MEV

13 VCs and 9 funds investing in MEV

VCs investing in MEV

Dan Robinson

General Partner & Head of Research

88%

Paradigm

DeFi mechanism design, AMM theory, MEV research. Novel financial primitives and their mathematical foundations.

SeedSeries A

Yerui Zhang

Investment Director

86%

HashKey Capital

Check: No verified personal check-size range is published. HashKey Capital operates multiple venture, liquid, and multi-strategy vehicles; fund size and disclosed portfolio rounds should not be converted into Yerui's individual authority.

Yerui is a HashKey investment director with documented fund-committee responsibility and a contributor to the firm's technical sector research. The research evaluates infrastructure and applications across ZK, MEV, intents, account abstraction, data availability, Bitcoin, AI x crypto, DePIN, staking, and related Web3 layers. The consistent lens is whether technical design improves transaction flow, verifiability, capital efficiency, decentralization, and real demand.

SeedSeries AEarly Stage

Jonah Burian

Investor

85%

Blockchain Capital

Check: No personal check range or deal authority is disclosed. Jonah is an Investor focused on research and new opportunities at a multi-stage firm; public work and academic research demonstrate thesis depth, not a standard individual ticket.

Jonah studies where value and power accrue as crypto infrastructure matures. He argues that open rails can unbundle closed payment networks; user-owning applications can compress infrastructure margins; software agents may erase human-facing UX moats or create entirely new machine activity; and corporate-controlled chains impose platform and distribution risks on builders. His technical work extends to MEV, execution tickets and protocol value distribution.

ResearchSeedEarly Stage

Jonah Burian

Investor

85%

Blockchain Capital

ResearchSeedEarly Stage

Matt Huang

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

85%

Paradigm

Backs transformative crypto protocols and infrastructure. Crypto is the most important tech revolution since the internet.

SeedSeries ASeries B

Gleb Dudka

Principal

83%

Greenfield Capital

Check: Not publicly disclosed. Greenfield has led and joined pre-seed, seed, and Series A rounds, but public round sizes are not personal or firm check sizes.

Gleb leads Greenfield's DeFi work, combining protocol research, infrastructure operating experience, and deal execution. His current research emphasizes capital-efficient and safer liquidity architecture, intent-based execution, MEV and sequencing, and go-to-market systems that convert speculative launch capital into durable protocol use. Greenfield's broader mandate is to back early developer teams building an open, decentralized, and robust web across private, public, and liquid opportunities.

Pre-SeedSeedSeries A

Spencer Applebaum

General Partner, Co-Head of Venture

77%

Multicoin Capital

Solana ecosystem, DeFi, DePIN. High-performance blockchain applications.

SeedSeries AVenture

Tom Schmidt

General Partner

74%

Dragonfly

Early-stage crypto investor at Dragonfly with deep DeFi expertise. Focuses on novel financial primitives and infrastructure that expands what's possible in decentralized finance.

SeedSeries A

Tarun Chitra

Managing Partner

72%

Robot Ventures

Rigorous quantitative approach to crypto investing at Robot Ventures. Applies mathematical modeling and simulation to evaluate DeFi protocols and crypto systems.

Pre-seedSeedSeries A

Rob Hadick

General Partner

70%

Dragonfly

Investing in crypto infrastructure and security at Dragonfly. Focuses on foundational technology that makes crypto safer and more scalable.

SeedSeries ASeries B

Matt Stephenson

Partner

62%

Pantera Capital

Applies rigorous economic theory and mechanism design to crypto investing. Focuses on projects where game theory and incentive alignment are core to the value proposition.

SeedSeries ASeries B