Best VCs for Consumer

No Bill-specific check range is public. Craft's current portfolio attributes investments to him across angel, seed and later venture/growth rounds, but round labels and company financing totals do not establish his personal or fund check size. Confirm vehicle, ownership target and lead appetite directly.

#3Bill Lee

Co-founder & Venture Partner

Craft Ventures

Bill's record reflects a founder-led approach to category creation across internet platforms, mobile virtual goods, institutional crypto and frontier technology. His operating history at Remarq, Socia

16 deals

AngelSeedVenture

#4Bill 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

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.

16 deals

AngelSeedSeries A

#5Neeraj Arora

CEO India, MENA & Managing Director

General Catalyst

Neeraj backs ambitious founders building category-defining businesses in India, MENA, and the corridors linking those regions with global markets. His approach combines Venture Highway's earliest-stag

No personal check-size range is published. His record includes seed investments and large later financings, but disclosed round totals belong to company financings and are not a personal range.

5 deals

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.

#6Pranav 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

5 deals

GrowthLate StageEndurance

#7Jeannette zu Fürstenberg

President & Managing Director

General Catalyst

Jeannette is a founder-led generalist investing to strengthen European prosperity and resilience through technology. She backs ambitious companies from ideation onward across AI, defense, energy, indu

No personal check-size range is published. Her public record spans seed investments through large follow-on rounds, but total financing sizes and General Catalyst's assets are not personal check parameters.

5 deals

Maki targets first rounds below EUR 5 million and supports consequent rounds; this is a firm round criterion, not Pirkka's personal check range. Active new investments come from Fund III.

#8Pirkka Palomäki

Founding Partner

Maki.vc (Web3)

Pirkka backs ambitious Nordic teams at their first rounds, combining an operator's technology and scaling perspective with Maki's sector-agnostic, non-consensus approach. His attributed investments fa

1 deals

Pre-SeedSeedFirst Round

#9Pauliina 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

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.

1 deals

Pre-SeedSeedFirst Round

#10Paavo Räisänen

General Partner

Maki.vc (Web3)

Paavo backs Nordic deep-tech founders at their first institutional round when a radical scientific or engineering advance can overhaul an industry. He requires a credible technical foundation, balance

Maki's published sweet spot is first rounds below EUR 5 million from day zero; this is a firm round-size criterion, not Paavo's personal check range. Fund III is the active new-investment vehicle, with selective follow-ons from older funds.

1 deals

Pre-SeedSeedFirst Round

#11Ilkka Kivimäki

Founding Partner & Advisor of Maki.vc

Maki.vc (Web3)

Ilkka co-built Maki around entrepreneurial DNA, technical depth, non-consensus first-round decisions and Nordic founders with global category ambition. His documented portfolio work spans gaming, smar

Maki Fund III currently states €300K–€3M initial tickets in pre-seed and seed rounds below €5M, with follow-on reserves. This is the active firm's range, not Ilkka's personal or current new-deal authority; his stated remit focuses on existing portfolio companies.

1 deals

Pre-SeedSeedFirst Institutional Round

#12Josh 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)

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.

#13Jay 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

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

#14Anjney 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

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

#15David 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.

#16Lucas 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

#17Mike Dudas

Angel / Writer

Crypto media veteran turned investor and advisor. Deep understanding of crypto narratives, community building, and go-to-market strategies.

#18Qiao Wang

Co-founder

Alliance DAO

Focuses on consumer crypto applications and protocols that drive mass adoption. Believes the next wave of crypto will be driven by consumer-facing products, not infrastructure. Alliance accelerates cr

#19Shan Aggarwal

VP Corporate Development

Coinbase Ventures

Leads Coinbase Ventures, one of the most prolific corporate crypto investors. Invests broadly across the crypto ecosystem to grow the overall market and bring more assets on-chain.

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.

#20Chris 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

#21Idris Guven

Founder

ARI10

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

#22James Cameron

Co-founder & Partner

AirTree Ventures (Web3)

Investing in Web3 and blockchain projects in the Australian and APAC startup ecosystem through AirTree Ventures, one of Australia's top VC firms.

#23Bobby Bao

Co-founder

Crypto.com Capital

Strategic investments from Crypto.com Capital, the investment arm of one of the world's largest crypto platforms. Focused on ecosystem expansion and strategic portfolio building.

