Dan Morehead
Founder , Co-Chief Investment Officer & CEO @ Pantera Capital
San Francisco, United States
Dan Morehead is a Series A investor at Pantera Capital in San Francisco focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Dan Morehead founded Pantera Capital Management LP in 2003. He also co-founded and was CEO of Atriax, an electronic foreign exchange platform. Prior to that, he was head of macro trading and CEO at Tiger Management, global head of FX options at Deutsche Bank in London, and managed a global macro fund and derivatives trading units in North Americaand Japan at Bankers Trust. Dan began his career at Goldman Sachs as a mortgagebacked securities trader. Dan graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a B.S. in Civil Engineering and received the Carmichael Prize for an outstanding thesis. Pantera Capital is an institutional investment firm focused exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies and companies in the space. As CEO of Pantera Capital, Dan is actively involved in providing investors exposure to Bitcoin in addition to digital currency startups. Bitcoin represents a quantum shift in the global financial landscape and will fundamentally transform the way finance and commerce is conducted around the world.
- Total investments:
- 15
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 73%
Last updated:
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Industries Dan Morehead invests in
Stages Dan Morehead invests in
Countries Dan Morehead invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 6 (40%)
- Cryptocurrency 6 (40%)
- Financial Services 6 (40%)
- Bitcoin 3 (20%)
- FinTech 3 (20%)
Stage
- Series A 7 (47%)
- Seed 4 (27%)
- Series B 1 (7%)
- Funding Round 1 (7%)
- Post-IPO Equity 1 (7%)
Country
- United States 6 (40%)
- Kenya 2 (13%)
- Hong Kong 1 (7%)
- United Kingdom 1 (7%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Mezo
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Mezo is a bitcoin economic layer network that provides fast and cheap bitcoin transactions to hold tokens while earning yield. | $21M / Seed / Apr 09, 2024 | |
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Mezo
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Mezo is a bitcoin economic layer network that provides fast and cheap bitcoin transactions to hold tokens while earning yield. | $21M / Series A / Apr 09, 2024 | |
Figure Markets
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Figure Markets is a company that uses blockchain technology to construct the future of private capital markets. | $60M / Series A / Mar 18, 2024 | |
Amber Group
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Amber Group is a crypto finance service provider that provides liquidity provision, trading, and asset management services. Amber Group was founded in 2017 by a group of finance professionals from Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and Bloomberg.Amber Group operates around the world and around the clock with a presence in Hong Kong, Taipei, Seoul,and Vancouver. The company provides services to 200+ institutional clients, cumulatively trading over $200 billion across 60+ electronic exchanges, with an average daily trading volume between $100-200 million.Amber Group is committed to serving clients around the globe by combining the best-in-class technology with sophisticated quantitative research to offer a streamlined crypto finance experience. Its goal is to optimize investment flexibility, maximize investment returns, and provide long-lasting value for its clients. In 2019, Amber Group raised $28 million in a Series A funding round led by global crypto heavyweights Paradigm and Pantera, with participation from Polychain Capital, Dragonfly Capital, Blockchain.com, Fenbushi Capital, and Coinbase Ventures. | $200M / Series B / Feb 21, 2022 | |
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Amber Group
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Amber Group is a crypto finance service provider that provides liquidity provision, trading, and asset management services. Amber Group was founded in 2017 by a group of finance professionals from Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and Bloomberg.Amber Group operates around the world and around the clock with a presence in Hong Kong, Taipei, Seoul,and Vancouver. The company provides services to 200+ institutional clients, cumulatively trading over $200 billion across 60+ electronic exchanges, with an average daily trading volume between $100-200 million.Amber Group is committed to serving clients around the globe by combining the best-in-class technology with sophisticated quantitative research to offer a streamlined crypto finance experience. Its goal is to optimize investment flexibility, maximize investment returns, and provide long-lasting value for its clients. In 2019, Amber Group raised $28 million in a Series A funding round led by global crypto heavyweights Paradigm and Pantera, with participation from Polychain Capital, Dragonfly Capital, Blockchain.com, Fenbushi Capital, and Coinbase Ventures. | $100M / Series B / Jun 20, 2021 | |
AI foundation
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Unbound Finance is the Defi treasury for liquidity pool tokens and enables unlocking from existing AMM pools. | $5.8M / Seed / Jun 10, 2021 | |
0x
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0x is an open protocol that facilitates low friction peer-to-peer exchange of tokens on the Ethereum blockchain. | $15M / Series A / Feb 05, 2021 | |
Coinme
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Coinme operates the largest licensed cryptocurrency cash exchange in the U.S. Founded in 2014 with the simple belief that buying digital currencies should be easy and accessible to everyone, today Coinme powers thousands of physical locations in 48 states to buy and sell bitcoin using cash through partnerships with Coinstar and MoneyGram. Thecompany offers an enterprise-grade API helping to “crypto-enable” legacy financial systems and a vertically integrated suite of consumer products that provide an easy and secure way to buy, sell, store and manage digital currencies. For more information, visit www.coinme.com. | $5.5M / Series A / May 07, 2020 | |
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Amber Group
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Amber Group is a crypto finance service provider that provides liquidity provision, trading, and asset management services. Amber Group was founded in 2017 by a group of finance professionals from Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and Bloomberg.Amber Group operates around the world and around the clock with a presence in Hong Kong, Taipei, Seoul,and Vancouver. The company provides services to 200+ institutional clients, cumulatively trading over $200 billion across 60+ electronic exchanges, with an average daily trading volume between $100-200 million.Amber Group is committed to serving clients around the globe by combining the best-in-class technology with sophisticated quantitative research to offer a streamlined crypto finance experience. Its goal is to optimize investment flexibility, maximize investment returns, and provide long-lasting value for its clients. In 2019, Amber Group raised $28 million in a Series A funding round led by global crypto heavyweights Paradigm and Pantera, with participation from Polychain Capital, Dragonfly Capital, Blockchain.com, Fenbushi Capital, and Coinbase Ventures. | $28M / Series A / Feb 14, 2020 | |
AZA Finance
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AZA Finance is a digital foreign exchange and payment platform that leverages blockchain settlement to significantly lower the cost and increase the speed of business payments to and from frontier markets. AZA Group is a market-maker in every major African currency and opens corridors for business payments and trade between frontier markets andthe rest of the world. AZA Group was the first blockchain company to be licensed by the UK's Financial Conduct Authority and follows stringent KYC practices. AZA Group services frontier market businesses and multinationals paying suppliers as far as China and UAE, as well as cryptocurrency traders. Our API also enables international remittance companies to send white-label payments to dozens of bank networks and mobile money operators across Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, Senegal, and the DRC. | Series A / Aug 30, 2017 | |
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Co-Investors
About Pantera Capital
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.
Pantera Capital Contacts
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Cosmo Jiang
General Partner
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Harsehaj Singh
Investment Associate
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Brody West
Principal
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Chia Jeng Yang
Investor
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Dan Morehead
Founder , Co-Chief Investment Officer & CEO
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What does Dan Morehead invest in?
Dan Morehead invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Financial Services startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Dan Morehead last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Dan Morehead closed in Apr 2024. Shizune tracks 15 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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