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Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in July 2025

Last updated: Jul 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) 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 in July 2025

Investor	Payments investments
Digital Currency Group	115
Coinbase Ventures	101
Global Founders Capital	86
Polychain	84
Pantera Capital	78
Andreessen Horowitz	72
Shima Capital	64
Dragonfly	60
Balaji Srinivasan	59
Animoca Brands	58
Blockchain Capital	57
Blockchain Founders Fund	57
SV Angel	57
Orange DAO	55
Robot Ventures	53
CMT Digital	53
The Spartan Group	53
GSR	52
Hack VC	51
Fenbushi Capital	50
Framework Ventures	49
Electric Capital	48
OKX Ventures	48
NGC Ventures	47
CMS Holdings	47
Alameda Research	47
Hashed	46
AU21 Capital	45
FJ Labs	45
Multicoin Capital	45
Paradigm	45
Lightspeed Venture Partners	45
OKX Ventures	45
Sandeep Nailwal	44
Draper Associates	44
MH Ventures	44
Lemniscap	44
Big Brain Holdings	44
Galaxy Digital	43
OKX Ventures	43
Alumni Ventures	42
Sequoia Capital	42
Index Ventures	38
1kx	38
Castle Island Ventures	37
Kenetic	37
ZBS CAPITAL	36
ParaFi Capital	36
Fabric Ventures	36
LD Capital	36

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

XWeave — Xweave enables real time & competitive cross-border payments with no pre-funding
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.
Bitmine Immersion Technologies — Bitmine Immersion Technologies engages in bitcoin mining and hosting.

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

Uptopia — Uptopia is the Base Chain ecosystem game startup platform.
XFX — XFX makes global money movement fast, transparent, and capital-efficient across fiat and stablecoin rails.
Catena Labs — Catena is a product studio where we transform complex computing advancements into accessible, practical tools for users and developers. Leveraging AI and web3 technology our aim is to turn innovative ideas into real-world applications that are easy to use.

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Aspora — Aspora help users bank seamlessly across countries, invest in diverse assets, access credit and insurance services.
Orasio — Orasio turns video feeds into easily actionable information for cities, homeland security forces, and businesses.
Octane — Octane is a digital wallet for vehicles that streamlines payments for all vehicle related expenses.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

DogeOS — DogeOS is a free program that helps people create apps and use cloud services for Dogecoin.
Digital Asset — As leaders in blockchain technology, Digital Asset empowers customers with Daml, the leading platform for multi-party applications; an innovative smart contract language and Canton, our privacy-enabled distributed ledger technology.
Blueprint Finance — Blueprint Finance develops protocols and infrastructure to advance on-chain financing.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Volcon — Volcon is an off-road power sports company that offers electric off-road vehicles. Volcon's mission is to build industry-leading products that connect people to outdoor experiences through the intentional blending of leading technology and design. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Austin, Texas, United States.
Amber International Holding — Founded in 2009 and listed on NASDAQ in 2017, iClick is a leading marketing and data cloud platform. We empower global brands to unlock significant growth in China with a comprehensive suite of data-driven solutions. Our expertise spans China Marketing, Cross-Border E-commerce, Smart Retail, and Travel Retail.
Bitmine Immersion Technologies — Bitmine Immersion Technologies engages in bitcoin mining and hosting.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

OpenRouter — OpenRouter is a platform that connects AI applications with large language models and cloud hosting providers, allowing users to optimize for costs, speed, and performance. The platform supports over 180 AI models, offers a unified API, and includes functionalities like private chat and exploratory data capabilities. OpenRouter sets the newbenchmark for large-scale AI inference with its global edge infrastructure, privacy-focused design, real-time accounting, and integrated billing.
Shield USDT — Shield is the first B2B cryptocurrency exchange designed for international businesses. Access a US-based virtual bank account to buy, sell, and transfer crypto.
Abridge — For patients, clinicians, and enterprise, our audio-based solutions capture the details and summarize medical conversations, anywhere care happens.

