Best VCs for Crypto

45 venture capitalists actively investing in Crypto.

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#1Peter 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

$1M-$100M+ (multi-stage, also invests personally and through Thiel Capital)
SeedSeries ASeries B
#2Chris 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)
SeedSeries ASeries B
#3Fred Wilson

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Union Square Ventures (USV)

Backs 'trusted brands that broaden access to knowledge, capital, and well-being by leveraging networks, platforms, and protocols.' The access thesis is the through-line: every investment should make s

$1M-$25M
Series ASeries B
#4Shan 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.

SeedSeries ASeries B
#5Qiao 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

Pre-seedSeed
#6Sarah 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
#7Christopher Chung

Partner

Hack VC

Investing in crypto infrastructure and emerging protocols at Hack VC. Focuses on technical due diligence and identifying strong engineering teams.

SeedSeries A
#8Micky Malka

Founder & Managing Partner

Ribbit Capital

Grew up in Venezuela during hyperinflation and institutional collapse. That lived experience of broken money systems drives everything. Mantra: 'The world needs more financial innovation and less fina

$1M-$50M+
SeedSeries ASeries B
#9Elad 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

$500K-$10M+ (flexible, has written checks as large as $50M+ in later-stage co-investments)
SeedSeries ASeries B
#10Yele 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.

Pre-seedSeed
#11Scott Kominers

GP

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.

SeedSeries A
#12Kayla 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
#13David 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
SeedSeries ASeries B
#14Rabeel Warraich

Founder & CEO

Daftar (Web3)

Daftar invests in tech and web3 across South Asia and MENA. One of the few funds bridging Pakistan's tech talent with global crypto opportunities.

Pre-seedSeed
#15Matt Huang

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Paradigm

Backs transformative crypto protocols and infrastructure. Crypto is the most important tech revolution since the internet.

SeedSeries ASeries B
#16Marcelo Cavazzoli

Founder & CEO

Lemon Ventures

Built Lemon Cash into Latin America's leading crypto app with 2M+ users. Lemon Ventures invests in crypto infrastructure for emerging markets.

Pre-seedSeed
#17Stephan Morais

Managing GP

Indico Capital

Indico Capital invests in tech and crypto from Lisbon. Helping build Portugal's reputation as a crypto-friendly European hub.

SeedSeries A
#18Eric Demuth

Co-founder & CEO

Bitpanda Ventures

Bitpanda is Europe's leading digital asset platform. Bitpanda Ventures invests in crypto and fintech across Europe from Vienna.

SeedSeries A
#19Wendy Xiao Schadeck

Partner, Web3

Northzone (Web3)

Leads Northzone's web3 investments from Stockholm. Northzone is one of Europe's top VCs, and Wendy brings a crypto-native lens to their portfolio.

SeedSeries A
#20Ali Yahya

General Partner

a16z Crypto

AI x crypto intersection, decentralized compute, infrastructure. Believes in AI-blockchain convergence.

SeedSeries ASeries B
#21Chris Burniske

Partner

Placeholder VC

Crypto valuation frameworks and portfolio theory. Co-creator of Placeholder's crypto thesis.

#22Neil Harounian

General Partner

Maximum Frequency Ventures

Operator-led crypto fund backing builders from idea to scale. Believes the hardest part of building in crypto isn't raising money — it's execution, and partners with founders as embedded co-builders r

Pre-seedSeed
#23Niraj Pant

Partner

Polychain Capital

ZK proofs, privacy infrastructure, developer tooling. Privacy is a fundamental right and crypto's key unsolved problem.

#24Charlie Noyes

General Partner

Paradigm

DeFi infrastructure, MEV, protocol economics. Intersection of market microstructure and blockchain design.

#25Daren Matsuoka

Partner

a16z Crypto

Data-driven crypto research. On-chain metrics, developer activity, ecosystem health. State of Crypto reports.

#26Joel Monegro

Partner

Placeholder VC

Fat protocol thesis and web3 infrastructure. Co-founder of Placeholder with Chris Burniske.

#27Dan Elitzer

Co-Founder

Nascent

Co-founded Nascent as a crypto-native fund investing in DeFi and infrastructure. Thesis-driven with a focus on protocols that create new financial primitives.

SeedSeries A
#28Imran Khan

Co-founder

Alliance DAO

Co-founded Alliance DAO as an accelerator for crypto startups. Focus on consumer crypto and DeFi applications.

Pre-seedSeed
#29Hoolie Tejwani

Head of Coinbase Ventures

Coinbase Ventures

Head of Coinbase Ventures, one of the most active corporate crypto investors globally. Coinbase Ventures takes a portfolio approach, investing across the entire crypto stack.

SeedSeries ASeries B
#30Jamie Lin

Chairman & Partner

AppWorks

AppWorks is Taiwan's leading accelerator and VC, with a dedicated web3 track. Investing in blockchain startups across Southeast Asia.

Pre-seedSeedSeries A
#31Pang Xue Kai

CEO Tokocrypto

Tokocrypto Ventures

Tokocrypto is Indonesia's leading crypto exchange. Tokocrypto Ventures invests in web3 projects targeting Southeast Asian markets.

SeedSeries A
#32Dan Morehead

Founder & Managing Partner

Pantera Capital

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

#33Michael Novogratz

Founder & CEO

Galaxy Digital

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

#34Eddy Lazzarin

CTO, a16z Crypto

a16z Crypto

Crypto infrastructure, developer platforms, open source and crypto incentives.

#35Arjun Balaji

General Partner

Paradigm

Crypto market structure, infrastructure, TradFi-DeFi intersection.

#36Tekin Salimi

Founder & GP

dao5

Crypto-native fund investing in DeFi, infrastructure, and consumer crypto. Believes in the DAO-native future of organizations.

SeedSeries A
#37Trace Mitchell

Founder & GP

Figment Capital

Infrastructure, MEV, and protocol-level investments. Deep focus on cryptographic and systems engineering innovation.

SeedSeries A
#38Tom Shaughnessy

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Delphi Ventures

DeFi research, crypto analytics, and investment analysis. Co-founded Delphi Digital.

#39Shayon Sengupta

Partner

Multicoin Capital

Consumer crypto, social tokens, attention economy. Crypto-native consumer applications.

#40Alex Pack

Managing Partner

Hack VC

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

SeedSeries A
#41Santiago R. Santos

Angel Investor

Crypto-native angel investor. Focuses on DeFi, NFTs, and onchain culture. Known for early Ethereum ecosystem bets.

Pre-seedSeedAngel
#42Vishal Kankani

Partner

Multicoin Capital

Infrastructure, bridges, interoperability. Cross-chain communication and multi-chain future.

#43Kinjal Shah

Partner

Blockchain Capital

Investment in early-stage blockchain companies and tokens.

#44Daniel 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
#45Syed Armani

Principal

Blockwall VC

At Blockwall, Armani invests within a pre-seed and seed Web3 strategy focused on the infrastructure and applications shaping a transparent, secure digital future. His profile and writing point to part

Pre-SeedSeed