Governance

QDAO DeFi

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

Framework Ventures

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

Tera Ventures

Investing in early-stage tech and blockchain startups in the Baltics through Tera Ventures, leveraging Estonia's leading digital governance expertise.

Paradigm

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

Hack VC

Check: Not disclosed and not inferable. Peyman is listed as a Research Partner, so founders should treat him as a domain expert and technical thesis contributor unless Hack VC confirms participation in a specific investment decision.

Peyman treats confidentiality as market infrastructure rather than an abstract right. His research uses identity-based encryption and distributed decryption to prevent front-running with dramatically lower communication overhead, while later work combines encryption and auctions for decentralized intent pricing. He argues privacy wins when it improves execution, protects commercial information, enables compliance and creates economically valuable products without extra user friction.

AirTree Ventures (Web3)

Check: Not applicable. Helen is no longer at AirTree and her historical mandate was finance and operations, not a personal Web3 check-writing practice. Current founders should use AirTree's current investment team and published fund channels; operational peers should treat her record as experience, not present firm authority.

Helen's contribution was building an institutional venture platform around the investors and founders: fund finance, governance, compliance, systems, LP relationships, organization and shared learning for portfolio finance leaders. She has highlighted the 'returning entrepreneur' flywheel, where successful founders recycle proceeds and experience into the next generation, and the under-networked position of startup CFOs, addressed through peer forums. This is a fund-building and ecosystem thesis rather than a personal Web3 investment thesis.

Archetype

Focuses on crypto infrastructure and protocols that enable new types of coordination. Archetype backs technical founders at the frontier of crypto.

Polychain Capital

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

Greylock Partners

Check: No current personal or Greylock check range is attributable to Howard, and his emeritus Special Limited Partner status should not be treated as current check-writing authority. Contact Greylock's active investors for stage, allocation, ownership and process.

Howard's record reflects a long-horizon institution-builder and governance lens developed across Greylock, the NVCA, In-Q-Tel, Stryker, investment committees and public-interest institutions. It is useful for evaluating leadership, board quality, stewardship and the relationship between private innovation and enduring institutions, but it is historical/advisory—not a current personal sourcing thesis.

Network states, crypto as the foundation for digital nations and decentralized governance.

Collider Ventures

Collider says it is "shaping the future of the decentralized internet" through a contrarian, strictly non-consensus approach. The firm is doubling down on crypto and Israel while backing builders in Israel and globally across core web3 categories.

Dialectic

Dialectic is a crypto-native fund focused on DeFi and infrastructure. Known for deep involvement in protocol governance and early Polkadot ecosystem.

Framework Ventures

DeFi governance and token economics. Active DeFi governance participant.

1confirmation

Crypto-native consumer products and decentralized governance. Pioneer crypto-native VC.

Framework Ventures

DeFi-native investor at Framework Ventures. Focuses on programmable finance and novel DeFi protocols that create new financial primitives.

1kx

Investing in early-stage crypto protocols and infrastructure at 1kx. Focused on community-owned and operated networks.

Distributed Global

Distributed Global invests in blockchain from Estonia, one of Europe's most digitally advanced nations.

1kx

Community-first crypto investing at 1kx. Believes in the power of token-aligned communities as the fundamental unit of crypto's success.

Maven 11

Haun Ventures

San Francisco

AUM: $1.5B

Bollinger Investment Group

Grapevine

Cyber Capital

Amsterdam

Rune Christensen

Dallas

Credence Capital

Rooter

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