Best VCs for AI

No personal check range is publicly disclosed. Hack VC says it partners at the earliest stages across crypto, AI and frontier technology, and the firm led GAIB's seed round; neither the round nor third-party ticket estimates establish Herbie's standard or unilateral check authority.

#3Herbie Fu

Partner

Hack VC

Herbie invests at the intersection of crypto, AI and productive infrastructure. His GAIB thesis treats compute as a scarce commodity that can become an investable, yield-producing on-chain asset, fina

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Pre-SeedSeedEarliest Stage

#4Alex Pack

Managing Partner

Hack VC

Infrastructure, DeFi, and AI x crypto. Previously co-led Dragonfly before starting Hack VC.

15 deals

SeedSeries A

#5Alexander Pack

Managing Partner

Hack VC

Co-founder of Hack VC, investing in crypto infrastructure and developer platforms. Believes the next wave of crypto adoption is driven by better developer tooling and infrastructure.

15 deals

$500K-$50M+ (stage dependent)

#6Sonya Huang

Partner

Sequoia Capital

The defining voice of Sequoia's AI thesis and arguably the most influential AI investor-thinker in Silicon Valley. Co-authors a series of landmark essays with Pat Grady that have become the canonical

9 deals

$500K-$200M (sweet spot ~$25M)

#7Jerry Chen

General Partner

Greylock Partners

Coined the 'Systems of Intelligence' framework in his landmark 2017 blog post 'The New Moats' — the idea that AI and data create competitive advantages by sitting between systems of record (databases)

8 deals

Maki's stated sweet spot is first rounds below EUR 5 million from day zero; this describes target round size, not Pauliina's personal check authority. The firm continues to support later rounds selectively.

#8Pauliina Martikainen

Managing Partner

Maki.vc (Web3)

Pauliina leads a sector-agnostic Nordic first-round strategy centered on exceptional technical founders with global ambition. Her attributed portfolio work spans clinical sensing, autonomous-mobility

4 deals

Pre-SeedSeedFirst Round

#9Wilson Tukiainen

Investment Manager

Maki.vc (Web3)

Wilson sources and evaluates Nordic first-round opportunities across Maki's sector-agnostic mandate, with a research-driven lens and responsibility for ESG development. His first publicly attributed 2

Maki's sweet spot is first rounds below EUR 5 million; this describes the firm's target round, not Wilson's personal authority. He sources and evaluates opportunities within that day-zero mandate.

4 deals

Pre-SeedSeedFirst Round

#10Chris Dixon

General Partner, a16z crypto (Founder & Lead)

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)

The crypto conviction investor. Founded and leads a16z's crypto practice, which has deployed billions across five funds. Author of 'Read Write Own' (2024), arguing that blockchain enables a new era of

$1M-$100M+ (from $2B+ crypto funds — 5th fund raising in 2026)

3 deals

$1M-$100M+ (from $2.5B+ American Dynamism fund)

#11Katherine Boyle

General Partner, American Dynamism

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)

Leads a16z's American Dynamism practice — a $2.5B+ fund (expanded from $600M in 2023) backing companies that support national interests. Believes the most important companies of the next decade will b

3 deals

$1M-$100M+ (leads a16z's $1.25B+ infrastructure fund)

#12Martin Casado

General Partner

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)

Leads a16z's infrastructure practice and is one of Silicon Valley's most technically credible VCs, having built VMware NSX and pioneered software-defined networking. Invests 'from markets in' rather t

3 deals

$1M-$100M+ (from a16z's $5.2B AI fund, largest sector allocation in 2026)

#13Anjney Midha

General Partner

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)

Leads a16z's AI investments from the $5.2B AI allocation — the firm's largest sector bet ever. Anjney came to AI from an unusual path: he previously led a16z's crypto gaming investments, giving him de

3 deals

$500K-$10M+ (flexible, has written checks as large as $50M+ in later-stage co-investments)

#14Sarah Tavel

Venture Partner

Benchmark

Sarah's investing worldview is built on a few interlocking beliefs: (1) The best consumer companies create compounding engagement loops where users do MORE over time, not less. She formalized this int

$5M-$15M

2 deals

Series ASeries B

#15Elad Gil

Founder

Gil Capital (Solo GP)

One of the largest and most successful solo GP funds ever ($1B+). Unusually dense hit rate across breakout companies — has invested in more unicorns than most institutional funds. Invests based on pat

2 deals

$1M-$100M+ (multi-stage, also invests personally and through Thiel Capital)

#16Peter Thiel

Co-Founder & Partner

Founders Fund

The original contrarian VC. 'We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.' Seeks companies that can become category-defining monopolies in markets others ignore. First principles thinking is

1 deals

$1M-$100M+ (multi-stage, GC manages $25B+)

#17Hemant Taneja

CEO & Managing Director

General Catalyst

'Responsible innovation' thesis: technology should solve real problems for real people, not create consumer distractions. Strong health and enterprise focus. Author of 'Unscaled' — argues that technol

1 deals

$500K-$50M+ (across seed fund and main fund)

#18Vinod Khosla

Founder

Khosla Ventures

Explicitly optimizes for ~70% failure rates to back 'black swan' outcomes. Actively seeks opportunities that appear 'crazy' to most of the market. Capital-intensive, science-heavy bets. Believes fusio

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No Jessy-specific check size is disclosed by Khosla Ventures. Publicly observed work spans an $11 million Spiritus seed financing led by Khosla and Pascal's $8 million seed round, but round size is not the same as the firm's check. Third-party claims of a $100,000–$5 million range were excluded as unverified.

