United States of America

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

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

An early stage venture capital firm investing in consumer and enterprise technology companies

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Scalar Capital provides fund management and advisory services.

Scalar Capital

Archetype is an early-stage venture fund focused on accelerating the decentralized future.

Archetype

Cooper Turley

Henri Stern

Colin Armstrong

Nadav Hollander

Stack

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)

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

Hong Kong

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

Lemniscap

Sreeram Kannan

Superscrypt

United Kingdom

Mustafa Al-Bassam

Anurag Arjun

Stackr

Naval Ravikant is the CEO and a co-founder of AngelList. He previously co-founded Epinions (which went public as part of Shopping.com) and Vast.com. He is an active Angel investor, and have invested in dozens of companies, including Twitter, Uber, Yammer, Stack Overflow and Wanelo.

Naval Ravikant

Elad Gil is a serial entrepreneur, operating executive, and investor or advisor to private companies including AirBnB, Pinterest, Square, and Stripe.

Elad Gil

Alchemy provides a set of web3 development tools for easily building and scaling a decentralized application.

Alchemy

Sota Watanabe

Kindred Ventures

Scott Belsky

Marc Bhargava

DeForm

Collab+Currency is an early stage venture investor focusing on web3

Collab+Currency

Sound Ventures is a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in the technology sector.

Sound Ventures

Palm Tree Crew

Snoop Dogg

Ryan Tedder

Tay Keith

Sound.xyz

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

LAO is a member-led venture fund built on the spirit of Ethereum’s original DAO. As a global collective of Ethereum enthusiasts and experts, LAO invests in early-stage projects that push the boundaries of DeFi, NFTs, privacy, and Web3 social applications.

The Lao

DAOs, Social Tokens and the future of work.

Jess Sloss

Trevor McFedries is the Founder and CEO of Brud.

Trevor McFedries

Weekend Fund is a venture capital and angel investing firm focused on making early-stage investments.

Weekend Fund

Packy McCormick is the founder of Not Boring. He attended Duke University.

Packy McCormick

Marc Weinstein

Sina Habibian

Flamingo DAO

Atelier 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

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

Perennial

Arbitrum Foundation

Multicoin Capital is a thesis-driven investment firm that invests in cryptocurrencies, tokens, and blockchain companies reshaping trillion-dollar markets. They manage a hedge fund and several venture funds, investing across both public and private markets.

Multicoin Capital

1confirmation is a forward-thinking venture capital firm at the forefront of innovation in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space. Established in 2017 by Nick Tomaino, a visionary in the industry, the firm is dedicated to identifying and supporting promising early-stage projects that are shaping the future of decentralized technologies.

1confirmation

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

Standard Crypto

Volt Capital is a venture capital firm that specializes in investing in early-stage startups in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space. Volt Capital is known for its focus on supporting innovative projects and teams within the cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem.

Volt Capital

Haystack is an early stage venture capital firm. For over a decade, Haystack has been focused on the initial chapters of software and technology startup formation.

Haystack

Chapter One Ventures

Proof has been moving mountains since 1999. We transform how people work with Claris FileMaker and web solutions.

Proof Group

Ribbit Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies.

Ribbit Capital

First Round Capital

Ansa Capital

Floodgate caters to digital businesses with early, seed, and later stage venture, and debt financing investments.

Floodgate

Our belief is that the best ideas happen offline. Far away from the everyday. Away from the complexity of modern society and it’s mores. We exist to help founders find the space to create. To think big, original, and different. Then, to ensure founders and their teams stay healthy on the journey to take that thinking and transform the world. Withthe hope that along the way, beautiful companies are born that are driven by both profit and purpose while taking great care of the world around them. In the end, we believe the foundational technology breakthroughs that most benefit humanity are forged at the intersection of science, engineering, design, and art.

Offline Ventures

Mischief

Canonical Crypto

Farcaster

Paradigm is a cryptocurrency-focused investment firm and venture capital company. It was founded by Matt Huang and Fred Ehrsam, both of whom have significant experience in the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry. Paradigm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and is considered a prominent player in the digital asset and blockchain investment space.

Paradigm

Union Square Ventures (USV) stands as a leading venture capital firm renowned for its strategic investments in groundbreaking technology companies. Established in 2003 by Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham, the firm has been a consistent player in the ever-evolving landscape of early-stage and growth-stage investments.

Union Square Ventures

Haun Ventures

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

Sequoia Capital is a renowned venture capital firm with a strong presence in Silicon Valley and a global reach. Founded in 1972 by Don Valentine, it has played a significant role in the growth and development of numerous technology companies.

Sequoia Capital

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

Slow Ventures is known for its patient and supportive approach to investments. They often take a long-term view and provide guidance, mentorship, and resources to the startups they back.

Slow Ventures

zkValidator (ZKV)

Paxos

Alameda Research is a quantitative cryptocurrency trading firm that provides liquidity in cryptocurrency and digital assets markets.

Alameda Research

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

Gemini Frontier Fund

Terra

Espresso Systems

Canada

Vitalik Buterin, a Russian-born Canadian programmer and writer, is best known for co-founding Ethereum, one of the most influential blockchain platforms.

Vitalik Buterin

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

IOSG Ventures

Finland

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

Stani Kulechov

Alliance is the leading crypto accelerator and founder community.

Alliance

Libertus Capital invests in companies and protocols that enhance and protect freedom, privacy and trust.