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

Ava Protocol — For web3 builders, DeFi users, and teams automating on-chain workflows.
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.
Distinct Possibility Studios — Distinct Possibility Studios operates as a game development studio. Distinct Possibility Studios is an indie game studio led by MMO and FPS veterans.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Perpl — Perpl improves financial systems by creating a clear pricing engine on an effective blockchain.
Hibachi — Hibachi is a decentralized trading protocol specifically designed for professional traders, focusing on provable security through the application of zero-knowledge (zk) mathematics. This innovative approach aims to enhance both the security and transparency of trading operations, making the platform intuitive and efficient for users.
ZAR — ZAR establishes a connection between cash-based economies and the web3 framework, facilitating adoption of stablecoins.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Aspora — Aspora help users bank seamlessly across countries, invest in diverse assets, access credit and insurance services.
Kindly MD — Kindly MD is a healthcare services and technology company that offers solutions for sleep support, pain treatment, and medication management through advanced data analytics. The company integrates mental health services, traditional medication, and plant-based alternatives to provide comprehensive, whole-person treatment. Dedicated to promoting abrighter, healthier future, Kindly MD delivers personalized care that addresses the unique needs of each patient.
Catena Labs — Catena is a product studio where we transform complex computing advancements into accessible, practical tools for users and developers. Leveraging AI and web3 technology our aim is to turn innovative ideas into real-world applications that are easy to use.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Quranium — Quranium (founded in early 2024) is the world’s first Convergence Layer, a Layer‑1 blockchain infrastructure purpose-built to fuse quantum security, AI-native automation, and EVM compatibility. Headquartered in Switzerland with offices in UAE (DMCC) and Singapore, it leverages post-quantum cryptography (NIST-approved SLH‑DSA, ML‑KEM) andhigh-performance PoS consensus to create an uncrackable, intelligent, and scalable foundation for Web3 Quranium is designed for a post-quantum world, it delivers an uncrackable, intelligent, and scalable decentralized infrastructure. Quranium is not just a blockchain — it’s the foundation for a new era where quantum, AI, and Web3 converge securely and seamlessly.
dKloud — dKloud is an enterprise-level cloud platform that helps customers build better software and more efficiently through our products.
Datagram — Datagram is an AI-driven, decentralized infrastructure platform operating as a DePIN baselayer. The company provides a live, scalable node network for launching custom DePIN networks and real-world decentralized applications, with cost savings over traditional cloud providers.

Partners to crypto builders since 2013.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Tally — Tally is a DAO operations platform. DAOs use Tally to create and pass proposals, enable delegation, and power voting.
Camp Network — Camp Network is a purpose-built Layer 1 blockchain to power AI agents.
Merit Systems — Merit aims to solve the "attribution problem" in software development. In the world of open source, which powers more than 97% of the apps that customers use daily, both IT titans and freelance programmers contribute to products that are freely available for anybody to access and enhance.

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

Metafide — Metafide offers AI-driven trading solutions and Web3 asset analysis for financial entities.
Sphinx — Experience 24/7 derivatives trading with near-instant clearing, dynamic margin and up to 90% lower fees.
Velvet Capital — Velvet Capital is a DeFi operating system that helps launch and manage on-chain funds and structured products. Velvet Capital offers its users a way to gain exposure to digital assets.

SV Angel is 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.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

ai.work — Amplify your team with intelligent AI Workers connected to your systems, knowledge, and policies - built to work the ticket queues, automate the repetitive tasks, and get things done - lightning fast.
Warp — Warp is a payroll and compliance tool that makes it easy for founders to hire, onboard, and pay their employees.
Operand — AI Systems for Business Strategy

A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team

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.

Robots Never Sleep

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Defx — Defx is a non-custodial perps venue. We're built on Arbitrum, and will be coming to Solana very soon.
MagicBlock — MagicBlock Labs is a gaming and technology firm that creates infrastructure for fully on-chain games.
Resolv Labs — Resolv USR was born from the idea of a stablecoin independent from real-world assets risks, with yield powered by crypto money markets.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Defx — Defx is a non-custodial perps venue. We're built on Arbitrum, and will be coming to Solana very soon.
Cooking.City — Cooking.City is a comprehensive token issuance platform built on the Solana ecosystem, designed to empower developers, creators, and businesses to seamlessly launch, manage, and scale their own digital tokens.
Cooking.City — Cooking.city is a Solana ecosystem token issuance platform that focuses on making token launches transparent and equal for all participants.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kaia — Kaia is a public blockchain that utilizes Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) for enhanced reliability and performance.
Planetarium — Planetarium is a company that wants to return the sovereignty of online games to users through blockchain technology.
Tarta Labs — Tarta Labs is dedicated to building a next-generation anime IP ecosystem and aims to innovate within the anime gaming space by blending engaging narratives, high-quality visuals, and community-driven gameplay experiences.

