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Top 50 Cryptocurrency Startup Investors in Switzerland in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Cryptocurrency startups based in Switzerland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Cryptocurrency companies from Switzerland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Cryptocurrency Startup Investors in Switzerland in January 2026

Investor	Cryptocurrency Switzerland investments
Blockchain Founders Fund	9
Soheila Yalpani	5
Coinbase Ventures	5
Danny Hayes	5
Blockwall	4
Gnosis	4
1kx	4
Bloccelerate VC	3
AP Capital	3
The Pontinova Circle	3
Hashkey Exchange	3
KR1	3
Side Door Ventures	3
VentureSouq	3
Cetacean Capital	3
FunFair Ventures	3
Cadenza Ventures	3
Chainfir Capital	3
Marc P. Bernegger	2
Uniswap Labs	2
Big Brain Holdings	2
G1 Ventures	2
Adrian Locher	2
SALT Fund	2
SICPA	2
Shopify	2
Swiss Post	2
Futurecraft Ventures	2
Ryan Selkis	2
Shima Capital	2
Avaloq	2
Union Square Ventures	2
Triton Capital	2
Aly Madhavji	2
Circle	2
GS Futures	2
Metamatic Group	2
FiveT Fintech (formerly Avaloq Ventures)	2
SBI Digital Asset Holdings	2
Rahul Sethuram	2
Semantic Ventures	2
Hayden Adams	2
Distributed Global	2
Paradigm	2
NeueCapital Partners	2
Atlantic Labs	2
Swisscom	2
Delta Blockchain Fund	2
O-DE Capital Partners	2
GSR	2

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We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

KINO — KINO is a film production company that brings fans behind the scenes of their favorite hollywood films.
Renaissance — Renaissance allows artists to amplify their streaming traction and tap into a community of their super fans.
Virtualtech Frontier — Virtualtech Frontier develops business processes through virtual reality technology. It operates virtual event platforms, metaverse services, and virtual reality solutions. Virtualtech Frontier was founded in 2021 and is based in Selangor, Malaysia.

oheila is an entrepreneur with C-team leadership experience on project management and pre-master planning of large-scale smart, resilient green infrastructure projects.

Investment focus

Consulting, Sustainability, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Mountain Gate — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
TerraScale Systems — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
Climate Transition Swiss AG — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.

Coinbase Ventures is an investment arm of Coinbase that aims to invest in seed-stage cryptocurrency and blockchain startups. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

Kalshi — Kalshi is a regulated exchange & prediction market where you can trade on the outcome of real-world events. Buy and sell Event Contracts.
ZAR — ZAR is a financial software company that develops a digital dollar wallet designed to bridge the gap between cash-based economies and Web3.
Stablecore — Stablecore enables banks and credit unions to offer stablecoin and digital asset products with the highest standards

As the CEO of Climate Transition Swiss AG, I lead a Swiss company that develops and finances green, resilient infrastructure projects across North America, Europe, and Japan. With over 20 years of international business experience, I have a strong track record of delivering sustainable energy solutions that create positive environmental and socialimpact.In addition to my role as CEO, I am also a Lobbyist for Climate Policy at the U.S. House of Representatives, where I focus on influencing environmental initiatives in Japan and Europe. I am passionate about advocating for climate action and fostering global collaboration on this urgent issue. I am also a member of the Forbes Business Council and a regular contributor to their climate section, where I share my insights and expertise on green business and policy.

Investment focus

Clean Energy, Cyber Security, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

TerraScale Systems — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
Climate Transition Swiss AG — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
Climate Transition Development — Climate Transition Development Corporation (CTD) is leading the Green Snow Project – an innovative hybrid renewable energy venture in Northern Japan. The company's mission is to revolutionize Japan’s renewable energy sector by harnessing the abundant low to medium-heat geothermal resources available in the region.Together with ourdevelopment partners, TerraScale Inc. and Global Family, the company is committed to tackling the challenges of the geothermal energy sector and transforming the way Japan generates power. The company's work forms an integral part of the Japan-US collaboration on geothermal energy development and aims to significantly reduce fossil fuel reliance and cut carbon emissions.

Thesis-driven, industry-focused and independent blockchain investment firm funding the development of Web 3.0 and decentralized technologies from the heart of Europe, Frankfurt - Germany

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Spiko — Spiko is a tokenization platform that offers to be the supplier of tokenized Money Market Funds.
Blu — Blue is a blockchain security platform. They offer KYC/AML trading on DeFi protocols like uniswap and curve, as well as wrap and trading services with secured KYC. They provide intermediary services for banks and brokerages.
Validation Cloud — Discover enterprise-grade staking and node infrastructure: Ethereum, Polygon, and more. Enjoy secure, fast, and reliable staking and node services with Validation Cloud.

