Top Crypto & Blockchain Investment Funds

Arrington XRP Capital

Summary: Arrington XRP Capital is a digital asset management firm founded by Michael Arrington. With a special love towards Ripple (XRP), Arrington also invest in many other blockchain based companies such as Mainframe, Nexo, and Tera as well as investing in other crypto based funds like, Dekrypt Capital and Dragonfly Capital. 

Founded: 2017

Size: $75 Million AUM

Website: http://arringtonxrpcapital.com/

Contact: Michael Arrington

Email: [email protected]

Paradigm 

Summary: Paradigm is a crypto-focused investment firm based in San Francisco founded by Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam and Sequoia Capital partner Matt Huang. Both founders have extensive experience investing in the cryptocurrency space which shows why Paradigm is one of the biggest crypto investment funds in the world. They invest in many different crypto projects and businesses ranging from the earliest stages all the way to full maturity of a company. 

Founded: 2018

Size: $561 Million AUM

Website: https://www.paradigm.xyz/

Contact: Fred Ehrsam, Matt Huang

Email: [email protected]

Phone: 530-500-2659

Sequoia Capital

Summary: Sequoia Capital is an American Venture Capital Fund founded by Donald T. Valentine. They have a long extensive history worldwide of investing and have operations in the US, Southeast Asia, India, China, and Israel. They have recently started investing into blockchain based companies with their most famous being Robinhood, Polychain Capital, and Band Protocol. The strive to invest in all sectors and push the boundaries of what is possible.  

Founded: 1972

Size: $45 Million AUM

Website: https://www.sequoiacap.com/

Contact: Douglas M. Leone

Phone: 650-854-392 

Benchmark Capital

Summary: Benchmark Capital is a venture capital fund based in San Francisco. Their main focus is early-stage venture investing in many social, mobile, local and software companies. They have invested in more than 250 early stage startups and has paid out over $22 Billion to investors. They are also widely known for creating the first equal ownership and compensation structure for their partners, where each of their six full time partners share profits evenly, creating no difference between their junior partners and senior partners. 

Founded: 1995

Size: $3 Billion AUM

Website: http://www.benchmark.com/

Contact: Bob Kagle

Coinbase Ventures

Summary: Coinbase Ventures founded by Brian Armstrong is an investment branch of Coinbase (the largest US cryptocurrency exchange) that aims to invest in early-stage crypto and blockchain startups. Since launching, they have amassed an massive $1 Billion assets under management and their main goal is to keep investing in blockchain based companies in order to help the space evolve, expand, and mature. 

Founded: 2018

Size: $1 Billion AUM

Website: https://ventures.coinbase.com/

Contact: Brian Armstrong

GV

Summary: GV is a venture fund based in Silicon Valley that provides seed and growth stage funding to companies across all stages and sectors. They focus mainly on artificial intelligence, life sciences, transportation, robotics, and a recent focus on crypto and blockchain based companies. They have invested in more than 300 companies that push the edge of what’s possible. They are also known as Google Ventures and are the venture capital arm of Alphabet, Inc.

Founded: 2008 

Size: $2 Billion AUM

Website: https://www.gv.com/

Contact: David Krane

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gv/

1kx

Summary: 1kx is a token based venture fund that invests in projects with crypto economic incentives to design robust decentralized protocols and applications. They are an early-stage venture fund run by founders Lasse Clausen and Christopher Heymann. Their mission is to be a helpful source of early stage funding for tokenized projects in the crypto and blockchain space.

Founded: 2017 

Size: $50 Million AUM

Website: https://rb.gy/5lhqc6

Contact: Christopher Heymann, Lasse Clausen

Twitter: https://twitter.com/1kxNetwork 

Protocol Ventures

Summary: Protocol Ventures is one of the leading venture funds in the crypto asset space. They have build strong relationships with the top hedge fund managers in the cryptocurrency space and have created a portfolio of funds that invest exclusively in crypto assets and blockchain based projects. They also only allow Qualified Purchasers to invest meaning that only individuals or families with a minimum of $5 million of assets can invest.

Founded: 2017 

Size: $347 Million AUM

Website: https://www.protocolventures.com/

Contact: Nabeel Qadri, Richard Marini

Email: [email protected]

Phone: 415-760-7950

BlueYard Capital 

Summary: BlueYard Capital is a venture capital firm based in Germany that strives to invest in founders with transforming ideas that decentralize the markets and create a more immutable and permanent web. They do this by investing in crypto and blockchain based companies that focus on reinventing the web. Many early stage projects they have invested in include Zeppelin, Protocol Labs, Grid, and Decred, which are projects that focus on exactly what BlueYard Capital is focusing on.

Founded: 2016 

Size: $90 Million AUM

Website: https://blueyard.com/

Contact: Ciarán O'Leary / Jason Whitmire

Twitter: https://twitter.com/blueyard 

AngelList

Summary: AngelList is the leading platform for startups. They help startups by investing in them or helping raise money and can even pair job seekers with startups to help build their teams. Since launching in 2010, AngelList has helped raise over $750M for over 2,000 startups, causing them to become the world’s largest startup community.

Founded: 2010

Size: $1.8 Billion AUM

Website: https://angel.co/

Contact: Babak Nivi, Jason Randolph, Naval Ravikant

Email: [email protected]

Phone: 312-758-7224

SV Angel

Summary: SV Angel is an angel firm based in San Francisco California. They help startups with business development, financing, and other strategic advice. SV Angel mainly invest in software-focused companies spanning the consumer and enterprise. They also have a large chunk of their portfolio invested into crypto companies with their most popular being Coinbase. With a main focus on early-stage investing and seed funding they have formed a very impressive track record.

