United States of America

Placeholder is a venture capital firm that invests in decentralized protocols and web3 services. Partners Joel Monegro and Chris Burniske manage the firm with Brad Burnham as venture partner. Mario Laul is our head of research. Shelly Gogol and Crystal Kwan manage operations.

Placeholder

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

Protocol Labs is a research, development, and deployment lab for network protocols.

Protocol Labs

Redbeard Ventures builds, invests, and advises startups that help to gain a keen sense of what really matters when building a company.

Red Beard Ventures

Metaplanet

GS Futures

dlab is a startup accelerator and venture studio exploring new topics in decentralization and blockchain technology. dlab is an SOSV program. SOSV is a global venture capital firm that operates startup accelerator investment programs. At the close of 2020, SOSV had more than 1,000 portfolio companies and $855 million in assets under management.

dlab

Alumni Ventures Group

Juan Benet is founder, CEO of Protocol Labs.

Juan Benet

ConsenSys Mesh

Arca

Eleftherios Diakomichalis

Faction

WeatherXM

Singapore

KyberNetwork is a system which allows the exchange and conversion of digital assets

Kyber Network

Experts building premiere projects in consumer Web3.

SuperLayer

Will Holt

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

CSP DAO

A venture capital firm that invests globally in teams creating the future of the internet with decentralized protocols

Polymorphic Capital

Allen is the Principal Data Scientist at MapR Technologies, where he leads interdisciplinary teams to deliver results in fast-paced, high-pressure environments across several industry verticals. Previously, Allen founded TinyTube Networks which provided the first mobile video discovery and transcoding proxy service, and Ion Flux which provided amedical-grade, cloud-based human genome sequencing service.
Allen holds a PhD in Human Genetics from the School of Medicine at UCLA. His dissertation project was to create the largest public data warehouse for gene expression data.

Key components of the project included: operationalizing code beyond the research stage; building and operating a high-performance computing cluster for scale-out; and design and implementation of a schema that supported fast matrix operations for ontology- and graph-based machine learning algorithms.

Allen has contributed to a wide variety of open source projects: R (CRAN, Bioconductor), Perl (CPAN, BioPerl), FFmpeg, Cascading, Apache HBase, Apache Storm, and Apache Mahout. Overall, his unique background combines deep technical expertise in data science with a pragmatic understanding of real-world problems. He also pursues interests in linguistics and economics, and — if it hadn’t been obvious — he performs magic.

Allen Day

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

Primal is a global Web3 fund backing culture shifting ideas and innovations.

Primal Capital

Resolute Ventures is a lead seed and “pre-seed” investor focused on backing and connecting a community of Founders who share an entrepreneurial spirit and energy.

Resolute Ventures

Hashed Emergent is a web2.5 fund launched by Hashed dedicated to builders from emerging markets with a focus on India.

Hashed Emergent

Eddie Lou

Airstack

China

Fenbushi Capital is the first and most active blockchain-focused venture capital firm in Asia

Fenbushi Capital

P2 Ventures is dedicated to supporting visionary teams across the multichain ecosystem. We invest at the earliest stages across all categories in web3.

P2 Ventures

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

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

Genblock Capital invests exclusively in blockchain and cryptocurrency, with a focus on decentralized finance.

Genblock Capital

David Choi

Cypher Capital is a early stage VC and consultant firm

Cypher Capital

Acacia Digital Holdings is part of a diversified blockchain platform. Acacia is the venture investment arm of the platform that invests and collaborates with early-stage blockchain companies.

Acacia Digital Holdings

India

CoinSwitch is the largest crypto application in India.

CoinSwitch

ODA Capital

Tensai Capital

Partnering your company with the hottest startups and emerging tech companies coming onto the market.

Animal Ventures

WWVentures

Token Metrics is an investment research platform for crypto.

Token Metrics

UOB Venture Management

Superscrypt

Perridon Holdings

WestWave Capital invests in market-defining pre-seed, seed and Series A enterprise startups.

WestWave Capital

Artichoke Capital is a technology venture capital firm supporting the next generation of founders advancing the development of Web3.

Artichoke Capital

Crypto-native venture capital that invests in community-driven Web3 startups.

Lecca 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

United Kingdom

G1 Ventures is an active early-stage venture investor with core focus on blockchain.

G1 Ventures

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

SevenX Ventures

Disruptive crypto-native fund focused on early-stage protocols and fueled by OGs, founders, and key investors.

Dewhales

Azuro Protocol

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)

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

Hypersphere Ventures

Merit Circle is an ever-evolving digital ecosystem built by a global community to power the future of gaming. With a strong foundation in the web3 space, Merit Circle aims to integrate the endless possibilities of blockchain technology with cutting-edge games to create the next generation of immersive gaming experiences by investing capital in promising games.

Merit Circle

Alliance is the leading crypto accelerator and founder community.

Alliance

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

MetaCartel Ventures

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

OP Crypto

Mask Network is the Portal to the New, Open Internet.

Mask Network

Cayman Islands

BR Capital is a crypto economy and blockchain-focused fund

BR Capital

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

Gibraltar

Gnosis

Quiet Capital

Ethereal Ventures a new venture fund established by Joseph Lubin

Ethereal Ventures

Formless Capital is a cross-border investment fund that invests in the future of blockchain and technologies.

Formless Capital

Malaysia

PathDAO is a developer of gaming platform to create value in the growing blockchain metaverse.

PathDAO

Criterion

Citizen X is a thesis-driven venture fund investing in Web 3.0 and decentralized technologies.

CitizenX Crypto Ventures Fund, L.P.