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

BitVault — BitVault is a DeFi protocol that provides a crypto-native money solution via its BTC-backed stablecoin, bvUSD, and yield-bearing staked stablecoin, sbvUSD.
Avalon Finance — Avalon Finance is a decentralized protocol that offers a BTC liquidity mechanism for production.
Bitmine Immersion Technologies — Bitmine Immersion Technologies engages in bitcoin mining and hosting.

Hack VC is a web3 venture capital firm.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

TAC — TAC is a TON network extension that allows the EVM community to access Telegram users, and it enables Ton wallet holders to easily interact with EVM dApps deployed on TAC.
Donut — Donut is the first crypto agentic browser that uses the finest crypto in-domain model and a swarm of browsing agents.
Hyperdrive — Hyperdrive delivers investment growth strategies utilizing a portfolio-centered approach.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, China

Portfolio highlights

Irreducible — Ulvetanna provides fast and cost-effective computation of zero-knowledge succinct proofs. We operate FPGA clusters tailor-made for ZKP computation at scale, purpose-built to support Layer-1 and Layer-2 blockchain protocols.
MetaEra — MetaEra is a one-stop resource aggregator for Web3.0. Meta Era focuses on blockchain and metaverse exploration, pursuing professional, thorough, and reliable information and data.
Chronicle Labs — Evolving from the Oracle Core Unit at MakerDAO, Chronicle Protocol was created by the unit’s development team. Although the Oracles that underpinned Chronicle Protocol had been securing MakerDAO’s $10B+ collateral since 2016, the technology and its unique innovations weren’t available outside of Maker’s portfolio.In 2021, the team receivedsupport from MakerDAO to spin out the proprietary technology and form a new entity and brand. Chronicle Protocol was born.Chronicle continues to service MakerDAO and now, for the first time, is rolling out its on-chain Oracle services to support the wider Web3 world.Chronicle Protocol has been developed to solve many of the current pain points of on-chain Oracles and DeFi. On-chain Oracles, particularly on computationally expensive blockchains such as Ethereum, are bottlenecking the development of DeFi with an exorbitant cost of service and a lack of feasible scalability. Through developing a proprietary solution called Scribe, the team at Chronicle has built a blockchain-agnostic, ubiquitously accessible, scalable, end-to-end verifiable, and decentralized Oracle. The protocol’s unique architecture enables an ecosystem that delivers 100% decentralization and transparency. Every byte of data can be traced back to each Feed’s original data source queries, and new Oracles can be deployed (and updated) with the click of a button on the Chronicle Dashboard.Inspired by Ancient Greece’s Herodotus (the Father of History), Chronicle Protocol aims to be the world’s first open and verifiable data chronicler. Transparency, democracy, and accessibility are the columns on which Chronicle has built its temple, and industry-leading scalability, integration, and security are the features that power the protocol.Verifiable data, accessible to all - delivered securely and affordably.

A crypto venture firm that builds with our founders.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Unto Labs — Unto Labs is developing ThruVM, a novel virtual machine that aims to address one of the most significant shortcomings of network-specific virtual machines by building Thru blockchain utilizing the popular computing system RISC–V.
T-Rex — T-Rex is a new blockchain ecosystem intended specifically for consumer-facing applications, with the goal of transforming the Web3 attention layer via its revolutionary Proof of Engagement (PoE).
Meanwhile — The world's first regulated Bitcoin life insurance. Tax-efficient wealth planning for long-term Bitcoin holders.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Unto Labs — Unto Labs is developing ThruVM, a novel virtual machine that aims to address one of the most significant shortcomings of network-specific virtual machines by building Thru blockchain utilizing the popular computing system RISC–V.
Walrus — Sign up for a Walrus zero balance account, manage your money smartly and get rewards!
Walrus — Walrus is a decentralized storage network that stores and delivers raw data and media files—like videos, images, and PDFs—without sacrificing performance or accessibility.

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

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Arch — The pioneering network for building bridgeless apps directly on Bitcoin. Arch makes it easy to deploy interoperable smart contract-like programs on the L1, without fracturing liquidity or taking on bridge risk.
Hyperion — Hyperion is an on-chain DEX that combines an order book and AMM, built for Aptos.
Camp Network — Camp Network is a purpose-built Layer 1 blockchain to power AI agents.