Libertus Capital

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

Nascent

DeFi Dad

imToken is the world’s largest Ethereum digital asset wallet.

imToken

Ethereal Ventures a new venture fund established by Joseph Lubin

Ethereal Ventures

Anthony Sassano

Mariano Conti

Aztec

Switzerland

ConsenSys develops enterprise applications, invests in startups, builds developer tools, and offers blockchain education.

ConsenSys

HashKey Capital is a blockchain and cryptocurrency-focused venture capital and investment firm based in Hong Kong. They specialize in funding and supporting early-stage blockchain and cryptocurrency projects, startups, and companies.

HashKey Capital

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

Samos Investments

Jeffrey Tarrant

Entrepreneur First

Charlie Songhurst

Australia

King River Capital invests in high-growth software and AI-driven technology businesses that are solving critical problems.

King River Capital

Alumni Ventures Group

Germany

1kx is a venture capital firm that stands at the forefront of the blockchain and crypto space, focusing on investments in decentralized technologies and blockchain-based projects. Founded by Christopher Heymann and Lasse Clausen, 1kx has established itself as a key player in identifying and supporting early-stage companies that are pushing the boundaries of innovation in the crypto ecosystem.

Netherlands

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

Maven 11 Capital

Kleiner Perkins

NFTfi

CoinFund is a blockchain-focused investment firm and cryptocurrency research company that specializes in supporting and investing in early-stage blockchain and crypto projects. Founded by Jake Brukhman and Alex Felix in 2015, CoinFund has been active in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space for several years

CoinFund

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

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

Launch Lab

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

MetaCartel Ventures

Linda Xie is co-founder and Managing Director of Scalar Capital. Previously she was a product manager at Coinbase which she joined in June 2014. At Coinbase, Linda has worked with regulators and law enforcement on compliance for digital assets. Prior to Coinbase, she was a portfolio risk analyst at AIG. Linda holds a B.A. in Economics from theUniversity of California, San Diego.

Linda Xie

Calvin Liu

Jesse is a graduate of Union College where he majored in Computer Science and Economics. Going completely off the fixed path, Jesse worked at SFX Entertainment specializing in RFID payment technologies and live-event management. In 2012, Jesse found a love for bitcoin and decentralized technologies, he realized their importance and continuedlearning when writing his thesis on Cryptocurrency. He continues his passion for music and technology at Consensys and looks forward to reshaping the future.

Jesse Grushack

The Defi Collective

Pet3rPan

Forefront

eGirl Capital is a venture capital investment company that was established in 2019. The company wants to invest in the decentralised and blockchain industries.

eGirl Capital

South Korea

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

Hashed

Eric Conner

South Africa

Andre Cronje

ConsenSys Mesh

Block Dream Fund

Larry Cermak is a Director of Research at The Block.

Larry Cermak

Everclear

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

The Ethereum Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting Ethereum and its related technologies. As part of a broad network of organizations, individuals, and companies, the EF plays a key role in advancing the Ethereum ecosystem.

Ethereum Foundation

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)

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

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

			Stage	Investors
Stack	$3.00 M	~$30.00 M	Seed Round	+6		Blockchain Service	Mar 4, 2024
Stackr	$5.50 M	~$55.00 M	Seed Round	+7		Infrastructure	Nov 8, 2023
DeForm	$4.60 M	~$46.00 M	Seed Round	+6		Social	Aug 30, 2023
Sound.xyz Sound.xyz	$20.00 M	~$200.00 M	Series A	+6		Music	Jul 12, 2023
Perennial Perennial	$12.00 M	~$120.00 M	Seed Round	+4		DeFi	Dec 7, 2022
Farcaster	$30.00 M	~$300.00 M	Funding Round	+17	--	Social	Jul 2022
Espresso Systems	$32.00 M	~$320.00 M	Seed Round	+10		Infrastructure	Mar 7, 2022
Sound.xyz Sound.xyz	$5.00 M	~$50.00 M	Seed Round	+11		Music	Dec 15, 2021
Aztec	$17.00 M	~$170.00 M	Series A	+13	--	Blockchain	Dec 2021
NFTFI NFTfi	$5.00 M	~$50.00 M	Seed Round	+2		NFT	Nov 16, 2021
FF Forefront	$2.10 M	~$21.00 M	Venture Round	+6		DAO	Sep 16, 2021
CLEAR Everclear	$12.00 M	~$120.00 M	Series A	+9	--	DeFi	Jul 13, 2021
ARCX ARC Governance	$1.30 M	$75.00 M	Phase 3 Sale			DeFi	Jun 2021
ALEO Aleo	$28.00 M	~$280.00 M	Series A	+9	--	Zero Knowledge	Apr 2021
DYDX dYdX	$10.00 M	~$100.00 M	Series B	+3		DEX	Jan 26, 2021
YGG Yield Guild Games	$1.33 M	$10.00 M	Seed	+16		Play to Earn	Jan 2020
NEAR Near	$375,000.00	$150.00 M	Private Round 2	+10		Blockchain	Jul 2019
NEAR Near	$8.48 M	$120.00 M	Private Round 1	+10		Blockchain	Feb 2019
Aztec	$2.10 M	~$21.00 M	Seed Round	+14	--	Blockchain	Nov 2018
STRK StarkNet	$30.00 M	~$300.00 M	Series A	+11		Blockchain	Sep 2018

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