DeFi

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)

Check: $1M-$100M+ (from $2B+ crypto funds — 5th fund raising in 2026)

The crypto conviction investor. Founded and leads a16z's crypto practice, which has deployed billions across five funds. Author of 'Read Write Own' (2024), arguing that blockchain enables a new era of internet ownership — the 'own' in 'read, write, own.' Just as the read-only web (Web 1.0) gave way to the read-write web (Web 2.0/social media), the next era is one where users can own their digital assets, identities, and communities through blockchain. Believes crypto goes through 'price-innovation cycles' — price increases attract attention and talent, which drives innovation, which creates real utility, which eventually drives the next price cycle. Has maintained conviction through multiple crypto winters, arguing that the technology's utility compounds regardless of price. Before crypto, Chris was one of the most influential thinkers in tech investing — his blog (cdixon.org) was arguably the most important startup blog of the 2010s, producing frameworks like 'the next big thing will start out looking like a toy' and 'come for the tool, stay for the network.' Believes crypto is entering its 'financial era' — where blockchain-based financial applications (stablecoins, DeFi, tokenized assets) prove real-world utility at scale.

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.

Portal Ventures

Investing in early-stage crypto infrastructure and applications at Portal Ventures. Focused on backing technical founders building at the frontier of blockchain technology.

Platanus Ventures

Investing in early-stage tech and blockchain startups in Chile and Latin America through Platanus Ventures, bringing Silicon Valley VC practices to LATAM.

Crypto.com Capital

Strategic investments from Crypto.com Capital, the investment arm of one of the world's largest crypto platforms. Focused on ecosystem expansion and strategic portfolio building.

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.

Shorooq Partners

Investing in early-stage tech and blockchain startups across MENA at Shorooq Partners. Focused on digital infrastructure and fintech for the Arab world.

BNB Chain MVB (Central Asia)

Supporting blockchain innovation in Central Asia through BNB Chain's MVB program. Focused on growing the BNB Chain ecosystem in underserved markets.

Hash CIB

Investing in crypto infrastructure and digital assets through Hash CIB, one of Russia/CIS's most established crypto financial firms.

QDAO DeFi

Focused on DeFi infrastructure and decentralized governance through QDAO DeFi, investing in projects that advance financial decentralization.

Black Pearls VC

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

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.

GSR Markets

Leading crypto market making and trading operations at GSR Markets, with a strategic investment arm backing infrastructure and DeFi projects.

Eden Block

Investing in early-stage blockchain projects at Eden Block, with a focus on European crypto ecosystem development and infrastructure.

OKX Ventures

Leading blockchain investments at OKX Ventures, the investment arm of one of the world's largest crypto exchanges. Focuses on projects that expand the OKX ecosystem.

Mechanism Capital

Thesis-driven investing at the intersection of DeFi and trading infrastructure. Mechanism Capital focuses on DeFi protocols, derivatives, and novel financial primitives. Known for deep technical analysis and contrarian bets.

ConsenSys

Building the decentralized future on Ethereum. ConsenSys is both a software company and a venture studio, creating foundational Ethereum infrastructure including MetaMask, Infura, and Linea.

Coinbase Ventures

Leads Coinbase Ventures, one of the most prolific corporate crypto investors. Invests broadly across the crypto ecosystem to grow the overall market and bring more assets on-chain.

Binance Labs

Invests across the full web3 stack with a focus on infrastructure, DeFi, and gaming. Binance Labs serves as the venture capital and incubation arm of Binance, one of the largest crypto exchanges globally.

Alliance DAO

Focuses on consumer crypto applications and protocols that drive mass adoption. Believes the next wave of crypto will be driven by consumer-facing products, not infrastructure. Alliance accelerates crypto startups through intensive mentorship programs.

Hashed Emergent

Investing in blockchain projects across South and Southeast Asia at Hashed Emergent. Focused on crypto adoption in emerging markets.

Cypher Capital

Investing in blockchain and digital assets across the MENA region at Cypher Capital. Focused on building Dubai as a global crypto hub.

