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Top 50 Payments Startup Investors

A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Payments startups. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Payments companies. This investor list updates every month.

Top 50 Payments Startup Investors

Investor Payments investments
Digital Currency Group 109
Coinbase Ventures 102
Global Founders Capital 83
Polychain 75
Pantera Capital 73
Andreessen Horowitz 69
Shima Capital 66
SV Angel 57
Balaji Srinivasan 57
Blockchain Capital 55
Animoca Brands 55
Orange DAO 55
Fenbushi Capital 53
Dragonfly 52
Blockchain Founders Fund 50
CMT Digital 49
The Spartan Group 48
GSR 48
Electric Capital 47
NGC Ventures 47
Lightspeed Venture Partners 46
Alameda Research 45
Framework Ventures 45
Robot Ventures 45
Paradigm 44
Hashed 44
Multicoin Capital 43
Hack VC 43
Lemniscap 43
Sequoia Capital 42
FJ Labs 41
Big Brain Holdings 41
Galaxy Digital 41
OKX Ventures 40
OKX Ventures 40
CMS Holdings 39
1kx 38
Alumni Ventures 38
Draper Associates 37
OKX Ventures 37
Index Ventures 37
Kenetic 37
Sandeep Nailwal 37
MH Ventures 36
Hashkey Exchange 36
Signum Capital 35
ParaFi Capital 35
AU21 Capital 35
Kima Ventures 34
LD Capital 34
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Digital Currency Group VC Fund · Stamford, Connecticut, United States · 20 investments in the past 12 months
We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
  • TurnStay — We help hotels radically reduce payment fees.
  • aviva — Aviva is building an AI-powered digital bank for Latin America’s underserved communities. While determined to fuel Latin America’s ongoing emergence of a new middle class with a fully-fledged portfolio of inclusive financial services, Aviva’s initial go-to-market concentrates on unsecured credit products for individuals and nano-businesses inMexico.As most of the underbanked 40+ million Mexicans live in small and medium-sized towns, Aviva builds a bridge to those living in remote communities with its physical onboarding kiosks. These nano-branches provide a documentless 3-minute video onboarding for everyone in need of liquidity. Novel AI-based technology, including natural language processing, allows Aviva to match customers’ spoken word to the fields of a comprehensive real-time credit application. Transforming speech to text and inferring emotions and personality from the visual layer of the application video gives Aviva an edge in scoring thin-file customers. Leveraging these novel risk models, Aviva aims to provide the lowest interest rates available to today’s underserved.
Coinbase Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 25 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Singapore, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Time.fun — Time.fun enables creators to tokenize and sell their time and allows creators to monetize direct interactions such as messages or calls.
  • SPOT — SPOT is a stable store of value that features responsible protocol design choices. Holders of the SPOT token can use it as a refuge from inflation. See the FAQ to learn more about the SPOT token and protocol.
  • Squads — Collaborative infrastructure for web3 native teams
Global Founders Capital VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 19 investments in the past 12 months
Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Papaya — Papaya is the quickest way to order and pay in restaurants and bars and enjoy a seamless ordering and payment experience with personalized offerings. Restaurants and bars turn tables faster, experience increased basket sizes, and better understand their customer base.
  • Headway — Headway is a mental healthcare system provider based in New York. It develops a health insurance advisory platform designed to connect patients with therapists and provides administrative support to therapists who don’t typically accept insurance. The company was founded by Andrew Adams, Jake Sussman, Dan Ross, and Kevin Chan in 2019.
  • Amica Finance — Jupiter's consumer-focused neo-banking startup Amica Finance operates as an NBFC non-banking finance company.
Polychain VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 49 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Singapore, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Corn — Corn is a new Ethereum Layer 2 network that aims to be the best platform for utilizing Bitcoin.
  • Sahara AI — Sahara AI is the decentralized AI blockchain platform that prioritizes sovereignty and provenance of AI, ensuring security, equity, and accessibility for all users. | Join the Collaborative AI Economy Now
  • Level — Level is a stakblecoin backed by restaked dollar tokens.
