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a16z crypto

Check: No verified personal check-size range is publicly attributed to Jay. His disclosed work includes a16z crypto leading Kairos's $2.5M seed round; that round size is company financing, not Jay's individual allocation authority.

Jay backs consumer and application-layer crypto products that make onchain systems useful to mainstream users. His recent work centers on financial applications as crypto's adoption wedge: wallets becoming trusted consumer-finance super apps, perpetual futures expanding into a global trading primitive, and prediction markets gaining institutional-grade interfaces. He also sees decentralized proof of personhood as reusable, user-controlled infrastructure for distinguishing humans from agents and bots.

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.

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.

Lanka Blockchain Fund

Investing in blockchain and digital finance in Sri Lanka, focused on leveraging blockchain for economic development and financial infrastructure modernization.

Kryptos (Bangladesh)

Building blockchain education and investment infrastructure in Bangladesh, focused on developing the local crypto ecosystem and developer community.

Flat6Labs Tunis (Web3)

Supporting blockchain and Web3 startups in Tunisia and North Africa through Flat6Labs Tunis. Focused on unlocking Web3 innovation in francophone Africa.

Flat6Labs (Web3)

Supporting blockchain and Web3 startups in Egypt and North Africa through Flat6Labs, one of MENA's largest accelerators.

Al Waha Fund of Funds

Investing in regional funds and startups through Al Waha Fund of Funds, supporting the Bahrain fintech and blockchain ecosystem as a gateway to the Gulf.

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.

Ard Financial Group (Web3)

Investing in blockchain and digital finance in Mongolia through Ard Financial Group, focused on bringing modern financial infrastructure to the Mongolian market.

Northzone (Web3)

Check: No current personal check range or active fund mandate is public. Historical Northzone investments include seed and Series A through later follow-ons, but third-party Northzone range estimates are stale and do not establish present authority. Confirm current capacity directly.

At Northzone, Markus invested across enterprise applications, infrastructure, developer products and healthcare, with a strong DACH footprint. His operating experience at digital-health company Kry shaped an appetite for founders modernizing regulated markets despite entrenched incentives. Later deals show a widening lens: Reonic digitizes renewable-energy installers; Duvo automates exception-heavy retail operations; CuspAI applies generative models and physics to materials discovery; Black Forest Labs builds frontier visual intelligence. Across them, the common pattern is deep domain experience, a clear operational bottleneck and software or AI that changes an established value chain.

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.

Simplify Ventures

Check: Simplify Ventures does not publish a standard investment range; it targets early-stage companies with under $5M in revenue.

Mohammed Vaid invests or supports investments through Simplify Ventures's published strategy: Invest globally in early-stage B2B technology and pair capital with hands-on infrastructure across technology, security, finance, legal, HR, marketing and go-to-market.

Vesey Ventures

Check: $1.5M-$3M initial checks were disclosed at launch; no person-specific range is public.

Julia Huang invests or supports investments through Vesey Ventures's published strategy: Back early-stage fintech and enabling technology companies where partnerships with financial incumbents can accelerate commercialization, pairing term sheets with tailored strategy sheets.

Vesey Ventures

Check: $1.5M-$3M initial checks were disclosed at launch; no person-specific range is public.

Lindsay Fitzgerald invests or supports investments through Vesey Ventures's published strategy: Back early-stage fintech and enabling technology companies where partnerships with financial incumbents can accelerate commercialization, pairing term sheets with tailored strategy sheets.

Vesey Ventures

Check: $1.5M-$3M initial checks were disclosed at launch; no person-specific range is public.

Dana Eli-Lorch invests or supports investments through Vesey Ventures's published strategy: Back early-stage fintech and enabling technology companies where partnerships with financial incumbents can accelerate commercialization, pairing term sheets with tailored strategy sheets.

Chemistry

Check: Chemistry leads early-stage rounds with commitments up to $30M, according to its official company description.

Bohan Lou invests or supports investments through Chemistry's published strategy: Lead concentrated early-stage investments in software founders who combine technical expertise with strong commercial instincts, with the whole firm supporting each company.

Chemistry

Check: Chemistry leads early-stage rounds with commitments up to $30M, according to its official company description.

Ethan Kurzweil invests or supports investments through Chemistry's published strategy: Lead concentrated early-stage investments in software founders who combine technical expertise with strong commercial instincts, with the whole firm supporting each company.

Chemistry

Check: Chemistry leads early-stage rounds with commitments up to $30M, according to its official company description.

Mark Goldberg invests or supports investments through Chemistry's published strategy: Lead concentrated early-stage investments in software founders who combine technical expertise with strong commercial instincts, with the whole firm supporting each company.

Ensemble VC

Check: Ensemble does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its current website.

Ian Heinrich invests or supports investments through Ensemble VC's published strategy: Use proprietary data and software to identify exceptional startup teams, then provide concentrated early-stage support to founders building transformative companies.

Ensemble VC

Check: Ensemble does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its current website.

Gopi Sundaramurthy invests or supports investments through Ensemble VC's published strategy: Use proprietary data and software to identify exceptional startup teams, then provide concentrated early-stage support to founders building transformative companies.

