Best VCs for Staking

12 venture capitalists actively investing in Staking.

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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

#2Avishay 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 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.

Pre-SeedSeedEarly Stage

#3Stewart 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

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.

Fund formation and complianceToken and financing structure reviewRegulatory engagement

#4Samir 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

#5Matt 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

#6Jin 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.

SeedSeries AEarly Stage

#7Yerui Zhang

Investment Director

HashKey Capital

Yerui is a HashKey investment director with documented fund-committee responsibility and a contributor to the firm's technical sector research. The research evaluates infrastructure and applications a

No verified personal check-size range is published. HashKey Capital operates multiple venture, liquid, and multi-strategy vehicles; fund size and disclosed portfolio rounds should not be converted into Yerui's individual authority.

SeedSeries AEarly Stage

#8David 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.

Pre-seedSeedSeries A

#9Gleb Dudka

Principal

Greenfield Capital

Gleb leads Greenfield's DeFi work, combining protocol research, infrastructure operating experience, and deal execution. His current research emphasizes capital-efficient and safer liquidity architect

Not publicly disclosed. Greenfield has led and joined pre-seed, seed, and Series A rounds, but public round sizes are not personal or firm check sizes.

Pre-SeedSeedSeries A

#10Zi-hao Chen

Partner

NGC Ventures

Zi focuses on blockchain infrastructure from research through live network operation. He evaluates execution bottlenecks, layer-2 and appchain architecture, EVM compatibility and parallel processing,

No personal or firm ticket is disclosed on NGC's site. Zi's partner title, accelerator mentorship and infrastructure responsibilities show meaningful technical involvement but do not prove a standard range or unilateral decision authority.

SeedEarly StageTestnet

#11Viktor Fischer

Founder & CEO

Rockaway Blockchain Fund

Rockaway Blockchain Fund invests in DeFi and infrastructure from Prague. One of Central Europe's most active crypto investors with positions in Solana, Lido, and other major protocols.

SeedSeries AStrategic

#12Nate Jeong

Investment & Portfolio Manager

LECCA Ventures

Pre-seedSeedSeries A

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