Stablecoins

Kosmos Ventures

Check: No Lucas-specific check range is public. A current OpenVC search profile lists Kosmos at $100K–$1M, while Kosmos's own live material confirms Seed/Pre-Seed as its co-building focus but publishes no check size. Treat $100K–$1M as third-party firm guidance only; confirm allocation, instrument, ownership and decision-maker directly with Lucas and the team.

Lucas looks for early, non-consensus crypto opportunities through an active-user and market-structure lens. He believes decentralized markets can democratize finance and that money increasingly follows user attention into consumer applications; the strongest products earn the right to embed financial rails after establishing loyalty or differentiated utility. His research also emphasizes liquidity regimes, onchain evidence, derivatives market structure, security and Kosmos's broader ability to bootstrap durable network effects through product/token design, governance, community and quantified mechanism design.

Mercy Corps Ventures (Web3)

Investing in blockchain and digital finance for emerging markets development at Mercy Corps Ventures. Focused on crypto solutions for financial inclusion and humanitarian applications.

a16z crypto

Check: No personal check-size range is published. The official profile's aggregate fund-raising figure and public financing announcements describe firm resources and transactions, not Chris's individual authority or a reliable minimum/maximum check.

Chris invests behind blockchains as a new computing and ownership primitive for the internet. His core thesis is that token-enabled networks can align builders, users, and owners; bootstrap network effects; replace extractive corporate platforms with open, composable economies; and eventually support both financial and non-financial applications. He treats the category as a decades-long infrastructure-to-applications transition rather than a short market cycle.

HongShan

Check: No current person-specific HSG check size is publicly disclosed. Historical Pantera work spans early-stage through growth, but those prior fund parameters should not be assumed to apply to his HSG role.

Nihal's current HSG mandate is not yet public, so the defensible personal thesis comes from his prior first-person and attributed work: blockchain can extend open finance and coordination into payments, tokenization, consumer applications and open AI; early-stage decisions remain founder-led, with resilience through market cycles, practical utility and strong local-market understanding carrying more weight than hype.

a16z crypto

Check: No personal check-size range is published. Public seed, Series A, and later financing amounts are company-level transaction sizes and are not a defensible proxy for Guy's individual range or allocation authority.

Guy invests across the crypto stack with a technical focus on infrastructure, DeFi, and decentralized physical infrastructure. He looks for blockchains to coordinate markets that centralized intermediaries serve poorly—compute, energy, telecom, transportation, credit, and global finance—and for open protocols whose incentives unlock latent capacity, lower coordination costs, and compound through interoperability and composability.

Varrock VC

Check: $600K–$900K at pre-seed and seed, published on Varrock's live website. The fund targets a small, concentrated portfolio, commonly 0–1 new investment per quarter, to maintain ownership and hands-on capacity rather than spray and pray.

Richard backs concentrated, contrarian pre-seed and seed bets in the future of finance. For crypto-native products, he looks for category creation, missionary founders, power-user retention and continuous zero-to-one product innovation. For crypto-adjacent companies, crypto should be an enabling feature inside a much larger industry, led by commercially strong domain experts with superior distribution and unit economics rather than recent crypto pivots.

The Spartan Group

Check: No personal check-size or allocation authority is published. Spartan Capital manages liquid, DeFi, gaming/metaverse, and market-neutral funds; the firm's $500M stated AUM and portfolio activity are not a personal check range for José.

José researches and evaluates liquid and protocol opportunities for Spartan Capital. His work focuses on crypto becoming financial infrastructure: stablecoin adoption, yield markets, institutional use of public DeFi, tokenized equities and commodities, high-performance onchain exchanges, intents, and autonomous-agent payments. He pairs narrative inflection points with measurable supply, transfer volume, fees, TVL, open interest, protocol revenue, and live institutional usage.

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.

RockawayX

Check: No Ryan-specific venture check range is public. For RockawayX's Catapult program, the firm says it writes first checks into RWA-yield founders and can add anchor TVL, liquidity, DeFi integrations and mentorship; founders should ask directly about round-specific sizing.

Ryan looks for crypto investments where differentiated, alpha-generative research reveals something the consensus has missed and where tokens or equities can be underwritten with traction and fundamentals. At RockawayX he invests around yield onchain, DeFi and RWA infrastructure while retaining a contrarian interest in experimental consumer finance and entertainment-finance products that can become sticky, high-margin categories.

Greenfield Capital

Check: No personal check-size range is published. Greenfield invests across pre-seed through later stages, while Christian's stated responsibility is implementing investment decisions rather than owning a public personal allocation range.

