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

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

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

Protocol Labs

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

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

Alumni Ventures Group

Juan Benet is founder, CEO of Protocol Labs.

Juan Benet

ConsenSys Mesh

Arca

Eleftherios Diakomichalis

Faction

WeatherXM

Singapore

KyberNetwork is a system which allows the exchange and conversion of digital assets

Kyber Network

Experts building premiere projects in consumer Web3.

SuperLayer

Will Holt

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

CSP DAO

A venture capital firm that invests globally in teams creating the future of the internet with decentralized protocols

Polymorphic Capital

Allen is the Principal Data Scientist at MapR Technologies, where he leads interdisciplinary teams to deliver results in fast-paced, high-pressure environments across several industry verticals. Previously, Allen founded TinyTube Networks which provided the first mobile video discovery and transcoding proxy service, and Ion Flux which provided amedical-grade, cloud-based human genome sequencing service.
Allen holds a PhD in Human Genetics from the School of Medicine at UCLA. His dissertation project was to create the largest public data warehouse for gene expression data.

Key components of the project included: operationalizing code beyond the research stage; building and operating a high-performance computing cluster for scale-out; and design and implementation of a schema that supported fast matrix operations for ontology- and graph-based machine learning algorithms.

Allen has contributed to a wide variety of open source projects: R (CRAN, Bioconductor), Perl (CPAN, BioPerl), FFmpeg, Cascading, Apache HBase, Apache Storm, and Apache Mahout. Overall, his unique background combines deep technical expertise in data science with a pragmatic understanding of real-world problems. He also pursues interests in linguistics and economics, and — if it hadn’t been obvious — he performs magic.

Allen Day

Delta Blockchain Fund has actively partnered with entrepreneurs since the beginning of Delta's lifecycle in September 2021. We’re proud to have backed multiple companies and to be their cheerleader throughout their journey.

Delta Blockchain Fund

Primal is a global Web3 fund backing culture shifting ideas and innovations.

Primal Capital

Resolute Ventures is a lead seed and “pre-seed” investor focused on backing and connecting a community of Founders who share an entrepreneurial spirit and energy.

Resolute Ventures

Hashed Emergent is a web2.5 fund launched by Hashed dedicated to builders from emerging markets with a focus on India.

Hashed Emergent

Eddie Lou

Airstack

China

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

Fenbushi Capital

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

Polygon

Signum Capital invests in distributed ledger technologies and crypto assets. Signum Capital support game-changing projects that advance us towards the future of blockchain-enabled socioeconomic transformation.

Signum 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

Genblock Capital invests exclusively in blockchain and cryptocurrency, with a focus on decentralized finance.

Genblock Capital

David Choi

Cypher Capital is a early stage VC and consultant firm

Cypher Capital

Acacia Digital Holdings is part of a diversified blockchain platform. Acacia is the venture investment arm of the platform that invests and collaborates with early-stage blockchain companies.

Acacia Digital Holdings

India

CoinSwitch is the largest crypto application in India.

CoinSwitch

ODA Capital

Tensai Capital

Partnering your company with the hottest startups and emerging tech companies coming onto the market.

Animal Ventures

WWVentures

Token Metrics is an investment research platform for crypto.

Token Metrics

UOB Venture Management

Superscrypt

Perridon Holdings

WestWave Capital invests in market-defining pre-seed, seed and Series A enterprise startups.

WestWave Capital

Artichoke Capital is a technology venture capital firm supporting the next generation of founders advancing the development of Web3.

Artichoke Capital

Crypto-native venture capital that invests in community-driven Web3 startups.

Lecca Ventures

An investment company specialized in Blockchain sector. Up to now, they've invested over 100 blockchain projects in their portfolio. The most successful investments includes Coinbase, Binance, Canaan, etc.

Fundamental Labs

C² Ventures is an investment firm that builds and invests in Web3 companies

C2Ventures (Csquared)

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

Cayman Islands

ChainLink

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

Cogitent Ventures

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

Modular Capital

Laser Digital is a crypto business redefining the frontier of digital finance for institutional investors.

Laser Digital

Israeli Blockchain Association facilitates business leaders, educators, policy-makers and citizens in using of globally accepted, industry-leading knowledge and practices for blockchain technologies.

Israeli Blockchain Association

Truflation

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

C2 Ventures: Investment and Advice from the Trenches

C2 Ventures

Base is a secure, low-cost, builder-friendly Ethereum L2 built to bring the next billion users onchain.

Base Ecosystem Fund

Optic Capital

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

Taisu Ventures is a VC firm that invests in and empowers early-stage web3 companies across the globe.

Taisu Ventures

Oort

Aves Lair

LongHash Ventures is a global blockchain accelerator and VC fund.

LongHash Ventures

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

Com2uS

Tykhe Block Ventures

Dispersion Capital

Saga

Hypersphere is a crypto-native investment platform designed to partner with early-stage and public blockchain networks.

