United States of America

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

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

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

Sam Kazemian

Robert Leshner

Tarun Chitra

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)

Konstantin Lomashuk

Sreeram Kannan

Mike Silagadze

ETHZilla

South Korea

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

Hashed

Singapore

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

Finland

Founder and CEO of Aave and ETHLend. He is an experienced businessman with extensive knowledge of blockchain, cryptocurrencies and financial technology.

Stani Kulechov

Portugal

Fernando Martinelli

Michael Egorov is the Founder & CEO at Curve Finance.Michael is a physicist and scientist from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. A bronze medalist in the 2003 International Physics Olympiad, he studied ultra-cold atoms as a post-doc.

Michael Egorov

Japan

SoftBank provides fixed-line, mobile telephony, internet, telecommunications, and digital television products.

SoftBank

UOB Venture Management

Switzerland

Aave Ventures

Sonic Labs (prev. Fantom)

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

Jump Crypto

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 Capital

China

Nirvana Capital is a San Francisco/Beijing based venture fund that focuses on blockchain/fintech investment and incubation of edging technologies and economic experiments. Its founding partners are also early supporters of Ethereum

Nirvana Capital

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

Galaxy

A multi-strategy investment firm focused on both token and equity investment

8 Decimal Capital

DHVC is a First Principle Investor behind iconic technology companies in the AI, bio, crypto and consumer sectors. The DHVC team brings experience in entrepreneurship, operations, investing and research to help our portfolio companies grow and succeed.

DHVC

Elysium Venture Capital is an investment management group focused on global technology opportunities.

Elysium Venture Capital

JRR is a Fin-tech group focused exclusively on disruptive innovations related to the traditional industry, which is the bridge connecting real world and digital asset.

JRR Group

Australia

Kosmos Ventures is an Australian investment firm founded in early 2017, focused on helping blockchain startups scale and integrate their technology into our future.

Kosmos Ventures

Obsidian Capital is focused exclusively on Intelligent Blockchain, DLT projects, Digital and Crypto Assets. OCF accelerates the progression of blockchain development by identifying key agitators aiming to dissolve obstacles and barriers in the ecosystem.

Obsidian Capital

LinkVC is a new cutting-edge venture capital with a global view, founded in 2016 by Jiapeng Lin.

Link VC

HyperChain Capital

Bibox is an AI-enhanced encrypted digital asset exchange platform. Team members consists of the co-founder of Okcoin and many of the founding team members of the Huobi exchange. They are one of the most popular crypto exchange by trading volume.

Bibox Fund

Cicada Market Making

Fantom

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

Haun Ventures

Elias Simos

Henri Stern

Tim Beiko

Scott Sunarto

Nic Carter

Witness

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.

Paradigm

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

Germany

BlueYard backs founders at the earliest stages building the interconnected elements that can become the fabric of our future.

BlueYard

Linda Xie is co-founder and Managing Director of Scalar Capital. Previously she was a product manager at Coinbase which she joined in June 2014. At Coinbase, Linda has worked with regulators and law enforcement on compliance for digital assets. Prior to Coinbase, she was a portfolio risk analyst at AIG. Linda holds a B.A. in Economics from theUniversity of California, San Diego.

Linda Xie

Cooper Turley

Angel investor. Former VP and early employee at Coinbase.

Dan Romero

Archetype is an early-stage venture fund focused on accelerating the decentralized future.

Archetype

James Prestwich

Justin Waldron

Patricio Worthalter

Privy

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

Ribbit Capital

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

Stripe

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

Shrug Capital is a Venture capital firm that invests in consumer-based startups.

Shrug Capital

boldstart ventures is a day one partner and true believer for developer first and SaaS founders

Boldstart Ventures

Konstantin Richter

Olympix

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

IDEO CoLab Ventures is a venture capital (VC) arm associated with IDEO CoLab, an innovation and design consultancy. IDEO CoLab Ventures focuses on investing in and supporting startups that are developing innovative technologies and solutions in emerging fields such as blockchain, decentralized finance (DeFi), and Web3 technologies.

IDEO CoLab Ventures

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)

Nascent is a team of builders who back early-stage crypto founders creating products and primitives for an open financial world.

