# Top 50 Cryptocurrency Startup Investors in June 2026

## Coinbase Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 114
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

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.

## Polychain
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 81
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech

The emergence of bitcoin and subsequent blockchain technologies has generated a new digital asset class in which scarcity is based on mathematical properties. Through cryptographic verification and game-theoretic equilibrium, blockchain-based digital assets can be created, issued, and transmitted using the software. Polychain Capital is committedto exceptional returns for investors through actively managed portfolios of these blockchain assets.

## Digital Currency Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stamford, Connecticut, United States
- Relevant deals: 79
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech

We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system.

## Pantera Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 73
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Pantera Capital is an investment firm focused exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space. The company believes that Bitcoin has the potential to transform the way people use money and that it will do for payments what the Internet has done for communications and commerce.Until 2014, Pantera focused on globalmacro hedge fund investments. The firm was founded in 2003 by Dan Morehead, who was a chief financial officer and head of Macro Trading at Tiger Management. The firm has since shifted its investment advisory services to focus exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space.Shareholders include Benchmark, Fortress Investment Group, and Ribbit Capital.

## Animoca Brands
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cyberport, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 62
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency

Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.

## Shima Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 61
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming

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

## GSR
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Wan Chai, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 61
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

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.

## Dragonfly
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 57
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

A cross-border cryptoasset investment firm. Global from day one.

## Balaji Srinivasan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 57
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including anonline MOOC.

## Framework Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 50
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

A crypto venture firm that builds with our founders.

## Paradigm
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 50
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech

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.

## The Spartan Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 49
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

We advise, invest and build with the best entrepreneurs in Web3.

## Multicoin Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Austin, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 48
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

Multicoin Capital is a thesis-driven investment firm that invests in cryptocurrencies, tokens, and blockchain companies reshaping trillion-dollar markets. 

## Robot Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 48
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Robots Never Sleep

## Electric Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 48
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Building the future of Web3. We invest in the next generation of iconic founders.

## Orange DAO
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 47
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Private Equity
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Software

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## Blockchain Founders Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 47
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech

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

## Andreessen Horowitz
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 46
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.

## Big Brain Holdings
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Weston, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 45
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming

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

## OKX Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Victoria, Beau Vallon, Seychelles
- Relevant deals: 44
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming

OKX Ventures focus on the discoveries and investments in various aspects, including blockchain basic infrastructures, Layer2, DeFi, WEB3.0, NFT and Metaverse.

## Blockchain Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 44
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Partners to crypto builders since 2013.

## CMT Digital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 44
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

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CMT Digital is a blockchain and digital assets focused subsidiary of the CMT Group, a 24 year-old trading and investments firm. The CMT Group has operated as a valued partner to entrepreneurs, traders, and technologists

## AU21 Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 44
- Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming

A fund dedicated to backing the most brilliant minds in the blockchain space

## NGC Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 44
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming

NGC Ventures has been investing in blockchain since 2017, with an investment thesis driven by infrastructure. We are an early-stage VC fund, among others, we invested early into Ziliqa, Solana, Avalanche, Filecoin. We have a global team of crypto natives that offers support and insights into token design, go-to-market and more.

## Lemniscap
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 43
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Lemniscap is an investment firm specialising in investments in emerging cryptoassets and blockchain startups.

## Hashed
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 43
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Hashed is a global, early stage venture fund focused on backing founders who are pioneering the future of blockchain and cryptocurrency. Hashed is based in Seoul and San Francisco.

## Hack VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 42
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency

Hack VC is a web3 venture capital firm.

## Alameda Research
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Central and Western, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 42
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Alameda Research is a quantitative cryptocurrency trading firm that provides liquidity in cryptocurrency and digital assets markets. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Central and Western, Hong Kong.

## Galaxy Digital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 42
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Galaxy is a digital asset and blockchain leader helping institutions, startups, and individuals shape a changing economy.

## 1kx
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 41
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

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

## CMS Holdings
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 41
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

CMS is a principal investment company that focuses on investing in the crypto-asset ecosystem. The firm plans to invest in both liquid and illiquid crypto tokens, as well as equity interests in select businesses.