Lemniscap

Investing in blockchain infrastructure and digital assets at Lemniscap, with a focus on European and global crypto ecosystem development.

Crypto researcher and investor with deep expertise in on-chain data analysis. Known for detailed research on DeFi protocols and market microstructure.

Colosseum

Investing in the Solana ecosystem at Colosseum, the organization behind Solana hackathons. Focused on discovering and nurturing early-stage Solana builders.

Polychain Capital

Investing in blockchain infrastructure and tokens at Polychain Capital, one of the most prominent crypto-native funds.

Framework Ventures

Investing in DeFi and crypto infrastructure at Framework Ventures. Focuses on protocols that expand the design space of decentralized finance.

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.

Varrock VC

Check: $600K–$900K at pre-seed and seed, published on Varrock's live website. The fund targets a small, concentrated portfolio, commonly 0–1 new investment per quarter, to maintain ownership and hands-on capacity rather than spray and pray.

Richard backs concentrated, contrarian pre-seed and seed bets in the future of finance. For crypto-native products, he looks for category creation, missionary founders, power-user retention and continuous zero-to-one product innovation. For crypto-adjacent companies, crypto should be an enabling feature inside a much larger industry, led by commercially strong domain experts with superior distribution and unit economics rather than recent crypto pivots.

Blockchain Capital

Check: 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.

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 economies can align users with the worlds they help create. For consumer brands, he looked for authentic cultural connection and utility across physical and digital experiences rather than an NFT bolted onto a legacy product. His later DeFi work favored high-performance, composable exchanges close to their native ecosystems, with real volume, adaptable teams and product expansion beyond a single wedge.

ALPS Capital

Check: 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.

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, trading infrastructure, custody-as-a-service, insurance, lending, and agentic identity or payments, with a shipped MVP, institutional proof, real technical or regulatory advantage and a credible enterprise acquisition path.

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.

Polymorphic Capital

Check: 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.

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, particularly social, payments, finance, data and AI. Her independent research lens maps entire technology stacks and searches for the bottleneck or value-capture layer—such as training data, packaging capacity, safety certification, integration, agent payment rails or the software/hardware split—while distinguishing headline market sizes from more reliable directional signals.

RockawayX

Check: No Ryan-specific venture check range is public. For RockawayX's Catapult program, the firm says it writes first checks into RWA-yield founders and can add anchor TVL, liquidity, DeFi integrations and mentorship; founders should ask directly about round-specific sizing.

Ryan looks for crypto investments where differentiated, alpha-generative research reveals something the consensus has missed and where tokens or equities can be underwritten with traction and fundamentals. At RockawayX he invests around yield onchain, DeFi and RWA infrastructure while retaining a contrarian interest in experimental consumer finance and entertainment-finance products that can become sticky, high-margin categories.

Paradigm

Protocol-level investments and new financial primitives. Open-source money, programmable economics, governance, mechanism design.

Multicoin Capital

Thesis-driven investing. Crypto as coordination layer for the internet. Fat protocol thesis. Early Solana bull. DePIN evangelist.

a16z crypto

Check: 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.

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 increasingly sophisticated prediction-market traders, interoperable stablecoin clearing, productive Bitcoin collateral, and regulated programmable accounts for autonomous software. Her earlier metaverse framework favors decentralization, durable property rights, self-sovereign identity, composability, open source, community ownership, and social immersion.

Paradigm

Check: Paradigm says it backs founders at every stage from first check through public markets, but it does not publish Alpin's personal check range or decision authority. A 2024 firm filing described vehicle investments from $1M to $100M or more; that historical firm range is not treated as his current personal range.

Alpin partners with crypto founders and researchers who have strong instincts about the future and the courage to follow them. His work centers on protocol, market, and mechanism design—especially systems that take explicit architectural tradeoffs to improve a core product or maximize performance. He is interested in how specialized new networks exploit incumbent dogma, how markets can improve collective decisions, and how open benchmarks can safely accelerate AI-assisted smart-contract security.

