Best VCs for It

$1M-$100M+ (from $2.5B+ American Dynamism fund)

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

#3Peter Thiel

Co-Founder & Partner

Founders Fund

The original contrarian VC. 'We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.' Seeks companies that can become category-defining monopolies in markets others ignore. First principles thinking is

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

#4Martin 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

#5Noyes Harrigan

Principal

Framework Ventures

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

$1M-$100M+ (multi-stage, BVP has $3.6B+ under management)

#6Byron Deeter

Partner

Bessemer Venture Partners

The cloud computing investor. His annual 'State of the Cloud' report is the definitive industry reference for cloud/SaaS metrics. Bessemer's 'Cloud Atlas' benchmarking tool is used by thousands of Saa

#7Dirk 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.

#8Cristian Gil

Head of Investments

GSR Markets

Leading crypto market making and trading operations at GSR Markets, with a strategic investment arm backing infrastructure and DeFi projects.

#9Torbjørn 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.

#10Sarah Tavel

Venture Partner

Benchmark

Sarah's investing worldview is built on a few interlocking beliefs: (1) The best consumer companies create compounding engagement loops where users do MORE over time, not less. She formalized this int

$5M-$15M

Series ASeries B

#11Matt Shakhovskoy

Director, Ventures

Mercy Corps Ventures (Web3)

Investing in blockchain and digital finance for emerging markets development at Mercy Corps Ventures. Focused on crypto solutions for financial inclusion and humanitarian applications.

#12Mike Dudas

Angel / Writer

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

SeedSeries AFund Investment

#13Karim Badr

MENA Lead

HBAR Foundation (MENA)

Building the Hedera ecosystem in the MENA region through HBAR Foundation grants and investments. Focused on enterprise blockchain adoption in the Arab world.

GrantPre-seedSeed

#14Areije 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.

#15Andrus 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.

#16Alexander 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.

#17William 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

#18Shailesh Shakya

President

Nepal Blockchain Association

Developing blockchain infrastructure and community in Nepal, focused on education and awareness as foundations for future blockchain adoption.

#19Dhammika 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.

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.

#20Chris 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

#21Sharif Hossain

Founder

Kryptos (Bangladesh)

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

GrantSeedGovernment Partnership

#22Stacy 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.

#23Nikhil 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.

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.

#24Laura 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 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.

#25Guy 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

$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.

#26Lukas Kristen

General Partner

Plutos Capital

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

No current personal angel check range is public. Historical Northzone deals ranged from pre-seed through growth, but firm-level third-party range estimates do not establish Deepka's present allocation. Founders should ask directly about current angel activity and should use Northzone's live team for fund pitches.

#27Deepka Rana

Former Principal, Northzone; Angel Investor

Northzone (Web3)

At Northzone, Deepka focused on product-led consumer and B2B software, with a particularly developed Future of Work thesis. She argued that structurally scarce frontline labor and obsolete tools creat

Current occasional angel investingHistorical pre-seedHistorical seed and Series A

#28Sterling Campbell

Former Investor, Blockchain Capital (off current roster)

Blockchain Capital

In his Blockchain Capital work, Sterling focused on the intersection of consumers and crypto. He saw gaming as a mass-onboarding path because persistent games, interoperable assets and player-owned ec

No reliable personal check range or current Blockchain Capital authority is public. Third-party ranges are stale and were excluded. Historical work included consumer-crypto diligence and portfolio support; founders must contact a currently listed Blockchain Capital investor for live check size and sponsorship.

Historical seed and venture investingConsumer-crypto diligencePortfolio support

#29Vinod Khosla

Founder

Khosla Ventures

Explicitly optimizes for ~70% failure rates to back 'black swan' outcomes. Actively seeks opportunities that appear 'crazy' to most of the market. Capital-intensive, science-heavy bets. Believes fusio

$500K-$50M+ (across seed fund and main fund)

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.

#30Todd 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

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.

#31Jose Sanchez

Head of research, Investment Associate

The Spartan Group

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

Public TokensLiquid MarketsProtocol Investments

#32Ryan Connor

Research Partner

RockawayX

Ryan looks for crypto investments where differentiated, alpha-generative research reveals something the consensus has missed and where tokens or equities can be underwritten with traction and fundamen

No Ryan-specific venture check range is public. For RockawayX's Catapult program, the firm says it writes first checks into RWA-yield founders and can add anchor TVL, liquidity, DeFi integrations and mentorship; founders should ask directly about round-specific sizing.

Pre-seedSeedEarly Stage

#33Chris 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

#34Anastasia Uglova

Ecosystem

ex/ante

Anastasia Uglova is listed in a Ecosystem capacity at ex/ante. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile therefore preserves the role distinction and use

ex/ante does not publish a standard person-specific check range; its debut fund was announced at $33M.

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

#35Tahira 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 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.

#36Neeraj 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

ex/ante does not publish a standard person-specific check range; its debut fund was announced at $33M.

#37Michael Mosier

Investment Team

ex/ante

Michael Mosier invests or supports investments through ex/ante's published strategy: Back agentic technologies that preserve human agency and rights in a digital world, spanning privacy, security, ide

#38Jeannette 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 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.

#39Avishay 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

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.

#40Pranav 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

GrowthLate StageEndurance

#41Christian 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

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.

Leitmotif does not publish a standard investment range; its first fund is anchored by a $300M commitment.