Ensemble VC

Check: Ensemble does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its current website.

Collin West invests or supports investments through Ensemble VC's published strategy: Use proprietary data and software to identify exceptional startup teams, then provide concentrated early-stage support to founders building transformative companies.

ResilienceVC

Check: ResilienceVC does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its official site; its debut fund is $56M.

Tahira Dosani invests or supports investments through ResilienceVC's published strategy: Invest in technology and business models that improve financial resilience for underserved consumers and small businesses while producing venture-scale returns.

ResilienceVC

Check: ResilienceVC does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its official site; its debut fund is $56M.

Vikas Raj invests or supports investments through ResilienceVC's published strategy: Invest in technology and business models that improve financial resilience for underserved consumers and small businesses while producing venture-scale returns.

Shorooq Partners

Check: No personal check range is disclosed. Shorooq's equity platform covers the full journey from pre-seed to late-stage growth; Tina's current Venture Partner/adviser listing does not establish independent check authority, so founders should confirm the relevant vehicle and decision process.

Tina looks for high-caliber founders applying differentiated technology to consequential emerging-market problems. Her attributable investment material emphasizes technically credible climate and industrial solutions, strong founder quality, proprietary assets, blue-chip customer validation, and the ability to turn a regional advantage into a scalable category. Her background across banking, private equity, law and insurtech adds a cross-disciplinary diligence lens.

Chemistry

Check: Chemistry leads early-stage rounds with commitments up to $30M, according to its official company description.

Kristina Shen invests or supports investments through Chemistry's published strategy: Lead concentrated early-stage investments in software founders who combine technical expertise with strong commercial instincts, with the whole firm supporting each company.

Union Square Ventures (USV)

Check: USV's published firm range is $1 million to $30 million from earliest stage through follow-ons. No personal range is attributed to John, and the firm's investment decision is a collective discussion rather than an individual vote.

John's published investments apply a lawyer-investor lens to regulated markets where analog, repetitive infrastructure blocks access. His work favors portable financial identity, user-controlled credentials, digital-first insurance and legal workflows, and trusted financial brands that broaden affordable access to capital—particularly for underbanked consumers and long-tail merchants in Latin America.

Union Square Ventures (USV)

Check: No individual check range is published. USV's firm-wide range is $1 million to $30 million, but Jared's special-advisor placement does not establish personal decision authority; the partnership discusses investments collectively without a vote.

Jared brings a repeat founder's consumer-product lens to networks at the intersection of AI and crypto. His published thesis favors strange, initially fringe behaviors that create genuinely new social and creative formats; AI tools that lower creation barriers; transparent economics that reward creators; open social protocols where users own identity, content, audience, and economic activity; and vertical search products that make expert knowledge broadly useful.

Maki.vc (Web3)

Check: Maki targets first rounds below EUR 5 million and supports consequent rounds; this is a firm round criterion, not Pirkka's personal check range. Active new investments come from Fund III.

Pirkka backs ambitious Nordic teams at their first rounds, combining an operator's technology and scaling perspective with Maki's sector-agnostic, non-consensus approach. His attributed investments favor experienced teams rebuilding large industries with scalable platforms—payments, sustainable construction materials, physical-world digital twins, enterprise systems, and other deep or brand-driven technologies.

Maki.vc (Web3)

Check: Maki's stated sweet spot is first rounds below EUR 5 million from day zero; this describes target round size, not Pauliina's personal check authority. The firm continues to support later rounds selectively.

Pauliina leads a sector-agnostic Nordic first-round strategy centered on exceptional technical founders with global ambition. Her attributed portfolio work spans clinical sensing, autonomous-mobility safety, consumer products, voice agents, quantum, fintech, and sustainability. She favors non-consensus decisions, products rooted in a clear user problem, strong design and customer experience, and teams capable of building category leaders from the Nordics.

Khosla Ventures

Check: No personal check-size range is published. Keith invests across stages, and disclosed financings across his portfolio should not be treated as a standard personal allocation range.

Keith is a stage- and sector-flexible investor who looks for exceptional founders with decisive judgment, high agency, a contrarian insight, and the ability to recruit unusually strong talent. His record favors category-defining networks and platforms—payments, marketplaces, commerce, financial software, and technology-enabled services—where operational excellence and founder-led intensity can compound into market leadership.

General Catalyst

Check: No personal equity check-size range is published. Customer Value financings are bespoke, performance-linked capital structures and disclosed company packages should not be generalized into a personal minimum or maximum.

Pranav invests through a capital-allocation lens: separate the predictable customer-acquisition engine of a product-market-fit company from its higher-risk product and operating company, then finance each with capital matched to its risk and return. He favors companies with clean integrated data, durable cohort economics, strong lifetime value, scalable go-to-market systems, and founders thoughtful enough to optimize long-term enterprise value rather than headline EBITDA.

General Catalyst

Check: No personal check-size range is published. His record includes seed investments and large later financings, but disclosed round totals belong to company financings and are not a personal range.

