Best VCs for Crypto
45 venture capitalists actively investing in Crypto.
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
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
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
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.
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
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
Partner
Hack VC
Investing in crypto infrastructure and emerging protocols at Hack VC. Focuses on technical due diligence and identifying strong engineering teams.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Paradigm
Backs transformative crypto protocols and infrastructure. Crypto is the most important tech revolution since the internet.
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.
Managing GP
Indico Capital
Indico Capital invests in tech and crypto from Lisbon. Helping build Portugal's reputation as a crypto-friendly European hub.
Co-founder & CEO
Bitpanda Ventures
Bitpanda is Europe's leading digital asset platform. Bitpanda Ventures invests in crypto and fintech across Europe from Vienna.
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.
General Partner
a16z Crypto
AI x crypto intersection, decentralized compute, infrastructure. Believes in AI-blockchain convergence.
Partner
Placeholder VC
Crypto valuation frameworks and portfolio theory. Co-creator of Placeholder's crypto thesis.
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
Partner
Polychain Capital
ZK proofs, privacy infrastructure, developer tooling. Privacy is a fundamental right and crypto's key unsolved problem.
General Partner
Paradigm
DeFi infrastructure, MEV, protocol economics. Intersection of market microstructure and blockchain design.
Partner
a16z Crypto
Data-driven crypto research. On-chain metrics, developer activity, ecosystem health. State of Crypto reports.
Partner
Placeholder VC
Fat protocol thesis and web3 infrastructure. Co-founder of Placeholder with Chris Burniske.
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.
Co-founder
Alliance DAO
Co-founded Alliance DAO as an accelerator for crypto startups. Focus on consumer crypto and DeFi applications.
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.
Chairman & Partner
AppWorks
AppWorks is Taiwan's leading accelerator and VC, with a dedicated web3 track. Investing in blockchain startups across Southeast Asia.
CEO Tokocrypto
Tokocrypto Ventures
Tokocrypto is Indonesia's leading crypto exchange. Tokocrypto Ventures invests in web3 projects targeting Southeast Asian markets.
Founder & Managing Partner
Pantera Capital
Crypto fund of funds and early-stage investing. Pioneer crypto VC.
Founder & CEO
Galaxy Digital
Macro crypto thesis, institutional crypto adoption. Galaxy Digital founder.
CTO, a16z Crypto
a16z Crypto
Crypto infrastructure, developer platforms, open source and crypto incentives.
General Partner
Paradigm
Crypto market structure, infrastructure, TradFi-DeFi intersection.
Founder & GP
dao5
Crypto-native fund investing in DeFi, infrastructure, and consumer crypto. Believes in the DAO-native future of organizations.
Founder & GP
Figment Capital
Infrastructure, MEV, and protocol-level investments. Deep focus on cryptographic and systems engineering innovation.
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Delphi Ventures
DeFi research, crypto analytics, and investment analysis. Co-founded Delphi Digital.
Partner
Multicoin Capital
Consumer crypto, social tokens, attention economy. Crypto-native consumer applications.
Managing Partner
Hack VC
Infrastructure, DeFi, and AI x crypto. Previously co-led Dragonfly before starting Hack VC.
Angel Investor
Crypto-native angel investor. Focuses on DeFi, NFTs, and onchain culture. Known for early Ethereum ecosystem bets.
Partner
Multicoin Capital
Infrastructure, bridges, interoperability. Cross-chain communication and multi-chain future.
Partner
Blockchain Capital
Investment in early-stage blockchain companies and tokens.
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
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