# Coinbase Ventures

> Coinbase Ventures is a VC fund backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 618 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 618
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 7%
- Fund size: $15M
- Last fund: Apr 2018
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coinbase
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/cbventures
- Website: https://ventures.coinbase.com/

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.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Coinbase Ventures. Shizune tracks 3 team members at Coinbase Ventures. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/coinbase-ventures?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$15M |
| Series A | $6.7M–$41M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 145 | 23% |
| Cryptocurrency | 109 | 18% |
| Financial Services | 74 | 12% |
| FinTech | 67 | 11% |
| Software | 65 | 11% |

138 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 165 | 27% |
| Series A | 74 | 12% |
| Funding Round | 52 | 8% |
| Series B | 21 | 3% |
| Pre-Seed | 13 | 2% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 165 | 27% |
| Singapore | 12 | 2% |
| India | 9 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 7 | 1% |
| Canada | 6 | 1% |

31 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Brian Armstrong | Founder & CEO | 19 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-armstrong |
| Max Branzburg | Investor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/max-branzburg |
| Shan Aggarwal | Head of Coinbase Ventures | 12 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shan-aggarwal |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sapiom | The agentic economy is here, but it cannot progress until AI agents can autonomously access and operate across real-world systems and services.Sapiom gives AI agents trusted access to the API economy.We provide the essential infrastructure (KYA, wallets, spending and usage controls, and multi-rail payments) to unlock secure, programmaticcommerce for the AI era.Built for the next era of commerce where agents buy, sell, and negotiate on our behalf.We're backed by world-class investors and are hiring exceptional engineers in SF to define the financial infrastructure for the agentic era.Learn more & join us: https://www.sapiom.ai | $35M | Series A | Aug 05, 2026 |  |
| Soter Insure | Soter Insure is a provider of insurance products tailored to the digital asset economy. It provides the Web3 ecosystem with institutional-grade insurance for broader adoption against a lack of appropriate products and scarce capacity. |  | Series B | Jul 29, 2026 |  |
| Tenor Labs | Tenor helps people borrow and lend money at a fixed rate without needing permission. |  | Seed | Jul 22, 2026 |  |
| Cyclops.io | Cyclops.io is a team of serial entrepreneurs with backgrounds from Cisco, Nuance, Bessemer Venture Partners, MIT, Caltech and Harvard. They have an extensive background in online video and collaboration, machine vision and deep learning. Their mission is to replicate the feeling and collaborative richness of being in the same room. It could be usedinternally by distributed teams or by sales or customer service with customers or partners. Everything should be as simple as a click. They are constantly looking for ways to improve your experience. Stay tuned for new and exciting features. | $20M | Series A | Jul 15, 2026 |  |
| Glacis Labs | Glacis Labs is a middleware protocol. It enables developers to control cross-chain risk. Glacis provides a plug-and-play solution that eliminates the research and decision-making process in cross-chain processes, simplifying interchain execution. | $6.8M | Seed | Jul 15, 2026 |  |
| Velocity | Velocity provides a unified platform for efficiently moving and managing funds across both traditional banks and blockchains. | $38M | Series A | Jul 14, 2026 |  |
| Venice | Venice provides private, uncensored AI chat and image generation, with API and token-based access for developers and users. | $65M | Series A | Jul 01, 2026 |  |
| EarnOS | EarnOS is the fully remote company that provides Global Ad & Payments Platform powered by Web3. | $6M | Seed | Jun 17, 2026 |  |
| Re | Re operates as a fully-collateralized reinsurer subject to regulatory oversight and approval that connects alternative capital providers. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 17, 2026 |  |
| El Dorado | El Dorado is a P2P marketplace that helps to buy and sell cryptocurrencies, money transfers, foreign exchange, and digital wallet services. | $9M | Series A | Jun 15, 2026 |  |

10 of 618 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Pantera Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pantera-capital) — VC Fund, 51 deals together
- [Polychain](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/polychain-capital) — VC Fund, 48 deals together
- [Hashed](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hashed-f96b) — VC Fund, 35 deals together
- [a16z crypto](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a16z-crypto) — VC Fund, 30 deals together
- [Alameda Research](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alameda-research) — VC Fund, 30 deals together
- [Digital Currency Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/digital-currency-group) — VC Fund, 30 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Coinbase Ventures invest in?

Coinbase Ventures invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 618 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 Coinbase Ventures's check size?

Coinbase Ventures typically joins rounds of $2M–$15M at Seed and $6.7M–$41M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Coinbase Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Coinbase Ventures?

Public channels for Coinbase Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Coinbase Ventures?

The team at Coinbase Ventures includes Brian Armstrong (Founder & CEO), Max Branzburg (Investor) and Shan Aggarwal (Head of Coinbase Ventures). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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