6 VCs and 11 funds investing in Market Structure
Head of Franklin Crypto
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.
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
Electric Capital
Check: Not applicable as a disclosed personal venture check range. Electric's current biography says Sanjay focuses on liquid crypto portfolio management, trading and DeFi strategies. The firm's public $1M–$15M+ venture range should not be attributed to his liquid-market role.
Sanjay's stated remit is liquid crypto portfolio management across trading and DeFi strategies. His combination of consulting, company-building and graduate technical/business training suggests an operator-aware approach to market opportunity, execution and risk, but Electric has not published a more granular personal thesis or list of venture investments.
Head of Treasury
Inception Capital
Check: Not applicable as a published personal mandate: Felix Ke's current role is Head of Treasury, and Inception does not disclose a firm check-size range on its website.
Felix leads treasury for Inception Capital. His official biography highlights quantitative trading and early-stage venture experience, but the firm does not publish a current direct-investment mandate or personal thesis for him.
Investor
Electric Capital
Check: Electric Capital publishes a firm-level $1M–$15M+ range from pre-seed through Series A. Trevor's current page gives no personal check range, deal attribution or mandate detail beyond Investor, so the firm range must not be presented as his individual authority.
Trevor applies a long quantitative-investing background to Electric's engineer-led frontier-technology mandate. His prior roles across multi-strategy, retirement, institutional asset-management and index-investing organizations support a lens grounded in data, portfolio construction and risk. Electric has not published a more specific personal thesis, so sector detail beyond the firm mandate remains appropriately limited.
Co-Founder
Archetype
Focuses on open network builders and new market structures. Believes in backing founders building protocol-level infrastructure and novel token economic models that create entirely new markets.
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