Best VCs for Finance

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.

#5Guy 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

SeedSeries AEarly Stage

#6Jose 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

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.

Public TokensLiquid MarketsProtocol Investments

#7Micky 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

#8Vikas Raj

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

ResilienceVC

Vikas Raj invests or supports investments through ResilienceVC's published strategy: Invest in technology and business models that improve financial resilience for underserved consumers and small busi

ResilienceVC does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its official site; its debut fund is $56M.

ResilienceVC does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its official site; its debut fund is $56M.

#9Tahira Dosani

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

ResilienceVC

Tahira Dosani invests or supports investments through ResilienceVC's published strategy: Invest in technology and business models that improve financial resilience for underserved consumers and small

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.

#10Wyatt 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

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.

#11Matt 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

#12Caitlin 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.

CV VC's published early-stage program invests up to $500,000 in qualifying pre-seed and seed companies with an MVP and initial traction. This is a firm program limit, not Lukas's personal allocation range; other vehicles and follow-ons may differ.

#13Lukas Etter

Co-CIO & General Partner

CV VC

Lukas backs early frontier-technology companies building a decentralized and tokenized economy, with a current emphasis on traditional businesses moving onto blockchain rails and the convergence of bl

Pre-SeedSeedAccelerator

#14Lucas Vogelsang

VENTURE PARTNER

Blockchain Capital

Lucas specializes in rebuilding credit and capital markets on shared blockchain infrastructure. His operating record points to tokenized funds, real-world assets, institutional DeFi, and end-to-end le

No personal or venture-partner check range is published. Blockchain Capital's announced financing rounds and Tare's seed round are transaction sizes, not a reliable proxy for Lucas's individual authority.

SeedEarly StageProtocol Networks

#15Nathan Kwon

Partner

Shorooq Partners

Nathan uses tailored private credit to fill the financing gap left by conservative banks and to help technology companies reach their next growth milestone with less equity dilution. His underwriting

No standard personal ticket is published. Shorooq describes Nahda as flexible, tailored debt financing for high-growth and established MENA businesses. Public examples include $15M for Abhi and $12.5M for The Box, but those transactions are examples—not a stated minimum, maximum or personal range.

Growth StageSeries B+Established Companies

#16Yerui 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

#17Emily Cahill

Vice President, Investor Relations

Bessemer Venture Partners

Emily translates Bessemer's investment products and strategy into fundraising and product-specialist materials for institutional investors. Her prior infrastructure investment-banking and private-mark

Not applicable to Emily's IR mandate. There is no published personal check size or startup decision authority. Her materials work explains Bessemer products to fund investors; it does not make her a founder pitch target.

FundraisingProduct-specialist materialsLimited-partner communication

#18Coulter Mulligan

Partner, Marketing & Communications

UDHC

Coulter works with UDHC's early-stage onchain-finance portfolio, applying a marketing and communications lens to companies that can connect crypto-native infrastructure with the traditional financial

Coulter has publicly said UDHC writes checks from pre-seed through Series A. A verified OpenVC firm profile lists $50K–$2M as UDHC's first-check range and says the firm sometimes leads; treat that as directory-level firm guidance rather than a Coulter-specific commitment, and confirm current size and ownership directly.

Not applicable to Anne's investor-relations role. Founders should verify AppWorks' current fund-level check parameters with a listed investment professional; LP and fund-structure inquiries are within Anne's remit.

#19Anne Chen

Investor Relations Director

AppWorks

Anne's mandate is fund-side investor relations rather than startup selection. She connects AppWorks' LP base to the firm's funds and ecosystem, covering fundraising, fund structure and administration

Fundraising and LP relationsFund structuring and administration

#20Nicolas Kiep

Investment Associate

CV VC

Nicolas evaluates pre-seed and seed companies within CV VC's current frontier-technology mandate: AI-native automation, intelligent B2B systems, and programmable digital finance, with blockchain used

CV VC publicly invests up to $500,000 in pre-seed and seed companies meeting its MVP and initial-traction criteria. No personal check-size authority is published for Nicolas.

Not applicable. Helen is no longer at AirTree and her historical mandate was finance and operations, not a personal Web3 check-writing practice. Current founders should use AirTree's current investment team and published fund channels; operational peers should treat her record as experience, not present firm authority.

#21Helen Norton

Former Partner, Finance & Operations (departed April 2026)

AirTree Ventures (Web3)

Helen's contribution was building an institutional venture platform around the investors and founders: fund finance, governance, compliance, systems, LP relationships, organization and shared learning

Venture-firm formation and scalingFund finance and governanceLimited-partner and investor relations

#22Kunal Savjani

Venture Partner

Shorooq Partners

Kunal supports Shorooq's fintech and web3 practice with an operator's perspective across the UK, UAE, and Africa. His remit fits the firm's founder-first strategy: backing regional companies from idea

Shorooq invests across the equity journey from pre-seed through late-stage growth, but neither the firm nor Kunal publishes his personal check range or decision authority. Portfolio round totals are not treated as check-size evidence.