Christian applies transaction, regulatory, and policy expertise to executing Greenfield's crypto investments. His work argues for clear decentralization standards, practical token tax treatment, open institutional access to digital assets, and privacy-preserving crypto infrastructure that reconciles public networks with legitimate personal and institutional confidentiality.

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.

Greenfield Capital

Check: No personal check-size range is published. Greenfield's venture mandate spans pre-seed through later stages; financing amounts in Felix's investment essays are company-round totals, not personal limits.

Felix uses research and market data to identify durable crypto infrastructure and distinguish fundamental adoption from speculation. His work favors protocols with measurable usage, revenue or value accrual; secure programmable ownership; credible governance; and infrastructure that connects decentralized finance with institutional and real-world assets.

a16z crypto

Check: a16z crypto does not publish a reliable personal check range for Liz. Her public deal writing spans seed leadership and large later financings, so founders should confirm vehicle, stage, allocation, ownership target, lead/co-lead role, token/equity structure, and reserves with the team.

Liz focuses on the picks-and-shovels and decentralized infrastructure that let crypto mature into useful, open economic systems. Her authored investment work emphasizes market infrastructure for increasingly sophisticated prediction-market traders, interoperable stablecoin clearing, productive Bitcoin collateral, and regulated programmable accounts for autonomous software. Her earlier metaverse framework favors decentralization, durable property rights, self-sovereign identity, composability, open source, community ownership, and social immersion.

Big Pi Ventures

Check: Big Pi publishes a firm-wide equity-ticket range of €0.5M–€30M across its early-stage and growth funds; its early-stage Fund II described €1M–€3M lead investments. These are firm parameters, not Vassilis's personal allocation range.

Vassilis brings a blockchain ecosystem and go-to-market lens to Big Pi's technology investing. His public work emphasizes the transition from crypto trading toward usable infrastructure: privacy-preserving institutional networks, interoperable bank deposits, Ethereum applications, zero-knowledge systems, stablecoins, and real-world financial workflows. This sits within Big Pi's broader preference for defensible technology, global markets, and teams that can translate technical invention into commercial products.

Eterna Capital

Check: $250K–$1M indicated by current investor directories, with roughly $500K described as a sweet spot. Eterna's own live site confirms a global, early-stage mandate but does not publish a check range, so founders should verify current size, reserves, instrument and lead appetite directly. Eterna has publicly co-led at least one pre-seed round (Stoffel Labs).

Nassim invests where decentralized protocols, programmable value layers and AI-native infrastructure converge to reshape the internet. His work connects crypto's ownership and market primitives to broad economic utility: tokenization and stablecoins that improve access and liquidity, privacy-preserving computation that makes sensitive applications possible, authenticated data for AI and blockchain, and technical infrastructure capable of moving from inception through real products, sustainable business models and network-effect communities.

CV VC

Check: CV VC's published early-stage program invests up to $500,000 in qualifying pre-seed and seed companies with an MVP and initial traction. This is a firm program limit, not Lukas's personal allocation range; other vehicles and follow-ons may differ.

Lukas backs early frontier-technology companies building a decentralized and tokenized economy, with a current emphasis on traditional businesses moving onto blockchain rails and the convergence of blockchain with AI. He favors working products with measurable utility, economic or social impact, and operationally credible paths from early traction to institutional or global adoption.

Hashdex

Check: Samir is a public/liquid-markets asset manager rather than a disclosed venture check writer. Hashdex publishes fund and index methodologies, not a personal startup check range; pitches should concern investable assets, indexes, products, research, or institutional partnerships rather than assume venture capital authority.

Samir views crypto as a long-horizon technology and asset-class allocation rather than a short-term trade. His framework has two complementary pillars: bitcoin maturing as a scarce store of value and macro asset, and smart-contract networks becoming financial infrastructure for stablecoins, tokenization, payments, DeFi, and staking. He favors diversified, transparent, rules-based access to mature liquid assets and evaluates adoption through economic utility, network effects, market infrastructure, regulatory progress, and portfolio contribution.

Lattice Fund

Check: $250K–$1M from pre-seed through Series A, per Lattice's current official approach page. The firm says it invests globally, makes fast independent decisions and seeks non-consensus companies at their earliest stages.

Mike backs infrastructure, networks and applications that make money, markets and scarce resources more open. He originated Lattice's 2022 Token-Incentivized Physical Infrastructure Networks thesis and has since applied it to distributed energy, bandwidth, mobility and data. His broader lens favors open-source coordination, useful demand and real economic flows over closed networks or reflexive token speculation.

