United States of America

Union Square Ventures (USV) stands as a leading venture capital firm renowned for its strategic investments in groundbreaking technology companies. Established in 2003 by Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham, the firm has been a consistent player in the ever-evolving landscape of early-stage and growth-stage investments.

Union Square Ventures

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

Framework Ventures is a cutting-edge venture capital firm deeply immersed in the world of decentralized finance (DeFi) and blockchain technology. Founded by Michael Anderson and Vance Spencer, Framework Ventures stands out as a key player in the rapidly evolving landscape of digital assets and blockchain-based financial innovations.

Framework Ventures

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.

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

LAO is a member-led venture fund built on the spirit of Ethereum’s original DAO. As a global collective of Ethereum enthusiasts and experts, LAO invests in early-stage projects that push the boundaries of DeFi, NFTs, privacy, and Web3 social applications.

The Lao

Delphi Ventures was founded over 25 years ago as one of the first venture capital firms to focus on investing in life sciences companies.

Delphi Ventures

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

Nascent

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

Archetype

Sapphire Ventures

Australia

Square Peg Capital

Palm Tree Crew

A global group of crypto natives, founders, builders, and investors.

SpaceshipDAO

Reservoir

Bankless

Netherlands

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

Maven 11 Capital

Switzerland

Traditional VC investor into digital assets. We invest globally into outstanding founders building next generation of financial services.

RockawayX

Mask Network is the Portal to the New, Open Internet.

Mask Network

Angel investor. Former VP and early employee at Coinbase.

Dan Romero

Daedalus

ABCDE Capital

United Kingdom

Mustafa Al-Bassam

Anagram Crypto

Keone Hon

Social Graph Ventures

Smokey The Bera

John Adler

dcbuilder.eth

Komorebi Collective

Mona El Isa

Diana Chen

Sahil Dewan

Brianna Montgomery

JokeRace

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

Seed Club Ventures

Boys Club is a social DAO and media company.

Boys Club

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

ConsenSys develops enterprise applications, invests in startups, builds developer tools, and offers blockchain education.

ConsenSys

LongHash Ventures is a global blockchain accelerator and VC fund.

LongHash Ventures

BlockRock Capital

Fasanara Capital

Greenfield Capital

Dialectic is a Swiss capital enterprise focused on deployment of human and financial capital into alternative assets.

Dialectic Capital

Jack Herrick

Josh Hannah

Imran Khan

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

Quantstamp

Idle Finance

Richard is the co-founder and CEO of Quantstamp. Quantstamp is a leader in smart contract auditing and security - with over 250 clients.

Richard Ma (Quantstamp)

Cayman Islands

BR Capital is a crypto economy and blockchain-focused fund

BR Capital

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

Fabric Ventures often takes a strategic approach to its investments, seeking to support projects that align with their vision of a decentralized and open internet. They may also provide additional resources and support beyond just capital.

Fabric Ventures

Hong Kong

IOSG Venture is an early-stage fund for decentralized protocols and companies. Early-stage algorithm-based ventures.

IOSG Ventures

Eterna Capital is an early stage venture fund backing bold, innovative entrepreneurs who harness blockchain technology.

Eterna Capital

Veris Ventures

Taavet+Sten

Japan

Hyperithm

WAGMI Ventures

Skyland Ventures is a venture capital fund that mainly invests in seed startups.

Skyland Ventures

Safe is trusted decentralized custody protocol and collective asset management platform on Ethereum and the EVM.

Safe Ecosystem Foundation

Circle is a financial technology firm that utilizes stablecoins for payments and e-commerce.

Circle

Kartik Talwar

Alex Van de Sande

Bernie stables.money

Superfluid

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)

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

MetaCartel Ventures is a decentralized autonomous organization that will invest in the Ethereum ecosystem.

MetaCartel Ventures

Finland

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

Stani Kulechov

Divergence Ventures is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California. They specialize in investments in the blockchain and cryptocurrency sectors.

Divergence Ventures

Gmoney, NFT Thought Leader, NFT collector and trader.

gmoney

Semantic Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in new directions for data and the digital economy.

Semantic Ventures

South Korea

Do Kwon is the Co-Founder and CEO of Terraform Labs (TFL)

Do Kwon

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

Taavet Hinrikus is co-founder and CEO of TransferWise. Prior to starting TransferWise, Taavet was Skype’s director of strategy until 2008, starting as its first-ever employee. One of the World Economic Forum's Tech Pioneers, Taavet is an adviser to Prime Minister of Estonia on the digital agenda. He’s also a mentor and angel investor; hisinvestments include Tweetdeck, Mendeley, OMGPOP, Property Partner, Sunrise, Improbable and Mapillary.

Taavet Hinrikus

DeFi Capital is a Decentralized Finance investment fund.