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Perpl — Perpl improves financial systems by creating a clear pricing engine on an effective blockchain.
Rover — Rover is a liquid staking protocol on Botanix that exchanges Bitcoin for rovBTC.
Hyperdrive — Hyperdrive delivers investment growth strategies utilizing a portfolio-centered approach.

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

RLWRLD — RLWRLD specializes in "Physical AI" by creating robotics foundation models (RFMs) designed to enable robots to function autonomously in real-world environments.
Nurihaus — Nurihaus is a community commerce firm that provides a platform to shop based on Korean influencer's products.
Distinct Possibility Studios — Distinct Possibility Studios operates as a game development studio. Distinct Possibility Studios is an indie game studio led by MMO and FPS veterans.

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

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

A-World — A-world is a super metaverse card tower defense battle game based on BNB CHAIN.
NeuronX — NeuronX Protocol is the pioneering decentralized lending protocol on Dfinity, setting the stage for smart DeFi. By focusing on AI-driven automation and enhanced user experiences, NeuronX aims to revolutionize the DeFi landscape and appeal to a broader audience. At the core of NeuronX is a groundbreaking innovation: AI-Powered Smart LiquidityPlatforms (AILPs). These AILPs are advanced vault strategies operated by intelligent AI algorithms. Users can effortlessly gain leverage by simply depositing a base asset. Behind the scenes, AILPs leverage AI to automate complex transactions and continuously rebalance positions, ensuring optimal leverage without the risk of liquidation. This integration of AI streamlines the process, making advanced financial strategies accessible and hassle-free.
Vue Protocol — Vue Protocol operates as a layer2 for Web3 Social.

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

JOKR — Grocery shopping is easier now with JOKR, your instant delivery app. Order your groceries and favorite products in our online supermarket and get them instantly at your door. Download the app now and make your first grocery order on us. Available in IOs and Android. Access www.jokr.com for more info
Rebag — Shop expertly-vetted used luxury styles, getting the best value with Rebag+. Sell your items for upfront quotes. Find Rebag at select Bloomingdale's stores.
Unblock — Unblock is a climate technology company that offers a solution to mitigate emissions.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Yield.xyz — Yield.xyz is the all-in-one Web3 yield API. Staking, DeFi, stablecoins: full data access, plug-and-play UX, up to 2.8x more revenue.
Arch — The pioneering network for building bridgeless apps directly on Bitcoin. Arch makes it easy to deploy interoperable smart contract-like programs on the L1, without fracturing liquidity or taking on bridge risk.
DoubleZero — DoubleZero is developing a global fiber network intended for high-performance distributed systems and blockchains. It seeks to enhance blockchain performance by establishing a dedicated physical infrastructure layer for communication.

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

Kuru — Kuru is an on-chain order book exchange.
Agora — Welcome to Agora Financial, home of the AUSD crypto stablecoin.
Harmonic — Harmonic builds mathematical superintelligence. The company develops Mathematical Superintelligence (MSI), a next-generation artificial intelligence based on mathematical principles that ensures accuracy and eliminate hallucinations.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, India, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Tennr — Tennr is a custom AI assistant that accelerates research, answers complex questions, and generates custom reports.
Cato Networks — Cato Networks provides organizations with a cloud-based and secure global SD-WAN. Cato delivers an integrated networking and security platform that securely connects all enterprise locations, people, and data. Cato Cloud cuts MPLS costs, improves performance between global locations and to cloud applications, eliminates branch appliances, providessecure Internet access everywhere, and seamlessly integrates mobile users, and cloud datacenters into the WAN. Based in Tel Aviv, Israel, Cato Networks was founded in 2015 by cybersecurity luminary Shlomo Kramer, co-founder of Check Point Software Technologies and Imperva, and Gur Shatz, co-founder of Incapsula.
Multiplier — Multiplier transforms labor into compute.