ARK Invest

Check: Not applicable as a personal founder check. Raye is a digital-assets research associate supporting ARK's managed investment strategies; the cited sources do not establish personal venture check-writing authority or a standard startup ticket.

Raye analyzes how cryptoassets can disrupt legacy financial systems, with particular depth in stablecoin architecture and DeFi application economics. He evaluates networks and tokens through reserves, legal claims, peg resilience, governance, accessibility, incentives and value capture, while tracking the shift of economic activity from base layers toward applications such as exchanges, lending, cards, prediction markets and tokenized assets.

Paradigm

Check: No personal check range or decision authority is published. Paradigm invests from first check through public markets, but Caitlin's current collaborator status and the firm's capital base do not establish an individual check size.

Caitlin is a Paradigm venture partner and Stripe zero-to-one strategist whose published investment perspective centers on crypto's ability to improve online coordination and create internet-native economies. Her current Paradigm work is best understood as a collaborator and ecosystem/talent lens, with stated interest in markets, incentive design, distributed systems, developer tooling, applications, and agentic commerce.

V3V Ventures

Check: No Stanko-specific check range is public. A current third-party V3V profile reports a firm-level typical range of $100K–$1M at pre-seed/seed, while public round databases describe the larger rounds V3V joins rather than its own checks. Treat $100K–$1M as directional and confirm instrument, allocation and follow-on capacity directly.

Stanko invests in early-stage software, digital infrastructure and emerging technology, with a strong Web3 focus and an engineer's bias toward difficult, foundational systems. His current public filter is a move away from narratives toward measurable fundamentals: real products, revenue, product traction, user retention and sustainable business models. Within crypto he highlights infrastructure, stablecoin and payment rails, institutional adoption, DeFi, cross-chain systems and the decentralized-AI stack across compute, storage, data, models and applications. V3V pairs capital with architecture, GTM, distribution and follow-on fundraising support.

Blockchain Capital

Check: No personal or venture-partner check range is published. Blockchain Capital's announced financing rounds and Tare's seed round are transaction sizes, not a reliable proxy for Lucas's individual authority.

Lucas specializes in rebuilding credit and capital markets on shared blockchain infrastructure. His operating record points to tokenized funds, real-world assets, institutional DeFi, and end-to-end lending systems that reduce reconciliation and intermediary costs. He emphasizes that tokenization alone is insufficient: assets need credible legal and operational structures, actual buyer demand, liquidity, and composable market infrastructure for lending and trading.

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.

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.

Paradigm

Check: Paradigm invests at every stage, from first check through public markets. Its fourth fund is $1.2 billion, but neither the firm nor Alana publishes a personal check range; the fund size is therefore not treated as her check authority.

Alana co-leads a research- and builder-led strategy that backs ambitious technical founders from first check through public markets. Paradigm began in crypto and now targets the fastest-moving technology frontiers, including AI, robotics, advanced manufacturing, autonomous systems, space and defense, while continuing to invest in crypto-native markets and financial infrastructure.

ParaFi Capital

Check: No personal check range is publicly disclosed. ParaFi's private-markets strategy backs early- and growth-stage companies and protocols, but firm AUM and individual transactions should not be converted into a presumed standard ticket or unilateral authority.

Josh focuses on blockchain infrastructure that can replace costly financial plumbing and connect digital assets to large, existing pools of economic activity. His public work highlights stablecoins for cross-border B2B payments, savings and remittances; tokenization and institutional adoption; protocol and application value capture; and capital-markets structures around Bitcoin and crypto treasuries. He evaluates opportunities through addressable volume, concrete workflow pain, distribution and operational implementation.

No Limit Holdings

Check: No Brian-specific or official current check range is public. NLH Fund II is positioned to lead early-stage native-crypto investments, and the firm's disclosed portfolio spans pre-seed, seed, strategic and Series A rounds. Round totals are not personal check sizes; founders should ask Brian or the firm about current sizing and instrument.

Brian invests in early-stage blockchain infrastructure and crypto-native businesses where a protocol or token can coordinate a real resource, market or financial rail. His recent work looks beyond defensive crypto narratives toward useful infrastructure: quantum-compute orchestration, verifiable markets for scarce compute, stablecoin wrappers that bring differentiated private-credit yield onchain, decentralized ownership for an AI-heavy economy and businesses whose utility can survive the collapse of undifferentiated L1 monetary premium.

HashKey Capital

Check: No reliable personal check range or individual signing authority is public. Jin Ming Neo is a research associate, so founders should treat HashKey Capital's fund strategy—not a directory estimate—as the relevant context and confirm stage, allocation, lead role, ownership, token/equity structure, and decision process with the investment team.

