Genesis
VC Fund
New York, United States
Genesis is an institutional trading firm connecting institutional investors to digital asset markets. It facilitates billions in digital currency trades, loans, and transactions on a monthly basis, including over $25 billion in 2020 YTD. Its platform provides a single point of access for digital asset trading, derivatives, borrowing, lending,custody, and prime brokerage services.Its team combines decades of experience at top Wall Street investment banks with a deep understanding of cryptocurrency markets.
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 15%
Last updated:
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Industries Genesis invests in
Stages Genesis invests in
Countries Genesis invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Investment Focus
Industry
- Cryptocurrency 8 (62%)
- Financial Services 7 (54%)
- FinTech 6 (46%)
- Blockchain 4 (31%)
- Internet 3 (23%)
Stage
- Seed 7 (54%)
- Series A 3 (23%)
- Series B 1 (8%)
- Debt Financing 1 (8%)
- Initial Coin Offering 1 (8%)
Country
- United States 7 (54%)
- France 2 (15%)
- Canada 1 (8%)
- Bermuda 1 (8%)
- Singapore 1 (8%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alice Chan
Chief Financial Officer
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Chief Financial Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Anton Yermolenko
CEO & Co-Founder
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CEO & Co-Founder | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Drew Slaven
Chief Marketing Officer
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Chief Marketing Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Ed J. Martin
President & CEO
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President & CEO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
|
Lee Si-hyuk
Senior Vice President and Division Chief
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Senior Vice President and Division Chief | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 10 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Elixir
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Elixir is a decentralized protocol that enables full composability for integrations by providing computationally secure, algorithmic market-making across CEXs and DEXs. | $7.5M / Series A / Oct 18, 2023 | |
Pine Street Labs
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Pine Street Labs builds enterprise wallet software designed to expand and democratize the usage of public blockchains. The company handles the complexity of supporting and maintaining access to different networks so enterprises can focus on their business. Pine Street Labs' walletOS solution is designed to face difficulties and accelerateenterprises using current custody infrastructure, moving custody operations in-house, and introducing new blockchain initiatives to the market. | $6M / Seed / Oct 14, 2022 | |
Kemet Trading
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Kemet provides the industry’s leading digital asset derivatives trading platform. Kemet’s turnkey, all-in-one technology platform supports the full trade lifecycle with high-performance portfolio, execution and risk management capabilities and a full suite of APIs, enabling institutions to execute across the entire digital asset derivatives marketfrom a single endpoint. Built on state-of-the-art technology, the Kemet platform provides maximum flexibility and can be enhanced quickly in response to client requests.Led by a team of technologists from the world’s most advanced trading institutions, including D.E. Shaw, Jump Trading, DRW and Cboe, Kemet’s platform meets the most demanding standards for latency, reliability and security. Kemet is backed by some of the biggest names in digital asset trading and VCs in addition to a host of some of the best angels in the industry. | Seed / Aug 31, 2022 | |
Three Arrows Capital
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Three Arrows Capital is a hedge fund manager that provides risk-adjusted returns. The firm was established in 2012 by Su Zhu and Kyle Davies and is headquartered in Singapore, Central Region, Singapore. | $2.4B / Debt Financing / Jul 18, 2022 | |
Enhanced Digital Group
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Enhanced Digital Group provides wholesale, customized structured products and derivative trading solutions to expand access to tailored financial exposure of digital assets. By enhancing the product development of both traditional financial services and crypto-native firms – including exchanges, wallets, custodians, trading firms, asset managers,corporates, and broker-dealers – EDG is enabling the sophistication of crypto derivative trading solutions in a regulated, compliant, and turnkey package. | $12.5M / Seed / May 26, 2022 | |
Stablecorp
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Stablecorp is a Canadian fintech firm building bank-grade blockchain technology. | $1.9M / Seed / Apr 25, 2022 | |
CoinRoutes
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CoinRoutes is a crypto trading software provider. | $16M / Series B / Mar 18, 2022 | |
Slope Finance
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Slope is a community-based decentralized exchange built on Solana. | $8M / Series A / Feb 24, 2022 | |
Paradigm
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Paradigm Connect, doing business as Paradigm, is a zero-fee, liquidity network for crypto derivatives traders across CeFi and DeFi. The platform provides traders with unified access to multi-asset, multi-protocol liquidity on demand without compromising on price, size, cost, and immediacy. The firm’s mission is to create a platform where traderscan trade anything, with anyone and settle it anywhere.Paradigm has the largest network of institutional counterparties in crypto with over 1,000 institutional clients trading over $10B per month, including Hedge Funds, OTC Desks, Lenders, Structured Product Issuers, Market Makers, and prominent Family Offices. | $35M / Series A / Dec 09, 2021 | |
JellyFi
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JellyFi enables audited dApps and protocols to access zero-collateralized loans in the form of Defi (Decentralized finance) and provides liquidity for fast withdrawals, thereby helping clients by giving alternatives to finance their development or add liquidity through borrowing. | $4.4M / Seed / Dec 08, 2021 | |
| See all 13 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Genesis invest in?
Genesis invests primarily in Cryptocurrency, Financial Services and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Genesis?
The team at Genesis includes Alice Chan (Chief Financial Officer), Anton Yermolenko (CEO & Co-Founder) and Drew Slaven (Chief Marketing Officer), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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