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Below, we provide information on some of the biggest VC firms operating in blockchain and their recent deals.
1confirmation
An early-stage venture fund founded in 2017 that supports decentralisation of the web and society.
a16z Crypto
One of the largest VCs, with four funds to invest across all stages in web3. In operation since 2013.
A195 Capital
A195 looks globally for early-stage digital asset projects that support decentralised ecosystems.
Location: Puerto Rico
Stage: Seed
AUM: Undisclosed
Alphabit
Focuses on early-stage investments in promising cryptocurrency projects. Alphabit also automate trading strategies on liquid assets and futures contracts and perform discretionary trading on higher liquidity cryptocurrency pairs.
Location: George Town, Grand Cayman
Stage: Seed, Strategic
AUM: Undisclosed
Alumni Ventures
Provides accredited individuals and institutions with a venture portfolio for as little as $25K. Diversifies across sectors, stages and regions when led by other established venture firms.
Animoca Ventures
The venture investment arm of Animoca Brands, supporting builders of web3 applications.
Arrington Capital
VC firm investing in digital assets and Web3. Arrington have invested in over 200 early-stage companies within the ecosystem since 2017.
AU21 Capital
Hybrid venture and hedge fund that invests in high growth blockchain and AI companies.
Bain Capital
Backs the next generation of open internet infrastructure, with a technical, collaborative approach from the earliest stages.
Binance Labs
Invests in technical teams that build and support the decentralised web. Supports fast-executing, technical teams with over 200 projects in 3 years across 5 continents and 25 countries.
Blockchain Capital
One of the earliest and most active venture investors in blockchain, investing in both equity and crypto assets at multiple stages.
Blockchain Founders Found
Focuses exclusively on blockchain & emerging technology projects with real world applications through a hands-on go- to-market venture builder program.
Blockchange
Invests in the earliest rounds of blockchain.
Recent deals
Mawari Network – $10.8M – Sep-24
Space and Time – $20M – Aug-24
Kima – $5M – Jun-24
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Borderless Capital
Have invested in infrastructure, business applications and emerging cryptographic protocols since 2015.
Brevan Howard Digital
Provides institutional investors access to opportunities presented by blockchain technology via a multi-manager, multi-strategy approach across private and public markets.
Castle Island Ventures
A firm focused exclusively on public blockchains, investing in infrastructure and application companies to support protocols in reaching billions of users.
Location: Cambridge, MA, USA
Stage: Pre-seed, Seed, Series A
AUM: Undisclosed
Cathay Innovation
A multistage fund investing in technology startups.
Coinbase Ventures
Backs entrepreneurs working to advance the crypto/Web3 ecosystem and support Coinbase’s mission of creating more economic freedom.
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Stage: Pre-seed, Seed, Strategic
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CoinFund
Started in 2015 to focus on decentralisation and cryptocurrency, CoinFund has 6 investment vehicles and 105 portfolio companies.
Cypher Capital
Focused on Web3 infrastructure and applications for the new digital economy.
Digital Currency Group
Supports and builds businesses to fill gaps in existing market infrastructure which provide financial services to institutions, corporations and startups.
Digital Horizon
A venture firm specialising in FinTech Infrastructure, B2B Software and AI applications, investing in companies at the point where they have demonstrated product-market fit and are ready to scale.
Dragonfly Capital
Founded in 2018, Dragonfly helps crypto teams globally, with a focus on DeFi, CeFi, NFTs, L1/L2s and infrastructure.
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Stage: Seed, Series A
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Draper Associates
Look for founders developing or leveraging transformational technology, meaning technology with the power to fundamentally change industries and reshape the way society functions.
Emurgo Ventures
The venture capital and investment arm of Cardano’s blockchain founding entity EMURGO. Focuses on web3 projects that add value to Cardano ecosystem users.
Location: Singapore
Stage: Pre-seed, Seed, Strategic
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Enigma Fund
Invests exclusively in Web3 projects through token allocations, warrants or token rounds, in combination with equity. 70% of the fund is reserved for companies the fund advises, 30% for opportunistic deals.
Fabric Ventures
Backs the boldest ideas across the Open Web, the convergence of distributed computing, Web3 and AI.
Faction
Backs disruptive crypto projects at the early stage, investing at Seed and Series A across equity and tokens.
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Stage: Seed, Series A
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Framework Ventures
Partners founders to build token-based networks and develop the requisite crypto economics, governance and community to scale.
Fundamental Labs
Leading investment company that invests in blockchain technology through three distinct business areas: venture capital investment, secondary markets and infrastructure.
