# GoldenTree Asset Management

> GoldenTree Asset Management is a VC fund backing Blockchain. See 48 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 48
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 10%
- Last fund: Sep 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/goldentree-asset-management/
- Website: https://www.goldentree.com

GoldenTree Asset Management is a VC fund in New York focused on Blockchain and Financial Services. GoldenTree is an employee-owned, global asset management firm that specializes in opportunities across the credit universe in sectors such as high yield bonds, leveraged loans, private credit, distressed debt, structured products, emerging markets, private equity and credit-themed equities. GoldenTree was founded in 2000 and is one of the largestindependent asset managers focused on credit. GoldenTree manages over $48 billion for institutional investors including leading public and corporate pensions, endowments, foundations, insurance companies and sovereign wealth funds. GoldenTree is headquartered in New York and has offices in West Palm Beach, FL, Charlotte, NC, London, Dublin, Sidney, Singapore, Tokyo, and Dubai.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.7M–$18M |
| Series A | $12M–$80M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $3M–$21M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 20 | 42% |
| Financial Services | 17 | 35% |
| Cryptocurrency | 15 | 31% |
| FinTech | 13 | 27% |
| Finance | 6 | 13% |

41 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 14 | 29% |
| Series A | 13 | 27% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 4 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 6% |
| Series B | 2 | 4% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 22 | 46% |
| Singapore | 3 | 6% |
| Australia | 2 | 4% |
| Japan | 1 | 2% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |

