10 VCs and 1 funds investing in Decentralized Systems
Ecosystem
ex/ante
Check: ex/ante does not publish a standard person-specific check range; its debut fund was announced at $33M.
Anastasia Uglova is listed in a Ecosystem capacity at ex/ante. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile therefore preserves the role distinction and uses the firm's public mandate only as shared context.
Research Partner
Paradigm
Check: No personal check range or investment authority is published for Storm. Paradigm invests from first check through public markets, but Storm's official remit is frontier data-science and data-engineering research, not a stated personal allocation range.
Storm evaluates decentralized systems through high-resolution data, reproducible measurement, and open tooling. His work spans Ethereum state and history growth, node performance, market-volume accounting, prediction-market visualization, optimization, and forensic analysis. The recurring principle is to replace imprecise narratives with correctly defined metrics, controlled benchmarks, and accessible datasets before deciding where a system's real bottleneck or opportunity lies.
Investment Team
ex/ante
Check: ex/ante does not publish a standard person-specific check range; its debut fund was announced at $33M.
Zoe Weinberg invests or supports investments through ex/ante's published strategy: Back agentic technologies that preserve human agency and rights in a digital world, spanning privacy, security, identity, civil society and resilient infrastructure.
Investment Team
ex/ante
Check: ex/ante does not publish a standard person-specific check range; its debut fund was announced at $33M.
Michael Mosier invests or supports investments through ex/ante's published strategy: Back agentic technologies that preserve human agency and rights in a digital world, spanning privacy, security, identity, civil society and resilient infrastructure.
Investment Team
ex/ante
Check: ex/ante does not publish a standard person-specific check range; its debut fund was announced at $33M.
Matt Hawes invests or supports investments through ex/ante's published strategy: Back agentic technologies that preserve human agency and rights in a digital world, spanning privacy, security, identity, civil society and resilient infrastructure.
Investment Team
ex/ante
Check: ex/ante does not publish a standard person-specific check range; its debut fund was announced at $33M.
Farhan Abrol invests or supports investments through ex/ante's published strategy: Back agentic technologies that preserve human agency and rights in a digital world, spanning privacy, security, identity, civil society and resilient infrastructure.
Advisor
ex/ante
Check: ex/ante does not publish a standard person-specific check range; its debut fund was announced at $33M.
Michael Brennan is listed in a Advisor capacity at ex/ante. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile therefore preserves the role distinction and uses the firm's public mandate only as shared context.
Advisor
ex/ante
Check: ex/ante does not publish a standard person-specific check range; its debut fund was announced at $33M.
Megan Cristina is listed in a Advisor capacity at ex/ante. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile therefore preserves the role distinction and uses the firm's public mandate only as shared context.
Advisor
ex/ante
Check: ex/ante does not publish a standard person-specific check range; its debut fund was announced at $33M.
Nabiha Syed is listed in a Advisor capacity at ex/ante. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile therefore preserves the role distinction and uses the firm's public mandate only as shared context.
Co-Founder & CEO
1confirmation
Concentrated, conviction-driven crypto investing. Backs projects building fundamental infrastructure for decentralized systems with a long time horizon.