Best VCs for Web3

#2Davide Fioranelli

Partner

Italian Angels for Growth (Web3)

Investing in blockchain and Web3 startups in Italy through the Italian Angels for Growth network. Focused on bringing Italian innovation to the global crypto stage.

Pre-seedSeed

#3Vladimir Munjin

Partner

Black Pearls VC

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

Pre-seedSeed

#4Markku Mäkeläinen

Partner

Maki.vc (Web3)

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

#5James Cameron

Co-founder & Partner

AirTree Ventures (Web3)

Investing in Web3 and blockchain projects in the Australian and APAC startup ecosystem through AirTree Ventures, one of Australia's top VC firms.

#6Nicole Prietocarrizosa

East Africa Lead

Norrsken Impact Fund

Investing in impact-driven blockchain and Web3 projects at Norrsken Impact Fund, focused on using technology to solve global challenges.

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.

#7Sterling 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

Historical seed and venture investingConsumer-crypto diligencePortfolio support

#8Laura K. Inamedinova

General Partner

ALPS Capital

Laura currently backs institution-grade financial-market infrastructure for digital assets and AI as TradFi moves onchain. Her stated targets include payments, stablecoins, clearing and settlement, tr

No current ALPS check size is publicly disclosed. Laura's September 2026 criteria specify Pre-Seed to Seed companies valued below $30M; that is a valuation ceiling and stage filter, not a stated check range.

No 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.

#9Nihal 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

Early StageVentureGrowth

#10Fred Wilson

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Union Square Ventures (USV)

Backs 'trusted brands that broaden access to knowledge, capital, and well-being by leveraging networks, platforms, and protocols.' The access thesis is the through-line: every investment should make s

$1M-$25M

Series ASeries B

#11Nataly Laktionova

Marketing, Portfolio Development

Polymorphic Capital

Nataly's Polymorphic work sits at the application and portfolio-development edge: finding and supporting products that use web3 infrastructure to transform markets beyond crypto-native users, particul

No Nataly-specific check size is public. Polymorphic's verified OpenVC-style profile lists firm-level initial bands spanning $250K–$3M, says it can lead, and covers pre-seed through Series B. Treat these as firm guidance rather than Nataly's authority; confirm the relevant partner, current allocation, stage and ownership target after intake.

No individual check range is published. USV's firm-wide range is $1 million to $30 million, but Jared's special-advisor placement does not establish personal decision authority; the partnership discusses investments collectively without a vote.

#12Jared Hecht

Venture Partner

Union Square Ventures (USV)

Jared brings a repeat founder's consumer-product lens to networks at the intersection of AI and crypto. His published thesis favors strange, initially fringe behaviors that create genuinely new social

a16z crypto does not publish a reliable personal check range for Liz. Her public deal writing spans seed leadership and large later financings, so founders should confirm vehicle, stage, allocation, ownership target, lead/co-lead role, token/equity structure, and reserves with the team.

#13Elizabeth Harkavy

Investment Partner

a16z crypto

Liz focuses on the picks-and-shovels and decentralized infrastructure that let crypto mature into useful, open economic systems. Her authored investment work emphasizes market infrastructure for incre

SeedVentureGrowth

#14Felix Machart

Research Partner

Greenfield Capital

Felix uses research and market data to identify durable crypto infrastructure and distinguish fundamental adoption from speculation. His work favors protocols with measurable usage, revenue or value a

No 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.

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.

#15Beryl 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

#16Nassim Olive

Co-Founder & General Partner

Eterna Capital

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

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

No current first-party ticket range is published. Castle Island describes itself as an early-stage investor in public-blockchain infrastructure and applications; founders should confirm current stage and check expectations directly rather than relying on directory estimates.

#17Wyatt Khosrowshahi

Investor

Castle Island Ventures

Wyatt invests in infrastructure and applications that expand the onchain economy, with a particularly data-rich focus on stablecoin payments and DeFi market structure. His work treats stablecoins as c

No 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.

#18Jehan 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

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.

#19Abdul 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

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.

#20Banafsheh 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

#21Linda Xie

Builder & Former Crypto Investor

Historical Scalar lens, not a current investment mandate: back genuinely new crypto systems where decentralization or censorship resistance is essential, people have a real reason to use the product,

No current check size or active angel mandate is verified. Scalar Capital stopped deploying new capital in September 2023 and moved into maintenance mode; Linda continued supporting its existing portfolio while transitioning back to building.

