Best VCs for Fintech

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.

#3Nathan 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

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Growth StageSeries B+Established Companies

#4Yousef 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.

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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.

#5Kunal 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

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No Joseph-specific debt ticket is public. Shorooq's credit fund announcements and borrower financing totals are strategy or transaction figures, not his personal range. Borrowers should confirm current fund, minimum EBITDA or revenue, instrument, tenor, pricing, security and geography directly.

#6Joseph Barron

Principal

Shorooq Partners

Joseph evaluates non-dilutive and structured capital for technology and growth companies in the GCC and wider region. His SHUAA private-credit experience and earlier BII fund and co-investment work ac

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Growth-stage creditPrivate creditVenture debt

#7Ahmed Elgabri

Principal

Shorooq Partners

Ahmed's documented mandate is early-stage sourcing and investment work from Cairo within Shorooq's broader MENA platform. The relevant lens is a locally grounded company that can become a category lea

No Ahmed-specific check range is public. Shorooq is now a multi-strategy manager spanning venture, growth, credit, private equity and real assets, so firm-wide assets or transaction sizes should not be treated as his venture check. Confirm strategy, vehicle, stage and ownership directly.

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Early StageVenture OriginationMENA Startup Investment

#8Omer Zabit

Partner

Shorooq Partners

Omer brings a hands-on operator lens from scaling Careem's commercial businesses and building mobile-money products. His investing focus is on ambitious technology founders in the UAE, Qatar and front

No personal check range is disclosed. Shorooq's Bedaya strategy invests from pre-seed through early rounds, while the broader equity platform reaches late-stage growth. Founders should identify the relevant Shorooq vehicle instead of assuming Omer can deploy across every strategy or size.

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IdeaPre-seedEarly-stage venture

#9Abdul Hameed Arwani

Partner

Shorooq Partners

Shorooq says its venture strategy is to invest across sectors and stages, backing founders in MENA growth markets as early as the idea or pre-seed stage. The firm emphasizes locally embedded partners,

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#10Micky 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+

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$500K-$50M+ (stage dependent)

#11Sonya Huang

Partner

Sequoia Capital

The defining voice of Sequoia's AI thesis and arguably the most influential AI investor-thinker in Silicon Valley. Co-authors a series of landmark essays with Pat Grady that have become the canonical

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$1M-$100M+ (multi-stage, GC manages $25B+)

#12Hemant Taneja

CEO & Managing Director

General Catalyst

'Responsible innovation' thesis: technology should solve real problems for real people, not create consumer distractions. Strong health and enterprise focus. Author of 'Unscaled' — argues that technol

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No personal check-size range is published. His record includes seed investments and large later financings, but disclosed round totals belong to company financings and are not a personal range.

#13Neeraj Arora

CEO India, MENA & Managing Director

General Catalyst

Neeraj backs ambitious founders building category-defining businesses in India, MENA, and the corridors linking those regions with global markets. His approach combines Venture Highway's earliest-stag

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No personal equity check-size range is published. Customer Value financings are bespoke, performance-linked capital structures and disclosed company packages should not be generalized into a personal minimum or maximum.

#14Pranav Singhvi

Managing Director

General Catalyst

Pranav invests through a capital-allocation lens: separate the predictable customer-acquisition engine of a product-market-fit company from its higher-risk product and operating company, then finance

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GrowthLate StageEndurance

#15David Tisch

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

BoxGroup

One of the most active and respected seed investors in NYC. Co-founded TechStars NYC (now Techstars NYC), deeply embedded in the New York startup ecosystem since its earliest days. Known for being hig

$500K-$5M (recently raised a $550M fund in Oct 2025, significantly larger than previous funds)

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BoxGroup currently publishes a firm-wide maximum investment of $1M. Historical sources reported smaller firm checks and third-party profiles estimate $250K–$750K for Nimi, but no primary source confirms a current personal range.

#16Nimi Katragadda

Partner

BoxGroup

Nimi is a generalist early-stage Partner with a long-running, publicly documented focus on healthcare and life sciences, fintech, marketplaces, and software. Her current activity extends that lens int

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No reliable Arielle-specific check size is public. BoxGroup describes itself as an earliest-stage investor, but founders should confirm current round fit and allocation directly rather than relying on third-party range estimates.