Pantera Capital VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 21 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Sahara AI — Sahara AI is the decentralized AI blockchain platform that prioritizes sovereignty and provenance of AI, ensuring security, equity, and accessibility for all users. | Join the Collaborative AI Economy Now
  • Sentient — Community-built open AGI
  • Sentient Labs — Creatify is a minimalist, dark-themed Webflow template designed specifically for design agencies and creative studios. It features a timeless design, subtle animations, a fully functioning CMS, and everything you need to elevate your online presence to the next level.
Andreessen Horowitz VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 106 investments in the past 12 months
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Viggle AI — Viggle AI is a pioneering Canadian firm that uses artificial intelligence to enable people of all skill levels to easily create high-quality animated video using simple text instructions.
  • Levels — Levels helps you see how food affects your health with data from biosensors like continuous glucose monitors (CGMs)
  • Safe Superintelligence — Safe Superintelligence is an artificial intelligence research lab that solves the technical challenge of building superhuman intelligence. The company operates a dedicated lab to advance capabilities while prioritizing safety through revolutionary engineering.
Shima Capital VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 27 investments in the past 12 months
Shima Capital is an investment fund that focuses on supporting blockchain startups. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Stashh — Collect, create, trade, share, discover, and decrypt digital collectibles on Stashh - the omnichain NFT hub.
  • Goldilocks DAO — Goldilocks is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) dedicated to creating custom defi infrastructure for Berachain. The Goldilocks Protocol is comprised of three primary components: Goldiswap, Goldilend, Goldivaults.
  • Smart Transactions — Smart Transactions is a protocol designed to execute transactions.
SV Angel VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 38 investments in the past 12 months
SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture fund. Their experience spans helping companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Databricks, DoorDash, Faire, Flexport, GitHub, Notion, Pinterest, Snap, Square, and Stripe Scale. Over the last 30 years of investing, their core values of trust, loyalty, and integrity along with a founder-first approach have driven ourstrategy. They are a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. They support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging networks to help them propel their businesses forward.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Astranis — Four billion people still have no internet access. Astranis is here to change that. We're making small satellites for geostationary orbit, recently signed a contract to triple the satellite internet capacity of Alaska, and raised our Series A from Andreessen Horowitz.
  • Harvey — Harvey builds custom LLMs for elite law firms to tackle the most complex legal challenges across every practice area, jurisdiction and legal system in the world.
  • Safe Superintelligence — Safe Superintelligence is an artificial intelligence research lab that solves the technical challenge of building superhuman intelligence. The company operates a dedicated lab to advance capabilities while prioritizing safety through revolutionary engineering.
Balaji Srinivasan Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 31 investments in the past 12 months
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. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the co-founder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. 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 an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • Level — Level is a stakblecoin backed by restaked dollar tokens.
  • Father Son Matching Shirts — FatherSonMatchingShirts store offers a wide variety of apparel such as t-shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies, tank tops, and mugs. We're trying our best to bring customers. You are welcome to FatherSonMatchingShirts. We're trying our best to bring customers the shirts are made of high quality materials for maximum comfort in whatever you do.
Blockchain Capital VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Partners to crypto builders since 2013.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, Cayman Islands
Portfolio highlights
  • Mamori — ML-powered automated value extraction system
  • QED Protocol — A trustless, scalable, decentralized compute protocol for a fairer internet focused on user privacy and platform transparency.
  • Solv Protocol — Decentralized Liquidity Infrastructure
Animoca Brands VC Fund · Cyberport, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 43 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Singapore, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • We.Rich — We.Rich operates as a User Generated Assets(UGA) platform.
  • Fanton — The first P2E Fantasy Football game with Telegram integration
  • Pentagon Games — Pioneering the Future of Gaming Development and Distribution. In the fast-evolving gaming landscape, Pentagon Games stands at the forefront, marrying the digital with the physical through groundbreaking AI and Web3 technologies.
Orange DAO VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 12 investments in the past 12 months
A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
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Investment focus
  • Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Software
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Private Equity
  • United States, Singapore, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • Kiki World — KIKI World is at the heart of this evolution, a virtual-led beauty brand at the intersection of gamified commerce.