Greenfield Capital

Check: 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.

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 accrual; secure programmable ownership; credible governance; and infrastructure that connects decentralized finance with institutional and real-world assets.

Greenfield Capital

Check: No personal check-size range is published. Greenfield invests across pre-seed through later stages, while Christian's stated responsibility is implementing investment decisions rather than owning a public personal allocation range.

Christian applies transaction, regulatory, and policy expertise to executing Greenfield's crypto investments. His work argues for clear decentralization standards, practical token tax treatment, open institutional access to digital assets, and privacy-preserving crypto infrastructure that reconciles public networks with legitimate personal and institutional confidentiality.

Collider Ventures

Check: No personal or standard Collider check-size range is published. A disclosed $6.7M seed round was the total financing for one company and must not be treated as Avishay's personal or firm-wide check range.

Avishay is a founder-first, contrarian crypto investor who treats decentralized systems as political and economic networks, not just software. He looks for leaders who can align the four constituencies he identifies—technical purists, traders, builders, and storytellers—while building real utility and defensible businesses. His recent thesis has shifted toward institutional distribution, revenue, risk management, token value accrual, and infrastructure that incumbents need but cannot readily build themselves.

Dragonfly

Infrastructure, DeFi, and crypto gaming. Clear thinking and good writing.

Variant Fund

Ownership economy. Users should own a stake in the networks they contribute to.

Colosseum

Check: Colosseum's published accelerator investment is $250K pre-seed for accepted teams; it is a program-level standard, not Michael's personal discretionary check. Current materials say hackathon winners are interviewed and considered, with accepted teams receiving capital, mentorship and network access. Earlier official content described 7% terms; founders must verify the current instrument, percentage and token/equity structure.

Michael's lens combines markets research with Colosseum's tournament-style venture funnel: use global hackathons and four-week build sprints to observe which founders ship, learn and attract users before investing. He is interested in Solana products that exploit crypto-native primitives rather than append tokens to conventional software—especially futarchy and market-protected capital formation, tokenized cash-flowing assets, sophisticated trading tools, privacy-enabled settlement and AI-enabled onchain agents. He treats tokens as useful when distribution, user alignment, liquidity and governance matter, but recognizes that early public prices can distract pre-product teams and that long-horizon capital-intensive companies fit equity better.

Eterna Capital

Check: $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).

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 broad economic utility: tokenization and stablecoins that improve access and liquidity, privacy-preserving computation that makes sensitive applications possible, authenticated data for AI and blockchain, and technical infrastructure capable of moving from inception through real products, sustainable business models and network-effect communities.

Paradigm

DeFi mechanism design, AMM theory, MEV research. Novel financial primitives and their mathematical foundations.

Kenetic Capital

Check: 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.

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—their experience, response to failure, differentiated expertise, team leadership, conviction and authenticity—then verifies backgrounds, technology maturity, utility, incentives, treasury discipline and a path from launch to sustained adoption.

Lattice Fund

Check: $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.

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 and has since applied it to distributed energy, bandwidth, mobility and data. His broader lens favors open-source coordination, useful demand and real economic flows over closed networks or reflexive token speculation.

ARK Invest

Check: Not applicable as a personal founder check. Raye is a digital-assets research associate supporting ARK's managed investment strategies; the cited sources do not establish personal venture check-writing authority or a standard startup ticket.

Raye analyzes how cryptoassets can disrupt legacy financial systems, with particular depth in stablecoin architecture and DeFi application economics. He evaluates networks and tokens through reserves, legal claims, peg resilience, governance, accessibility, incentives and value capture, while tracking the shift of economic activity from base layers toward applications such as exchanges, lending, cards, prediction markets and tokenized assets.

Hashdex

Check: Samir is a public/liquid-markets asset manager rather than a disclosed venture check writer. Hashdex publishes fund and index methodologies, not a personal startup check range; pitches should concern investable assets, indexes, products, research, or institutional partnerships rather than assume venture capital authority.