#42Alex Rohregger

Partner

Leitmotif

Alex Rohregger invests or supports investments through Leitmotif's published strategy: Bridge US and European industrial ecosystems to help hard-technology companies move from demonstration to commerc

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.

#43Felix 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

$150K-$300K checks, as published by Trust Fund.

#44Sophia Amoruso

Founder and Managing Partner

Trust Fund

Sophia Amoruso invests or supports investments through Trust Fund's published strategy: Back tech-enabled products that help people start and build businesses, especially marketplaces, commerce infras

Supply Change Capital does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its current site.

#45Noramay Cadena

Co-Founder and General Partner

Supply Change Capital

Noramay Cadena invests or supports investments through Supply Change Capital's published strategy: Back founders using technology to transform food, agriculture and technical supply chains, applying o

No personal check size or investment allocation authority is published for Alyssa. Her route for founders is AppWorks' accelerator and its corporate accelerator programs; applicants should verify each current program's funding, equity and eligibility terms rather than assuming the firm's fund parameters apply.

#46Alyssa Chen

Accelerator Director

AppWorks

Alyssa's operating thesis is that an accelerator should be a practical lab where founders repeatedly test, learn and build with peers, mentors and corporate partners. She leads AppWorks Accelerator pl

Pre-accelerator and acceleratorFounder developmentAlumni and mentor community

#47Farhan Abrol

Investment Team

ex/ante

Farhan Abrol invests or supports investments through ex/ante's published strategy: Back agentic technologies that preserve human agency and rights in a digital world, spanning privacy, security, ident

ex/ante does not publish a standard person-specific check range; its debut fund was announced at $33M.

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.

#48Pirkka 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

#49Brad 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

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.

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.

#50John 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

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.

#51Ted 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

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.

#52Alpin 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

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.

#53Ricardo 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

Supply Change Capital does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its current site.

#54Shayna Harris

Co-Founder and General Partner

Supply Change Capital

Shayna Harris invests or supports investments through Supply Change Capital's published strategy: Back founders using technology to transform food, agriculture and technical supply chains, applying op

Leitmotif does not publish a standard investment range; its first fund is anchored by a $300M commitment.

#55Ryan Bayliss

Partner

Leitmotif

Ryan Bayliss invests or supports investments through Leitmotif's published strategy: Bridge US and European industrial ecosystems to help hard-technology companies move from demonstration to commercia

No personal check range is disclosed. Shorooq's equity platform covers the full journey from pre-seed to late-stage growth; Tina's current Venture Partner/adviser listing does not establish independent check authority, so founders should confirm the relevant vehicle and decision process.

#56Tina Daher

Venture Partner

Shorooq Partners

Tina looks for high-caliber founders applying differentiated technology to consequential emerging-market problems. Her attributable investment material emphasizes technically credible climate and indu

ex/ante does not publish a standard person-specific check range; its debut fund was announced at $33M.

#57Zoe Weinberg

Investment Team

ex/ante

Zoe Weinberg invests or supports investments through ex/ante's published strategy: Back agentic technologies that preserve human agency and rights in a digital world, spanning privacy, security, ident

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

#58Peyman Momeni

Research Partner

Hack VC

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

Technical ResearchProtocol DesignPre-Seed

#59Matt Hawes

Investment Team

ex/ante

Matt Hawes invests or supports investments through ex/ante's published strategy: Back agentic technologies that preserve human agency and rights in a digital world, spanning privacy, security, identit

ex/ante does not publish a standard person-specific check range; its debut fund was announced at $33M.

Leitmotif does not publish a standard investment range; its first fund is anchored by a $300M commitment.

#60Matt Trevithick

Managing Partner

Leitmotif

Matt Trevithick invests or supports investments through Leitmotif's published strategy: Bridge US and European industrial ecosystems to help hard-technology companies move from demonstration to commer

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

#61Stewart Eichner

Partner, Chief Legal Officer & Chief Compliance Officer

CoinFund

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

Fund formation and complianceToken and financing structure reviewRegulatory engagement

#62Philipp Emig

Partner

Leitmotif

Philipp Emig invests or supports investments through Leitmotif's published strategy: Bridge US and European industrial ecosystems to help hard-technology companies move from demonstration to commercia

Leitmotif does not publish a standard investment range; its first fund is anchored by a $300M commitment.

Leitmotif does not publish a standard investment range; its first fund is anchored by a $300M commitment.

#63Jens Wiese

Managing Partner

Leitmotif

Jens Wiese invests or supports investments through Leitmotif's published strategy: Bridge US and European industrial ecosystems to help hard-technology companies move from demonstration to commercial

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

#64Vikas 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

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.

#65Beryl 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

Pre-seedSeedEarly Stage

#66Vassilis 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

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.

SeedEarly StageSeries A

#67Bill Trenchard

Partner

First Round Capital

Bill looks for pre-product-market-fit founders who reason from first principles: they decompose a complicated system to its atomic unit, find hidden leverage in overlooked mechanics, and build an unco

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 Bill.

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.

#68Michael 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

#69Brett 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

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.

No Stanko-specific check range is public. A current third-party V3V profile reports a firm-level typical range of $100K–$1M at pre-seed/seed, while public round databases describe the larger rounds V3V joins rather than its own checks. Treat $100K–$1M as directional and confirm instrument, allocation and follow-on capacity directly.

#70Stanko Nedic

Partner

V3V Ventures

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

Pre-seedSeedSelective later follow-on

#71Richard 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

#72Lukas 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

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.