Nascent

Kleiner Perkins

Avichal is Managing Partner at Electric Capital. He is a serial entrepreneur and technology executive. Avichal sold two companies and was most recently Director of Product at Facebook, which acquired his company Spool in 2012. He previously worked at Google on search ranking and ads ranking, is part-time at YCombinator, and an active angelinvestor.
Avichal's firm, Electric Capital, focuses on cryptocurrencies that are rooted in technological utility. Electric performs deep technological diligence, such as compiling code, profiling nodes, and analyzing blockchains with in-house software. The founders of Electric have started and sold five companies, have been investing in cryptocurrencies since 2013, and are investors in Anchor, Bitwise, Chia, Coda, dYdX, Dfinity, Oasis, Thunder and many other crypto projects.

Avichal Garg

DeFi Dad

Tegan Kline

Alliance is the leading crypto accelerator and founder community.

Alliance

Ryan Sean Adams

Jake Brukhman

Alicia Lau currently works as the Talent for Kleiner Perkins. She previously worked at Accenture in Management Consulting.

Alicia Lau

Anil Lulla is the Co-Founder & COO at Delphi Digital . Anil Lulla attended Rutgers Business School.

Anil Lulla

Ash Egan is founder at Archetype and Venture Partner at Accomplice focusing on early stage blockchain and crypto investments.

At Accomplice, Ash has led investments in Bison Trails, Coda, Near, amongst other crypto-networks and crypto-enabled companies. Previously, he was a founding Principal on the venture team at ConsenSys, the largestblockchain company in the world, where he led investments in BlockFi, Vault, RocketPool, and Quantstamp. Ash began his career in venture at Converge VC, where he focused primarily on blockchain/crypto and machine learning applications, and led the firm's investments in Chainalysis, Enigma, and Wade & Wendy.
Ash received his AB in American Politics from Princeton University where he captained the Men's Varsity Squash team and played on the National Champion Team in 2012. He is a World Economic Forum Global Shaper and serves as an advisor at ConsenSys' Tachyon Accelerator, and mentors university students at Harvard Ventures. Ash received Forbes 30 Under 30 for Venture Capital in 2020 and has been published in Techcrunch, Coindesk, VentureBeat, and the Boston Globe.

Ash Egan

Brad Holden is the Investments working at Protocol Labs. He attended Middlebury CollegeMiddlebury College.

Brad Holden

Brandon Cook

Curtis Spencer is the Partner & Co-Founder at Electric Capital. Attended Stanford University.

Curtis Spencer

Dan is an Investor at IDEO CoLab Ventures, which funds early-stage companies building on distributed web technology (blockchains, cryptocurrencies, etc). Since 2015, he has led the distributed web portfolio at IDEO CoLab, conducting research and prototype development in partnership with both startups and Fortune 500 companies, including Citi,Nasdaq, Fidelity, Exelon, BlueCross BlueShield, and Ford.
Dan received his MBA from MIT Sloan, where he co-founded the MIT Bitcoin Club, MIT FinTech Club, and MIT Bitcoin Project (which distributed $100 in bitcoin to each MIT undergraduate in 2014), and organized the inaugural MIT Bitcoin Expo. Prior to falling down the crypto rabbit hole, Dan worked in social entrepreneurship and microfinance, first as a social enterprise consultant with Community Wealth Partners, then leading international accounting and operations for Grameen Foundation. Dan also holds a BA in Psychology from Pomona College.

Dan Elitzer

David Nage

Don Ho

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

Gavin McDermott is the Engineering and Research at IDEO.He attended Creighton University.

Gavin McDermott

Imran Khan

Joe Gerber Managing Director at IDEO CoLab Ventures.

Joe Gerber

Italy

Jose Macedo

Justin Mart Corp Dev + Ventures at Coinbase

Justin Mart

Ken Deeter

Luke Saunders

Maria Xinhe Shen is a member of the founding team at Electric Capital.

Maria Xinhe Shen

Medio Demarco

Qiao Wang is a believer in decentralized technologies such as cryptocurrencies that shift the balance of power from the elite to the commoner.

Qiao Wang

Reuben Bramanathan

Scott Lewis Co-Founder of Concourse Open Community.

Scott Lewis

Master in Design Studies (Technology) Candidate at Harvard Graduate School of Design

Tara Tan

Tom Shaughnessy

Trevor McFedries is the Founder and CEO of Brud.

Trevor McFedries

Yan Liberman, Co-Founder at Delphi Digital.

Yan Liberman

Syndicate

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

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)

True Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups.