#19Jessy Rivest

Partner

Khosla Ventures

Jessy looks for climate technologies grounded in hard science and non-obvious mechanisms that can make a meaningful dent in greenhouse-gas emissions. Her career shows a materials-to-systems lens: unde

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SeedSeries ATechnical incubation and spinout

#20Pranav Singhvi

Managing Director

General Catalyst

Pranav invests through a capital-allocation lens: separate the predictable customer-acquisition engine of a product-market-fit company from its higher-risk product and operating company, then finance

No personal equity check-size range is published. Customer Value financings are bespoke, performance-linked capital structures and disclosed company packages should not be generalized into a personal minimum or maximum.

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GrowthLate StageEndurance

#21David Sacks

Co-Founder & Venture Partner

Craft Ventures

Pioneered 'Bottom-Up SaaS' — the strategy of applying consumer growth tactics to B2B products. At PayPal he learned viral distribution; at Yammer he proved it could work in the enterprise, growing fro

$1M-$50M

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In a 2020 first-person interview, Samir described a typical Khosla Seed Fund investment as roughly $1M–$2M, used as option-value capital to remove key risks before a larger Series A/B decision. Khosla's current Main Fund covers early through later stages, including total financings above $10M. These are historical/firm-level guideposts, not a guaranteed current personal range.

#22Samir Kaul

Founding Partner & Managing Director

Khosla Ventures

Samir prefers large, known markets where a radical technical risk can produce a 10x-better product. He treats small seed checks as option-value experiments: identify a potential billion-dollar outcome

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IncubationPre-SeedSeed

#23Josh Wolfe

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Lux Capital

'Atoms, not bits.' The biggest opportunities are in companies that manipulate the physical world, not just software. Willing to fund multi-year R&D timelines. Just raised the firm's largest fund ever

$1M-$50M+

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No personal check-size range is published. Craft invests from early-stage venture through growth, and Michael's disclosed financings span several stages; those total round sizes are not personal or standard check sizes.

#24Michael Robinson

Partner, Head of Investment Team

Craft Ventures

Michael invests across venture and growth with a focus on cybersecurity, infrastructure, and AI applications. His operating framework prizes durable revenue, efficient growth, healthy unit economics,

1 deals

Series ASeries BSeries C

#25Shahin Farshchi, PhD

Partner

Lux Capital

Shahin creates and backs generational frontier companies that endow people and machines with new capabilities. An engineer and founder, he looks across AI, chips, compute, autonomy, aerospace, robotic

No verified personal or standard Lux check-size range is published. Shahin invests from early conviction through enduring scale and has co-founded companies; financing requirements are opportunity-specific and should be confirmed directly.

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Company CreationSeedSeries A

#26Tess van Stekelenburg

Partner

Lux Capital

Tess is a technically trained generalist investing where AI, biology, aerospace, and the physical world intersect. She seeks engineers and scientists turning frontier research into companies, with par

No verified personal or standard Lux check-size range is published. Tess invests at both early and growth stages and participates in Lux company creation; founders should confirm round fit directly rather than infer an allocation from fund size or disclosed company rounds.

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Company CreationSeedSeries A

#27Nicole Fraenkel

Partner & Head of Capital Formation

Khosla Ventures

Nicole backs frontier AI across infrastructure, enterprise, consumer, defense, and biology. Her scientific training in cancer and viral immunology gives her a mechanistic lens for AI–biology convergen

No personal check range is published. Khosla's firm-level Seed and Main Funds span technical experiments through later financings; historical seed commentary cited roughly $1M–$2M. Nicole's additional Capital Formation role should not be read as a disclosed personal check authority.

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No personal check-size range is published. Lux's USD 7B under management and disclosed company rounds are not Grace's personal range; she is explicitly described as a first-check and early investor.

#28Grace Isford

Partner

Lux Capital

Grace backs computational-science companies where software or AI transforms difficult physical, institutional, or technical systems. She looks for first-check opportunities in infrastructure and appli

1 deals

Not applicable. Hirsh leads Percepta, an operating/transformation company, rather than a General Catalyst investment team. Founders seeking GC capital should contact an actual GC investor; enterprises seeking embedded AI transformation can contact Percepta.

