CeFi

Franklin Templeton

Check: 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.

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 published work concentrates on financial convergence: creating institution-ready rates, derivatives, custody, clearing, stablecoin, tokenization, and regulatory infrastructure that gives digital markets familiar risk-management tools while preserving their open, programmable advantages.

Wintermute Ventures

Check: Wintermute Ventures currently publishes flexible $500K–$5M+ global investments, primarily Seed and Series A, using proprietary capital and often leading or co-leading. This is a firm range—not Yoann's personal promise—and the firm also makes selective later-stage investments.

Yoann brings high-frequency trading, hedge-fund and family-office experience to a proprietary-capital venture platform built around Wintermute's market infrastructure. The firm backs category-defining financial and enterprise technologies across the crypto value chain where its trading, liquidity, governance, integration and treasury expertise can materially accelerate long-term adoption.

Pantera Capital

Menlo Park

AUM: $5B

Dragonfly

San Francisco, CA

AUM: $3.5B

Amber Group

Singapore

AUM: ~$5B in cumulative trading volume (not traditional AUM)

Matrixport

Singapore

AUM: $100M+

Aquanow

Vancouver

BTSE

Victoria

Bastion Trading

Hong Kong

Hilbert Capital

AUM: $180M

Bitventure

Paribu Ventures

Peter Hoang

Riverside Hedge