#17Arielle Rothman

Investor

BoxGroup

Arielle invests within BoxGroup's broad earliest-stage mandate. Her differentiated documented context is technical and translational: Harvard bioengineering research, founding a postpartum medical-dev

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Pre-seedSeedEarliest-stage company formation

#18Claire Smilow

Partner

BoxGroup

Claire backs formation-stage technology companies as a BoxGroup generalist, with visible strength across enterprise and developer software, AI-native products, consumer experiences, and marketplaces.

BoxGroup publicly invests up to $1M. Some third-party directories show an older $250K–$500K personal range, but no current primary source confirms a separate personal allocation.

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BoxGroup publicly states that it invests up to $1M and seeks to be a company's first commitment. No reliable source publishes a separate personal allocation range for Adam.

#19Adam Rothenberg

Partner

BoxGroup

Adam invests as a broad early-stage generalist within BoxGroup's people-first model: meet founders before a company is fully formed, judge founder-market fit and leadership potential, and back categor

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BoxGroup publicly invests up to $1M. Older third-party profiles place Adina's typical early-stage range around $250K–$500K, but founders should treat the firm's current $1M ceiling—not an old personal range—as authoritative.

#20Adina Davis

Partner

BoxGroup

Adina is an early-stage generalist with a publicly documented emphasis on B2B software, consumer internet, and fintech. Her operating background in e-commerce and recent visible interest in AI deploym

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Up to $1M at the firm level; Greg has described current checks around $750K-$1M, with smaller checks possible when that is what secures the right company.

#21Greg Rosen

Partner

BoxGroup

Greg practices BoxGroup's high-volume, collaborative earliest-stage strategy: get to exceptional people before a polished deck, optimize for being in the right company rather than target ownership, an

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Up to $1M at the firm level; BoxGroup aims to make the first commitment, invests alongside other firms, and reserves capital for follow-ons.

#22Ava Payman

Investor

BoxGroup

Ava invests within BoxGroup's generalist earliest-stage strategy: backing people and raw products from pre-seed through Series A, often before conventional traction exists. The firm emphasizes founder

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$1M-$100M+ (multi-stage, also invests personally and through Thiel Capital)

#23Peter 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

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Maki's stated sweet spot is first rounds below EUR 5 million from day zero; this describes target round size, not Pauliina's personal check authority. The firm continues to support later rounds selectively.

#24Pauliina Martikainen

Managing Partner

Maki.vc (Web3)

Pauliina leads a sector-agnostic Nordic first-round strategy centered on exceptional technical founders with global ambition. Her attributed portfolio work spans clinical sensing, autonomous-mobility

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Pre-SeedSeedFirst Round

#25Keith Rabois

Managing Director

Khosla Ventures

Keith is a stage- and sector-flexible investor who looks for exceptional founders with decisive judgment, high agency, a contrarian insight, and the ability to recruit unusually strong talent. His rec

No personal check-size range is published. Keith invests across stages, and disclosed financings across his portfolio should not be treated as a standard personal allocation range.

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Maki targets first rounds below EUR 5 million and supports consequent rounds; this is a firm round criterion, not Pirkka's personal check range. Active new investments come from Fund III.

#26Pirkka Palomäki

Founding Partner

Maki.vc (Web3)

Pirkka backs ambitious Nordic teams at their first rounds, combining an operator's technology and scaling perspective with Maki's sector-agnostic, non-consensus approach. His attributed investments fa

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Pre-SeedSeedFirst Round

#27David 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

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YC invests through standardized program terms; no Jon-specific startup check size or independent allocation authority is public. Apply through YC's official process. Partnership, post-batch and financing-support questions should be framed for his documented remit.

#28Jon Levy

Managing Director, Partnerships

Y Combinator

Jon's public work focuses on reducing legal and financing friction for startups and supporting YC companies after the batch. He advocates standardized formation and fundraising documents, founder unde

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Post-batch company supportStrategic partnershipsCompany formation and financing

#29Samir Kaul

Founding Partner & Managing Director

Khosla Ventures

Samir prefers large, known markets where a radical technical risk can produce a 10x-better product. He treats small seed checks as option-value experiments: identify a potential billion-dollar outcome

In a 2020 first-person interview, Samir described a typical Khosla Seed Fund investment as roughly $1M–$2M, used as option-value capital to remove key risks before a larger Series A/B decision. Khosla's current Main Fund covers early through later stages, including total financings above $10M. These are historical/firm-level guideposts, not a guaranteed current personal range.