Pre-SeedSeedAccelerator

#73Melissa Taunton

Advisor; Partner, Talent at NEA

Blockchain Capital

Melissa's operating thesis is that exceptional companies require leaders who can scale themselves along with the organization. She works with founders and CEOs to build, develop, compensate and retain

No Melissa-specific Blockchain Capital check size or allocation authority is public. Her documented work is executive talent, leadership and board development for NEA portfolio companies. Crypto founders should use Blockchain Capital's investors; NEA portfolio leaders can engage her on talent and leadership.

Executive-team designLeadership developmentBoard building

#74Bryan Rosenblatt

Venture Partner

Craft Ventures

Bryan applies a growth, revenue, and marketplace lens shaped by building Reddit's New York revenue organization and Twitter's startup advertising business. His investments favor products that remove e

No personal check-size range is published. Craft invests from angel/seed through venture and growth; amounts in Bryan's investment announcements are total company rounds, not his personal or standard Craft checks.

No personal check range is published. Khosla's Seed Fund supports science and business-model experiments, historically often with roughly $1M–$2M according to a 2020 firm interview, while its Main Fund covers early through later stages. These are firm-level references, not Alex's authority.

#75Alex Morgan

Partner

Khosla Ventures

Alex invests where computation, biology, and healthcare converge. His scientific and clinical background supports a systems view of biomarker discovery, therapeutics, diagnostics, personalized medicin

IncubationPre-SeedSeed

#76Samir 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.

IncubationPre-SeedSeed

#77Mason Nystrom

Partner

Pantera Capital

Mason is an application-layer investor looking for products that use crypto coordination and ownership to change how large groups of people interact. His work emphasizes stablecoins as global payment

No person-specific check size is publicly disclosed. Pantera's published venture approach typically invests from Seed through Series B and aims to lead or co-lead; founders should confirm fit rather than infer a check from third-party databases.

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.

#78Leigh 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 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.

#79Lucas 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

#80Samir Kerbage

Chief Investment Officer

Hashdex

Samir views crypto as a long-horizon technology and asset-class allocation rather than a short-term trade. His framework has two complementary pillars: bitcoin maturing as a scarce store of value and

Samir is a public/liquid-markets asset manager rather than a disclosed venture check writer. Hashdex publishes fund and index methodologies, not a personal startup check range; pitches should concern investable assets, indexes, products, research, or institutional partnerships rather than assume venture capital authority.

Liquid AssetsPublic MarketsETFs

#81Felipe Demartini

Associate

UTXO Management

Felipe specializes in Bitcoin-native assets and publicly listed Bitcoin treasury companies, combining fundamental research with short-, medium- and long-horizon trading. His work sits inside UTXO's vi

No Felipe-specific check size or investment authority is public. UTXO allocates across venture, liquid, public-market and structured-credit strategies; company founders and allocators should confirm the relevant vehicle and current sizing through the firm's contact channel.

Public MarketsLiquidVenture

#82David Sacks

Co-Founder & Venture Partner

Craft Ventures

Pioneered 'Bottom-Up SaaS' — the strategy of applying consumer growth tactics to B2B products. At PayPal he learned viral distribution; at Yammer he proved it could work in the enterprise, growing fro

$1M-$50M

No Abdul-specific check range is public. Decasonic's current team page calls him Venture Investor and says founder Paul Hsu is the firm's sole general partner, so this profile does not imply unilateral allocation authority. Confirm current vehicle, instrument, lead appetite and check size directly.

#83Abdul Al Ali

Venture Investor

Decasonic

Abdul invests at the application and interface layers where Web3 provides programmable trust, ownership or economic coordination for AI systems. His current work emphasizes physical AI and robotics da

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.

#84Jon 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

Post-batch company supportStrategic partnershipsCompany formation and financing

#85Matt 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

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.

Fund finance operationsMiddle-office reportingProcess automation

#86Dr. Bilal Baloch

Partner

Shorooq Partners

Bilal backs globally relevant AI companies where technical capability can be translated into real deployment. His operator and value-creation lens emphasizes more than capital: access to compute, data

No personal check range is publicly disclosed. Shorooq's official equity strategy spans pre-seed through late-stage growth; the Presight–Shorooq AI Fund is a $100M global platform. Treat vehicle size and stage coverage as firm-level context, not Bilal's personal authorization or a promised check size.

#87Georgios Konstantopoulos

General Partner & CTO

Paradigm

Systems engineering, Ethereum infrastructure, developer tooling. Key contributor to Ethereum Rust ecosystem.

#88Jun 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

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.

Emerging ManagersVenture FundsSeed

#89Nadia 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 range or signing authority is published. Nadia's current portfolio includes early and growth investments; individual company round sizes are not a personal range.

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.

#90Sebastian 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

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.

#91Banafsheh 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

#92Claude 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.

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 Sophie's personal allocation range.

#93Sophie Chiu

Investment Director

AppWorks

Sophie backs Asian founders applying AI to transformative products and organizational models. Her current work spans personalized AI, gaming, agentic systems, and AI-enabled work; her broader investme

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

#94Jehan Chu

Founder & Managing Partner

Kenetic Capital

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

Norrsken VC publicly states €1M–€10M early-stage and growth tickets. This is a firm-level range, not proof of Alexander's personal or unilateral approval authority.