Founded: 2009 

Size: $95 Million AUM

Website: https://www.svangel.com/

Contact: Ronald Conway

Phone: 650-854-4500 

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sv-angel/

Fenbushi Capital

Summary: Fenbushi Capital is the first and most active blockchain-focused venture capital firm in Asia. Founded by veterans in both blockchain and traditional financial backgrounds, it has to date supported over 60 leading projects across 4 continents leveraging blockchain technology to reshape industries such as finance, healthcare, supply chain, and consumer goods. Fenbushi’s mission is to drive healthy and sustainable growth in the global blockchain ecosystem, and actively works as a long-term strategic partner to its portfolio projects.

Founded: 2015 

Size: $100 Million AUM

Website: http://www.fenbushi.vc/

Contact: Bo Shen

Email: [email protected]  

ConsenSys Ventures

Summary: ConsenSys Ventures is a San Francisco based company that builds blockchain developer tools to be adopted across the Ethereum ecosystem. They have incubated and accelerated many Ethereum startups that are launching products across industries such as finance, law, and supply chain. They are dedicated to supporting companies that transform the world’s digital architecture into a more inclusive and secure Internet of value.

Founded: 2014 

Size: $50 Million AUM

Website: https://consensys.net/

Contact: Andrew Keys, Joseph Lubin

Email: [email protected]

Founders Fund

Summary: Founders Fund is a venture capital fund based in San Francisco, California, that is focused on investing in companies that are building revolutionary technologies in a variety of sectors. The main industries they are invested in are fintech, transportation, and software companies. Founders Fund strives on earning an attractive return by funding positive transformation.

Founded: 2005 

Size: $3 Billion AUM

Website: https://foundersfund.com/

Contact: Ken Howery, Luke Nosek

Phone: 415-230-5800 

Fabric Ventures

Summary: Fabric Ventures is a London based venture capital fund backed by OpenOcean and Firestartr, that adapts the traditional venture capital approach to new scalable and decentralized networks. They have built on OpenOcean’s open source system and Firestartr’s blockchain and seed investing background to back the boldest new revolutionary projects.

Founded: 2017

Size: $110 Million AUM

Website: https://www.fabric.vc/

Contact: Anastasiya Belyaeva, Max Mersch

Email: [email protected]

Amino Capital

Summary: Amino Capital (a.k.a. zPark Capital) is a venture firm based in Palo Alto, focusing on seed to growth-stage investments in big data, and data-driven technologies, including but not limited to IoT, medicine/genomics, AI/BI, drone/UAV, Fintech, security and infrastructure.

Founded: 2012 

Size: $12 Million AUM

Website: www.aminocapital.com

Contact: David Wei, Jun Wu

Email: [email protected]

HCM Capital

Summary: HCM Capital is a world-class private equity investment platform, dedicating in distributed (decentralized) digital economy. They are sponsored by Foxconn Technology Group. And focus on innovative company investments, and supporting exceptional entrepreneurs, they seek to help build growth companies in the next new economies era.

Founded: 2015 

Size: $100 Million AUM

Website: https://www.hcm-foxconn.com/

Contact: Jack Lee

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hcmcapital/ 

Hashed

Summary: Hashes is the preeminent blockchain firm in Asia founded by a team of serial entrepreneurs. They have a large portfolio of blockchain based companies all around the world that strive to help innovate not only the financial system but the internet itself. They are based in Seoul Korea and Silicon Valley California and are committed to backing visionary founders and help startup companies grow.

Founded: 2017 

Size: $25 Million AUM

Website: https://www.hashed.com/

Contact: Simon Seojoon Kim

Email: [email protected]

Phone: +82-70-8866-0193

ZhenFund

Summary: ZhenFund is a seed stage focused venture fund founded by Bob Xu and Victor Wang. They have collaborated with Sequoia Capital China in order to invest in blockchain based companies with innovative technology. They focus heavily on providing revolutionary startups with seed funding in order to guide them to become a fully developed company.

Founded: 2011 

Size: $16 Million AUM

Website: http://www.zhenfund.com/

Contact: Bob Xiaoping Xu, Victor Wang

Email: [email protected]

Scalar Capital

Summary: Scalar Capital is an investment management company specializing in crypto and blockchain assets. They offer customized solutions to institutional investors seeking access to opportunities in the private equity secondary market.

Founded: 2017 

Size: $25 Million AUM

Website: https://scalar.capital/

Contact: Jordan Clifford, Linda Xie

Email: [email protected]

L4 Ventures

Summary: L4 is building Web 3; a decentralized web that removes middlemen and incentivizes users to contribute. We conduct cutting-edge crypto economic research, build core infrastructure, and help projects grow.

Founded: 2017 

Size: $50 Million AUM

Website: https://l4.ventures/

Contact: Liam Horne

Email: [email protected]

HashKey Group

Summary: HashKey Group is an investment group headquartered in Hong Kong, that focuses on investing in digital assets. They are led by a group of experts in the asset management, securities regulation, and blockchain industries and believe that digital tokens and blockchain technology will revolutionize how value is created, captured, and distributed.

Founded: 2018 

Size: $250 Million AUM

Website: https://www.hashkey.com/

Contact: Xiao Feng

Email: [email protected]

Ethereum Community Fund

Summary: The Ethereum Community Fund is a non profit initiative founded by, comprised of, and operated for the community. The goal of the Ethereum Community Fund is to provide both funding and connectivity, while shaping the strategic direction fo the space towards mainstream adoption.