Neeraj backs ambitious founders building category-defining businesses in India, MENA, and the corridors linking those regions with global markets. His approach combines Venture Highway's earliest-stage founder access with General Catalyst's resilience themes: financial inclusion, health assurance, domestic defense and industrial capability, energy infrastructure, locally relevant consumer products, and regulated platforms that modernize large GDP-driving sectors.

Type Capital

Check: Type Capital does not publish a standard check-size range on its current official site.

Terri Burns invests or supports investments through Type Capital's published strategy: Back early-stage founders with strong product taste and the potential to build generational technology companies.

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

Check: No personal check range or decision authority is published. Paradigm invests from first check through public markets, but Caitlin's current collaborator status and the firm's capital base do not establish an individual check size.

Caitlin is a Paradigm venture partner and Stripe zero-to-one strategist whose published investment perspective centers on crypto's ability to improve online coordination and create internet-native economies. Her current Paradigm work is best understood as a collaborator and ecosystem/talent lens, with stated interest in markets, incentive design, distributed systems, developer tooling, applications, and agentic commerce.

GTK Partners

Check: GTK is primarily a corporate advisory firm and does not publish an Ali-specific venture check range. Ali has disclosed individual technology investments, but those do not establish a repeatable allocation mandate. Companies should clarify whether they seek advisory work, financing support or an investment.

Ali works where technical systems, strategic finance and corporate transactions meet. GTK's work spans private growth companies, corporations and financial sponsors, with particular expertise in software-hardware convergence such as IoT, autonomy and robotics. His Tech. Cars. Machines. interviews examine commercialization, market readiness, technical defensibility and the corporate partnerships or financing required to scale complex technology.

Blockchain Capital

Check: No personal or venture-partner check range is published. Blockchain Capital's announced financing rounds and Tare's seed round are transaction sizes, not a reliable proxy for Lucas's individual authority.

Lucas specializes in rebuilding credit and capital markets on shared blockchain infrastructure. His operating record points to tokenized funds, real-world assets, institutional DeFi, and end-to-end lending systems that reduce reconciliation and intermediary costs. He emphasizes that tokenization alone is insufficient: assets need credible legal and operational structures, actual buyer demand, liquidity, and composable market infrastructure for lending and trading.

Y Combinator

Check: YC invests through standardized program terms; no Jon-specific startup check size or independent allocation authority is public. Apply through YC's official process. Partnership, post-batch and financing-support questions should be framed for his documented remit.

Jon's public work focuses on reducing legal and financing friction for startups and supporting YC companies after the batch. He advocates standardized formation and fundraising documents, founder understanding of dilution, careful use of venture debt, competitive financing processes, early legal counsel and candid lender relationships. His 2025 Groww essay also emphasizes customer focus, disciplined execution, resilience and long-term company building.

Kleiner Perkins

Check: No verified personal check range or standard firm-wide range is published. Her official portfolio spans early and growth investments; disclosed company rounds are not personal allocation limits.

Leigh Marie backs AI infrastructure and applications, with a particular eye for the systems that close the gap between frontier-model capability and reliable, mission-critical use. Her portfolio includes tailored enterprise AI, agent workforces, learned memory, runbook automation, AI sales, developer infrastructure, databases, observability, identity, biopharma knowledge work, and financial products. Her Scale AI background gives her direct fluency in data and ML workflows for autonomy and robotics.

Khosla Ventures

Check: In a 2020 first-person interview, Samir described a typical Khosla Seed Fund investment as roughly $1M–$2M, used as option-value capital to remove key risks before a larger Series A/B decision. Khosla's current Main Fund covers early through later stages, including total financings above $10M. These are historical/firm-level guideposts, not a guaranteed current personal range.

Samir prefers large, known markets where a radical technical risk can produce a 10x-better product. He treats small seed checks as option-value experiments: identify a potential billion-dollar outcome, use capital to remove a binary technical, team, or market-development risk, then redo the diligence and concentrate capital if the evidence improves. He rejects mechanical pro-rata, values non-consensus decisions, and believes uncapped upside justifies bold technical bets rather than conservative hit-rate optimization.

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.

First Round Capital

Check: No current personal check range or new-investment authority is published. Steven's official Board Partner profile emphasizes operational and board support; First Round's firm-wide check range should not be attributed to him personally.

Steven helps companies make consequential decisions quickly despite incomplete information, test the result in the real world, and learn with a beginner's mindset. His operating history spans founding, three CEO roles, product, general management, business development, sales, strategy, acquisitions, IPO-scale growth, and public boards, making his current lens broadly operational rather than a published new-investment thesis.

First Round Capital

Check: No current personal check range or new-investment authority is published. Richard's official Board Partner role focuses on coaching existing First Round companies; firm-wide check ranges should not be attributed to him personally.

Richard applies experience from building startups and running global revenue organizations to help First Round companies navigate go-to-market. His stated scope spans GTM strategy, customer segmentation, product strategy, team building, and operating at scale. His value is less a sector prediction than pattern recognition across zero-to-one, the messy middle, and hypergrowth.

BoxGroup

Check: BoxGroup currently publishes a firm-wide maximum investment of $1M. Historical sources reported smaller firm checks and third-party profiles estimate $250K–$750K for Nimi, but no primary source confirms a current personal range.

