Barry Silbert
Founder & CEO @ Digital Currency Group
New York, United States
Barry Silbert is a seed investor at Digital Currency Group in New York focused on Bitcoin and FinTech. Barry Silbert is based out of Stamford, Connecticut, and is the Founder and CEO of Yuma. Barry previously worked at SecondMarket as a Founder & Chairman. Barry Silbert attended Emory University’s Goizueta Business School.
- Total investments:
- 89
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 11%
Last updated:
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Industries Barry Silbert invests in
Stages Barry Silbert invests in
Countries Barry Silbert invests in
Round sizes
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Round size
- Seed
- $250k–$2.5M
- Series A
- $2.5M–$13M
- Series B
- $236k–$43M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Bitcoin 26 (29%)
- FinTech 26 (29%)
- Financial Services 21 (24%)
- Finance 19 (21%)
- Blockchain 19 (21%)
Stage
- Seed 34 (38%)
- Series A 23 (26%)
- Series B 8 (9%)
- Funding Round 4 (4%)
- Angel 3 (3%)
Country
- United States 39 (44%)
- Mexico 3 (3%)
- Kenya 2 (2%)
- South Korea 2 (2%)
- China 1 (1%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Bitmark restores trust in data. Our end-to-end Internet protocol secures the provenance of data. This makes it possible to have verifiable information, digital property rights, and safe sharing of personal data—without the need for trusted third parties. UC Berkeley, Pfizer, and KKBOX use Bitmark in healthcare, music, art, and more. #digitalrights | $5.6M / Series B / Jul 06, 2022 | ||
| Vincent is an alternative investment search engine offering investors access to private market investing. Vincent unifies the fragmented world of online investing, assisting everyday investors in locating investment opportunities to diversify their portfolios beyond traditional stocks and bonds. Vincent helps investors maximize their wealth throughexpertly selected investments in Venture Capital, Artwork, Real Estate, Collectibles, and More. | $6M / Series A / Jul 21, 2021 | ||
| Circle is a financial technology company that develops and manages digital currencies and blockchain-based financial infrastructure. It issues USD Coin (USDC) and Euro Coin (EURC), both fully backed stablecoins designed for global payments and digital transactions. Circle's platform supports businesses in integrating stablecoins into theiroperations, including cross-border payments and financial applications. Through the Circle Payments Network, it enables real-time settlement for financial institutions using USDC and EURC. | $440M / Private Equity / May 28, 2021 | ||
| Blockchain financial market infrastructure technology company operating Gofax (Cryptocurrency Exchange) and Dask (Cryptocurrency Depository). | Venture - Series Unknown / May 06, 2021 | ||
| Circle is a financial technology company that develops and manages digital currencies and blockchain-based financial infrastructure. It issues USD Coin (USDC) and Euro Coin (EURC), both fully backed stablecoins designed for global payments and digital transactions. Circle's platform supports businesses in integrating stablecoins into theiroperations, including cross-border payments and financial applications. Through the Circle Payments Network, it enables real-time settlement for financial institutions using USDC and EURC. | $25M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 30, 2020 | ||
| Cambridge Blockchain develops blockchain-based identity management and compliance software solutions for financial institutions. The company provides an identity management platform for multinational banks financial institutions that puts control of personal identity data back in the hands of the end-user. It returns control of personal data backto users while delivering the benefits of trusted, distributed identity to consumers and organizations.Alex Oberhauser, Alok Bhargava, and Matthew Commons founded it in 2015, with its headquarters in Cambridge in Massachusetts. | $3.5M / Series A / Apr 02, 2019 | ||
| Qohash provides modern data solutions with a focus on data discovery, classification, and integrity assurance. Its core solution, the Qostodian data security platform, monitors data across the enterprise, and implements an integrity assurance regime to protect your most precious data and business process. | $1.5M / Seed / Mar 19, 2019 | ||
| Cambridge Blockchain develops blockchain-based identity management and compliance software solutions for financial institutions. The company provides an identity management platform for multinational banks financial institutions that puts control of personal identity data back in the hands of the end-user. It returns control of personal data backto users while delivering the benefits of trusted, distributed identity to consumers and organizations.Alex Oberhauser, Alok Bhargava, and Matthew Commons founded it in 2015, with its headquarters in Cambridge in Massachusetts. | $7M / Series A / May 16, 2018 | ||
| Circle is a financial technology company that develops and manages digital currencies and blockchain-based financial infrastructure. It issues USD Coin (USDC) and Euro Coin (EURC), both fully backed stablecoins designed for global payments and digital transactions. Circle's platform supports businesses in integrating stablecoins into theiroperations, including cross-border payments and financial applications. Through the Circle Payments Network, it enables real-time settlement for financial institutions using USDC and EURC. | $110M / Series E / May 15, 2018 | ||
| CoinList's mission is to help builders launch and grow innovative digital assets, expand access for early adopters, and be the most trusted brand in digital finance. We're the global leader in new token issuance, helping blue chip projects like Filecoin, Solana, Near, Algorand, Ondo, and others connect with millions of new token holders.We support the full lifecycle of crypto investment, from token sales through distribution, trading, lending, staking and access to decentralized-finance opportunities. CoinList users trade and store Bitcoin, Ether, and many other popular crypto assets through our full-service trading products on mobile and CoinList.co, while also getting access to the best new tokens before they list on other exchanges. Our customers include validators, miners, founders, CEOs, crypto funds, bitcoin OGs, as well as a broad array of crypto enthusiasts. | $9.2M / Series A / Apr 05, 2018 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Digital Currency Group
Digital Currency Group builds and supports bitcoin and blockchain companies by leveraging insights, network, and access to capital. Based in Stamford, Connecticut, DCG has been an active seed investor in the digital currency industry with 150+ investments in over 30 countries.In addition, DCG owns and operates CoinDesk, the top media and eventsplatform in the blockchain space, Genesis Trading, the industry's leading bitcoin brokerage firm, and Grayscale Investments, the largest digital currency asset management firm.
Digital Currency Group Contacts
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Alicia Sidik
Investments, HQ
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Simi Wurtzel
VP of Finance
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Barry Silbert
Founder & CEO
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Jennifer Mitrenga Maymon
Chief Operating Officer, HQ
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Larry Sukernik
Associate, Investments
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FAQ
What does Barry Silbert invest in?
Barry Silbert invests primarily in Bitcoin, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 89 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Barry Silbert's check size?
Barry Silbert typically joins rounds of $250k–$2.5M at Seed, $2.5M–$13M at Series A and $236k–$43M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Barry Silbert participates in.
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When did Barry Silbert last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Barry Silbert closed in Jul 2022. Shizune tracks 89 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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