Gnosis builds new market mechanisms for decentralized finance. Our three interoperable product lines allow you to create, trade, and hold digital assets.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Switzerland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

FLock.io — FLock.io aims to build a decentralised privacy-preserving solution for Artificial Intelligence.
Inflow — Inflow delivers payment solutions that integrate affordability, efficiency, innovation, and tailored service.
Chronicle Labs — Chronicle Protocol brings data onchain via decentralized, cost-efficient, verifiable oracles, powering DeFi and RWAs with DeFi and Proof of Asset Oracles.

1kx is an early-stage investment firm focused on ecosystem growth.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ARX — ARX smart contracts and HaLo chips enable creators build decentralized, immutable and composable physical crypto assets.
Stackup — Stackup is transforming how businesses manage their on-chain operations by offering a smart account platform designed to simplify and automate complex blockchain tasks. As the need for seamless, secure, and efficient crypto transactions grows, Stackup provides centralized control over decentralized assets, allowing businesses to take charge ofevery detail of their operations with ease. Our platform integrates advanced security and adaptive features to eliminate the chaos of traditional crypto wallets, empowering businesses to manage their crypto stack in real-time. Whether you’re orchestrating large-scale transactions or ensuring complete transparency, Stackup’s solution brings order and precision to blockchain management—turning crypto chaos into structured, seamless business flow.
Orange Cap Games — Orange Cap Games is a game and experience design studio that creates digital and physical trading card games featuring Pudgy Penguins.

Bloccelerate VC Investment Thesis Enterprise Blockchain Focus Areas Team Writings

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Switzerland, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Rover — Rover is a liquid staking protocol on Botanix that exchanges Bitcoin for rovBTC.
Tally — Tally is a DAO operations platform. DAOs use Tally to create and pass proposals, enable delegation, and power voting.
Validation Cloud — Discover enterprise-grade staking and node infrastructure: Ethereum, Polygon, and more. Enjoy secure, fast, and reliable staking and node services with Validation Cloud.

From Asia to Global, Traditional to Innovative

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Malaysia, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Hata — Hata is a regulated platform where businesses & consumers can transact and access cryptocurrencies with fiat currency such as the US Dollar & Malaysia Ringgit. Our vision is to enable safe & effortless access to cryptocurrency for all. We're committed to achieve that by providing a reliable platform for all to accesscryptocurrency easily, through our commitment to customers and compliance with regulations. Hata is regulated by the Securities Commission of Malaysia as a Recognised Market Operator (Digital Asset Exchange & Digital Broker) , and the Labuan Financial Services Authority (Malaysia) as a Licensed Money Broker & Payment System Operator. Learn more at : https://hata.io
Puffer — Puffer Finance operates as a blockchain infrastructure company.
Validation Cloud — Discover enterprise-grade staking and node infrastructure: Ethereum, Polygon, and more. Enjoy secure, fast, and reliable staking and node services with Validation Cloud.

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Investment focus

Web3, Bitcoin, Finance
Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Wisdomise — Wisomise is an intelligence-augmented ecosystem, which offers you all you need in order to gain the most out of your Web3 investments, in terms of both better returns as well as more informed risks.

Hashkey they offers investment opportunities and solutions to institutions, family offices, funds, and professional accredited investors across the digital asset and blockchain ecosystem.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

AltLayer — AltLayer is a system of highly scalable application-dedicated execution layers that derive security from an underlying L1/L2.
Supra — Supra is the world's highest-performing, fully vertically integrated L1 blockchain, and it's about to change everything.
Panoptic — The Panoptic protocol enables the minting, trading, and market-making of perpetual put and call options.

KR1 is a publicly listed investment company focussed on the blockchain ecosystem. We invest in early stage projects and blockchain-based digital assets.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Avail — Avail creates a unified onchain economy by connecting users, apps, and liquidity across chains. Build with Avail and redefine how value moves and scales onchain.
Mode Network — Mode Network is a DeFi blockchain platform that builds new on-chain economic systems to enable developers to scale their applications.
Tanssi Network — The Tanssi Network is a permissionless appchain infrastructure protocol designed for swift and effortless deployment of application-specific blockchains.