  • Lumino — Lumino is an AI infrastructure startup whose mission is to enable the power of AI for every human.
  • Nest Wallet — Nest Wallet is a wallet created exclusively for traders, and all wallets are linked across mobile and extension.
Fenbushi Capital VC Fund · Shanghai, Shanghai, China · 20 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Singapore, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Parasail — Parasail enables actual users to attract finance and hardware effectively.
  • Igloo — Our mission is to create the largest onchain community, driving the consumer crypto revolution.
  • GoPlus Security — GoPlus Security is an open, permissionless, user-driven security service platform for all types of blockchain users.
Dragonfly VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 20 investments in the past 12 months
A cross-border cryptoasset investment firm. Global from day one.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, Singapore, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • Dora — Dora is building the cross chain search engine
  • Level — Level is a stakblecoin backed by restaked dollar tokens.
  • Caldera — Caldera is a network of lightning fast, high-performance Ethereum rollups, unified by the Metalayer.
Blockchain Founders Fund VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 41 investments in the past 12 months
We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • TDMM — We manage the entire crypto market making life cycle; We specialize in providing liquidity, trading and risk management solutions.
  • Ammalgam — Ammalgam is a new primitive that integrates lending and trading into a single protocol known as a Decentralized Lending Exchange (DLEX).
  • Roundtable — Roundtable is an operator of a news publishing website that delivers truthful information and educates the readers. Its news platform provides insights, expertise, news, and information on various incidents and happenings around the world, helping readers to stay updated and well-versed about all the current affairs around them.The company wasfounded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
CMT Digital VC Fund · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 18 investments in the past 12 months
An exciting new iteration of our website is coming soon. 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
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Hypernative — Detect attacks in progress & prevent loses in real time by proactively monitoring on and off chain data sources and help mitigate security, governance and financial risks with early warnings & actionable insights.
  • Kintsu — Kintsu provides superior liquid staking solutions that boost your staking benefits and flexibility in DeFi ecosystems.
  • Solv Protocol — Decentralized Liquidity Infrastructure
The Spartan Group VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 27 investments in the past 12 months
We advise, invest and build with the best entrepreneurs in Web3.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Chaos Labs — Chaos Labs is a fully automated on-chain economic security system that allows crypto protocols to optimize risk management and capital efficiency while safeguarding user funds. Chaos Labs offers a more secure and safe operating environment for crypto protocols. Chaos Labs uses technology and risk management expertise to help protocols navigate theoften volatile crypto markets and make informed decisions. The platform is currently available for protocols on the Ethereum network, with plans to expand to other blockchains such as Terra, NEAR, and Polygon in the future.
  • Pentagon Games — Pioneering the Future of Gaming Development and Distribution. In the fast-evolving gaming landscape, Pentagon Games stands at the forefront, marrying the digital with the physical through groundbreaking AI and Web3 technologies.
  • Moonveil Entertainment — Moonveil Entertainment is a web3 game studio that uses cutting-edge technology to create authentic gaming experiences.
GSR VC Fund · Wan Chai, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 32 investments in the past 12 months
GSR is the global leader in crypto trading and market-making. We specialize in providing liquidity, trading and risk management solutions.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Rivalz Network — Rivalz is creating The first AI Intel Layer, powered by a DePIN-based RollApp on Dymension using Celestia/EigenDA.
  • IDA — IDA is the leading provider of digital asset solutions, allowing trust, transparency, and speed in payments and commerce. By leveraging blockchain technology, IDA opens up a more connected and inclusive global economy.
  • Iskra — Iskra offers web3 gaming opportunities using blockchain and rewards its stakeholders based on their participation.
Electric Capital VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 18 investments in the past 12 months
Building the future of Web3. We invest in the next generation of iconic founders.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Singapore, Seychelles
Portfolio highlights
  • Kuru — Kuru is an on-chain order book exchange.
