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.

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

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

United States of America

Angel investor. Former VP and early employee at Coinbase.

Dan Romero

Daedalus

ABCDE Capital

United Kingdom

Mustafa Al-Bassam

Anagram Crypto

Bankless

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

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

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

Gmoney, NFT Thought Leader, NFT collector and trader.

gmoney

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

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

Shima Capital

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

Polygon

Puerto Rico

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

Andrew Keys

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

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

SpaceshipDAO

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

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

ArkStream Capital

Intuition

Hong Kong

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

IOSG Ventures

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.

Animoca Brands

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

India

Sandeep Nailwal

Third Kind Venture Capital

tokentus investment AG

UOB Venture Management

Azimut Digitech Fund

Sygnum

Canada

Axelar

CE Innovation Capital is an early growth capital focused on digital technology, new finance and new services worldwide.

CE Innovation Capital

Istari Ventures is a crypto payments and blockchain finance focused venture fund with a mandate to invest in early-stage companies with proven use cases and real utilities.

Istari Ventures

No Limit Holdings

Charles Delingpole

Jan Hammer

Transak

Koji.capital

LuneX has a global mandate to invest exclusively in high-growth blockchain companies and cryptocurrency assets.

LuneX Ventures

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

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

North Island Ventures is a crypto-focused VC fund

North Island Ventures

Gibraltar

Gnosis

ID Theory apply a principled and innovative investment strategy within decentralised networks.

ID Theory

Road Capital

gmjp

Inflection are a team of venture investors and entrepreneurs with diverse backgrounds based out of Berlin, Boston and Munich complemented by a global network of innovators.

Inflection

Beaker DAO is a collective that supports the expansion of decentralized science.

Beaker DAO

Curve labs is an innovative network working with Web3 primitives to design, develop and improve organizations based on the blockchain, not the sum of their parts.

Curve labs

LabDAO

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

Investment firm that exclusively consults and invests in cryptoassets and blockchain companies

Mapleblock Capital

Amber Group is a one-stop crypto finance service provider that provides liquidity provision, trading and asset management services 24/7.

Amber Group

Sparkle Ventures

Pine

China

Ryze Labs invests in builders of the next generation of the internet, around the globe, while working to democratize access and accelerate its adoption in emerging markets.

Ryze Labs (Sino Global Capital)

Impossible Finance is a multi-chain incubator, launchpad, and swap platform which offers a robust product-first ecosystem that supports top-tier blockchain projects to targeted user audiences.

Impossible Finance

Gate.io

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

Alameda Research

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

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

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

FinTech Collective is a New York-based venture capital fund, focused exclusively on financial services technology companies.

			Stage	Investors
JokeRace	$3.00 M	~$30.00 M	Funding Round	+18	--	Social	Jul 31, 2024
IDLE IDLE	$2.40 M	~$24.00 M	Strategic Round	+11		DeFi	Jul 9, 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
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		Dev Tooling	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
Nifty Apes	$4.20 M	~$42.00 M	Funding Round	+10		--	Nov 1, 2022
SAFE Safe	$100.00 M	~$1.00 B	Funding Round	+30		Wallet	Jul 2022
CLUB Seed Club	--	--	Private Sale	+11		DAO	May 18, 2022
COW CoW Protocol	$23.00 M	$230.00 M	Private Round	+18		Protocol	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
BREED BreederDAO	$10.00 M	$100.00 M	Series A	+7		Play to Earn	Jan 28, 2022
Ceramic	$30.00 M	~$300.00 M	Series A Round	+46		--	Jan 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
Snapshot	$4.00 M	~$40.00 M	Seed Round	+6		--	Nov 19, 2021
POP Popcorn [OLD]	$5.44 M	$24.60 M	Early Contributors	+8		DeFi	Nov 2021

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