OKX Blockdream Ventures is a fund focused on exploring high-quality blockchain projects with great potential.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

PlaysOut — PlaysOut is a mini-game platform that helps developers publish mini-games on superAPP platforms
Memes Lab — Memes Lab is a multi-level meme infrastructure on TON, integrated with Telegram Stars, which allows users to purchase meme coins without a wallet.
Cygnus Finance — Cygnus is a tool that helps different blockchains work together by allowing to share security and keep their networks safe.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Defx — Defx is a non-custodial perps venue. We're built on Arbitrum, and will be coming to Solana very soon.
Veda — Veda is the largest vault infrastructure platform in DeFi, enabling institutions to launch and manage onchain financial products at scale.
RISE Chain — RISE is a next-generation Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain designed to redefine blockchain performance by delivering near-instant transaction confirmations at unprecedented scale, all while upholding Ethereum’s foundational principle of decentralization

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.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Grifin — Automatically buy stock where you shop. When you buy a cup of coffee at Starbucks, you invest $1 into Starbucks stock. Shop on Amazon? You now own $1 of Amazon stock.
Allia — A better way to run your practice
Decile Group — Discover how to launch a VC fund instantly with top managers. Join us to fund great companies changing the world. Start your journey now!

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

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

HeyElsa — Harness the power of AI in Crypto with Elsa, your crypto co-pilot. Uncover opportunities, trade smarter, and maximize returns, all with unparalleled ease and safety.
PublicAI — PublicAI is a Web3 distributed AI training network that helps people to earn rewards by contributing data work.
Cold River Games — Cold River Games is a Swedish game studio currently developing the ARPG Crystalfall.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Memes Lab — Memes Lab is a multi-level meme infrastructure on TON, integrated with Telegram Stars, which allows users to purchase meme coins without a wallet.
Pulse — Pulse is a developer of an all-in-one health and wellness platform designed to integrate a wearable gadget and a fitness tracking software.
DeCharge Network — DeCharge Network lays the groundwork for a global energy network that will power automobiles, drones, and future technology.

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

Upexi — Upexi is a multi-faceted brand owner that focuses on direct-to-consumer and Amazon brands. The company pursues organic growth for its present brands while operating in sectors with high growth trends. The objective of Upexi is to keep gathering consumer information and develop a sizable client database across all markets we serve.
Burstverse — Burstverse, a Web3 AI business, is at the vanguard of the DeFai revolution, offering an AI-powered decentralized financial platform that allows users to automate and control their cryptocurrency operations using natural language. Burstverse is changing the way consumers engage with and benefit from decentralized financial ecosystems by mergingcutting-edge AI and DeFi flexibility.
Sphinx — Experience 24/7 derivatives trading with near-instant clearing, dynamic margin and up to 90% lower fees.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Turnkey — Turnkey is an encryption service provider that offers secure APIs to manage private keys.
Function — Function builds the financial infrastructure that activates Bitcoin, , transforming it from a passive asset into a fully functional, yield-generating, and capital-efficient reserve asset for both DeFi and TradFi markets.
Bitmine Immersion Technologies — Bitmine Immersion Technologies engages in bitcoin mining and hosting.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

FUNX — FUNX is a virtual reality game platform for relaxation use. They use a cloud gaming app or web browser to connect remotely to a virtual PC and play the game from there. There isn't any hardware, wires, installation or download time for games, firmware updating, or anything else that is often associated with playing games locally on a PS5, XboxSeries X, or laptop.
ShareX — ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to many supported destinations you can choose from.
SignalPlus — SignalPlus is a leading platform for digital asset options trading, providing professional tools and insights.

Alumni Ventures Group provides high-quality, diversified venture portfolios to individual investors who previously haven't had access to VC.It helps accredited alums from top entrepreneurial schools invest together in the ventures of fellow alums. The firm backs companies with an alumni connection and an institutional lead investor withexpertise in the space. AVG also offers focused funds that allow any accredited investor access to a venture portfolio, diversified by type, sector, stage, and geography.Beth Obermiller, Michael Madden, and Mike Collins co-founded the firm in Manchester, New Hampshire in 2013.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Definely — Definely creates legal tech solutions to free lawyers from frustration, saving them time when understanding, drafting and reviewing legal documents.
Kognitos — Kognitos is in stealth mode.
CRED — Compare millions of commercial data points and uncover unique and personalised opportunities for your brand.