  • Wasabi — The Decentralized NFT Options Protocol
  • Aven — Inventing new ways to save people money
NGC Ventures VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
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.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Singapore, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • EthSign — EthSign is an e-signing platform that utilizes blockchain technology to offer a decentralized, customizable and transparent version of traditional signature service. EthSign aims to tackle data security issues caused by an over-reliance on centralized providers and build back trust in electronic signature services. With its Web3 technology(decentralized Identity, smart contract platforms and decentralized storage networks), the platform enables users to comment on, edit and access each version of an electronic agreement seamlessly and securely.
  • Shield — Shield is a holistic user security engine for web3 platforms and communities. Our system secures 250,000+ crypto users via discord bot and API integration.
  • Xverse — Xverse is the most advanced and user-friendly Bitcoin wallet. Earn BTC, trade Ordinals, and connect to Web3 apps powered by Stacks. Download for iOS, Android and Chrome.
Lightspeed Venture Partners VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 84 investments in the past 12 months
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, India, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Chaos Labs — Chaos Labs is a fully automated on-chain economic security system that allows crypto protocols to optimize risk management and capital efficiency while safeguarding user funds. Chaos Labs offers a more secure and safe operating environment for crypto protocols. Chaos Labs uses technology and risk management expertise to help protocols navigate theoften volatile crypto markets and make informed decisions. The platform is currently available for protocols on the Ethereum network, with plans to expand to other blockchains such as Terra, NEAR, and Polygon in the future.
  • Contextual AI — Our contextual language models are built to be highly accurate while minimizing hallucinations, are fully auditable, and keep your data safe.
  • Goodfire — Goodfire's mission is to advance humanity's understanding of AI by examining the inner workings of advanced AI models (or “AI Interpretability”). As an applied research lab, Goodfire bridges the gap between theoretical science and practical applications of interpretability.
Alameda Research VC Fund · Central and Western, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
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.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Singapore, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • 3Commas — 3Commas develops a crypto-asset management tool for tracking investments and exchanges in a unified platform. It provides access to a unified dashboard as the central hub for trading and portfolio management execution.
  • Fuel Labs — At Fuel, we are building the fastest execution layer for the modular blockchain stack.
  • Optim Finance — Optim Finance provides investment tools that optimize yield on digital assets. Their financial primitives enable users to rent ADA delegation rights to power novel use cases such as SPO loans, leverage into ISOs, and initial bonds.
Framework Ventures VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 27 investments in the past 12 months
A crypto venture firm that builds with our founders.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Australia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Ammalgam — Ammalgam is a new primitive that integrates lending and trading into a single protocol known as a Decentralized Lending Exchange (DLEX).
  • Corn — Corn is a new Ethereum Layer 2 network that aims to be the best platform for utilizing Bitcoin.
  • Space and Time — Space and Time is the first decentralized data warehouse. Powering low-latency queries and tamperproof Web3 analytics. Web3 analytics at scale. A multichain data platform for dapps needing next-gen Web3 analytics. Connect analytics directly to smart contracts. Join on-chain and off-chain data in a single query.
Robot Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 37 investments in the past 12 months
Robot Ventures is a (pre-)seed investor in fintech / crypto companies with big ambitions and contrarian worldviews.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Canada, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Ammalgam — Ammalgam is a new primitive that integrates lending and trading into a single protocol known as a Decentralized Lending Exchange (DLEX).
  • Chainbound — Chainbound is a research and development organization building optimized infrastructure and networking tools for blockchains. We are hiring!
  • Level — Level is a stakblecoin backed by restaked dollar tokens.
Paradigm VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 13 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Cayman Islands
Portfolio highlights
  • MetaDAO — MetaDAO focus on decisions and operations are influenced by market mechanisms and the active participation of stakeholders, rather than relying solely on traditional governance structures like hierarchies or representative democracy.
  • Sorella Labs — Sorella Labs is developing a solution to solve Ethereum's maximum extractable value (MEV) problems and focuses on mitigating MEV through pattern.
  • Symbiotic — Symbiotic is a generalized shared security system enabling decentralized networks to bootstrap powerful, fully sovereign ecosystems.