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 is an ever-evolving digital ecosystem built by a global community to power the future of gaming. With a strong foundation in the web3 space, Merit Circle aims to integrate the endless possibilities of blockchain technology with cutting-edge games to create the next generation of immersive gaming experiences by investing capital in promising games.

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

Netherlands

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

Maven 11 Capital

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

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

Figment

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

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.

Pantera Capital

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

Draper Associates is a global venture capital firm that invests in companies driving transformative change across industries.

Draper Associates

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

OKX Ventures

Boost VC is an active Deep Tech investor. Boost VC invests in emerging and disruptive categories at the edge of the map.

Boost VC

CoinDCX operates as a cryptocurrency exchange aggregator.

CoinDCX

Hard Yaka makes early round investments in exchange space startups. Candidates are either verticals in particular categories of exchange markets or horizontals providing services across exchange sectors.

Hard Yaka

Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate in service of the LGBT+ community and its allies, investing in companies with LGBT+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in more established companies resolved on building more inclusive teams, with a global portfolio of 130+ companies and $70M in deployed investment capital todate. 
The Gaingels network also actively supports its portfolio in identifying and recruiting diverse talent to their C-suite and board leadership teams and fosters a vibrant global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who share a common goal for positive social change through business and successful investments.

Gaingels

Mayfield Fund

Australia

Alchemy Ventures

Rainfall Ventures

Broadhaven

EI Ventures

Unstoppable Domains

Arrington Capital is a thesis-focused digital asset and Web3 investing firm. Since 2017, Arrington Capital has invested in over 200 early-stage companies in the crypto ecosystem. Arrington Capital's crypto-native team of seasoned entrepreneurs, founders, and executives is committed to doubling down on efforts to ensure our partners' success.

Arrington XRP Capital

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

FBG Capital is a digital asset management firm. FBG Capital also incubates promising blockchain projects and companies.

FBG Capital

United Kingdom

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

Brevan Howard

Circle Ventures focuses on proprietary capital investments in the technology sector.

Circle Ventures

DRW Venture Capital, an arm of principal trading firm DRW, invests primarily in financial and enterprise technology. Many of our portfolio companies benefit from our engagement beyond capital: as a client, as a liquidity provider, through our review of new products, and through our deep industry expertise.

As a firm with no outside investors, wehave a flexible mandate to deploy capital and often tap into our core business to help companies grow. We’re powered by the people, technology and ideas of DRW, and those we invest in may leverage it all. DRW has diversified business expertise and deep networks in trading and technology, real estate investment, cryptocurrencies and product development — a unique advantage.

DRW Venture Capital

OP Crypto is a venture capital firm that supports early-stage startups in the new digital assets economy.

OP Crypto

Everyrealm is one of the most active investors and developers of the metaverse ecosystem.

Everyrealm

Ripple

Gemini Funds provides a range of pooled investment solutions in the United States.

Gemini Funds

FJ Labs

BlockFi

Neuberger Berman

Intersection Growth Partners

Crossbeam Venture Partners

BH Digital

Supermojo

CoinGecko Ventures is the venture arm of CoinGecko, investing in innovative blockchain companies.

CoinGecko Ventures

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.

			Stage	Investors
WXM WeatherXM	$7.70 M	~$77.00 M	Series A	+10		DePIN	May 22, 2024
Airstack	$4.00 M	~$40.00 M	Seed Round	+9		Blockchain Service	May 3, 2024
TRUF Truflation	$6.00 M	~$60.00 M	Funding Round	+6		RWA (Real World Assets)	Feb 9, 2024
OORT Oort	--	--	Funding Round	+1		Blockchain Service	Jan 9, 2024
SAGA Saga	$5.00 M	~$50.00 M	Extended Seed Round	+3		Blockchain	Nov 20, 2023
Unstoppable Domains	$65.00 M	~$650.00 M	Series A Round	+13		--	Jul 2022
Supermojo	$6.00 M	~$60.00 M	Seed Round	+15		--	Jul 2022
Atmos Labs	$11.00 M	~$110.00 M	Seed Round	+9		--	Jun 2022
CryptoSlam	$9.00 M	~$90.00 M	Seed Round	+19		Blockchain Service	Jan 5, 2022
Ceramic	$30.00 M	~$300.00 M	Series A Round	+46		--	Jan 2022
WILD Wilder World	$30.00 M	~$300.00 M	Funding Round	+13		NFT	Dec 1, 2021
SAND The Sandbox	$93.00 M	~$930.00 M	Series B Round	+18		NFT	Nov 2021
L3 Layer3	$2.50 M	~$25.00 M	Seed Round	+10		Social	Sep 30, 2021
SD StarDust	$5.00 M	~$50.00 M	Series A Round	+12	--	DeFi	Aug 2021
Virtually Human Studio	$20.00 M	~$200.00 M	Series A			--	Jul 21, 2021
Roll	$2.70 M	~$27.00 M	Seed Round	+9		--	Dec 2019

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