True Ventures

Scalar Capital provides fund management and advisory services.

Scalar Capital

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

Alexis Ohanian, born April 24, 1983, is an entrepreneur and investor in Brooklyn, NY, best known as the co-founder and executive chair of reddit, a platform for online communities to share links and have discussions.

Alexis Ohanian

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

Protocol Labs

Atelier Ventures

Weekend Fund is a venture capital and angel investing firm focused on making early-stage investments.

Weekend Fund

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

Sound Ventures

Ashton Kutcher is an actor, investor, entrepreneur, producer and philanthropist.

Kutcher has been named one of TIME magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World,” as well as being honored by Vanity Fair ‘s “New Establishment List,” which identifies the top 50 of an innovative new breed of buccaneering visionaries, engineering prodigiesand entrepreneurs. Twice, Kutcher was named one of Forbes magazine’s “World’s Most Powerful Celebrities,” as well as one of Fast Company magazine’s “Most Creative People.”
Kutcher has been investing in technology for over a decade, both as an angel investor and a founding partner of A-Grade Investments and Sound Ventures. His fund portfolio includes Airbnb, Uber, Flexport, Brex, Robinhood, Bird, Airtable and Affirm among others.

Kutcher is also the co-founder of Thorn: Digital Defenders of Children (www.thorn.org). Thorn drives technology innovation to fight the sexual exploitation of children.

Kutcher currently stars in the Netflix original series, The Ranch. He also serves as Executive Producer. Until 2015, Kutcher starred in the CBS comedy series Two and a Half Men. The show ranked as the second most-watched comedy on all of network television. Kutcher first gained recognition as Michael Kelso on the Fox series That 70’s Show, and went on to star in a variety of box office hits on the big screen – including What Happens In Vegas with Cameron Diaz, The Guardian with Kevin Costner, No Strings Attached with Natalie Portman and the cult hit Dude, Where’s My Car.

Kutcher served as co-creator and producer of MTV's hit series, “Punk'd,” and The CW's reality series “Beauty and the Geek” and “True Beauty.” He has also produced films such as No Strings Attached, Killers and The Butterfly Effect. Additionally, Kutcher co-founded APlus, a digital media company devoted to spreading the message of positive journalism, a kind of storytelling that focuses on our shared humanity. In 2016, APlus was purchased by Chicken Soup for the Soul.

Ashton Kutcher

Bill Ackman

Ryan Hoover

Scott Belsky

a16z Cultural Leadership Fund  partners with the world's greatest creators and shifters of culture to advance more African Americans into tech

a16z Cultural Leadership Fund

Thirty Five Ventures connect established and emerging businesses for meaningful value creation so they can thrive and scale.

Thirty Five Ventures

Makena Management Group is a Real estate company located in 29 Boston Post Rd, Madison, Connecticut, United States.

Makena Capital Management

Biz is a co-founder of Twitter, Medium, and Jelly. A progenitor of social media, and early Google employee, Biz has been developing large scale systems that serve the global conversation for twenty years. As an investor, Biz has backed Square, Pinterest, Slack when it was called Speck, Nest, Intercom and Beyond Meat (where he remains on the boardas Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee), among others. In 2016, Stone's Jelly, a "human in the loop" AI search service, was acquired by Pinterest. After the sale, Twitter requested Biz return full time to lead the company's strategic vision, brand, and internal culture objectives alongside co-founder Jack Dorsey. Biz has been recognized as INC Magazine Entrepreneur of the Decade and one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in the World. He is also an author, filmmaker and Fellow at both Oxford University and Berkeley.

Biz Stone

Canada

Matthew Ball

Packy McCormick is the founder of Not Boring. He attended Duke University.

Packy McCormick

Alice Lloyd George focuses on early stage investments around the blockchain and cryptographic technologies, robotics and AI, and consumer internet.

Prior to joining RRE Alice spent time at Signia Venture Partners and Bridgewater Associates. Previously she lived in Beijing and conducted investigative research as a Brookings Institute fellow. Shebegan her career at The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong, where she covered business and politics in Malaysia, India, Australia, Burma and China.
Alice graduated from Princeton with a BA from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy and a minor in East Asian Studies. She sits on the board of LGAF, a charitable foundation supporting child-focused projects in Asia. Alice originally hails from London and is an enthusiast on all things related to art, creative education, and futurology. She enjoys backpacking, particularly in far-flung places.

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