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

Franklin Templeton

United States of America

Bryan Pellegrino is the co-founder and CEO of LayerZero Labs, a blockchain company developing LayerZero, an interoperability protocol that enables seamless communication between different blockchains. This protocol is especially significant in the DeFi space, as it allows data and tokens to move across networks like Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, and Solana.

Bryan Pellegrino

Switzerland

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

RockawayX

Hong Kong

CMCC Global is one of Asia’s first venture capital funds focused solely on blockchain investments, with offices in North America and Asia.

CMCC Global

Spencer Noon is a General Partner/ Investor at Variant. He attended Amherst College.

Spencer Noon

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)

Caladan (Alphalab)

Flow Traders

IMC Financial Markets

Superscrypt

United Kingdom

Fasanara Capital

Breed VC is an early stage crypto venture fund dedicated to helping the top founders build the decentralized future

Breed

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

Laser Digital

nonce classic navigates the Web 3 cosmos hand in hand with projects that will change the world in the near future through the solidity of the community.

nonce Classic

Presto Labs

Auros is an algorithmic trading and market making firm that delivers best-in-class liquidity for exchanges and token projects.

Auros Global

Paper Ventures is a first-in, innovative investment firm, focusing on the ever-changing landscape of emerging technologies.

Paper Ventures

Jason Yanowitz

Flowdesk

Curved Ventures

Lucas Kozinski

Triton Capital invests in companies and protocols at the nexus of building the blockchain based financial system that will redefine how consumers and businesses interact in the digital age.

Triton Capital

Sonya Kim

Portugal

Fernando Martinelli

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

Kraken Ventures invests in businesses and projects at the nexus of both the FinTech and Blockchain / Crypto revolution.

Kraken Ventures

India

Sandeep Nailwal

Australia

Kain Warwick

Scott Moore

Calvin Liu

ABCDE Capital

Anagram Crypto

Brianna Montgomery

danning.eth

Ekram Ahmed

Sam MacPherson

Quynh Ho

Namik Muduroglu

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)

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

Standard Crypto is a venture capital firm with elite company-building experience and deep-rooted expertise in crypto.

Standard Crypto

Mexico

Lvna Capital is an investment fund specialized in blockchain-based digital assets.

Lvna Capital

Protagonist is a crypto fund and incubation lab supporting foundational protocols in emerging blockchain ecosystems.

Protagonist

Comma3 Ventures

Karatage

RW3 Ventures invests in the infrastructure, protocols, and applications that are driving growth in blockchain technologies, decentralized finance, and the long-term development of web 3.

RW3 Ventures

Raptor Group is a private investment company backed by the Family Office of Jim Pallotta that invests in Tech, Sports & Media, Consumer, Healthcare and Finance

Raptor Group

Walrus

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

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

Dragonfly Capital Partners, commonly referred to as Dragonfly Capital, is a venture capital firm that focuses on investments in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space. Dragonfly Capital is known for its active involvement in the blockchain and crypto industry and its commitment to supporting innovative projects and companies.

Dragonfly Capital

F-Prime Capital

Ethena

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)

Malta

YZi Labs is an investment firm formerly known as Binance Labs that invests in all stages of development in the fields of Web3, artificial intelligence (AI), and biotechnology.

YZi Labs (prev Binance Labs)

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a prominent venture capital firm recognized for its strategic investments in innovative and high-growth technology companies. Founded in 2000 by Chris Schaepe, Barry Eggers, Ravi Mhatre, and Peter Nieh, Lightspeed has played a pivotal role in shaping the success stories of numerous startups across various sectors.

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Cobie, a well-known pseudonymous figure, has made a significant impact both on crypto Twitter and within the broader cryptocurrency industry. Beyond his online presence, he's also recognized as the founder of Echo.

Cobie

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

Brevan Howard

BlockTower is an institutional investment firm, applying professional trading, venture investing, credit underwriting, and portfolio management to digital and traditional assets.

Strobe (Prev. BlockTower Capital)

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

OKX Ventures

The CMT Group has acted as a valued collaborator to numerous exchanges, clearing firms, and trading and investment teams, generating edge by pairing market insight with early adoption and innovation of nascent technologies.

CMT Digital

HTX Venture, the global investment arm of HTX, integrates investment, incubation, and research to identify the best and brightest teams in the world.

HTX Ventures (previously Huobi Ventures)

Wintermute is a truly value adding investor dedicated to supporting the innovation in the blockchain ecosystem.