Side Door Ventures is a global venture capital firm investing in audacious founders building the future at the fringe. We’re generalist investors and back teams across software, life sciences, space, frontier tech, blockchain, gaming, and financial services that aim to transform industries and improve lives. The Future Starts at the Fringe.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Walkway — Walkwai is the first AI-powered platform for tour and activity providers. Price with confidence, track your competitors, and uncover new ways to increase revenue.
Validation Cloud — Discover enterprise-grade staking and node infrastructure: Ethereum, Polygon, and more. Enjoy secure, fast, and reliable staking and node services with Validation Cloud.
Dominion Dynamics — Dominion Dynamics is an advanced technology firm building a dual-use, AI-driven Arctic sensing network designed for both military and civilian applications, focusing on seamless multi-domain coordination and persistent regional surveillance.

VentureSouq (VSQ) is a MENA-based venture capital fund manager with a global portfolio. VSQ manages thematic funds, with a current focus on FinTech and ClimateTech.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Erad — erad provides growth capital to online businesses. Connect your analytics and receive funding offers, for non-dilutive capital within 48 hours
Nawy — The ultimate real estate broker in Egypt. Browse areas, compounds, and properties by price, location, and amenities to find the perfect place.
Tradoor — Tradoor protects traders, LPs, and the protocol against unforeseen market fluctuations by using clever math and safety measures to enable traders to trade with confidence.

We place investments & form partnerships with disruptive visionaries to accelerate their ideas to market.

Investment focus

Finance, Ethereum, Cryptocurrency
Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Portugal, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Damex — Empowering businesses with a seamless stablecoin infrastructure that simplifies cross-border payments, treasury management, and financial integration.
Wisdomise — Wisomise is an intelligence-augmented ecosystem, which offers you all you need in order to gain the most out of your Web3 investments, in terms of both better returns as well as more informed risks.
Pulsar Finance — All-in-one platform for your web3 assets - all your tokens, DeFi and NFTs. Start tracking your portfolio across 100+ chains and main CEXes from a single place.

FunFair Ventures is a venture capital business .Funfair Ventures funds early stage blockchain projects with a focus on both equity and tokens.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Switzerland, Peru, India

Portfolio highlights

Rhuna — Rhuna is an AI and blockchain platform that transforms event management with NFT ticketing and token rewards.
BridgePort — SaaS, Fintech, Middleware, Trading Infra
Coca Wallet — Coca Wallet operates as a non-custodial payments app.

Global Investors in Transformative Technologies

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Wyre — Wyre is a developer of a blockchain-based payment platform designed to change the future of how international payments are done. The company's platform provides real-time payouts, same-day transfers, and direct-to-bank transfers, enabling businesses to move money across borders from country-to-country at a competitive foreign exchange rate.Wyre's business owners can easily create an account and send money to any person or business without worrying about high foreign exchange rates, hidden fees, complicated payout timing, and high payment fees. It also provides onramps and off-ramps, foreign exchange, and crypto liquidity to users of various crypto projects including decentralized exchanges.Wyre was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA.
Casa — Casa is the leading provider of Bitcoin self-custody solutions. Buy, sell, and receive bitcoin with our ultimate blend of security, privacy, and control.
Validation Cloud — Discover enterprise-grade staking and node infrastructure: Ethereum, Polygon, and more. Enjoy secure, fast, and reliable staking and node services with Validation Cloud.

Chainfir Capital is a blockchain-focused venture capital institution.

Investment focus

Apps, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Dopamine — Dopamine provides decentralized finance for everybody, everywhere and is the first end-to-end user-centered crypto mobile app.
web3intelligence — Build wealth and trust in the world of crypto with intelligent financial tools, data and infrastructure.

Marc P. Bernegger is a Founding Partner at Maximon - The Longevity Company Builder. Marc previously worked at Crypto Finance Group as a Founding Board Member (acquired by Deutsche Boerse). He attended the University of Zurich.

