United States of America

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)

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

a_capital

Scalar Capital provides fund management and advisory services.

Scalar Capital

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

Singapore

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

Cooper Turley

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

Bahamas

FTX Exchange is a cryptocurrency exchange company that develops a mobile trading platform.

FTX Ventures

LionTree Partners is a service provider and investment banking fund that invests in media, technology, and telecommunication.

LionTree

ApeCoin

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

ParaFi Capital

Temasek is an investment company with a focus on delivering sustainable returns over the long term.

Temasek Holdings

Corner Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in the B and C rounds of promising startups.

Corner Ventures

Anthos Capital

United Kingdom

SoftBank Vision Fund

UTA is a leading global talent, sports, entertainment, and advisory company.

UTA Ventures

Marshall Wace

Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.

Microsoft

Banana Capital

ConsenSys

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

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

China

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

Fenbushi Capital

BlackRock is a global investment company that provides a range of services to institutions, financial intermediaries, foundations, and individual investors.

BlackRock

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

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

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

Defiance Capital is a Decentralized Finance (DeFi) focused cryptoasset fund that combines fundamental research with an activist investment approach.

DeFiance 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

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

SNZ Holding

Sanctor Capital is a safe haven where bright minds can find the support they need to make the biggest impact on the industry. Sanctor Capital has a long and successful track record of guiding early stage projects to success in the Web3 market.

Sanctor Capital

SK Telecom is focused on driving innovation in telecommunications, media, artificial intelligence, the metaverse and cloud computing.

SK telecom

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

Alameda Research

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

Protocol Labs

Liberty City Ventures invest in startups that are innovating at the cross-sections of technology, media and commerce.

Liberty City Ventures

MakerDAO

BNY Mellon is an investment company that provides investment management, investment services, and wealth management services.

BNY Mellon

J.P. Morgan

Sterling.VC is a sports, media and real estate VC fund supported by Sterling Equities, the principal owner of the Mets, SNY, and OverwatchNY

Sterling.VC

Third Point Ventures is an investment firm that focuses on enterprise, fintech, mobile, and healthcare innovation.

Third Point Ventures

HSBC Bank

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)

Mark Cuban is a prominent American entrepreneur, investor, television personality, and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, an NBA basketball team. He is known for his success in the tech industry, particularly during the dot-com boom. Cuban is known for his outspoken and often controversial opinions on a wide range of topics, including technology, politics, and sports. He is also a vocal advocate for cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.

Mark Cuban

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

OKX Ventures

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

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

Reid joined Greylock Partners in 2009. He focuses on building products that can reach hundreds of millions of participants and businesses that have network effects. An accomplished entrepreneur and executive, Reid has played an integral role in building many of today’s leading consumer technology businesses, including LinkedIn and PayPal. Hepossesses a unique understanding of consumer behavior and the dynamics of viral businesses, as well as deep experience in driving companies from the earliest stages through periods of explosive, “blitzscale” growth. Ranging from Linkedin to PayPal, from Airbnb to Convoy to Facebook, Reid invests in businesses with network effects and collaborates on building their product ecosystems. Reid co-founded LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional networking service, in 2003. LinkedIn is thriving with more than 500 million members around the world and a diversified revenue model that includes subscriptions, advertising, and software licensing. He led LinkedIn through its first four years and to profitability as Chief Executive Officer. Prior to LinkedIn, Reid served as executive vice president at PayPal, where he was also a founding board member. Reid is an accomplished investor. He currently serves on the boards of Airbnb, Aurora, Coda, Convoy, Entrepreneur First, Gixo, Microsoft, Nauto, Xapo and a few early stage companies still in stealth. In addition, he serves on a number of not-for-profit boards, including Kiva, Endeavor, CZI Biohub and Do Something. Prior to joining Greylock, he angel invested in many influential Internet companies, including Facebook, Flickr, Last.fm, and Zynga. Reid is the co-author of two New York Times best-selling books: The Start-up of You and The Alliance. His next book is focused on “blitzscaling”, based on his Stanford course of the same name. Reid is the host of the podcast, Masters of Scale. Reid earned a master’s degree in philosophy from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a bachelor’s degree with distinction in symbolic systems from Stanford University. In 2010 he was the recipient of an SD Forum Visionary Award and named a Henry Crown Fellow by The Aspen Institute. In 2012, he was honored by the Martin Luther King center’s Salute to Greatness Award. Also in 2012, he received the David Packard Medal of Achievement from TechAmerica and an honorary doctor of law from Babson University. In 2017, Reid was appointed as a CBE by her majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Reid Hoffman