Founded: 2018

Size: $100 Million AUM

Website: https://ecf.network/

Contact: Chris Lema

Email: [email protected]

Continue Capital

Summary: Continue Capital is a venture fund based in San Francisco that excels in investments on digital currency. Their main focus for their investments are startups, private equity and HFT Funds. They also focus on strategic sectors including blockchain industry, innovative science and technologies.

Founded: 2014 

Size: $50 Million AUM

Website: https://continue.capital/

Contact: Hongjiang Li, Xiahong Lin

Email: [email protected]

Dekrypt Capital

Summary: Dekrypt Capital is a leading investment firm focused on blockchain infrastructure, privacy-preserving technologies, and early-stage ventures. We invest in, mentor, and accelerate teams developing novel solutions to address the core issues of scalability, privacy, and interoperability for decentralized protocols and applications.

Founded: 2017 

Size: $3 Million AUM

Website: http://dekrypt.capital/

Contact: Howard Wu, Jack Baumruk, Jon Allen, Ronen Kirsh

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dekrypt-capital/

Collaborative Fund

Summary: Collaborative Fund is the leading source of capital for entrepreneurs pushing the world forward. They are based in New York City and San Francisco and are an investment fund focused on supporting and investing in the shared future. The fund centers around two macro themes which will be driving business innovations in the coming years with the growth of the creative class and the concept of collaborative consumption.

Founded: 2010 

Size: $300 Million AUM

Website: https://www.collaborativefund.com/

Contact: Ian Friedman

Email: [email protected]

Matrix Partners

Summary: Matrix Partners is an early-stage venture capital fund based in San Francisco and Boston. For over 40 years they have backed founders building companies across business-to-business, infrastructure, and consumer technology. They have 110 profitable acquisitions, 65+ IPO’s, $4 Billion invested, and 80% funded by non-profits. They guide early stage companies from early stage seed funding all the way to series B.

Founded: 1977 

Size: $4 Billion AUM

Website: https://www.matrixpartners.com/

Contact: Paul J. Ferri

Email: [email protected]

NGC Ventures

Summary: NGC Ventures is a venture capital fund based in Shanghai, Singapore, and San Francisco. They strive to push mass adoption of crypto and blockchain based companies by backing the startups they invest in with seed funding and guide them to eventually become fully developed companies. Some notable companies they have invested in are KuCoin, Mainframe, and Bitsdaq

Founded: 2017 

Size: $400 Million AUM

Website: https://www.ngc.fund/home

Contact: Tony Tao

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ngcventures/

CME Ventures

Summary: CME Ventures is a subsidiary of CME Group (the largest financial derivatives exchange). CME Ventures seeks out early stage companies with revolutionary technologies and brings them seed funding and guidance to propel them to growth. They also seek companies with technologies that can impact platforms and systems, enhance user experience and provide new products and services for the financial ecosystem of the future.

Founded: 2013 

Size: $5 Billion AUM

Website: https://www.cmegroup.com/cme-ventures.html

Contact: Terrence A. Duffy

Phone: 312-930-1000 

Ceyuan Ventures

Summary: CeYuan Ventures is a Beijing-based early stage venture capital firm focused on IT and emerging growth companies. They emphasize backing great teams, technology and business innovation. Their mission is to assist entrepreneurs in creating and building world-class businesses. Their conviction, network of relationships and grass roots culture give us the opportunity to discover the next big idea early.

Founded: 2004 

Size: $93 Million AUM

Website: http://www.ceyuan.com/

Contact: Bo Feng

Email: [email protected]

Phone: +86 10 84028800

FreeS Fund

Summary: FreeS Fund is a venture capital firm based in China and the USA. Their main focus is early stage investment in revolutionary technology companies. They specialize in crypto and blockchain based companies and help guide the companies from early stage to fully developed companies by leveraging their cutting-edge technologies and resources.

Founded: 2015 

Size: $100 Million AUM

Website: https://www.freesvc.com/

Contact: Feng Li

Email: [email protected]  

Breyer Capital

Summary: Breyer Capital is a premiere global venture capital and private equity investment firm focused on catalyzing high-impact entrepreneurs in the US and China. Their team frames strategic investments anchored by the passion of founders, their network of world-class investors, and a conviction that artificial intelligence and machine learning will transform technology and investment opportunities globally.

Founded: 2006 

Size: $12 Million AUM

Website: https://breyercapital.com/

Contact: Jim Breyer

Email: [email protected]

Dragonfly Capital Partners

Summary: Dragonfly Capital is a venture capital fund based in San Francisco, California. They primarily focus on investing in and supporting the most promising and revolutionary opportunities in the cryptoasset class. They help bring startup projects from the early-stage projects into fully developed crypto and blockchain based companies.

Founded: 2018 

Size: $100 Million AUM

Website: https://www.dcp.capital/

Contact: Bo Feng

Email: [email protected]

Blockchain Capital

Summary: Blockchain Capital is a pioneer and a leading venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California. They primarily focus on building their portfolio around blockchain enabled technology companies. They are diligent about making thoughtful investments by doing deep research and developing investment frameworks 24/7. Since opening their doors, they have made over 90 investments in companies and protocols in the blockchain sector and have amassed an impressive $300 Million in assets under management.