Jin Ming Neo contributes to broad, research-led sector evaluation across Web3. HashKey's coauthored 1H 2024 analysis favors teams with defined technical advantages, credible go-to-market, or proven execution; AI and DePIN infrastructure with real demand; sustainable Bitcoin utility; institution-grade trading, staking, lending, stablecoin, and derivatives infrastructure; and products that solve ecosystem maturity, adoption, liquidity, or user-experience constraints.

Woodstock Fund

Check: Woodstock does not publish a personal check range for Prashanth on its site. Third-party databases estimate firm ranges, but those estimates and portfolio round sizes are not treated as evidence of his individual authority.

Prashanth works within Woodstock's research-led early- and growth-stage Web3 strategy. The firm's three lenses are convergence, financialisation, and virtualisation: interoperable infrastructure that links web3 with traditional and emerging technology; regulated, risk-managed financial rails that bring real users and sticky capital onchain; and gaming or creator experiences where virtual ownership improves the product. His institutional background is especially relevant to capital markets, regulation, risk, and the bridge between traditional finance and digital assets.

Collider Ventures

Check: No reliable official current check range was found. Collider publicly describes itself as an early-stage Web3 investor and accepts pitches at invest@collider.vc; third-party directory estimates conflict, so founders should confirm current vehicle, stage and sizing directly.

Eylon connects two decentralization theses: crypto-native individual sovereignty that minimizes centralized authority through technology, and Web3 collective empowerment that democratizes ownership and access. In practice he looks for non-consensus early-stage infrastructure capable of moving capital formation, markets and digital ownership onchain while remaining alert to the new choke points, governance hierarchies and risk created by ostensibly permissionless systems.

Lightspeed Faction

Check: No personal check-size range is published. Faction invests at Seed and Series A using equity and tokens; its fund commitments and disclosed financing totals should not be interpreted as Samuel's standard check.

Samuel backs early crypto infrastructure and protocols that make blockchain useful at scale. His public focus includes wallets, brokerages, developer tools, remittances, stablecoin and payment rails, and other foundational systems. He combines a long-duration belief in blockchain with a pragmatic demand for real utility, technically credible teams, and precise execution through volatile market cycles.

UDHC

Check: Coulter has publicly said UDHC writes checks from pre-seed through Series A. A verified OpenVC firm profile lists $50K–$2M as UDHC's first-check range and says the firm sometimes leads; treat that as directory-level firm guidance rather than a Coulter-specific commitment, and confirm current size and ownership directly.

Coulter works with UDHC's early-stage onchain-finance portfolio, applying a marketing and communications lens to companies that can connect crypto-native infrastructure with the traditional financial system. The firm's public strategy emphasizes useful onchain financial products, strong user experience, regulatory awareness, transparency and a credible path toward decentralization; Coulter's specific contribution is helping technical teams turn those qualities into positioning, community and go-to-market execution.

ether.fi Ventures

Check: $500K–$1M, from a current public ether.fi Ventures fundraising statement. The live site positions Fund I at pre-seed through Series A and publishes ventures@ether.fi. Confirm allocation, instrument, ownership target and whether the fund will lead; the current site says $20M committed capital while the April 2025 launch post described $40M, so fund-size headlines should not be used to infer check capacity.

David backs technical, early-stage teams at the intersection of finance, AI and crypto that pair crypto-native properties with real adoption. His clearest current thesis is a two-layer build: first achieve web2-grade safety, recourse, fraud prevention and consumer experience; then use composability, programmable money, non-custodial ownership, transparency and global 24/7 access to deliver step-change utility. He favors strategic partnerships where ether.fi's users, liquidity, validator capacity and distribution materially improve a company's odds—not passive capital alone.

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.

Hack VC

Check: No personal or standard ticket is published. Hack VC is an earliest-stage investor and its articles identify the firm as leading rounds at pre-seed, seed and Series A; announced round leadership does not reveal Rodney's individual check authority.

Rodney backs technical infrastructure that removes adoption bottlenecks for high-value crypto use cases. His work favors modular, open AI stacks that solve data, compute and availability; stablecoin chains that make the payment asset itself the gas and abstract crypto friction; and DeFi ecosystems whose consensus, liquidity and incentives align applications, validators and users. He looks for strong teams, correct problem selection and evidence of compounding ecosystem traction.

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.

CoinFund

Check: No standard personal ticket is published. CoinFund's 2026 articles identify the firm as lead on Trace's $32M Series A and Edge Markets' $29M Series A, with George authoring or contributing to the theses; round size is not equivalent to CoinFund's check or George's authority.