Randall Kaplan

Kun Gao

Holly Liu is co-founder and Chief of Staff of Kabam, a world leader in AAA mobile free-to-play games. Holly also oversees Kabam’s corporate culture as head of People Operations (“People Ops”), which is responsible for driving Kabam’s vision, mission, and values for its more than 800 employees in offices around the world. Holly has helped build aworld-class human resources team that is responsible for recruiting and retaining top talent and has grown Kabam’s personnel base by 500% in three years.
Prior to her role as Chief of Staff, Holly was VP of People Ops and Director of User Experience. She led the product design for Kabam’s award-winning Kingdom’s of Camelot, which has grown into a $250 million franchise in less than four years. Holly was also an initial designer for the mobile extension Kingdoms of Camelot: Battle for the North, which was the top grossing app on iOS in 2012.

Before co-founding Kabam, Holly was Senior User Interface Designer for AOL, where she led design of community web products. She has also worked as a consultant for Arthur Andersen and Accenture.

Holly received her Master’s in Information Management & Systems from UC Berkeley and her B.A. in Mass Communications from UCLA. She was named to Forbes’ “Top 10 Women Entrepreneurs to Watch” in 2013 and one of Fortune’s “10 Most Powerful Women in Gaming.”

Holly Liu

Guy Oseary has spent his career at the intersection of entertainment and technology.

Guy Oseary

Ashton Kutcher is an actor, investor, entrepreneur, producer and philanthropist.

Kutcher has been named one of TIME magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World,” as well as being honored by Vanity Fair ‘s “New Establishment List,” which identifies the top 50 of an innovative new breed of buccaneering visionaries, engineering prodigiesand entrepreneurs. Twice, Kutcher was named one of Forbes magazine’s “World’s Most Powerful Celebrities,” as well as one of Fast Company magazine’s “Most Creative People.”
Kutcher has been investing in technology for over a decade, both as an angel investor and a founding partner of A-Grade Investments and Sound Ventures. His fund portfolio includes Airbnb, Uber, Flexport, Brex, Robinhood, Bird, Airtable and Affirm among others.

Kutcher is also the co-founder of Thorn: Digital Defenders of Children (www.thorn.org). Thorn drives technology innovation to fight the sexual exploitation of children.

Kutcher currently stars in the Netflix original series, The Ranch. He also serves as Executive Producer. Until 2015, Kutcher starred in the CBS comedy series Two and a Half Men. The show ranked as the second most-watched comedy on all of network television. Kutcher first gained recognition as Michael Kelso on the Fox series That 70’s Show, and went on to star in a variety of box office hits on the big screen – including What Happens In Vegas with Cameron Diaz, The Guardian with Kevin Costner, No Strings Attached with Natalie Portman and the cult hit Dude, Where’s My Car.

Kutcher served as co-creator and producer of MTV's hit series, “Punk'd,” and The CW's reality series “Beauty and the Geek” and “True Beauty.” He has also produced films such as No Strings Attached, Killers and The Butterfly Effect. Additionally, Kutcher co-founded APlus, a digital media company devoted to spreading the message of positive journalism, a kind of storytelling that focuses on our shared humanity. In 2016, APlus was purchased by Chicken Soup for the Soul.

Ashton Kutcher

Sebastien Borget is the Co-founder and COO of Pixowl. Passionate for blockchain technology, gaming and education, he is a very active speaker and evangelist who spent the past 8 years focused exclusively on mobile gaming, creating successful games that were downloaded millions of times.

Sebastien Borget

Forte

Mark Pincus is our founder and Executive Chairman of the Board. He served as our Chairman from April 2007 to March 2016, and has served as our Executive Chairman since March 2016. He previously served as our Chief Executive Officer from April 2007 to July 2013 and from April 2015 to March 2016, and as our Chief Product Officer from April 2007 to April 2014. In 2014, he founded superlabs, a San Francisco-based product lab focused on developing products that connect and empower people, which was acquired by Zynga in 2015. From 2003 to 2007, Mr. Pincus served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Tribe.net, a company he launched and one of the first social networks in the industry. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Chairman of Support.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPRT), a help desk automation software company he founded, and he served as its Chief Executive Officer and President from December 1997 to July 1999. From 1996 to 1997, he served as Chief Executive Officer of FreeLoader, Inc., a web-based news company he co-founded.