#95Alexander Danielsson

General Partner

Norrsken Impact Fund

Alexander backs scalable software and AI that modernize economically important, under-digitized industries while creating measurable environmental or social impact. His recent work around Terra Labs,

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

#96Raye Hadi

Research Associate, Digital Assets

ARK Invest

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

Liquid CryptoassetsPublic MarketsThematic Research

#97Ali 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

#98David 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.

SeedEarly StageSeries A

#99Nick Grossman

Partner

Union Square Ventures (USV)

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

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

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.

#100Sanjot 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

#101Rachel Ruggieri

Associate Technical Recruiter

First Round Capital

Rachel supports First Round portfolio companies by connecting technical builders and operators with founders. Her lens comes from sourcing at two early-stage startups and working directly with founder

Not applicable to Rachel's technical-recruiting role. First Round's public initial-investment range of $1 million to $7 million and roughly $3.5 million average belongs to the firm's investing process, not to Rachel personally.

Founding and early-team hiringTechnical recruitingCandidate sourcing

#102Lizzy Price

Associate Technical Recruiter

First Round Capital

Lizzy's operating focus is helping First Round portfolio founders build their earliest technical teams. Her experience recruiting engineers across the Americas at Harness and supporting Last Energy gi

Not applicable to Lizzy's recruiting role. First Round publicly says its initial investments typically range from $1 million to $7 million and average about $3.5 million, but those are firm terms administered by the investment team, not Lizzy's personal authority.

Founding and early-team hiringTechnical recruitingCandidate sourcing and closing

#103Arielle 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

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.

Pre-seedSeedEarliest-stage company formation

#104Josh Wolfe

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Lux Capital

'Atoms, not bits.' The biggest opportunities are in companies that manipulate the physical world, not just software. Willing to fund multi-year R&D timelines. Just raised the firm's largest fund ever

$1M-$50M+

Firm-level: AppWorks publishes a US$200K to US$15M per-deal range across Seed through Series C, with capacity to lead or follow and reserve capital for follow-ons. This is not Ching's personal allocation range.

#105Ching Tseng

Investment Director

AppWorks

Ching backs global Web3 founders and infrastructure that can make decentralized systems useful, secure, and accessible at scale. Her work emphasizes founder vision, determination, domain expertise, an

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 Michelle's personal allocation range.

#106Michelle Lin

Investment VP

AppWorks

Michelle backs technology that modernizes large, operationally fragmented Southeast Asian industries. Her investment cases combine a clear structural tailwind with deep founder-market fit, resilience

$500K-$200M (sweet spot ~$25M)

#107Jerry Chen

General Partner

Greylock Partners

Coined the 'Systems of Intelligence' framework in his landmark 2017 blog post 'The New Moats' — the idea that AI and data create competitive advantages by sitting between systems of record (databases)

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.

#108Ren 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

Not applicable to Anita's investor-relations role. No personal startup check size, sector allocation or deal authority is published. Founders should use Bessemer's relevant investing partner; institutions considering Bessemer funds are within her remit.

#109Anita Umarji

Partner, Head of Investor Relations

Bessemer Venture Partners

Anita builds the institutional relationships and fundraising capability behind Bessemer's investment platform. Her career spans venture-capital LP development, distressed-investment fundraising and st

Fund fundraisingLimited-partner developmentInstitutional investor strategy

#110Josh 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

#111Nathan 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

#112Wilson Tukiainen

Investment Manager

Maki.vc (Web3)

Wilson sources and evaluates Nordic first-round opportunities across Maki's sector-agnostic mandate, with a research-driven lens and responsibility for ESG development. His first publicly attributed 2

Maki's sweet spot is first rounds below EUR 5 million; this describes the firm's target round, not Wilson's personal authority. He sources and evaluates opportunities within that day-zero mandate.

Pre-SeedSeedFirst Round

#113Michael Robinson

Partner, Head of Investment Team

Craft Ventures

Michael invests across venture and growth with a focus on cybersecurity, infrastructure, and AI applications. His operating framework prizes durable revenue, efficient growth, healthy unit economics,

No personal check-size range is published. Craft invests from early-stage venture through growth, and Michael's disclosed financings span several stages; those total round sizes are not personal or standard check sizes.

Series ASeries BSeries C

#114Alison 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

#115Yerui 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.

#116Tess van Stekelenburg

Partner

Lux Capital

Tess is a technically trained generalist investing where AI, biology, aerospace, and the physical world intersect. She seeks engineers and scientists turning frontier research into companies, with par

No verified personal or standard Lux check-size range is published. Tess invests at both early and growth stages and participates in Lux company creation; founders should confirm round fit directly rather than infer an allocation from fund size or disclosed company rounds.

Company CreationSeedSeries A

#117Jin Ming Neo

Sr. Investment Research Associate

HashKey Capital

Jin Ming Neo contributes to broad, research-led sector evaluation across Web3. HashKey's coauthored 1H 2024 analysis favors teams with defined technical advantages, credible go-to-market, or proven ex

No reliable personal check range or individual signing authority is public. Jin Ming Neo is a research associate, so founders should treat HashKey Capital's fund strategy—not a directory estimate—as the relevant context and confirm stage, allocation, lead role, ownership, token/equity structure, and decision process with the investment team.

No Brian-specific or official current check range is public. NLH Fund II is positioned to lead early-stage native-crypto investments, and the firm's disclosed portfolio spans pre-seed, seed, strategic and Series A rounds. Round totals are not personal check sizes; founders should ask Brian or the firm about current sizing and instrument.

#118Brian Breslow

Investor

No Limit Holdings

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

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.