#29Hirsh Jain

Co-Founder & CEO, Percepta

General Catalyst

Hirsh's operating thesis is that enterprise AI fails when organizations bolt point solutions onto legacy workflows or stop at pilots. Percepta embeds engineers, researchers and product managers inside

1 deals

Enterprise AI transformationProduction deploymentCompany building

#30Brandon Reeves

Partner

Lux Capital

Brandon backs technical platforms and applications across software, AI, defense, and manufacturing. A recurring theme is open or developer-led infrastructure that turns frontier capability into produc

No verified personal or standard Lux check-size range is published. Brandon invests at both early and growth stages; disclosed financing rounds, such as Hugging Face's $15M Series A, are total rounds and not his personal allocation range.

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Not applicable to Nat's events role. Lux invests across stages, but no personal allocation authority or check size belongs to this profile. Founder financing pitches should go to Lux's investment team.

#31Nat Turner

Head of Events

Lux Capital

Nat designs the convening layer around Lux's frontier-science and technology network. Her work brings together founders, researchers, executives, investors, journalists and creative leaders in focused

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Founder and portfolio communityExecutive conveningThought-leadership programming

#32Kindle Van Linge

Principal

Craft Ventures

Kindle invests where AI or advanced technology becomes a mission-critical operating layer in large, regulated or technically demanding markets. Her attributed work spans AI medical knowledge, regulato

No Kindle-specific check range is public. Craft's live portfolio attributes her to growth, Series A and Series B investments, but those stage labels do not reveal individual allocation authority or check size. Confirm current vehicle, ownership and lead/co-invest posture directly.

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Series ASeries BGrowth

#33Adina Tecklu

Partner

Khosla Ventures

Adina backs exceptional founders before market consensus and works with them from product-market fit through breakout growth. Her stated focus is early-stage software, AI, and fintech, with disclosed

No current personal check range is published. Khosla's Seed Fund backs experiments and may invest alone or with angels/smaller funds; Samir Kaul described historical seed investments as roughly $1M–$2M in 2020. The Main Fund covers early through later-stage financings, including total rounds above $10M. These are firm-level guideposts, not Adina's personal authority.

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No Zao-specific check range is public. His attributed deals span Series A through late growth, while Craft operates separate early-stage and growth funds. Founders should confirm current vehicle, ownership target and sizing through inquiries@craftventures.com rather than infer a range from individual announced rounds.

#34Zao Chen

Principal

Craft Ventures

Zao invests in software with a particular focus on data and AI infrastructure and developer tools. His work favors open, interoperable or community-led platforms that become default infrastructure: te

1 deals

Series ASeries BSeries C

#35Mike Marg

Partner

Craft Ventures

Mike invests in enterprise software and AI products that deliver fast, legible value to an end user and can expand from bottom-up adoption into durable enterprise systems. His work links product archi

No Mike-specific check range is public. Craft's official portfolio attributes angel/seed, venture and growth investments to him, but financing totals and round labels are not his check size. Confirm vehicle, ownership target, reserves and lead appetite directly.

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AngelSeedSeries A

#36Dan Moor

Principal

Craft Ventures

Dan backs early-stage B2B and vertical software, cybersecurity, infrastructure and physical-AI companies where a strong product insight can become a scalable operating and go-to-market machine. His in

No Dan-specific check range is public. Craft invests across early and growth stages through separate venture and growth funds; Dan's official profile emphasizes helping early-stage founders, while recent attributed investments range from Seed through later-stage rounds. Confirm current vehicle and sizing through inquiries@craftventures.com.

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No personal check range is published. Khosla invests earliest from pre-seed/seed through Series A with conviction and also uses a Main Fund for later financings. Historical firm commentary described many seed investments around $1M–$2M; this is not Kanu's personal allocation range.

#37Kanu Gulati

Partner

Khosla Ventures

Kanu backs enterprise applications and infrastructure made possible by advances in AI, together with robotics and autonomous systems. Her technical and operating history spans hardware acceleration, p

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No personal check-size range is published. Her disclosed Craft work spans venture and growth investments, including Series A, Series B, and growth-stage companies; public financing totals are not her individual allocation authority.

#38Kindle Van Linge

Principal

Craft Ventures

Kindle invests in technically differentiated AI, defense, and enterprise software that turns expert knowledge or hard engineering into a high-trust operational system. Her published cases favor produc

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Series ASeries BGrowth

#39Taylor Durand

Investor

Craft Ventures

Taylor backs frontier systems and software, with a strong interest in physical AI and resilient infrastructure. His Xona thesis illustrates the pattern: a strategically critical legacy system faces te

No personal check-size range is published. Craft attributes venture and growth investments to Taylor, including a Series B investment in Xona; financing totals are not his personal check authority.