Investment focus

Events, Young Adults, Financial Services
Seed, Angel, Series A
Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Altoida — Altoida is creating a new gold standard in brain health with Precision Neurology. We're radically transforming the method for measuring brain function and diagnosing neurological disease, using just your smartphone or tablet.Our products are backed by more than 20 years of innovative research in digital biomarkers, augmented reality (AR),and artificial intelligence (AI).Altoida received FDA Breakthrough Device Designation in July 2021. Our first device is a Computerized Cognitive Assessment Aid that is classified as Class II, 510(k) exempt.
Sandbox — Sandbox is a global community for young entrepreneurial people. It helps young, entrepreneurial, and passionate individuals who like to develop and build new things.Sandbox’s mission is to identify ambitious young people and to help them become global leaders by connecting them with peers and mentors. Its team includes entrepreneurs, designers,opera singers, investment bankers, academics, and more.Sandbox enables its users to find their professional peers in any field of expertise, in any region, and at any time; build up their social presence in the network and connect online as well as offline; communicate with members across borders and industries in a secure private environment; and receive updates about the network, follow other members, and share ideas of their own.Sandbox was founded by
Crypto Finance Group — The Crypto Finance Group provides institutional and professional investors a full suite of products and services with a level of quality, reliability, and security that are unique in the digital asset space today. The group includes the holding company Crypto Finance AG and three subsidiaries: the first regulated crypto asset manager for collectiveinvestments authorised by FINMA, the Swiss Financial Market Authority; a FINMA-regulated securities firm providing in 24/7 crypto asset trading; and a subsidiary for crypto asset storage infrastructure and tokenisation solutions.By providing the services for professional investors to invest in blockchain technology, the Crypto Finance Group is building a bridge between the traditional financial world and the emerging digital asset markets. CEO Jan Brzezek and his experienced team founded the Crypto Finance Group with the conviction that all market participants will benefit from professional, secure, and stable access to digital asset markets. Their offices are in Zurich and Singapore, with headquarters in Zug, known as the Crypto Valley and home to possibly the world's largest ecosystem of crypto and blockchain organisations.

Swap or provide liquidity on the Uniswap Protocol

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Canada, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

onaji — Onaji is a Machine Learning Platform for Smart Contract Blockchains.It develops and deploys intelligent algorithms that interface with blockchain applications.
Sorella Labs — Sorella Labs is developing a solution to solve Ethereum's maximum extractable value (MEV) problems and focuses on mitigating MEV through pattern.
Whetstone Research — Whetstone Research is dedicated to the design and development of innovative protocols that facilitate the advancement of on-chain markets.

Big Brain Holdings is Focused on Investing in Solana projects that have strong potential.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Raiku — Raiku is a Web3 infrastructure startup focused on enhancing the Solana blockchain's reliability and predictability.
Kapkap — Kapkap is a web3 platform that uses AI for attention based value distribution in gaming.
Legend. trade — Legend. trade is a crypto trading company by decentralized exchange.

Investing in a decentralized world

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Azuro — Powerful tooling, oracle & liquidity solutions for any EVM predictions & gaming ecosystem
Altitude — Actively managed collateralised loans
Arkis - DeFi Prime Broker — Arkis facilitates the provision of the most capital-efficient undercollateralized leverage for DeFi financial institutions and traders. Accelerating the maturity of DeFi.

Adrian Locher is the Founder, CEO and General Partner of Merantix. He Kausa as a Board Member.Adrian Locher attended the University of St.Gallen.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Series A
Switzerland, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Altoida — Altoida is creating a new gold standard in brain health with Precision Neurology. We're radically transforming the method for measuring brain function and diagnosing neurological disease, using just your smartphone or tablet.Our products are backed by more than 20 years of innovative research in digital biomarkers, augmented reality (AR),and artificial intelligence (AI).Altoida received FDA Breakthrough Device Designation in July 2021. Our first device is a Computerized Cognitive Assessment Aid that is classified as Class II, 510(k) exempt.
Crypto Finance (Asset Management) AG — Unser Asset Management Team bietet qualifizierten und institutionellen Anlegern einen sicheren und transparenten Zugang zum Crypto Asset Markt. Kontaktieren Sie uns!
Crypto Finance Group — The Crypto Finance Group provides institutional and professional investors a full suite of products and services with a level of quality, reliability, and security that are unique in the digital asset space today. The group includes the holding company Crypto Finance AG and three subsidiaries: the first regulated crypto asset manager for collectiveinvestments authorised by FINMA, the Swiss Financial Market Authority; a FINMA-regulated securities firm providing in 24/7 crypto asset trading; and a subsidiary for crypto asset storage infrastructure and tokenisation solutions.By providing the services for professional investors to invest in blockchain technology, the Crypto Finance Group is building a bridge between the traditional financial world and the emerging digital asset markets. CEO Jan Brzezek and his experienced team founded the Crypto Finance Group with the conviction that all market participants will benefit from professional, secure, and stable access to digital asset markets. Their offices are in Zurich and Singapore, with headquarters in Zug, known as the Crypto Valley and home to possibly the world's largest ecosystem of crypto and blockchain organisations.