Location: Singapore
Stage: Seed
AUM:
Galaxy
Venture arm of Galaxy Digital for investments in protocols, scaling solutions, DeFi and web3 infrastructure.
Recent deals
Arch Lending – $5M – Aug-24
Chaos Labs – $55M – Aug-24
Layer2 Financial – $10.7M – Jul-24
GEM Digital
Actively source, structure and invest in utility tokens listed on over 30 CEXs and DEXs globally.
Genblock Capital
Invests exclusively in blockchain and cryptocurrency, with a focus on decentralised finance and metaverse.
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Stage: Pre-seed, Seed
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Generative Ventures
An activist investor focused on machine economies, accelerated by open-source intelligence and settled on trustless value networks.
Location: London, UK
Stage: Seed, Series A
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Ghaf Capital Partners
One of the first locally managed blockchain/web3 only private capital firms based in Dubai, with focus on digital art, open finance, self-sovereign identity, non-sovereign identity, gaming and AI.
Location: Dubai, UAE
Stage: Stage agnostic
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GSR
An active, multi-stage investor in more than 100 leading companies and protocols building the future of finance and technology. GSR also provides services to institutions across OTC Trading, Derivatives and Market Making.
Location: London, UK
Stage: Seed, Series A, Strategic
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Hack VC
A web3 VC firm that partners on- and off-chain with hackers building the future of the internet.
Hard Yaka
Builds and invests in technologies and companies and has a deep interest in individual autonomy and inclusion. Core focus of the firm is on portable identity, payments and marketplaces.
Location: Crystal Bay, NV, USA
Stage: Pre-seed, Seed
AUM:
Hashed
A VC firm for digital assets and blockchain, which participates with core technical contributions to global infrastructure.
HashKey Capital
Managing $1bn+ in client assets since inception, with 600+ investments in infrastructure, tools, and applications.
Location: Hong Kong
Stage: Pre-seed, Seed, Series A
AUM:
Haun Ventures
Support teams building the next generation of the web, providing product, operating and regulatory expertise. Invest in crypto, NFTs, privacy protocols, zero knowledge, DeFi and infrastructure.
HiveMind Capital
Supports institutional exposure to digital assets by scaling blockchain and cryptography projects.
Recent deals
RD Technologies – $7.8M – Sep-24
Space and Time – $20M – Aug-24
Moonveil Entertainment – $3.6M – Aug-24
HyperChain Capital
A digital assets management company focused on Blockchain based projects and decentralised protocols.
Location: Singapore
Stage: Seed, Strategic
AUM:
Iconium Blockchain Ventures
Invests in digital assets and blockchain projects that will lead the decentralised internet era. Have invested in 2000+ projects over 4 years.
Location: Milan, Italy
Stage: Seed
AUM:
JRR Group
Fin-tech group focused exclusively on disruptive innovations bridging real world and digital assets. Covers equity investing, digital banking, trading and market making, with AUM over $2bn.
Location: Switzerland
Stage: Seed, Strategic
AUM:
Jump Crypto
The corporate venture capital arm of Jump Trading, investing in companies operating in the crypto, web3 infrastructure and blockchain technology sectors.
Location: Chicago, IL, USA
Stage: Seed, Series A, Strategic
AUM:
Kosmos Ventures
Australia’s largest and most active multi-strategy investment firm specialising in digital assets. Established in 2017, Kosmos VC is focused on core blockchain infrastructure and DeFi and GameFi applications built on top.
Location: Perth, Australia
Stage: Stage agnostic
AUM:
KR1 plc
KR1 plc is a publicly traded company, allowing anyone to purchase shares and gain exposure to crypto markets through KR1 plc’s underlying portfolio. Its primary focus is on digital assets.
Mangrove Capital Partners
Focus on ICOs as a method of VC fundraising.
Location: Luxembourg
Stage: Seed
AUM:
Multicoin Capital
Manage a portfolio of liquid crypto assets and invest in both private equity and tokens for projects that have not yet launched. Invest from the seed stage and plan to support over multiple rounds in both private and public markets.
Recent deals
Drift Protocol – $25M – Sep-24
Permissionless Labs – $10M – Sep-24
Fuse – $12M – Sep-24
NFX
Offer funding and a network of 500+ founders to unlock further support, from capital to legal to marketing. Currently invest in 8 areas: Bio, Gaming, Generative AI, PropTech, Marketplaces, FinTech and Crypto
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Stage: Pre-seed, Seed
AUM:
NGC Ventures
Invests in early-stage web 3.0 infrastructure startups that demonstrate disruptive innovation and aim to solve problems with solutions characterised by simplicity, affordability, speed, uniqueness and a compelling market fit.