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Series ASeries BGrowth

#40Zao Chen

Principal

Craft Ventures

Chen invests in software with a focus on data infrastructure, AI infrastructure, and developer tools. His work with Supabase shows a preference for technically trusted, developer-loved products whose

Firm-level public estimate: $500K-$3M at Seed, $3M-$10M+ at Series A/B, and $10M+ at Growth

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No personal check-size range is public. Craft attributes angel, seed, Series A, and Series B investments to Bill, but those stage examples and company financing totals do not establish individual allocation authority.

#41Bill Lee

Venture Partner

Craft Ventures

Bill invests from repeated founder experience at the emergence of new technology and consumer behavior. His official record spans early internet communities, mobile games and virtual goods, institutio

1 deals

AngelSeedSeries A

#42Hari Arul

Venture Partner

Khosla Ventures

Hari invests where technology can advance intelligence, security, infrastructure, and health. His founder/operator experience gives him a practical lens on regulated healthcare distribution, enterpris

Not publicly disclosed. Khosla Ventures uses a Seed Fund for experiments and a Main Fund for early-to-later rounds, including financings above $10M in total round size; round size is not the firm's or Hari's check size.

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Firm-level: Lux says it can invest from an initial $100K through high-conviction follow-ons as large as $100M across the company-building arc. This is not Shaq's personal standard check range.

#43Shaq Vayda

Partner

Lux Capital

Shaq partners with technical founders building instruments that make invisible physical or biological signals legible and platforms whose downstream value exceeds the value captured by the initial pro

1 deals

InceptionPre-SeedSeed

#44David Yang

Partner

Lux Capital

David backs scientific founders in therapeutics, R&D tooling, and biopharma infrastructure, looking for research edges early enough to matter. His research and company-building background supports a t

Firm-level: Lux says it can invest from an initial $100K through high-conviction follow-ons as large as $100M across the company-building arc. This is not David's personal standard check range.

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InceptionPre-SeedSeed

#45Dan Moor

Principal

Craft Ventures

Moor backs early-stage B2B and vertical software, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and physical-AI companies. His investing lens is unusually operational: he evaluates whether a founder can translate pr

Firm-level public estimate: $500K-$3M at Seed, $3M-$10M+ at Series A/B, and $10M+ at Growth

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Firm-level public estimate: $500K-$3M at Seed, $3M-$10M+ at Series A/B, and $10M+ at Growth

#46Mike Marg

Partner

Craft Ventures

Marg invests in generative AI, APIs, and enterprise AI agents, pairing an enterprise-buyer lens with deep go-to-market operating experience. His writing argues that AI markets should not be treated as

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#47Jon Chu

Partner

Khosla Ventures

Jon focuses on how machine learning reshapes the full enterprise stack: core infrastructure, developer tools, and end-user applications. His experience as an early Palantir engineer, infrastructure fo

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#48Aaron Cort

Operating Partner, Marketing & Growth

Craft Ventures

Based on Craft's description of his role and his recent Craft Insights pieces, Cort's focus is on building predictable growth systems: product-led and community-led growth, strong data and attribution

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#49Adam Kalish

Partner, Capital Formation

Lux Capital

Kalish’s role at Lux is centered on capital formation rather than direct investing. Lux says he focuses on building long-term investor relationships grounded in transparency and trust, and on helping

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Any stage

#50Josh Kopelman

Co-Founder & Partner

First Round Capital

The seed-stage specialist. Invests earliest and deepest at seed — First Round was one of the firms that pioneered institutional seed investing. Built First Round into a platform that punches well abov

$500K-$3M (seed only)

YC's standard investment terms are program-level, not a Kirsty-specific check size. No current personal allocation or independent angel check range is public. Applicants should use YC's application process rather than pitch Kirsty as a current selecting partner.

#51Kirsty Nathoo

Partner Emeritus

Y Combinator

Kirsty's public body of work is an operating and financial framework for early-stage companies, not a personal sector thesis. She emphasizes clean formation, founder alignment, simple standard documen

Company formationPre-seed accelerator operationsStartup finance

#52Jay Drain Jr.

Investment Partner

a16z crypto

Jay backs consumer and application-layer crypto products that make onchain systems useful to mainstream users. His recent work centers on financial applications as crypto's adoption wedge: wallets bec

No verified personal check-size range is publicly attributed to Jay. His disclosed work includes a16z crypto leading Kairos's $2.5M seed round; that round size is company financing, not Jay's individual allocation authority.

$500K-$5M (recently raised a $550M fund in Oct 2025, significantly larger than previous funds)

#53David Tisch

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

BoxGroup

One of the most active and respected seed investors in NYC. Co-founded TechStars NYC (now Techstars NYC), deeply embedded in the New York startup ecosystem since its earliest days. Known for being hig

No Lucas-specific check range is public. A current OpenVC search profile lists Kosmos at $100K–$1M, while Kosmos's own live material confirms Seed/Pre-Seed as its co-building focus but publishes no check size. Treat $100K–$1M as third-party firm guidance only; confirm allocation, instrument, ownership and decision-maker directly with Lucas and the team.