Samir views crypto as a long-horizon technology and asset-class allocation rather than a short-term trade. His framework has two complementary pillars: bitcoin maturing as a scarce store of value and macro asset, and smart-contract networks becoming financial infrastructure for stablecoins, tokenization, payments, DeFi, and staking. He favors diversified, transparent, rules-based access to mature liquid assets and evaluates adoption through economic utility, network effects, market infrastructure, regulatory progress, and portfolio contribution.

Lightspeed Faction

Check: 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.

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 systems, and matching an application to the chain whose security, performance, and ecosystem fit its use case. Her personal motivation is informed by seeing how broken banking and state-controlled money affect people outside stable financial systems.

Greenfield Capital

Check: No verified personal check-size range is published. Greenfield invests across private, public, and liquid crypto assets from pre-seed through later stages; disclosed Claude-led financings include Rebind's €1.6M pre-seed, Greenfield's co-lead in Layer3's $15M Series A, and Greenfield's lead in Self's $9M seed. Those round sizes are not Claude's personal allocation authority.

Claude leads Greenfield's consumer investing and backs crypto products that turn mature onchain rails into understandable, trusted consumer experiences. His published work focuses on mobile-native DeFi that hides operational complexity, engagement networks that verifiably connect protocols and users, and privacy-preserving identity that protects human participation as AI agents proliferate. He evaluates both private companies and liquid tokens through product-market fit, token value capture, team execution, macro structure, and network effects.

ParaFi Capital

Check: No personal check range is publicly disclosed. ParaFi's private-markets strategy backs early- and growth-stage companies and protocols, but firm AUM and individual transactions should not be converted into a presumed standard ticket or unilateral authority.

Josh focuses on blockchain infrastructure that can replace costly financial plumbing and connect digital assets to large, existing pools of economic activity. His public work highlights stablecoins for cross-border B2B payments, savings and remittances; tokenization and institutional adoption; protocol and application value capture; and capital-markets structures around Bitcoin and crypto treasuries. He evaluates opportunities through addressable volume, concrete workflow pain, distribution and operational implementation.

AppWorks

Check: 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.

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, and execution; practical user pain; transparent and non-custodial architecture; and businesses that earn trust through real adoption rather than token narratives alone.

Electric Capital

Developer ecosystems and data-driven investing. Publishes Electric Capital Developer Report.

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.

No Limit Holdings

Check: No Brian-specific or official current check range is public. NLH Fund II is positioned to lead early-stage native-crypto investments, and the firm's disclosed portfolio spans pre-seed, seed, strategic and Series A rounds. Round totals are not personal check sizes; founders should ask Brian or the firm about current sizing and instrument.

Brian invests in early-stage blockchain infrastructure and crypto-native businesses where a protocol or token can coordinate a real resource, market or financial rail. His recent work looks beyond defensive crypto narratives toward useful infrastructure: quantum-compute orchestration, verifiable markets for scarce compute, stablecoin wrappers that bring differentiated private-credit yield onchain, decentralized ownership for an AI-heavy economy and businesses whose utility can survive the collapse of undifferentiated L1 monetary premium.

Variant Fund

Check: Variant does not publish a reliable personal check range. Elijah works at the earliest stages, but founders should confirm fund vehicle, allocation, ownership, lead/co-lead appetite, token/equity structure and reserves with the partnership.

Elijah backs technically ambitious founders building new mechanisms, markets and infrastructure. His work joins crypto market design with a widening AI thesis: mature financial systems need expressive, risk-aware primitives beyond speculation, while specialized AI can beat general models when domain reasoning is idiosyncratic and output quality can be objectively verified. Across both, infrastructure should expand user agency and support real applications.

Pantera Capital

Check: 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.

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 stacks, novel market structures and Web3 infrastructure primitives with tangible use cases, especially net-new experiences that change user behavior.

Hack VC

Check: No personal or standard ticket is published. Hack VC is an earliest-stage investor and its articles identify the firm as leading rounds at pre-seed, seed and Series A; announced round leadership does not reveal Rodney's individual check authority.

