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Stake Capital

United States of America

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)

Franklin Templeton

Flow Traders

Hong Kong

Cryptonite Capital

ABCDE Capital

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

Skyland Ventures

Optic Capital

United Arab Emirates

Jets Capital is an independent investment VC fund focused on investing in crypto projects

Jets Capital

Bitlayer

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

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

Alliance is the leading crypto accelerator and founder community.

Alliance

Selini is a global trading firm focused on systematic trading, liquidity provision, efficient execution, and venture investing—all within the digital assets space.

Selini Capital

Kenetic is a proprietary trading and VC investment firm focused on digital assets and blockchain related companies.

Kenetic Capital

Taiwan

Established in 2018, Kronos Research swiftly ascended to the forefront of the quantitative trading landscape, handling billions of dollars in transactions daily.

Kronos Research

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

OKX Ventures

DCI Capital is a venture capital that invests in startups. DCI aims to promote, educate and inspire crypto enthusiasts.

Dutch Crypto Investors (DCI)

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

CSP DAO

PAKA

Singapore

Loi Luu is CEO & Co-Founder of Kyber Network. Loi is a researcher working on cryptocurrencies, smart contract security, and distributed consensus algorithms. He is also a regular invited speaker at Bitcoin and Ethereum workshops such as DevCon2, EDCON.

Loi Luu

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

DuckDAO is a community-backed incubator powered by a network of engaged investors in the digital asset ecosystem.

DuckDAO

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

Israel

StarkWare Industries develops a full-proof stack in generating and verifying proofs of computational integrity in the blockchain.

StarkWare Industries

Founded in 2018, Mindfulness Capital is an investment firm that specializes in private equity, and mergers & acquisitions. The firm has invested in blockchain, tech products (both hardware and software), finance sectors, etc.

Mindfulness Capital

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

Cogitent Ventures

Global Coin Research is a tokenized, decentralized community of learners and investors in Web3.

GCR (Global Coin Research)

Asymmetric

Gate Labs

Comma3 Ventures

Dyma Budorin

Digital asset fund investing in the analog to digital transformation of money in the emergent financial system.

UTXO Management

Faculty Group is a collective  of blockchain-native companies who provide a breadth of services to the Web3 innovators shaping the world.

Faculty Group

Samara Asset Group is a deep-tech powered alternative asset manager with a hyperfocus on alpha-generating strategies and Bitcoin.

Samara Asset Group

Web3Port

Global Venture Accelerator firm for the Web 3.0 space.

Pivot

Pragma Ventures

Rising Capital

Tobias Bauer

Trung Nguyen

Viet Anh Ho

Dan Held

Dan McArdle

C6E Capital

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

Algorand

Bril Finance

Rubik Ventures

China

Node Capital is a venture capital company focusing on blockchain industry.

Node Capital

Blockchange Ventures is an investing firm that invest in early-stage blockchain companies, protocols, and applications.

Blockchange Ventures

Odsy Network

Digital Currency Group builds and supports bitcoin and blockchain companies by leveraging insights, network, and access to capital.

Digital Currency Group (DCG)

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

Lemniscap

Amplify is relentlessly focused on helping technical founders succeed -- founders with an unwavering vision for a better future and the courage to make it happen.

Amplify Partners

Collider Ventures is an early-stage venture capital blockchain & cryptocurrency fund.

Collider Ventures

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

Token Bay Capital

Heroic Ventures

Zero Knowledge Validation is Championing Privacy and Zero-Knowledge Technology across the Blockchain Ecosystem.

Zero Knowledge Validation

Tykhe Block Ventures

Lightshift Capital

Cerulean Ventures

Impatient Ventures

Dispersion Capital

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

OP Crypto

Chapter One Ventures

BitMex

Elixir

Hack VC is a web3 venture capital firm. Hack VC partners with online and offline hackers who are building the future of the internet.

Hack VC

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

Amber Group

Manifold Trading is a early-stage web3 fund that takes a data-driven, systematic approach to making high-conviction investments.

Manifold Trading

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

Arthur Hayes, Co-Founder of BitMEX & CIO of Maelstromfund.

Arthur Hayes

Managed by the family office of Arthur Hayes (co-founder, BitMEX), Maelstrom is building a long-term portfolio of infrastructure companies that will serve as the foundation of the next wave of trustless decentralization.

Maelstrom

AngelList is a U.S. website for startups, angel investors, and job-seekers looking to work at startups.

AngelList

Bloccelerate VC is a venture fund backing bold entrepreneurs building category defining companies using the power of blockchain.

Bloccelerate

Mysten Labs

Flowdesk

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)

Raj Gokal

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

DCVC

Angel investor. Former VP and early employee at Coinbase.

Dan Romero

Xoogler Ventures

Golden

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

SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm. SV Angel supports entrepreneurs in building sustainable companies by helping them through key inflection points and using our network to help them grow their businesses.

SV Angel

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

Alex Tew

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

Aston Motes is an engineer working at Dropbox.

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Aston Motes

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

a16z Cultural Leadership Fund

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

WndrCo

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.

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