George looks for open, permissionless systems that expand financial access and remove cost, delay and gatekeeping from payments and DeFi. His writing starts with sharp workflow pain—especially cross-border settlement, prefunding, last-mile liquidity and fragmented banking rails—then tests whether stablecoins and high-throughput networks produce a simpler product for non-crypto-native users. He also tracks financial rails for prediction markets and other emerging on-chain venues.

Blockchain Capital

Check: No personal check range or unilateral authority is publicly disclosed. Blockchain Capital is a multi-stage investor in equity and crypto assets; its September 2026 NG.CASH article announces a $15M BCAP investment, but that figure is a specific firm investment co-authored with a GP, not Anay's standard ticket.

Anay focuses on the intersection of consumer behavior and crypto. Her work favors products that hide blockchain complexity inside a trusted, culturally native experience: mobile-first financial platforms for underserved young users, stablecoins embedded in existing distribution, and portable social identity that lets communities create specialized software without restarting their networks. At seed, she weights founder character and learning velocity above a rigid initial thesis.

Inception Capital

Check: Inception does not publish a David-specific check range on its live site. A 2026 interview described an $80M platform split between a $50M venture fund and $30M fund-of-funds, but vehicle size is not personal check size. Founders should ask directly about current round, ownership and reserve fit.

David runs a dual strategy: direct early-stage venture investments and backing emerging fund managers, sometimes through management-company or GP stakes. His edge is an East-West network connecting U.S. innovation and institutional capital with Asian adoption, builders and liquidity. He favors globally trained founders, emerging-market financial infrastructure and long-duration themes such as stablecoins, tokenization, automated finance and the intersection of AI and Web3.

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.

Blockchain Capital

Check: No verified personal check-size range is published. Blockchain Capital describes itself as a multi-stage crypto investor; Yuan's public work spans seed-stage selection through later protocol and company support, but no individual allocation authority should be inferred.

Yuan backs crypto-native founders with earned insight, behavioral resilience, learning velocity, and the ability to translate non-consensus ideas into enduring systems. His technical work spans modular infrastructure, cryptographic acceleration, token economics, and network utility; his consumer work emphasizes distribution through existing behavior and trusted platforms. His latest framework looks for crypto companies that exploit a temporary market gap, build a self-reinforcing growth loop, and graduate that advantage into durable trust, integrations, liquidity, compliance, or consumer-grade product.

Multicoin Capital

Open finance and tokenization. Strong views on stablecoins, DePIN, and crypto in emerging markets.

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.

CV VC

Check: CV VC's current founder page states that the firm invests up to $500,000 in pre-seed and seed companies with an MVP, initial traction, a pilot product, and revenue. No separate personal check range is published for David.

David backs early-stage frontier-technology companies that make enterprise intelligence programmable or rebuild how value and trust move. CV VC's current strategy centers on automation, intelligent B2B, and digital finance, with AI-native software and blockchain acting as complementary foundations. His own public commentary emphasizes useful infrastructure over speculation, safe movement of capital into innovation, institutional adoption, durable systems, and globally relevant companies formed in Europe, the United States, or the Middle East.

Electric Capital

Check: Electric Capital publicly advertises firm-level checks of $1M–$15M+ from pre-seed through Series A. No personal range or unilateral authority is disclosed for Geoff, so that firm range should be treated as routing context rather than his individual ticket.

Geoff brings mechanism design, computational finance and systems engineering to frontier-technology investing. His work on ad auctions, algorithmic trading, rates derivatives and the SCION internet architecture creates a lens for markets where incentives, network structure and technical reliability interact. His attributed stablecoin dashboard emphasizes actual usage—wallets, flows, chains and issuer competition—rather than supply headlines alone.

Lightspeed Faction

Check: Faction does not publish a standard check range or Will's personal allocation authority. Its official mandate is Seed and Series A, using equity and tokens; observed round sizes are not check-size evidence.

Will invests in useful early-stage blockchain projects across equity and tokens. His public Meld thesis highlights infrastructure that connects traditional money and crypto: simple, compliant, developer-friendly access to stablecoins and digital assets across markets. The broader Faction framework favors long-term utility, ambitious founders, and systems where blockchain materially changes financial or computing coordination.

CoinFund

Check: No verified personal check-size range is published. CoinFund attributes pre-seed, seed, and Series A deals to Einar, but disclosed round totals are company financings and not his personal allocation authority.