Woodstock does not publish a personal check range for Prashanth on its site. Third-party databases estimate firm ranges, but those estimates and portfolio round sizes are not treated as evidence of his individual authority.

#23Prashanth Swaminathan

Venture Partner

Woodstock Fund

Prashanth works within Woodstock's research-led early- and growth-stage Web3 strategy. The firm's three lenses are convergence, financialisation, and virtualisation: interoperable infrastructure that

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.

#24Anay 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

SeedEarly StageMulti-Stage

#25Yousef Albabtain

Partner

Shorooq Partners

Yousef backs technology businesses that can become durable leaders in Saudi Arabia and the wider MENA region. His public portfolio and Intelmatix commentary point to a value-investor lens: strong foun

No personal check range is published. Shorooq invests regionally from idea/pre-seed through late-stage growth via different vehicles. Founders should identify the stage-appropriate fund and not infer a check size from Yousef's Partner title or from announced company rounds.

Pre-SeedSeedEarly Stage

#26George Christopher

Principal

CoinFund

George looks for open, permissionless systems that expand financial access and remove cost, delay and gatekeeping from payments and DeFi. His writing starts with sharp workflow pain—especially cross-b

No standard personal ticket is published. CoinFund's 2026 articles identify the firm as lead on Trace's $32M Series A and Edge Markets' $29M Series A, with George authoring or contributing to the theses; round size is not equivalent to CoinFund's check or George's authority.

SeedSeries AEarly Stage

#27Bryson Hearne

Associate

ResilienceVC

Bryson Hearne invests or supports investments through ResilienceVC's published strategy: Invest in technology and business models that improve financial resilience for underserved consumers and small

ResilienceVC does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its official site; its debut fund is $56M.

ResilienceVC does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its official site; its debut fund is $56M.

#28Maayan Teper

Associate

ResilienceVC

Maayan Teper invests or supports investments through ResilienceVC's published strategy: Invest in technology and business models that improve financial resilience for underserved consumers and small b

Personal check size is not publicly disclosed. CoinFund invests from pre-seed through Series A and in liquid digital assets across multiple strategies.

#29Evan Feng

Partner

CoinFund

Evan applies fundamental-investing discipline to both venture and liquid crypto: identify the metrics that genuinely drive an asset, forecast them, define thesis-invalidation points in advance, and pr

CV VC's current founder page states that the firm invests up to $500,000 in pre-seed and seed companies with an MVP, initial traction, a pilot product, and revenue. No separate personal check range is published for David.

#30David Long

Co-CIO & General Partner

CV VC

David backs early-stage frontier-technology companies that make enterprise intelligence programmable or rebuild how value and trust move. CV VC's current strategy centers on automation, intelligent B2

No current first-party ticket range is published. Castle Island describes an early-stage mandate around public-blockchain infrastructure and applications; no personal range or unilateral authority is claimed for Henry.

#31Henry Harris

Investor

Castle Island Ventures

Henry brings data science and public-equity research to early-stage public-blockchain investing. His visible work concentrates on empirical stablecoin adoption and the health of DeFi markets: how coll

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.

#32Yuan 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

Growth-fund level: Big Pi Growth I states that it leads with €7M–€20M+ per company. Big Pi's overall platform spans €0.5M–€30M across funds. Neither range is published as Fanis's personal allocation authority.

#33Fanis Tsarouchis

Senior Principal

Big Pi Ventures

Fanis supports European technology scale-ups moving toward market leadership with growth capital plus operational and financial expertise. His background in TMT investment banking and as FlexCar's fin

Series BSeries CGrowth Equity

#34Chris Burniske

Partner

Placeholder

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

#35Jake 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

#36Einar Braathen

Partner

CoinFund

Einar backs foundational technology that decentralizes scarce AI resources or rebuilds financial rails onchain. His portfolio connects open compute and model ownership, verifiable AI, permanent data,

No verified personal check-size range is published. CoinFund attributes pre-seed, seed, and Series A deals to Einar, but disclosed round totals are company financings and not his personal allocation authority.

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.

#37Mark 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

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 Joseph's personal allocation range.

#38Joseph Chan

Partner

AppWorks

Joseph's role is centered on the financial and operating foundation around an investment: portfolio management, fundraising structure, investor alignment, and Japan-Taiwan ecosystem access. His publis

SeedSeries ASeries B

#39Mark 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

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.

No personal check range is publicly disclosed. A 2022 Notifi investment note identifies a $2.5M pre-seed round led by Hashed, while the firm's 2021 Venture Fund II was $200M; neither figure should be treated as Baek's standard or current personal ticket.

#40Baek Kim

Partner

Hashed

Baek invests in infrastructure and applications that make decentralized systems useful to ordinary users. His writing connects mass adoption to better user experience, privacy-preserving computation,

Pre-SeedSeedEarly Stage

#41Adina Tecklu

Partner

Khosla Ventures

Adina backs exceptional founders before market consensus and works with them from product-market fit through breakout growth. Her stated focus is early-stage software, AI, and fintech, with disclosed

No current personal check range is published. Khosla's Seed Fund backs experiments and may invest alone or with angels/smaller funds; Samir Kaul described historical seed investments as roughly $1M–$2M in 2020. The Main Fund covers early through later-stage financings, including total rounds above $10M. These are firm-level guideposts, not Adina's personal authority.