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IncubationPre-SeedSeed

#30David Weiden

Founding Partner and Managing Director

Khosla Ventures

David backs internet software and services with the potential to become large, durable businesses. His operator writing emphasizes product-management accountability, quantitative decision-making, and

No personal check-size range is published. Khosla Ventures invests from seed through growth, but fund assets and portfolio round sizes are not David's personal minimum or maximum.

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SeedEarly StageSeries A

#31Kindle Van Linge

Principal

Craft Ventures

Kindle invests where AI or advanced technology becomes a mission-critical operating layer in large, regulated or technically demanding markets. Her attributed work spans AI medical knowledge, regulato

No Kindle-specific check range is public. Craft's live portfolio attributes her to growth, Series A and Series B investments, but those stage labels do not reveal individual allocation authority or check size. Confirm current vehicle, ownership and lead/co-invest posture directly.

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Series ASeries BGrowth

#32Lainy Painter Singh

Partner

Craft Ventures

Lainy backs software and marketplaces that modernize complex vertical workflows. Her cases favor founder-market fit, a painful operational wedge, simple products built on technically difficult systems

No personal check-size range is published. Public Craft examples involving Lainy include led seed, Series A, and Series C investments; company financing totals should not be interpreted as her personal check authority.

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No personal check-size range is published. Craft attributes investments from seed through growth to Jeff, but public round totals are company financings and not his personal allocation authority.

#33Jeff Fluhr

Venture Partner

Craft Ventures

Jeff specializes in marketplaces, particularly vertical models that go deeper than horizontal incumbents. He evaluates density, liquidity, trust, network effects, take rate, gross profit, and capital-

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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.

#34Adina 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

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No current personal check range is published. Khosla's Seed Fund backs experiments and its Main Fund covers early through later stages, including total financings above $10M; a 2020 interview described historical seed checks around $1M–$2M. These are firm-level guideposts, not Adrian's personal authority.

#35Adrian Radu

Partner

Khosla Ventures

Adrian is an early-stage generalist whose prior portfolio and advisory work span fintech, enterprise software, cybersecurity, defense, productivity, and frontier technologies. His biography emphasizes

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YC's current program deal is $500K for each accepted company: $125K for 7% on a post-money SAFE plus $375K on an uncapped MFN SAFE, together with a participation right. It is not Jon's personal check range.

#36Jon Xu

General Partner

Y Combinator

Jon brings the paired lens of making a high-trust financial product accessible to consumers and then adapting its technology into an enterprise-grade platform for major institutions. He is relevant to

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IdeaPre-SeedBatch-stage startup

#37Jai Sajnani

Partner

Khosla Ventures

Jai looks for category-defining growth companies with the potential for outsized scale and economics, while remaining open to bold bets even after the early stage. His public-markets background adds a

No personal check range is published. Jai focuses on growth-stage opportunities, while Khosla's Main Fund covers early through later-stage ventures and all total financings above $10M. Round size is not the same as Jai's personal allocation authority.

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Series BSeries CGrowth

#38Kindle Van Linge

Principal

Craft Ventures

Kindle invests in technically differentiated AI, defense, and enterprise software that turns expert knowledge or hard engineering into a high-trust operational system. Her published cases favor produc

No personal check-size range is published. Her disclosed Craft work spans venture and growth investments, including Series A, Series B, and growth-stage companies; public financing totals are not her individual allocation authority.

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Series ASeries BGrowth

#39Pemika Lerthirunvibul

Senior Analyst

SCB 10X

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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.

#40Jay 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

#41Josh Kopelman

Co-Founder & Partner

First Round Capital

The seed-stage specialist. Invests earliest and deepest at seed — First Round was one of the firms that pioneered institutional seed investing. Built First Round into a platform that punches well abov

$500K-$3M (seed only)

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.

#42Lucas 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

#43Dhammika Seneviratne

Co-founder

Lanka Blockchain Fund

Investing in blockchain and digital finance in Sri Lanka, focused on leveraging blockchain for economic development and financial infrastructure modernization.