Rodney backs technical infrastructure that removes adoption bottlenecks for high-value crypto use cases. His work favors modular, open AI stacks that solve data, compute and availability; stablecoin chains that make the payment asset itself the gas and abstract crypto friction; and DeFi ecosystems whose consensus, liquidity and incentives align applications, validators and users. He looks for strong teams, correct problem selection and evidence of compounding ecosystem traction.

Blockchain Capital

Check: No personal check range or deal authority is disclosed. Jonah is an Investor focused on research and new opportunities at a multi-stage firm; public work and academic research demonstrate thesis depth, not a standard individual ticket.

Jonah studies where value and power accrue as crypto infrastructure matures. He argues that open rails can unbundle closed payment networks; user-owning applications can compress infrastructure margins; software agents may erase human-facing UX moats or create entirely new machine activity; and corporate-controlled chains impose platform and distribution risks on builders. His technical work extends to MEV, execution tickets and protocol value distribution.

CoinFund

Check: No standard personal ticket is published. CoinFund's 2026 articles identify the firm as lead on Trace's $32M Series A and Edge Markets' $29M Series A, with George authoring or contributing to the theses; round size is not equivalent to CoinFund's check or George's authority.

George looks for open, permissionless systems that expand financial access and remove cost, delay and gatekeeping from payments and DeFi. His writing starts with sharp workflow pain—especially cross-border settlement, prefunding, last-mile liquidity and fragmented banking rails—then tests whether stablecoins and high-throughput networks produce a simpler product for non-crypto-native users. He also tracks financial rails for prediction markets and other emerging on-chain venues.

Lightspeed Faction

Check: 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.

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, and other foundational systems. He combines a long-duration belief in blockchain with a pragmatic demand for real utility, technically credible teams, and precise execution through volatile market cycles.

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.

Paradigm

Backs transformative crypto protocols and infrastructure. Crypto is the most important tech revolution since the internet.

Blockchain Capital

Check: No personal check range or deal authority is disclosed. Jonah is an Investor focused on research and new opportunities at a multi-stage firm; public work and academic research demonstrate thesis depth, not a standard individual ticket.

Jonah studies where value and power accrue as crypto infrastructure matures. He argues that open rails can unbundle closed payment networks; user-owning applications can compress infrastructure margins; software agents may erase human-facing UX moats or create entirely new machine activity; and corporate-controlled chains impose platform and distribution risks on builders. His technical work extends to MEV, execution tickets and protocol value distribution.

Polychain Capital

Crypto protocols are the native business model of the internet. Protocol-level investments, governance tokens, cross-chain infrastructure.

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.

UDHC

Check: Coulter has publicly said UDHC writes checks from pre-seed through Series A. A verified OpenVC firm profile lists $50K–$2M as UDHC's first-check range and says the firm sometimes leads; treat that as directory-level firm guidance rather than a Coulter-specific commitment, and confirm current size and ownership directly.

Coulter works with UDHC's early-stage onchain-finance portfolio, applying a marketing and communications lens to companies that can connect crypto-native infrastructure with the traditional financial system. The firm's public strategy emphasizes useful onchain financial products, strong user experience, regulatory awareness, transparency and a credible path toward decentralization; Coulter's specific contribution is helping technical teams turn those qualities into positioning, community and go-to-market execution.

Collider Ventures

Check: 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.

Eylon connects two decentralization theses: crypto-native individual sovereignty that minimizes centralized authority through technology, and Web3 collective empowerment that democratizes ownership and access. In practice he looks for non-consensus early-stage infrastructure capable of moving capital formation, markets and digital ownership onchain while remaining alert to the new choke points, governance hierarchies and risk created by ostensibly permissionless systems.

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.

Zee Prime Capital

Zee Prime Capital is a remote-first crypto fund investing in infrastructure and DeFi. Known for deep technical analysis and early Solana ecosystem conviction.

