Best VCs for Infra

#2Lasse Clausen

Founding General Partner

1kx

Token-based business models and early-stage investing. One of Europe's top crypto VCs.

26 deals

SeedSeries AToken

#3Christopher Heymann

General Partner

1kx

Investing in early-stage crypto protocols and infrastructure at 1kx. Focused on community-owned and operated networks.

26 deals

#4Nichanan Kesonpat

Research Principal

1kx

26 deals

#5David Kalk

CIO

Nascent

CIO at Nascent, managing the fund's liquid and venture portfolio across crypto markets.

19 deals

#6Dan Elitzer

Co-Founder

Nascent

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

19 deals

#7Jack Simison

Venture Investor

Nascent

19 deals

$1M-$100M+ (from $2B+ crypto funds — 5th fund raising in 2026)

#8Chris Dixon

General Partner, a16z crypto (Founder & Lead)

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)

The crypto conviction investor. Founded and leads a16z's crypto practice, which has deployed billions across five funds. Author of 'Read Write Own' (2024), arguing that blockchain enables a new era of

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.

#9Jay 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+ (from $2.5B+ American Dynamism fund)

#10Katherine Boyle

General Partner, American Dynamism

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)

Leads a16z's American Dynamism practice — a $2.5B+ fund (expanded from $600M in 2023) backing companies that support national interests. Believes the most important companies of the next decade will b

$1M-$100M+ (from a16z's $5.2B AI fund, largest sector allocation in 2026)

#11Anjney Midha

General Partner

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)

Leads a16z's AI investments from the $5.2B AI allocation — the firm's largest sector bet ever. Anjney came to AI from an unusual path: he previously led a16z's crypto gaming investments, giving him de

$1M-$100M+ (leads a16z's $1.25B+ infrastructure fund)

#12Martin Casado

General Partner

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)

Leads a16z's infrastructure practice and is one of Silicon Valley's most technically credible VCs, having built VMware NSX and pioneered software-defined networking. Invests 'from markets in' rather t

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.

#13Lucas 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

#14Jeff Ren

Investment Partner

OKX Ventures

Leading blockchain investments at OKX Ventures, the investment arm of one of the world's largest crypto exchanges. Focuses on projects that expand the OKX ecosystem.

#15Mike Dudas

Angel / Writer

Crypto media veteran turned investor and advisor. Deep understanding of crypto narratives, community building, and go-to-market strategies.

GrantSeedGovernment Partnership

#16William Chan

Managing Director

CMBI (CMB International)

Investing in digital assets and blockchain projects at CMBI (CMB International), focused on bridging Chinese institutional capital with global crypto opportunities.

Series ASeries BGrowth

#17Stacy Herbert

Director

El Salvador Bitcoin Office

Focused on Bitcoin-centric economic development in El Salvador, working on the country's Bitcoin adoption and Bitcoin-backed financial infrastructure.

#18Joseph Lubin

Founder & CEO

ConsenSys

Building the decentralized future on Ethereum. ConsenSys is both a software company and a venture studio, creating foundational Ethereum infrastructure including MetaMask, Infura, and Linea.

SeedSeries AGrowth

#19Noyes Harrigan

Principal

Framework Ventures

Investing in DeFi and crypto infrastructure at Framework Ventures. Focuses on protocols that expand the design space of decentralized finance.

#20Evan Fisher

Founder & GP

Portal Ventures

Investing in early-stage crypto infrastructure and applications at Portal Ventures. Focused on backing technical founders building at the frontier of blockchain technology.

#21Markku Mäkeläinen

Partner

Maki.vc (Web3)

Investing in Web3 and blockchain projects in the Nordics and broader European ecosystem. Bridges traditional Nordic tech investing with crypto opportunities.

#22Nikhil Hira

Managing Director

Pacific Blockchain Fund

Investing in blockchain projects across the Pacific Islands and Oceania region, focused on financial inclusion and digital infrastructure for island nations.

#23Barry Silbert

Founder & CEO

Digital Currency Group (DCG)

Building the foundation of the digital asset ecosystem through DCG's portfolio of companies. DCG is the parent company of Grayscale, Genesis, CoinDesk (sold), and Foundry, touching nearly every aspect

#24Andrus Aaslaid

Managing Partner

Tera Ventures

Investing in early-stage tech and blockchain startups in the Baltics through Tera Ventures, leveraging Estonia's leading digital governance expertise.

#25Andrew Kang

Co-founder

Mechanism Capital

Thesis-driven investing at the intersection of DeFi and trading infrastructure. Mechanism Capital focuses on DeFi protocols, derivatives, and novel financial primitives. Known for deep technical analy

#26Anand Iyer

Founder

Canonical Crypto

Investing in crypto infrastructure and applications at Canonical Crypto. Focused on early-stage projects building foundational crypto technology.