#24Sarah 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

Series ASeries B

#25Matty Taylor

Founder

Colosseum

Investing in the Solana ecosystem at Colosseum, the organization behind Solana hackathons. Focused on discovering and nurturing early-stage Solana builders.

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

#26Garry 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

Pre-SeedSeedSeries A (via Continuity)

#27Deepka 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

#28Sterling 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

#29Laura 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 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.

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.

#30Nihal 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

#31Michael Mignano

General Partner

Union Square Ventures (USV)

Michael is an idea-driven early-stage investor and former product founder who looks for non-obvious shifts before they become consensus. His current AI thesis favors companies that restructure a marke

No personal check-size range is published. Michael is early-stage focused within USV's collaborative partnership; USV makes investment decisions as a group without a formal vote.

No personal check-size range is published. USV describes itself as an earliest-stage generalist investor and makes decisions collaboratively without a vote; round fit should be confirmed with the partnership rather than attributed to Andy alone.

#32Andy Weissman

Managing Partner

Union Square Ventures (USV)

Andy invests at the edge of large markets under transformative pressure. His long-running thesis work centers on engaged networks, differentiated user experience, and defensibility created by network

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.

#33Ryan 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

#34Jesse Walden

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Variant Fund

Ownership economy. Users should own a stake in the networks they contribute to.

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.

#35Tina 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

ResilienceVC does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its official site; its debut fund is $56M.

#36Tahira Dosani

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

ResilienceVC

Tahira Dosani invests or supports investments through ResilienceVC's published strategy: Invest in technology and business models that improve financial resilience for underserved consumers and small

ResilienceVC does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its official site; its debut fund is $56M.

#37Vikas Raj

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

ResilienceVC

Vikas Raj invests or supports investments through ResilienceVC's published strategy: Invest in technology and business models that improve financial resilience for underserved consumers and small busi

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.

#38Rebecca 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

Type Capital does not publish a standard check-size range on its current official site.

#39Terri Burns

Founder and Managing Partner

Type Capital

Terri Burns invests or supports investments through Type Capital's published strategy: Back early-stage founders with strong product taste and the potential to build generational technology companies.

No personal check-size or allocation authority is published. 1confirmation describes itself as an early-stage venture fund; firm assets or round sizes should not be treated as Brett's personal range.

#40Brett Shear

GENERAL PARTNER

1confirmation

Brett focuses on crypto-native consumer products that bridge onchain ownership with mainstream culture. His published work looks for applications built around existing behaviors—playing games for mone

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.

#41Elizabeth 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

SeedVentureGrowth

#42John Buttrick

Venture Partner

Union Square Ventures (USV)

John's published investments apply a lawyer-investor lens to regulated markets where analog, repetitive infrastructure blocks access. His work favors portable financial identity, user-controlled crede

USV's published firm range is $1 million to $30 million from earliest stage through follow-ons. No personal range is attributed to John, and the firm's investment decision is a collective discussion rather than an individual vote.

No individual check range is published. USV's firm-wide range is $1 million to $30 million, but Jared's special-advisor placement does not establish personal decision authority; the partnership discusses investments collectively without a vote.

#43Jared Hecht

Venture Partner

Union Square Ventures (USV)

Jared brings a repeat founder's consumer-product lens to networks at the intersection of AI and crypto. His published thesis favors strange, initially fringe behaviors that create genuinely new social

No personal check-size range is published. Keith invests across stages, and disclosed financings across his portfolio should not be treated as a standard personal allocation range.

#44Keith Rabois

Managing Director

Khosla Ventures

Keith is a stage- and sector-flexible investor who looks for exceptional founders with decisive judgment, high agency, a contrarian insight, and the ability to recruit unusually strong talent. His rec

$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).

#45Nassim 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.

#46Beryl 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

#47Elicia McDonald

CEO & Partner

AirTree Ventures (Web3)

Elicia backs highly ambitious, resilient founders from Australia and New Zealand, often beginning at pre-seed or seed and supporting them across later rounds. Her disclosed portfolio spans AI-enabled

Neither Airtree nor Elicia publishes her personal check range or decision authority. Airtree describes itself as seed-first and able to support companies through their journey; a historic Fund III article mentioned a $200k seed entry point, but that is firm- and vintage-specific rather than a current personal range.

