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

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

Etherealize

Keone Hon

Daniel Lubarov

Zac Williamson

Liam Eagen

Brian Retford

Arnaud Schenk

Ariel Gabizon

Pavel Kravchenko

Stefan George

United States of America

Alex Pruden is the Chief Operating Officer at Aleo.

Alex Pruden

Nick White

Rarimo

Scott Moore

DACM provides focused, transparent, and professionally managed investment into the world’s fastest growing asset class.

Digital Asset Capital Management (DACM)

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

Finland

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

Stani Kulechov

India

Sandeep Nailwal

Sam Kazemian is an Iranian-American​ software engineer​ and Founder of Frax Finance

Sam Kazemian

DCF GOD

Anthony Sassano

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

MH Ventures

Finality Capital Partners

Orange DAO

Public Works

ether.fi

RISE Chain

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

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

Santiago Roel Santos is the Partner at ParaFi Capital

Santiago Roel Santos

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

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

Big Brain Holdings

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

Sreeram Kannan

Mert Mumtaz

Hasu

Kartik Talwar

Joseph Lubin

Guy Young

MegaETH

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

ParaFi 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

Founders Fund is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, specializing in investments in science and technology companies.

Founders Fund

Polymarket

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

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

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

General Catalyst is a venture capital firm that invests in powerful, positive change that endures.

General Catalyst

Australia

Kain Warwick

Calvin Liu

Robert Leshner

Josh Hannah

Meltem Demirors

Tarun Chitra

Marc Bhargava

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

Bain Capital is a global alternative investment firm specializes in private equity, venture capital, and credit products.

Bain Capital Ventures

Bankless

Nocturne

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

Israel

StarkWare Industries develops a full-proof stack in generating and verifying proofs of computational integrity in the blockchain.

StarkWare Industries

Nicolas Bacca

Kakarot zkEVM 

United Kingdom

Moonrock Capital is a Blockchain Advisory and Investment Partnership based in London and Hamburg.

Moonrock Capital

China

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

Fenbushi Capital

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

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

OKX Ventures

Eterna Capital is an early stage venture fund backing bold, innovative entrepreneurs who harness blockchain technology.

Eterna Capital

Singapore

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

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

SevenX Ventures

Bixin Ventures invests in early-stage infrastructure projects that cultivate and facilitate mass adoption of open finance through permissionless and decentralized networks.

Bixin Ventures

LongHash Ventures is a global blockchain accelerator and VC fund.

LongHash Ventures

Stake Capital

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

Aglaé Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Paris, New York and San Francisco backed by Groupe Arnault, the controlling shareholder of LVMH, global leader in luxury goods. Aglaé invests from € 100k up to € 100m in asset light tech businesses at all stages. Groupe Arnault-backed companies include Netflix, Spotify, Backmarket, Betfair, Airbnb,Slack, Algolia, Lyft and others.

Aglaé Ventures

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

UOB Venture Management

Builder Capital

DeFi Dad

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

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

Hong Kong

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

IOSG Ventures

Scalar Capital provides fund management and advisory services.

Scalar Capital

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

Libertus Capital

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

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

Nascent

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

imToken

Ethereal Ventures a new venture fund established by Joseph Lubin

Ethereal Ventures

Mariano Conti

Alliance is the leading crypto accelerator and founder community.

Alliance

zkValidator (ZKV)

Aztec

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)

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

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

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

King River Capital

Alumni Ventures Group

Bitmain is a China-based technology company that specializes in the design and manufacture of hardware for cryptocurrency mining, particularly for Bitcoin. Founded in 2013 by Micree Zhan and Jihan Wu, Bitmain quickly became one of the most prominent and influential companies in the cryptocurrency industry.

Bitmain

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

Elad Gil

Fred Ehrsam is co-founder of Coinbase. He's been named to both Forbes 30 Under 30 and TIME Magazine's 30 Under 30 Who Are Changing the World.

Fred Ehrsam

MetaStable Capital

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

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

Floodgate

Da Hongfei is a noted luminary. He has been responsible for the first few blockchain companies based in China. Such is his pedigree in the Chinese blockchain and cryptocurrency space that government officials reportedly contacted him prior to issuing the September ICO and cryptocurrency exchange platform bans. He is a pioneer of blockchaintechnology and cryptocurrency applications in Asia.

Da Hongfei

Zcash offers payment confidentiality, while still maintaining a decentralized network using a public blockchain.

Zcash

Arthur Breitman is the Co-Founder at Tezos Foundation.

Arthur Breitman

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

StarkNet

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

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

Tiger Global Management is an investment firm that deploys capital globally in both public and private markets.

Tiger Global Management

DCVC backs entrepreneurs using Deep Tech to solve problems and multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its cost.

DCVC

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

Semantic Ventures

Wing is an early-stage investor and long-term company builder—equipping founders with resources and unwavering partnership.

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