United States of America

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

Franklin Templeton

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

United Kingdom

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

Hong Kong

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

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

Kraken Ventures

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)

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)

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

Hypersphere is a crypto-native investment platform designed to partner with early-stage and public blockchain networks.

Hypersphere Ventures

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

Laser Digital

Presto Labs

Arbitrum Foundation

Babylon

corn

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

ABCDE Capital

Symbolic Capital is a crypto-native fund founded by web3 founders.

Symbolic Capital

Offchain Labs

Bullet Labs

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

Singapore

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

Folius Ventures invests, popularizes, and participates in the construction of the Web3 ecosystem.

Folius Ventures

Superscrypt

Nomad Capital

Oshi

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

Maven 11 Capital

We offer investors intelligently designed investment strategies that take advantage of targeted market opportunities.

VanEck

Heartcore Capital

Node VC

Up Top

Schlag

Superform

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

MetaCartel Ventures

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

Arthur Hayes

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

Mike Bucella

Switzerland

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

Dialectic Capital

AngelDAO operates as a decentralized autonomous organization.

AngelDAO

Avi Felman

Marc Bhargava

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

Circle

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

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

IOSG Ventures

Bankless

Chapter One Ventures

Ambush Capital is an angel fund in New York that helps entrepreneurs through the early stages of building a company.

Ambush Capital

Blockchain Builders Fund

Faction

Hyperbolic

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

Samsung NEXT is the innovation arm of the Samsung Group, a global conglomerate. Samsung NEXT is known for its role in identifying, investing in, and developing cutting-edge technologies and startups. The primary focus of Samsung NEXT is to explore and invest in emerging technology trends that align with Samsung's broader business strategies.

Samsung NEXT

Republic Capital works with high net-worth individuals and family offices to syndicate investment opportunities.

Republic Capital

India

Sandeep Nailwal

Santiago Roel Santos is the Partner at ParaFi Capital

Santiago Roel Santos

LongHash Ventures is a global blockchain accelerator and VC fund.

LongHash Ventures

China

SNZ Holding is a crypto fund founded by a group of engineers, blockchain evangelists and entrepreneurs passionate about disruptive blockchain technologies.

SNZ Holding

Modular Capital is a fundamental and thesis-driven crypto investment firm.

Modular Capital

Sandy Peng

Kenny Li

WSB Mod

Third Earth Capital

Ausvic Capital is a investment firm in biotechnology, digital economy, and AI+ cloud computing.

Ausvic Capital

A one-stop shop for efficient early-stage project investing.

Black Dragon

Illia Polosukhin is a Co-Founder at NEAR.

Illia Polosukhin

Kenzi Wang

Tekin Salimi

CoinSummer

IMO Ventures is a privately held venture capital and seed investing company across China and the US.

IMO Ventures

Blizzard Fund (Avalanche Ecosystem)

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

Atlan Tutar

Foresight Ventures is an investment institution focusing on blockchain technology and crypto industry established in 2020, whose predecessor was an international private equity venture capital with more than ten years of investment experience.  We take solid research on market and technology as investment orientation when investing in both primary and secondary markets of equity and token, with nearly 80 million dollars asset under management.

Foresight Ventures

GeekCartel

Nick Emmons

Michael Heinrich

Talus network

TRGC invests in founders building category-defining companies at the forefront of digital assets, blockchain and blockchain-related companies.

TRGC

dao5

WAGMI Ventures

Hash3 is a pre-seed / seed stage crypto-native fund investing in companies and protocols, globally.

Hash3

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

Inception Capital

Accomplice is a seed-led venture capital firm that invests in technology startup companies.

Accomplice

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

Josh Hannah

Dream Ventures is focused on funding early-stage startups in technology and consumer products.

			Stage	Investors
ENA Ethena	$100.00 M	~$1.00 B	Private Sale	+2		DeFi	Feb 24, 2025
corn	$8.30 M	~$83.00 M	Community	+5	--	Layer-2	Jan 22, 2025
Oshi	$12.50 M	~$125.00 M	Funding Round	+5	--	Social	Jan 17, 2025
Superform	$3.00 M	~$30.00 M	Strategic Round	+7		DeFi	Dec 12, 2024
Hyperbolic	$12.00 M	~$120.00 M	Series A	+7	--	Blockchain Service	Dec 10, 2024
Talus network	$6.00 M	$150.00 M	Strategic Round	+6		Blockchain Service	Nov 26, 2024
Monkey Tilt	$30.00 M	~$300.00 M	Series A	+5		Gaming	Nov 20, 2024
BTF Bitfinity Network	$12.00 M	~$120.00 M	Funding Round	+2		Blockchain	Nov 19, 2024
StakeStone	$22.00 M	~$220.00 M	Funding Round	+16		Liquid Staking Protocols	Nov 11, 2024
Brevis Network	$7.50 M	~$75.00 M	Seed Round	+3	--	Zero Knowledge	Nov 11, 2024
Yellow Card	$33.00 M	~$330.00 M	Series C	+5	--	Finance	Oct 16, 2024
Yala Finance	$8.00 M	~$80.00 M	Seed Round	+11	--	DeFi	Oct 10, 2024
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
GRASS Grass	--	--	Series A	+2	--	Artificial Intelligence (AI)	Sep 21, 2024
Level	$3.60 M	~$36.00 M	Funding Round	+5	--	Stablecoin	Aug 29, 2024
LAYER Solayer	$12.00 M	$80.00 M	Seed Round	+11	--	Liquid Staking Protocols	Aug 27, 2024
Story Protocol	$80.00 M	~$800.00 M	Series B			Blockchain	Aug 21, 2024
corn	$6.70 M	~$67.00 M	Seed Round	+6	--	Layer-2	Aug 20, 2024
Sahara AI	$37.00 M	~$370.00 M	Funding Round	+14		Artificial Intelligence (AI)	Aug 14, 2024

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