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.

#48Wyatt 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

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.

#49Michael 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

#50Abdul Al Ali

Venture Investor

Decasonic

Abdul invests at the application and interface layers where Web3 provides programmable trust, ownership or economic coordination for AI systems. His current work emphasizes physical AI and robotics da

No Abdul-specific check range is public. Decasonic's current team page calls him Venture Investor and says founder Paul Hsu is the firm's sole general partner, so this profile does not imply unilateral allocation authority. Confirm current vehicle, instrument, lead appetite and check size directly.

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.

#51Claude 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

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

#52Elad 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

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.

#53Mason 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 personal or venture-partner check range is published. Blockchain Capital's announced financing rounds and Tare's seed round are transaction sizes, not a reliable proxy for Lucas's individual authority.

#54Lucas Vogelsang

VENTURE PARTNER

Blockchain Capital

Lucas specializes in rebuilding credit and capital markets on shared blockchain infrastructure. His operating record points to tokenized funds, real-world assets, institutional DeFi, and end-to-end le

SeedEarly StageProtocol Networks

#55Nimi Katragadda

Partner

BoxGroup

Nimi is a generalist early-stage Partner with a long-running, publicly documented focus on healthcare and life sciences, fintech, marketplaces, and software. Her current activity extends that lens int

BoxGroup currently publishes a firm-wide maximum investment of $1M. Historical sources reported smaller firm checks and third-party profiles estimate $250K–$750K for Nimi, but no primary source confirms a current personal range.

No current check size or active angel mandate is verified. Scalar Capital stopped deploying new capital in September 2023 and moved into maintenance mode; Linda continued supporting its existing portfolio while transitioning back to building.

#56Linda Xie

Builder & Former Crypto Investor

Historical Scalar lens, not a current investment mandate: back genuinely new crypto systems where decentralization or censorship resistance is essential, people have a real reason to use the product,

Historical: Early StageHistorical: Liquid CryptoassetsNot Currently Investing

#57Ching Tseng

Investment Director

AppWorks

Ching backs global Web3 founders and infrastructure that can make decentralized systems useful, secure, and accessible at scale. Her work emphasizes founder vision, determination, domain expertise, an

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 Ching's personal allocation range.

No reliable Arielle-specific check size is public. BoxGroup describes itself as an earliest-stage investor, but founders should confirm current round fit and allocation directly rather than relying on third-party range estimates.

#58Arielle Rothman

Investor

BoxGroup

Arielle invests within BoxGroup's broad earliest-stage mandate. Her differentiated documented context is technical and translational: Harvard bioengineering research, founding a postpartum medical-dev

Pre-seedSeedEarliest-stage company formation

#59David Weiden

Founding Partner and Managing Director

Khosla Ventures

David backs internet software and services with the potential to become large, durable businesses. His operator writing emphasizes product-management accountability, quantitative decision-making, and

No personal check-size range is published. Khosla Ventures invests from seed through growth, but fund assets and portfolio round sizes are not David's personal minimum or maximum.

SeedEarly StageSeries A

#60Anay Simunovic

Investor

Blockchain Capital

Anay focuses on the intersection of consumer behavior and crypto. Her work favors products that hide blockchain complexity inside a trusted, culturally native experience: mobile-first financial platfo

No personal check range or unilateral authority is publicly disclosed. Blockchain Capital is a multi-stage investor in equity and crypto assets; its September 2026 NG.CASH article announces a $15M BCAP investment, but that figure is a specific firm investment co-authored with a GP, not Anay's standard ticket.

SeedEarly StageMulti-Stage

#61Nicole 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.

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 Nathan's personal allocation range.

#62Nathan Alexander

Investment VP

AppWorks

Nathan favors AI and software that hide technical complexity and remove customer friction. His product lens treats simplicity as a defensible outcome of customer obsession, opinionated design, discipl

#63Scott Kominers

Ethereal Ventures

Academic turned crypto investor, bringing rigorous economic thinking to token design and mechanism design. Ethereal Ventures invests in crypto projects with strong economic foundations.

$500K–$1M, from a current public ether.fi Ventures fundraising statement. The live site positions Fund I at pre-seed through Series A and publishes ventures@ether.fi. Confirm allocation, instrument, ownership target and whether the fund will lead; the current site says $20M committed capital while the April 2025 launch post described $40M, so fund-size headlines should not be used to infer check capacity.

