Best VCs for Research

21 venture capitalists actively investing in Research.

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Angel / Researcher

Crypto researcher and investor with deep expertise in on-chain data analysis. Known for detailed research on DeFi protocols and market microstructure.

SeedSeries A

#2Nihal Maunder

Managing Director

HongShan

Nihal's current HSG mandate is not yet public, so the defensible personal thesis comes from his prior first-person and attributed work: blockchain can extend open finance and coordination into payment

No current person-specific HSG check size is publicly disclosed. Historical Pantera work spans early-stage through growth, but those prior fund parameters should not be assumed to apply to his HSG role.

Early StageVentureGrowth

#3Hirsh Jain

Co-Founder & CEO, Percepta

General Catalyst

Hirsh's operating thesis is that enterprise AI fails when organizations bolt point solutions onto legacy workflows or stop at pilots. Percepta embeds engineers, researchers and product managers inside

Not applicable. Hirsh leads Percepta, an operating/transformation company, rather than a General Catalyst investment team. Founders seeking GC capital should contact an actual GC investor; enterprises seeking embedded AI transformation can contact Percepta.

Enterprise AI transformationProduction deploymentCompany building

#4Rachel 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

#5Aristos 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

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.

SeedSeries AEarly Stage

#6Anssi Uimonen

Founding Partner

Nordic Science Investments

Anssi Uimonen invests or supports investment work through Nordic Science Investments's published strategy: Create and back Nordic university spinouts from incubation through follow-on Series A and B r

Nordic Science Investments does not publish a standard check-size range; its official site describes a €60M fund.

Pre-SeedSeedSeries A

#7Jari Strandman

Founding Partner

Nordic Science Investments

Jari Strandman invests or supports investment work through Nordic Science Investments's published strategy: Create and back Nordic university spinouts from incubation through follow-on Series A and B

Nordic Science Investments does not publish a standard check-size range; its official site describes a €60M fund.

Pre-SeedSeedSeries A

#8Matti Hautsalo

Founding Partner

Nordic Science Investments

Matti Hautsalo invests or supports investment work through Nordic Science Investments's published strategy: Create and back Nordic university spinouts from incubation through follow-on Series A and B

Nordic Science Investments does not publish a standard check-size range; its official site describes a €60M fund.

Pre-SeedSeedSeries A

#9Alexandra Gylfe

Founding Partner

Nordic Science Investments

Alexandra Gylfe invests or supports investment work through Nordic Science Investments's published strategy: Create and back Nordic university spinouts from incubation through follow-on Series A and B

Nordic Science Investments does not publish a standard check-size range; its official site describes a €60M fund.

Pre-SeedSeedSeries A

#10Alex Eleftheriadis

Partner

Big Pi Ventures

Alex backs research- and engineering-led companies that start with a real problem, create defensible technical capability or intellectual property, and translate inventions into globally useful produc

Firm-wide: Big Pi publishes equity tickets of €0.5M–€30M across its early-stage and growth funds. The current site does not publish Alex's personal range or the early-stage fund's narrower ticket policy, so the full platform range should not be read as his standard check.

Pre-SeedSeedSeries A

#11Charlie Noyes

General Partner

Paradigm

DeFi infrastructure, MEV, protocol economics. Intersection of market microstructure and blockchain design.

#12Mart Maasik

Partner

Nordic Science Investments

Mart Maasik invests or supports investment work through Nordic Science Investments's published strategy: Create and back Nordic university spinouts from incubation through follow-on Series A and B rou

Nordic Science Investments does not publish a standard check-size range; its official site describes a €60M fund.

Pre-SeedSeedSeries A

#13Trevor Oliver

Investor

Electric Capital

Trevor applies a long quantitative-investing background to Electric's engineer-led frontier-technology mandate. His prior roles across multi-strategy, retirement, institutional asset-management and in

Electric Capital publishes a firm-level $1M–$15M+ range from pre-seed through Series A. Trevor's current page gives no personal check range, deal attribution or mandate detail beyond Investor, so the firm range must not be presented as his individual authority.

Pre-SeedSeedSeries A

#14Gerard de Bourbon

Partner

Nordic Science Investments

Gerard de Bourbon invests or supports investment work through Nordic Science Investments's published strategy: Create and back Nordic university spinouts from incubation through follow-on Series A and

Nordic Science Investments does not publish a standard check-size range; its official site describes a €60M fund.

Pre-SeedSeedSeries A

#15Hanna Hämäläinen

Analyst

Nordic Science Investments

Hanna Hämäläinen invests or supports investment work through Nordic Science Investments's published strategy: Create and back Nordic university spinouts from incubation through follow-on Series A and

Nordic Science Investments does not publish a standard check-size range; its official site describes a €60M fund.

Pre-SeedSeedSeries A

#16Jupiter Zheng

Partner, Liquid Fund & Research

HashKey Capital

Blockchain research and investment at HashKey Capital. Brings rigorous research methodology to evaluating crypto projects across the APAC region.

SeedSeries ASeries B

#17Hiroki Kotabe

Head of Research

Lemniscap

Pre-seedSeedEarly Stage

#18Robert Osborne