#119Nicolas 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

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.

#120Brandon 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

#121Christian zu Jeddeloh

Former Investment Manager

Norrsken Impact Fund

During his Norrsken tenure, Christian explored frontier technologies where difficult physical environments create enabling infrastructure for Earth: satellites for climate intelligence, microgravity f

Historical Norrsken role. The firm now publishes €1M–€10M tickets, but no personal ticket or present investing authority should be inferred because Christian left for an operating role in 2026.

Historical: SeedHistorical: Series APortfolio Operations

#122Lorenz Furrer

Investor Relations

CV VC

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

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

Fund investor relationsCapital formationInstitutional stakeholder engagement

#123Rachel Henderson

Senior Associate, Investor Strategy

Electric Capital

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

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

Limited-partner engagementFundraising and investor relationsInstitutional manager due diligence

#124Tyler Lorberbaum

Vice President, Investor Relations

Bessemer Venture Partners

Tyler's mandate is institutional investor relations for Bessemer. His progression through Centerbridge, B Capital and Bessemer provides experience communicating multi-strategy alternatives and global

Not applicable to Tyler's investor-relations role. No personal startup check size or investment-committee authority is published. Founder opportunities should go to a current Bessemer investor.

FundraisingLimited-partner relationsInstitutional alternative-assets communication

#125Rodney Yesep

Partner

Hack VC

Rodney backs technical infrastructure that removes adoption bottlenecks for high-value crypto use cases. His work favors modular, open AI stacks that solve data, compute and availability; stablecoin c

No personal or standard ticket is published. Hack VC is an earliest-stage investor and its articles identify the firm as leading rounds at pre-seed, seed and Series A; announced round leadership does not reveal Rodney's individual check authority.

No current personal check range: Aristos is Partner Emeritus and an official 2025 biography says he is not involved with Big Pi's later funds. Big Pi's current platform range is €0.5M–€30M across funds, but should not be attributed to him.

#126Aristos Doxiadis

Partner Emeritus

Big Pi Ventures

Aristos' historical investment lens combines strong technology, team, and market position with realistic commercialization targets. He favors research-based ventures that can bridge academia and indus

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

#127Kyle Gluskin

Director of Investor Relations

Blockchain Capital

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

Fundraising infrastructureLimited-partner communicationsInvestor servicing

#128Maayan 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.

Not applicable. Sarah does not publish a check size, startup thesis or investment authority. Founders should contact a Bessemer deal investor; LP and IR process matters fit her team.

#129Sarah Soell

Investor Relations Operations Manager

Bessemer Venture Partners

Sarah designs the operating system for Bessemer investor relations: content creation, processes and infrastructure supporting fundraising and limited-partner relationships. Her sociology-and-computing

Investor-relations operationsFundraising processLP relationship infrastructure

#130Abbey Hamstra

Partner, Head of Investor Relations and Operations

CoinFund

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

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

Limited-partner relationship developmentFund due diligenceFund onboarding

#131Bryson 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.

Maki Fund III currently states €300K–€3M initial tickets in pre-seed and seed rounds below €5M, with follow-on reserves. This is the active firm's range, not Ilkka's personal or current new-deal authority; his stated remit focuses on existing portfolio companies.

#132Ilkka Kivimäki

Founding Partner & Advisor of Maki.vc

Maki.vc (Web3)

Ilkka co-built Maki around entrepreneurial DNA, technical depth, non-consensus first-round decisions and Nordic founders with global category ambition. His documented portfolio work spans gaming, smar

Pre-SeedSeedFirst Institutional Round

#133Emily 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

#134Wei Dai

Research Partner

1kx

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

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

No reliable official current check range was found. Collider publicly describes itself as an early-stage Web3 investor and accepts pitches at invest@collider.vc; third-party directory estimates conflict, so founders should confirm current vehicle, stage and sizing directly.

#135Eylon Aviv

Partner

Collider Ventures

Eylon connects two decentralization theses: crypto-native individual sovereignty that minimizes centralized authority through technology, and Web3 collective empowerment that democratizes ownership an

Pre-seedSeedEarly Stage

#136Elana Kuppermann

Senior Executive Assistant & Investor Relations Coordinator

Bessemer Venture Partners

Elana supports Bessemer's investor-relations and executive workflows rather than evaluating startup investments. Her communication and legal education, commercial-real-estate experience and IR coordin

Not applicable. Elana has no published startup check size, portfolio, thesis or investment-committee authority. Founder outreach should go to a current Bessemer investment professional.

Investor-relations coordinationExecutive supportLP meeting and workflow support

#137Anay 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

#138David Hsu

General Partner

ether.fi Ventures

David backs technical, early-stage teams at the intersection of finance, AI and crypto that pair crypto-native properties with real adoption. His clearest current thesis is a two-layer build: first ac

$500K–$1M, from a current public ether.fi Ventures fundraising statement. The live site positions Fund I at pre-seed through Series A and publishes ventures@ether.fi. Confirm allocation, instrument, ownership target and whether the fund will lead; the current site says $20M committed capital while the April 2025 launch post described $40M, so fund-size headlines should not be used to infer check capacity.

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.

#139Coulter 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

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.

#140Dan Morehead

Founder & Managing Partner

Pantera Capital

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

#141Anne 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

#142Prashanth 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

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.

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.

#143Deena 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.

Sfermion does not publish a first-party check-size range or Dan's individual authority. Public deal records show participation in seed and Series A rounds, but round totals and third-party estimates are not treated as his personal check size.