Wintermute

South Korea

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

Hashed

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

Galaxy

Finland

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

Stani Kulechov

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

Amber Group

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

Nascent

DCF GOD

Mirana Ventures is a leading global investment fund that provides long-term capital and strategic partnerships to visionary founders and fund managers in the Web3 space.

Mirana Ventures

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

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

Sam Kazemian

tangent

Finality Capital Partners

Seychelles

Founded in 2018, MEXC Global is a centralized exchange that employs a high-performance mega-transaction matching technology. The CEX platform is run by a team of professionals with extensive financial industries and blockchain technology experience.

MEXC Global (Privcode Capital)

Andrew Kang is a cryptocurrency entrepreneur and investor. He is the Co-Founder of Mechanism Capital which invests in cryptocurrency through prop trading, mining, ventures, and secondary markets. Kang previously worked in portfolio management and venture capital at Digital Capital Management.

Andrew Kang

Virgin Islands (British)

Bybit is a global cryptocurrency derivatives exchange designed for all retail traders, professionals and investment institutions alike.

Bybit

Gemini Frontier Fund is a strategic venture fund focused on growing the crypto ecosystem through investment in early-stage crypto projects.

Gemini Frontier Fund

Julian Koh

Anthony Sassano

Netherlands

Deribit is live since June 2016 after several years of development. John Jansen, the original founder, teamed up with Marius Jansen, Sebastian Smyczýnski and Andrew Yanovsky. Deribit started as a Bitcoin Futures and Options platform. Soon was realized more services could be offered due to the choices made regarding technology and infrastructurethat powers the platform. These choices have resulted in a high availability, high throughput and low latency trading environment. Deribit is is expanding every day as we speak and new cryptocurrency trading products are under development. We have a team of 8 people working on the platform and we run our daily office from Amsterdam (The Netherlands).

Deribit

Richard Malone

No Limit Holdings

Mr.Block is a blockchain community that creates a connection between international projects and another country.

Mr. Block

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

Gemini Funds

Castle Island Ventures is a venture capital firm

Castle Island Ventures

Nic Carter

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

Alliance is the leading crypto accelerator and founder community.

Alliance

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

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

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

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

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.

			Stage	Investors
CAP	$8.00 M	~$80.00 M	Seed Round	+21	--	DeFi	Apr 7, 2025
WAL Walrus	$140.00 M	~$1.40 B	Private Token Sale	+7	--	Storage	Mar 20, 2025
ENA Ethena	$100.00 M	~$1.00 B	Private Sale	+2		DeFi	Feb 24, 2025
BTR Bitlayer	$9.00 M	$300.00 M	Series A Extension			Layer-2	Oct 8, 2024
APRO	$3.00 M	~$30.00 M	Seed Round	+5	--	Blockchain Service	Oct 7, 2024
SatLayer	$8.00 M	~$80.00 M	Pre-seed	+5	--	DeFi	Aug 22, 2024
BTR Bitlayer	$11.00 M	$300.00 M	Series A	+7		Layer-2	Jul 23, 2024
Lombard	$16.00 M	~$160.00 M	Seed Round	+5	--	DeFi	Jul 2, 2024
PUFFER Puffer	$18.00 M	~$180.00 M	Series A Round	+9		Liquid Staking Protocols	Apr 16, 2024
Integral Integral1	--	--	Funding Round			Blockchain Service	Feb 28, 2024
ENA Ethena	$14.00 M	$300.00 M	Seed Extension Round	+24		DeFi	Feb 16, 2024
EthosX	$1.80 M	~$18.00 M	Funding Round	+8	--	DeFi	Dec 13, 2023
Baton	$4.20 M	~$42.00 M	Funding Round	+4		Social	Nov 14, 2023
SHRAP Shrapnel	$20.00 M	~$200.00 M	Series A	+3		Gaming	Oct 25, 2023
Xverse	$5.00 M	~$50.00 M	Seed Round	+15		Blockchain Service	Aug 10, 2023
AMKT Alongside Crypto Market Index	$11.00 M	~$110.00 M	Seed Round	+3		Index	Feb 15, 2023
Azra Games	$10.00 M	~$100.00 M	Seed Plus Round	+2	--	Gaming	Feb 2023
SUI Sui	$300.00 M	$5.00 B	Series B	+7		Blockchain	Sep 2022
SPEC Spectral	$23.00 M	~$230.00 M	Funding Round	+3	--	Blockchain Service	Aug 22, 2022
APT Aptos	$150.00 M	~$1.50 B	Series A	+5		Blockchain	Jul 25, 2022

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