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

Derive

United States of America

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

ParaFi Capital is an alternative investment firm focused on blockchain and decentralized finance markets.

ParaFi 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

Jump Capital is a venture capital and growth equity firm that focuses on investing in technology-driven companies across various industries. With offices in Chicago and New York, Jump Capital has established itself as a strategic investor with a broad portfolio, encompassing sectors such as software, fintech, healthcare, and more.

Jump Capital

Alliance is the leading crypto accelerator and founder community.

Alliance

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

Australia

Kain Warwick

DCF GOD

Orthogonal Trading is a multi-strategy cryptocurrency trading firm focused solely on the digital asset markets.

Orthogonal Trading

Jordan Momtazi

Ryan Sean Adams

Tyler Scott Ward

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)

Georgios Vlachos

Xinshu Dong

Mike Silagadze

Rok Kopp

Vaibhav Chellani

Ekram Ahmed

Darryl Lau

Guy Young

Coleman Maher

Michael Bentley

Rishabh Khurana

Lucas Kozinski

Spreek

Thor Hartvigsen

Daniel Dizon

Optimism Foundation

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)

Singapore

SevenX Ventures provides insights and operational expertise to help blockchain startups in growing.

SevenX Ventures

Borderless Capital is a Blockchain VC firm and a modern financial institution investing capital and co-building financial products with our portfolio companies that accelerates access, bootstraps adoption, and creates value globally through the Algorand Borderless Economy.

Borderless Capital

Primitive Ventures is an international venture investment firm that invests on blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies.

Primitive Ventures

ABCDE Capital

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

Breed

Anagram Crypto

Perena

CMS Holdings may also invest in early-stage blockchain and cryptocurrency projects through private investments and strategic partnerships. They provide capital and support to innovative startups in the crypto space.

CMS Holdings

Hong Kong

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

RockTree Capital

Innovating, venturing, and catapulting forward the next generation of teams/companies

Infinity Ventures Crypto (IVC)

Stake Capital

Entrepreneur, Founder, Investor.

My background includes broad and diverse experience across various areas of corporate finance, investments, banking and strategy roles.

I have developed a strong global finance experience through international assignments in the US, Brazil, Panama, Afghanistan, Southeast Asia, Czech Republic and through the awardof my Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) certification.
Lately I've been more involved more of an entrepreneurial capacity, helping create, scale and lead fintech startups ITF & TDAX.

Ben Lakoff

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

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

MH Ventures

Zephyrus Capital

Meltem Demirors

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)

Builder Capital

WAGMI Ventures

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

Bloccelerate

Optic Capital

Kartik Talwar

Relayer Capital

Wise3 Ventures

Veil

Neptune Protocol

MagmaDAO

Alan Curtis

Fluid Protocol

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

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

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

Arthur Hayes

Jordi Alexander

Presto Labs

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

Auros Global

Aptos

Web3Port

Sats Ventures

Movement

Squared Ventures combines broad reach with targeted incubation and operations to fill market gaps. Squared Ventures' service companies offer a wide range of professional services to financial institutions, enterprises, and startups.

Squared Ventures

Echo Protocol

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

South Korea

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

Hashed

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

Nomad Capital

Faction

tangent

INFINIT

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

BitScale Capital invests in teams and solutions that bring transparency and efficiency to our world through cutting-edge technology.

BitScale Capital

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

Big Brain Holdings Invests in Seed, Pre-Seed and Early Stage Startups

Big Brain Holdings

Race Capital

Mexico

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

Lvna Capital

Wormhole

Road Capital

Finality Capital Partners

Solayer

India

Sandeep Nailwal

Anatoly is the creator of Solana. He led development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox. He holds 2 patents for high performance Operating Systems protocols, was a core kernel developer for BREW which powered every CDMA flip phone (100m+ devices), and led development of tech that madeProject Tango (VR/AR) possible on Qualcomm phones.

Anatoly Yakovenko

Joe Lallouz

0xRooter

Richard Wu

Stanford Liu

WSB Mod

Cindy Leow

Mike Ippolito

Mechanism Capital is an investment firm that invests in the cryptocurrency industry with a focus on decentralized finance or DeFi.