Nimi is a generalist early-stage Partner with a long-running, publicly documented focus on healthcare and life sciences, fintech, marketplaces, and software. Her current activity extends that lens into AI-native healthcare, scientific agents, enterprise AI, and the financial infrastructure surrounding AI use. She applies BoxGroup's founder-first philosophy while testing whether the operating model, retention, sequencing, and economics can support the founder's category-scale ambition.

AppWorks

Check: Not publicly disclosed for Beacon Funds commitments. AppWorks' direct-company strategy publishes US$200K to US$15M per deal from Seed through Series C; that range should not be applied to Jun's venture-fund investments.

Jun uses fund investments as ecosystem infrastructure: back locally connected or specialist managers, exchange market intelligence and diligence, create co-investment and follow-on capital paths, and help portfolio companies enter new Asian markets. In direct opportunities, his writing favors repeat founders with learned resilience, large problems native to Southeast Asia, sound unit economics, profitability and margin discipline, and teams able to adapt when the original model fails.

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.

Shorooq Partners

Check: No standard personal ticket is published. Shorooq describes Nahda as flexible, tailored debt financing for high-growth and established MENA businesses. Public examples include $15M for Abhi and $12.5M for The Box, but those transactions are examples—not a stated minimum, maximum or personal range.

Nathan uses tailored private credit to fill the financing gap left by conservative banks and to help technology companies reach their next growth milestone with less equity dilution. His underwriting lens balances flexible structure and founder needs against lender downside protection, cash-flow visibility, repayment capacity and disciplined risk-adjusted returns. He also sees a cross-border opportunity connecting Korean technology with MENA demand and capital.

Khosla Ventures

Check: No personal check-size range is published. Khosla Ventures invests from seed through growth, but fund assets and portfolio round sizes are not David's personal minimum or maximum.

David backs internet software and services with the potential to become large, durable businesses. His operator writing emphasizes product-management accountability, quantitative decision-making, and proving genuine product-market fit before scaling sales or spend. He is especially credible where category ambition can be paired with disciplined product, go-to-market, and unit-economics execution.

Northzone (Web3)

Check: No personal standard check-size range is published. Northzone has disclosed leading or co-leading large company rounds, but those totals are not Sanjot's individual allocation range and should not be presented as one.

Sanjot leads Northzone's growth strategy. He looks for companies with proven product-market fit, repeatable go-to-market, viable unit economics, distinctive product IP, mission-critical customer value, global platform potential, ecosystem influence, and defensibility that compounds. His process favors differentiated research and relationships built over time rather than auction-driven consensus investing.

BoxGroup

Check: No reliable Arielle-specific check size is public. BoxGroup describes itself as an earliest-stage investor, but founders should confirm current round fit and allocation directly rather than relying on third-party range estimates.

Arielle invests within BoxGroup's broad earliest-stage mandate. Her differentiated documented context is technical and translational: Harvard bioengineering research, founding a postpartum medical-device project, product work in fertility AI and neuromodulation, mechanical engineering at a bioelectronic-medicine startup, and consulting at BCG. This supports a credible ability to evaluate user need, clinical workflow, product design, manufacturing, regulatory planning and commercialization in technical health businesses. It does not establish an exclusive healthcare mandate or a personally published investment thesis.

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.

Blockchain Coinvestors / Fifth Era

Check: No Alison-specific check range is public. Blockchain Coinvestors has managed fund-of-funds and direct early-stage token strategies, but vehicle documents and historical target sizes are not personal check-size promises. Founders and managers should identify the relevant vehicle and confirm current allocation capacity.

Alison invests around technological change in financial services and the transition toward blockchain and Web3. Through Fifth Era and Blockchain Coinvestors she combines a fund-of-funds view of the crypto venture ecosystem with direct early-stage investing. Her executive and board career adds a governance lens: strategy, innovation, risk, financial controls and board effectiveness must mature alongside technology and growth.

ResilienceVC

Check: ResilienceVC does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its official site; its debut fund is $56M.

Maayan Teper invests or supports investments through ResilienceVC's published strategy: Invest in technology and business models that improve financial resilience for underserved consumers and small businesses while producing venture-scale returns.

ResilienceVC

Check: ResilienceVC does not publish a standard person-specific check range on its official site; its debut fund is $56M.

Bryson Hearne invests or supports investments through ResilienceVC's published strategy: Invest in technology and business models that improve financial resilience for underserved consumers and small businesses while producing venture-scale returns.

Lux Capital

Check: Lux does not publish a dependable personal check range for Deena. Her investments span stages, including first institutional rounds and later healthcare financings; founders should confirm vehicle, initial ticket, ownership, reserves and stage fit with the partnership.

Deena backs transformative technologies that improve health, access and economic opportunity, often with extraordinary underdog founders attacking problems conventional pattern recognition overlooks. Her health thesis pairs breakthrough science and AI with clinical value, infrastructure and community delivery: technology matters only when it improves outcomes for populations historically underserved by fragmented systems.