#44Sharif Hossain

Founder

Kryptos (Bangladesh)

Building blockchain education and investment infrastructure in Bangladesh, focused on developing the local crypto ecosystem and developer community.

#45Juan Pablo Crespi

Managing Partner

Platanus Ventures

Investing in early-stage tech and blockchain startups in Chile and Latin America through Platanus Ventures, bringing Silicon Valley VC practices to LATAM.

#46Yehia Houry

Partner

Flat6Labs Tunis (Web3)

Supporting blockchain and Web3 startups in Tunisia and North Africa through Flat6Labs Tunis. Focused on unlocking Web3 innovation in francophone Africa.

#47Ramez Mohamed

Managing Director

Flat6Labs (Web3)

Supporting blockchain and Web3 startups in Egypt and North Africa through Flat6Labs, one of MENA's largest accelerators.

SeedSeries AFund Investment

#48Areije Al Shakar

Director

Al Waha Fund of Funds

Investing in regional funds and startups through Al Waha Fund of Funds, supporting the Bahrain fintech and blockchain ecosystem as a gateway to the Gulf.

#49Ganbold Amarzaya

CEO

Ard Financial Group (Web3)

Investing in blockchain and digital finance in Mongolia through Ard Financial Group, focused on bringing modern financial infrastructure to the Mongolian market.

$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.

#50Richard 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

No current personal check range or active fund mandate is public. Historical Northzone investments include seed and Series A through later follow-ons, but third-party Northzone range estimates are stale and do not establish present authority. Confirm current capacity directly.

#51Markus Gleim

Former Principal, Northzone (off current roster); Investor & Advisor

Northzone (Web3)

At Northzone, Markus invested across enterprise applications, infrastructure, developer products and healthcare, with a strong DACH footprint. His operating experience at digital-health company Kry sh

Historical seed and Series AHistorical follow-on investingBoard and advisory support

#52Fred 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

#53Chris 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

#54Gopi Sundaramurthy

Managing Partner

Ensemble VC

Gopi Sundaramurthy invests or supports investments through Ensemble VC's published strategy: Use proprietary data and software to identify exceptional startup teams, then provide concentrated early-st

Ensemble does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its current website.

Ensemble does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its current website.

#55Ian Heinrich

Principal, Investments

Ensemble VC

Ian Heinrich invests or supports investments through Ensemble VC's published strategy: Use proprietary data and software to identify exceptional startup teams, then provide concentrated early-stage su

Chemistry leads early-stage rounds with commitments up to $30M, according to its official company description.

#56Mark Goldberg

Managing Partner

Chemistry

Mark Goldberg invests or supports investments through Chemistry's published strategy: Lead concentrated early-stage investments in software founders who combine technical expertise with strong commerc

Chemistry leads early-stage rounds with commitments up to $30M, according to its official company description.

#57Ethan Kurzweil

Managing Partner

Chemistry

Ethan Kurzweil invests or supports investments through Chemistry's published strategy: Lead concentrated early-stage investments in software founders who combine technical expertise with strong commer

Chemistry leads early-stage rounds with commitments up to $30M, according to its official company description.

#58Kristina Shen

Managing Partner

Chemistry

Kristina Shen invests or supports investments through Chemistry's published strategy: Lead concentrated early-stage investments in software founders who combine technical expertise with strong commerc

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

#59Tahira 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

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

#60Vikas 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

Type Capital does not publish a standard check-size range on its current official site.

#61Terri Burns

Founder and Managing Partner

Type Capital

Terri Burns invests or supports investments through Type Capital's published strategy: Back early-stage founders with strong product taste and the potential to build generational technology companies.

Ensemble does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its current website.

#62Collin West

Founder and Managing Partner

Ensemble VC

Collin West invests or supports investments through Ensemble VC's published strategy: Use proprietary data and software to identify exceptional startup teams, then provide concentrated early-stage sup

$1.5M-$3M initial checks were disclosed at launch; no person-specific range is public.

#63Lindsay Fitzgerald

Founding Partner

Vesey Ventures

Lindsay Fitzgerald invests or supports investments through Vesey Ventures's published strategy: Back early-stage fintech and enabling technology companies where partnerships with financial incumbents

$1.5M-$3M initial checks were disclosed at launch; no person-specific range is public.