CV VC

CV VC invests in blockchain companies from Crypto Valley (Zug, Switzerland). Focus on enterprise blockchain, L1 protocols, and Swiss crypto ecosystem development.

SCB 10X

SCB 10X is the venture arm of Siam Commercial Bank (SCB), Thailand's oldest bank. Invests in blockchain, DeFi, and digital assets to bridge traditional finance with crypto.

The Spartan Group

Spartan Group is a multi-strategy crypto fund based in Singapore, investing in DeFi, gaming, and infrastructure across Asia and globally. Known for advisory work and token launches.

OKX Ventures

OKX Ventures invests in blockchain infrastructure, DeFi, and Web3 globally. As the venture arm of OKX exchange, focuses on projects that advance the open and decentralized web.

Ethereal Ventures

Academic turned crypto investor, bringing rigorous economic thinking to token design and mechanism design. Ethereal Ventures invests in crypto projects with strong economic foundations.

Jump Crypto

Jump Crypto was the crypto arm of Jump Trading, one of the world's largest quantitative trading firms. Focused on building infrastructure, particularly cross-chain bridges and DeFi protocols.

CoinFund

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

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 pressure-test assumptions through an authentic external network. He looks beyond equity-style valuation heuristics to community, network effects, token demand, distribution, and the new product surface enabled by open onchain economies.

Lightspeed Faction

Check: 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.

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 distributed supply, but a network is only durable when there is an external customer for the data or service produced. That fits Faction's broader mandate to back useful blockchain systems across the stack rather than speculation for its own sake.

Framework Ventures

DeFi, gaming, consumer crypto. High-conviction bets and active portfolio support.

Multicoin Capital

Open finance and tokenization. Strong views on stablecoins, DePIN, and crypto in emerging markets.

CoinDCX Ventures

Check: $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.

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 conviction with execution, with particular emphasis on DeFi, exchange and order-book innovation, blockchain infrastructure, chain abstraction, and simpler user and developer journeys that can drive mass adoption.

Hashed

Check: Not applicable as a disclosed personal venture check range. Jake is publicly listed as an Asset Manager. Route startup fundraising to Hashed's investment team unless the firm confirms his participation in a specific venture process.

Jake analyzes crypto assets through market structure, user demand, transparency and risk. He sees decentralized lending as a technically differentiated response to opaque custodial failures, while recognizing smart-contract, rate and maturity risks. His memecoin analysis separates price formation and community coordination from fundamental utility and argues that durable crypto value requires restoring balance between speculative energy and technological progress.

Inception Capital

Check: Inception does not publish a David-specific check range on its live site. A 2026 interview described an $80M platform split between a $50M venture fund and $30M fund-of-funds, but vehicle size is not personal check size. Founders should ask directly about current round, ownership and reserve fit.

David runs a dual strategy: direct early-stage venture investments and backing emerging fund managers, sometimes through management-company or GP stakes. His edge is an East-West network connecting U.S. innovation and institutional capital with Asian adoption, builders and liquidity. He favors globally trained founders, emerging-market financial infrastructure and long-duration themes such as stablecoins, tokenization, automated finance and the intersection of AI and Web3.

Greenfield Capital

Check: Not publicly disclosed. Greenfield has led and joined pre-seed, seed, and Series A rounds, but public round sizes are not personal or firm check sizes.

Gleb leads Greenfield's DeFi work, combining protocol research, infrastructure operating experience, and deal execution. His current research emphasizes capital-efficient and safer liquidity architecture, intent-based execution, MEV and sequencing, and go-to-market systems that convert speculative launch capital into durable protocol use. Greenfield's broader mandate is to back early developer teams building an open, decentralized, and robust web across private, public, and liquid opportunities.

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.

Haun Ventures

Crypto regulation, compliance, and institutional adoption. Former DOJ prosecutor.

Delphi Ventures

DeFi research, crypto analytics, and investment analysis. Co-founded Delphi Digital.

Haun Ventures

Check: No reliable Mark-specific ticket range is public. Haun invests from seed through scale and announced $1 billion of new early- and later-stage capital in May 2026; the cited first-party pages do not state a standard check.