Mark Pincus

KCRise Fund is a Kansas City-based VC firm investing in Seed & Series A stage technology companies in Kansas and western Missouri

KCRise Fund

Patrick Lee

PKO Investments

James Park

Alexandra Wilkis Wilson

Nigel Eccles

CryptoSlam

Radical Investments

Aloomii

Troon Technologies

SPIRIT BLOCKCHAIN CAPITAL

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

Hypersphere Ventures

South Korea

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

Hashed

South Africa

Prosus Ventures is a venture investing arm of Prosus that invests in technology startups.

Prosus Ventures

Galaxy Interactive is a venture capital firm focused on interactive content and technology companies.

Galaxy Interactive

The first compliant and inclusive blockchain financing & investment platform by Republic in partnership with CoinList

Republic Crypto

Supra

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

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)

Shima Capital is an early stage VC firm investing in disruptive web3 and blockchain technology companies.

Shima Capital

Valor Equity Partners is an operational growth investment firm focused on high-growth companies across various stages of development. For decades, it has served its companies with the expertise to solve the challenges of growth and scale. Valor Equity partners with companies and entrepreneurs who are committed to the highest standards of excellenceand the courage to transform their industries.

Valor Equity Partners

Ukraine

Zokyo

Token Bay Capital

Wave7 is an early-stage investment and advisory group created to support maverick founders at the intersection of media, culture, and blockchain

Wave7

United Overseas Bank is a bank in China that caters to SMEs with financial services.

United Overseas Bank

Switzerland

FiveT Fintech

DeepTech Ventures is a Swiss-based venture capital community that invests in early stage technology startups.

DeepTech Ventures

Sweden

Nineyards Equity invests in entrepreneurs and game changing companies.

Nineyards Equity

Tribe Capital is a venture capital firm with over $1.6 billion in assets under management that focuses on using product science and data to design N-of-1 companies and investments.

Tribe Capital

Kenetic is a proprietary trading and VC investment firm focused on digital assets and blockchain related companies.

Kenetic Capital

People.ai delivers the industry’s leading Revenue Operations and Intelligence platform that harnesses business activity to unlock growth.

People.ai

Intotheblock is a data science company that applies cutting-edge AI research to provide actionable insights for the cryptocurrency market.

Intotheblock

Mnemonic

Salesforce Ventures invests in the next gen of enterprise tech to help companies connect with their customers in entirely new ways.

Salesforce Ventures

FJ Labs

Orange DAO

Fin is an asset management firm investing full lifecycle in FinTech and adjacent verticals in principally B2B enterprise SaaS companies.

Fin Capital

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

Launch Lab

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.

			Stage	Investors
Sound.xyz Sound.xyz	$20.00 M	~$200.00 M	Series A	+6		Music	Jul 12, 2023
APE ApeCoin	$450.00 M	$4.00 B	Equity Round	+2		Metaverse	Mar 22, 2022
ConsenSys	$450.00 M	$7.00 B	Series D	+7		Web 3.0	Mar 15, 2022
CryptoSlam	$9.00 M	~$90.00 M	Seed Round	+19		Blockchain Service	Jan 5, 2022
SUPRA Supra	$4.10 M	~$41.00 M	Seed Round	+4	--	Blockchain	Jan 2022
MNEMO Mnemonic	$4.00 M	~$40.00 M	Seed Round	+3		NFT	Dec 9, 2021
NFTFI NFTfi	$5.00 M	~$50.00 M	Seed Round	+2		NFT	Nov 16, 2021
SAND The Sandbox	$93.00 M	~$930.00 M	Series B Round	+18		NFT	Nov 2021
SUPRA Supra	$2.60 M	~$26.00 M	Pre-seed Round	+6	--	Blockchain	Jun 15, 2021
BIGTIME Big Time	$10.30 M	~$103.00 M	Series A Round	+3		Gaming	May 12, 2021
RARE SuperRare	$9.00 M	$62.00 M	Series A Round	+10		NFT	Mar 2021
ZRX 0x Protocol	$15.00 M	~$150.00 M	Series A	+15		DeFi	Feb 5, 2021
Chainalysis	$13.00 M	~$130.00 M	Extended Series B		--	Blockchain Service	Jul 7, 2020
CVC Civic	$2.75 M	~$27.50 M	Venture Round	+8		Software	Jan 2016

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