Einar backs foundational technology that decentralizes scarce AI resources or rebuilds financial rails onchain. His portfolio connects open compute and model ownership, verifiable AI, permanent data, cross-chain liquidity, stablecoin payments, and institutional prediction-market infrastructure. He favors technically ambitious early teams addressing a structural bottleneck, with a credible path from an initial developer or institutional wedge to an open network that scales access, freedom, and knowledge.

ParaFi Capital

Check: No personal venture check range is disclosed. Kevin leads quantitative strategies and technology development inside a multi-strategy manager spanning public and private markets; founders should not infer a standard venture ticket or sole decision authority from the Partner title.

Kevin approaches digital assets as both a quantitative portfolio manager and a systems builder. His remit joins non-directional and fundamental market strategies with production technology, while his public discussions cover stablecoin risk, institutional adoption and the engineering of blockchain infrastructure. The through-line is measurable market behavior, robust implementation and portfolio construction rather than a venture-only mandate.

Hivemind Capital

Check: Hivemind invests across pre-seed through Series B; typical venture checks $500K-$5M with capacity to lead

Phillips's overarching thesis is bridging the on-chain and off-chain worlds, primarily through market infrastructure — the 'unsexy backbone' of stablecoins, settlement rails, custody, tokenization, and institutional plumbing that lets traditional capital flow into and through crypto. She is bullish on regulated stablecoins paired with cross-border payments, on Bitcoin-native DeFi unlocking yield for BTC holders, and on AI agents becoming first-class economic actors on-chain (including as buyers of NFTs and other digital assets). Within Hivemind's '9 themes for 2025' framework, her work spans stablecoins, derivatives infrastructure, app-chain L1/L2 dynamics, and the broader institutionalization of crypto. Her framing is institutional and risk-aware — Hivemind explicitly pairs crypto-native expertise with institutional-grade risk management.

Lightspeed Faction

Check: Faction does not publish a standard check range or Clara's personal allocation authority. Its official mandate is Seed and Series A investments across equity and tokens; public round sizes must not be mistaken for Faction's check size.

Clara invests within Faction's early-stage, crypto-native mandate: Seed and Series A projects across the stack, in equity or tokens, that create fundamental utility and push the industry forward. Public portfolio tracking associates her with Fiamma, Pharos, and FLock.io, signaling interest in Bitcoin cryptography, high-performance blockchain infrastructure, and decentralized AI; those associations are treated as portfolio signals rather than a complete personal mandate.

CMT Digital

Check: Firm-level public estimate: $100K-$5M; typical check around $1.5M

Ilag is CMT Digital's Investment Partner and Head of Asia, investing through the firm's early-stage blockchain strategy. His published Tazapay thesis favors full-stack cross-border payment infrastructure that connects real-time local rails with stablecoins while directly owning licensing, liquidity, compliance, and settlement complexity.

Wintermute Ventures

Check: Wintermute Ventures currently publishes flexible $500K–$5M+ global investments, primarily Seed and Series A, using proprietary capital and often leading or co-leading. This is a firm range—not Yoann's personal promise—and the firm also makes selective later-stage investments.

Yoann brings high-frequency trading, hedge-fund and family-office experience to a proprietary-capital venture platform built around Wintermute's market infrastructure. The firm backs category-defining financial and enterprise technologies across the crypto value chain where its trading, liquidity, governance, integration and treasury expertise can materially accelerate long-term adoption.

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.

Maven 11 Capital

Check: Maven 11 does not publish Darius's personal check range or decision authority. Third-party investor databases estimate ranges, but those figures are not treated as verified evidence. The current firm describes an early-stage venture strategy without attaching a check range to him.

Darius works within Maven 11's crypto-native, early-stage strategy. The firm backs technically fluent founders who challenge the status quo by redefining ownership through open, inclusive, permissionless networks. Its current third-fund focus has shifted from foundational rails toward founders using those rails to reinvent credit, payments, stablecoins, and trading. Darius's own public comments emphasize extensive research into the actual product and business case rather than following a crowded token market.

Haun Ventures

Check: No reliable Chris-specific ticket range is public. Haun invests from seed through scale and announced $1 billion of new early- and later-stage capital in May 2026; round evidence includes leading or co-leading seed, Series A and an $82M growth financing, but round size is not the same as Haun's check.

Chris backs community-led and crypto-enabled businesses where open technology creates a durable advantage and a credible business model. His work focuses on the infrastructure of globally programmable finance—stablecoin payments and FX, secure blockspace, onchain real-world assets, business accounts, custody and long-duration Bitcoin products—while testing whether governance, monetization and scale mechanics actually fit the product.

North Island Ventures

Check: $500K–$5M for early-stage companies, published on NIV's current portfolio page. This is a firm range, not a personal signing limit or promise from Greg.