Shorooq Partners

Check: No personal check range is published. Shorooq invests regionally from idea/pre-seed through late-stage growth via different vehicles. Founders should identify the stage-appropriate fund and not infer a check size from Yousef's Partner title or from announced company rounds.

Yousef backs technology businesses that can become durable leaders in Saudi Arabia and the wider MENA region. His public portfolio and Intelmatix commentary point to a value-investor lens: strong founders, defensible technology, a locally important problem, evidence of commercial demand, and the capacity to unlock productivity or access in sectors such as fintech, enterprise AI, retail, logistics and real estate.

Blockchain Capital

Check: No personal check range or unilateral authority is publicly disclosed. Blockchain Capital is a multi-stage investor in equity and crypto assets; its September 2026 NG.CASH article announces a $15M BCAP investment, but that figure is a specific firm investment co-authored with a GP, not Anay's standard ticket.

Anay focuses on the intersection of consumer behavior and crypto. Her work favors products that hide blockchain complexity inside a trusted, culturally native experience: mobile-first financial platforms for underserved young users, stablecoins embedded in existing distribution, and portable social identity that lets communities create specialized software without restarting their networks. At seed, she weights founder character and learning velocity above a rigid initial thesis.

Shorooq Partners

Check: Shorooq invests across the equity journey from pre-seed through late-stage growth, but neither the firm nor Kunal publishes his personal check range or decision authority. Portfolio round totals are not treated as check-size evidence.

Kunal supports Shorooq's fintech and web3 practice with an operator's perspective across the UK, UAE, and Africa. His remit fits the firm's founder-first strategy: backing regional companies from idea through scale and global frontier companies where technology modernizes financial access, payments, wealth, business operations, or digital ownership. Shorooq's blockchain thesis favors crypto augmenting existing consumer behavior and solving real-world problems rather than replacing useful behavior with complexity.

Northzone (Web3)

Check: No personal check-size range is published. Dominik's official focus is early stage within Northzone's multi-stage platform; disclosed company rounds should not be treated as his individual allocation range.

Dominik backs early-stage AI applications, vertical SaaS, and fintech. His portfolio and writing emphasize software for structurally underserved industries: frontline labor, managed service providers, construction, healthcare, compliance, software maintenance, and financial operations. He looks for founders with generational ambition and can relate to unconventional paths through his own military, insurance, and consulting background.

Lux Capital

Check: No verified personal or standard Lux check-size range is published. Brandon invests at both early and growth stages; disclosed financing rounds, such as Hugging Face's $15M Series A, are total rounds and not his personal allocation range.

Brandon backs technical platforms and applications across software, AI, defense, and manufacturing. A recurring theme is open or developer-led infrastructure that turns frontier capability into production systems, paired with companies modernizing regulated or antiquated industries. His current portfolio spans open models and AI cloud, nature-inspired foundation models, coding agents, finance automation, defense autonomy, physical AI, autonomous factories, life-sciences R&D, security, data, and crypto infrastructure.

CV VC

Check: CV VC publicly invests up to $500,000 in pre-seed and seed companies meeting its MVP and initial-traction criteria. No personal check-size authority is published for Nicolas.

Nicolas evaluates pre-seed and seed companies within CV VC's current frontier-technology mandate: AI-native automation, intelligent B2B systems, and programmable digital finance, with blockchain used where trust and authenticity matter. There is not enough first-person public material to assign him a narrower personal sector thesis; firm portfolio tags should be treated as team exposure, not personal ownership.

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.

AirTree Ventures (Web3)

Check: Neither Airtree nor Jackie publishes her personal check range or decision authority. The firm is seed-first and supports companies through later stages; individual portfolio round totals do not reveal Airtree's allocation or Jackie's authority.

Jackie backs Australia and New Zealand founders from very early product formation through scale. Her disclosed portfolio crosses AI and enterprise software, healthcare, fintech, consumer platforms, future-of-work tools, commerce, and purpose-led brands. Her investment notes repeatedly test market size and structural change, founder intensity and fit, customer love, defensible unit economics, resilience, and the ability to convert an initial wedge into a global company.

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.

Craft Ventures

Check: No Kindle-specific check range is public. Craft's live portfolio attributes her to growth, Series A and Series B investments, but those stage labels do not reveal individual allocation authority or check size. Confirm current vehicle, ownership and lead/co-invest posture directly.

Kindle invests where AI or advanced technology becomes a mission-critical operating layer in large, regulated or technically demanding markets. Her attributed work spans AI medical knowledge, regulatory compliance, autonomous defense systems, biotechnology and neurotechnology, with a recurring emphasis on trusted domain data, expert workflows, demonstrable adoption and products capable of becoming the intelligence layer for an industry.

DST Global

Check: No John-specific check range is public. DST Global is known for large growth-stage internet investments, but historical firm deal sizes or assets should not be converted into a personal allocation promise. Founders should confirm current stage, geography and round fit directly.

John's documented investment record centers on globally scaling internet and consumer-technology platforms. Public profiles associate him with DST investments in Spotify, JD.com and Didi and exits or public listings including Xiaomi, Meituan and Kuaishou. The repeatable lens is growth-stage platform scale, large addressable markets, strong network or marketplace effects and the ability to compound across geographies—not Maki.vc's early-stage Web3 mandate.