Founded: 2013 

Size: $300 Million AUM

Website: https://blockchain.capital/

Contact: P Bart Stephens, W Bradford Stephens

Email: [email protected] 

Placeholder VC

Summary: Placeholder VC is a thesis-driven venture capital firm based in the Greater New York Area. They invest in open blockchain networks and related Web3 infrastructure. When they invest they think in terms of funding reams, and funding networks which are both different kinds of investing but are both essential to long-term network success.

Founded: 2018 

Size: $110 MillionAUM

Website: https://www.placeholder.vc/

Contact: Chris Burniske, Joel Monegro

Phone: 929-244-9167 

General Catalyst

Summary: General Catalyst is a venture capital firm that makes early-stage and transformational investments. They like to invest in fearless entrepreneurs who are building foundational enterprise technologies and ubiquitous consumer brands. They pull out all the stops to help them realize their vision so that we may return value to their own investor and the foundations and endowments that make the world a better place through education, research, vital health care, and social work.

Founded: 2000 

Size: $158 Million AUM

Website: https://www.generalcatalyst.com/

Contact: David Fialkow, David Orfao

Email: [email protected]

Phone: 212-775-4000

Initialized Capital

Summary: Initialize Capital is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California. They focus on early stage investing in crypto and blockchain based companies. They help guide new startups from the early stage seed funding all the way to fully developed companies. They have helped more than 6,000 startups and currency have more than 200 companies in their portfolio.

Founded: 2011 

Size: $500 Million AUM

Website: https://initialized.com/

Contact: Alexis Ohanian, Garry Tan

Email: [email protected]

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Summary: Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. They engage in the consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets. They focus primarily in seed, early stage, later stage, expansion stage, start-up, growth companies, and incubation and have specialized in debt financing for start-up and growth companies.

Founded: 2000 

Size: $65 Million AUM

Website: https://lsvp.com/

Contact: Barry Eggers

Email: [email protected]

DHVC

Summary: DHVC is a venture capital fund that invests primarily in early stage and growth stage companies with disruptive technology/business models. The fund's areas of focus include Artificial Intelligence, AR/VR, Big Data, Blockchain, Enterprise Software and other innovative technologies. DHVC has a professional investment team with exceptional academic, industry and investment backgrounds and the founding team has been working together for over 10 years. They bring together a unique combination of education/research/entrepreneurship/capital market, extensive network in both Silicon Valley and China, and in-depth knowledge in cutting-edge technologies. Backed by top-notch institutional and strategic partners, DHVC aims to provide startup companies with a wide range of resources to achieve greater success on a global scale.

Founded: 2013 

Size: $800 Million AUM

Website: https://www.dh.vc/

Contact: Andrew Gu, Shoucheng Zhang

Email: [email protected]

Craft Ventures

Summary: Craft Ventures is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, focusing on technology and cryptocurrency. It was established in 2017 by David O. Sacks and Bill Lee. Its first investment was leading a series A round for Bird, a scooter sharing company, in February of 2018. “The fund is called Craft, which represents our view that company building is a craft that we've learned over the course of founding four companies with successful exits.” -  David O. Sacks

Founded: 2017 

Size: $350 Million AUM

Website: https://www.craftventures.com/

Contact: Jessica Hoffman

Email: [email protected]

Electric Capital

Summary: Electric Capital is a crypto asset management firm. They invest in tokens that are Programmable Money. They invest in both liquid and illiquid tokens that are emerging stores of value and rooted in novel technology. Electric Capital is started by technology entrepreneurs, engineers, and successful investors. Prior to Electric Capital, they started six companies (five acquired), invested in 100+ technology startups with a cumulative market cap in the tens of billions, and served as executives at technology companies such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter. They have been investing personally in cryptocurrencies since 2013 and were early believers in Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Monero.

Founded: 2013 

Size: $50 Million AUM

Website: https://www.electriccapital.com/

Contact: Avichal Garg, Maria Xinhe Shen

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/electric-capital/ 

Boost VC

Summary: Boost VC is a venture capital fund based in San Francisco, California. They believe that Sci-Fi narratives drive innovation so they are building an ecosystem of Sci-Fi visionaries and future leaders. They invest $500k into Sci-Fi startups and help guide them from early stage startups to fully developed companies. They believe that entrepreneurs come in all shapes and sizes, and that the best founders have diverse perspectives, growth mindsets, and the ability to solve big challenges by thinking outside-the-box.

Founded: 2012 

Size: $95 Million AUM

Website: https://www.boost.vc/

Contact: Adam Draper, Brayton Williams

Email: [email protected]

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/boost-vc/

Bain Capital Ventures

Summary: Bain Capital Ventures is a venture capital firm based in the Greater Boston Area. They focus on investing in seed to growth-stage startups that are using tech to disrupt existing markets or create entirely new ones. They are an affiliate of Bain Capital, a leading alternative investment firm with unparalleled access to Fortune 5000 companies.

Founded: 1984 

Size: $5 Billion AUM

Website: https://www.baincapitalventures.com/

Contact: James Nahirny

Email: [email protected]

DRW Venture Capital

Summary: DRW is an arm of principal trading firm DRW. They are a venture capital firm that invests primarily in financial and enterprise technology. They help their companies benefit by providing engagement beyond capital, as a client and liquidity provider, through their review of new products and deep industry experience.

Founded: 2014  

Size: $10 Million AUM

Website: https://drwvc.com/

Contact: Don Wilson

Email: [email protected]

Phone: +1 (312) 542 1000

Kindred Ventures

Summary: Kindred Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital fund based in San Francisco, California. They are dedicated to supporting world-changing startups and the kindred spirits who create them. They have a large focus on crypto and blockchain based companies with some popular ones being, Coinbase, Bitski, and Cointracker.