#64Julia Huang

Founding Partner

Vesey Ventures

Julia Huang invests or supports investments through Vesey Ventures's published strategy: Back early-stage fintech and enabling technology companies where partnerships with financial incumbents can acc

Chemistry leads early-stage rounds with commitments up to $30M, according to its official company description.

#65Bohan Lou

Partner

Chemistry

Bohan Lou invests or supports investments through Chemistry's published strategy: Lead concentrated early-stage investments in software founders who combine technical expertise with strong commercial

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.

#66John 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

$1.5M-$3M initial checks were disclosed at launch; no person-specific range is public.

#67Dana Eli-Lorch

Founding Partner

Vesey Ventures

Dana Eli-Lorch invests or supports investments through Vesey Ventures's published strategy: Back early-stage fintech and enabling technology companies where partnerships with financial incumbents can

Simplify Ventures does not publish a standard investment range; it targets early-stage companies with under $5M in revenue.

#68Mohammed Vaid

Founder and Managing Partner

Simplify Ventures

Mohammed Vaid invests or supports investments through Simplify Ventures's published strategy: Invest globally in early-stage B2B technology and pair capital with hands-on infrastructure across technol

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.

#69Jared 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

$250K–$1M indicated by current investor directories, with roughly $500K described as a sweet spot. Eterna's own live site confirms a global, early-stage mandate but does not publish a check range, so founders should verify current size, reserves, instrument and lead appetite directly. Eterna has publicly co-led at least one pre-seed round (Stoffel Labs).

#70Nassim Olive

Co-Founder & General Partner

Eterna Capital

Nassim invests where decentralized protocols, programmable value layers and AI-native infrastructure converge to reshape the internet. His work connects crypto's ownership and market primitives to bro

Pre-seedSeedSeries A

#71Claude 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

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.

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.

#72Caitlin 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 current personal check range or new-investment authority is published. Steven's official Board Partner profile emphasizes operational and board support; First Round's firm-wide check range should not be attributed to him personally.

#73Steven Aldrich

Board Partner

First Round Capital

Steven helps companies make consequential decisions quickly despite incomplete information, test the result in the real world, and learn with a beginner's mindset. His operating history spans founding

Existing Portfolio SupportGrowth and ScaleBoard and Advisory

#74Richard Alfonsi

Board Partner

First Round Capital

Richard applies experience from building startups and running global revenue organizations to help First Round companies navigate go-to-market. His stated scope spans GTM strategy, customer segmentati

No current personal check range or new-investment authority is published. Richard's official Board Partner role focuses on coaching existing First Round companies; firm-wide check ranges should not be attributed to him personally.

Existing Portfolio SupportGrowth and ScaleBoard and Advisory

#75Elad 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 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.

#76Lucas 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

SeedEarly StageProtocol Networks

#77Leigh Marie Braswell

Partner

Kleiner Perkins

Leigh Marie backs AI infrastructure and applications, with a particular eye for the systems that close the gap between frontier-model capability and reliable, mission-critical use. Her portfolio inclu

No verified personal check range or standard firm-wide range is published. Her official portfolio spans early and growth investments; disclosed company rounds are not personal allocation limits.

Not publicly disclosed for Beacon Funds commitments. AppWorks' direct-company strategy publishes US$200K to US$15M per deal from Seed through Series C; that range should not be applied to Jun's venture-fund investments.

#78Jun Wakabayashi

Venture Principal

AppWorks

Jun uses fund investments as ecosystem infrastructure: back locally connected or specialist managers, exchange market intelligence and diligence, create co-investment and follow-on capital paths, and

Emerging ManagersVenture FundsSeed

#79Ali Tabibian

Founder and Partner

GTK Partners

Ali works where technical systems, strategic finance and corporate transactions meet. GTK's work spans private growth companies, corporations and financial sponsors, with particular expertise in softw

GTK is primarily a corporate advisory firm and does not publish an Ali-specific venture check range. Ali has disclosed individual technology investments, but those do not establish a repeatable allocation mandate. Companies should clarify whether they seek advisory work, financing support or an investment.

Growth-company advisoryMergers and acquisitionsCapital formation

#80Ren 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.

No personal standard check-size range is published. Northzone has disclosed leading or co-leading large company rounds, but those totals are not Sanjot's individual allocation range and should not be presented as one.