Northzone (Web3)

Check: No personal check-size range is published. Jessica invests through Northzone's multi-stage funds; financing announcements report total rounds, not her personal allocation range.

Jessica backs product-led platforms and UX-driven software that use technology and intuitive experiences to disrupt traditional industries. Her operator lens emphasizes speed and momentum at company formation, then patient, conviction-based founder relationships. She is especially interested in growth loops embedded in product—onboarding, usage, community, and data—rather than growth purchased only through advertising.

Kleiner Perkins

Check: No personal or standard firm-wide check range is published. Ilya's official portfolio spans early and growth investments; Kleiner disclosed that its 2019 Series A investment in Rippling was $25M, but that one transaction is not a general range or personal limit.

Ilya invests in technology and novel business models capable of fundamentally reshaping industries. His portfolio connects AI-native professional work, enterprise operating systems, mathematical and software agents, physical AI, autonomous defense, logistics, healthspan, biotech, and financial infrastructure. A recurring pattern is a product-centric company that can redefine a large workflow and pair a technical discontinuity with a new go-to-market or business model.

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 Jessica's personal allocation range.

Jessica invests across Southeast Asian consumer internet and blockchain, especially where deep technology improves a familiar consumer behavior or unlocks a regional distribution advantage. Her portfolio and writing emphasize strong user experience, scalable community or network effects, methodical technical execution, and go-to-market models that can start bottom-up before expanding into larger enterprise or regional relationships.

Northzone (Web3)

Check: Not publicly disclosed. Northzone states that the firm invests from Seed through Growth and can remain a partner through pre-IPO; Wendy's current profile labels her personal focus as Early and says she likes to work with founders from as early as seed.

Wendy backs companies that change consumer behavior and expand the economic pie by capturing neglected externalities. She studies technology through people and behavior change, looking for a valuable position in a shifting value chain and a product capable of profound systemic change. Her hypothesis-led process separates factual and emotional evidence, makes assumptions explicit, challenges them through diligence, and still requires a differentiated leap of faith about fund-returning potential.

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.

Northzone (Web3)

Check: No personal check-size range is published. Pascual invests at early stage through Northzone; founders should confirm current round fit directly and should not infer his allocation from portfolio-company financing totals.

Pascual focuses on early-stage AI, fintech, healthcare, and vertical SaaS, with particular interest in products that use growing data availability and improved computation to transform an industry. His portfolio spans AI for legal work, medical analysis, debt collection, sales, payments, and mental healthcare, indicating an applied, industry-specific orientation.

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.

Craft Ventures

Check: No personal check-size range is published. Craft attributes investments from seed through growth to Jeff, but public round totals are company financings and not his personal allocation authority.

Jeff specializes in marketplaces, particularly vertical models that go deeper than horizontal incumbents. He evaluates density, liquidity, trust, network effects, take rate, gross profit, and capital-efficient growth, and has extended that operating lens into payments and AI applications. His recent Venture Partner transition preserves an early-stage, marketplace-oriented role while Craft's broader strategy shifts toward later stages and other categories.

Craft Ventures

Check: No personal check-size range is published. Public Craft examples involving Lainy include led seed, Series A, and Series C investments; company financing totals should not be interpreted as her personal check authority.

Lainy backs software and marketplaces that modernize complex vertical workflows. Her cases favor founder-market fit, a painful operational wedge, simple products built on technically difficult systems, and distribution that compounds through workflow adoption or network effects. Across logistics, work management, healthcare, labor, and creative tools, she looks for products that turn fragmented manual activity into an integrated platform and make a professional capability accessible to more users.

Big Pi Ventures

Check: Firm-wide: Big Pi publishes equity tickets of €0.5M–€30M across its early-stage and growth funds. The current site does not publish Marco's personal range, so the platform range should not be treated as a standard partner check.

Marco backs exceptional teams with Greek or Southeast European leverage that can become global technology leaders. His operator history and portfolio favor products with technology at the core, defensible advantages, international markets, and teams capable of learning continuously as the company scales. He treats the regional talent base and diaspora as a network for building globally, not a boundary on ambition.

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.

Kleiner Perkins

Check: Not publicly disclosed. Kleiner Perkins invests from early stage through selective growth rounds; isolated portfolio check disclosures should not be treated as Josh's standard range.

Josh backs founders applying AI to consequential workflows in both software and the physical economy. His portfolio shows a consistent preference for products that turn abundant but fragmented information into trustworthy decisions or actions, automate labor-constrained expert work, or combine software with hardware to reverse structural productivity declines. He remains open beyond named sectors when a founder is determined to reinvent an industry.

nFront Ventures

Check: nFront Ventures does not publish a standard check-size range; it targets companies raising €1M-€20M rounds.

Johanna Junkermann is listed in a Advisor & Portfolio Mentor capacity at nFront Ventures. The profile preserves that non-investment or undisclosed-role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

nFront Ventures

Check: nFront Ventures does not publish a standard check-size range; it targets companies raising €1M-€20M rounds.

