6 VCs and 16 funds investing in DAOs
Founder
QDAO DeFi
Focused on DeFi infrastructure and decentralized governance through QDAO DeFi, investing in projects that advance financial decentralization.
Co-founder & GP
Archetype
Focuses on crypto infrastructure and protocols that enable new types of coordination. Archetype backs technical founders at the frontier of crypto.
Partner
Blockchain Capital
Check: No verified personal check-size range is published. Blockchain Capital describes itself as a multi-stage crypto investor; Yuan's public work spans seed-stage selection through later protocol and company support, but no individual allocation authority should be inferred.
Yuan backs crypto-native founders with earned insight, behavioral resilience, learning velocity, and the ability to translate non-consensus ideas into enduring systems. His technical work spans modular infrastructure, cryptographic acceleration, token economics, and network utility; his consumer work emphasizes distribution through existing behavior and trusted platforms. His latest framework looks for crypto companies that exploit a temporary market gap, build a self-reinforcing growth loop, and graduate that advantage into durable trust, integrations, liquidity, compliance, or consumer-grade product.
Partner, Web3
Northzone (Web3)
Leads Northzone's web3 investments from Stockholm. Northzone is one of Europe's top VCs, and Wendy brings a crypto-native lens to their portfolio.
General Partner
1kx
Community-first crypto investing at 1kx. Believes in the power of token-aligned communities as the fundamental unit of crypto's success.
Founder
Seed Club Ventures
DAO tooling, social tokens, creator economy. Building the DAO accelerator ecosystem.
Menlo Park
AUM: $7.6B
Berlin
AUM: $1B+
San Francisco
AUM: $900M
New York
AUM: $1B+
Remote
AUM: $25M
Auckland
AUM: $5M
Tortola
Brookline
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Dubai
Istanbul
Texas