Best VCs for Design
12 venture capitalists actively investing in Design.
Partner
Kleiner Perkins
Leads Kleiner Perkins' enterprise practice. Previously at Social Capital where he led the Slack and Figma investments — two of the most product-obsessed enterprise companies ever built. Strong product
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Investment Partner
Variant Fund
Investing in the ownership economy at Variant Fund. Focuses on projects that shift value capture from platforms to users through token-based models.
Partner
Pantera Capital
Applies rigorous economic theory and mechanism design to crypto investing. Focuses on projects where game theory and incentive alignment are core to the value proposition.
Partner / Head of Delphi Labs
Delphi Ventures
Investing in DeFi and crypto infrastructure at Delphi Ventures. Focuses on technical evaluation of protocols and smart contract systems.
Partner
Polychain Capital
Investing in blockchain infrastructure and tokens at Polychain Capital, one of the most prominent crypto-native funds.
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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.
General Partner & Head of Research
Paradigm
DeFi mechanism design, AMM theory, MEV research. Novel financial primitives and their mathematical foundations.
Co-Chief Investment Officer
Pantera Capital
DeFi, prediction markets, protocol design. Creator of Augur.
CTO, a16z Crypto
a16z Crypto
Crypto infrastructure, developer platforms, open source and crypto incentives.
Partner / Head of Ventures
Delphi Ventures
Crypto research and quantitative analysis. Focus on tokenomics and protocol design.
Co-Founder & General Partner
Framework Ventures
DeFi governance and token economics. Active DeFi governance participant.
Founding General Partner
1kx
Token-based business models and early-stage investing. One of Europe's top crypto VCs.