Historical: Early StageHistorical: Liquid CryptoassetsNot Currently Investing

#22Jun 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

#23Lukas 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

#24Stanko 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

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.

Pre-seedSeedSelective later follow-on

#25Sebastian 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. 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.

$250K–$1M from pre-seed through Series A, per Lattice's current official approach page. The firm says it invests globally, makes fast independent decisions and seeks non-consensus companies at their earliest stages.

#26Mike Zajko

Co-Founder & General Partner

Lattice Fund

Mike backs infrastructure, networks and applications that make money, markets and scarce resources more open. He originated Lattice's 2022 Token-Incentivized Physical Infrastructure Networks thesis an

No personal check-size range is published. Greenfield's venture strategy spans pre-seed through later rounds; disclosed portfolio round totals are not Andrzej's personal allocation limits.

#27Andrzej Dzius

Partner and Chief Technology Officer

Greenfield Capital

Andrzej brings an operator-CTO lens to Greenfield's crypto portfolio. His current published work emphasizes privacy as general-purpose infrastructure and backs decentralized encrypted computation that

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.

#28Ching 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

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.

#29Yerui 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 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.

#30Alison 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

Venture fund investingFund of fundsEarly-stage technology

#31Aadharsh Pannirselvam

Investor

Archetype

Aadharsh invests where applied cryptography makes useful software private, programmable and verifiable, and where decentralized AI can coordinate agents, data and computation without recreating centra

No person-specific or current firm check size is publicly disclosed. Archetype describes itself as an early-stage fund and its historical firm overview says it partners from first check through Series A; founders should confirm round fit directly rather than rely on directory estimates.

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.

#32Julien 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

Pre-SeedSeedToken Launch

#33Rob Williams

Former Venture Investor

North Island Ventures

Historical only: his recorded NIV work combined early-stage sourcing and diligence with founder experience in onchain retail investing. The current NIV thesis now spans agentic finance, stablecoins, o

No current personal investing authority is verified. NIV presently publishes a $500K–$5M early-stage range, but Rob is absent from the current roster and should not be treated as a live contact or check writer for the firm.

Historical: Early StageNot Currently Verified

#34Joey Shin

Junior Partner

Pantera Capital

Joey treats blockchain as a permissionless, composable technology stack for programming value and human behavior—not merely a digital copy of traditional finance. He is looking for institutional DeFi

No person-specific check size is publicly disclosed. Pantera's published venture strategy typically spans Seed through Series B and aims to lead or co-lead; Joey's own mandate is DeFi and infrastructure rather than a stated ticket size.

SeedSeries AGrowth

#35Eylon 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

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.

Pre-seedSeedEarly Stage

#36Dan 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

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.

No personal check-size range is published. Faction invests at Seed and Series A through equity and tokens; its fund size and portfolio rounds are not Raymond's personal allocation parameters.

#37Raymond Feng

Technical Partner

Lightspeed Faction

As Faction's Technical Partner, Raymond evaluates early blockchain companies across the stack, from base infrastructure to applications. The safest evidence-supported interpretation of his mandate is

SeedSeries AToken Networks

#38Wei 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.

Not applicable to Jordan's startup-activation role. No personal check size or investment authority is public. Funding pitches should go to CV VC's named investment team or an official accelerator application, as appropriate.

#39Jordan Burgess

Program Associate, CV Labs Startup Activation

CV VC

Jordan's documented remit is startup activation at CV Labs: helping founders enter and navigate CV VC's blockchain ecosystem and programs. The role may touch sourcing, program delivery and founder rea

Startup activationAccelerator programmingFounder onboarding

#40Alexander Borodich

General Partner, AINative.Capital & UNLMTD.Capital

Alexander's current thesis is that hypergrowth can be assessed through a conjunction of visible structural factors: aligned macro/meso/micro trends, founder cognitive complexity, plan velocity, cohere

No public check range is stated. AINative says it invests at Seed and Series A in AI-native companies and is active; UNLMTD describes larger Seed–Series A checks but remains in formation. Confirm legal vehicle, close status, available capital, allocation and decision process before relying on either.

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.

#41Prashanth 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

No personal check-size range is published. Lux's USD 7B under management and disclosed company rounds are not Grace's personal range; she is explicitly described as a first-check and early investor.

#42Grace Isford

Partner

Lux Capital

Grace backs computational-science companies where software or AI transforms difficult physical, institutional, or technical systems. She looks for first-check opportunities in infrastructure and appli

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.

