Best VCs for Crypto

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.

#2Jay 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+ (multi-stage, also invests personally and through Thiel Capital)

#3Peter 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

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.

#4Lucas 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

#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

#7Shan 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.

#8Chris 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

#9Sterling 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

#10Guy Wuollet

General Partner

a16z crypto

Guy invests across the crypto stack with a technical focus on infrastructure, DeFi, and decentralized physical infrastructure. He looks for blockchains to coordinate markets that centralized intermedi

No personal check-size range is published. Public seed, Series A, and later financing amounts are company-level transaction sizes and are not a defensible proxy for Guy's individual range or allocation authority.

$250K–$500K stated first-check range in a current @FryCookVC public post, with 'no matter how early' guidance. Plutos describes investing from pre-seed through Series A across equity and token rounds. Confirm currency, ownership, reserves and whether the range applies to the Genesis Fund before relying on it.

#11Lukas Kristen

General Partner

Plutos Capital

Lukas backs deeply technical founders building sovereign, privacy-enabling infrastructure across blockchain, AI and dual-use systems. His central claim is that institutions need the openness, neutral

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.

#12Laura 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

$600K–$900K at pre-seed and seed, published on Varrock's live website. The fund targets a small, concentrated portfolio, commonly 0–1 new investment per quarter, to maintain ownership and hands-on capacity rather than spray and pray.

#13Richard Chen

Founder & Solo GP

Varrock VC

Richard backs concentrated, contrarian pre-seed and seed bets in the future of finance. For crypto-native products, he looks for category creation, missionary founders, power-user retention and contin

Pre-SeedSeed

#14Nihal 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

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.

Early StageVentureGrowth

#15Andy 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 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.

No personal check-size or allocation authority is published. Spartan Capital manages liquid, DeFi, gaming/metaverse, and market-neutral funds; the firm's $500M stated AUM and portfolio activity are not a personal check range for José.

#16Fred 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

#17Jose Sanchez

Head of research, Investment Associate

The Spartan Group

José researches and evaluates liquid and protocol opportunities for Spartan Capital. His work focuses on crypto becoming financial infrastructure: stablecoin adoption, yield markets, institutional use

Public TokensLiquid MarketsProtocol Investments

#18Ryan 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

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.

Pre-seedSeedEarly Stage

#19Chris Perkins

Head of Franklin Crypto

Franklin Templeton

Chris bridges crypto-native markets and traditional institutional finance. As Head of Franklin Crypto, he leads active digital-asset strategies across tokens, protocols, and fintech opportunities. His

Franklin Crypto offers actively managed cryptocurrency strategies to institutional investors; it does not publish a personal venture check range for Chris. His current remit spans liquid digital-asset portfolio management rather than a disclosed startup check mandate, so past CoinFund round sizes are not used as a proxy.

Liquid TokensPublic MarketsInstitutional Asset Management

#20Micky 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+

Paradigm backs companies from first check through public markets, but neither the firm nor Ricardo publishes his personal check range or decision authority. Portfolio round totals and a historical firm-wide range are not treated as personal allocation evidence.

#21Ricardo de Arruda

Partner, Investing & Research

Paradigm

Ricardo uses large-scale onchain data to distinguish real crypto adoption from activity manufactured by incentives or sybils. He focuses on new ecosystems, user acquisition and retention, token distri

No personal check-size range is published. Greenfield invests across pre-seed through later stages, while Christian's stated responsibility is implementing investment decisions rather than owning a public personal allocation range.

#22Christian Zimmermann

Partner and Chief Operating Officer

Greenfield Capital

Christian applies transaction, regulatory, and policy expertise to executing Greenfield's crypto investments. His work argues for clear decentralization standards, practical token tax treatment, open

Paradigm says it backs founders at every stage from first check through public markets, but it does not publish Alpin's personal check range or decision authority. A 2024 firm filing described vehicle investments from $1M to $100M or more; that historical firm range is not treated as his current personal range.

#23Alpin Yukseloglu

Partner, Investing & Research

Paradigm

Alpin partners with crypto founders and researchers who have strong instincts about the future and the courage to follow them. His work centers on protocol, market, and mechanism design—especially sys

No personal or standard Collider check-size range is published. A disclosed $6.7M seed round was the total financing for one company and must not be treated as Avishay's personal or firm-wide check range.