#144Dan Patterson

Managing Partner

Sfermion

Dan co-leads Sfermion's investment strategy around the experiential internet: founders, companies, and digital assets that merge physical and digital life through web3, AI, AR, and VR. The firm's dura

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.

#145Kunal 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

No personal check-size range is published. Faction invests at Seed and Series A using equity and tokens; its fund commitments and disclosed financing totals should not be interpreted as Samuel's standard check.

#146Samuel Harrison

Managing Partner

Lightspeed Faction

Samuel backs early crypto infrastructure and protocols that make blockchain useful at scale. His public focus includes wallets, brokerages, developer tools, remittances, stablecoin and payment rails,

SeedSeries AToken Networks

#147John DiBattista

Investor Services Manager

CoinFund

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

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

Fund investor onboardingInvestor servicingFund administration support

#148Helen 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

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.

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

#149Julien Passagne

Venture Partner

CV VC

Julien brings a technical, crypto-native lens to early blockchain and AI opportunities. His background spans building a Big Four blockchain practice, operating at a Layer-1 company, bootstrapping an e

CV VC publicly invests up to $500,000 in qualifying pre-seed and seed companies. CV Pad and launchpad transactions can have different token terms; no reliable public source establishes Julien's personal allocation authority.

Pre-SeedSeedToken Launch

#150Nat Turner

Head of Events

Lux Capital

Nat designs the convening layer around Lux's frontier-science and technology network. Her work brings together founders, researchers, executives, investors, journalists and creative leaders in focused

Not applicable to Nat's events role. Lux invests across stages, but no personal allocation authority or check size belongs to this profile. Founder financing pitches should go to Lux's investment team.

Founder and portfolio communityExecutive conveningThought-leadership programming

#151Jackie 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

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.

#152George Saliaris-Fasseas

Partner; Former Operating Partner, Big Pi Ventures

Homerun Investments

George brings an operator-investor lens shaped by building technology ventures, running Google Greece, leading advertising and media businesses, supporting Big Pi portfolio companies and founding an a

Homerun does not publish a George-specific check range or formal stage band. The firm invites technology companies with exceptional growth potential across its stated sectors. Founders should ask directly about vehicle, round and ownership fit rather than relying on Big Pi's separate historical parameters.

Early-stage technologyGrowth companiesOperating support

#153Rohit Jain

Managing Partner

CoinDCX Ventures

Rohit backs early-stage Web3 businesses where decentralization produces a materially better product—not blockchain for its own sake. He looks for valuable, sustainable companies and balances thesis co

$100K–$1M was the published CoinDCX Ventures range at launch in May 2022 for global Seed through Series A investments. The live firm page still confirms an early-stage global mandate but does not restate the range, so founders should verify the current ticket directly.

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.

#154John 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

#155Wendy 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

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.

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.

#156Jessica 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 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.

#157Jake Kim

Asset Manager

Hashed

Jake analyzes crypto assets through market structure, user demand, transparency and risk. He sees decentralized lending as a technically differentiated response to opaque custodial failures, while rec

Liquid AssetsCrypto MarketsPortfolio and Risk Analysis

#158Yuan Han Li

Partner

Blockchain Capital

Yuan backs crypto-native founders with earned insight, behavioral resilience, learning velocity, and the ability to translate non-consensus ideas into enduring systems. His technical work spans modula

No verified personal check-size range is published. Blockchain Capital describes itself as a multi-stage crypto investor; Yuan's public work spans seed-stage selection through later protocol and company support, but no individual allocation authority should be inferred.

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.

#159Fanis 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

#160Lucas Oliveira

Principal

Kleiner Perkins

Lucas invests in enterprise software and cybersecurity across early and growth stages. His portfolio connects foundation models, data and enterprise AI, open-source software security, managed security

No personal check range or signing authority is published. Lucas participates across early and growth investments; disclosed company financings should not be treated as his personal range.

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.

#161Jessica 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

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.

#162David 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

Galaxy Ventures Fund I closed at more than $175M and targets early-stage companies, but no standard personal or firm ticket range is published on the cited pages. No individual signing authority is inferred from Vikram's Investor title.

#163Vikram Singh

Investor

Galaxy Ventures

Vikram studies the infrastructure that lets blockchains support Bitcoin programmability, mass-market stablecoin distribution and autonomous software. His writing moves from BitVM bridge economics to U

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

#164Geoff YuHasker

Investor

Electric Capital

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

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

#165Clare He

Managing Director, Capital Formation

1kx

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

Fund strategy and fundraisingLimited-partner diligenceInstitutional relationship management

#166Joseph 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

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.

No personal check-size authority is published. Disclosed Craft financings involving Kevin range from seed and Series A through Series C and later growth rounds; the financing totals are company-round sizes, not Kevin's individual checks.

#167Kevin Gabura

Partner

Craft Ventures

Kevin backs early- and late-stage software companies where a major platform shift creates a new security or infrastructure control point. His recent work emphasizes runtime-first cloud security, auton

No Jesse-specific startup check size or allocation authority is public. His documented mandate is legal oversight for Kleiner Perkins and its portfolio companies. Founders seeking financing should contact an investing partner.