#43Samuel 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

#44Dan Park

Senior Associate

Hashed

Dan looks for crypto infrastructure that removes adoption bottlenecks and connects on-chain systems to real economic activity. His investment writing favors ambient, developer-friendly infrastructure;

No individual check range is disclosed. Dan is a Senior Associate on Hashed's investment and research team; published investment notes show thematic involvement but do not prove unilateral check authority or a standard ticket.

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.

#45Kunal 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

Faction does not publish a standard check range or Tim's personal authority. The official mandate is Seed and Series A, across equity and tokens; public financing sizes are not Faction check sizes.

#46Tim Khoury

Deal Partner

Lightspeed Faction

Tim is a crypto-native early-stage investor with an explicit interest at the intersection of crypto and AI. His WeatherXM work shows a demand-first DePIN lens: token incentives can coordinate distribu

Personal check size is not publicly disclosed. CoinFund invests from pre-seed through Series A and in liquid digital assets across multiple strategies.

#47Evan Feng

Partner

CoinFund

Evan applies fundamental-investing discipline to both venture and liquid crypto: identify the metrics that genuinely drive an asset, forecast them, define thesis-invalidation points in advance, and pr

No personal or standard ticket range is published. Bain Capital Crypto launched with a $560M fund and describes concentrated investing from seed through growth and across private and public markets; this firm-level capital base does not imply Natalie's individual authority or a fixed check size.

#48Joel Monegro

Partner

Placeholder

Fat protocol thesis and web3 infrastructure. Co-founder of Placeholder with Chris Burniske.

#49Natalie Mullins

Investor

Bain Capital Crypto

Natalie's public footprint joins two sides of crypto investing: foundational protocol infrastructure and consumer experiences around identity, media, culture, games and creator economics. Her prior tr

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.

#50Vikram 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

No current first-party ticket range is published. Castle Island describes an early-stage mandate around public-blockchain infrastructure and applications; no personal range or unilateral authority is claimed for Henry.

#51Henry Harris

Investor

Castle Island Ventures

Henry brings data science and public-equity research to early-stage public-blockchain investing. His visible work concentrates on empirical stablecoin adoption and the health of DeFi markets: how coll

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.

#52Jessica 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

No current investor check size applies: Chad says he left early-stage investing to build at PrismaX. Historical third-party estimates for Symbolic must not be treated as current personal authority. Financing pitches should go to Symbolic's live team; robotics commercial proposals should be framed for PrismaX.

#53Chad Liu

Former Investor, Symbolic Capital; Founding GTM, PrismaX

Symbolic Capital

Chad's historical investment work mapped decentralized AI across data, models, agents, compute, training and inference. His current operator thesis narrows to physical AI's deployment bottleneck: foun

Historical Pre-SeedHistorical SeedHistorical Series A

#54Wendy 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.

$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.

#55Rohit 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

No Genevieve-specific check size is public. Mirana's current biography says she helps deploy the $100M Mantle Ecosystem Fund and make direct venture investments; fund size is not check size or personal authority. Confirm the applicable pool, stage, instrument and ownership directly.

#56Genevieve Yeoh

Associate

Mirana Ventures

Genevieve evaluates Web3 opportunities through both venture and protocol-design lenses. Her Mirana remit spans the Mantle Ecosystem Fund and direct investments, while her prior Delphi work centered on

Early-stage ventureEcosystem-fund investmentDirect venture investment

#57James 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

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.

No personal check range is publicly disclosed. A 2022 Notifi investment note identifies a $2.5M pre-seed round led by Hashed, while the firm's 2021 Venture Fund II was $200M; neither figure should be treated as Baek's standard or current personal ticket.

#58Baek Kim

Partner

Hashed

Baek invests in infrastructure and applications that make decentralized systems useful to ordinary users. His writing connects mass adoption to better user experience, privacy-preserving computation,

Pre-SeedSeedEarly Stage

#59Evans 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

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.

No personal or Digital Asset Fund ticket range is published on the cited official pages. White Star describes this strategy as investing globally across Seed, Series A and token rounds; Arjun's Associate title does not establish independent signing authority.

#60Arjun Mehra

Associate

White Star Capital Digital Asset Fund

Arjun invests from White Star's research-driven Digital Asset Fund, combining a crypto-native lens with traditional venture analysis. His named portfolio spans trading infrastructure (Enclave and Quan

SeedSeries AToken

#61William Kotto

Chief Financial Officer and Risk Conducting Officer

MiddleGame Ventures

William Kotto is listed in a Chief Financial Officer and Risk Conducting Officer capacity at MiddleGame Ventures. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment mandate for this role; the firm

MiddleGame Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its website.

