# Barry Silbert

> Barry Silbert is a seed investor at YUMA (New York) backing Bitcoin and FinTech. See 89 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [YUMA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yuma)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 89
- Last investment: Jul 2022
- Lead investor: 11%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/barrysilbert
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/barrysilbert
- Website: http://dcg.co/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cherish.joseph.505

Barry Silbert is a seed investor at YUMA 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.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $250k–$2.5M |
| Series A | $2.5M–$13M |
| Series B | $236k–$43M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bitcoin | 26 | 29% |
| FinTech | 26 | 29% |
| Financial Services | 21 | 24% |
| Finance | 19 | 21% |
| Blockchain | 19 | 21% |

78 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 34 | 38% |
| Series A | 23 | 26% |
| Series B | 8 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 4% |
| Angel | 3 | 3% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 39 | 44% |
| Mexico | 3 | 3% |
| Kenya | 2 | 2% |
| South Korea | 2 | 2% |
| China | 1 | 1% |

14 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bitmark | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| Circle | 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 |  | May 28, 2021 |  |
| Streami | Blockchain financial market infrastructure technology company operating Gofax (Cryptocurrency Exchange) and Dask (Cryptocurrency Depository). |  | Venture - Series Unknown | May 06, 2021 |  |
| Circle | 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 | 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 | 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. | $1.4M | Seed | Mar 19, 2019 |  |
| Cambridge Blockchain | 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 | 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 |  |

10 of 89 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Blockchain Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crypto-currency-partners) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [Future Perfect Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/future-perfect-ventures) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Pantera Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pantera-capital) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [RRE Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rre-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Boost VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boostfunder) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Breyer Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/breyer-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About YUMA

VC Fund



1 contacts available at YUMA.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Barry Silbert | Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/barry-silbert |

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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.

### 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.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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