DeFi Capital

CEO of StakeDAO, a core member at Curve Finance, and the inventor of flash loans

Julien Bouteloup

Anthony Sassano

Calvin Liu

David Hoffman

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

MH Ventures

Ejaaz Ahamadeen

Electric Feel Entertainment

Fan Zhang

300DAO

ICONIQ Growth

Backend Capital

Soma Capital

unshETH

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

Slow Ventures is known for its patient and supportive approach to investments. They often take a long-term view and provide guidance, mentorship, and resources to the startups they back.

Slow Ventures

Flamingo DAO

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

Collab+Currency

Neon DAO

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

Lattice

Hook Protocol

Caldera

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

Shima Capital

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

Puerto Rico

Andrew Keys has 2 current jobs as Co-Founder at ConsenSys and Co Founder at DARMA Capital

Andrew Keys

ArkStream Capital is a crypto fund dedicated to growing Web3.0 unicorns.

ArkStream Capital

Matrixport is a digital assets financial services platform where users can invest, trade, and leverage crypto assets.

Matrixport

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

Anil Lulla

Don Ho

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

Polymorphic Capital

Philippines

Gabby Dizon is the Chairman and co-founder of Alto.io, a Singapore-based game platform that connects games to the blockchain. He helped pioneer the Philippine game industry as part of the team that released the first Filipino-made game in 2003. Gabby is also CEO of game developer Altitude Games and former President of the Game DevelopersAssociation of the Philippines. Gabby helps champion the game development industry in Southeast Asia and is an active member of the Philippine startup community.

Gabby Dizon

Avon Ventures

United Arab Emirates

The company invests in Seed & Private Sale Rounds and are always excited about the projects that aim at adding real value in the Blockchain Ecosystem.

NewTribe 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)

Marc Weinstein

Superscrypt

Orange DAO

WWVentures

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

Primal Capital

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

Artichoke Capital

ODA Capital

DAO Jones

Pulsar is a leading algorithmic trading firm specialized in cryptocurrency trading and market making.

Pulsar Trading

Open Web Collective is a venture firm focused on blockchain and digital assets.

Punk DAO is a lot of things, but above all it is a home for Punk owners who want the community to grow and prosper.

Punk DAO

David Chreng-Messembourg

Intuition

Woodstock is a Web 3.0-focused investment fund. Woodstock invests in early-stage and growth-stage blockchain startups and companies.

Woodstock Fund

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
Reservoir	$14.00 M	~$140.00 M	Series A	+10		Infrastructure	Feb 5, 2025
JokeRace	$3.00 M	~$30.00 M	Funding Round	+18	--	Social	Jul 31, 2024
IDLE Idle Finance	$2.40 M	~$24.00 M	Strategic Round	+11		DeFi	Jul 9, 2024
Superfluid	$5.10 M	~$51.00 M	Funding Round	+12		DeFi	Feb 22, 2024
USH unshETH	$3.30 M	~$33.00 M	Seed Round	+6		DeFi	Aug 7, 2023
Hook Protocol	$3.00 M	~$30.00 M	Funding Round	+6		NFT	Jun 28, 2023
TRUST Intuition	$4.00 M	~$40.00 M	Seed Round	+24		Blockchain Service	Jun 15, 2023
Transak	$20.00 M	~$200.00 M	Series A	+14		Blockchain Service	May 30, 2023
LabDAO	$3.60 M	~$36.00 M	Funding Round	+11		Social	May 23, 2023
PINE Pine	$3.00 M	~$30.00 M	Private & Advisors	+3		Lending Platform	Dec 2022
SAFE Safe	$100.00 M	~$1.00 B	Funding Round	+30		Wallet	Jul 2022
COW CoW Protocol	$23.00 M	$230.00 M	Private Round	+18		DEX	Mar 29, 2022
Polymer Labs	$3.60 M	~$36.00 M	Seed Round	+15		Blockchain	Mar 3, 2022
Brahma	$4.21 M	~$42.10 M	Seed Round	+12		DeFi	Feb 22, 2022
SOVRN Sovrun	$10.00 M	$100.00 M	Series A	+7		Gaming	Jan 28, 2022
Sound.xyz Sound.xyz	$5.00 M	~$50.00 M	Seed Round	+11		Music	Dec 15, 2021
ONDO Ondo Finance	$4.00 M	$130.00 M	Seed Round	+11		RWA (Real World Assets)	Dec 2021
SOLV Solv Protocol	$4.00 M	~$40.00 M	Series A Round	+11		DeFi	Nov 2021
POP Popcorn [OLD]	$5.44 M	$24.60 M	Early Contributors	+8	--	DeFi	Nov 2021
IMU Immunefi	$5.50 M	~$55.00 M	Seed Round	+5		Artificial Intelligence (AI)	Oct 26, 2021

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