12 VCs and 58 funds investing in AI x Crypto
Venture Associate
Kosmos Ventures
Check: No Lucas-specific check range is public. A current OpenVC search profile lists Kosmos at $100K–$1M, while Kosmos's own live material confirms Seed/Pre-Seed as its co-building focus but publishes no check size. Treat $100K–$1M as third-party firm guidance only; confirm allocation, instrument, ownership and decision-maker directly with Lucas and the team.
Lucas looks for early, non-consensus crypto opportunities through an active-user and market-structure lens. He believes decentralized markets can democratize finance and that money increasingly follows user attention into consumer applications; the strongest products earn the right to embed financial rails after establishing loyalty or differentiated utility. His research also emphasizes liquidity regimes, onchain evidence, derivatives market structure, security and Kosmos's broader ability to bootstrap durable network effects through product/token design, governance, community and quantified mechanism design.
Managing Director
HongShan
Check: 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.
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 payments, tokenization, consumer applications and open AI; early-stage decisions remain founder-led, with resilience through market cycles, practical utility and strong local-market understanding carrying more weight than hype.
Partner
V3V Ventures
Check: 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.
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 filter is a move away from narratives toward measurable fundamentals: real products, revenue, product traction, user retention and sustainable business models. Within crypto he highlights infrastructure, stablecoin and payment rails, institutional adoption, DeFi, cross-chain systems and the decentralized-AI stack across compute, storage, data, models and applications. V3V pairs capital with architecture, GTM, distribution and follow-on fundraising support.
Sr. Investment Research Associate
HashKey Capital
Check: 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.
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 execution; AI and DePIN infrastructure with real demand; sustainable Bitcoin utility; institution-grade trading, staking, lending, stablecoin, and derivatives infrastructure; and products that solve ecosystem maturity, adoption, liquidity, or user-experience constraints.
General Partner
ether.fi Ventures
Check: $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.
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 achieve web2-grade safety, recourse, fraud prevention and consumer experience; then use composability, programmable money, non-custodial ownership, transparency and global 24/7 access to deliver step-change utility. He favors strategic partnerships where ether.fi's users, liquidity, validator capacity and distribution materially improve a company's odds—not passive capital alone.
General Partner
a16z crypto
AI x crypto intersection, decentralized compute, infrastructure. Believes in AI-blockchain convergence.
Investor
CoinFund
Check: No personal check range or led CoinFund investment is publicly disclosed. Azi joined the investment team in July 2026; his official profile cites earlier seed investments in Osmosis and Ondo, but those do not establish a current CoinFund ticket or independent authority.
Azi looks for sovereign, user-controlled computing across crypto and AI. His interests span decentralized AI, novel consumer applications, applied privacy, new Layer 1 designs and post-quantum infrastructure. Founder experience sharpened his focus on timing, distribution, capital formation and sustainable business models: a technically correct thesis can still be too early or fail to reach a durable market.
Senior Investment Principal, Hivemind Capital Partners
Hivemind Capital
Check: Hivemind invests across pre-seed through Series B; typical venture checks $500K-$5M with capacity to lead
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, and institutional plumbing that lets traditional capital flow into and through crypto. She is bullish on regulated stablecoins paired with cross-border payments, on Bitcoin-native DeFi unlocking yield for BTC holders, and on AI agents becoming first-class economic actors on-chain (including as buyers of NFTs and other digital assets). Within Hivemind's '9 themes for 2025' framework, her work spans stablecoins, derivatives infrastructure, app-chain L1/L2 dynamics, and the broader institutionalization of crypto. Her framing is institutional and risk-aware — Hivemind explicitly pairs crypto-native expertise with institutional-grade risk management.
Managing Partner
HashKey Capital
Check: Not publicly disclosed. HashKey Capital invests through venture and liquid strategies across the blockchain ecosystem; founders should confirm vehicle and sizing directly.
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 sustainable blockchain businesses must balance innovation with compliance, engage regulators proactively, and build infrastructure that can connect institutions, founders, developers, and users across Asian and global markets.
Partner
HashKey Capital
Check: Firm-level public estimate: typically $1M-$5M, varying by stage and opportunity
Xiao looks for durable, real-use-case crypto products that can bring users from Web2 into Web3 and survive multiple market cycles. Public interviews show a broad mandate across DeFi, gaming, stablecoins, and AI, with especially strong interest in DePIN and real-world-asset tokenization, as well as Ethereum and Layer 2 ecosystems.
Managing Partner
Hack VC
Infrastructure, DeFi, and AI x crypto. Previously co-led Dragonfly before starting Hack VC.
Partner
HashKey Capital
Check: Firm-level public estimate: typically $1M-$5M, varying by stage and opportunity
Mai brings a full-cycle view of digital-asset investing, spanning venture portfolio development, ecosystem building, and liquid-fund management. Her recent public activity centers on decentralized AI and compute, autonomous agents, specialized models, Web3 infrastructure, regulated on-chain assets, and helping portfolio companies navigate the path from early ecosystem formation to liquid markets.
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