wiki/The_a16z_Cultural_Leadership_Fund-DB5BM3J

a16z Cultural Leadership Fund

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

WndrCo

Liquid2 Ventures provides technology startups with seed-stage investments and is based in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 2015 by Joe Montana, Mike Miller, and Michael Ma.

Liquid 2 Ventures

Marc Andreessen is the founder of a16z crypto.

Marc Andreessen

Matt Humphrey

Paul Mckellar has been working the valley since 2007, when he moved from Atlanta to be part of YCombinator.

The company he started in YCombinator makes Facebook Apps and was eventually sold. After selling his company he joined Square as part of the founding team where he worked on the website and growth.

Currently, Paul is a Founder inResidence at SVAngel.

Paul Mckellar

James has founded 4 startups. His last one, Firebase, was acquired by Google, where he leads product for Firebase as a part of Google Cloud Platform.

James Tamplin

Josh Buckley is the CEO of Product Hunt.

https://golden.com/wiki/Josh_Buckley-GE8DPR8

Josh Buckley

Jude Gomila is currently CEO and Founder of the startup Golden.

Jude Gomila

Great Oaks is an early-stage venture investment firm that invests in seed and series a investments in tech-based startups.

Great Oaks Venture Capital

AI-enabled venture investor.
https://golden.com/wiki/Vela_Partners-AMB96YM

Vela Partners

Hanover Technology Investment Management invest in transformative early-stage technology companies in the first stages of growth.

https://golden.com/wiki/Hanover_Technology_Investment_Management-AMN3E6K

HNVR

Better Tomorrow Ventures is a fintech-focused early-stage venture firm. The venture firm was founded in 2020 and based in San Francisco, California.

Better Tomorrow Ventures

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

Lemniscap is an investment firm specializing in investments in emerging cryptoassets and blockchain companies

Lemniscap

South Korea

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

Hashed

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

Polygon

Maneesh Sharma

Questbook

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 LLC

DeFi Capital is a Decentralized Finance investment fund.

DeFi Capital

Mercurial Finance is building new liquidity systems to maximize the utility and yield of stable assets.

Mercurial Finance

UXD Protocol Token

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

Ascensive Asset is a private investment firm focusing solely on digital assets industry

Ascensive Assets

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

The Lao

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

Hypersphere Ventures

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

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

ParaFi 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.

			Stage	Investors
Integral Integral1	--	--	Angel Round	+6	Blockchain Service	Apr 16, 2024
Drift Protocol	$23.50 M	~$235.00 M	Series A	+3	DEX	Jan 23, 2024
Drip	$3.00 M	~$30.00 M	Seed Round	+8	NFT	Aug 19, 2023
TNSR Tensor	$3.00 M	~$30.00 M	Seed Round	+3	NFT	Mar 2023
Layer N	--	--	Strategic Round	+2	Infrastructure	Nov 7, 2022
Golden	$40.00 M	~$400.00 M	Series B Round	+3	--	Oct 3, 2022
Questbook	$8.30 M	~$83.00 M	Series A Round	+6	--	May 2022
UXP UXD Protocol Token	$3.00 M	$30.00 M	Seed Round	+5	Algorithmic Stablecoins	Sep 2, 2021
ClayStack	$5.20 M	~$52.00 M	Seed Round	+38	--	Jun 2021

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