Hashed VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 27 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, South Korea, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Delivus — Delivus offers small package delivery in major U.S. cities in the shortest amount of time, with real-time delivery tracking, at the same cost as the current courier To facilitate this, we provide Delivery as a Service.
  • XOCIETY — The XOCIETY metaverse is being developed by a well-established team of over 50 developers with decades of experience in the tech and web2 gaming fields.
  • IDA — IDA is the leading provider of digital asset solutions, allowing trust, transparency, and speed in payments and commerce. By leveraging blockchain technology, IDA opens up a more connected and inclusive global economy.
Multicoin Capital VC Fund · Austin, Texas, United States · 13 investments in the past 12 months
Multicoin Capital is a thesis-driven investment firm that invests in cryptocurrencies, tokens, and blockchain companies reshaping trillion-dollar markets.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Singapore, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • BAXUS — The secure way to trade wine and spirits. Harnessing the power of blockchain technology to give users proof of ownership, authentication, and a safe storage solution, ensuring complete peace of mind for every transaction.
  • Arch — Arch is a Blockchain Infrastructure Premier Bitcoin-Native Application Platform
  • El Dorado — El Dorado is a P2P marketplace that helps to buy and sell cryptocurrencies, money transfers, foreign exchange, and digital wallet services.
Hack VC VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 36 investments in the past 12 months
Hack VC is a web3 venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Singapore, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • IDA — IDA is the leading provider of digital asset solutions, allowing trust, transparency, and speed in payments and commerce. By leveraging blockchain technology, IDA opens up a more connected and inclusive global economy.
  • SatLayer — SatLayer to protect any sort of dApp or protocol as a Bitcoin Validated Service (BVS), significantly enhancing security for all of cryptocurrency.
  • Goldilocks DAO — Goldilocks is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) dedicated to creating custom defi infrastructure for Berachain. The Goldilocks Protocol is comprised of three primary components: Goldiswap, Goldilend, Goldivaults.
Lemniscap VC Fund · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 14 investments in the past 12 months
Lemniscap is an investment firm specialising in investments in emerging cryptoassets and blockchain startups.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Irys — Irys is the first L1 programmable datachain, bringing together data storage and execution for a simpler and more efficient development process. Built for scalability, Irys supports both temporary and permanent data, ensuring reliable and flexible data management. With a clear pricing model and EVM compatibility, Irys offers a solid and affordable platform for creating dynamic, data-driven applications. Irys bridges the gap between temporary and permanent data, ensuring efficient and verifiable onchain interactions. Our mission is to lead the transition to a fully onchain, data-driven future, setting a new standard for web services and empowering innovation at every step.
  • Dora — Dora is building the cross chain search engine
  • dvts.network — dvts.network is an ethereum liquidity staking protocol that reduces the initial capital requirements for ethereum validators.
Sequoia Capital VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 86 investments in the past 12 months
We help the daring build legendary companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • United States, China, India
Portfolio highlights
  • GondolaBio — GondolaBio researches, develops and manufactures pharmaceutical products.
  • Magic — Teaching AI to act in its natural environment, the computer.
  • Safe Superintelligence — Safe Superintelligence is an artificial intelligence research lab that solves the technical challenge of building superhuman intelligence. The company operates a dedicated lab to advance capabilities while prioritizing safety through revolutionary engineering.
FJ Labs VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 94 investments in the past 12 months
FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Comun — The Neo Bank for Latino families
  • Ziina — Pay and get paid fast. Ziina is the easiest way to send and receive money in the UAE. Accept cashless payments anywhere with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or card.
  • The Rounds — Zero-waste deliveries and refills of sustainable staples. Philadelphia | DC | Miami | Atlanta
Big Brain Holdings VC Fund · Weston, Florida, United States · 32 investments in the past 12 months
Big Brain Holdings is Focused on Investing in Solana projects that have strong potential.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • XOCIETY — The XOCIETY metaverse is being developed by a well-established team of over 50 developers with decades of experience in the tech and web2 gaming fields.