#24Avishay Ovadia

Founding Partner

Collider Ventures

Avishay is a founder-first, contrarian crypto investor who treats decentralized systems as political and economic networks, not just software. He looks for leaders who can align the four constituencie

USV states that the firm writes $1 million to $30 million checks from the earliest stages onward. It does not publish Brad's personal range or authority; investments are discussed by the full partnership and decided collectively without a vote.

#25Brad Burnham

Co-Founder and Venture Partner

Union Square Ventures (USV)

Brad's published investing work centers on preserving the internet's permissionless, generative character. He has backed open communications and data infrastructure, decentralized protocols with incen

No personal check-size range is published. Greenfield's venture mandate spans pre-seed through later stages; financing amounts in Felix's investment essays are company-round totals, not personal limits.

#26Felix Machart

Research Partner

Greenfield Capital

Felix uses research and market data to identify durable crypto infrastructure and distinguish fundamental adoption from speculation. His work favors protocols with measurable usage, revenue or value a

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.

#27Brett 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

Not disclosed and not inferable. Peyman is listed as a Research Partner, so founders should treat him as a domain expert and technical thesis contributor unless Hack VC confirms participation in a specific investment decision.

#28Peyman Momeni

Research Partner

Hack VC

Peyman treats confidentiality as market infrastructure rather than an abstract right. His research uses identity-based encryption and distributed decryption to prevent front-running with dramatically

Technical ResearchProtocol DesignPre-Seed

#29John 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.

#30Jared 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

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.

#31Elizabeth 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

#32Stewart Eichner

Partner, Chief Legal Officer & Chief Compliance Officer

CoinFund

Stewart's legal lens separates a digital asset from the facts and method of its distribution. His Ripple analysis emphasizes that the same token may receive different securities treatment depending on

No Stewart-specific check size or allocation authority is public. His mandate covers CoinFund's legal, regulatory and compliance affairs. Founders should send project materials through CoinFund's projects channel and engage counsel on token, offering and compliance structure rather than assuming Stewart is the investment sponsor.

Fund formation and complianceToken and financing structure reviewRegulatory engagement

#33Storm Slivkoff

Research Partner

Paradigm

Storm evaluates decentralized systems through high-resolution data, reproducible measurement, and open tooling. His work spans Ethereum state and history growth, node performance, market-volume accoun

No personal check range or investment authority is published for Storm. Paradigm invests from first check through public markets, but Storm's official remit is frontier data-science and data-engineering research, not a stated personal allocation range.

ResearchTechnical DiligencePortfolio Support

#34Beryl 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

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.

Pre-seedSeedEarly Stage

#35Michael 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

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.

Pre-seedHackathon to acceleratorInitial product sprint

#36Wyatt 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

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.

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.

#37Banafsheh 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

SeedSeries AToken Networks

#38Caitlin Pintavorn

Venture Partner

Paradigm

Caitlin is a Paradigm venture partner and Stripe zero-to-one strategist whose published investment perspective centers on crypto's ability to improve online coordination and create internet-native eco

No personal check range or decision authority is published. Paradigm invests from first check through public markets, but Caitlin's current collaborator status and the firm's capital base do not establish an individual check size.

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.

#39Claude 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

Not applicable to Matt's finance-operations role. He has no published personal investment authority or check size. Founder materials should be sent to CoinFund's projects address, while finance, administration or investor requests should follow the relevant official channel.

#40Matt Manley

Senior Finance Associate

CoinFund

Matt's operating lens joins audit discipline with crypto-native middle-office experience: substantiate data completeness and accuracy, turn raw records into understandable reporting, automate repeatab

Fund finance operationsMiddle-office reportingProcess automation

#41David 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

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.

#42Abdul 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 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.

#43Mason 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 Stanko-specific check range is public. A current third-party V3V profile reports a firm-level typical range of $100K–$1M at pre-seed/seed, while public round databases describe the larger rounds V3V joins rather than its own checks. Treat $100K–$1M as directional and confirm instrument, allocation and follow-on capacity directly.