SALT is a global investment platform connecting institutional asset owners with asset managers and technology entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Biotechnology, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Switzerland, China

Portfolio highlights

Shuttle Labs — The Natural Language Block Explorer & Analytics Tool.
Manifest — Manifest is the simplest way for investors worldwide to access institutional-grade U.S. real estate through onchain ownership.
Avantis Labs — The world's first DEX for cross-asset leverage | RWAs x Crypto | USDC yield vaults | 100x leverage | Built on Base, backed by Base, Pantera Capital.

SICPA, the leading provider of security inks and integrated security solutions, protects.

Investment focus

FinTech, Information Technology, Security
Seed, Series A, Series B
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Metaco — Metaco provides mission-critical infrastructure enabling institutions to strive in the digital asset economy.
Biowatch — Biowatch is a user-friendly wrist veins biometric reader that functions as a security solution for mobile payment protection and smart device interaction. Users can access the app for enrolling their vein pattern and selecting applications and devices that needs to be connected to their Biowatch, wear their BioWatch and activate it by matchingtheir vein pattern with their enrolled reference, get PKI encrypted user code transmitted from their Biowatch, and start opening doors without the use of keys and passwords.Biowatch was launched by Joe Rice and Matthias Vanoni and is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Arviem — Arviem is an independent Global Cargo Tracking and Monitoring Service provider. The independent solution developed by Arviem centers on a high-tech IoT monitoring device that is mounted on cargo containers, which communicates via a mobile phone network or satellite anytime and anywhere on the planet. Arviem's advanced analytics platformallows business professionals to uncover inefficiencies in their supply chains and the analytics dashboard improves decision making by revealing what’s happening throughout the extended supply chain.Real-time data improves the entire supply chain in the areas of inventory management, product quality, insurance costs and customs clearance. For customers using the Arviem solution this provides a significant competitive advantage in managing their logistics. Arviem’s services enable clients to get end-to-end, in-depth real-time visibility from an independent, trustworthy source.Arviem offers the Cargo Monitoring Service as a ‘pay-as-you-use one-stop’ service.

Try Shopify free and start a business or grow an existing one. Get more than ecommerce software with tools to manage every part of your business.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Marketing
Corporate Round, Series B, Series A
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Whalar — Whalar is on a mission to Liberate the Creative Voice and make advertising more inclusive, diverse and effective.
Gorgias — Helpdesk designed for e-commerce stores. Provide multichannel customer service from a single app. Gain productivity with automated responses to common requests.
Flexport — Cut costs, automate workflows, reliably move goods, go carbon-neutral, and improve your supply chain from end to end. It all starts here.

We power Switzerland. With trustworthy services in the physical and digital worlds. At home, during leisure time and at work.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Logistics
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Switzerland, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Seenons — Do you have business waste, transport or process waste? Discover our platform - a total solution for sustainable waste management.
GUURU — GUURU's Community Solution enables trustworthy and authentic live conversations between shoppers and your customer community.
Seven Senders — Excellent international delivery is a competitive advantage. Connect with Seven Senders and benefit. Find out more now!

Growing, crafting, matching

Investment focus

Finance, Cryptocurrency, Virtual Currency
Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Brighty App — Discover Brighty - a fintech platform uniting crypto and traditional banking for secure digital finance
Islamic Coin — Shariah-compliant digital money

Ryan Selkis is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Messari. He was the Managing Director CoinDesk before that. After discovering bitcoin, Ryan became obsessed with the technology’s social and economic potential. That obsession, along with finance and startup experience, helps him lead DCG's investing efforts.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

Nxyz — Snowflake enables organizations to learn, build, and connect with their data-driven peers. Collaborate, build data apps & power diverse workloads in the AI Data Cloud.
0xPPL — 0xPPL brings together people who have similar interests in cryptocurrencies, providing an ecosystem where users can track crypto assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) traded by those they follow.
Reown — Essential decentralized infrastructure moving billions in value monthly. Powered by 20+ world-class node operators, 700+ wallets, 70K+ apps, and millions of users.

Shima Capital is an investment fund that focuses on supporting blockchain startups. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

3RM — Verified contact at any decentralized organization. Manage new business, partnerships, and engagement across organizations like never before.
ELYZIO — MENA's Leading Developer & Publisher for Indies
Cedro Finance — An Omnichain Liquidity Protocol that connects fragmented liquidity across chains for greater capital efficiency.

Partner with a leading wealth management technology provider. Increase efficiency and improve client experience with our cloud banking software and services.