Greg invests within NIV's enabling-technology thesis: as AI makes intelligence abundant, back the scarce complements that compound—financial rails for machines, sovereignty over assets and data, trusted distribution, physical infrastructure and hard-to-replicate institutions. His Galaxy investing and entertainment operating experience provide a lens on crypto markets, consumer attention and distribution, but no individual sector mandate is publicly stated.

North Island Ventures

Check: $500K–$5M for early-stage companies, according to NIV's current portfolio page. This is the firm's published range, not Kushagra's personal approval limit.

Kushagra invests within NIV's abundance-meets-scarcity framework across agentic finance, sovereign AI, new markets and frontier institutions. His mix of liquid-crypto research, venture scouting and payments product work is particularly relevant to projects that must connect token economics and market structure to a usable product, although NIV has not published an individual mandate for him.

HashKey Capital

Check: Not publicly disclosed. HashKey Capital invests through venture and liquid strategies across the blockchain ecosystem; founders should confirm vehicle and sizing directly.

Ryan's public investing perspective joins crypto-native opportunity with institutional finance and regulatory execution. He treats rising scrutiny as evidence of a maturing market and argues that sustainable blockchain businesses must balance innovation with compliance, engage regulators proactively, and build infrastructure that can connect institutions, founders, developers, and users across Asian and global markets.

CMT Digital

Check: $100K-$5M; public directory sweet spot approximately $1.5M

Hallene takes a generalist, early-stage approach within blockchain, spanning DeFi, stablecoins and payments, DePIN, sector-specific chains, and core infrastructure. Public interviews emphasize portfolio construction, long-term founder relationships, and the conviction that more global financial activity will move onto blockchain rails.

CMT Digital

Check: No official standard check size or personal approval limit is published. CMT Digital closed Fund IV at $136M in November 2025 and described it as an early-stage vehicle for blockchain infrastructure and applications; that fund size should not be converted into a presumed ticket for Doug.

Doug invests where crypto improves financial-market reach and capital efficiency, with Asia as a primary growth market. His Tazapay thesis favors full-stack payment infrastructure that owns licenses, liquidity, compliance and local rails while integrating stablecoins invisibly. More broadly, he is underwriting stablecoins, tokenized equities, perpetuals and prediction markets as extensions of markets beyond legacy geographic and operating constraints.

Hack VC

Check: No personal check range is publicly disclosed. Hack VC says it partners at the earliest stages across crypto, AI and frontier technology, and the firm led GAIB's seed round; neither the round nor third-party ticket estimates establish Herbie's standard or unilateral check authority.

Herbie invests at the intersection of crypto, AI and productive infrastructure. His GAIB thesis treats compute as a scarce commodity that can become an investable, yield-producing on-chain asset, financing cloud and data-center growth while opening participation in AI economics. His prior fund-building and advisory work across Asia supports a cross-border ecosystem lens as well as a founder/operator perspective.

HashKey Capital

Check: Firm-level public estimate: typically $1M-$5M, varying by stage and opportunity

Xiao looks for durable, real-use-case crypto products that can bring users from Web2 into Web3 and survive multiple market cycles. Public interviews show a broad mandate across DeFi, gaming, stablecoins, and AI, with especially strong interest in DePIN and real-world-asset tokenization, as well as Ethereum and Layer 2 ecosystems.

Castle Island Ventures

Bitcoin infrastructure, stablecoins, and crypto data analytics. Known for Bitcoin advocacy and UTXO research.

Circle Ventures

Leads Circle Ventures, investing in the USDC ecosystem and projects that advance digital dollar adoption worldwide.

Formerly the creator of Terra/Luna, focused on algorithmic stablecoins and DeFi infrastructure. Currently facing legal proceedings related to Terra's collapse.

Pantera Capital

Check: No person-specific check size is publicly disclosed. Pantera says its venture strategy typically invests Seed through Series B and leads or co-leads; commercial directory estimates were not used.

Public evidence supports a Pantera-wide, not Matt-specific, mandate: multi-stage blockchain venture and token exposure with follow-on capital for companies that demonstrate product-market fit. Matt's documented background is strongest in global macro trading, quantitative portfolio analysis, risk and firm operations; no personal sector manifesto was found.

Castle Island Ventures

Bitcoin infrastructure, stablecoins, and pragmatic crypto investing.