#44Stanko Nedic

Partner

V3V Ventures

Stanko invests in early-stage software, digital infrastructure and emerging technology, with a strong Web3 focus and an engineer's bias toward difficult, foundational systems. His current public filte

Pre-seedSeedSelective later follow-on

#45Elad 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)

No reliable public standard ticket or Jehan-specific approval range was found. Kenetic invests its family-office capital in direct blockchain companies, tokens and other crypto funds, and its published site emphasizes Series A/B equity; historical and interview evidence also shows seed, token and incubation activity. Ask directly rather than inferring a check from round size.

#46Jehan Chu

Founder & Managing Partner

Kenetic Capital

Jehan treats blockchain as the next internet and backs the data, infrastructure, enterprise, trading and financial systems that can anchor a natively digital economy. He underwrites the founders first

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.

#47Linda 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

#48Samir 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

#49Mike Zajko

Co-Founder & General Partner

Lattice Fund

Mike backs infrastructure, networks and applications that make money, markets and scarce resources more open. He originated Lattice's 2022 Token-Incentivized Physical Infrastructure Networks thesis an

$250K–$1M from pre-seed through Series A, per Lattice's current official approach page. The firm says it invests globally, makes fast independent decisions and seeks non-consensus companies at their earliest stages.

Not applicable as a personal founder check. Raye is a digital-assets research associate supporting ARK's managed investment strategies; the cited sources do not establish personal venture check-writing authority or a standard startup ticket.

#50Raye Hadi

Research Associate, Digital Assets

ARK Invest

Raye analyzes how cryptoassets can disrupt legacy financial systems, with particular depth in stablecoin architecture and DeFi application economics. He evaluates networks and tokens through reserves,

Liquid CryptoassetsPublic MarketsThematic Research

#51Ren 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.

Paradigm invests at every stage, from first check through public markets. Its fourth fund is $1.2 billion, but neither the firm nor Alana publishes a personal check range; the fund size is therefore not treated as her check authority.

#52Alana Palmedo

Managing Partner

Paradigm

Alana co-leads a research- and builder-led strategy that backs ambitious technical founders from first check through public markets. Paradigm began in crypto and now targets the fastest-moving technol

No personal check-size range is published. Greenfield's venture strategy spans pre-seed through later rounds; disclosed portfolio round totals are not Andrzej's personal allocation limits.

#53Andrzej Dzius

Partner and Chief Technology Officer

Greenfield Capital

Andrzej brings an operator-CTO lens to Greenfield's crypto portfolio. His current published work emphasizes privacy as general-purpose infrastructure and backs decentralized encrypted computation that

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.

#54Ching 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

No personal check-size range is published. USV invests at the earliest stages and supports companies throughout their journey; investment decisions are made collaboratively by discussion rather than individual vote.

#55Nick Grossman

Partner

Union Square Ventures (USV)

Nick's work connects open, decentralized systems with the infrastructure needed for the next computing cycle. His current 'Rebel Alliance' thesis argues that agentic AI will favor a modular ecosystem

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.

#56Josh 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

Early StageGrowth StagePrivate Markets

#57Alison Davis

Founder and Managing Partner; Blockchain Capital Advisor

Blockchain Coinvestors / Fifth Era

Alison invests around technological change in financial services and the transition toward blockchain and Web3. Through Fifth Era and Blockchain Coinvestors she combines a fund-of-funds view of the cr

No Alison-specific check range is public. Blockchain Coinvestors has managed fund-of-funds and direct early-stage token strategies, but vehicle documents and historical target sizes are not personal check-size promises. Founders and managers should identify the relevant vehicle and confirm current allocation capacity.

Venture fund investingFund of fundsEarly-stage technology

#58Yerui 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.

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.

#59Jin 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 Brian-specific or official current check range is public. NLH Fund II is positioned to lead early-stage native-crypto investments, and the firm's disclosed portfolio spans pre-seed, seed, strategic and Series A rounds. Round totals are not personal check sizes; founders should ask Brian or the firm about current sizing and instrument.

