5 VCs and 70 funds investing in Identity
Partner and Advisor
Kleiner Perkins
Check: Neither Kleiner Perkins nor Ted publishes a personal check range on the cited pages. His Kleiner record spans early-stage and growth companies, but portfolio round sizes and Ballistic's fund sizes do not establish his individual Kleiner check authority.
Ted is an operator-investor focused on cybersecurity and technology infrastructure across company formation, early-stage investment, scaling, and public-sector adoption. His Kleiner portfolio spans application and cloud security, identity, threat detection, incident response, security operations, enterprise data, supply-chain intelligence, and defense software. His approach combines product depth, customer and government networks, executive recruiting, and long-term board work to help technically strong teams become category leaders.
Partner
Pantera Capital
Check: No person-specific check size is publicly disclosed. Pantera's published venture approach typically invests from Seed through Series B and aims to lead or co-lead; founders should confirm fit rather than infer a check from third-party databases.
Mason is an application-layer investor looking for products that use crypto coordination and ownership to change how large groups of people interact. His work emphasizes stablecoins as global payment infrastructure, peer-to-peer market structures, programmable internet-native capital formation and blockchain becoming invisible infrastructure inside useful consumer and real-world applications.
Co-Founder and Partner
Verda Ventures
Check: Verda's live FAQ says the MiniPay Fund typically invests $100K–$250K initially at earlier stages and $500K–$2M later, seeks roughly 5–10% early ownership and 2–6% later, and can be first check or co-invest. These are current vehicle ranges, not Amit's personal angel checks.
Amit backs fintech companies using stablecoin rails to deliver useful financial products in emerging markets. Verda's MiniPay strategy combines capital with Opera distribution and Celo infrastructure, targeting payments, remittances, identity, banking and consumer applications that can serve underbanked users. The broader thesis is that stablecoins become valuable when embedded invisibly in faster, cheaper and more accessible financial services, not when sold as speculation.
Partner
Hashed
Check: No personal check range is publicly disclosed. A 2022 Notifi investment note identifies a $2.5M pre-seed round led by Hashed, while the firm's 2021 Venture Fund II was $200M; neither figure should be treated as Baek's standard or current personal ticket.
Baek invests in infrastructure and applications that make decentralized systems useful to ordinary users. His writing connects mass adoption to better user experience, privacy-preserving computation, composable open finance, cross-chain communication and hands-on ecosystem building. He favors teams with deep technical foundations that can turn a missing protocol primitive into a broad platform and reach global scale from strong local communities.
Founder & CEO
Distributed Global
Distributed Global invests in blockchain from Estonia, one of Europe's most digitally advanced nations.
Menlo Park
AUM: $7.6B
Nairobi, Kenya
AUM: $50M
Cape Town
AUM: $37M deployed
Beijing
AUM: $42M
Toronto
AUM: $70M
Austin
AUM: $100M target
San Mateo
AUM: $1B+
AUM: $40M
Hong Kong
AUM: $5.3B+
Washington
AUM: $1.5B+
New York
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Berlin
Los Angeles
New York
AUM: $100M
San Francisco
Berlin
New York City
Madrid
Purchase
Toronto
Tallinn, Estonia
AUM: €50M
Austin
Delhi
New York
Toronto
Cape Town
New York
Los Angeles
New York
Berlin
Washington, D.C.
Bonn
Munich
Hong Kong
Toronto
Prague
New York