#168Jesse King

Partner, General Counsel

Kleiner Perkins

Jesse's role is to manage legal risk and enable transactions for Kleiner Perkins and its portfolio. His background spans venture capital financings, M&A, corporate and securities work, litigation and

Fund and portfolio legal supportVenture financingsMergers and acquisitions

#169Panos Metsis

Partner

Big Pi Ventures

Panos leads growth investments in European technology companies that already show category leadership and can use €7M–€20M+ plus active operating support to scale internationally. His recent work emph

Growth-fund level: Big Pi Growth I states that it leads with €7M–€20M+ per company. Panos focuses on Series B+ growth investments; the published fund range is not a guarantee of his personal allocation authority for any deal.

Series BSeries CGrowth Equity

#170Paul Brodsky

Partner

Pantera Capital

Paul's published case for digital assets starts with monetary adoption: a cryptoasset becomes money only if a critical mass accepts it, but the possibility of that scale can justify a suitable asymmet

No person-specific venture check size is publicly disclosed. Pantera's venture strategy typically invests Seed through Series B, but Paul's public work is primarily macro and digital-asset allocation rather than individual startup ticket guidance.

Liquid Digital AssetsSeedSeries A

#171Diana Hu

Managing Partner

Y Combinator

Diana works with technical founders building frontier AI, robotics and hard technology. Her Escher Reality and Niantic experience combines zero-to-one infrastructure with deployment at consumer scale,

YC's live standard deal is $500K per accepted company: $125K on a post-money SAFE for 7% plus $375K on an uncapped MFN SAFE, with a participation right. This is YC's standardized program deal, not Diana's personal check range.

IdeaPre-SeedBatch-stage startup

#172Michael Novogratz

Founder & CEO

Galaxy Digital

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

#173Josh Coyne

Partner

Kleiner Perkins

Josh backs founders applying AI to consequential workflows in both software and the physical economy. His portfolio shows a consistent preference for products that turn abundant but fragmented informa

Not publicly disclosed. Kleiner Perkins invests from early stage through selective growth rounds; isolated portfolio check disclosures should not be treated as Josh's standard range.

Norrsken VC publicly states €1M–€10M early-stage and growth tickets. This is a firm-level range and should not be read as Fabian's individual signing authority.

#174Fabian Erici

Partner

Norrsken Impact Fund

Fabian looks for technology that improves both the economics and environmental footprint of energy and heavy industry. His research identifies AI-enabled resource efficiency, process optimization and

Galaxy Ventures Fund I closed at more than $175M and invests at early stages, but Galaxy does not publish a standard personal ticket range for James. His Principal role and official promotion establish independent deal-lead capability, not unilateral fund authority.

#175James Kibbie

Principal

Galaxy Ventures

James backs crypto-native financial infrastructure that delivers real utility inside global financial systems. His work centers on stablecoins, payment cards, onchain capital markets and software that

$500K-$2M typical initial venture investments, with capacity up to $25M from specialized capital pools, as published by January Capital.

#176Vito Martin

Investor

January Capital

Vito Martin invests or supports investments through January Capital's published strategy: Be the first institutional investor in Asia-Pacific technology founders across AI and SaaS, fintech, digital c

Pre-SeedSeedGrowth Credit

#177Jochen Beutgen

Founding Partner

identity.vc

Jochen Beutgen invests or supports investments through identity.vc's published strategy: Back European early-stage companies with at least one LGBTQ+ founder or executive, using lived experience and a

identity.vc does not publish a standard check-size range on its current official site.

identity.vc does not publish a standard check-size range on its current official site.

#178Claire Mongeau

Investment Manager

identity.vc

Claire Mongeau invests or supports investments through identity.vc's published strategy: Back European early-stage companies with at least one LGBTQ+ founder or executive, using lived experience and a

identity.vc does not publish a standard check-size range on its current official site.

#179Sabine Schoorl

Venture Partner

identity.vc

Sabine Schoorl invests or supports investments through identity.vc's published strategy: Back European early-stage companies with at least one LGBTQ+ founder or executive, using lived experience and a

identity.vc does not publish a standard check-size range on its current official site.

#180Zuzana Dittes

Operations and IR Lead

identity.vc

Zuzana Dittes is listed in a Operations and IR Lead capacity at identity.vc. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile therefore preserves the role disti

identity.vc does not publish a standard check-size range on its current official site.

#181Mari Luukkainen

Venture Partner

identity.vc

Mari Luukkainen invests or supports investments through identity.vc's published strategy: Back European early-stage companies with at least one LGBTQ+ founder or executive, using lived experience and

identity.vc does not publish a standard check-size range on its current official site.

#182Sam Eshrati

Venture Partner

identity.vc

Sam Eshrati invests or supports investments through identity.vc's published strategy: Back European early-stage companies with at least one LGBTQ+ founder or executive, using lived experience and a pa

identity.vc does not publish a standard check-size range on its current official site.

#183Raymond Hannes

Venture Partner

identity.vc

Raymond Hannes invests or supports investments through identity.vc's published strategy: Back European early-stage companies with at least one LGBTQ+ founder or executive, using lived experience and a

identity.vc does not publish a standard check-size range on its current official site.

#184Sylvia Stojilkovic

Venture Partner

identity.vc

Sylvia Stojilkovic invests or supports investments through identity.vc's published strategy: Back European early-stage companies with at least one LGBTQ+ founder or executive, using lived experience a

No Dan-specific check range is public. Craft invests across early and growth stages through separate venture and growth funds; Dan's official profile emphasizes helping early-stage founders, while recent attributed investments range from Seed through later-stage rounds. Confirm current vehicle and sizing through inquiries@craftventures.com.

