Best VCs for Bitcoin

35 venture capitalists actively investing in Bitcoin.

Active VCs

Funds

Deals

$1.3B

Total Invested

#1Nic Carter

Partner

Castle Island Ventures

Bitcoin infrastructure, stablecoins, and crypto data analytics. Known for Bitcoin advocacy and UTXO research.

2 deals

SeedSeries A

#2Matt Walsh

Co-Founder

Castle Island Ventures

Bitcoin infrastructure, stablecoins, and pragmatic crypto investing.

2 deals

SeedSeries A

#3Stacy Herbert

Director

El Salvador Bitcoin Office

Focused on Bitcoin-centric economic development in El Salvador, working on the country's Bitcoin adoption and Bitcoin-backed financial infrastructure.

GrantSeedGovernment Partnership

#4Torbjørn Bull Jenssen

CEO

Arcane Crypto

Investing in Bitcoin-focused and crypto infrastructure projects in the Nordics. Strong conviction in Bitcoin as the foundational crypto asset.

SeedSeries A

#5Banafsheh Fathieh

General Partner

Lightspeed Faction

Banafsheh backs early blockchain companies and token networks that create fundamental utility. Her public discussions emphasize the infrastructure or 'plumbing' of crypto, globally relevant financial

No personal check-size range is published. Faction invests at Seed and Series A through both equity and tokens; the firm's reported fund size and company round totals are not Banafsheh's personal range.

SeedSeries AToken Networks

#6Felipe Demartini

Associate

UTXO Management

Felipe specializes in Bitcoin-native assets and publicly listed Bitcoin treasury companies, combining fundamental research with short-, medium- and long-horizon trading. His work sits inside UTXO's vi

No Felipe-specific check size or investment authority is public. UTXO allocates across venture, liquid, public-market and structured-credit strategies; company founders and allocators should confirm the relevant vehicle and current sizing through the firm's contact channel.

Public MarketsLiquidVenture

#7Samir Kerbage

Chief Investment Officer

Hashdex

Samir views crypto as a long-horizon technology and asset-class allocation rather than a short-term trade. His framework has two complementary pillars: bitcoin maturing as a scarce store of value and

Samir is a public/liquid-markets asset manager rather than a disclosed venture check writer. Hashdex publishes fund and index methodologies, not a personal startup check range; pitches should concern investable assets, indexes, products, research, or institutional partnerships rather than assume venture capital authority.

Liquid AssetsPublic MarketsETFs

#8Abdul 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.

Pre-seedSeedSeries A

#9Josh Solesbury

Principal

ParaFi Capital

Josh focuses on blockchain infrastructure that can replace costly financial plumbing and connect digital assets to large, existing pools of economic activity. His public work highlights stablecoins fo

No personal check range is publicly disclosed. ParaFi's private-markets strategy backs early- and growth-stage companies and protocols, but firm AUM and individual transactions should not be converted into a presumed standard ticket or unilateral authority.

Early StageGrowth StagePrivate Markets

#10Ren CF

General Partner

Electric Capital

Ren backs deeply technical, trust-minimized systems and the builders who can turn them into usable infrastructure. His work combines protocol security, consensus game theory, smart-contract code analy

Electric Capital's current website publishes a $1M–$15M+ range from pre-seed through Series A; its January 2026 user-owned-technology thesis says it invests $1M–$20M in that theme. No separate personal range is published for Ren.

Pre-SeedSeedSeries A

#11Jin Ming Neo

Sr. Investment Research Associate

HashKey Capital

Jin Ming Neo contributes to broad, research-led sector evaluation across Web3. HashKey's coauthored 1H 2024 analysis favors teams with defined technical advantages, credible go-to-market, or proven ex

No reliable personal check range or individual signing authority is public. Jin Ming Neo is a research associate, so founders should treat HashKey Capital's fund strategy—not a directory estimate—as the relevant context and confirm stage, allocation, lead role, ownership, token/equity structure, and decision process with the investment team.

SeedSeries AEarly Stage

#12Yerui Zhang

Investment Director

HashKey Capital

Yerui is a HashKey investment director with documented fund-committee responsibility and a contributor to the firm's technical sector research. The research evaluates infrastructure and applications a

No verified personal check-size range is published. HashKey Capital operates multiple venture, liquid, and multi-strategy vehicles; fund size and disclosed portfolio rounds should not be converted into Yerui's individual authority.

SeedSeries AEarly Stage

#13Dan Morehead

Founder & Managing Partner

Pantera Capital

Crypto fund of funds and early-stage investing. Pioneer crypto VC.