#64David Hsu

General Partner

ether.fi Ventures

David backs technical, early-stage teams at the intersection of finance, AI and crypto that pair crypto-native properties with real adoption. His clearest current thesis is a two-layer build: first ac

ResilienceVC does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its official site; its debut fund is $56M.

#65Bryson Hearne

Associate

ResilienceVC

Bryson Hearne invests or supports investments through ResilienceVC's published strategy: Invest in technology and business models that improve financial resilience for underserved consumers and small

ResilienceVC does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its official site; its debut fund is $56M.

#66Maayan Teper

Associate

ResilienceVC

Maayan Teper invests or supports investments through ResilienceVC's published strategy: Invest in technology and business models that improve financial resilience for underserved consumers and small b

USV states that the firm writes $1 million to $30 million checks and invests from the earliest stages through the full company journey. This is a firm-wide range, not Albert's personal check authority; decisions are discussed collectively without a formal vote.

#67Albert Wenger

Partner

Union Square Ventures (USV)

Albert is a thesis-driven generalist investing at the edge of large markets under technological and societal pressure. His current work emphasizes AI-enabled scientific discovery, robotics that can op

No individual check range is disclosed. Dan is a Senior Associate on Hashed's investment and research team; published investment notes show thematic involvement but do not prove unilateral check authority or a standard ticket.

#68Dan Park

Senior Associate

Hashed

Dan looks for crypto infrastructure that removes adoption bottlenecks and connects on-chain systems to real economic activity. His investment writing favors ambient, developer-friendly infrastructure;

Norrsken VC's current live range is €1M–€10M across early stage and selected growth. It is a firm range, not David's personal check. Exact sizing, ownership and reserves depend on the applicable fund and company.

#69David Frykman

Founding General Partner

Norrsken VC

David backs scalable technology businesses that solve major problems and can become enduring category leaders. His long operating, angel and board history adds a company-scaling lens, while his curren

Early StageSeedSeries A

#70Yele Bademosi

Founder & CEO

Nestcoin

Building crypto infrastructure for Africa through Nestcoin. Focus on making crypto accessible to everyday Africans through exchanges, education, and local-first products.

No personal check-size range is published. Michiel invests through Northzone across early and selected later rounds; disclosed financing totals are company rounds and do not establish an individual check range.

#71Michiel Kotting

Partner

Northzone (Web3)

Michiel focuses on SaaS, healthcare, and AI, often where modern, collaborative, or intelligent software replaces complex legacy systems. His portfolio ranges from HR, manufacturing, architecture, logi

Faction does not publish a standard check range or Tim's personal authority. The official mandate is Seed and Series A, across equity and tokens; public financing sizes are not Faction check sizes.

#72Tim Khoury

Deal Partner

Lightspeed Faction

Tim is a crypto-native early-stage investor with an explicit interest at the intersection of crypto and AI. His WeatherXM work shows a demand-first DePIN lens: token incentives can coordinate distribu

Neither Airtree nor Jackie publishes her personal check range or decision authority. The firm is seed-first and supports companies through later stages; individual portfolio round totals do not reveal Airtree's allocation or Jackie's authority.

#73Jackie Vullinghs

Partner

AirTree Ventures (Web3)

Jackie backs Australia and New Zealand founders from very early product formation through scale. Her disclosed portfolio crosses AI and enterprise software, healthcare, fintech, consumer platforms, fu

No verified personal check-size range is published. Blockchain Capital describes itself as a multi-stage crypto investor; Yuan's public work spans seed-stage selection through later protocol and company support, but no individual allocation authority should be inferred.

#74Yuan Han Li

Partner

Blockchain Capital

Yuan backs crypto-native founders with earned insight, behavioral resilience, learning velocity, and the ability to translate non-consensus ideas into enduring systems. His technical work spans modula

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 Jessica's personal allocation range.

#75Jessica Liu

Partner

AppWorks

Jessica invests across Southeast Asian consumer internet and blockchain, especially where deep technology improves a familiar consumer behavior or unlocks a regional distribution advantage. Her portfo

Not publicly disclosed. Northzone states that the firm invests from Seed through Growth and can remain a partner through pre-IPO; Wendy's current profile labels her personal focus as Early and says she likes to work with founders from as early as seed.