Investment focus

Banking, Bitcoin, FinTech
Seed, Series A
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Metaco — Metaco provides mission-critical infrastructure enabling institutions to strive in the digital asset economy.

Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York City.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Radiant — Clean. Portable. Safe. Energy
Gumball — Gumball connects advertisers with podcast hosts to make it happen in a few clicks.
Slutty Vegan — Support your local Slutty Vegan. We are a Black-owned restaurant serving the best vegan food in Atlanta, period. Order your meatless masterpieces today.

Kraken Ventures is a global VC fund investing in the economies of the future. Learn more today.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, France

Portfolio highlights

Dakota Ridge — Dakota Ridge is a technology company specializing in the development of a secure, enterprise-grade banking infrastructure designed specifically for cryptocurrency businesses. The platform offers advanced storage solutions and a comprehensive suite of tools that support both fiat and digital assets. I
Optimum — Optimum constitutes a decentralized, high-performance memory infrastructure tailored for use across various blockchains.
Velocity — Velocity provides a unified platform for efficiently moving and managing funds across both traditional banks and blockchains.

Aly Madhavji is the Blockchain Founders Fund's Managing Partner and a Consultant of United Nations. He is a Senior Blockchain Fellow of INSEAD and LP and Venture Partner at Loyal VC.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Keeper — Find the right person. Build something meaningful together.
Dopamine — Dopamine provides decentralized finance for everybody, everywhere and is the first end-to-end user-centered crypto mobile app.
web3intelligence — Build wealth and trust in the world of crypto with intelligent financial tools, data and infrastructure.

Circle helps businesses and developers harness the power of digital dollar stablecoins for payments and internet commerce worldwide. Learn more today!

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Codex — Codex is a peer-to-peer version of electronic cash allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.
Octane — A developer-first platform to stress-test your smart contracts with cutting-edge AI. One-click install. Save time and money on security.
Lens Protocol — Lens Protocol is a composable and decentralized social graph, ready for you to build on so you can focus on creating a great experience, not scaling your users.

Official Homepage of GS Futures. GS Futures is an early-stage venture fund tackling challenging problems, supported by the GS Group. We are investing in the future of Climate & Energy Transition Tech, Construction & Real Estate Tech and Consumer Tech.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series B, Series A, Seed
United States, Japan, Greece

Portfolio highlights

Niural — Niural is the future of HR management with centralized control, advanced analytics, and automation for streamlined HR operations worldwide.
Sphinx — Experience 24/7 derivatives trading with near-instant clearing, dynamic margin and up to 90% lower fees.
Debut — Debut Biotech is a biotechnology company that focuses on providing specialty enzyme solutions combined with continuous manufacturing. It combines the power of enzymes with continuous manufacturing to create and modify small and large molecules for a wide range of industries and applications.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in SanDiego, California.

Metamatic is an early-stage venture capital fund, investing in consumer-Web3 companies and innovative blockchain start-ups.

Investment focus

SaaS, Web3, Ethereum
Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Drosera — Drosera is a decentralized incident response system that uses hidden security intentions to contain and mitigate attacks.
Validation Cloud — Discover enterprise-grade staking and node infrastructure: Ethereum, Polygon, and more. Enjoy secure, fast, and reliable staking and node services with Validation Cloud.

VC focused on fintech

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Switzerland, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Rulematch — RULEMATCH is a spot crypto trading venue based in Switzerland, built with Nasdaq technology - for financial institutions only.
Wyden — AlgoTrader is the global institutional leader in algorithmic trading and execution infrastructure for both digital and traditional assets. With its advanced software solutions, AlgoTrader gives banks, hedge funds, brokers, crypto funds and other financial institutions an end-to-end platform for best execution and event-driven alpha generation. Thecompany's offering includes WIRESWARM, a digital asset trading and connectivity platform for banks and brokers, AlgoTrader QUANT, an end-to-end quantitative trading solution with automated trade signal generation and order execution, and AlgoTrader OEMS, a state-of-the-art Order and Execution Management System for systematic and discretionary buy-side institutions with managed connectivity to over 400 liquidity venues. AlgoTrader’s interdisciplinary team of quantitative strategy developers, senior software engineers and financial and crypto experts is shaping institutional trading. Founded in Switzerland and based in Zurich, New York and Singapore, AlgoTrader operates globally.
Crypto Valley Exchange — The first portfolio risk capable platform for Options & Futures trading in DeFi, offering 1000x+ leverage based on margin offset.