We help the daring build We help the daring build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond. companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, China, India

Portfolio highlights

Two — Buy Now, Pay Later for your business customers. Two makes it easy and safe to offer invoice as a payment method on your e-commerce site.
OpenEvidence — OpenEvidence uses artificial intelligence to aggregate, synthesize, and visualize clinical evidence in understandable, clinically-useful formats that can be used to make more evidenced-based decisions and improve patient outcomes.
Harmonic — Harmonic builds mathematical superintelligence. The company develops Mathematical Superintelligence (MSI), a next-generation artificial intelligence based on mathematical principles that ensures accuracy and eliminate hallucinations.

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Boulevard — Boulevard is the first and only Client Experience Platform. Streamline bookings, optimize your schedule, and drive growth with a complete platform built just for you
Moment — Engineering the future of fixed income with the world's leading financial institutions.
Bigger Games — Bigger Games, a dynamic mobile gaming company, is at the forefront of transforming the mobile gaming landscape. We aim for great execution and passionately work on each and every detail in our casual games to build the best experience for our players.

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

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.
Impossible Cloud Network — Impossible Cloud Network (ICN) is the foundational layer for the next-generation internet — a decentralized, composable cloud infrastructure serving AI, Web3, and enterprise applications. Unlike siloed DePIN projects or centralized incumbents, ICN delivers a high-performance, permissionless platform integrating storage, compute, and networking.With $31M in total funding, enterprise-grade architecture, 1,000+ B2B clients, and 28,000+ hypernodes sold, ICN is uniquely positioned to outcompete traditional cloud services and power the future of decentralized infrastructure. ICN is community-owned, performance-optimized, and regulation-aligned — bridging real-world adoption with blockchain innovation.

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

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, China

Portfolio highlights

XFX — XFX makes global money movement fast, transparent, and capital-efficient across fiat and stablecoin rails.
Project 11 — Project Eleven is a development company dedicated to advancing post-quantum cryptography solutions.
Try Your Best — A play-to-earn platform for brands, TYB is where community engagement actually pays off. We provide the tech & measurement for brands to prove community ROI.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.
Eywa — Founded in 2021, EYWA helps Web3 projects scale up by enabling them to operate, get listed, and traded on all connected blockchain networks with a single liquidity pool. Additionally, EYWA provides a truly decentralized data protocol for secure messaging.In partnership with Curve Finance, one of the largest decentralized exchanges, EYWA isintroducing a new paradigm of non-algorithmic cross-chain assets aimed at solving the problem of liquidity fragmentation. Their cross-chain protocol stands out as the most decentralized solution in the market.- Received 6 grants from biggest L1/L2 blockchain networks including NEAR Foundation, Aurora, Harmony One, Algorand, Boba Network, and others - Winning hackathons: Ethglobal Marketmake, Polygon’s BUIDL IT hackathon, Metis hackathon
Avalon Finance — Avalon Finance is a decentralized protocol that offers a BTC liquidity mechanism for production.

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

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
United States, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

Yellow — Yellow is a financial services provider of software, analytics, and investments in blockchain startups.
KIP Protocol — KIP Protocol is a decentralised AI framework unlocking digital property rights of Knowledge Assets in the AI-powered future.
Alliance Games — Build Beyond Limits. Multiplayer for the Next, Decentralized Era.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Courtyard — Turn your trading cards, sneakers, watches, and more into tradable Connected Collectibles and earn a percentage of all future sales.
Notabene — Crypto Compliance for VASPs & Regulators made simple! Notabene is a platform designed to bridge crypto markets with traditional financial systems. Book a demo today.
Avalanche — Avalanche is the fastest smart contracts platform in the blockchain industry, as measured by time-to-finality, and has the most validators securing its activity of any proof-of-stake protocol.

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

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Initial Coin Offering
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

XWeave — Xweave enables real time & competitive cross-border payments with no pre-funding
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.
Velocity — Velocity provides a unified platform for efficiently moving and managing funds across both traditional banks and blockchains.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

DAOBase — DAOBase is an AI-powered data and infrastructure platform developed particularly for DAOs. By employing innovative algorithms, the company assists DAOs and voters in establishing on-chain and off-chain data reputation layers, allowing users to intelligently monitor DAO governance, make educated decisions, and investigate future job models.
Redpill AI — Redpill's objective is to make the best AI resources accessible to everyone. The platform functions as a permissionless LLM router network, providing seamless integration across several AI models.
Yellow — Yellow is a financial services provider of software, analytics, and investments in blockchain startups.

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