#76Wendy Xiao

Partner

Northzone (Web3)

Wendy backs companies that change consumer behavior and expand the economic pie by capturing neglected externalities. She studies technology through people and behavior change, looking for a valuable

No personal check-size range is published. Jessica invests through Northzone's multi-stage funds; financing announcements report total rounds, not her personal allocation range.

#77Jessica Schultz

Partner

Northzone (Web3)

Jessica backs product-led platforms and UX-driven software that use technology and intuitive experiences to disrupt traditional industries. Her operator lens emphasizes speed and momentum at company f

#78Vance Spencer

Co-Founder & General Partner

Framework Ventures

DeFi, gaming, consumer crypto. High-conviction bets and active portfolio support.

No John-specific check range is public. DST Global is known for large growth-stage internet investments, but historical firm deal sizes or assets should not be converted into a personal allocation promise. Founders should confirm current stage, geography and round fit directly.

#79John Lindfors

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

DST Global

John's documented investment record centers on globally scaling internet and consumer-technology platforms. Public profiles associate him with DST investments in Spotify, JD.com and Didi and exits or

Growth StageLate StageGlobal internet scale-up

#80Gleb Dudka

Principal

Greenfield Capital

Gleb leads Greenfield's DeFi work, combining protocol research, infrastructure operating experience, and deal execution. His current research emphasizes capital-efficient and safer liquidity architect

Not publicly disclosed. Greenfield has led and joined pre-seed, seed, and Series A rounds, but public round sizes are not personal or firm check sizes.

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 Hayley.

#81Hayley Barna

Partner

First Round Capital

Hayley backs very early founders tackling real-world systems—especially healthcare, climate, supply chain, and commerce—that have been overlooked or written off as unsolvable. As a former founder, she

AngelPre-SeedSeed

#82Natalie Mullins

Investor

Bain Capital Crypto

Natalie's public footprint joins two sides of crypto investing: foundational protocol infrastructure and consumer experiences around identity, media, culture, games and creator economics. Her prior tr

No personal or standard ticket range is published. Bain Capital Crypto launched with a $560M fund and describes concentrated investing from seed through growth and across private and public markets; this firm-level capital base does not imply Natalie's individual authority or a fixed check size.

Norrsken VC currently publishes €1M–€10M early-stage and growth tickets. This is a firm range rather than Anna's personal authority. Confirm geography, initial ticket, ownership, reserves and impact qualification through the firm's pitch process.

#83Anna Lundin

Investment Manager

Norrsken VC

Anna combines Norrsken's impact-return mandate with eight years of strategy, operations and international market expansion at Spotify. Her likely value is testing whether an early impact company can t

Early StageSeedSeries A

#84David Lieb

General Partner

Y Combinator

David's founder story centers on building a simple mobile product to massive reach, confronting weak long-term retention and monetization honestly, then following the strongest user behavior into a be

YC's current standard deal is $500K for each accepted company: $125K for 7% on a post-money SAFE plus $375K on an uncapped MFN SAFE, accompanied by YC's participation right. It is a program-wide deal, not David's personal angel range.

IdeaPre-SeedBatch-stage startup

#85Azi Mandias

Investor

CoinFund

Azi looks for sovereign, user-controlled computing across crypto and AI. His interests span decentralized AI, novel consumer applications, applied privacy, new Layer 1 designs and post-quantum infrast

No personal check range or led CoinFund investment is publicly disclosed. Azi joined the investment team in July 2026; his official profile cites earlier seed investments in Osmosis and Ondo, but those do not establish a current CoinFund ticket or independent authority.

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

#86Sonya 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

#87Alessandro De Benedetti

Associate

Northzone (Web3)

Alessandro focuses on early-stage companies across the AI stack. His named Northzone portfolio spans AI-native infrastructure and applications—Duvo.ai, MicroAGI, Riff, and SolveAI—alongside consumer c

No personal check-size range is published. Northzone is a multi-stage firm and Alessandro's official remit is early-stage AI; founders should confirm fit and round parameters directly rather than infer a personal allocation from portfolio rounds.

Faction does not publish a standard check range or Will's personal allocation authority. Its official mandate is Seed and Series A, using equity and tokens; observed round sizes are not check-size evidence.