Max Koretskyi is listed in a Advisor & Portfolio Mentor capacity at nFront Ventures. The profile preserves that non-investment or undisclosed-role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

nFront Ventures

Check: nFront Ventures does not publish a standard check-size range; it targets companies raising €1M-€20M rounds.

Joyce Liu is listed in a Advisor & Portfolio Mentor capacity at nFront Ventures. The profile preserves that non-investment or undisclosed-role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

nFront Ventures

Check: nFront Ventures does not publish a standard check-size range; it targets companies raising €1M-€20M rounds.

Ekene Eze is listed in a Advisor & Portfolio Mentor capacity at nFront Ventures. The profile preserves that non-investment or undisclosed-role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

nFront Ventures

Check: nFront Ventures does not publish a standard check-size range; it targets companies raising €1M-€20M rounds.

David Smejkal is listed in a Advisor & Portfolio Mentor capacity at nFront Ventures. The profile preserves that non-investment or undisclosed-role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

nFront Ventures

Check: nFront Ventures does not publish a standard check-size range; it targets companies raising €1M-€20M rounds.

Vivian Chan is listed in a Advisor & Portfolio Mentor capacity at nFront Ventures. The profile preserves that non-investment or undisclosed-role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

nFront Ventures

Check: nFront Ventures does not publish a standard check-size range; it targets companies raising €1M-€20M rounds.

Teemu Mattila is listed in a Advisor & Portfolio Mentor capacity at nFront Ventures. The profile preserves that non-investment or undisclosed-role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

nFront Ventures

Check: nFront Ventures does not publish a standard check-size range; it targets companies raising €1M-€20M rounds.

Andreas Hall is listed in a Advisor & Portfolio Mentor capacity at nFront Ventures. The profile preserves that non-investment or undisclosed-role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

nFront Ventures

Check: nFront Ventures does not publish a standard check-size range; it targets companies raising €1M-€20M rounds.

Linus Dahg is listed in a Advisor & Portfolio Mentor capacity at nFront Ventures. The profile preserves that non-investment or undisclosed-role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

nFront Ventures

Check: nFront Ventures does not publish a standard check-size range; it targets companies raising €1M-€20M rounds.

Diana Biggs is listed in a Advisor & Portfolio Mentor capacity at nFront Ventures. The profile preserves that non-investment or undisclosed-role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

nFront Ventures

Check: nFront Ventures does not publish a standard check-size range; it targets companies raising €1M-€20M rounds.

Magda Posluszny is listed in a Advisor & Portfolio Mentor capacity at nFront Ventures. The profile preserves that non-investment or undisclosed-role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

nFront Ventures

Check: nFront Ventures does not publish a standard check-size range; it targets companies raising €1M-€20M rounds.

Ari Helgasson is listed in a Advisor & Portfolio Mentor capacity at nFront Ventures. The profile preserves that non-investment or undisclosed-role distinction and uses the firm's mandate only as shared context.

nFront Ventures

Check: nFront Ventures does not publish a standard check-size range; it targets companies raising €1M-€20M rounds.

Laura Chami invests or supports investment decisions through nFront Ventures's published strategy: Invest time and capital in differentiated, capital-efficient technology companies across Europe and selected U.S. opportunities from seed through Series B.

nFront Ventures

Check: nFront Ventures does not publish a standard check-size range; it targets companies raising €1M-€20M rounds.

Alex Sinkinson invests or supports investment decisions through nFront Ventures's published strategy: Invest time and capital in differentiated, capital-efficient technology companies across Europe and selected U.S. opportunities from seed through Series B.

nFront Ventures

Check: nFront Ventures does not publish a standard check-size range; it targets companies raising €1M-€20M rounds.

Magnus Gaarder invests or supports investment decisions through nFront Ventures's published strategy: Invest time and capital in differentiated, capital-efficient technology companies across Europe and selected U.S. opportunities from seed through Series B.

DNB Ventures

Check: DNB Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range; its official page states a NOK 250M investment pool.

Anders Østensvig invests or supports investment decisions through DNB Ventures's published strategy: Take meaningful minority positions in Nordic seed-stage technology companies that can strengthen financial services or DNB's wider value chain.

Acton Capital

Check: Acton publishes a typical initial investment of €5M-€10M.

Sebastian Wossagk is listed by Acton Capital as Managing Partner. No narrower personal thesis is asserted beyond the firm's published strategy: Back European and Canadian companies at Series A and beyond with durable, capital-aware growth strategies rather than hype-driven scaling.

Acton Capital

Check: Acton publishes a typical initial investment of €5M-€10M.

Jörg Wernet is listed by Acton Capital as Director Finance. No narrower personal thesis is asserted beyond the firm's published strategy: Back European and Canadian companies at Series A and beyond with durable, capital-aware growth strategies rather than hype-driven scaling.

Acton Capital

Check: Acton publishes a typical initial investment of €5M-€10M.

Benedikt Sudbrock is listed by Acton Capital as General Counsel. No narrower personal thesis is asserted beyond the firm's published strategy: Back European and Canadian companies at Series A and beyond with durable, capital-aware growth strategies rather than hype-driven scaling.