Mark combines smart-contract and token-incentive building experience with early-stage investing. Current evidence favors useful crypto businesses rather than hype, particularly institutional market infrastructure that resolves fragmented liquidity, execution, financing or coordination into a better workflow.

Haun Ventures

Check: No reliable Mark-specific ticket range is public. Haun invests from seed through scale from two fund families and announced $1 billion of new early- and later-stage capital in May 2026; the firm does not publish a standard ticket on the cited first-party pages.

Mark combines a builder's understanding of smart contracts and token incentives with early-stage investing. Current evidence points to founders building useful crypto businesses rather than chasing market hype, especially institutional-grade market infrastructure where fragmented liquidity, execution, financing or coordination can be unified into a superior workflow.

CoinFund

Web3 infrastructure, data markets, and token-based business models.

Lightspeed Faction

Check: Faction does not publish a standard check range or Will's personal allocation authority. Its official mandate is Seed and Series A, using equity and tokens; observed round sizes are not check-size evidence.

Will invests in useful early-stage blockchain projects across equity and tokens. His public Meld thesis highlights infrastructure that connects traditional money and crypto: simple, compliant, developer-friendly access to stablecoins and digital assets across markets. The broader Faction framework favors long-term utility, ambitious founders, and systems where blockchain materially changes financial or computing coordination.

CoinFund

Check: No verified personal check-size range is published. CoinFund attributes pre-seed, seed, and Series A deals to Einar, but disclosed round totals are company financings and not his personal allocation authority.

Einar backs foundational technology that decentralizes scarce AI resources or rebuilds financial rails onchain. His portfolio connects open compute and model ownership, verifiable AI, permanent data, cross-chain liquidity, stablecoin payments, and institutional prediction-market infrastructure. He favors technically ambitious early teams addressing a structural bottleneck, with a credible path from an initial developer or institutional wedge to an open network that scales access, freedom, and knowledge.

Galaxy Ventures

Check: 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.

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 fixes inefficient data or settlement flows. Recent investments favor companies that pair blockchain rails with familiar products, strong distribution and measurable growth rather than asking customers to adopt crypto for its own sake.

Digital Currency Group (DCG)

Stamford

AUM: $50B

Paradigm

San Francisco

AUM: $10B

Wintermute Ventures

London, UK

AUM: $50M+

a16z crypto

Menlo Park

AUM: $7.6B

Hashed

Seoul, South Korea

AUM: $320M

AppWorks

Taipei, Taiwan

AUM: $200M

ParaFi Capital

San Francisco, CA

AUM: $600M

1kx

Berlin

AUM: $1B+

Blockchain Capital

San Francisco

AUM: $2.5B

Hack VC

San Francisco, CA

AUM: $500M+

Northzone (Web3)

Stockholm, Sweden

AUM: €1B+

Nascent

Charleston

AUM: ~$500M

Maven 11 Capital

Amsterdam

Framework Ventures

San Francisco, CA

AUM: $1.4B

Woodstock Fund

Mumbai, India

AUM: $30M

Variant Fund

San Francisco

AUM: $900M

Figment Capital

New York, NY

AUM: $100M

gumi Cryptos Capital

Tokyo, Japan

AUM: $100M

SCB 10X

Bangkok, Thailand

AUM: $200M

CV VC

Zug, Switzerland

AUM: CHF 100M

Archetype

New York

AUM: $150M

DFG (Digital Finance Group)

Beijing

AUM: $500M+

Mechanism Capital

San Francisco

AUM: ~$100M

Greenfield Capital

Berlin, Germany

AUM: €160M

Lightspeed Faction

New York

AUM: $285M

Hash CIB

Moscow, Russia (relocated)