#14Vikram Singh

Investor

Galaxy Ventures

Vikram studies the infrastructure that lets blockchains support Bitcoin programmability, mass-market stablecoin distribution and autonomous software. His writing moves from BitVM bridge economics to U

Galaxy Ventures Fund I closed at more than $175M and targets early-stage companies, but no standard personal or firm ticket range is published on the cited pages. No individual signing authority is inferred from Vikram's Investor title.

Pre-seedSeedSeries A

#15Jake Kim

Asset Manager

Hashed

Jake analyzes crypto assets through market structure, user demand, transparency and risk. He sees decentralized lending as a technically differentiated response to opaque custodial failures, while rec

Not applicable as a disclosed personal venture check range. Jake is publicly listed as an Asset Manager. Route startup fundraising to Hashed's investment team unless the firm confirms his participation in a specific venture process.

Liquid AssetsCrypto MarketsPortfolio and Risk Analysis

#16Paul Brodsky

Partner

Pantera Capital

Paul's published case for digital assets starts with monetary adoption: a cryptoasset becomes money only if a critical mass accepts it, but the possibility of that scale can justify a suitable asymmet

No person-specific venture check size is publicly disclosed. Pantera's venture strategy typically invests Seed through Series B, but Paul's public work is primarily macro and digital-asset allocation rather than individual startup ticket guidance.

Liquid Digital AssetsSeedSeries A

#17Michael Novogratz

Founder & CEO

Galaxy Digital

Macro crypto thesis, institutional crypto adoption. Galaxy Digital founder.

#18Clara 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

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.

SeedSeries AEarly Stage

#19Kayla 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

Pre-SeedSeedSeries A

#20Spencer Bogart

General Partner

Blockchain Capital

Broadly focused crypto investing. One of the longest-tenured crypto VCs.

SeedSeries ASeries B

#21Darius Tan

Associate

Mirana Ventures

Darius works on Mirana's direct venture portfolio and brings a research and advisory lens to crypto infrastructure and markets. His coauthored Bitcoin Layers work frames Bitcoin's secure settlement la

Mirana's current official website publishes a broad firm-level range of $1M–$40M from Pre-Seed through Series C. No Darius-specific ticket or decision authority is public, so founders should treat that as firm context rather than his personal check size.

Pre-seedSeedSeries A

#22Naval Ravikant

Angel Investor

Crypto as the native money of the internet. Believes in Bitcoin and Ethereum as protocols for digital money and digital trust.

AngelSeed

#23Adam Benayoun

Founding Partner

Collider Ventures

Collider says it is "shaping the future of the decentralized internet" through a contrarian, strictly non-consensus approach. The firm is doubling down on crypto and Israel while backing builders in I

Seed

#24Jack Lu

Partner

NGC Ventures

Jack evaluates blockchain projects through their economic and social mechanisms. His official remit emphasizes whether decentralized consensus, incentive provision, industrial organization and smart-c

NGC does not publish a Jack-specific check range on its official team page. Third-party investor directories estimate broad firm ranges, but those are not treated as verified personal authority. Founders should ask directly about stage, round and allocation fit.

SeedEarly StageProtocol formation

#25Bart Stephens

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Blockchain Capital

Co-founded Blockchain Capital in 2013, one of the first dedicated crypto funds. Long-term believer in Bitcoin as digital gold and blockchain as transformative infrastructure.

SeedSeries ASeries B

#26Meltem Demirors

Angel / Advisor

Bitcoin and institutional crypto investment thesis.

AngelToken

#27Marcelo Sampaio

Co-Founder & CEO

Hashdex

Crypto index investing and institutional adoption in LatAm.

TokenSeries A

#28Adam Gebner

Associate

ego death capital

Pre-seedSeedSeries A

#29Vineet Budki

Partner and CEO

Sigma Capital

Pre-seedSeedSeries A

#30Jackson Eun

Associate

Sora Ventures

SeedSeries AGrowth

#31Guillaume Girard

Investment Associate

UTXO Management

Pre-seedSeedSeries A

#32Tommy Chan

Head of DeFi Investment

Crypto.com Capital

SeedSeries A

#33Neo Su

Managing Partner

Arcane Group

SeedSeries AGrowth

#34Vikash Singh

Principal

Stillmark

Pre-seedSeedSeries A

#35Daniel Howard

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Halo XYZ

At Halo Capital, Howard backs early-stage companies across the pillars of the digital asset economy. Public descriptions of the firm emphasize a research- and data-driven approach, with interest spann

Early Stage

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