Acton Capital

Check: Acton publishes a typical initial investment of €5M-€10M.

Frank Seehaus is listed by Acton Capital as Managing Partner. No narrower personal thesis is asserted beyond the firm's published strategy: Back European and Canadian companies at Series A and beyond with durable, capital-aware growth strategies rather than hype-driven scaling.

Shorooq Partners

Abu Dhabi, UAE

AUM: $100M

Primary Venture Partners

New York, New York

EquityPitcher Ventures

Zürich, Switzerland

Jungle Ventures

Singapore

Seventure Partners

Paris, France

Crosslink Capital

Menlo Park, California

South Park Commons

San Francisco, New York and Bengaluru

Breega

Paris, London, Barcelona and Lagos

Portfolion

Budapest, Hungary

Giant Ventures

London, United Kingdom and United States

Smartfin

Belgium and Europe

ACV Capital

Jakarta, Indonesia and Singapore

January Capital

Singapore

Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India

Singapore

Base10 Partners

San Francisco, California

P101

Milan, Italy

Ascension

London, United Kingdom

Endeit Capital

Amsterdam, Netherlands / Hamburg, Germany / Stockholm, Sweden

XAnge

Paris, France / Berlin, Germany

EVP

Sydney, Australia

Defy Partners

Woodside, California

Kaszek

Latin America

Costanoa Ventures

Palo Alto and San Francisco, California

Lerer Hippeau

New York, New York

Encomenda

Barcelona and Madrid, Spain

Acton Capital

Munich, Germany

Atlantico

São Paulo, Brazil

Forum Ventures

New York, San Francisco and Toronto

Integra Partners

Singapore

Shilling VC

Lisbon, Portugal

OCA Ventures

Chicago, Illinois

OTB Ventures

Amsterdam, Netherlands and Warsaw, Poland

Correlation Ventures

San Diego and Palo Alto, California

Wellstreet

Stockholm, Sweden

Axeleo Capital

Lyon, France / Paris, France

Inspired Capital

New York, New York

Magma Partners

Latin America

Mucker Capital

Los Angeles, California

Capnamic

Cologne and Berlin, Germany

DILA Capital

Mexico City, Mexico

Designer Fund

San Francisco, California

HPE Growth

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Kaya VC

Prague, Czech Republic

Pioneer Square Labs

Seattle, Washington

AUM: $100M PSL Ventures II announced in 2021

Rally Ventures

Menlo Park, California / Minneapolis, Minnesota

Visionaries

Berlin, Germany / London, United Kingdom

XYZ Venture Capital

San Francisco, California

Conexo Ventures

Madrid, Spain

Orbit Capital

Prague, Czechia and Warsaw, Poland

nFront Ventures

Oslo, Norway and London, United Kingdom

3VC

Vienna, Austria

Credo Ventures

Prague, Czech Republic / Kraków, Poland

Investible

Sydney, Australia and Singapore

Maveron

Seattle, Washington and San Francisco, California

OIF Ventures

Sydney, Australia

Korelya Capital

Paris, London, Seoul and Singapore

Silicon Gardens

Ljubljana, Slovenia and the Adria region

Cornerstone Ventures

Mumbai, India

Eleven Ventures

Sofia, Bulgaria

Peak

Amsterdam, Netherlands; Berlin, Germany; and Stockholm, Sweden

Sawari Ventures

Giza, Egypt

VamosVentures

Los Angeles, California

SemperVirens Venture Capital

United States

byFounders

Copenhagen, Denmark

Algebra Ventures

Cairo, Egypt

Dutch Founders Fund

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Ensemble VC

Austin, Texas

Fil Rouge Capital

Zagreb, Croatia

LAUNCHub Ventures

Sofia, Bulgaria

node.vc

Stockholm, Sweden

Ridge Ventures

San Francisco, California

Tall Order Ventures

Melbourne, Australia

e2vc

Istanbul, Türkiye and London, United Kingdom

BBG Ventures

New York, New York

Contrary

San Francisco, California

Core Innovation Capital

United States

Do Ventures

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Uni.Fund

Athens, Greece

Outsiders Fund

United States

Roosh Ventures

Europe and United States

Act Venture Capital

Dublin, Ireland

Alven

Paris, France

Audacious Ventures

Silicon Valley, California

Clocktower Ventures

Santa Monica, California

Evli Growth Partners

Helsinki, Finland

Florida Funders

Tampa, Florida

Impact X Capital

London, United Kingdom

Intudo Ventures

Jakarta, Indonesia

MaC Venture Capital

Los Angeles, California

MiddleGame Ventures

Luxembourg, Dublin, London and Washington, DC

NAP

Berlin, Germany

Ulu Ventures

Palo Alto, California

14Peaks Capital

Zug, Switzerland

South Central Ventures

Southeast Europe

Cento Ventures

Singapore

Chemistry

San Francisco, California

DisrupTech Ventures

Giza, Egypt

Fika Ventures

Los Angeles, California

Tau Ventures

Palo Alto, California

AUM: $85M+ AUM disclosed on the firm's archived official site

4Founders Capital

Barcelona, Spain