Founded: 2014 

Size: $45 Million AUM

Website: https://kindredventures.com/

Contact: Steve Jang

Email: [email protected]

BlockTower

Summary: BlockTower Capital is the leading cryptocurrency investment firm, bringing professional trading and portfolio management to an emerging digital asset class. BlockTower consists of a team of investors, engineers, data scientists, operators and risk managers focused on stewarding capital and helping to responsibly build this globally-connected market and industry.

Founded: 2017 

Size: $30 Million AUM

Website: https://www.blocktower.com/

Contact: Ari Paul

Phone: 203-989-3661 

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/blocktower/

Compound VC

Summary: Compound is a thesis-driven seed stage venture firm investing in bleeding edge technology on the brink of commercialization. They’ve partnered with thought leaders that understand the intricacies of many different industries and various components especially in crypto and blockchain based companies.

Founded: 2008 

Size: $3 Million AUM

Website: https://compound.vc/

Contact: David Hirsch

Email: [email protected]

FundersClub

Summary: FunderClub is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California. They are the leading source for the world’s best startups. They are focused on building their fund around a diverse set of highly accomplished business and technology leaders and have currently funded over 320 startups and have build their portfolio to an impressive $20 billion valuation. They have a large focus on crypto and blockchain based companies with their most popular being in Coinbase (the leading U.S Cryptocurrency Exchange).

Founded: 2012 

Size: $20 Billion AUM

Website: https://fundersclub.com/

Contact: Alex Mittal, Boris Silver

Email: [email protected]

Phone: 888-405-9335

Future Perfect Ventures

Summary: Future Perfect Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund based in NYC partnering with entrepreneurs who are humanizing data. Their fund consist of a wide variety of cutting edge startups in the crypto and blockchain industry that will transform the internet as we know it. Their founding partner Jalak Jobanputra has a long history of investing success and was awarded institutional investor’s most powerful fintech dealmakers from 2016-2018.

Founded: 2014 

Size: $25 Million AUM

Website: https://futureperfectventures.com/

Contact: Jalak Jobanputra

Email: [email protected]

RRE Ventures

Summary: RRE Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York. They have a large track record of success in the venture capital industry with a primary focus on offering early-stage funding to software, internet, and communications companies. Their portfolio consist of many blockchain based companies with a main focus on blockchain fintech companies with revolutionary technology to revamp the current financial industry.

Founded: 1994 

Size: $78 Million AUM

Website: https://rre.com/

Contact: Jim Robinson, Stuart Ellman

Email: [email protected]

Phone: (212) 418-5100

Fidelity Digital Assets

Summary: Fidelity Digital Assets in an investment branch of Fidelity Investments one of the top 10 investment banks in the world. They created Fidelity Digital Assets since they envision a future where all types of assets are issued natively on blockchains and represented in a tokenized format. They provide Offline vaulted deep-cold storage, trade execution venue integrated with their custody platform, and dedicated client support teams. They strive to bring digital assets to the world of institutional investing.

Founded: 2018 

Size: $3 Trillion AUM

Website: https://www.fidelitydigitalassets.com/overview

Contact: Abigail Johnson

Phone: 1 (800) 343-3548  

KR1

Summary: KR1 is Europe’s leading digital asset investment company. They support early stage decentralized and open source blockchain projects. They were founded in 2016 and have been a notable first investor in many key crypto projects that will power the decentralised platforms and protocols that form the emerging Web3 infrastructure.

Founded: 2016 

Size: $40 Million AUM

Website: https://www.kryptonite1.co/

Contact: Keld van Schreven

Email: [email protected]

PreAngel

Summary: PreAngel is a venture capital fund based in Asia. They are primarily focused on angel and seed stage investing for startups in the technology and blockchain based industries. They have a large portion of their investments in crypto and blockchain startups that strive to revolutionize the tech and finance industry. PreAngels main goal is to provide early stage projects the funding they need to grow and innovate the world.

Founded: 2011 

Size: $30 Million AUM

Website: https://pre-angel.com/

Contact: Huan LI, Lijie Wang

Email: [email protected]​

Phone: +928 336 2000

Coefficient Ventures

Summary: Coefficient Ventures is a truly global blockchain fund that focuses on equal allocation of capital to innovations in the blockchain industry. Portfolio including Zeppelin, Thunder, Nucypher, Mycrypto, Certik, Numeriai, Urbit, Tari, Origo, Mainframe and IoTex and over 30 investments globally. Founder Chance Du is a serial entrepreneur and well known investor and influencer in cryptocurrency space globally with the strong backers and LPs network in major players across Asian and US.

Founded: 2017 

Size: $20 Million AUM

Website: https://www.coefficientventures.com/

Contact: Chance Du

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coefficient-ventures/ 

Kenetic Capital

Summary: Kenetic is a blockchain firm committed to expanding the development and adoption of blockchain technology through investments, advisory services, markets and trading. They believe in building a sustainable community around blockchain, and have built a world-class team and network of partners across our platform of services. Their mission is to support the growth of Blockchain through investment, advisory, technical development, and most of all community. They highly value Protocols, Platforms and Infrastructure, and support projects and opportunities that reflect these goals.