#54Lucas Raymond (LTR)

Venture Associate

Kosmos Ventures

Lucas looks for early, non-consensus crypto opportunities through an active-user and market-structure lens. He believes decentralized markets can democratize finance and that money increasingly follow

Pre-seedSeedEarly Stage

#55Anand Iyer

Founder

Canonical Crypto

Investing in crypto infrastructure and applications at Canonical Crypto. Focused on early-stage projects building foundational crypto technology.

Pre-seedSeed

#56Garry Tan

CEO & President

Y Combinator

Builder-designer-investor. 'Make something people want' is the entire thesis — inherited from Paul Graham's YC founding philosophy and now amplified by Garry's builder ethos. Believes we're in a golde

$500K (standard YC deal: $500K for ~7% equity via SAFE). Also invests via YC Continuity Fund at later stages.

Pre-SeedSeedSeries A (via Continuity)

#57Byron Deeter

Partner

Bessemer Venture Partners

The cloud computing investor. His annual 'State of the Cloud' report is the definitive industry reference for cloud/SaaS metrics. Bessemer's 'Cloud Atlas' benchmarking tool is used by thousands of Saa

$1M-$100M+ (multi-stage, BVP has $3.6B+ under management)

No personal check-size range is published. The official profile's aggregate fund-raising figure and public financing announcements describe firm resources and transactions, not Chris's individual authority or a reliable minimum/maximum check.

#58Alvin Kan

Head of SEA & MENA

BNB Chain MVB (Central Asia)

Supporting blockchain innovation in Central Asia through BNB Chain's MVB program. Focused on growing the BNB Chain ecosystem in underserved markets.

Pre-seedSeed

#59Chris Dixon

Founder, Managing Partner

a16z crypto

Chris invests behind blockchains as a new computing and ownership primitive for the internet. His core thesis is that token-enabled networks can align builders, users, and owners; bootstrap network ef

SeedEarly StageGrowth

#60Idris Guven

Founder

ARI10

Building blockchain-based payment and loyalty solutions through ARI10, focused on bridging traditional retail with cryptocurrency.

Pre-seedSeed

#61Alan Dooley

Co-founder

Bloxico

Investing in blockchain enterprise solutions through Bloxico, focused on bringing blockchain technology to traditional industries in Ireland and Europe.

SeedSeries A

#62Lukas Kristen

General Partner

Plutos Capital

Lukas backs deeply technical founders building sovereign, privacy-enabling infrastructure across blockchain, AI and dual-use systems. His central claim is that institutions need the openness, neutral

$250K–$500K stated first-check range in a current @FryCookVC public post, with 'no matter how early' guidance. Plutos describes investing from pre-seed through Series A across equity and token rounds. Confirm currency, ownership, reserves and whether the range applies to the Genesis Fund before relying on it.

$600K–$900K at pre-seed and seed, published on Varrock's live website. The fund targets a small, concentrated portfolio, commonly 0–1 new investment per quarter, to maintain ownership and hands-on capacity rather than spray and pray.

#63Richard Chen

Founder & Solo GP

Varrock VC

Richard backs concentrated, contrarian pre-seed and seed bets in the future of finance. For crypto-native products, he looks for category creation, missionary founders, power-user retention and contin

No current person-specific HSG check size is publicly disclosed. Historical Pantera work spans early-stage through growth, but those prior fund parameters should not be assumed to apply to his HSG role.

#64Nihal Maunder

Managing Director

HongShan

Nihal's current HSG mandate is not yet public, so the defensible personal thesis comes from his prior first-person and attributed work: blockchain can extend open finance and coordination into payment

Early StageVentureGrowth

#65Sterling Campbell

Former Investor, Blockchain Capital (off current roster)

Blockchain Capital

In his Blockchain Capital work, Sterling focused on the intersection of consumers and crypto. He saw gaming as a mass-onboarding path because persistent games, interoperable assets and player-owned ec

No reliable personal check range or current Blockchain Capital authority is public. Third-party ranges are stale and were excluded. Historical work included consumer-crypto diligence and portfolio support; founders must contact a currently listed Blockchain Capital investor for live check size and sponsorship.

Historical seed and venture investingConsumer-crypto diligencePortfolio support

#66Markus Gleim

Former Principal, Northzone (off current roster); Investor & Advisor

Northzone (Web3)

At Northzone, Markus invested across enterprise applications, infrastructure, developer products and healthcare, with a strong DACH footprint. His operating experience at digital-health company Kry sh

No current personal check range or active fund mandate is public. Historical Northzone investments include seed and Series A through later follow-ons, but third-party Northzone range estimates are stale and do not establish present authority. Confirm current capacity directly.

Historical seed and Series AHistorical follow-on investingBoard and advisory support

#67Deepka Rana

Former Principal, Northzone; Angel Investor

Northzone (Web3)

At Northzone, Deepka focused on product-led consumer and B2B software, with a particularly developed Future of Work thesis. She argued that structurally scarce frontline labor and obsolete tools creat

No current personal angel check range is public. Historical Northzone deals ranged from pre-seed through growth, but firm-level third-party range estimates do not establish Deepka's present allocation. Founders should ask directly about current angel activity and should use Northzone's live team for fund pitches.