#185Dan Moor

Principal

Craft Ventures

Dan backs early-stage B2B and vertical software, cybersecurity, infrastructure and physical-AI companies where a strong product insight can become a scalable operating and go-to-market machine. His in

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

#186Jeffrey Schox

Partner

Trucks Venture Capital

Jeffrey Schox invests or supports investments through Trucks Venture Capital's published strategy: Back transportation technology that makes movement decarbonized, safer and more accessible.

Hivemind invests across pre-seed through Series B; typical venture checks $500K-$5M with capacity to lead

#187Kayla Phillips

Senior Investment Principal, Hivemind Capital Partners

Hivemind Capital

Phillips's overarching thesis is bridging the on-chain and off-chain worlds, primarily through market infrastructure — the 'unsexy backbone' of stablecoins, settlement rails, custody, tokenization, an

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

#188Kathryn Schox

Partner

Trucks Venture Capital

Kathryn Schox invests or supports investments through Trucks Venture Capital's published strategy: Back transportation technology that makes movement decarbonized, safer and more accessible.

Maven 11 does not publish a dependable personal or firm check range on its current site. Founders should confirm the applicable venture vehicle, initial ownership, token/equity structure, lead appetite and reserves directly with Pim rather than relying on directory estimates.

#189Pim Swart

Associate Partner

Maven 11 Capital

Pim applies bioinformatics, data-science and machine-learning training to fundamental crypto investing. His disclosed lead investments span decentralized AI compute, zero-knowledge proof systems, tran

No personal check range or current investment authority is published. Joubin's official role centers on portfolio go-to-market support and operating Roadrunner; founders seeking a new investment should confirm routing through Kleiner's current investing team rather than assume he is a check-writer.

#190Joubin Mirzadegan

Partner

Kleiner Perkins

Joubin's current work is company building and portfolio operations. He helps founders construct and scale go-to-market organizations, using experience taking cloud businesses from an initial seller to

Portfolio SupportCompany IncubationGo-to-Market Scale

#191Spencer Bogart

General Partner

Blockchain Capital

Broadly focused crypto investing. One of the longest-tenured crypto VCs.

No Bob-specific Blockchain Capital check size or allocation authority is public. He advises Blockchain Capital and works with Summit's investment teams; founders should route crypto pitches to Blockchain Capital's listed investors and growth-equity opportunities through Summit's process.

#192Bob Grady

Advisor; Advisory Partner at Summit Partners

Blockchain Capital

Bob's documented work centers on identifying growth opportunities and helping portfolio leaders shape long-term value-creation strategies across technology and growth products/services. His career spa

Growth equity advisoryPortfolio strategyInvestment origination support

#193Clara Boh

Deal Partner

Lightspeed Faction

Clara invests within Faction's early-stage, crypto-native mandate: Seed and Series A projects across the stack, in equity or tokens, that create fundamental utility and push the industry forward. Publ

Faction does not publish a standard check range or Clara's personal allocation authority. Its official mandate is Seed and Series A investments across equity and tokens; public round sizes must not be mistaken for Faction's check size.

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.

#194Adina 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

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.

#195Claire 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.

gCC's older first-party FAQ stated typical $250K–$1M checks at friends-and-family through pre-Series A, occasionally Series A. Treat this as historical firm guidance—not Evans's personal or necessarily current range—and confirm Fund II sizing, lead appetite and structure directly.

#196Evans Huangfu

Partner

gumi Cryptos Capital

Evans leads gCC's Asia strategy with a consumer-crypto and multi-chain background. His prior portfolio and current mandate point to high-conviction early-stage founders building foundational Web3 laye

BoxGroup publicly invests up to $1M. Third-party profiles estimate Disha's range at $500K–$1M, but no primary source confirms a personal range, so the firm ceiling is the safer planning assumption.

#197Disha Karale

Investor

BoxGroup

Disha invests at the earliest stages with a differentiated mix of finance, neuroscience, biotech R&D, and prior growth-investing exposure. Her public investor profile points to AI, enterprise infrastr

$250K-$2.5M initial investments, as published by Array Ventures.

#198Shruti Gandhi

Founder and Managing Partner

Array Ventures

Shruti Gandhi invests or supports investments through Array Ventures's published strategy: Back technically ambitious founders at inception across AI infrastructure, cybersecurity, healthtech, fintech

InceptionPre-SeedSeed

#199Tariq Q. Khan

Venture Partner

Elevate Capital

At the firm level, Elevate Capital invests in overlooked entrepreneurs, including women and minority founders, while also funding high-risk research-driven innovation through its gap and SSBCI strateg

#200Donn Dimond

Limited Partner

Elevate Capital

#201Doug Fieldhouse

Limited Partner

Elevate Capital

#202Lateef Jackson

Limited Partner

Elevate Capital

#203Jill Nelson

Executive Partner

Elevate Capital

#204Michael Choi

Executive Partner

Elevate Capital

#205Chris Bright

Executive Partner

Elevate Capital

#206Randy Lund

Executive Partner

Elevate Capital

#207Ana Chaud

Executive Partner

Elevate Capital

#208Ketan Sampat

Executive Partner

Elevate Capital

#209Robin Jones

Executive Partner

Elevate Capital

#210Raghu Raghavan

Partner Emeritus

Elevate Capital

#211Pam Gates

Controller

Elevate Capital

#212Barbara Johnson

Executive Assistant

Elevate Capital