Founded: 1997 

Size: $65 Million AUM

Website: http://www.kineticcapitalpartners.com/

Contact: Frank Barker

Email: [email protected]

Phone: 604.692.2530

8 Decimal Capital

Summary: 8 Decimal is a multi-strategy investment firm focused on both token and equity investments founded by Yubo Ruan. 8 Decimal currently manages $60M with 30+ portfolio companies. The core investing team consists of 10+ venture capital veterans, researchers, and trading professionals based in San Francisco, Beijing and Hong Kong.

Founded: 2017 

Size: $60 Million AUM

Website: http://www.8dcapital.com/

Contact: Yubo Ruan

Email: [email protected]

BlockVC

Summary: BlockVC is a leading blockchain investment firm. BlockVC is an acknowledged leader around the globe and committed to the pursuit of opportunities in blockchain industry. BlockVC focuses on mapping their investment themes into a systematic matrix: infrastructure protocols, application protocols and financial services. BlockVC offers full life-cycle solutions including incubating and asset management to their portfolio that have global impacts. They have strategic alliances in Singapore, London and Silicon Valley sharing the best insights and resources in order to deliver sustainable value.

Founded: 2016 

Size: $30 Million AUM

Website: https://www.blockvc.com/

Contact: Kevin Hsu, Kira Sun

Email: [email protected]

BTC Media

Summary: BTC Media is a Bitcoin media group based in the Southern US. They strive to provide education and information through their family of products and services and to keep pushing for mainstream adoption of blockchain based media services. They have leveraged blockchain technology to become the largest bitcoin media group in the world.

Founded: 2014 

Size: $20 Million AUM

Website: https://b.tc/

Contact: Andrew DeSantis, David Bailey, Tyler Evans

Email: [email protected]

Fundamental Labs

Summary: Fundamental Labs is a leading venture capital firm that focuses exclusively on blockchain tech, digital infrastructure, and open finance networks. They incubate, build and invest a diversified blockchain portfolio which brings fundamental value to a better ecosystem.

Founded: 2016 

Size: $510 Million AUM

Website: https://fundamentallabs.com/

Contact: Yuan

Email: [email protected]

Outlier Ventures

Summary: Founded in 2014, Outlier Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on blockchain and decentralised ledger technology. They are investing at the convergence of blockchains with artificial intelligence, the internet of things and robotics. They view blockchains and other decentralised tools like tokens as a new data layer for the internet enabling other technologies like AI and IoT to combine and converge.

Founded: 2014

Size: $10 Million AUM

Website: https://outlierventures.io/

Contact: Aron van Ammers, Jamie Burke

Email: [email protected]

Node Capital

Summary: Node Capital is one of the world's earliest professional investment institutions focusing on the blockchain industry. They aim to connect every node of the blockchain industry by project investment and cooperation, building a robust industry ecosystem, and accelerating the development of blockchain industry. They have invested in nearly 200 projects with a portfolio that encompasses projects from every corner of the blockchain ecosystem.

Founded: 2017 

Size: $38 Million AUM

Website: http://www.nodecap.com/

Contact: Jun Du

Email: [email protected]cap.com

GBIC

Summary: Global Blockchain Innovative Capital (GBIC) is a multi-strategy crypto fund based in New York, Seoul, and Shanghai. They are a international fund that pushes development and accelerates growth in many early stage blockchain based projects. Their main focus for their portfolio are blockchain companies, digital assets, and distributed ledger technology.

Founded: 2017 

Size: $100 Million AUM

Website: http://gbic.io/

Contact: Richard Lee

Email: [email protected]

SVK Crypto

Summary: SVK Crypto is a community-driven firm based in London focused on Blockchain Technologies. They are actively investing in revolutionary early stage projects and liquid digital assets in blockchain based companies. SVK Crypto also brings portfolio and risk management principles to an emerging digital asset class whilst recognizing the power of the community

Founded: 2018 

Size: $50 Million AUM

Website: https://www.svkcrypto.com/

Contact: Hugh Cochrane, Shane Kehoe

Email: [email protected]

Chain Capital

Summary: Chain Capital is a financial investment firm based in Shanghai, China. They specialize in investing projects in Blockchain and offer incubation, advisory, and financial services for the companies. They are committed to becoming the world's most professional blockchain investment company by providing early stage projects with the funding they need to take them to the next level. Chain Capital strives to help become a big resource that helps bring mainstream adoption to the blockchain industry.

Founded: 2015 

Size: $70 Million AUM

Website: http://capital-chain.com/

Contact: Simon Li

Email: [email protected]

Phone: 888-884-0111

Multicoin Capital

Summary: Multicoin Capital is a venture capital fund based in the US. Their mission is to accelerate the transition from the centralized institutions of the industrial age to the decentralized institutions of the internet age. They focus primarily on blockchain based companies and provide seed funding for many early stage startups. Their portfolio consist of many blockchain based companies comprised of cutting edge technology designed to innovate and redesign the internet as we know it.

Founded: 2017

Size: $110 Million AUM

Website: https://multicoin.capital/

Contact: Kyle Samani, Tushar Jain

Email: [email protected]

LinkVC

Summary: LinkVc is a new venture Capital firm based in Singapore, Canada, Hong Kong and Shenzhen. They are currently focused on working with blockchains, digital money and Internet financial services investments and projects. They are a passionate, ambitious, dreaming team with team members from domestic first-class Internet companies and financial services companies.