#27Alan Dooley

Co-founder

Bloxico

Investing in blockchain enterprise solutions through Bloxico, focused on bringing blockchain technology to traditional industries in Ireland and Europe.

#28Idris Guven

Founder

ARI10

Building blockchain-based payment and loyalty solutions through ARI10, focused on bridging traditional retail with cryptocurrency.

#29Alexander Nazarov

Co-founder

Hash CIB

Investing in crypto infrastructure and digital assets through Hash CIB, one of Russia/CIS's most established crypto financial firms.

#30Alvin Kan

Head of SEA & MENA

BNB Chain MVB (Central Asia)

Supporting blockchain innovation in Central Asia through BNB Chain's MVB program. Focused on growing the BNB Chain ecosystem in underserved markets.

#31Qiao 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

#32Shan 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.

#33Tak Lee

Managing Partner

Hashed Emergent

Investing in blockchain projects across South and Southeast Asia at Hashed Emergent. Focused on crypto adoption in emerging markets.

#34Deng Aiyun

Partner

Eden Block

Investing in early-stage blockchain projects at Eden Block, with a focus on European crypto ecosystem development and infrastructure.

#35Daniel Haudenschild

Founding Partner

Helvetia Labs

Building Swiss-based blockchain infrastructure and investment vehicles at Helvetia Labs, focused on bridging traditional Swiss finance with crypto innovation.

#36Mark Højgaard

Co-founder & CEO

Coinify Ventures

Investing in blockchain and digital payment infrastructure in the Nordics. Brings deep experience from building crypto payment rails in Europe.

#37Bader Al Kalooti

Managing Partner

Cypher Capital

Investing in blockchain and digital assets across the MENA region at Cypher Capital. Focused on building Dubai as a global crypto hub.

#38Joe Eagan

Partner

Polychain Capital

Investing in blockchain infrastructure and tokens at Polychain Capital, one of the most prominent crypto-native funds.

#39Frank Mwiti

Founder

TZ Blockchain Ventures

Investing in blockchain infrastructure and Web3 startups in East Africa, focused on the Tezos ecosystem and broader blockchain adoption in Kenya and the region.

#40Roderik van der Veer

Co-Founder

Lemniscap

Investing in blockchain infrastructure and digital assets at Lemniscap, with a focus on European and global crypto ecosystem development.

#41Dirk Klee

CEO Bitcoin Suisse

Bitcoin Suisse Ventures

Leading digital asset investment and custody services at Bitcoin Suisse Ventures, focused on the Swiss and European crypto ecosystem.

#42Ella Zhang

Head of Binance Labs

Binance Labs

Invests across the full web3 stack with a focus on infrastructure, DeFi, and gaming. Binance Labs serves as the venture capital and incubation arm of Binance, one of the largest crypto exchanges globa

SeedSeries AStrategic

#43Istvan Lam

Founder

Tresorit Web3 Fund

Investing in privacy and security-focused blockchain projects through the Tresorit Web3 Fund, leveraging deep encryption expertise.

#44Torbjørn Bull Jenssen

CEO

Arcane Crypto

Investing in Bitcoin-focused and crypto infrastructure projects in the Nordics. Strong conviction in Bitcoin as the foundational crypto asset.

#45Matty Taylor

Founder

Colosseum

Investing in the Solana ecosystem at Colosseum, the organization behind Solana hackathons. Focused on discovering and nurturing early-stage Solana builders.

#46Vladimir Munjin

Partner

Black Pearls VC

Investing in blockchain and tech startups in Central and Eastern Europe through Black Pearls VC, focused on regional ecosystem development.

#47Sherzod Akhmedov

CEO

UzCard Digital Ventures

Investing in digital finance and blockchain innovation in Uzbekistan through UzCard Digital Ventures, focused on modernizing Central Asian financial infrastructure.

#48Danny Sursock

Co-founder & GP

Archetype

Invests in foundational crypto infrastructure and protocols at the earliest stages. Archetype focuses on technical founders building at the frontier of crypto — L1s, L2s, ZK tech, and novel consensus

#49Giorgi Khazaradze

Founder

Free2ex

Building crypto exchange and investment infrastructure in the Caucasus and CIS region through Free2ex, focused on regional blockchain adoption.

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.

#50Chris 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

#51Nihal 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

#52Richard 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

$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.

Pre-SeedSeed

#53Lukas 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

$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.

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.

#54Guy 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 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.

#55Markus 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

#56Laura 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

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.

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.

#57Andy 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

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.