MiddleGame Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its website.

#62Michael Meyer

Co-Managing Partner

MiddleGame Ventures

Michael Meyer invests or supports investment decisions through MiddleGame Ventures's published strategy: Invest in early-stage financial-technology companies reshaping financial services, using cross-

A December 2019 gCC FAQ said the firm typically wrote $250K–$1M checks. Treat this only as a dated historical range, not a current promise: gCC subsequently raised a $110M Fund II and has not published an updated range on its current site. Confirm stage, instrument, ownership and reserves directly.

#63Rui Zhang

Managing Partner

gumi Cryptos Capital

Rui leads an early-stage, crypto-native firm with a builder-centric, long-time-preference and high-conviction approach. gCC invests across the blockchain stack, with particular application interest in

Friends and familyPre-SeedSeed

#64Darius Rugys

Partner

Maven 11 Capital

Darius works within Maven 11's crypto-native, early-stage strategy. The firm backs technically fluent founders who challenge the status quo by redefining ownership through open, inclusive, permissionl

Maven 11 does not publish Darius's personal check range or decision authority. Third-party investor databases estimate ranges, but those figures are not treated as verified evidence. The current firm describes an early-stage venture strategy without attaching a check range to him.

Offline Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

#65Katie Halimi

Operating Partner

Offline Ventures

Katie Halimi invests or supports investments through Offline Ventures's published strategy: Back unusual founders and human-serving technology at pre-seed and seed, sometimes incubating in-house and c

No Anies-specific check size is public. Greenfield has led or co-led seed rounds in companies covered by his publications, but announced round size is not the firm's check and cannot establish his personal allocation. Founders should confirm current vehicle, stage, ownership and reserves directly.

#66Anies Khan

Associate

Greenfield Capital

Anies looks for crypto infrastructure that coordinates real economic activity: public blockchains modernizing capital markets, privacy-preserving compliance for institutional DeFi, security systems th

MiddleGame Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its website.

#67Ellen McCance

Venture Partner

MiddleGame Ventures

Ellen McCance invests or supports investment decisions through MiddleGame Ventures's published strategy: Invest in early-stage financial-technology companies reshaping financial services, using cross-

Not publicly applicable. Cware Labs describes investment packaging, fundraising, listing preparation and investor-community services but does not publish a standing fund, personal check range or allocation authority for Nick. Clarify whether an engagement is advisory, studio equity, fundraising support or an actual investment before discussing terms.

#68Nick Cware

Founder, Venture Studio and Fundraising Adviser

Cware Labs

Nick's operating thesis is that Web3 and AI projects become investable when product, business model, tokenomics, documentation, positioning, growth strategy and fundraising execution form one coherent

Concept and market researchPre-fundraise preparationPre-Seed and Seed advisory

#69Nate Bosshard

Venture Partner

Offline Ventures

Nate Bosshard invests or supports investments through Offline Ventures's published strategy: Back unusual founders and human-serving technology at pre-seed and seed, sometimes incubating in-house and

Offline Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

MiddleGame Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its website.

#70Gary McGann

Venture Partner

MiddleGame Ventures

Gary McGann invests or supports investment decisions through MiddleGame Ventures's published strategy: Invest in early-stage financial-technology companies reshaping financial services, using cross-bo

Offline Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

#71Yuri Namikawa

Investment Partner

Offline Ventures

Yuri Namikawa invests or supports investments through Offline Ventures's published strategy: Back unusual founders and human-serving technology at pre-seed and seed, sometimes incubating in-house and

Offline Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

#72Nicole Emanuel

Partner and Chief Financial Officer

Offline Ventures

Nicole Emanuel is listed in a Partner and Chief Financial Officer capacity at Offline Ventures. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that

MiddleGame Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its website.

#73Loïc Bertoli

Head of Investor Relations

MiddleGame Ventures

Loïc Bertoli is listed in a Head of Investor Relations capacity at MiddleGame Ventures. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment mandate for this role; the firm's strategy is included on

MiddleGame Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its website.

#74Pascal Bouvier

Co-Managing Partner

MiddleGame Ventures

Pascal Bouvier invests or supports investment decisions through MiddleGame Ventures's published strategy: Invest in early-stage financial-technology companies reshaping financial services, using cross

MiddleGame Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its website.