Founded: 2016 

Size: $22 Million AUM

Website: http://www.linkvc.com/

Contact: Jiapeng Lin

Email: [email protected]

Walden Bridge Capital 

Summary: Walden Bridge Capital is a crypto asset investment firm based in Chicago. They are crypto-economist, developers, and algorithmic traders committed to supporting the Internet of Value. They provide early stage projects with seed funding to accelerate growth in the companies. They have invested in many blockchain based projects helping aid their success and push for mass adoption of blockchain technology

Founded: 2017 

Size: $50 Million AUM

Website: https://waldenbridge.capital/

Contact: Peter Marshall

Phone: (312) 796-3435

INBlockchain

Summary: INBlockchain is one of the most globally influential investment groups in the blockchain space. They are among the largest global holders of Bitcoin and are early investors in many innovative and meaningful blockchain applications. They help provide many startups with seed funding to help get out of the early stage and push towards becoming a fully developed company.

Founded: 2011 

Size: $20 Million AUM

Website: http://www.inblockchain.com/

Contact: Lao Mao

Phone: 844-517-3111

DFJ

Summary: DFJ Venture Capital, a venture capital firm founded in 1985, focuses on seed, venture and growth stage investments in enterprise, consumer, and disruptive technologies. They also focus on late-stage global funding to help companies in all stages progress to the next level.

Founded: 2006 

Size: $12 Million AUM

Website: http://dfjgrowth.com/

Contact: John Fisher

Email: [email protected]

Phone: (650) 233-9000

Bixin Capital

Summary: Bixin Capital is a crypto venture fund based in Beijing, China. Bixin has made blockchain investments in more than two dozen companies including Blockcloud, Certik, PChain, and Nervos. They are devoted to discover the most promising projects in the blockchain revolution and to help provide them the resources needed to grow fast.

Founded: 2014 

Size: $100 Million AUM

Website: http://bixincapital.com/

Contact: Jie Du

Email: [email protected]

Winklevoss Capital

Summary: Winklevoss Capital is a venture capital fund based in New York City. They are focused primarily on cryptocurrencies and blockchain based companies. The fund is run by the world famous Winklevoss Twins who amassed a $1 Billion net worth after the bitcoin bull run in 2017. They are also the founders of Gemini Exchange which is one of the leading bitcoin exchanges in the world. This firm invests across multiple assets classes with an emphasis on providing seed funding and infrastructure to early-stage startups.

Founded: 2012 

Size: $1 Billion AUM

Website: https://winklevosscapital.com/

Contact: Tyler Winklevoss, Cameron Winklevoss

Email: [email protected]

JRR Crypto

Summary: JRR Crypto is an investment fund based in Shanghai. They specialize in cryptoasset and blockchain based companies. JRR Crypto provides seed funding for early stage crypto projects and helps provide the resources necessary for growth. They are devoted to becoming the “Goldman Sachs” in the digital world by developing blockchain based investment banking. 

Founded: 2018

Size: $82 Million AUM

Website: https://www.jrrcrypto.com/ 

Contact: Ran Wei

Email: [email protected] 

Signum Capital

Summary: Signum Capital is a Singapore-based firm that exclusively invests in Blockchain-enabled companies. Their mission is to realize the future of the Blockchain economy by investing in game changing projects and companies. They also participate in Pre-sale stages of Token Generation Events, Initial Coin Offerings and Equity investments.

Founded: 2017 

Size: $36 Million AUM

Website: https://www.signum.capital/

Contact: John

Email: ​[email protected]

Sora Ventures

Summary: Sora Ventures is a venture capital fund based in Hong Kong. They are Asia’s first crypto-backed venture capital firm dedicated to blockchain and digital currency investments. Sora Ventures adopts an entirely new venture model designed to scale blockchain community and help transition blockchain projects into the business world.

Founded: 2018 

Size: $12 Million AUM

Website: http://www.sora.vc/

Contact: Jason Fang

Email: [email protected]

Slow Ventures

Summary: Slow Ventures is a San Francisco based venture fund that invests in companies central to the technology industry and those on the edges of science, society, and culture. With a community built on collective experience and fueled by curiosity, Slow understands the entrepreneurial journey. They help by funding early stage tech and blockchain companies with the funding needed in order to accelerate growth and guide them on the path to success

Founded: 2009 

Size: $165 Million AUM

Website: http://www.slow.co/

Contact: Dave Morin

LD Capital

Summary: LD Capital is the most reputable investment firm in China focusing on Blockchain Investment, Securities, Equity Investment and Trading. Owing to industrial resource advantages and professional investment research team, LD Capital has successively discovered and invested in more than 100 companies. LD Capital overall achieved more than 100 times return with peak self-owned assets of nearly 1 billion US dollars.

Founded: 2017 

Size: $225 Million AUM

Website: https://ldcap.com/

Contact: Lihua Yi

Email: [email protected]

Version One

Summary: Version One is a venture capital firm based in Canada. They are an early stage investing firm focused primarily on blockchain based companies, consumer internet, SaaS, and mobile entrepreneurs. They have investments in over 50 companies and over 10 years of experience in venture capital. Their core beliefs guide their investments and they actively share their learnings and viewpoints to help today’s innovators make a difference.

Founded: 2007 

Size: $65 Million AUM

Website: https://versionone.vc/

Contact: Boris Wertz

Email: [email protected] 

Yeoman's Capital

Summary: Yeoman’s Capital is one of the most active early-stage investors in the space of blockchain. Based in Austin Texas, United States, they specialize in projects that are Decentralized, Open-Source, Tokenized and World-Changing. Their goal is to help support companies that are committed to building the new decentralized world.