  • SatLayer — SatLayer to protect any sort of dApp or protocol as a Bitcoin Validated Service (BVS), significantly enhancing security for all of cryptocurrency.
  • Mirror World — Mirror World is a blockchain-based virtual world, also known as the Metaverse, where we aim to connect Mirror World with different games and experiences, allowing users to move through different game scenarios with interconnected & independent economic systems.
Galaxy Digital VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 12 investments in the past 12 months
Galaxy is a digital asset and blockchain leader helping institutions, startups, and individuals shape a changing economy.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Chaos Labs — Chaos Labs is a fully automated on-chain economic security system that allows crypto protocols to optimize risk management and capital efficiency while safeguarding user funds. Chaos Labs offers a more secure and safe operating environment for crypto protocols. Chaos Labs uses technology and risk management expertise to help protocols navigate theoften volatile crypto markets and make informed decisions. The platform is currently available for protocols on the Ethereum network, with plans to expand to other blockchains such as Terra, NEAR, and Polygon in the future.
  • Truvius — Powering systematic investing for digital assets
  • Layer2 Financial — Layer2 is a regulated Payments infrastructure that enables payment processors, fintechs, neobanks to launch innovative payments products in weeks.
OKX Ventures VC Fund · Victoria, Beau Vallon, Seychelles · 77 investments in the past 12 months
OKX Ventures focus on the discoveries and investments in various aspects, including blockchain basic infrastructures, Layer2, DeFi, WEB3.0, NFT and Metaverse.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • SatLayer — SatLayer to protect any sort of dApp or protocol as a Bitcoin Validated Service (BVS), significantly enhancing security for all of cryptocurrency.
  • Compute Labs — computing Labs is a tokenized real-world asset (RWA) company dedicated to democratizing access to the computing industry using blockchain technology.
  • Lombard — Lombard is committed to leveraging Bitcoin's potential as a dynamic financial tool by integrating it to DeFi collaborating with technological and infrastructural partners on a common, ecosystem-driven aim to bring Bitcoin to DeFi.
OKX Ventures VC Fund · Mahé, Beau Vallon, Seychelles · 45 investments in the past 12 months
OKX Blockdream Ventures is a fund focused on exploring high-quality blockchain projects with great potential.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, Singapore, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • zkLink — zkLink is a unified middleware layer connecting L1 chains and L2 networks with zk-SNARKs technology, reshaping the crypto landscape for DeFi, NFT, and RWA trading.
  • aPriori — aPriori is a monad-native MEV infrastructure and liquid staking mechanism developed for parallel executions.
  • Curio Research — Creative studio building crypto powered games.
CMS Holdings VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 17 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, Singapore, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Kuru — Kuru is an on-chain order book exchange.
  • BSX — BSX is a trading company that offers specializes in options and perpetual futures trading.
  • SatLayer — SatLayer to protect any sort of dApp or protocol as a Bitcoin Validated Service (BVS), significantly enhancing security for all of cryptocurrency.
1kx VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 18 investments in the past 12 months
1kx is an early-stage investment firm focused on ecosystem growth.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Blockscout — Blockscout is optimized for next-level blockchain exploration. Multi-chain, highly configurable, and open-source, the explorer portal opens up access to all chain data and functionality.
  • Igloo — Our mission is to create the largest onchain community, driving the consumer crypto revolution.
  • Cambria — Cambria is a massively multiplayer online game (MMO) project. It builds a Runescape-inspired game with onchain stakes.
Alumni Ventures VC Fund · Manchester, New Hampshire, United States · 106 investments in the past 12 months
Alumni Ventures offers diversified venture portfolios to accredited investors into highly competitive deals that individuals typically do not have access to on their own.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • PrivacyHawk — PrivacyHawk is a Personal Data Protection service that makes opting out, unsubscribing, and deleting your data from thousands of companies easy.
  • Fortera — 8% of global greenhouse emissions are caused by cement manufacturing, accounting for more than 3.5 billion tons of CO2 produced each year. Fortera addresses CO2 emissions directly from the kiln.