Nickel Digital
Investment manager in London with a Digital Liquid Venture Fund for Web3. Portfolio construction is based on a research-intense approach of investing in liquid tokens of Layer 1, Layer 2 protocols and DeFi applications.
Location: London, UK
Stage: Hedge Fund
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Nine Blocks Capital
Market neutral hedge fund strategy using basis and funding arbitrage, volatility strategies, DeFi, relative value and special situations. 3+ year track record.
Location: Dubai, UAE
Stage: Hedge Fund
AUM: $150M
Nomad Capital
A venture fund that invests in blockchain infrastructure, DeFi, gaming and consumer dApps.
North Island Ventures
Crypto investment firm, focused on infrastructure and interoperability.
Location: New York, NY, USA
Stage: Stage agnostic
AUM:
OKX Ventures
Focuses investments on blockchain basic infrastructures, Layer2, DeFi, Web3.0, NFT and Metaverse.
Location: Singapore
Stage: Stage agnostic
AUM:
Outlier Ventures
Accelerator for DeFi, AI, Blockchain Infrastructure, Open Metaverse, with a network of 500+ investors.
Pantera Capital
Invest in thematic ideas and projects that are core infrastructure pieces of the blockchain ecosystem, such as exchanges, custodians, institutional trading tools, decentralised finance and next gen payment systems. Since 2013, Pantera have backed over 100 blockchain companies and 110 early-stage token deals.
Paradigm
A research-driven crypto investment firm, investing in companies and protocols from the earliest stages. Research is at the core of everything the team does, assisting research papers, code and other initiatives, as well as supporting businesses with capital.
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Stage: Seed, Series A
AUM:
Check size: $1M-$100M+
ParaFi Capital
An alternative asset management firm operating hedge fund and venture strategies in digital asset markets. Liquid strategies invest in private digital assets, leveraging fundamental, thesis-driven and quantitative strategies. Venture strategies focus on early-stage and growth businesses in blockchain.
Polychain Capital
Invests in blockchain protocols and companies to advance global adoption of cryptocurrencies.
Ribbit Capital
Invests in entrepreneurs providing financial services, particularly lending, personal finance, insurance, financial software and bitcoin.
Robot Ventures
A pre-seed and seed investor in fintech and crypto companies.
Location: Beaverton, OR, USA
Stage: Pre-seed, Seed
AUM:
Shima Capital
Invests in companies operating in the analytics, consumer, decentralised finance, gaming, infrastructure, regenerative finance, web3 and blockchain technology sectors.
Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Stage: Seed
AUM:
Struck Capital
Narrowly invest in ~6 companies per year, focusing on technology innovations that expand Web3 and spur adoption.
Superscrypt
Early stage crypto-native VC focusing on infrastructure and emerging use cases; including identity & credentials, developer tools, data indexing & search, scaling and privacy.
Location: Singapore
Stage: Seed, Series A
AUM: Undisclosed
Tagus Capital
VC firm investing in companies and protocols building the next generation of blockchain technology infrastructure. Their focus is on Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Reversible Computing, Machine Learning and Robotics within Web 3.0.
Location: London, UK
Stage: Seed
AUM: Undisclosed
Token Bay Capital
A fund founded in 2021 that invests in businesses building next generation infrastructure and decentralized applications for internet 3.0.
Tribe Capital
A VC firm focused on capturing a perpetual edge in venture and crypto using data science.
True Global Ventures
Portfolio companies use Web3, AI and blockchain as competitive advantages to drive change with proven products. TGV has presence in Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai, London, Stockholm, Paris, New York and San Francisco.
Location: Singapore
Stage: Stage agnostic
AUM: Undisclosed
Variant
First-check venture capital firm dedicated to investing in an internet that turns users into owners.
Venrock
Invests in technology, healthcare, consumer, cryptocurrency, cybersecurity, defence & aerospace, security & infrastructure, financial technology, software-as-a-service and AI in the USA.
Location: Palo Alto, CA, USA
Stage: Series A
AUM:
Wintermute Ventures
Value-add investor dedicated to supporting innovation in the blockchain ecosystem. Focuses on trading platforms, credit, gaming & NFTs, blockchain infrastructure, security and asset management.
Location: London, UK
Stage: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
AUM: Undisclosed
Recent deals
Synnax Technologies – $1.55M – Oct-24
Infinex – $65.29M – Sep-24
Stork Network – $4M – Aug-24
ZeroKnowledge
Deep tech investor, from DeFi protocols to quantum computing and fusion energy.
The BitLeaf 