#75Kanishk Walia

Partner

MiddleGame Ventures

Kanishk Walia invests or supports investment decisions through MiddleGame Ventures's published strategy: Invest in early-stage financial-technology companies reshaping financial services, using cross-

No verified personal or current Hashed check range is published on Tak's profile. Founders should confirm vehicle, stage, token/equity structure, geographic fit, lead appetite and reserves directly rather than using third-party estimates.

#76Tak Lee

Venture Partner

Hashed

Tak brings a multilingual company-building and cross-border advisory lens to Hashed's crypto investment platform. His explicit remit is India and other emerging markets, making him most relevant to fo

Pre-SeedSeedEarly Stage

#77Mia Lewis

Principal

MiddleGame Ventures

Mia Lewis invests or supports investment decisions through MiddleGame Ventures's published strategy: Invest in early-stage financial-technology companies reshaping financial services, using cross-bord

MiddleGame Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its website.

Offline Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

#78Max Ventilla

Entrepreneur in Residence

Offline Ventures

Max Ventilla is listed in a Entrepreneur in Residence capacity at Offline Ventures. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinc

Offline Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

#79Matt Fischer

Venture Partner

Offline Ventures

Matt Fischer invests or supports investments through Offline Ventures's published strategy: Back unusual founders and human-serving technology at pre-seed and seed, sometimes incubating in-house and c

MiddleGame Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its website.

#80Patrick Pinschmidt

Co-Managing Partner

MiddleGame Ventures

Patrick Pinschmidt invests or supports investment decisions through MiddleGame Ventures's published strategy: Invest in early-stage financial-technology companies reshaping financial services, using c

Firm-level public estimate: $100K-$5M; typical check around $1.5M

#81Augustus (Augie) Ilag

Investment Partner, Head of Asia

CMT Digital

Ilag is CMT Digital's Investment Partner and Head of Asia, investing through the firm's early-stage blockchain strategy. His published Tazapay thesis favors full-stack cross-border payment infrastruct

Tangent describes itself as a principal investment firm making concentrated liquid and early-stage bets, but does not publish a dependable check range. Confirm whether Jason is investing personally or through Tangent, plus allocation, stage, structure and portfolio concentration.

#82Arjun Balaji

General Partner

Paradigm

Crypto market structure, infrastructure, TradFi-DeFi intersection.

#83Jason Choi

Angel Investor & Tangent Co-founder

Jason seeks inflection points in crypto and adjacent frontier technology through Tangent's three concise themes: zero-to-one use cases, coordination networks and markets for everything. His public inv

Offline Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

#84Michael Tan

Fund Controller

Offline Ventures

Michael Tan is listed in a Fund Controller capacity at Offline Ventures. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and us

Offline Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

#85Hannah Martin

Chief of Staff

Offline Ventures

Hannah Martin is listed in a Chief of Staff capacity at Offline Ventures. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and u

MiddleGame Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its website.

#86Arnaud Pedrazzani

Investment Manager

MiddleGame Ventures

Arnaud Pedrazzani invests or supports investment decisions through MiddleGame Ventures's published strategy: Invest in early-stage financial-technology companies reshaping financial services, using cr

No official standard check size or personal approval limit is published. CMT Digital closed Fund IV at $136M in November 2025 and described it as an early-stage vehicle for blockchain infrastructure and applications; that fund size should not be converted into a presumed ticket for Doug.

#87Doug Hsu

Investor

CMT Digital

Doug invests where crypto improves financial-market reach and capital efficiency, with Asia as a primary growth market. His Tazapay thesis favors full-stack payment infrastructure that owns licenses,

Not publicly disclosed. Public databases show 1confirmation joining early-stage crypto rounds, but round size should not be mistaken for the firm's check size.

#88Frank Hourigan

Partner, Head of Operations

1confirmation

Frank's public role centers on the operational side of 1confirmation, an early-stage fund supporting founders who decentralize the web and society. His background in regulated finance, asset managemen

Not publicly disclosed. HashKey Capital invests through venture and liquid strategies across the blockchain ecosystem; founders should confirm vehicle and sizing directly.

#89Ryan Chen

Managing Partner

HashKey Capital

Ryan's public investing perspective joins crypto-native opportunity with institutional finance and regulatory execution. He treats rising scrutiny as evidence of a maturing market and argues that sust

SeedEarly StageGrowth

#90Sam Hallene

Investment Partner

CMT Digital

Hallene takes a generalist, early-stage approach within blockchain, spanning DeFi, stablecoins and payments, DePIN, sector-specific chains, and core infrastructure. Public interviews emphasize portfol

$100K-$5M; public directory sweet spot approximately $1.5M

No person-specific or current firm check size is publicly disclosed. Archetype is an early-stage crypto fund and its historical overview describes partnering from first check through Series A; founders should confirm fit directly.