  • Trestle — Trestle helps construction organizations streamline the vendor contracting and procurement process with integration, smart tools, and use data that's currently going uncollected to reduce risks in future contracts.
Draper Associates VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 20 investments in the past 12 months
Draper Associates, founded in 1985, is a seed-stage venture capital firm that helps entrepreneurs to drive their businesses to greatness. We understand that a great company takes time to build and we'd like to ensure that entrepreneurs are in for the long haul.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Roxom — Roxom is the first Bitcoin Stock, Commodities and Crypto Exchange in human history.
  • Ark Labs — Ark Labs is scaling Bitcoin with Ark, a new layer two protocol for fast, low-cost, seamless payments.
  • Consensus — Consensus uses AI to extract and summarize scientific insights from peer-reviewed sources. For any question, what's the Consensus?
OKX Ventures VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 81 investments in the past 12 months
OKX Blockdream Ventures is a fund focused on exploring high quality projects. This fund will invest in blockchain basic infrastructure, layer 2, Polkadot ecosystem, Defi, Filecoin ecosystem etc.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, Singapore, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • zkLink — zkLink is a unified middleware layer connecting L1 chains and L2 networks with zk-SNARKs technology, reshaping the crypto landscape for DeFi, NFT, and RWA trading.
  • aPriori — aPriori is a monad-native MEV infrastructure and liquid staking mechanism developed for parallel executions.
  • Curio Research — Creative studio building crypto powered games.
Index Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 48 investments in the past 12 months
Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Hedra — Video creation for everyone.
  • Bridge — An entirely new payments platform, built with stablecoins, to simplify global money movement.
  • Savvy Wealth — Savvy is the next-generation wealth management firm that pairs world-class advisors with modern software to help clients achieve their financial goals.
Kenetic VC Fund · Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 10 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • IDA — IDA is the leading provider of digital asset solutions, allowing trust, transparency, and speed in payments and commerce. By leveraging blockchain technology, IDA opens up a more connected and inclusive global economy.
  • LayerPixel — LayerPixel uses a modular design to overcome TON's asynchronous limitations and leverage its sharding benefits.
  • Fanton — The first P2E Fantasy Football game with Telegram integration
Sandeep Nailwal Angel · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · 36 investments in the past 12 months
Sandeep Nailwal is the co-founder and COO of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as the Co-Founder and CEO. He attended the Indian Institute of Management, Mumbai.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • Corn — Corn is a new Ethereum Layer 2 network that aims to be the best platform for utilizing Bitcoin.
  • Fabric Cryptography — Fabric develops a custom cryptography hardware to accelerate cryptography algorithms. The chips, whose components exclusively serve cryptographic purposes, are based on Verifiable Processing Units (VPUs) which incorporate features of GPUs and ASICs to improve the speed and cost of advanced cryptographic workloads.
MH Ventures VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 36 investments in the past 12 months
MH Ventures is a world class community-backed Venture Capital investing in top blockchain projects of the future
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • YeagerAI — YeagerAI is a pioneering AI research lab focused on developing technology that promotes sovereignty, transparency, and decentralization.
  • KIP Protocol — KIP Protocol is a decentralised AI framework unlocking digital property rights of Knowledge Assets in the AI-powered future.
  • Quai Network — Reliable. Secure. Scalable. Quai Network is money and financial infrastructure for the global and compute economies of the 21st Century.
Hashkey Exchange VC Fund · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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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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 — Panoptic is a perpetual, oracle-free, instant-settlement options trading protocol on the Ethereum blockchain. Panoptic enables the permissionless trading of options on top of any asset pool in the Uniswap v3 ecosystem and seeks to develop a trustless, permissionless, and composable options product, i.e., do for decentralized options markets whatx*y=k automated market maker protocols did for spot trading.Read the whitepaper behind our product here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.14232
Signum Capital VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 19 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • BlonkFi — BlonkFi enables users to borrow stablecoins with volatile mid-market money, such as Meme tokens, as collateral.
  • Pichi Finance — Pichi Finance Points are typically stored off-chain and linked to wallet addresses, limiting their tradability on the open market.