SBI Digital Asset Holdings makes early-stage investments in digital asset startups.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Financial Services
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
Switzerland, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Sygnum — Sygnum is a digital asset bank, founded on Swiss and Singapore heritage, operating globally.Rooted in two of the world’s leading financial hubs, Switzerland and Singapore, they empower institutional and private qualified investors, corporates, banks, and other financial institutions to invest in the digital asset economy with complete trust.Sygnum was founded by an experienced and interdisciplinary team of banking, investment, DLT, and regulatory experts, and is backed by a distinguished group of individuals and institutions. Together, they share a clear vision of how to transform the financial industry in the coming years through DLT banking innovation.
Tangem — Tangem Wallet is a reliable blockchain wallet that allows you to store crypto cryptocurrencies simply and safely. Download wallet app to buy, exchange & stake favorite crypto.
Authlete — Authlete provides a set of Web APIs with which developers implement servers supporting OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, Financial-grade API, etc.

Rahul Sethuram - Partner @ Lone Wolf Partners

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Ethereum
Funding Round, Seed
Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Stackr Labs — Micro-rollups to scale web3 applications
Reown — Essential decentralized infrastructure moving billions in value monthly. Powered by 20+ world-class node operators, 700+ wallets, 70K+ apps, and millions of users.
LI.FI — Swap and move any crypto asset across any blockchain ecosystem.

Semantic Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in open markets and networks. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in London, England.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Ryder — 60s Setup, Secure Signing, EAL6+ Secure Element, TapSafe Recovery, IP68 Rating, Encrypted NFC.
Due — Discover our global payment platform. Powered by open, decentralised and interoperable networks.
Herd Labs — Herd Labs is a collaborative cryptocurrency terminal that allows users to search, understand, and act on-chain with AI agents.

Hayden Adams is founder of Uniswap, one of the most widely used decentralized applications built on Ethereum. Prior to Uniswap, Hayden was an engineer at Siemens. He graduated from Stony Brook University with a bachelor in engineering in 2016.

Investment focus

Ethereum, Internet, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Lens Protocol — Lens Protocol is a composable and decentralized social graph, ready for you to build on so you can focus on creating a great experience, not scaling your users.
Reown — Essential decentralized infrastructure moving billions in value monthly. Powered by 20+ world-class node operators, 700+ wallets, 70K+ apps, and millions of users.

Distributed Global is an investment firm focused on the blockchain and digital asset ecosystem.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Switzerland, Cayman Islands

Portfolio highlights

Nillion — The Secure Processing Layer of Web3
Pyth Network — The Pyth network is a specialized oracle solution for latency-sensitive financial data that is typically kept behind the “walled gardens’’ of centralized institutions. The Pyth network is focused on finding a new and inexpensive way to bring this unique data on-chain and aggregating it securely.
Fogo Digital — Fogo is a high-performance SVM Layer-1 built for pros who trade at the speed of light. Sub-40ms block times, gas-free sessions, and fair execution. no latency, no friction, no bullshit.

Paradigm is an investment firm focused on supporting the great crypto/Web3 companies and protocols of tomorrow. Our approach is flexible, long term, multi-stage, and global. We often get involved at the earliest stages of formation and support our portfolio with additional capital over time.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Cayman Islands

Portfolio highlights

Gauntlet — Gauntlet builds a blockchain simulation and testing platform for financial systems. The company's blockchain simulation and the testing platform run a series of simulations to test the client's protocol or smart contract and gain intuition on how design choices affect behavior, thereby helping financial institutions by providingtransparency and greatly reduces the cost of experimentation so that teams can rapidly design, launch, and scale new decentralized systems. Gauntlet was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY, USA.
Plural Energy — Plural Energy connects institutional investors with high-quality renewable energy assets overlooked by traditional finance. Access middle-market clean infrastructure with competitive yields, tax benefits, and impact while advancing the energy transition.
Standard Economics — Standard Economics is a fintech startup that creates a payments and USD-stablecoin platform to assist unbanked and underbanked people.

A private equity firm focused on healthcare and financial service .