#91Tommy Hang

Investor

Archetype

Tommy is a DeFi investor focused on the market structure beneath onchain trading. His recent work treats perpetuals and prediction markets as durable but still immature markets, with the best opportun

Mirana's current official website publishes a broad firm-level range of $1M–$40M from Pre-Seed through Series C. No Darius-specific ticket or decision authority is public, so founders should treat that as firm context rather than his personal check size.

#92Darius Tan

Associate

Mirana Ventures

Darius works on Mirana's direct venture portfolio and brings a research and advisory lens to crypto infrastructure and markets. His coauthored Bitcoin Layers work frames Bitcoin's secure settlement la

No personal angel range is published. Ray now chairs listed MemeStrategy (HKEX: 2440), while also leading 9GAG and Memeland; distinguish personal investments from Memeland venture-studio activity and public-company balance-sheet or strategic investments, each with different governance and disclosure requirements.

#93Ray Chan

Angel Investor & Memeland Co-founder

Ray invests and builds where internet culture, community and emerging technology reinforce one another. His current thesis is that regulated, transparent public-market infrastructure can bridge Web2 a

No reliable public personal or fund check range is published. Signum manages two active MAS-licensed funds, including the co-managed UOB-Signum Blockchain Fund, and invests through token and equity structures; no standard ticket or YY-specific signing threshold is inferred.

#94YY Lai

Managing Partner

Signum Capital

YY backs crypto-native infrastructure and applications capable of becoming a new trust layer for society, then helps founders cross from technical community adoption into mainstream products and Asian

No reliable public personal or fund ticket range is available. Signum says it manages two active MAS-licensed vehicles—the Signum Capital Investment Fund and co-managed UOB-Signum Blockchain Fund—but does not publish a standard check size on the cited official pages.

#95Ian Lee

General Manager / Principal

Signum Capital

Ian applies a risk, financial-modeling and operating lens to early crypto companies and protocols. Within Signum's broader thesis, he assesses infrastructure and crypto-native products that can make t

No personal ticket or signing authority is published. Cadenza's dedicated early-stage AI fund is $50M and targets pre-seed and seed opportunities; the separate blockchain strategy has also invested across early stages. Fund size should not be treated as Andrew's individual check range.

#96Andrew Liu

Investment Associate

Cadenza

Andrew's reported Cadenza remit sits at the intersection of blockchain, AI and deep technical infrastructure. His electrical-engineering training, NASA flight-electronics work, TMT investment-banking

No verified personal angel range is published. Ben's personal site says he supports founders at the earliest stage and Bankless Ventures invests early in crypto infrastructure and consumer adoption; distinguish his individual allocation from the fund's vehicle and confirm each directly.

#97Ben Lakoff

Angel Investor & Managing Partner, Bankless Ventures

Ben invests where crypto infrastructure unlocks broad consumer adoption. His operator, CFA and globally distributed background supports founders at the earliest stage who use crypto's coordination and

Galaxy Ventures Fund I closed at more than $175M and invests across early-stage crypto companies. No standard check size or personal approval threshold is published for Danny; his public role also spans post-investment portfolio work and liquidity strategy.

#98Danny Slutsky

Investor

Galaxy Ventures

Danny's edge is the full lifecycle after an investment: portfolio construction, operating support, board work, M&A, monetization and secondary liquidity. His current stablecoin activity points to inst

No personal ticket or approval threshold is published. Cadenza's $50M early-stage AI fund targets pre-seed and seed opportunities, while its blockchain strategy has invested more broadly; those fund-level facts do not establish Kelly's individual authority.

#99Kelly Yip

Investment Associate

Cadenza

Kelly's reported investment experience combines early-stage consumer work at Greycroft, early-growth SaaS and AI analysis at Enlight Growth Partners in Shanghai, and Cadenza's AI, fintech and blockcha

No Rocky-specific or current LongHash check range is published on the firm's live site. Accelerator cohort funding, total capital raised by alumni and portfolio round sizes are not equivalent to an investor check. Confirm fund, instrument, ownership and follow-on capacity directly.

#100Rocky Zhou

Investment Manager

LongHash Ventures

Rocky invests within LongHash Ventures' frontier-technology mandate at the convergence of AI, robotics and digital assets. The firm's portfolio and accelerator history emphasize early protocols and ap