10 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Christopher Hayward | Partner, President & Chief Financial Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christopher-hayward |
| Joseph Naggar | Partner, Co-Chair of Risk Committee & Head of Digital Assets | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joseph-naggar-c356 |
| Steven Tananbaum | Founder, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steven-a-tananbaum |
| Frank Gioia | Director, Head of Investment Compliance | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frank-gioia |
| Kathy Sutherland | Partner & Chief Executive Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kathy-sutherland-2d12 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Maxeda | Maxeda DIY Group is a market leading DIY retailer that operates 376 stores across the Benelux with nearly 7,000 employees. Weekly they welcome one million customers, helping them to build the best and create the home of their desires.As retailer of the leading brands in home improvement, some of which they own ourselves, they have a continuedfocus on improving product ranges, both through better sourcing and improving their own brands.At Maxeda DIY Group their overriding goal was. is and will be to build better businesses. It symbolises their common direction, ambitions and corporate culture. This means they want to add value to all stakeholders; their customers, their people, their suppliers, their shareholders and their environment. They want to work together Building the Best. They at Maxeda DIY Group will base their success on their passion to serve the people who serve their customers.Over the past seven years their formats have embarked on new growth strategies across Europe and many have delivered excellent results. Each format has its unique identity. Within Maxeda DIY Group they work together as one team to develop winning strategies.
The passion to serve their people who serve our customers is the source of our success. At Maxeda DIY Group this passion for our customers’ needs and desires is the driving force in our business. | $58.1M | Private Equity | Mar 24, 2026 |  |
| Related Ross | Related Ross develops, owns, and operates mixed-use, office, retail, and residential real estate. The company plans and delivers ground-up projects and repositionings that combine workplace, housing, shopping, dining, and public space. Services include site acquisition, entitlements, design management, construction oversight, leasing, and ongoingproperty and asset management. The portfolio spans office towers, multifamily communities, and street-level retail within multi-building districts. Tenant services include building operations, events, and on-site support within managed properties. Leasing teams work with established enterprises and growth companies seeking contemporary offices and storefronts. The organization also oversees restaurants and event spaces within its developments. | $157M | Debt Financing | Feb 18, 2026 |  |
| Alvotech | Alvotech is a fully integrated specialty biopharmaceutical company focused exclusively on the development and manufacture of high-quality biosimilar medicines. The company has seven key products in development and a new state-of-the-art manufacturing plant for development and manufacture in Reykjavík, Iceland. | $100M | Post-IPO Debt | Dec 31, 2025 |  |
| Related Ross | Related Ross develops, owns, and operates mixed-use, office, retail, and residential real estate. The company plans and delivers ground-up projects and repositionings that combine workplace, housing, shopping, dining, and public space. Services include site acquisition, entitlements, design management, construction oversight, leasing, and ongoingproperty and asset management. The portfolio spans office towers, multifamily communities, and street-level retail within multi-building districts. Tenant services include building operations, events, and on-site support within managed properties. Leasing teams work with established enterprises and growth companies seeking contemporary offices and storefronts. The organization also oversees restaurants and event spaces within its developments. | $600M | Debt Financing | Jun 11, 2025 |  |
| Kashiv BioSciences | ​Kashiv BioSciences is a fully integrated biopharmaceutical company engaged in the development and manufacturing of complex pharmaceuticals, including biosimilars, applications, and complex generics. The company's infrastructure encompasses research and development facilities in Piscataway, New Jersey; Chicago, Illinois; and Ahmedabad, India,supporting capabilities such as mammalian and microbial cell line development, advanced analytical characterization, and commercial-scale manufacturing. Kashiv's product pipeline includes biosimilar candidates like KSHB002, an abatacept biosimilar that met primary endpoints in a Phase I trial. | $150M | Debt Financing | Apr 07, 2025 |  |
| Smartsheet | Smartsheet is the best way to plan, track, automate, and report on work, enabling you to move from idea to impact - fast. This cloud-based work management platform empowers collaboration, drives better decision making, and accelerates innovation for over 70,000 brands in 190 countries, including more than 50% of the Fortune 500. Named by Forbes asone of the world’s top private cloud companies, Smartsheet complements existing enterprise investments by deeply integrating with applications from Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, Atlassian, and many others. | $3.2B | Post-IPO Debt | Sep 24, 2024 |  |
| Burnt | Burnt Finance is a decentralized auction protocol to enable fast and seamless auctions for a diverse array of assets. It provides an intuitive interface for minting new assets. These assets can be synthetics, NFTs, and even new digital assets. In less than a few minutes a user can mint a new asset and set up an entirely decentralized auction. Burntallows users to customize their auctions which allows asset minting and trading to take place in a completely permissionless ecosystem.It is based in Solana Beach, California. | $25M | Series A | Apr 01, 2024 |  |
| XION | XION is the first Generalized Abstraction layer designed specifically for consumer use. | $25M | Series A | Apr 01, 2024 |  |
| Illuvium | Illuvium makes a game that rewards players with the opportunity to explore and capture NFT creatures, known as Illuvials, in combat. | $12M | Series A | Mar 27, 2024 |  |
| Berachain | Berachain claims that its technology will enable staked assets to be utilised in DeFi protocols, increasing on-chain liquidity and capital efficiency. Staked assets, such as staked ether (ETH), are now locked while being utilised to safeguard the underlying blockchain's network. Berachain claims that its "proof of liquidity"consensus will allow users to stake assets on Berachain while also trading, borrowing, or lending on-chain. | $42M | Series A | Apr 20, 2023 |  |

10 of 48 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does GoldenTree Asset Management invest in?

GoldenTree Asset Management invests primarily in Blockchain, Financial Services and Cryptocurrency startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 48 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 GoldenTree Asset Management's check size?

GoldenTree Asset Management typically joins rounds of $2.7M–$18M at Seed, $12M–$80M at Series A and $3M–$21M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds GoldenTree Asset Management participates in.

### How do I contact GoldenTree Asset Management?

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### Who are the partners at GoldenTree Asset Management?

The team at GoldenTree Asset Management includes Christopher Hayward (Partner, President & Chief Financial Officer), Joseph Naggar (Partner, Co-Chair of Risk Committee & Head of Digital Assets) and Steven Tananbaum (Founder, Managing Partner and Chief Investment 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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