Mechanism Capital

Tekin Salimi

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

Puerto Rico

George Lambeth

Karatage

Synergis has made 10 investments so far, the most recent investment project is Hibiki Run, and the investment announcement time is July 24, 2023

According to the CoinCarp fundraising database, Synergis has invested in 4 Web3 projects, 2 NFTs projects, 1 DeFi projects and 1 Others projects. Among all, 50% of Synergis's investments are Web3 projects.

Synergis

Decima

Baboon VC

Albert Chon

Charles Lu

Nectar AI

Blockchain Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies. It was founded in 2013 by Bart Stephens and Brad Stephens, and it's headquartered in San Francisco, California. Blockchain Capital is one of the earliest and most well-known venture capital firms dedicated exclusively to the blockchain and cryptocurrency space.

Blockchain Capital

Bankless

Cadenza actively invests in the technology companies and related crypto assets that are reshaping financial services.

Cadenza Ventures

No Limit Holdings

Base is a secure, low-cost, builder-friendly Ethereum L2 built to bring the next billion users onchain.

Base Ecosystem Fund

Zach Segal

Tommy Shaughnessy

Isaiah Washington

BSX (Pre-Market)

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)

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 XRP Capital

China

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

Node Capital

North Island Ventures is a crypto-focused VC fund

North Island Ventures

BlockBuilders is a team of experienced blockchain veterans who are willing to use their experience to bring your idea to life.

BlockBuilders

ZK Ventures

GenLayer

Eric Conner

DeFi Dad

Will Price

United Kingdom

Danish Chaudhry

Blizzard (Avalanche Ecosystem)

Delta Blockchain Fund has actively partnered with entrepreneurs since the beginning of Delta's lifecycle in September 2021. We’re proud to have backed multiple companies and to be their cheerleader throughout their journey.

Delta Blockchain Fund

Steve Lee

Inception Capital is an early-stage Web3 venture capital firm guiding founders from east and west.

			Stage	Investors
DRV Derive	--	--	Strategic Round			DeFi	Jan 10, 2025
Perena	--	--	Pre-seed	+5	--	Infrastructure	Dec 11, 2024
Neptune Protocol	$3.90 M	~$39.00 M	Seed Round	+19	--	DeFi	Dec 10, 2024
MagmaDAO	$3.90 M	~$39.00 M	Seed Round	+8	--	Liquid Staking Protocols	Oct 30, 2024
Fluid Protocol	$3.90 M	~$39.00 M	Seed Round	+13	--	DeFi	Oct 23, 2024
Echo Protocol	--	--	Pre-seed	+10	--	Liquid Staking Protocols	Oct 21, 2024
INFINIT	$6.00 M	~$60.00 M	Funding Round	+6	--	DeFi	Sep 12, 2024
LAYER Solayer	$12.00 M	$80.00 M	Seed Round	+11	--	Liquid Staking Protocols	Aug 27, 2024
Nectar AI	$3.90 M	~$39.00 M	Seed Round	+10	--	Artificial Intelligence (AI)	Aug 26, 2024
BSX BSX (Pre-Market)	$4.00 M	~$40.00 M	Seed Round	+8	--	DEX	Aug 21, 2024
GenLayer	$7.50 M	~$75.00 M	Seed Round	+4	--	Blockchain	Aug 20, 2024
TERM Term Finance	$5.50 M	~$55.00 M	Strategic Round	+10	--	Lending Platform	Jul 9, 2024
Shogun	$6.90 M	$69.00 M	Seed Round	+12		DeFi	May 15, 2024
ELX Elixir	$8.00 M	$800.00 M	Series B	+4	--	DeFi	Mar 12, 2024
Oyl	$3.00 M	~$30.00 M	Pre-seed	+16		Infrastructure	Mar 7, 2024
INIT Capital	$3.00 M	~$30.00 M	Seed Round	+6		DeFi	Feb 21, 2024
ENA Ethena	$14.00 M	$300.00 M	Seed Extension Round	+24		DeFi	Feb 16, 2024
Squid	$4.00 M	~$40.00 M	Strategic Round	+10	--	Blockchain Service	Jan 31, 2024
STAN	$2.70 M	~$27.00 M	Funding Round	+2		Social	Jan 23, 2024
Rio Network	--	--	Seed Round	+19		DeFi	Dec 2023

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