# Brody West

> Brody West is a startup investor at Pantera Capital (San Francisco Bay Area). See 0 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Pantera Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pantera-capital)
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brody-west-3a44358b/

Brody West is a startup investor at Pantera Capital in San Francisco Bay Area. Brody West serves as principal at Pantera Capital, joining the company in 2017 first as quantitative analyst. He has a remarkable technical background, having built an autonomous submarine using machine learning and signal processing in high school. Brody was also a founding equity partner at First West Fund, a hedge fund he co-founded whileattending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

## About Pantera Capital

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

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.

5 contacts available at Pantera Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cosmo Jiang | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cosmo-jiang |
| Harsehaj Singh | Investment Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/harsehaj-singh-fc6a |
| Brody West | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brody-west |
| Chia Jeng Yang | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chia-jeng-yang |
| Dan Morehead | Founder , Co-Chief Investment Officer & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dan-morehead |

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