#81Sanjot Malhi

Partner

Northzone (Web3)

Sanjot leads Northzone's growth strategy. He looks for companies with proven product-market fit, repeatable go-to-market, viable unit economics, distinctive product IP, mission-critical customer value

Series BSeries CGrowth

#82Josh 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

#83Alison 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

#84Maayan 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

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

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.

#85Nicolas 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

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

#86Bryson 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

No personal check-size range is published. Dominik's official focus is early stage within Northzone's multi-stage platform; disclosed company rounds should not be treated as his individual allocation range.

#87Dominik Esen

Principal

Northzone (Web3)

Dominik backs early-stage AI applications, vertical SaaS, and fintech. His portfolio and writing emphasize software for structurally underserved industries: frontline labor, managed service providers,

Lux does not publish a dependable personal check range for Deena. Her investments span stages, including first institutional rounds and later healthcare financings; founders should confirm vehicle, initial ticket, ownership, reserves and stage fit with the partnership.

#88Deena Shakir

Partner

Lux Capital

Deena backs transformative technologies that improve health, access and economic opportunity, often with extraordinary underdog founders attacking problems conventional pattern recognition overlooks.

No verified personal or standard Lux check-size range is published. Brandon invests at both early and growth stages; disclosed financing rounds, such as Hugging Face's $15M Series A, are total rounds and not his personal allocation range.

#89Brandon Reeves

Partner

Lux Capital

Brandon backs technical platforms and applications across software, AI, defense, and manufacturing. A recurring theme is open or developer-led infrastructure that turns frontier capability into produc

$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.

#90David 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

Pre-seedSeedSeries A

#91Anay 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

#92Tim 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.

Neither Airtree nor Jackie publishes her personal check range or decision authority. The firm is seed-first and supports companies through later stages; individual portfolio round totals do not reveal Airtree's allocation or Jackie's authority.

#93Jackie Vullinghs

Partner

AirTree Ventures (Web3)

Jackie backs Australia and New Zealand founders from very early product formation through scale. Her disclosed portfolio crosses AI and enterprise software, healthcare, fintech, consumer platforms, fu

No John-specific check range is public. DST Global is known for large growth-stage internet investments, but historical firm deal sizes or assets should not be converted into a personal allocation promise. Founders should confirm current stage, geography and round fit directly.

#94John Lindfors

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

DST Global

John's documented investment record centers on globally scaling internet and consumer-technology platforms. Public profiles associate him with DST investments in Spotify, JD.com and Didi and exits or

Growth StageLate StageGlobal internet scale-up

#95Ilya Fushman

Partner

Kleiner Perkins

Ilya invests in technology and novel business models capable of fundamentally reshaping industries. His portfolio connects AI-native professional work, enterprise operating systems, mathematical and s

No personal or standard firm-wide check range is published. Ilya's official portfolio spans early and growth investments; Kleiner disclosed that its 2019 Series A investment in Rippling was $25M, but that one transaction is not a general range or personal limit.

No personal check-size range is published. Jessica invests through Northzone's multi-stage funds; financing announcements report total rounds, not her personal allocation range.

#96Jessica Schultz

Partner

Northzone (Web3)

Jessica backs product-led platforms and UX-driven software that use technology and intuitive experiences to disrupt traditional industries. Her operator lens emphasizes speed and momentum at company f

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 Jessica's personal allocation range.

#97Jessica Liu

Partner

AppWorks

Jessica invests across Southeast Asian consumer internet and blockchain, especially where deep technology improves a familiar consumer behavior or unlocks a regional distribution advantage. Her portfo

Not publicly disclosed. Northzone states that the firm invests from Seed through Growth and can remain a partner through pre-IPO; Wendy's current profile labels her personal focus as Early and says she likes to work with founders from as early as seed.

#98Wendy Xiao

Partner

Northzone (Web3)

Wendy backs companies that change consumer behavior and expand the economic pie by capturing neglected externalities. She studies technology through people and behavior change, looking for a valuable

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.

#99Will 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

#100Pascual Cortes-Monroy

Principal

Northzone (Web3)

Pascual focuses on early-stage AI, fintech, healthcare, and vertical SaaS, with particular interest in products that use growing data availability and improved computation to transform an industry. Hi

No personal check-size range is published. Pascual invests at early stage through Northzone; founders should confirm current round fit directly and should not infer his allocation from portfolio-company financing totals.