10 VCs and 28 funds investing in Ethereum
Founding Partner
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.
Venture Partner
Big Pi Ventures
Check: Big Pi publishes a firm-wide equity-ticket range of €0.5M–€30M across its early-stage and growth funds; its early-stage Fund II described €1M–€3M lead investments. These are firm parameters, not Vassilis's personal allocation range.
Vassilis brings a blockchain ecosystem and go-to-market lens to Big Pi's technology investing. His public work emphasizes the transition from crypto trading toward usable infrastructure: privacy-preserving institutional networks, interoperable bank deposits, Ethereum applications, zero-knowledge systems, stablecoins, and real-world financial workflows. This sits within Big Pi's broader preference for defensible technology, global markets, and teams that can translate technical invention into commercial products.
Chief Investment Officer
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.
Principal
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.
Sr. Investment Research Associate
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.
Asset Manager
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.
Investor
CoinFund
Check: No personal check range is disclosed. CoinFund's live profile explicitly says there are no investments led by Jonathan yet, while crediting him with establishing vault and new-markets theses and contributing to Irys research; do not present him as an independently proven deal lead.
Jonathan studies how better on-chain financial and data rails enable agents, vaults and new markets. His thesis work connects composable financial infrastructure to automated commerce, and programmable storage to verifiable AI training, licensing and intellectual-property workflows. His restructuring experience on Voyager and BlockFi also gives him a failure-oriented view of custody, leverage and financial architecture.
Partner
HashKey Capital
Check: Firm-level public estimate: typically $1M-$5M, varying by stage and opportunity
Xiao looks for durable, real-use-case crypto products that can bring users from Web2 into Web3 and survive multiple market cycles. Public interviews show a broad mandate across DeFi, gaming, stablecoins, and AI, with especially strong interest in DePIN and real-world-asset tokenization, as well as Ethereum and Layer 2 ecosystems.
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.
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