#88Will Leas

Deal Partner

Lightspeed Faction

Will invests in useful early-stage blockchain projects across equity and tokens. His public Meld thesis highlights infrastructure that connects traditional money and crypto: simple, compliant, develop

BoxGroup publicly invests up to $1M. Older third-party profiles place Adina's typical early-stage range around $250K–$500K, but founders should treat the firm's current $1M ceiling—not an old personal range—as authoritative.

#89Adina Davis

Partner

BoxGroup

Adina is an early-stage generalist with a publicly documented emphasis on B2B software, consumer internet, and fintech. Her operating background in e-commerce and recent visible interest in AI deploym

BoxGroup publicly states that it invests up to $1M and seeks to be a company's first commitment. No reliable source publishes a separate personal allocation range for Adam.

#90Adam Rothenberg

Partner

BoxGroup

Adam invests as a broad early-stage generalist within BoxGroup's people-first model: meet founders before a company is fully formed, judge founder-market fit and leadership potential, and back categor

Faction does not publish a standard check range or Clara's personal allocation authority. Its official mandate is Seed and Series A investments across equity and tokens; public round sizes must not be mistaken for Faction's check size.

#91Clara Boh

Deal Partner

Lightspeed Faction

Clara invests within Faction's early-stage, crypto-native mandate: Seed and Series A projects across the stack, in equity or tokens, that create fundamental utility and push the industry forward. Publ

Album VC does not publish a standard current check-size range.

#92Sid Krommenhoek

Partner

Album VC

Sid Krommenhoek invests or supports investments through Album VC's published strategy: Invest in early-stage technology startups, with a long record across enterprise software, fintech, education, con

No personal or current firm check-size range is published. Northzone describes itself as a seed-to-growth investor; individual round sizes should be confirmed directly rather than inferred from its USD 3.1B+ assets under management.

#93Andrea Gazvini

Associate

Northzone (Web3)

Andrea is a generalist technology investor covering early-stage through growth companies across the Nordics and beyond. Her stated founder lens emphasizes contagious energy, relentless drive, and a bo

01A does not publish a standard check-size range on its official site.

#94Adam Bain

Team Member

01A

Adam Bain is listed in a Team Member capacity at 01A. The official roster does not establish a personal investment mandate for this role; the firm's strategy is included only as organizational context

Series ASeries BSeries C

#95Turner Novak

Founder and General Partner

Banana Capital

Turner Novak invests or supports investments through Banana Capital's published strategy: Back resilient, obsessed founders with a non-obvious insight, defensible distribution, credible revenue prospe

Up to $250K in pre-seed and seed rounds, as published by Banana Capital.

01A does not publish a standard check-size range on its official site.

#96Liat Bycel

Team Member

01A

Liat Bycel is listed in a Team Member capacity at 01A. The official roster does not establish a personal investment mandate for this role; the firm's strategy is included only as organizational contex

Series ASeries BSeries C

#97Liz Wessel

Partner

First Round Capital

Liz invests at the earliest stages across categories, with a stated soft spot for startups reimagining old-school industries and companies made possible by breakthrough technologies. Her founder lens

Firm-level: First Round says its average initial investment is $3.5M, with investments in rounds from $100K to $20M.

#98Li Jin

Co-Founder & General Partner

Variant Fund

Creator economy, passion economy, crypto-enabled creator business models.

Verda's live FAQ says the MiniPay Fund typically invests $100K–$250K initially at earlier stages and $500K–$2M later, seeks roughly 5–10% early ownership and 2–6% later, and can be first check or co-invest. These are current vehicle ranges, not Amit's personal angel checks.

#99Amit Chu

Co-Founder and Partner

Verda Ventures

Amit backs fintech companies using stablecoin rails to deliver useful financial products in emerging markets. Verda's MiniPay strategy combines capital with Opera distribution and Celo infrastructure,

Idea and IncubationPre-SeedSeed

#100Kayla Phillips

Senior Investment Principal, Hivemind Capital Partners

Hivemind Capital

Phillips's overarching thesis is bridging the on-chain and off-chain worlds, primarily through market infrastructure — the 'unsexy backbone' of stablecoins, settlement rails, custody, tokenization, an

Hivemind invests across pre-seed through Series B; typical venture checks $500K-$5M with capacity to lead