Founded: 2018 

Size: $200 Million AUM

Website: https://www.yeomans.capital/

Contact: David A. Johnston

Email: [email protected]

AlphaCoin Fund

Summary: AlphaCoin Fund is a Singapore-based fund focused on blockchain startups and crypto asset investments. Leveraging its global presence and resources in the blockchain industry, its mission is to provide venture capital, marketing and post-financing services to support sound blockchain startups around the world.

Founded: 2017 

Size: $60 Million AUM

Website: https://www.linkedin.com/company/alphacoin/about/

Contact: Frank Mo

Lemniscap

Summary: Lemniscap is an investment firm specialising in investments in emerging cryptoassets & blockchain startups. They believe blockchain technology will upend traditional business models, resulting in profound changes in the world economy. Their singular goal is to drive this transformation to a more decentralised and transparent future.

Founded: 2001 

Size: $100 Million AUM

Website: https://lemniscap.com/

Contact: Roderik van der Graaf

Email: [email protected]

Youbi Capital

Summary: Youbi Capital is a private equity fund investing in Blockchain technologies and disruptive decentralized business applications. The firm is committed to long-term value investment in the Blockchain ecosystem and has invested in more than 20 next-generation Blockchain technologies.

Founded: 2017 

Size: $60 Million AUM

Website: http://www.youbicapital.com/

Contact: Chen Li

Email: [email protected]

Vy Capital 

Summary: Vy Capital is a global venture capital fund founded in 2013 and based in Dubai. They focus exclusively on the internet and software and especially on blockchain based companies. They provide initial seed funding for the companies in order to guide them to become fully developed companies.

Founded: 2013 

Size: $354 Million AUM

Website: https://www.vycapital.com/

Contact: Alexander Tamas

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vy-capital/about/ 

Layer1

Summary: Layer1 builds turnkey, fully-integrated Bitcoin mining data centers that boost the profitability of energy assets and improve the reliability of electrical grids. The company's technology enables unique value creation through the innovative integration of energy systems with high-performance computing.

Founded: 2018 

Size: $50 Million AUM

Website: https://www.layer1.com/

Contact: Alexander Liegl

Email: [email protected]

Circle Fund

Summary: Circle Fund is Asia's first compliant crypto fund. They have more than five years of experience in both the primary and secondary blockchain industry markets and have a team of investors with decades of experience in securities, commodity, and currency trading. Circle Fund has consistently succeeded in outperforming its peers with its innovative investment strategy. Unlike other funds, which have been more hesitant to invest in the crypto market, Circle Fund is trusting in the increasingly efficient blockchain technology stack and taking an aggressive, quantitative approach to investing in the market.

Founded: 2020 

Size: $50 Million AUM

Website: https://www.circlefund.com

Contact: Vanessa Cao

Email: [email protected]

Draper Dragon

Summary: DFJ DragonFund was the joint venture between the internationally recognized venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) and DragonVenture. They are an early stage fund looking for companies with innovative technologies and business models in Silicon Valley and China. With their unique depth of experience and knowledge, their team can add value and resources in a broad manner and as a member of the Draper Venture Network, they draw upon the substantial resources and capabilities developed over two decades of venture capital investing.

Founded: 2006 

Size: $18 Million AUM

Website: http://www.draperdragon.com/

Contact: Bobby Chao

Email: [email protected]

June Fund

Summary: June Fund is a global technology investor that invests into new paradigms across all stages. The firm is taking a macro-thematic view on technological progress and new economic models. It backs entrepreneurial genius that builds products which the world needs.

Founded: 2017 

Size: $6 Million AUM

Website: https://june.fund/

Contact: David Rosskamp

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/junefund/about/ 

Gumi Cryptos

Summary: Gumi Cryptos is a venture capital fund based in San Francisco. They focus and specialize primarily on crypto and blockchain based companies. Gumi Cryptos is dedicated to investing in promising early stage pre seed companies broadly across the crypto asset and blockchain space while offering them unique access to the Japan cryptocurrency market.

Founded: 2018 

Size: $30 Million AUM

Website: https://www.gumi-cryptos.com/

Contact: Rui Zhang

Email: [email protected]

Hard Yaka

Summary: Hard Yaka is a venture capital fund based in San Francisco. They make early round investments in exchange space startups and blockchain tech companies. They prioritize focus on portable identity, payments, and marketplaces necessary for digital transformation and have over 150 investments in revolutionary tech and blockchain based companies.

Founded: 2010 

Size: $70 Million AUM

Website: https://hardyaka.com/

Contact: Greg Kidd

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hard-yaka

Milestone VC

Summary: Milestone VC is of one the leading venture capital firms in China. They focus on crypto and blockchain based companies and provide full early stage funding for innovative crypto tech startups. They have a majority of their portfolio invested in many popular crypto companies such as Ethereum, Ontology, 1Token, and WinTrader. Their goal is to provide support to blockchain based startups and push for mainstream adoption of blockchain technology.

Founded: 2011 

Size: $100 Million AUM

Website: http://milestonevc.com/index.html

Contact: Junjun Sun

Email: [email protected]

zk Capital

Summary: zk Capital is a research focused blockchain investment firm that strives to invest in teams that understand the network effects of research collaboration in order to become much more effective. zk Capital provides financing and mentoring to startups while also allowing access into their extensive network. Since zk Capital believes in strong foundations, working with them will force your company to push past the boundaries of today's technologies.

Founded: 2017 

Size: $28 Million AUM

Website: https://www.zk.capital/

Contact: Mohamed Elkasstawi

Email: [email protected]