2 VCs and 1 funds investing in NFT Infrastructure
General Partner
Lightspeed Faction
Check: No personal check-size range is published. Faction invests at Seed and Series A through both equity and tokens; the firm's reported fund size and company round totals are not Banafsheh's personal range.
Banafsheh backs early blockchain companies and token networks that create fundamental utility. Her public discussions emphasize the infrastructure or 'plumbing' of crypto, globally relevant financial systems, and matching an application to the chain whose security, performance, and ecosystem fit its use case. Her personal motivation is informed by seeing how broken banking and state-controlled money affect people outside stable financial systems.
Partner
Zee Prime Capital
Check: No reliable current personal or firm check range is publicly stated by Fiskantes or Zee Prime. A 2022 interview reported a $35M Zee Prime II fund, but fund size is not a check size and should not be used as one.
Fiskantes hunts for mispriced frontier ideas before they become legible to consensus. His recurring lens combines market psychology, memes and reflexivity with technical necessity: invest in original teams, infrastructure or applications that can capture sustained attention, create a real moat or unlock a new behavior. More recently he has broadened this pattern into AI hardware, AI cybersecurity and entertainment while remaining attentive to DeFi, privacy and crypto market structure.