Current occasional angel investingHistorical pre-seedHistorical seed and Series A

#68Guy Wuollet

General Partner

a16z crypto

Guy invests across the crypto stack with a technical focus on infrastructure, DeFi, and decentralized physical infrastructure. He looks for blockchains to coordinate markets that centralized intermedi

No personal check-size range is published. Public seed, Series A, and later financing amounts are company-level transaction sizes and are not a defensible proxy for Guy's individual range or allocation authority.

No current ALPS check size is publicly disclosed. Laura's September 2026 criteria specify Pre-Seed to Seed companies valued below $30M; that is a valuation ceiling and stage filter, not a stated check range.

#69Laura K. Inamedinova

General Partner

ALPS Capital

Laura currently backs institution-grade financial-market infrastructure for digital assets and AI as TradFi moves onchain. Her stated targets include payments, stablecoins, clearing and settlement, tr

No Ryan-specific venture check range is public. For RockawayX's Catapult program, the firm says it writes first checks into RWA-yield founders and can add anchor TVL, liquidity, DeFi integrations and mentorship; founders should ask directly about round-specific sizing.

#70Ryan Connor

Research Partner

RockawayX

Ryan looks for crypto investments where differentiated, alpha-generative research reveals something the consensus has missed and where tokens or equities can be underwritten with traction and fundamen

Pre-seedSeedEarly Stage

#71Nataly Laktionova

Marketing, Portfolio Development

Polymorphic Capital

Nataly's Polymorphic work sits at the application and portfolio-development edge: finding and supporting products that use web3 infrastructure to transform markets beyond crypto-native users, particul

No Nataly-specific check size is public. Polymorphic's verified OpenVC-style profile lists firm-level initial bands spanning $250K–$3M, says it can lead, and covers pre-seed through Series B. Treat these as firm guidance rather than Nataly's authority; confirm the relevant partner, current allocation, stage and ownership target after intake.

No personal check-size or allocation authority is published. Spartan Capital manages liquid, DeFi, gaming/metaverse, and market-neutral funds; the firm's $500M stated AUM and portfolio activity are not a personal check range for José.

#72Jose Sanchez

Head of research, Investment Associate

The Spartan Group

José researches and evaluates liquid and protocol opportunities for Spartan Capital. His work focuses on crypto becoming financial infrastructure: stablecoin adoption, yield markets, institutional use

Public TokensLiquid MarketsProtocol Investments

#73Todd Jackson

Partner

First Round Capital

Todd backs technical founders who can turn complex technology into an elegant power tool and is unusually focused on the mechanics of reaching product-market fit. His disclosed portfolio—fal, Parallel

First Round's published firm-wide initial checks are typically $1M–$7M, averaging about $3.5M; it has participated in rounds from $100K to $20M. No personal range is published for Todd.

AngelPre-SeedSeed

#74Tina Daher

Venture Partner

Shorooq Partners

Tina looks for high-caliber founders applying differentiated technology to consequential emerging-market problems. Her attributable investment material emphasizes technically credible climate and indu

No personal check range is disclosed. Shorooq's equity platform covers the full journey from pre-seed to late-stage growth; Tina's current Venture Partner/adviser listing does not establish independent check authority, so founders should confirm the relevant vehicle and decision process.

$150K-$300K checks, as published by Trust Fund.

#75Sophia Amoruso

Founder and Managing Partner

Trust Fund

Sophia Amoruso invests or supports investments through Trust Fund's published strategy: Back tech-enabled products that help people start and build businesses, especially marketplaces, commerce infras

Paradigm backs companies from first check through public markets, but neither the firm nor Ricardo publishes his personal check range or decision authority. Portfolio round totals and a historical firm-wide range are not treated as personal allocation evidence.

#76Ricardo de Arruda

Partner, Investing & Research

Paradigm

Ricardo uses large-scale onchain data to distinguish real crypto adoption from activity manufactured by incentives or sybils. He focuses on new ecosystems, user acquisition and retention, token distri

Supply Change Capital does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its current site.

#77Shayna Harris

Co-Founder and General Partner

Supply Change Capital

Shayna Harris invests or supports investments through Supply Change Capital's published strategy: Back founders using technology to transform food, agriculture and technical supply chains, applying op

No personal check-size range is published. Greenfield's venture mandate spans pre-seed through later stages; financing amounts in Felix's investment essays are company-round totals, not personal limits.

#78Felix Machart

Research Partner

Greenfield Capital

Felix uses research and market data to identify durable crypto infrastructure and distinguish fundamental adoption from speculation. His work favors protocols with measurable usage, revenue or value a

Supply Change Capital does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its current site.