  • Glacier Network — Glacier Network is building a programmable, modular, scalable blockchain for storing, indexing, and querying data from off-chains and on-chains, supercharging AI, DePIN and large-scale DApps. Glacier empowers verifiable computing through GlacierAI, GlacierDA, and GlacierDB.
ParaFi Capital VC Fund · Greenwich, Connecticut, United States · 13 investments in the past 12 months
ParaFi Capital is an alternative investment firm focused on blockchain and decentralized finance markets.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Singapore, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • M^0 Labs — M^0 is money middleware for the digital age. It is a decentralized, on-chain protocol, as well as a corresponding set of off-chain standards and APIs, that allows holders of high-quality eligible collateral to participate in the issuance of a fungible cryptodollar. With M^0, any number of institutions around the world can tap on turnkey middlewareto become their own cryptodollar issuer, upgrading their money tech stack to the digital age.
  • Polymarket — Bet on your beliefs
  • Meridian — Meridian is a Movement-native decentralized liquidity marketplace and liquid staking system that allows users to trade and earn with their assets smoothly.
AU21 Capital VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
A fund dedicated to backing the most brilliant minds in the blockchain space
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
  • United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Nillion — The Secure Processing Layer of Web3
  • The Unfettered — The Unfettered is a blockchain PC game.
  • Cryption Network — Cryption Network is crypto company. Its can swap, farm, Invest and predict with cryption's unique and user-friendly DeFi 2.0 products. Bringing mass adoption to DeFi. PolyDEX is cryption's flagship product, which is completely gasless, instant, cross-chain AMM DEX with yield farming.
Kima Ventures VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 42 investments in the past 12 months
Kima Ventures is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups per week all over the world; providing founders with funding, network, and support for them to reach the next steps of their journey.The firm invests from seed to Series A, mostly as lead investor but also working alongside other investors;backing ambitious founders who work hard to build awesome things that more and more people use everyday. The company helps them to build a great team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and execute towards growth.Kima takes pride of itself in working side-by-side with entrepreneurs. They claim to understand that fundraising is only one step in the company’s journey, that’s why they take quick decisions and make the fundraising process as smooth as possible so the founders can get back to the work of building their business. Kima considers itself not only an investor, but a network of founders and experts sharing a pay it forward mindset.Headquartered in Paris with an office in London, the company was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad and supporter of entrepreneurs through such projects as 42, Station F and 101projets. Over the last 5 years Kima has invested in over 400 startups in 24 different countries.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Olyzon — Olyzon offers adtech solutions for Connected TV, enhancing brand uplift, optimizing user engagement, and maximizing ROI for advertisers, content owners, and distributors.
  • Tracklab — Tracklab is a B2B compliance software helping regulated companies manage their mandatory supplier documentations.
  • Directo Tech, Inc - Travel Browser Extension — Contact the host directly with Directo Chrome extension. Save money, get better deals! Get it free!
LD Capital VC Fund · Shanghai, Shanghai, China · 8 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
  • United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Swan Chain — FilSwan provides a layer 2 cross-chain infrastructure for Web3 projects by integrating data, computing, and payment into one suite. FilSwan offers a complete solution that enables web3 developers to integrate decentralized storage, edge computing, and payment across multiple chains with ease.
  • Gamic — Gamic is a decentralized community app designed for the crypto community. With Gamic, you can connect with like-minded individuals and stay up-to-date on the latest trends in blockchain, NFTs, AI and cryptocurrency. Gamic is powered by Web3 technology, ensuring a secure and decentralized experience for all users. Plus, with our Airdrop feature, you can easily reward members of your community with crypto tokens. Join the Gamic community today and be a part of the future of social networking!
  • BabylonChain — Babylon is a VC-backed blockchain project founded by Claude. E. Shannon Award recipient, Professor David Tse from Stanford University. The project’s mission is to bring Bitcoin’s unparalleled security to all PoS blockchains in the world. To this end, we are building, as the bridge between Bitcoin and the PoS world, a new public Cosmos-based PoSblockchain called Babylon with a native token.
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