## Fenbushi Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 41
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

Fenbushi Capital is the first and most active blockchain-focused venture capital firm in Asia.  Founded in Shanghai in 2015 by veterans across both blockchain and traditional financial industries, it has to date supported over 80 leading projects across 4 continents leveraging blockchain technology to reshape myriad 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.

## MH Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 40
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

MH Ventures is a world class community-backed Venture Capital investing in top blockchain projects of the future

## Sandeep Nailwal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 40
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Sandeep Nailwal is based out of United States and is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as a Co-Founder and CEO. Sandeep Nailwal attended the Indian Institute of Management.

## Wintermute Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 40
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Wintermute Ventures is the investment arm of Wintermute, a global algorithmic trading firm, liquidity provider, and leading OTC desk in digital assets. Drawing from Wintermute's expertise in pioneering DeFi trading and powering liquidity across the entire ecosystem, Wintermute Ventures is uniquely positioned to back early-stage Web3 projectswith hands-on support. Focused on long-term growth, the company takes a flexible approach, investing from early ideation to later-stage expansion. Committed to developing strategic relationships and driving positive outcomes, Wintermute Ventures prioritizes decentralized ownership, ensuring its investments align with the company’s broader vision of a decentralized future. Since 2020, it has invested in over 100 projects.

## Mirana
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 40
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming

Mirana Ventures is a leading global investment fund that provides long-term capital and strategic partnerships to visionary founders and fund managers in the Web3 space.

## Fabric Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 37
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

Fabric backs the founders of the Open Economy. Investing in builders, businesses, and networks from inception to scaling since 2012.

## CoinFund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 37
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

CoinFund is where web3 capable meets web3 capital: cryptonative technologists who invest in the future before it's a trend.

## ParaFi Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Greenwich, Connecticut, United States
- Relevant deals: 36
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech

ParaFi Capital is an alternative investment firm focused on blockchain and decentralized finance markets.

## LD Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 36
- Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming

LD Capital is one of Asia's earliest organizations focusing on value investing in blockchain field. Owing to industrial resource advantages and professional investment research teams, LD Capital has successively discovered and invested in projects such as Qtum, Vechain and Eos which all achieved over 100 times return.Their teams spread overChina, the United States, Europe, Singapore, Japan, and South Korea, and have accumulated rich experience in areas of traditional internet, Fintech, and advanced blockchain technology. They are committed to the globalization of blockchain and quality investment in the entire industry.LD Capital focuses on blockchain innovation projects within finance, games, content publishing, Internet of Things and other circuits, and we have been propelling broad layout of blockchain technology and infrastructure construction to facilitate the comprehensive development of the global blockchain ecosystem.

## Signum Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 35
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology

They are a Singapore-based firm that exclusively consults in Blockchain-enabled companies. Their mission is to realize the future of Blockchain economy by consulting in game changing projects and companies. They participate in Pre-sale stages of Token Generation Events and Equity investments.

## Morningstar Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 35
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming

We are a proprietary investment firm focused on digital assets and blockchain technology, primarily focused on the Elrond Ecosystem.

## ZBS CAPITAL
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kyiv, Kyyiv, Ukraine
- Relevant deals: 35
- Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

ZBS Capital - distinguished crypto venture fund, backed by major media resources including CryptoDiffer.

## Kenetic
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 35
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Kenetic is a proprietary trading and VC investment firm focused on digital assets and blockchain related companies. They have developed technology to facilitate their quantitative trading strategies and offer various digital asset related structured products to counterparts.

## LedgerPrime
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 34
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

LedgerPrime is a quantitative and systematic investment firm in the Digital Asset space. With a data centric approach and a commitment to rapid innovation and technology, LedgerPrime seeks to become a global leader in generating sustained and superior risk-adjusted returns.

## Castle Island Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 34
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech

Castle Island Ventures is a Cambridge, MA based early stage venture firm investing in startups building in the public blockchain industry.

## Wintermute
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 34
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

A leading algorithmic trading firm focused on building liquid and efficient markets in digital assets.

## HashKey Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 32
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology

HashKey Capital is an investment firm.

## Lightspeed Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 31
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends.

## Hashkey Exchange
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 30
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology

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

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