# Digital Currency Group

> Digital Currency Group is a VC fund backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 326 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stamford, United States
- Total investments: 326
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 10%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/digital-currency-group/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/DCGco
- Website: http://dcg.co/

Digital Currency Group is a VC fund in Stamford focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. 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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $650k–$8.5M |
| Series A | $3.4M–$48M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 96 | 29% |
| Cryptocurrency | 74 | 23% |
| FinTech | 65 | 20% |
| Financial Services | 63 | 19% |
| Bitcoin | 49 | 15% |

145 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 129 | 40% |
| Series A | 68 | 21% |
| Funding Round | 27 | 8% |
| Series B | 15 | 5% |
| Pre-Seed | 13 | 4% |

15 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 120 | 37% |
| United Kingdom | 18 | 6% |
| Singapore | 8 | 2% |
| Israel | 5 | 2% |
| Mexico | 5 | 2% |

33 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alicia Sidik | Investments, HQ | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alicia-sidik |
| Simi Wurtzel | VP of Finance | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/simi-wurtzel |
| Barry Silbert | Founder & CEO | 89 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/barry-silbert |
| Jennifer Mitrenga Maymon | Chief Operating Officer, HQ | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jennifer-mitrenga-maymon |
| Larry Sukernik | Associate, Investments | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/larry-sukernik |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| TurboFlow | TurboFlow is an on-chain trading ecosystem that combines perpetual contracts and prediction markets into one retail-friendly platform. It positions itself as making sophisticated trading simple, fair, and accessible. | $6M | Seed | Jun 22, 2026 |  |
| DePay | DePay is an Argentina-based real-time payments infrastructure startup. | $4M | Seed | Apr 09, 2026 |  |
| Halogen | Halogen is a developer of a digital platform intended to simplify digital wealth management. | $3.2M | Seed | Dec 15, 2025 |  |
| Cyphlens | Cyphlens provides software for payment security, fraud prevention, and mobile-based decryption for secure transactions. | $3.8M | Seed | Dec 11, 2025 |  |
| Surf AI | Surf AI is an AI-driven platform that focuses on cryptocurrency analysis and research. | $15M | Seed | Dec 10, 2025 |  |
| MidLyr | MidLyr AI is a risk-aware, regulation-first automation and execution platform for financial services firms that specializes in integrating AI-powered workflow automation with stringent regulatory and risk frameworks. | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Oct 20, 2025 |  |
| Limitless Labs | Limitless Labs is a research and development network focused on innovation in prediction markets, blockchain technology, and artificial intelligence. By leveraging cutting-edge research and collaborative efforts, it aims to create advanced solutions that enhance decision-making, transparency, and efficiency across various industries. | $10M | Seed | Oct 20, 2025 |  |
| Bitmine Immersion Technologies | Bitmine Immersion Technologies operates in the digital asset and blockchain technology sector by providing infrastructure and services for cryptocurrency mining and related activities. The company uses immersion cooling methods to host and operate mining hardware for Bitcoin and supports third-party equipment hosting, infrastructure management andequipment sales. Bitmine also engages in self-mining of digital assets and offers advisory services tied to digital asset treasury strategies and has expanded its focus to include broader crypto ecosystem services. Its data center offerings encompass power, rack space, environmental management systems, connectivity and monitoring software for mining operations. The company’s business integrates infrastructure support with asset accumulation and consulting for clients navigating cryptocurrency networks and mining markets. | $365.2M | Post-IPO Equity | Sep 22, 2025 |  |
| Vibranium Labs | Vibranium Labs is an AI on-call engineer platform designed to resolve incidents with less stress. | $4.6M | Seed | Sep 18, 2025 |  |
| Utila | Utila is an enterprise-scale self-custody platform that manages your organization's crypto strategy with safe, chain-agnostic wallet infrastructure. | $22M | Series A | Sep 03, 2025 |  |

10 of 326 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Pantera Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pantera-capital) — VC Fund, 43 deals together
- [Coinbase Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinbase-ventures) — VC Fund, 30 deals together
- [Blockchain Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crypto-currency-partners) — VC Fund, 24 deals together
- [CMT Digital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cmt-digital-ventures-llc) — VC Fund, 19 deals together
- [CoinFund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinfund) — VC Fund, 16 deals together
- [ParaFi Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/parafi-capital) — VC Fund, 15 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Digital Currency Group invest in?

Digital Currency Group invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 326 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 Digital Currency Group's check size?

Digital Currency Group typically joins rounds of $650k–$8.5M at Seed and $3.4M–$48M 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 Digital Currency Group participates in.

### How do I contact Digital Currency Group?

Public channels for Digital Currency Group 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 Digital Currency Group?

The team at Digital Currency Group includes Alicia Sidik (Investments, HQ), Simi Wurtzel (VP of Finance) and Barry Silbert (Founder & CEO), among 11 team members tracked by Shizune. 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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