#60Brian Breslow

Investor

No Limit Holdings

Brian invests in early-stage blockchain infrastructure and crypto-native businesses where a protocol or token can coordinate a real resource, market or financial rail. His recent work looks beyond def

No personal check-size range is published. Faction invests at Seed and Series A through equity and tokens; its fund size and portfolio rounds are not Raymond's personal allocation parameters.

#61Raymond Feng

Technical Partner

Lightspeed Faction

As Faction's Technical Partner, Raymond evaluates early blockchain companies across the stack, from base infrastructure to applications. The safest evidence-supported interpretation of his mandate is

SeedSeries AToken Networks

#62John DiBattista

Investor Services Manager

CoinFund

John's documented role serves investors in CoinFund's vehicles rather than selecting portfolio companies. The available career trail is fund-administration oriented, and his public activity emphasizes

Not applicable to an investor-services role. No personal startup allocation, check size or investment-committee authority is public. Founder materials belong at projects@coinfund.io; existing or prospective fund investors should use ir@coinfund.io.

Fund investor onboardingInvestor servicingFund administration support

#63Elijah Fox

Investment Partner

Variant Fund

Elijah backs technically ambitious founders building new mechanisms, markets and infrastructure. His work joins crypto market design with a widening AI thesis: mature financial systems need expressive

Variant does not publish a reliable personal check range. Elijah works at the earliest stages, but founders should confirm fund vehicle, allocation, ownership, lead/co-lead appetite, token/equity structure and reserves with the partnership.

No personal check range or deal authority is disclosed. Jonah is an Investor focused on research and new opportunities at a multi-stage firm; public work and academic research demonstrate thesis depth, not a standard individual ticket.

#64Scott 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.

SeedSeries A

#65Jonah Burian

Investor

Blockchain Capital

Jonah studies where value and power accrue as crypto infrastructure matures. He argues that open rails can unbundle closed payment networks; user-owning applications can compress infrastructure margin

ResearchSeedEarly Stage

#66Wei Dai

Research Partner

1kx

Wei invests in the financial and security infrastructure that lets blockchains and autonomous software reduce the cost of trust without sacrificing safety. His work joins deep cryptography with ventur

No Wei-specific check range is published. 1kx raised a $75M fund in 2024 and says it writes first checks across cycles, but neither fact establishes an individual ticket; founders should use the firm's pitch channel for current sizing.

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

Not applicable to Jordan's startup-activation role. No personal check size or investment authority is public. Funding pitches should go to CV VC's named investment team or an official accelerator application, as appropriate.

#68Jordan Burgess

Program Associate, CV Labs Startup Activation

CV VC

Jordan's documented remit is startup activation at CV Labs: helping founders enter and navigate CV VC's blockchain ecosystem and programs. The role may touch sourcing, program delivery and founder rea

Startup activationAccelerator programmingFounder onboarding

#69Yele 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

#70Lorenz Furrer

Investor Relations

CV VC

Lorenz's CV VC remit is investor relations and executive stakeholder engagement around blockchain venture capital. His public activity emphasizes Switzerland's Crypto Valley, institutional and politic

Not applicable to the documented investor-relations function. No Lorenz-specific portfolio-company check size or deal authority is public. Founders should contact CV VC's investment team; limited partners should use the firm's official investor-relations path.

Fund investor relationsCapital formationInstitutional stakeholder engagement

#71Abbey Hamstra

Partner, Head of Investor Relations and Operations

CoinFund

Abbey's role is institutional fund access and operations rather than direct company underwriting. The relevant lens is whether a prospective allocator understands CoinFund's platform, strategies, risk

Not applicable to Abbey's documented role. She explains CoinFund's offerings to prospective and current limited partners and leads investor relations and operations. Startup financing pitches should go to CoinFund's listed investment team; fund-allocation inquiries should state allocator type and mandate.

Limited-partner relationship developmentFund due diligenceFund onboarding

#72Jonah Burian

Investor

Blockchain Capital

ResearchSeedEarly Stage

#73David 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

$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.

Not applicable to Rachel's documented Investor Strategy role. No personal portfolio-company check size or allocation authority is public. Founders should approach a member of Electric Capital's investment team; existing or prospective LPs should use the firm's official channel.