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Zeotap — Discover the next-generation Customer Data Platform, built for a privacy-first future
Nitrobox — Monetize any digital business model with the Nitrobox billing and monetization platform: subscription, transactional, usage-based, or hybrid.
Wyden — AlgoTrader is the global institutional leader in algorithmic trading and execution infrastructure for both digital and traditional assets. With its advanced software solutions, AlgoTrader gives banks, hedge funds, brokers, crypto funds and other financial institutions an end-to-end platform for best execution and event-driven alpha generation. Thecompany's offering includes WIRESWARM, a digital asset trading and connectivity platform for banks and brokers, AlgoTrader QUANT, an end-to-end quantitative trading solution with automated trade signal generation and order execution, and AlgoTrader OEMS, a state-of-the-art Order and Execution Management System for systematic and discretionary buy-side institutions with managed connectivity to over 400 liquidity venues. AlgoTrader’s interdisciplinary team of quantitative strategy developers, senior software engineers and financial and crypto experts is shaping institutional trading. Founded in Switzerland and based in Zurich, New York and Singapore, AlgoTrader operates globally.

Atlantic Labs supports and invests in mission-driven founders working on transformative technology ventures. <br><br>We partner with founders early, providing the capital, tools and network necessary to growing their companies and accompanying them on their entrepreneurial journey. We are currently active in areas including Digital Health, Future of Work, Machine Learning, Decentralized Networks, Mobility and Industrial Applications.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

GEMESYS — Gemesys creates a chip that functions similarly to the human brain in order to overcome processing constraints and empower AI with the hardware it needs to complete its destiny
Mago — Mago is an AI-native, fully controllable tool revolutionizing video production through style transfer. We empower creators to transform and stylize any video - from live-action to 3D animations - into any aesthetic, seamlessly blending cutting-edge AI with human creativity from concept to final cut.
LEVY Health — Endometriosis is a condition where tissue like your uterine lining grows outside the womb: on the ovaries, fallopian tubes, pelvic tissues, or more rarely, in other parts of the body.

Swisscom, Switzerland’s leading telecoms company and one of its leading IT companies, is headquartered in Ittigen, close to the capital city Berne. Swisscom’s international activities are concentrated mainly in Italy, where its subsidiary Fastweb is one of the biggest broadband providers. Around 21,500 employees achieve a revenues of CHF 2.89billion to the end of the 1st Quarter 2016. Swisscom is one of the most sustainable companies in Switzerland and Europe.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics
Seed, Grant, Funding Round
Switzerland, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

mobileup — mobileup is a website where can buy and sell used smartphones and tablets.
Swiss Vault — Swiss Vault Systems designs and builds economical data storage systems. Swiss Vault Systems' vision is to disrupt the economics of data management and enable organizations to save and access every piece of data forever - with high privacy.
Credit Exchange — Credit Exchange is a financial firm that provides mortgage exchange, credit management, lending, banking, and financial consulting services.

Delta Blockchain Fund is an early-stage venture capital fund lighting the path of blockchain innovation by supporting developers and visionaries building the world of decentralization.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Cayman Islands

Portfolio highlights

Soulbound — Saga is a decentralized gaming community that aims to improve and grow the metaverse by creating a chain-agnostic market infrastructure.
Pell Network — Pell Network is a precisely constructed multi-layered restaking network with a great user experience, clear role segregation, and a closed-loop business logic chain.
Schuman Financial — Schuman Financial develops technologies, infrastructure, and products that bring financial services on-chain.

O-DE Capital Partner is an integrated business development ecosystem, comprising a venture capital arm, venture studio, consulting, and marketing services. We enhance business growth by offering resources and global network access.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Australia, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Wisdomise — Wisomise is an intelligence-augmented ecosystem, which offers you all you need in order to gain the most out of your Web3 investments, in terms of both better returns as well as more informed risks.
Verida — The Verida Wallet is a mobile application that allows you to manage your decentralized identity and personal data. It provides a user-friendly interface for interacting with applications built on the Verida network.
Mandala Chain — Mandala Chain provides blockchain and cryptocurrency solutions for government and enterprise integration.

GSR has nine years of deep crypto market expertise as a market maker, ecosystem partner and active, multi-stage investor. GSR sources and provides spot and non-linear liquidity in digital assets for token issuers, institutional investors, miners, and leading cryptocurrency exchanges. GSR employs over 300 people around the globe, and its tradingtechnology is connected to 60 trading venues, including the world's leading DEXs. We have a culture of approaching complex problems with tenacity and imagination. We build long-term relationships by offering exceptional service, expertise and trading capabilities tailored to the specific needs of our clients.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Legion — Legion makes on-chain fundraising accessible to ordinary investors by ensuring regulatory compliance and investor accountability.
RockSolid Network — RockSolid Network is a DeFi protocol offering institutional-grade liquid vaults and white-label vault solutions.
Temple Digital Group — Capital Markets Built On Canton. A privacy focused technical stack for trading digital assets.

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