AUM: $30M

Standard Crypto

San Francisco

AUM: $200M

North Island Ventures

New York

Haun Ventures

San Francisco

AUM: $1.5B

Collider Ventures

Tel Aviv, Israel

AUM: $70M

Black Pearls VC

Zagreb, Croatia

AUM: €10M

Cypher Capital

Dubai, UAE

AUM: $100M

Big Pi Ventures

Athens, Greece

AUM: €20M

Pantera Capital

Menlo Park

AUM: $5B

Electric Capital

San Francisco, CA

AUM: $1B+

GSR Markets

Madrid, Spain / London

AUM: $200M+

Multicoin Capital

Austin

AUM: $1B

CoinFund

New York

AUM: $1B+

Indico Capital

Lisbon, Portugal

AUM: €50M

The Spartan Group

Singapore

AUM: ~$200M

Polychain Capital

San Francisco

AUM: $2.5B

Newtown Partners

Cape Town, South Africa

AUM: $30M

Dragonfly

San Francisco, CA

AUM: $3.5B

Delphi Ventures

New York

Adaverse

Lagos, Nigeria

AUM: $20M

Galaxy Digital

New York, NY

AUM: $10B+

AirTree Ventures (Web3)

Sydney, Australia

AUM: $500M

Mercy Corps Ventures (Web3)

Nairobi, Kenya

AUM: $50M

Italian Angels for Growth (Web3)

Milan, Italy

AUM: €20M

HashKey Capital

Hong Kong

AUM: $1B+

NGC Ventures

Singapore

Maki.vc (Web3)

Helsinki, Finland

AUM: €100M

Circle Ventures

Boston

Binance Labs

Abu Dhabi

AUM: $7,500,000,000

Jump Crypto

Chicago

Coinbase Ventures

San Francisco

Norrsken Impact Fund

Kigali, Rwanda

AUM: $50M

Fabric Ventures

London, UK

AUM: €130M

IOSG Ventures

Singapore

AUM: $500M

Amber Group

Singapore

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

CMT Digital

Chicago

Robot Ventures

San Francisco

Fenbushi Capital

Shanghai

AUM: ~$400M

OKX Ventures

Dubai

AUM: $100,000,000

dao5

San Francisco, CA

AUM: $150M

Flat6Labs Tunis (Web3)

Tunis, Tunisia

AUM: $5M

Three Arrows Capital (3AC)

Singapore (formerly)

AUM: $10B peak (collapsed)

Alliance DAO

New York

ConsenSys

New York

Fisher8 Capital

Singapore

BitMEX Ventures

Seychelles

AUM: $100M

Crypto.com Capital

Nassau, Bahamas

AUM: $500M+

SevenX Ventures

Singapore

Shima Capital

San Francisco, CA

AUM: $200M

Superscrypt

Singapore

AUM: $100M

Alameda Research

Hong Kong (formerly)

AUM: $15B peak (collapsed)

Colosseum

Remote

AUM: $60M

Inception Capital

Global (New York / APAC)

Arca

Los Angeles, CA

AUM: $1B+

Newtopia VC

Buenos Aires, Argentina / Miami, Florida, United States / Latin America

AUM: $50M

Solana Ventures

San Francisco, CA

AUM: $100M

Galaxy Ventures

New York City

AUM: $175M+

Hashed Emergent

Bangalore, India

AUM: $60M

Lemniscap

Paris, France

AUM: €100M

Portal Ventures

Austin, TX

AUM: $75M

Zee Prime Capital

Remote

AUM: $35M

ARI10

Istanbul, Turkey

AUM: $10M

CoinSwitch Ventures

Bengaluru

AUM: $25M

Decasonic

San Francisco

Dialectic

Montreal, Canada

AUM: $70M

Nestcoin

Lagos, Nigeria

AUM: $10M

Rockaway Blockchain Fund

Prague, Czech Republic

AUM: €100M

V3V Ventures

Dubai

Blockwall

Frankfurt, Germany / Paris, France

Delta Blockchain Fund

Global / Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Kraken Ventures

San Francisco

Maven 11

Amsterdam, Netherlands / Cayman Islands

No Limit Holdings

Dubai

Signum Capital

Singapore

Taisu Ventures

Singapore / Asia