#74Rachel Henderson

Senior Associate, Investor Strategy

Electric Capital

Rachel's documented expertise is institutional investor strategy: serving limited partners, supporting fundraising and investor relations, researching public-equity managers and executing firm-wide in

Limited-partner engagementFundraising and investor relationsInstitutional manager due diligence

#75Dan 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;

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.

No current personal investing authority is verified. NIV presently publishes a $500K–$5M early-stage range, but Rob is absent from the current roster and should not be treated as a live contact or check writer for the firm.

#76Rob Williams

Former Venture Investor

North Island Ventures

Historical only: his recorded NIV work combined early-stage sourcing and diligence with founder experience in onchain retail investing. The current NIV thesis now spans agentic finance, stablecoins, o

Historical: Early StageNot Currently Verified

#77Dan Morehead

Founder & Managing Partner

Pantera Capital

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

#78Matt Huang

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Paradigm

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

Not applicable to Kyle's investor-relations role. No personal startup check size or investment authority is public. Founders should approach a listed Blockchain Capital investor; fund investors should use the firm's IR channel or secure investor portal.

#79Kyle Gluskin

Director of Investor Relations

Blockchain Capital

Kyle builds the infrastructure and communication layer through which Blockchain Capital serves and raises from global fund investors. Her remit spans IR systems, workflows, LP communications and coord

Fundraising infrastructureLimited-partner communicationsInvestor servicing

#80Anay 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

#81Tim 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

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.

Inception does not publish a David-specific check range on its live site. A 2026 interview described an $80M platform split between a $50M venture fund and $30M fund-of-funds, but vehicle size is not personal check size. Founders should ask directly about current round, ownership and reserve fit.

#82Joel Monegro

Partner

Placeholder

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

#83David Gan

Founding General Partner

Inception Capital

David runs a dual strategy: direct early-stage venture investments and backing emerging fund managers, sometimes through management-company or GP stakes. His edge is an East-West network connecting U.

Inception StagePre-SeedSeed

#84Chris Burniske

Partner

Placeholder

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

#85Yuan 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

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.

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.

#86Natalie 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

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.

#87Gleb 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 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.

#88Jake 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

Liquid AssetsCrypto MarketsPortfolio and Risk Analysis

#89Vikram 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.

#90Ali Yahya

General Partner

a16z crypto

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

Not applicable to Clare's documented capital-formation remit. No personal startup check size or allocation authority is public. Prospective LPs can approach her about 1kx fund relationships; founders should use 1kx's investment team and official channels.

#91Clare He

Managing Director, Capital Formation

1kx

Clare's mandate is to connect institutional capital with 1kx's blockchain investment strategy. Her official biography combines more than a decade in venture capital, private equity, growth equity, sta

Fund strategy and fundraisingLimited-partner diligenceInstitutional relationship management

#92Tom Shaughnessy

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Delphi Ventures

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

#93Michael Novogratz

Founder & CEO

Galaxy Digital

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

#94Azi 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.

No reliable Mark-specific ticket range is public. Haun invests from seed through scale from two fund families and announced $1 billion of new early- and later-stage capital in May 2026; the firm does not publish a standard ticket on the cited first-party pages.

#95Mark Beylin

Principal

Haun Ventures

Mark combines a builder's understanding of smart contracts and token incentives with early-stage investing. Current evidence points to founders building useful crypto businesses rather than chasing ma

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.

#96Will 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

Electric Capital publicly advertises firm-level checks of $1M–$15M+ from pre-seed through Series A. No personal range or unilateral authority is disclosed for Geoff, so that firm range should be treated as routing context rather than his individual ticket.

#97Geoff YuHasker

Investor

Electric Capital

Geoff brings mechanism design, computational finance and systems engineering to frontier-technology investing. His work on ad auctions, algorithmic trading, rates derivatives and the SCION internet ar

No reliable Mark-specific ticket range is public. Haun invests from seed through scale and announced $1 billion of new early- and later-stage capital in May 2026; the cited first-party pages do not state a standard check.

#98Mark Beylin

Principal

Haun Ventures

Mark combines smart-contract and token-incentive building experience with early-stage investing. Current evidence favors useful crypto businesses rather than hype, particularly institutional market in