#79Noramay Cadena

Co-Founder and General Partner

Supply Change Capital

Noramay Cadena invests or supports investments through Supply Change Capital's published strategy: Back founders using technology to transform food, agriculture and technical supply chains, applying o

No personal check range or investment authority is published for Storm. Paradigm invests from first check through public markets, but Storm's official remit is frontier data-science and data-engineering research, not a stated personal allocation range.

#80Storm Slivkoff

Research Partner

Paradigm

Storm evaluates decentralized systems through high-resolution data, reproducible measurement, and open tooling. His work spans Ethereum state and history growth, node performance, market-volume accoun

ResearchTechnical DiligencePortfolio Support

#81Elizabeth Harkavy

Investment Partner

a16z crypto

Liz focuses on the picks-and-shovels and decentralized infrastructure that let crypto mature into useful, open economic systems. Her authored investment work emphasizes market infrastructure for incre

a16z crypto does not publish a reliable personal check range for Liz. Her public deal writing spans seed leadership and large later financings, so founders should confirm vehicle, stage, allocation, ownership target, lead/co-lead role, token/equity structure, and reserves with the team.

SeedVentureGrowth

#82Rebecca Kaden

Managing Partner

Union Square Ventures (USV)

Rebecca invests at the edge of large markets, with a consumer and product lens sharpened by USV's network-effects thesis. Her current view links abundant AI intelligence, cheaper hardware, sensors, an

USV publishes a firm-wide check range of $1 million to $30 million and invests from the earliest stages through follow-ons. It does not publish Rebecca's individual authority, and the partnership makes decisions collectively without a vote.

Neither Kleiner Perkins nor Ted publishes a personal check range on the cited pages. His Kleiner record spans early-stage and growth companies, but portfolio round sizes and Ballistic's fund sizes do not establish his individual Kleiner check authority.

#83Ted Schlein

Partner and Advisor

Kleiner Perkins

Ted is an operator-investor focused on cybersecurity and technology infrastructure across company formation, early-stage investment, scaling, and public-sector adoption. His Kleiner portfolio spans ap

No personal or standard Collider check-size range is published. A disclosed $6.7M seed round was the total financing for one company and must not be treated as Avishay's personal or firm-wide check range.

#84Avishay Ovadia

Founding Partner

Collider Ventures

Avishay is a founder-first, contrarian crypto investor who treats decentralized systems as political and economic networks, not just software. He looks for leaders who can align the four constituencie

No personal check size or investment allocation authority is published for Alyssa. Her route for founders is AppWorks' accelerator and its corporate accelerator programs; applicants should verify each current program's funding, equity and eligibility terms rather than assuming the firm's fund parameters apply.

#85Alyssa Chen

Accelerator Director

AppWorks

Alyssa's operating thesis is that an accelerator should be a practical lab where founders repeatedly test, learn and build with peers, mentors and corporate partners. She leads AppWorks Accelerator pl

Pre-accelerator and acceleratorFounder developmentAlumni and mentor community

#86Brad Burnham

Co-Founder and Venture Partner

Union Square Ventures (USV)

Brad's published investing work centers on preserving the internet's permissionless, generative character. He has backed open communications and data infrastructure, decentralized protocols with incen

USV states that the firm writes $1 million to $30 million checks from the earliest stages onward. It does not publish Brad's personal range or authority; investments are discussed by the full partnership and decided collectively without a vote.

Paradigm says it backs founders at every stage from first check through public markets, but it does not publish Alpin's personal check range or decision authority. A 2024 firm filing described vehicle investments from $1M to $100M or more; that historical firm range is not treated as his current personal range.

#87Alpin Yukseloglu

Partner, Investing & Research

Paradigm

Alpin partners with crypto founders and researchers who have strong instincts about the future and the courage to follow them. His work centers on protocol, market, and mechanism design—especially sys

No personal check-size range is published. Greenfield invests across pre-seed through later stages, while Christian's stated responsibility is implementing investment decisions rather than owning a public personal allocation range.

#88Christian Zimmermann

Partner and Chief Operating Officer

Greenfield Capital

Christian applies transaction, regulatory, and policy expertise to executing Greenfield's crypto investments. His work argues for clear decentralization standards, practical token tax treatment, open

$250K–$1M indicated by current investor directories, with roughly $500K described as a sweet spot. Eterna's own live site confirms a global, early-stage mandate but does not publish a check range, so founders should verify current size, reserves, instrument and lead appetite directly. Eterna has publicly co-led at least one pre-seed round (Stoffel Labs).

#89Nassim Olive

Co-Founder & General Partner

Eterna Capital

Nassim invests where decentralized protocols, programmable value layers and AI-native infrastructure converge to reshape the internet. His work connects crypto's ownership and market primitives to bro

No portfolio-company check range was disclosed. The announced 2023 YGG Ventures Fund I targeted $75M and a $500K minimum LP commitment, but the latter is an LP subscription minimum—not a startup check size—and current fund deployment status is not publicly confirmed.