An investment company specialized in Blockchain sector. Up to now, they've invested over 100 blockchain projects in their portfolio. The most successful investments includes Coinbase, Binance, Canaan, etc.

Fundamental Labs

C² Ventures is an investment firm that builds and invests in Web3 companies

C2Ventures (Csquared)

ChainLink

YAY Network is a leading investment syndicate composed of industry leaders, venture capitalists, developers and the advanced retail community.

The syndicate's strategy is driven by a vision to lead the way in adopting crypto and blockchain technologies, facilitating a significant economic transformation while ensuring accessibility for all. Backed by a team of industry veterans and tech experts, we strategically invest in selected startups and provide guidance to talented teams, with the goal of nurturing future unicorns that tackle real-world issues.

YAY Network

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

Cogitent Ventures

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

Modular Capital

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

Laser Digital

Israeli Blockchain Association facilitates business leaders, educators, policy-makers and citizens in using of globally accepted, industry-leading knowledge and practices for blockchain technologies.

Israeli Blockchain Association

TRUF.Network

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

C2 Ventures: Investment and Advice from the Trenches

C2 Ventures

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

Base Ecosystem Fund

Optic Capital

Hike Ventures is an early-stage investor in applied AI, helping startups that solve well-defined problems with AI in ways that traditional software has not yet been able to solve.

Hike Ventures

Taisu Ventures is a VC firm that invests in and empowers early-stage web3 companies across the globe.

Taisu Ventures

Oort

Aves Lair

LongHash Ventures is a global blockchain accelerator and VC fund.

LongHash Ventures

Com2uS is a developer and publisher of mobile games that covers content development and server operation.

Com2uS

Tykhe Block Ventures

Dispersion Capital

Saga

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

As part of Tendermint’s mission to build an internet of blockchains, Tendermint Ventures supports the Cosmos Ecosystem through strategic investments in promising projects working towards that vision.

Tendermint Ventures

Netherlands

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

Maven 11 Capital

Tess Hau is an investor and advisor to high-performing startups, deep tech companies, and extraordinary founders across the world.

Tess Ventures

Chorus One is building validation and staking infrastructure for Proof-of-Stake networks.

Chorus One

Facilitating a hotbed of digital culture.

Polygon Studios

Figment Capital launched its first fund in 2021 to invest in high-conviction, early-stage blockchain infrastructure projects. As an early-stage investor, they work closely with founders as they scale from idea to adoption and beyond.

Figment Capital

We work with early-stage startups solving meaningful problems—and help founders turn great ideas into market disruption at scale.

Unanimous 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)

Hustle Fund

Akash Network

Alex Shin

Zaki Manian

Nick Tomaino

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

South Korea

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

Hashed

Investing in the crypto-powered Web3 and creator economy ecosystems

6MV (6th Man Ventures)

Semantic Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in new directions for data and the digital economy.

Semantic Ventures

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

France

Dr Rand Hindi is an entrepreneur and investor in AI and Privacy. He is the CEO at Zama. Rand started coding at the age of 10, founded a Social Network at 14 and a web agency at 15 before getting into Machine Learning at 18 and starting a PhD at 21. He then created Snips, the first edge-based, private by design voice assistant, which was acquired bySonos.
He has been elected as a TR35 by the MIT Technology Review, as a “30 under 30” by Forbes, is a lecturer at Sciences Po in Paris and an advisor to multiple companies. He was previously a member of the French Digital Council where he focused on AI and Privacy issues.

He holds a BSc in Computer Science and a PhD in Bioinformatics from University College London (UCL), as well as two graduate degrees from Singularity University in Silicon Valley and THNK in Amsterdam.

Rand Hindi

White Star Capital is an international venture and early growth-stage investment platform in technology.

White Star Capital

CEO of StakeDAO, a core member at Curve Finance, and the inventor of flash loans

			Stage	Investors
WXM WeatherXM	$7.70 M	~$77.00 M	Series A	+10	--	DePIN	May 22, 2024
Airstack	$4.00 M	~$40.00 M	Seed Round	+9		Blockchain Service	May 3, 2024
AZUR Azuro Protocol	$3.50 M	~$35.00 M	Pre-Sale	+4	--	Gaming	Apr 11, 2024
TRUF TRUF.Network	$6.00 M	~$60.00 M	Funding Round	+7		RWA (Real World Assets)	Feb 9, 2024
OORT Oort	--	--	Funding Round	+1		Blockchain Service	Jan 9, 2024
SAGA Saga	$5.00 M	~$50.00 M	Extended Seed Round	+3	--	Blockchain	Nov 20, 2023
AZUR Azuro Protocol	$4.00 M	~$40.00 M	Strategic Round	+10	--	Gaming	Jun 27, 2022
Dfns	$13.50 M	~$135.00 M	Seed Round	+20	--	Blockchain Service	Apr 11, 2022
AZUR Azuro Protocol	$3.50 M	~$35.00 M	Seed Round	+13	--	Gaming	Jan 19, 2022
CryptoSlam	$9.00 M	~$90.00 M	Seed Round	+19		Blockchain Service	Jan 5, 2022
WILD Wilder World	$30.00 M	~$300.00 M	Funding Round	+13		NFT	Dec 1, 2021
SAND The Sandbox	$93.00 M	~$930.00 M	Series B Round	+18		NFT	Nov 2021
L3 Layer3	$2.50 M	~$25.00 M	Seed Round	+10	--	Social	Sep 30, 2021
SD StarDust	$5.00 M	~$50.00 M	Series A Round	+12	--	DeFi	Aug 2021

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