1kx

Gate Ventures

Saison Capital

GSR

Outlier Ventures

Sigma Capital

Superscrypt

Onigiri Capital

Onigiri Capital

a16z crypto

Mirana Ventures

Foresight Ventures

HTX Ventures

Blockchain Capital

San Francisco

AUM: $2.5B

Circle Ventures

Boston

Castle Island Ventures

Cambridge

AUM: $250M

Robot Ventures

San Francisco

Galaxy Ventures

New York City

AUM: $175M+

GSR

Global / Singapore / New York / London

MEXC Ventures

Singapore

AUM: $300M

Onigiri Capital

Singapore / Asia

17Sigma

Buenos Aires

AUM: $30M

468 Capital

Berlin

AUM: $400M

8VC

Austin

AUM: $6B

ABN AMRO Ventures

Amsterdam

AUM: €150M

Accion Venture Lab

Cambridge

AUM: $61.6M

Acrew Capital

San Francisco

AUM: $1.7B+

AlbionVC

London

AUM: $1B

Apis Partners

London

AUM: $2.3B

Brand New Retail Initiative Fund

Tokyo

AUM: ¥10B

Crowberry Capital

Reykjavik

AUM: €90M

Digital Horizon

George Town

AUM: $350M

Gilgamesh Ventures

New York

AUM: $20M

GnosisVC

Zug

AUM: $40M

Granite Asia

Singapore

AUM: $8.5B

Helios Investment Partners

London

AUM: $3B+

Hyperithm

Tokyo

Launch Africa Ventures

Trianon

AUM: $36M

Life Design Fund

Tokyo

AUM: ¥3B

Life.SREDA VC

Singapore

AUM: $140M+

LoftyInc Capital

Lagos

AUM: $43M first close

Marina Bay Labs

Singapore

AUM: $250M

Metcalfe Capital

Berkeley

AUM: $45M

Mouro Capital

London

AUM: $1B+

Plan B Fund

Lugano

AUM: CHF 100M+

Re7 Capital

London

AUM: $1B

The Venture Dept.

New York

AUM: $5.1M

UTXO Management

Nashville, United States

Vision Plus Capital

Hangzhou

AUM: $2B

i-nest capital

Tokyo

AUM: ¥73B

Abstract Ventures

San Francisco

AUM: $1.8B

Anthemis Group

AUM: $1.2B

Arche Capital

Austin

AUM: $100M target

BlackWood

Copenhagen

AUM: $25M

CommerzVentures

AUM: €550M

FirstCheck Africa

AUM: $10M

Flashpoint Capital

Riga

AUM: $600M

Flybridge

New York

AUM: $1B

Foresight Ventures

Singapore

HongShan

ICONIQ Capital

San Francisco

AUM: $100B+

Lisk EMpower Fund

AUM: $15M

MNCi

AUM: $1M

MiniPay Fund

AUM: $40M

Oak HC/FT

AUM: $5.3B+

Pierpaolo Barbieri

Buenos Aires

AUM: $30M

RTP Global

New York City

AUM: $3B+

Rabo Corporate Venturing

Utrecht

AUM: €275M

SUMISEI INNOVATION FUND

AUM: ¥8B

Sky9 Capital

San Francisco

AUM: $2B

Stronghold Capital

AUM: $100M

White Star Capital Digital Asset Fund

United States / Canada / Europe / UAE

01VC

Shanghai

13o3 Crypto Fund I

New York

AX Ventures

Hong Kong

Accolade Partners

AUM: $1.3B

Activant Capital

Greenwich

Al Mada Ventures

AUM: $110M

Anna Yuan

Chicago

Audacity Fund

San Francisco

BECO Capital

Dubai

Better Tomorrow Ventures

San Francisco

Bitcoin Frontier Fund

New York

Blossom Capital

London

Blue Pool Capital

Hong Kong

Breyer Capital

Austin

Brilliance 3.0

Tel Aviv

COTU Ventures

AUM: $54M

Canal Ventures

Tokyo

Commerce Ventures

San Francisco

Contour Venture Partners

New York

Cumberland

Chicago

Cyberstarts

Tel Aviv

Daniel Lev

Chicago

Dark Horse Venture Partners

New York

Declaration Partners

AUM: $2.0B

Digital Space Ventures

Luxembourg

Distributed Capital Partners

West Palm Beach

Eastern Bell Capital

Shanghai

Endeavor Catalyst

New York

FINTOP Capital

Nashville

First Block Capital

Vancouver

FirstMark

New York

Flourish Ventures

San Francisco

G-20 Group

Zurich

GMO AI & Crypto

Tokyo

GMO AI & Web3

Tokyo

Garuda Ventures

San Francisco

Globelink Investment

Shanghai

Goldcrest Capital

New York

Greenoaks Capital

San Francisco

Hart Lambur

Ottawa