# Sam Bankman-Fried

> Sam Bankman-Fried is a Series B investor at FTX Ventures (Nassau) backing Internet and Legal. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [FTX Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ftx-ventures)
- Location: Nassau, Bahamas
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Apr 2022
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-bankman-fried-8367a346/
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/SBF_FTX
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sbf.ftx

Sam Bankman-Fried is a Series B investor at FTX Ventures in Nassau focused on Internet and Legal. Sam is the Founder of Bankman-Fried. He is also the CEO of the said firm.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $20M–$25M |
| Series B | $10M–$580M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 2 | 40% |
| Legal | 1 | 20% |
| FinTech | 1 | 20% |
| Software | 1 | 20% |
| Accounting | 1 | 20% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 3 | 60% |
| Series A | 2 | 40% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 60% |
| Germany | 1 | 20% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Anthropic | Anthropic conducts AI research and develops AI products, including the Claude AI model family. The company focuses on building AI for human well-being, emphasizing safety in its research, policy work, and product design. Anthropic offers various Claude models, such as Opus and Sonnet, for AI-powered applications and custom experiences, supportingcoding and AI agents. | $580M | Series B | Apr 29, 2022 |  |
| Causal | Causal build financial models effortlessly and share them with interactive, visual dashboards that everyone will understand.Causal, build models out of variables, that link together in simple plain-English formulae. This makes the models easy to understand and quick to build.Causal makes it simple to incorporate advanced modeling techniqueslike scenario analysis, sensitivity analysis, and uncertainty in the inputs.It can also integrate all the important data sources, from spreadsheet software like Sheets and Excel, to accounting platforms like Xero and Quickbooks. | $19.8M | Series A | Mar 25, 2022 |  |
| Compound | Compound is a wealth management platform that provides users with a comprehensive financial picture of their liquid and illiquid assets, such as cash, securities, cryptocurrencies, real estate, and venture investments. In addition, for exchanges that are not already partner platforms, the company uses off-the-shelf integrations, and it manuallytracks users' assets if they are held in particularly complex structures. For its tax filing service, Compound partners with platforms and provides the service in-house through a tax firm the company owns. | $25M | Series B | Jan 27, 2022 |  |
| World | Worldcoin is a new global digital currency that will launch by giving a free share to every human on Earth. | $25M | Series A | Oct 21, 2021 |  |
| DoNotPay | DoNotPay is an online robot lawyer that allows anyone to automatically claim asylum in the U.S, U.K, and Canada for free. | $10M | Series B | Aug 01, 2021 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Day One Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/day-one-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Greenoaks](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greenoaks-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Angel Collective](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acof) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Augurey Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/augurey-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About FTX Ventures

VC Fund · Nassau, Bahamas

FTX Ventures invests in equity and/or tokens, at any check size and stage of blockchain. It leverages resources across FTX and the ecosystem of global partners. It supports founders and wants the team to retain flexibility and decision-making, not to get in their way.

2 contacts available at FTX Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sam Bankman-Fried | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sam-bankman-fried |
| Sam Bankman-Fried | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-j-ray-iii |

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## FAQ

### What does Sam Bankman-Fried invest in?

Sam Bankman-Fried invests primarily in Internet, Legal and FinTech startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 5 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 Sam Bankman-Fried's check size?

Sam Bankman-Fried typically joins rounds of $20M–$25M at Series A and $10M–$580M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Sam Bankman-Fried participates in.

### When did Sam Bankman-Fried last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sam Bankman-Fried closed in Apr 2022. Shizune tracks 5 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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