13 VCs and 15 funds investing in Cryptography
General Partner
Plutos Capital
Check: $250K–$500K stated first-check range in a current @FryCookVC public post, with 'no matter how early' guidance. Plutos describes investing from pre-seed through Series A across equity and token rounds. Confirm currency, ownership, reserves and whether the range applies to the Genesis Fund before relying on it.
Lukas backs deeply technical founders building sovereign, privacy-enabling infrastructure across blockchain, AI and dual-use systems. His central claim is that institutions need the openness, neutral settlement and composability of public chains but cannot expose salaries, counterparties, cash flow, supply chains or trading strategies. Private permissioned chains repeatedly lose network effects and create costly governance silos; the investable bridge is privacy technology—zero-knowledge proofs, encrypted transactions and mempools, confidential compute, TEEs and secure hardware—that preserves public-chain interoperability while protecting sensitive data. He extends that secure-compute thesis across software and hardware, terrestrial and orbital systems.
Partner and Chief Technology Officer
Greenfield Capital
Check: 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.
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 can make sensitive finance, healthcare, AI, and enterprise workloads usable without exposing raw data. His role is technical and portfolio-facing rather than publicly described as a conventional sourcing mandate.
General Partner
Electric Capital
Check: Electric Capital's current website publishes a $1M–$15M+ range from pre-seed through Series A; its January 2026 user-owned-technology thesis says it invests $1M–$20M in that theme. No separate personal range is published for Ren.
Ren backs deeply technical, trust-minimized systems and the builders who can turn them into usable infrastructure. His work combines protocol security, consensus game theory, smart-contract code analysis, developer activity, liquidity, volatility, and market structure. A central test in his published thinking is whether a protocol truly compresses verification cost for a sufficiently standardized asset or interaction—and whether it can overcome the friction, coordination, and funding disadvantages that usually pull products back toward centralized platforms.
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Paradigm
Backs transformative crypto protocols and infrastructure. Crypto is the most important tech revolution since the internet.
Research Partner
1kx
Check: 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.
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 venture underwriting: trust-minimized horizontal scaling, programmable cryptography and purpose-built hardware, threat-resistant privacy, and external enforcement, provenance and governance for agentic AI.
Technical Partner
Lightspeed Faction
Check: 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.
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 technical diligence on whether a protocol is fundamentally useful, securely designed, and executable by a team capable of balancing a frontier vision with precise delivery.
Investor
Galaxy Ventures
Check: 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.
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 UPI-inspired payments distribution, agent-paid APIs and compute markets. Across these topics, the consistent lens is economic: technical primitives matter when incentives, cost, liquidity and user experience make them viable at scale.
Investor
Electric Capital
Check: Electric Capital publicly advertises firm-level checks of $1M–$15M+ from pre-seed through Series A. No personal range or unilateral authority is disclosed for Geoff, so that firm range should be treated as routing context rather than his individual ticket.
Geoff brings mechanism design, computational finance and systems engineering to frontier-technology investing. His work on ad auctions, algorithmic trading, rates derivatives and the SCION internet architecture creates a lens for markets where incentives, network structure and technical reliability interact. His attributed stablecoin dashboard emphasizes actual usage—wallets, flows, chains and issuer competition—rather than supply headlines alone.
Deal Partner
Lightspeed Faction
Check: Faction does not publish a standard check range or Clara's personal allocation authority. Its official mandate is Seed and Series A investments across equity and tokens; public round sizes must not be mistaken for Faction's check size.
Clara invests within Faction's early-stage, crypto-native mandate: Seed and Series A projects across the stack, in equity or tokens, that create fundamental utility and push the industry forward. Public portfolio tracking associates her with Fiamma, Pharos, and FLock.io, signaling interest in Bitcoin cryptography, high-performance blockchain infrastructure, and decentralized AI; those associations are treated as portfolio signals rather than a complete personal mandate.
Partner
Hack VC
Investing in crypto infrastructure and emerging protocols at Hack VC. Focuses on technical due diligence and identifying strong engineering teams.
Founder & GP
Figment Capital
Infrastructure, MEV, and protocol-level investments. Deep focus on cryptographic and systems engineering innovation.
Research Engineer
Blockchain Capital
Research Engineer
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