No personal check size or portfolio-company investment authority is public. Peggy's documented Paradigm role was finance, not investing. Confirm her current Amity responsibilities directly and use each firm's listed investment team for financing requests.

#42Peggy Yan

Former Senior Finance Associate, Paradigm; at Amity Ventures

Paradigm

Peggy's verified experience is finance and accounting in venture organizations rather than a published investment thesis. At Paradigm she was listed as Senior Finance Associate; her prior path include

Historical management-company financeFund accounting and reportingAudit and assurance

#43Amit Chu

Co-Founder and Partner

Verda Ventures

Amit backs fintech companies using stablecoin rails to deliver useful financial products in emerging markets. Verda's MiniPay strategy combines capital with Opera distribution and Celo infrastructure,

Verda's live FAQ says the MiniPay Fund typically invests $100K–$250K initially at earlier stages and $500K–$2M later, seeks roughly 5–10% early ownership and 2–6% later, and can be first check or co-invest. These are current vehicle ranges, not Amit's personal angel checks.

Idea and IncubationPre-SeedSeed

#44Robert Weber

Founder and Managing Partner

Great North Ventures

Robert Weber is listed by Great North Ventures as Founder and Managing Partner on the firm's investment or advisory roster. Backs capital-efficient technology companies where vertical AI or embedded f

No verified personal or current Hashed check range is published for Sean. Hashed invests its own resources from day zero through global scale, but vehicle, allocation, token/equity mix, ownership, reserves and Sean's role in a decision should be confirmed directly.

#45Sean Hong

CFO & Partner

Hashed

Sean's distinctive contribution is financial rigor inside Hashed's builder-led frontier-technology platform. His private-equity and non-marketable-securities valuation background is most relevant when

Company FormationPre-SeedSeed

#46Ryan Weber

Founder and Managing Partner

Great North Ventures

Ryan Weber is listed by Great North Ventures as Founder and Managing Partner on the firm's investment or advisory roster. Backs capital-efficient technology companies where vertical AI or embedded fin

#47Grant Gibson

Principal

Great North Ventures

Grant Gibson is listed by Great North Ventures as Principal on the firm's investment or advisory roster. Backs capital-efficient technology companies where vertical AI or embedded finance creates meas

#48Joseph Daher

Senior Associate

Great North Ventures

Joseph Daher is listed by Great North Ventures as Senior Associate on the firm's investment or advisory roster. Backs capital-efficient technology companies where vertical AI or embedded finance creat

$500K–$5M for early-stage companies, published on NIV's current portfolio page. This is a firm range, not a personal signing limit or promise from Greg.

#49Greg Rosenthal

Principal

North Island Ventures

Greg invests within NIV's enabling-technology thesis: as AI makes intelligence abundant, back the scarce complements that compound—financial rails for machines, sovereignty over assets and data, trust

Early StagePre-SeedSeed

#50Kushagra Aryal

Associate

North Island Ventures

Kushagra invests within NIV's abundance-meets-scarcity framework across agentic finance, sovereign AI, new markets and frontier institutions. His mix of liquid-crypto research, venture scouting and pa

$500K–$5M for early-stage companies, according to NIV's current portfolio page. This is the firm's published range, not Kushagra's personal approval limit.

Not publicly disclosed. HashKey Capital invests through venture and liquid strategies across the blockchain ecosystem; founders should confirm vehicle and sizing directly.

#51Ryan Chen

Managing Partner

HashKey Capital

Ryan's public investing perspective joins crypto-native opportunity with institutional finance and regulatory execution. He treats rising scrutiny as evidence of a maturing market and argues that sust

SeedEarly StageGrowth

#52Jono Lee

Associate

ParaFi Capital

Jono's public work points to investable digital-asset opportunities where on-chain rails make familiar assets globally accessible and more liquid. He tracks tokenized equities and collectibles through

No personal check range or independent decision authority is publicly disclosed. Jono is an Associate on ParaFi's investment team; ParaFi operates public- and private-market strategies, so founders should confirm the relevant vehicle and process rather than infer a ticket from firm AUM.

SeedSeries AGrowth

#53Tom Blaisdell

Advisor

ResilienceVC

Tom Blaisdell is listed in a Advisor capacity at ResilienceVC. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile therefore preserves the role distinction and use

ResilienceVC does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its official site; its debut fund is $56M.

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.

#54Jack 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

SeedEarly StageProtocol formation

#55Paul Tregidgo

Advisor

ResilienceVC

Paul Tregidgo is listed in a Advisor capacity at ResilienceVC. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile therefore preserves the role distinction and use

ResilienceVC does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its official site; its debut fund is $56M.

ResilienceVC does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its official site; its debut fund is $56M.

#56Jacob Haar

Advisor

ResilienceVC

Jacob Haar is listed in a Advisor capacity at ResilienceVC. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile therefore preserves the role distinction and uses t