#58Chris 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

Liquid TokensPublic MarketsInstitutional Asset Management

#59Jose 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

#60Todd Jackson

Partner

First Round Capital

Todd backs technical founders who can turn complex technology into an elegant power tool and is unusually focused on the mechanics of reaching product-market fit. His disclosed portfolio—fal, Parallel

First Round's published firm-wide initial checks are typically $1M–$7M, averaging about $3.5M; it has participated in rounds from $100K to $20M. No personal range is published for Todd.

AngelPre-SeedSeed

#61Ryan 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.

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.

#62John 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

#63Micky 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+

Neither Kleiner Perkins nor Ted publishes a personal check range on the cited pages. His Kleiner record spans early-stage and growth companies, but portfolio round sizes and Ballistic's fund sizes do not establish his individual Kleiner check authority.

#64Ted Schlein

Partner and Advisor

Kleiner Perkins

Ted is an operator-investor focused on cybersecurity and technology infrastructure across company formation, early-stage investment, scaling, and public-sector adoption. His Kleiner portfolio spans ap

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.

#65Brad 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

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.

#66Pirkka 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

Pre-SeedSeedFirst Round

#67Ricardo 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

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.

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 personal check-size range is published. Lux invests early and can support companies across their development, but its USD 7B under management and individual financing totals are not Peter's personal allocation limits.

#69Peter Hébert

Partner and Co-Founder

Lux Capital

Peter seeks scientifically and technologically ambitious ventures attempting what most people think will not work but could become indispensable if they succeed. He is a generalist across technology a

Company FormationPre-SeedSeed

#70Kristina 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

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

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

#71Dana 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

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

#72Bohan 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

#73Haseeb Qureshi

Managing Partner

Dragonfly

Infrastructure, DeFi, and crypto gaming. Clear thinking and good writing.

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

#74Ethan 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

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.

#75Alpin 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

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

#76Mark 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

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.

#77Christian 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

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

#78Lindsay 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

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.

#79Avishay 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

#80Jeannette zu Fürstenberg

President & Managing Director

General Catalyst

Jeannette is a founder-led generalist investing to strengthen European prosperity and resilience through technology. She backs ambitious companies from ideation onward across AI, defense, energy, indu

No personal check-size range is published. Her public record spans seed investments through large follow-on rounds, but total financing sizes and General Catalyst's assets are not personal check parameters.

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.

#81Storm 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

ResearchTechnical DiligencePortfolio Support

#82Kyle Samani

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Multicoin Capital

Thesis-driven investing. Crypto as coordination layer for the internet. Fat protocol thesis. Early Solana bull. DePIN evangelist.

SeedSeries AToken

#83Elizabeth 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

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.

SeedVentureGrowth

#84Pranav 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

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.

GrowthLate StageEndurance

#85Neeraj 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

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.

#86Fred Ehrsam

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Paradigm

Protocol-level investments and new financial primitives. Open-source money, programmable economics, governance, mechanism design.

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

#87Julia 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

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.

#88Felix 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 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.

#89Beryl 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

First Round's published firm-wide initial checks are typically $1M–$7M, averaging about $3.5M; it has participated in rounds from $100K to $20M. No personal range is published for Brett.

#90Brett Berson

Partner

First Round Capital

Brett studies how thousands of small choices compound into an exceptional company. He backs very early builders with contrarian insight and an outlier capability, then works at the decision level rath

AngelPre-SeedSeed

#91Wyatt 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.

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.

#92Michael 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

Pre-seedHackathon to acceleratorInitial product sprint

#93Nassim 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

$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).

Big Pi publishes a firm-wide equity-ticket range of €0.5M–€30M across its early-stage and growth funds; its early-stage Fund II described €1M–€3M lead investments. These are firm parameters, not Vassilis's personal allocation range.

#94Vassilis Tziokas

Venture Partner

Big Pi Ventures

Vassilis brings a blockchain ecosystem and go-to-market lens to Big Pi's technology investing. His public work emphasizes the transition from crypto trading toward usable infrastructure: privacy-prese

SeedEarly StageSeries A

#95Caitlin 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 personal check range or signing authority is published. Nadia's current portfolio includes early and growth investments; individual company round sizes are not a personal range.

#96Nadia Cochinwala

Principal

Kleiner Perkins

Nadia invests across enterprise applications and infrastructure, from AI compute and networking to vertical AI in healthcare, finance, sales, coding, and productivity. Her official portfolio spans bot

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.

#97Banafsheh 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

#98Elad 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 check-size range is published. Greenfield's venture strategy invests from pre-seed through later rounds; its EUR 135 million Fund III size and portfolio financing totals are not Sebastian's personal check parameters.

#99Sebastian Blum

Founding Partner

Greenfield Capital

Sebastian backs open, decentralized infrastructure that removes single points of failure and gives users and institutions resilient alternatives to concentrated cloud, communications, identity, and fi