#90Beryl Li

Director / Investment Committee

YGG Ventures

Beryl's investment role was framed around early-stage token and equity investments in Web3 game studios and the infrastructure needed for the sector to grow. Her broader operating thesis begins with c

Pre-seedSeedEarly Stage

#91Bill Trenchard

Partner

First Round Capital

Bill looks for pre-product-market-fit founders who reason from first principles: they decompose a complicated system to its atomic unit, find hidden leverage in overlooked mechanics, and build an unco

First Round's published firm-wide initial checks are typically $1M–$7M, averaging about $3.5M; it has participated in rounds from $100K to $20M. No personal range is published for Bill.

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#92Wyatt Khosrowshahi

Investor

Castle Island Ventures

Wyatt invests in infrastructure and applications that expand the onchain economy, with a particularly data-rich focus on stablecoin payments and DeFi market structure. His work treats stablecoins as c

No current first-party ticket range is published. Castle Island describes itself as an early-stage investor in public-blockchain infrastructure and applications; founders should confirm current stage and check expectations directly rather than relying on directory estimates.

Colosseum's published accelerator investment is $250K pre-seed for accepted teams; it is a program-level standard, not Michael's personal discretionary check. Current materials say hackathon winners are interviewed and considered, with accepted teams receiving capital, mentorship and network access. Earlier official content described 7% terms; founders must verify the current instrument, percentage and token/equity structure.

#93Michael Rinko

Associate

Colosseum

Michael's lens combines markets research with Colosseum's tournament-style venture funnel: use global hackathons and four-week build sprints to observe which founders ship, learn and attract users bef

Pre-seedHackathon to acceleratorInitial product sprint

#94Vassilis Tziokas

Venture Partner

Big Pi Ventures

Vassilis brings a blockchain ecosystem and go-to-market lens to Big Pi's technology investing. His public work emphasizes the transition from crypto trading toward usable infrastructure: privacy-prese

Big Pi publishes a firm-wide equity-ticket range of €0.5M–€30M across its early-stage and growth funds; its early-stage Fund II described €1M–€3M lead investments. These are firm parameters, not Vassilis's personal allocation range.

SeedEarly StageSeries A

#95Lukas Etter

Co-CIO & General Partner

CV VC

Lukas backs early frontier-technology companies building a decentralized and tokenized economy, with a current emphasis on traditional businesses moving onto blockchain rails and the convergence of bl

CV VC's published early-stage program invests up to $500,000 in qualifying pre-seed and seed companies with an MVP and initial traction. This is a firm program limit, not Lukas's personal allocation range; other vehicles and follow-ons may differ.

Pre-SeedSeedAccelerator

#96Sophie Chiu

Investment Director

AppWorks

Sophie backs Asian founders applying AI to transformative products and organizational models. Her current work spans personalized AI, gaming, agentic systems, and AI-enabled work; her broader investme

Firm-level: AppWorks publishes a US$200K to US$15M per-deal range across Seed through Series C, with capacity to lead or follow and reserve capital for follow-ons. This is not Sophie's personal allocation range.

No personal check range is publicly disclosed. Shorooq's official equity strategy spans pre-seed through late-stage growth; the Presight–Shorooq AI Fund is a $100M global platform. Treat vehicle size and stage coverage as firm-level context, not Bilal's personal authorization or a promised check size.

#97Dr. Bilal Baloch

Partner

Shorooq Partners

Bilal backs globally relevant AI companies where technical capability can be translated into real deployment. His operator and value-creation lens emphasizes more than capital: access to compute, data

Not publicly disclosed for Beacon Funds commitments. AppWorks' direct-company strategy publishes US$200K to US$15M per deal from Seed through Series C; that range should not be applied to Jun's venture-fund investments.

#98Jun Wakabayashi

Venture Principal

AppWorks

Jun uses fund investments as ecosystem infrastructure: back locally connected or specialist managers, exchange market intelligence and diligence, create co-investment and follow-on capital paths, and

Emerging ManagersVenture FundsSeed

#99Mason Nystrom

Partner

Pantera Capital

Mason is an application-layer investor looking for products that use crypto coordination and ownership to change how large groups of people interact. His work emphasizes stablecoins as global payment

No person-specific check size is publicly disclosed. Pantera's published venture approach typically invests from Seed through Series B and aims to lead or co-lead; founders should confirm fit rather than infer a check from third-party databases.

No verified personal check-size range is published. Greenfield invests across private, public, and liquid crypto assets from pre-seed through later stages; disclosed Claude-led financings include Rebind's €1.6M pre-seed, Greenfield's co-lead in Layer3's $15M Series A, and Greenfield's lead in Self's $9M seed. Those round sizes are not Claude's personal allocation authority.

#100Claude Donzé

Principal

Greenfield Capital

Claude leads Greenfield's consumer investing and backs crypto products that turn mature onchain rails into understandable, trusted consumer experiences. His published work focuses on mobile-native DeF